"....if they are out there to be found."
They are out there whether we can find them or not. What I find really strange is why just prior to the fist exoplanet being discovered that scientists bothered debating the existence of exoplanets in the first place.
Scientists are more likely to design a warp drive before they do a truly effective translation program.
Anyone who is bilingual would be happy to tell you just how difficult translation is. Human languages are not just sets of words and phrases that can be converted 1 for 1 back and forth. They are extremely complex with shades of meaning and varying context which must be inferred based on associations that only humans are able to make. It seems that monolingual Anglophones are the most difficult people to convince just how terrible computer translators are. In my office in Germany we usually get two or three pieces of correspondence a week where some Anglophone, ignorant of foreign languages, tries to translate their English to German and send it to us thinkiong they are doing us a "favour". It's always good for a laugh....
Most slashdotters are too caught up in their own world. Typical computer users out there don't even know what an operating system is much less know about Linux. Just the word "Linux" comes across as sounding like technobabble. Just mentioning word "Linux" to these people is liable to be as big of a turnoff as would mentioning the word "religion" to a bunch of hippies in any context. All they want to hear is their music.
This whole idea just reeks of a Big Brother type of scenario in any country and sets a very dangerous precedent for the entire world. If the American government is so concerned about people driving too much unnecessarily why not just tax petrol (gasoline) more heavily like they do here in Europe?
While it is true that you can run 32 bit binaries under 64 bit Linux, one problem I have had in particular is the combination of the two. I have a 64 bit system but I could only run the 32 bit version of the Java plugin under 32 bit Firefox, which of course breaks most other existing 64 bit plugins that would not work under a 32 bit Firefox installation. There are wrappers and such but the whole thing is just a major PITA. I for one welcome the new 64 bit Java plugin!
I do and have used encryption. Being the geek that I am I enjoy using it too - however - my non-geek friends and family (which is just about everyone I know and work with) cannot be bothered with it. It would be nice if email/im clients and such actually *implemented* encryption by default. Unfortunately most of the software that non-geeks would use do not use encryption by default and it's a real PITA for most people to implement it.
Was magnetic variation taken into account for these studies? I live in Colorado where we have 9 degrees of magnetic variation, meaning that magnetic north is actually offset about 9 degrees off off true north. Magnetic variation changes around the world. I would be curious to know if this had been taken into account for these studies.
then you can record it. Software such as Mythtv makes it possible, until of course the TV cards somehow become so functionally disabled that they refuse to work with Linux.
oh wait..
Most "small planes" do not even have an autopilot and the control surfaces are actuated via rods and/or cables directly connected to the yoke and rudder pedals (i.e. no "power steering"). In such airplanes about the only place you'll find hydraulics are in the breaks and landing gear. Most "small airplane" engines are also far simpler than most people probably realize. The idea of installing a government "kill switch" or thinking that such aircraft can be remotely controlled from the ground is simply ludicrous. I wonder just how many of the people coming up with these ideas have ever even taken a basic ground school course for a private pilot license.
I somehow understood your first sentence to read:
"If you would follow this field more closely you would find that there is steadily growing smell from a number of scientists around the world working in this field."
Fuel injection has been available in small aircraft (e.g small Cessnas) for quite some time now. Ironically they can seem more "complicated" to start than normally aspirated engines equipped with a carburetors if you are not used to them.
One such common engine is the Lycoming O-360:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360
"You do realise it's actually a lot *harder* to collide with someone else in three dimensions, yes?"
It's a lot easier than you might think. Aircraft fly at specific altitudes when traveling in certain directions. For VFR Easterly odd 1500 foot altitudes and Westerly even 1500 foot altitudes. (Leave off the 500 feet for IFR). Additionally airplanes are usually on airways and if not on airways often on direct paths between airports. Midair collisions are a far more serious threat than one might think at first.
It seems that the world has been hopelessly broke since the beginning of time, yet there has always seemed to be more than enough money *everywhere* to finance mass murder.
The point should be clear; in all of your examples of "stupidity" the contestants managed to get simple questions wrong completely on their own, however in my example the contestant was asked "What orbits the Earth?" with the possible answers being "The Moon", "The Sun", "Mars" or "Venus". When he wasn't sure of the answer he asked the audience. 56% of the audience thought it was the Sun, 2% thought it was Mars and only 42% got it right.
One individual displaying such ignorance isn't nearly as shocking as 58% of the general population.
That's OK, and most Europeans wouldn't know the difference between Idaho, Ohio and Iowa. Perhaps we should test them with mislabeled maps and have them point to these names? Or we could just ask them a much fairer question like what body orbits the Earth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CjrNgK0zw/
This happened to me while installing Suse, and after much "fiddling" it turned out that the computer BIOS was set to boot the disks in a different order than what was configured during setup. In short, make sure that if during setup you choose to boot from hda1 that the first boot device in the BIOS is also hda1. I may be wrong in your case, but it's something to check.
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"....if they are out there to be found." They are out there whether we can find them or not. What I find really strange is why just prior to the fist exoplanet being discovered that scientists bothered debating the existence of exoplanets in the first place.
