Poking into the realm of science fiction, one would have to presume one of two things for this to happen. Either these life forms would have some sort of natural protection from such radiation or have developed some technology that protects them. Or their life is based on something other than carbon (silicon?). The reason for this is that all carbon based life is easily damaged by high energy light waves. Indeed, most non-metals tend to break down their molecular bonds when exposed to gamma rays. Either way, despite the tenacity of life, it would require a large leap of faith to assume that this is the case.
Actually, since gamma radiation is so high-energy, it would be an ideal food. Think living metal plants absorbing gamma radiation instead of light radiation. Think metal "herbavores" eating the metal plants. Think metal "carnivores" eating the metal herbavores. Think sentient bipedal metal "omnivores" eating metal fast food, trying to estimate the density of life in the galaxy, discounting the idea of life in the outer arms due to the lack of an abundant energy source.
That said, some of what refactoring browsers do can be done with search and replace. Be careful though, you don't want to change all occurences of "i" to "index" and end up with code that won't compile because there's no type "indexnt".
This is why one should seperate every independent token. The vi command:%s/i/index/g may break a lot of things, but:%s/ i / index/g will not.
It is obvious that the victims are chosen from the group of previous button pushers. If that were not the case than the story sucks, there is not twist.
The obvious solution would be to press the button, and after the guy gives you the money, shoot him so that he can't give the button to somebody else.
I dunno, but my second son is gonna be called Skeletor.
I assume you are joking, but just in case you aren't, and to anybody out there who thinks this might be a good idea, remember that this is a good way to make your kids hate you.
Communism in it's most 'pure' form is not an economic or social possibility.
Actually it is, but only in small groups.
The hippie communes back in the 60's were rarely (if ever) more than a few hundred people.
This is because for people to be willing to give freely, they must know the people personally.
I do think this is why the free software movement is working, it is a tight-nit community of friends.
Most of the developers are not really giving away their software for the good of humanity, but rather I believe they ar motivated because their friends Bob and Jack that they only know through The Internet would find the code interesting and useful.
The rest of the world gets it merely as a side-benefit.
But what were they going to bitch about? Anything in particular? I guess that's what I am curious about. Is it anything significant, or is it just another excuse to bitch?
Well, there is the fact that they won't sell me a V8 in a 4-door sedan unless I am willing to buy a $43,000 Cadillac. Bring back the Caprice, damn it! Otherwise my next car will have to be a Ford Crown Victoria.
This is of course why communism will never exist, because (as the previous anonymous poster said) it depends on the idea that people are not greedy. People are greedy.
Why shouldn't people be greedy?
Greed is a natural extension of our survival instinct.
I might not need a resource now, but I might need it later, but if I don't take it now you might get to it before me.
Even if I won't ever need the resource, you might, and be willing to trade for it some resource that I do need.
Why should I share?
That only benefits those who can't get what they need by themselves.
This is why tradionally resource sharing has only existed amoung immediate family and close friends.
These are the only people whose survival, other than myself, that I have a vested interest in.
Everyone else serves as competition for that small group, and therefore going out of my way to deny resources to others, even if I don't and will never need those resources, can serve to help my vested group, since the others may serve as less of a competition without the resources.
And then collapsed. (imo) Communism is a wonderful idea that is based on the assumption that people are not greedy. People though are of course greedy.
The U.S.S.R. was not communist, but rather socialist. The is a real difference. In communism, people decide to share their resources equally. In socualism, people are ordered to share their resources, in this case by the state. They collapsed because of The Cold War, not on their own. They would not have collapsed otherwise.
Example: Communist Russia. They held their beliefs against outside interference, and in the end it was the belief that failed them, not outside influence.
You seem to forget the the Soviets were exerting control over a very large portion of the globe, only checked in by the actions of N.A.T.O.
If it were not for outside influence, they would not have collapsed, but rather continued their spread of influence unchecked.
One could place a counter-rotational mass along the same axis, either an identical habitat section or just some dead-weight.
