Actually it is the British who decided where 0 degrees longitude was, and thereby the Eastern/Western hemispheres. Why do you think it runs through Greenwich Englind? If an American had first invented the Naval Chronometer instead of Harrison, 0 degrees longitude would run through Washington D.C. or New York City, and not the British Royal Naval Observatory.
How many 9 or 10 year olds know how to use shell commands? Ok, there are a few smart ones out there, but I think a 'construction set' game, for kids, would be better with an interface. You can ween the kids off gui's later.
If they are capable of reading, they are capable of using the shell. How many kids were playing around with Apple II's and MS-DOS machines during the 1980's? I was using CP/M and programming in BASIC at the age of seven. I believe that any child that can read at an appropriate level for a seven-year-old can learn to use the command line. The GUI is probably necessary for pre-literate children, although I doubt the value of computers to children of that age.
We don't view them as constitutional rights, but rather God-Given Rights that exist whether or not a certain person's government acknowledges them. U.S. international policy starts to make a whole lot more sense once you realise that it is being decided from this viewpoint. To directly quote the U.S. Declaration of Independence:
... that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...
Many Americans beieve this in a nearly religous sense, myself included.
that statement needs to be better qualified... clusters can better solve problems...
If it posessed a more qualitative nature, it would no longer posess a mirrored structure to Slashdot's blurb about the article. Since my goal was to mock the article, rather than perform a comparison of parallel vectored processor supercomputing or massively parallel supercomputing (Cray) versus clustered supercomputing (Beowulf), I believe that I chose the right words.
... If you're making the national income average of about $40k-$45k per FAMILY...
The median family income for the U.S. in 2000 was $62,228, and I am not currently making anywhere near that much.
... I doubt you'd be blowing money on a iMuck for websurfing and email...
Of course they will, people blow their money on all sorts of stupid things.
... Mac owners have a disportionate number of photoshop types... but then, my criteria for better "home computers" involves what runs neverwinternights and WC3 better...
Which of the two sounds more productive and useful, PhotoShop or Neverwinter Nights?
... or Mucks would...
That wasn't all that funny the first time.
... confirms writer of the article has an elitist leaning and is trolling for attention...
Heck, using the criteria
they used, obviously workgroup server owners
are much smarter than PC and Mac owners,
and a Cray owner would be the smartest of all.
Hmm...
micah_lanier writes "Thought I would point out an interesting story from news.com. It seems a NetRatings Study concluded that those owning Crays tend to be more experienced with the internet, as well as educated better in general. However, this simply illustrates the fact that Crays are generally bought by those with little trouble being granted multi-million dollar government contracts, and therefore those who more likely posess multiple post-graduate degrees in technical subjects like physics (and so on)." Then how do we explain all the people with less education building beowulf clusters from cheap Compaqs and Dells? I think it's just that people with bigger budgets like better computers!
In the KDE UI article, he suggests only letting root browse the / directory, and everyone else only their home directory. Why? Normal users need to browse the main directory tree, and can be limited from areas they shouldn't be with the mode bits. Dropping that ability would just be plain annoying.
More American voters voted for Al Gore than for any other candidate. That is an undisputed fact
Actually, it is a disputed fact. Quite a few absentee votes were not even looked at in the state of California. Why? Because electoral votes are delegated on the state level, and there weren't enough to affect the outcome, since the Democrats had already won by well over a million votes in that state. This happened in several other states as well. We don't know the exact outcome of the popular vote, and never will. However, this is an OK thing, since we don't elect based upon the popular vote anyway, but rather use it to assign seats in the Electoral College. Whether or not the Electoral College is a good thing, however, is an whole different matter.
In FORTRAN (77 at least, but I think earlier too), embedded blanks are allowed in keywords. Therefore, you can type SUBROUTINE as SUB ROUTINE, or more importantly, you can type GOTO as GO TO. Gotta love FORTRAN.
