I was infected by a virus a week ago. The virus said "you fool" through the computer speakers. I do not have bios, I do not have anything, only the motherboard (Asus k8v Deluxe) and a microphone (AMD 64-bit), RAM and graphic memory. It always repeats the same words: "you fool". I changed the bios and it continued the same. I think I know where the virus is: it is a 1MB chip of the motherboard (w55f10b). I cannot reprogram it, as there are 3 chips inside (one is an audio chip). I bought another motherboard, the same as the one I had, installed it, and also installed the microphone, RAM and graphic card. I was shocked when it still repeated the words.
Does anyone have experience with the Asus K8V. I recall at some point I had a motherboard that actually "spoke" when it could not find memory or a video card instead of the usual beeps. I'm just wondering if this one may have had the same feature. I tried the manual from the Asus site but it doesn't seem to include a troubleshooting guide (I had to use the Chinese site since the global site said "too many users").
no, I'm not talking about the test pilot but the guy who had the guts to ask her...
In June 1997, seven weeks after the birth of his second child, Mr. Martin figured his prototype was now powerful enough to lift its first flier, so long as that person weighed less than 130 pounds. So he turned to his wife. "I said, Hey, Vanessa, what are you doing tonight? "
but seriously that's quite a feat to do with an ICE, especially if you take into consideration that it needs to be balanced.
As for me personally, I think I'll hold off until they figure out how to fit a microturbine into a school-sized backpack.
...wouldn't this classify as image or sound analysis package with really advanced algorithms and not really AI in the strictest sense? I mean by this definition "the animal" program written in Basic, where the program learns patterns to yes/no questions can likewise be considered an "AI". I would consider this program an AI if it was able to call 911 and describe the attacker/situation.
I worked on a closely related project while I was at Argonne National Lab many years ago. The main problem was that once you run too much current through the lines, the self-induced magnetic field from the current running through the line will cause superconductivity to collapse. Does anyone know the technical details, such as how big the lines are and how much current can they run and at what voltage?
The type of ceramic also matters. Y-Ba-Cu-O type ceramics need to be in a crystalline form that has texture since superconductivity is present in only one crystal plane, which would be difficult if not impossible to implement as a wire (at best they could use something rigid akin to pipes). I will assume that they are using metal sheathed Ba-Sr-Ca-Cu-O ceramics, which have lower current carrying capacity, but maybe will be more practical. This would probably increase the size of the lines and drive up the cost of cooling. If anyone has more technical information, please share
...liquid nitrogen scurrying around the floor, which may indicate that it depends on vapors being emitted from the "ball."
also, anyone else find this funny:
He said the surfaces emitted little jets that seemed to jerk them forward or sideways, as well as smoke trails that formed spiral shapes, suggesting the balls spun. The balls were hot enough to melt plastic and burn a hole in his jeans.
You're apologizing for the school board not airing a political film from a Democrat trying to launch an election campaign?
Sigh...I shouldn't even bother posting in this story. Knowing Slashdot's political leanings, everyone here will think it's totally okay to show a movie about Al Gore (it's not about global warming...it's about Al Gore giving presentations about global warming) in classrooms.
Is there no objective documentary presented by scientists that they could show instead?
I thought the point of the story was that the schoolboard demoted Global Warming into the realm of unproven fact. I watched the movie and as both, a scientist and an engineer, I found the facts a bit lacking and Gore's personal thoughts out-of-place, but I was also glad that it brought the issues to the publics attention. If anything it will make kids more interested in learning about science and the environment. By your comments I assume that you would want Al Gore to disappear and never be heard from again regardless if he has something beneficial to share or not. Even if he makes himself look like an idiot on the big screen, I am grateful for what he has done to support the scientists that are studying this that actually know what they are talking about. To me it was silly for him to say invented the internet but it also does not matter because the point is that he at least saw the benefits and knew enough to vote for funding it.
Wrong, and your statement itself is ad hominem. Go read the definition, please. Example, from wikipedia:
"An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the person", "argument against the man") is a logical fallacy consisting of replying to an argument by attacking or appealing to the person making the argument, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument."
Any time your retort's subject matter is your opponent in the debate, that is ad hominem.
Ahhh, but in this case, it wasn't the person that was being attacked. It was a filter that that person had chosen to apply to their perception with demonstrable effects on his ability to draw logical conclusions *in certain situations* which was being attacked.
His stated belief that the earth is 14,000 years old demonstrates this filter applied to his ability to deal with many sciences such as geology, paleontology, etc.