This would prevent the transfer of rotational energy to the non-rotating sections.
As for the gravitational difference, I imagine a 10% change from head to toe would be safe for humans, although experimental results would be required to determine the exact tolerances.
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My Father's Windows98 machine has the same sort of problems whenever I use Mozilla.
It seemed to start when I installed the foreign-language support.
It doesn't happen when I use MSIE.
I suspect he has a similar situation going on.
all Xerox had was a concept and a very limited proto type that had very little usability and was not envisioned for anything passed a grafical interface for their copy machines.
Actually they used to have a good-sized computer business.
The first computer I ever programmed on was a Xerox running CP/M, around 1985.
My father worked for the U.S.D.A. (retired now), and back then he would let me play around on it whenever I would go in to work with him.
The Xerox Alto was their graphical computer.
I never used one of them myself, but they weren't just "prototypes".
You can read about them at this guys website.
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You must be kidding. Have you read these books? I can't say I know a single person who has read all of them.
I have read all of volume 1 and about half of volume 2, excepting a few parts where the math was too complex (and I have around 60 semester hours of college math).
One of my goals for this summer is to finish volume 2.
I have found it to be a very well written text, but you need a good deal of math to understand it.
These are not good books for anybody getting a mainly-business-oriented degree (called C.I.S. at my college).
However, if you can understand the math, by all means read it all.
There are quite a few items in computer science that I didn't understand fully (or at all) until I read it in Knuth.
If I ever meet the guy in person, I would have to say thanks.
I would scarcely call an operating system that 95% of the world's PCs run "niche."
You apparently did not catch the sarcasm.
I believe he was suggesting that Macintoshes as a proprietary system that caters to people who like to spend money when they don't have to.
Can someone please explain the difference between OpenBSD and FreeBSD?
FreeBSD split in 1993 from 386BSD and 4.3BSD.
OpenBSD split in 1995 from NetBSD.
NetBSD split in 1993 from 386BSD and 4.3BSD.
So, unless you routinely play around with the kernel source itself, the answer is not much at all.
The most noticable thing is that FreeBSD uses bold text when it boots, where OpenBSD uses reversed text.
If you want a BSD system to just play around with, FreeBSD would probably be a better choice, but OpenBSD (and espicially NetBSD) support more architectures.
For example, I don't think UltraSparc's are supported in FreeBSD yet, but they are in OpenBSD.
These trains travel at 500 km/h, not 500 mph. So they really only travel less than twice as fast as current shinkansen.
Damned metric. Anyway: m1/m2 = (v2/v1)^2 = (500kph/50mph)^2 = (311mph/50mph)^2 = 6.21^2 = 38.6 times the energy during a crash, or the new train could have only 2.59% the mass of conventional trains.
It's not for *a* single DVD. With NetFlix, I think the deal is you get 6 out at a time. Which is $3.something per DVD. Cheaper than Blockbuster, which is $4 (!!) aroundh ere, and a about the same as Mr. Movies.
That sounds much more reasonable. I was thinking mabye it was really expensive because of the "free" shipping or something.
Because they are so much lighter than conventional trains, they should produce less damage if they crash, even though they are moving faster. Remember, kinetic energy = mass times velocity squared (E_k = mv^2, Newtonian physics). Which would you rather be hit by, a two-ton pickup truck travelling at 20 miles per hour, or a tennis ball travelling at 60 miles per hour?
Normal trains only travel at 50 -- 75 mph, while these new trains travel at 500 mph. If you look at the equation you stated, E=mv^2, you will notice that v is the dominant term. The trains would have to be much lighter to produce the same energy. E = m1 v1^2, E = m2 v2^2, => m1/m2 = v2^2 / v1^2 = (v2/v1)^2 = (50/500)^2 = (1/10)^2 =.1^2 = 0.01. The faster train could only be 1% the mass of the slower one in order to produce the same effect, or put another way, if the two trains are the same mass then the faster one will crash with 100 times as much energy. While I have no trouble believing that the faster trains might be even as light as 1/5 the traditional ones, I seriously doubt they ar 1/100 the mass.