That last server apparently is non-existant now, sorry. However, this much older page from the FreeBSD mail archives lists his e-mail as eilts@iwte01.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de, which suggests that he went to that university at some point in time. Perhaps you could get contact information from them?
It claims that video games can cause behavioural changes, such as lack of concentration [failing to read even the short article introduction on Slashdot], difficulty with social association [not getting any], and short temper [arguing non-objectively and in a personally attached manner as is common on Slashdot] . These effects are also thought to be, to some extent, nonreversible [continuing to not get any for the rest of your life]. It does not state that you are an idiot because you play video games.
There are two designs already that I know of that would certainly work. The problem is that antimatter is a bugger to produce (well, antiprotons, at least).
That would be why I specified a functional thruster. The anti-matter generator would most likely need to be part of the unit. I doubt that generating it earth-side and carrying large quantities would be that good of an idea, but an onboard generator pumping out a small but constant stream would be ideal.
Rep. Cramer compares the old lab to an old car garage, with concrete floors and tin roofs. Hopefully a more appropriate working environment will be more conducive to thought and research. It would be great if they actually managed to design a functional anti-matter thurster.
Yes, I only cerebrally (in the brain, in case you are wondering about that one too) remember fluid ounces, cups, pints, quarts, pottles, gallons, barrels, and hogsheads. Most of the rest came from D. E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, Third Edition page 109. A few came from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, where I remembered the unit name but not what it equals.
For those who don't get the know either system, 1 US ton = 2000 pounds and 1 UK ton = 2240 pounds. We in the US never use "stones", but I bet we have them defined differently anyway. Civil engineering courses in the US can be a pain (even more than anywhere else) because we have to learn the US system, the UK system, metric, SI (not exactly the same as metric), naval measurements (1 nautical mile ~= 1.150777 US miles ~= 1.150779 statute miles), and one of my professors that it would be fun (for him, not us) to have us learn the old biblical measurements, too.
We in the US use the old "wine cuts" for liquid measure. A US gallon is also known as a "wine gallon", and is smaller than a British gallon. 1 UK gallon = 1.20095 wine gallons. If you were to go buy a pint of beer (not that they sell beer by pints here) you would think you are being cheated. 1 US pint = 16 fluid ounces.
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car
gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!" --Abe Simpson (Homer's dad)
Actually, one of the cool things about old English liquid measure (and dry measure too, but it took me long enough to exosomatically remember the liquid measures) is that it is base-2 instead of base-10. Unfortunately, we forgot most of the units. For example, I can't recall what goes between ounces and gills, and I can't seem find it on the internet.
From what I read on the website I think you are correct about what they are doing.
However, the idea of a "multidimensional pi" is actually kind of interesting.
The pi we call pi is the one for 2-dimensions, say pi(2). This is curcumference/diameter.
For 3 dimensions, pi(3), the extension that seems the most natural to me is (outer surface area of a sphere)/(area of circle of same diameter). I don't want to go dig up an analytic geometry book right now to look up the formulas, does anybody actually remember them?
For pi(4), I think it should be something like (3D "circumference")/(volume of sphere). While the 2D "circumference" was no trouble to figure out, just the outer surface area, I am not sure what the 3D circumference would be.
It would be really neat if pi = pi(2) = pi(3) = pi(4) = pi(5) =..., but something else might be more informative about geometry in general.
Ah yes - the veritable time-tested Model M keyboard.
I have several of these myself. I find it uncomfortable to use anything else.
I need to find a stockpile of them though. You can never have too many.
The keyboard I am using right now is an IBM model M. I fell in love with them when I first used a PS/2 (not PlayStation/2), and when I saw a few sitting next to a garbage bin with a bunch of other old cumputer stuff, I decided instantly that it would replace my $99 wireless black keyboard/mouse combo. It took me several hours to clean it, which is strange, because everywhere I worked had specific policies against eating at the computers that they actually enforced. Don't people ever wash their hands?