Therefore, his chosen belief system does have a bearing "on his own ability to objectively evaluate the evidence concerning global warming," as the OP said, since that evidence is science-based as well.
That's a perfectly valid argument.
Except that for the most part you either interpret the bible literally or allegorically. There can really be no middle ground since you still would not be able to form a lot of geological formations in 14,000 years so therefore either God put them in their place where they pretty much stand now or they've been around for much longer.
example to prove I'm not full of it:
Mount Everest has an elevation of approximately 29,000 feet and grows by 2.4 inches/year (http://www.extremescience.com/HighestElevation.ht m)
Time to make mount Everest: 29,000 feet * 12 inches per foot / 2.4 inches per year = 145,000 years.
This does not account for erosion when the mountain rock was not protected by snow and nice during its early development.
By saying that the earth was 145,000 - 14,000 years = 131,000 years you are not really saving yourself any trouble of having to explain away these geological theories, but complicating matters because you no longer literally interpret the bible but rather have your own version of events.
To summarize my rambling, you can make other scientific arguments based on geological observations and the most effective way that a literal reading of the bible deals with these is that God placed these features that way when the planet was created (i.e. ancient riverbeds were pre-carved, oil was already present and did not need to decompose from dead creatures, etc...), but once you remove the literal interpretation then you open yourself upto having to prove why your version is right.
just a few questions:
1. Is a poli-titian is what I think it is...because that sounds hott!
2. Did you know that my niece, who is in the sixth grade, corrected your spelling... (she wasn't sure about "mergered" and so she gave it to you on a draw)
3. That the data supporting global warming is based on ground temperature measurements and carbon dioxide levels that seem to follow the same cyclic pattern, and consequently since the carbon dioxide levels are steadily rising, temperatures expected to do so as well. The temperature data is based on measurements done on tree rings and geological finds and the carbon dioxide levels are based on measurements done arctic ice cores. No SATTELLITE data is necessary because SATTELLITES were not around long enough to be useful to generate a trend.
4. And finally, did you know that if you expect to convince people that you have an intelligent argument, you should at least learn to spell better than a sixth grader?
I am really not trying to insult you, but since you didn't bother to check your spelling how could I possibly expect you to have checked your facts?
Well... either that or it will turn out to be something made up by 6 Washington DC lawyers like it is. I have a newsweek article with excerpts from the leading scientists of the 1970s that said we're all going to freeze to death. The fact is that global warming was effectivly started by lawyers and polititians in the late 70s and early 80s, they where the only one's preaching it before the scientists came on board. Scientists started jumping on once they saw that ever one that did instantly became famous and praised as the savior of our time.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/0 4/09/ixworld.html [telegraph.co.uk] - "that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase, there was actually a slight decrease"
1998 happens to also be the year NASA went full tracking of the phenomena by satalites, which is much more accurate then ground sensors.
Later NASA released a press release(it was on cnn and i dont feel like grabbing it right now, search for it yourself if you feel you want to) saying that they had fixed the problem with thier satalites that had caused the skewed numbers.(Effectively skewing all thier readings the other way to get the expected results) Thier official reason was the satalites where actually recording upper atmospheric temperatures, and upper atmospheric temperatures had actually decreased durring this time. However for that to occur the sensors would have to both be picking up data for higher elevations which is theoredically impossible using infared scanning, and have tempatures skewed so that they had resembled the ground tempatures, the coincidence is near impossible. Science and politics have recently mergered, which creates a science of the politicians, one where it is hard to sepperate lies from truth and where everyone loses. Scientists and polititions are like V8 and whiskey, they are two things that should never be mixed.
The next step to Debian supremacy is to get an installer that will save Linux rookies from having to edit scripts or for that matter use a terminal, which would include automatically installing synaptic and let them choose any additional software they like via KDE/Gnome. Also, an effort should be made to make Wine available so that they can use some Windows apps if necessary. I've been using Debian since 1999/2000 and I would still rather reboot my box into Windows than configure Wine to run some app. Never underestimate how lazy and impatient some people can be. I have installed Debian for many new Linux users and they either ask me for something easier (and I give them FC) or they just leave the Linux partition alone and continue using Windows.
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OTOH, all we'd need is a version of Urey-Miller experiment that used (our best guess of) the chemicals and the environment of Titan. Then let it simmer for a time, and see if any promising complex chain forming molecules (such as our amino acids) appeared... I wonder if anybody has attempted such and experiment.