F? When/How/Why would you not have a choice? You really shouldn't be supporting the MPAA, but that's another story. How could you possibly be forced to rent a DVD from Blockbuster?
Blockbuster tends to be the only movie rental place with a decent selection, especially in smaller towns. That means, assuming that you don't want to watch Weekend at Bernie's or Caddyshack yet again, you might be forced to rent from Blockbuster.
Also, why shouldn't we be supporting the M.P.A.A? If you don't like their stance on DeCSS, then bring a lawsuit against them. If you don't like the D.M.C.A., then write to your congressman and senator. Boycotts are ineffective at best, and even if everyone on Slashdot boycotted them, it would only be about a 2% dip at most. Litigation, on the other hand, can put the fear of God into a corporation.
I would also like to point out that $19 per month is a terrible rental fee for a DVD, when you can usually buy them for between $15 and $25, and that's full retail.
why does everyone think that only "industrial" production produces CO2??? hmmm....
Well, agriculture should reduce CO2, since plants breathe it, and the only source of CO2 from service work that I can think of is the people commuting to and from work in S.U.V.s.
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Actually, since gamma radiation is so high-energy, it would be an ideal food. Think living metal plants absorbing gamma radiation instead of light radiation. Think metal "herbavores" eating the metal plants. Think metal "carnivores" eating the metal herbavores. Think sentient bipedal metal "omnivores" eating metal fast food, trying to estimate the density of life in the galaxy, discounting the idea of life in the outer arms due to the lack of an abundant energy source.
I own Remingtons and Marlins to shoot beer bottles with, but no Winchesters. Any specific recommendations, preferably for larger-calibre rifles?
This is why one should seperate every independent token. The vi command :%s/i/index/g may break a lot of things, but :%s/ i / index /g will not.
I vote for Winchester disk.
A one-time payout of $200,000 is a lot cheaper than about a dozen capable OS programmers at $150,000 each per year.
The obvious solution would be to press the button, and after the guy gives you the money, shoot him so that he can't give the button to somebody else.
I assume you are joking, but just in case you aren't, and to anybody out there who thinks this might be a good idea, remember that this is a good way to make your kids hate you.
Actually it is, but only in small groups. The hippie communes back in the 60's were rarely (if ever) more than a few hundred people. This is because for people to be willing to give freely, they must know the people personally. I do think this is why the free software movement is working, it is a tight-nit community of friends. Most of the developers are not really giving away their software for the good of humanity, but rather I believe they ar motivated because their friends Bob and Jack that they only know through The Internet would find the code interesting and useful. The rest of the world gets it merely as a side-benefit.
Well, there is the fact that they won't sell me a V8 in a 4-door sedan unless I am willing to buy a $43,000 Cadillac. Bring back the Caprice, damn it! Otherwise my next car will have to be a Ford Crown Victoria.
Yes, it did.
Why shouldn't people be greedy? Greed is a natural extension of our survival instinct. I might not need a resource now, but I might need it later, but if I don't take it now you might get to it before me. Even if I won't ever need the resource, you might, and be willing to trade for it some resource that I do need. Why should I share? That only benefits those who can't get what they need by themselves. This is why tradionally resource sharing has only existed amoung immediate family and close friends. These are the only people whose survival, other than myself, that I have a vested interest in. Everyone else serves as competition for that small group, and therefore going out of my way to deny resources to others, even if I don't and will never need those resources, can serve to help my vested group, since the others may serve as less of a competition without the resources.
The U.S.S.R. was not communist, but rather socialist. The is a real difference. In communism, people decide to share their resources equally. In socualism, people are ordered to share their resources, in this case by the state. They collapsed because of The Cold War, not on their own. They would not have collapsed otherwise.
You seem to forget the the Soviets were exerting control over a very large portion of the globe, only checked in by the actions of N.A.T.O. If it were not for outside influence, they would not have collapsed, but rather continued their spread of influence unchecked.