I plan to use the other two as spare parts for this one, so that I will never have to use another keyboard again. I never really thought about the need for adapters, though, so I guess I will need to look around for some PS/2->USB adapters.
I can see it, in 40 years, still using my model M, plugged into a PS2->USB adapter, plugged into a USB->BSN (BrandSpankinNew) adapter, plugged into a BSN->ESS (EvenShinierStill) adapter, plugged into an ESS->DNL (DirectNeuralLink) adapter, plugged into my brain.
So, I've been modded down as a troll! Did I blaspheme someone's religion? Is Ronnie Raygun your idol, or Slick Willy your devil? Maybe both. You can mod me down, but that doesn't mean what I say isn't so. Ha!
You were most likely modded down as a troll because most people older than ten realise that mocking the name of someone you disagree with, instead of presenting real arguments, is childish and immature, and nobody wants to hear the political opinions of a ten-year-old.
Although it was apparent that this was merely do to legal reasons among The Timelords. After all, The Master regenerated an extra time near the end of Tom Baker's stay by taking somebody elses body, and again in that shitty movie for Fox. While The Doctor wouldn't do anything like that himself, I am sure that if it became necessary, some evil villian could be written to "force" him to do so for some nefarious scheme. Or possibly even other good guys, something like this:
Captian of some spacecraft: Doctor, the Cybermen have launced my ship towards that star, and I can't stop it! Doctor: Don't worry I'll just... Door explodes, and 5 Cybermen enter scene. Cyber Leader:You'll never stop us, Doctor! Cyber Leader shoots Doctor, he falls down dead. Doctor's Companion: Doctor! Oh no! Captian's nephew, up until now mostly a coward, presses a button that covers the Cybermen in gold, killing them. Nephew: We need to get him back alive to save this ship. We can transfer him into my body. Companion: But that will kill you! Nephew: I know, but it's our only option.
large calibre? get custom-built imported 20mm cannons or better, don't go with American brands. I personally do not know where to find them, here in Canada gun laws are a little more restrictive.
In light of recent events (the previous year specifically) good luck getting your purchase into the country.
20mm! I said large calibre, but just to avoid hearing about.22LRs. Hell, 20mm is a standard anti-aircraft cannon calibre. I was thinking more along the lines of a.270MAG or.300MAG.
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Actually it is the British who decided where 0 degrees longitude was, and thereby the Eastern/Western hemispheres. Why do you think it runs through Greenwich Englind? If an American had first invented the Naval Chronometer instead of Harrison, 0 degrees longitude would run through Washington D.C. or New York City, and not the British Royal Naval Observatory.
If they are capable of reading, they are capable of using the shell. How many kids were playing around with Apple II's and MS-DOS machines during the 1980's? I was using CP/M and programming in BASIC at the age of seven. I believe that any child that can read at an appropriate level for a seven-year-old can learn to use the command line. The GUI is probably necessary for pre-literate children, although I doubt the value of computers to children of that age.
Believe it or not, orginisations outside of the U.S. Federal Government use FORTRAN.
Many Americans beieve this in a nearly religous sense, myself included.
If it posessed a more qualitative nature, it would no longer posess a mirrored structure to Slashdot's blurb about the article. Since my goal was to mock the article, rather than perform a comparison of parallel vectored processor supercomputing or massively parallel supercomputing (Cray) versus clustered supercomputing (Beowulf), I believe that I chose the right words.
The median family income for the U.S. in 2000 was $62,228, and I am not currently making anywhere near that much.
Of course they will, people blow their money on all sorts of stupid things.
Which of the two sounds more productive and useful, PhotoShop or Neverwinter Nights?
That wasn't all that funny the first time.
Well of course. It's on the Internet, isn't it?