Scientists are more likely to design a warp drive before they do a truly effective translation program. Anyone who is bilingual would be happy to tell you just how difficult translation is. Human languages are not just sets of words and phrases that can be converted 1 for 1 back and forth. They are extremely complex with shades of meaning and varying context which must be inferred based on associations that only humans are able to make. It seems that monolingual Anglophones are the most difficult people to convince just how terrible computer translators are. In my office in Germany we usually get two or three pieces of correspondence a week where some Anglophone, ignorant of foreign languages, tries to translate their English to German and send it to us thinkiong they are doing us a "favour". It's always good for a laugh....
Most slashdotters are too caught up in their own world. Typical computer users out there don't even know what an operating system is much less know about Linux. Just the word "Linux" comes across as sounding like technobabble. Just mentioning word "Linux" to these people is liable to be as big of a turnoff as would mentioning the word "religion" to a bunch of hippies in any context. All they want to hear is their music.
At what point will the futuristic noise become retro-futuristic?
This whole idea just reeks of a Big Brother type of scenario in any country and sets a very dangerous precedent for the entire world. If the American government is so concerned about people driving too much unnecessarily why not just tax petrol (gasoline) more heavily like they do here in Europe?
Besides the color presumably not matching the surrounding material.
I would be inclined to agree if it were not a grey-scale image.
Florida does have the longest coast line of any state. No, Alaska does.
It's just that our solar power is stored in fossil fuels.
I am sure that a $45 fee per honk would solve that problem.
While it is true that you can run 32 bit binaries under 64 bit Linux, one problem I have had in particular is the combination of the two. I have a 64 bit system but I could only run the 32 bit version of the Java plugin under 32 bit Firefox, which of course breaks most other existing 64 bit plugins that would not work under a 32 bit Firefox installation. There are wrappers and such but the whole thing is just a major PITA. I for one welcome the new 64 bit Java plugin!
I do and have used encryption. Being the geek that I am I enjoy using it too - however - my non-geek friends and family (which is just about everyone I know and work with) cannot be bothered with it. It would be nice if email/im clients and such actually *implemented* encryption by default. Unfortunately most of the software that non-geeks would use do not use encryption by default and it's a real PITA for most people to implement it.
Was magnetic variation taken into account for these studies? I live in Colorado where we have 9 degrees of magnetic variation, meaning that magnetic north is actually offset about 9 degrees off off true north. Magnetic variation changes around the world. I would be curious to know if this had been taken into account for these studies.
The terrorists have won.
then you can record it. Software such as Mythtv makes it possible, until of course the TV cards somehow become so functionally disabled that they refuse to work with Linux. oh wait..
Most "small planes" do not even have an autopilot and the control surfaces are actuated via rods and/or cables directly connected to the yoke and rudder pedals (i.e. no "power steering"). In such airplanes about the only place you'll find hydraulics are in the breaks and landing gear. Most "small airplane" engines are also far simpler than most people probably realize. The idea of installing a government "kill switch" or thinking that such aircraft can be remotely controlled from the ground is simply ludicrous. I wonder just how many of the people coming up with these ideas have ever even taken a basic ground school course for a private pilot license.
I somehow understood your first sentence to read: "If you would follow this field more closely you would find that there is steadily growing smell from a number of scientists around the world working in this field."
Fuel injection has been available in small aircraft (e.g small Cessnas) for quite some time now. Ironically they can seem more "complicated" to start than normally aspirated engines equipped with a carburetors if you are not used to them. One such common engine is the Lycoming O-360: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoming_O-360
Could these upgrades help to prove if it never happened and that the universe is actually much older than it is currently believed to be?
Doesn't this mean that the copper industry is "enabling" copyright infringement? For that matter so are the power companies.
"You do realise it's actually a lot *harder* to collide with someone else in three dimensions, yes?"
It's a lot easier than you might think. Aircraft fly at specific altitudes when traveling in certain directions. For VFR Easterly odd 1500 foot altitudes and Westerly even 1500 foot altitudes. (Leave off the 500 feet for IFR). Additionally airplanes are usually on airways and if not on airways often on direct paths between airports. Midair collisions are a far more serious threat than one might think at first.
It seems that the world has been hopelessly broke since the beginning of time, yet there has always seemed to be more than enough money *everywhere* to finance mass murder.
The point should be clear; in all of your examples of "stupidity" the contestants managed to get simple questions wrong completely on their own, however in my example the contestant was asked "What orbits the Earth?" with the possible answers being "The Moon", "The Sun", "Mars" or "Venus". When he wasn't sure of the answer he asked the audience. 56% of the audience thought it was the Sun, 2% thought it was Mars and only 42% got it right. One individual displaying such ignorance isn't nearly as shocking as 58% of the general population.
Should have dropped the trailing slash. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CjrNgK0zw
That's OK, and most Europeans wouldn't know the difference between Idaho, Ohio and Iowa. Perhaps we should test them with mislabeled maps and have them point to these names? Or we could just ask them a much fairer question like what body orbits the Earth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0CjrNgK0zw/
This happened to me while installing Suse, and after much "fiddling" it turned out that the computer BIOS was set to boot the disks in a different order than what was configured during setup. In short, make sure that if during setup you choose to boot from hda1 that the first boot device in the BIOS is also hda1. I may be wrong in your case, but it's something to check.