Apparently I am the only person who was stupid enough to work for stock only.
As for the gravitational difference, I imagine a 10% change from head to toe would be safe for humans, although experimental results would be required to determine the exact tolerances.
My Father's Windows98 machine has the same sort of problems whenever I use Mozilla. It seemed to start when I installed the foreign-language support. It doesn't happen when I use MSIE. I suspect he has a similar situation going on.
Actually they used to have a good-sized computer business. The first computer I ever programmed on was a Xerox running CP/M, around 1985. My father worked for the U.S.D.A. (retired now), and back then he would let me play around on it whenever I would go in to work with him. The Xerox Alto was their graphical computer. I never used one of them myself, but they weren't just "prototypes". You can read about them at this guys website.
I have read all of volume 1 and about half of volume 2, excepting a few parts where the math was too complex (and I have around 60 semester hours of college math). One of my goals for this summer is to finish volume 2. I have found it to be a very well written text, but you need a good deal of math to understand it. These are not good books for anybody getting a mainly-business-oriented degree (called C.I.S. at my college). However, if you can understand the math, by all means read it all. There are quite a few items in computer science that I didn't understand fully (or at all) until I read it in Knuth. If I ever meet the guy in person, I would have to say thanks.
You apparently did not catch the sarcasm. I believe he was suggesting that Macintoshes as a proprietary system that caters to people who like to spend money when they don't have to.
FreeBSD split in 1993 from 386BSD and 4.3BSD. OpenBSD split in 1995 from NetBSD. NetBSD split in 1993 from 386BSD and 4.3BSD. So, unless you routinely play around with the kernel source itself, the answer is not much at all. The most noticable thing is that FreeBSD uses bold text when it boots, where OpenBSD uses reversed text. If you want a BSD system to just play around with, FreeBSD would probably be a better choice, but OpenBSD (and espicially NetBSD) support more architectures. For example, I don't think UltraSparc's are supported in FreeBSD yet, but they are in OpenBSD.
Damned metric. Anyway: m1/m2 = (v2/v1)^2 = (500kph/50mph)^2 = (311mph/50mph)^2 = 6.21^2 = 38.6 times the energy during a crash, or the new train could have only 2.59% the mass of conventional trains.
That sounds much more reasonable. I was thinking mabye it was really expensive because of the "free" shipping or something.
Normal trains only travel at 50 -- 75 mph, while these new trains travel at 500 mph. If you look at the equation you stated, E=mv^2, you will notice that v is the dominant term. The trains would have to be much lighter to produce the same energy. E = m1 v1^2, E = m2 v2^2, => m1/m2 = v2^2 / v1^2 = (v2/v1)^2 = (50/500)^2 = (1/10)^2 = .1^2 = 0.01. The faster train could only be 1% the mass of the slower one in order to produce the same effect, or put another way, if the two trains are the same mass then the faster one will crash with 100 times as much energy. While I have no trouble believing that the faster trains might be even as light as 1/5 the traditional ones, I seriously doubt they ar 1/100 the mass.
Blockbuster tends to be the only movie rental place with a decent selection, especially in smaller towns. That means, assuming that you don't want to watch Weekend at Bernie's or Caddyshack yet again, you might be forced to rent from Blockbuster.
Also, why shouldn't we be supporting the M.P.A.A? If you don't like their stance on DeCSS, then bring a lawsuit against them. If you don't like the D.M.C.A., then write to your congressman and senator. Boycotts are ineffective at best, and even if everyone on Slashdot boycotted them, it would only be about a 2% dip at most. Litigation, on the other hand, can put the fear of God into a corporation.
I would also like to point out that $19 per month is a terrible rental fee for a DVD, when you can usually buy them for between $15 and $25, and that's full retail.
Well, agriculture should reduce CO2, since plants breathe it, and the only source of CO2 from service work that I can think of is the people commuting to and from work in S.U.V.s.