Hmm ...
micah_lanier writes "Thought I would point out an interesting story from news.com. It seems a NetRatings Study concluded that those owning Crays tend to be more experienced with the internet, as well as educated better in general. However, this simply illustrates the fact that Crays are generally bought by those with little trouble being granted multi-million dollar government contracts, and therefore those who more likely posess multiple post-graduate degrees in technical subjects like physics (and so on)." Then how do we explain all the people with less education building beowulf clusters from cheap Compaqs and Dells? I think it's just that people with bigger budgets like better computers!
In the English language, the masculine pronouns may be used in a gender-nonspecific manner when one is unaware of the actual state of affairs.
In the KDE UI article, he suggests only letting root browse the / directory, and everyone else only their home directory. Why? Normal users need to browse the main directory tree, and can be limited from areas they shouldn't be with the mode bits. Dropping that ability would just be plain annoying.
Actually, it is a disputed fact. Quite a few absentee votes were not even looked at in the state of California. Why? Because electoral votes are delegated on the state level, and there weren't enough to affect the outcome, since the Democrats had already won by well over a million votes in that state. This happened in several other states as well. We don't know the exact outcome of the popular vote, and never will. However, this is an OK thing, since we don't elect based upon the popular vote anyway, but rather use it to assign seats in the Electoral College. Whether or not the Electoral College is a good thing, however, is an whole different matter.
In FORTRAN (77 at least, but I think earlier too), embedded blanks are allowed in keywords. Therefore, you can type SUBROUTINE as SUB ROUTINE, or more importantly, you can type GOTO as GO TO. Gotta love FORTRAN.
That last server apparently is non-existant now, sorry. However, this much older page from the FreeBSD mail archives lists his e-mail as eilts@iwte01.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de, which suggests that he went to that university at some point in time. Perhaps you could get contact information from them?
This page lists an e-mail address for him, eilts@tor.muc.de. I hope that helps.
It claims that video games can cause behavioural changes, such as lack of concentration [failing to read even the short article introduction on Slashdot], difficulty with social association [not getting any], and short temper [arguing non-objectively and in a personally attached manner as is common on Slashdot] . These effects are also thought to be, to some extent, nonreversible [continuing to not get any for the rest of your life]. It does not state that you are an idiot because you play video games.
That would be why I specified a functional thruster. The anti-matter generator would most likely need to be part of the unit. I doubt that generating it earth-side and carrying large quantities would be that good of an idea, but an onboard generator pumping out a small but constant stream would be ideal.
Rep. Cramer compares the old lab to an old car garage, with concrete floors and tin roofs. Hopefully a more appropriate working environment will be more conducive to thought and research. It would be great if they actually managed to design a functional anti-matter thurster.
Yes, I only cerebrally (in the brain, in case you are wondering about that one too) remember fluid ounces, cups, pints, quarts, pottles, gallons, barrels, and hogsheads. Most of the rest came from D. E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, Third Edition page 109. A few came from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, where I remembered the unit name but not what it equals.
A jack is either 1/2 or 1/4 of a pint, depending on which system you use, which is a cup or gill, respectively.
For those who don't get the know either system, 1 US ton = 2000 pounds and 1 UK ton = 2240 pounds. We in the US never use "stones", but I bet we have them defined differently anyway. Civil engineering courses in the US can be a pain (even more than anywhere else) because we have to learn the US system, the UK system, metric, SI (not exactly the same as metric), naval measurements (1 nautical mile ~= 1.150777 US miles ~= 1.150779 statute miles), and one of my professors that it would be fun (for him, not us) to have us learn the old biblical measurements, too.
We in the US use the old "wine cuts" for liquid measure. A US gallon is also known as a "wine gallon", and is smaller than a British gallon. 1 UK gallon = 1.20095 wine gallons. If you were to go buy a pint of beer (not that they sell beer by pints here) you would think you are being cheated. 1 US pint = 16 fluid ounces.
Actually, one of the cool things about old English liquid measure (and dry measure too, but it took me long enough to exosomatically remember the liquid measures) is that it is base-2 instead of base-10. Unfortunately, we forgot most of the units. For example, I can't recall what goes between ounces and gills, and I can't seem find it on the internet.
2 fluid ounces = 1 ??? = 2^1 fl.oz.
2 ???s = 1 gill = 2^2 fl.oz.
2 gills = 1 chopin (cup) = 2^3 fl.oz.
2 chopins (cups) = 1 pint = 2^4 fl.oz.
2 pints = 1 quart = 2^5 fl.oz.
2 quarts = 1 pottle = 2^6 fl.oz.
2 pottles = 1 gallon = 2^7 fl.oz.
2 gallons = 1 peck = 2^8 fl.oz.
2 pecks = 1 demibushel = 2^9 fl.oz.
2 demibushels = 1 bushel or firken = 2^10 fl.oz.
2 firkens = 1 kinderkin = 2^11 fl.oz.
2 kinderkins = 1 barrel = 2^12 fl.oz.
2 barrels = 1 hogshead = 2^13 fl.oz.
2 hogsheads = 1 pipe = 2^14 fl.oz.
2 pipes = 1 tun = 2^15 fl.oz.
The gas tank on my Dad's old Chevy Suburban holds a barrel and a firken. A full tank of gas costs about $60.
The pi we call pi is the one for 2-dimensions, say pi(2). This is curcumference/diameter.
For 3 dimensions, pi(3), the extension that seems the most natural to me is (outer surface area of a sphere)/(area of circle of same diameter). I don't want to go dig up an analytic geometry book right now to look up the formulas, does anybody actually remember them?
For pi(4), I think it should be something like (3D "circumference")/(volume of sphere). While the 2D "circumference" was no trouble to figure out, just the outer surface area, I am not sure what the 3D circumference would be.
It would be really neat if pi = pi(2) = pi(3) = pi(4) = pi(5) = ..., but something else might be more informative about geometry in general.
I have several of these myself. I find it uncomfortable to use anything else.
I need to find a stockpile of them though. You can never have too many.
The keyboard I am using right now is an IBM model M. I fell in love with them when I first used a PS/2 (not PlayStation/2), and when I saw a few sitting next to a garbage bin with a bunch of other old cumputer stuff, I decided instantly that it would replace my $99 wireless black keyboard/mouse combo. It took me several hours to clean it, which is strange, because everywhere I worked had specific policies against eating at the computers that they actually enforced. Don't people ever wash their hands?
I plan to use the other two as spare parts for this one, so that I will never have to use another keyboard again. I never really thought about the need for adapters, though, so I guess I will need to look around for some PS/2->USB adapters. I can see it, in 40 years, still using my model M, plugged into a PS2->USB adapter, plugged into a USB->BSN (BrandSpankinNew) adapter, plugged into a BSN->ESS (EvenShinierStill) adapter, plugged into an ESS->DNL (DirectNeuralLink) adapter, plugged into my brain.
You were most likely modded down as a troll because most people older than ten realise that mocking the name of someone you disagree with, instead of presenting real arguments, is childish and immature, and nobody wants to hear the political opinions of a ten-year-old.
Captian of some spacecraft: Doctor, the Cybermen have launced my ship towards that star, and I can't stop it! ...
Doctor: Don't worry I'll just
Door explodes, and 5 Cybermen enter scene.
Cyber Leader:You'll never stop us, Doctor!
Cyber Leader shoots Doctor, he falls down dead.
Doctor's Companion: Doctor! Oh no!
Captian's nephew, up until now mostly a coward, presses a button that covers the Cybermen in gold, killing them.
Nephew: We need to get him back alive to save this ship. We can transfer him into my body.
Companion: But that will kill you!
Nephew: I know, but it's our only option.
And so there is yet another Doctor.
In light of recent events (the previous year specifically) good luck getting your purchase into the country.
20mm! I said large calibre, but just to avoid hearing about .22LRs. Hell, 20mm is a standard anti-aircraft cannon calibre. I was thinking more along the lines of a .270MAG or .300MAG.