It would definitely be worth a try if you had the glassware laying around but the temperature is still a problem. A more likely source for amino acids in an environment like Titan would probably be asteroids.
Perhaps as a "pit stop" on the highway out or our neck of the galaxy?
It could definitely help with refueling. It would probably be necessary to develop a method to convert the methane into a useful fuel such as acetylene.
If you can get past the temperature issue and replace water with methane/ethane
As a former chemist I have a hard time doing that...you cannot dissolve ions in a liquid methane/ethane environment. This makes most life sustaining reactions impossible in that kind of environment.
I do agree that it will help us understand weather patterns on Earth but we could probably have gotten the same information if we spent the money on geological research rather than sending up a rocket.
Well, quite apart from biology, it's certainly an interesting comparison in terms of surface features and geology.
Isn't mars more interesting with its weather patterns and erosion that possibly could have been caused by water(!)? Even if mars never had water present on the surface, the scale and topography is closer to earth.
I don't see why not; biology has managed to cope with nearly the entire temperature range over which water is liquid on this planet, so why shouldn't biochemical reactions adapt to very low temperatures? If anything, all things being equal, lower temperatures would seem to be an advantage.
Actually reaction kinetics as a rule drop off exponentially with decreasing temperature, although if you can think of an advantage I will certainly listen. The diffusion rates of most organic (i.e. carbon based) reactions would be prohibitive. The only atoms that I can think of that have a similar chemistry to carbon would be silicon, boron, or sulfur and I do not think that they can form complex networks needed to make enzymes or proteins. Also, liquid methane would have significantly different properties than water. Methane is non-polar and will not dissolve the multitude of ions needed to keep even a single celled organism alive.
I believe that if you ionize oxygen molecules you will create ozone (O3 instead of O2) due to lone electrons residing on the individual oxygen atoms of the ionized molecules(can anyone confirm this?) and the ionized nitrogen molecules would probably end up as N2O (laughing gas) or NOx. Why would you use such a method if it provides no inherent advantages over mechanical methods?
I can understand that if we found liquid water elsewhere in the solar system it should make news, but who cares about liquid methane? Afterall Jupiter (http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html) has "exotic" liquid metallic hydrogen and liquid helium. I doubt it is possible to drive any biologically important reactions at the temperatures present on Titan. We simply confirmed that our knowledge of the methane phase diagram is correct. Let me know if they find something useful, like platinum or palladium on Phobos...
Yes, you are correct that a creator who is infinitely more intelligent than a human (literally) would probably design a flexible system as a set of physical rules that we may never be able to fully comprehend rather than a rigid predefined system. The issue is that most people that consider themselves creationists do not argue this point, they instead argue that the bible was written by God through a divinely inspired intermediary and that evolution is not described in the bible and that the earth is a little more than 5000 years old and therefore science has somehow made a mistake with regard to the age of the earth and with evolution.
After having various discussions on this topic with creationist friends of mine (I'm not btw) I realized that most of their arguments stem from the idea that if one part of the bible is not 100% accurate then the rest of it is false/contaminated/wrong as well and their faith (or ego) requires that everything is solid and simple with no room for interpretation. So the ability to be flexible may not be with the religious versions of creation and evolution but rather with those that interpret those texts. If you want to look into this further, you can research Hebrew cosmology (http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ThreeTieredUnive rse.htm) to see why the creation story in the bible is written this way and why the issue will probably never be fully resolved.
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I am not an IT major but I've used Debian ever since slink. I've introduced one of my friends who is an IT major to Debian and he was absolutely terrified of (1) non-graphical install menus and (2) typing commands in a console. It does not matter if the long-term benefits of apt over yum, customizability (this is just my opinion, please don't treat it as flame bait), etc are spelled out in big, bold letters - if the installation of the distro is not newbie friendly and if the learning curve is steeper than the Windows installer, some fraction of people will always be turned away and forced to find an alternative. I gave him a copy of Knoppix (which he now uses to fix unbootable computers) and I introduced him to FC (which provides a GUI tool for everything - including updates) and he's happy. His favorite feature is the AIGLX desktop, which he compares to Vista. Go figure - to each his own, as it should be. One day (maybe) he will find more useful features that he likes but for now I'm just glad he's at least exploring alternatives to Windows because he intends on one day being a network admin.
water boils off at any pressure, including 1 atm and including at sub-zero temperatures (subliming). the question is at what rate and whether or not the system is closed (i.e. water vapor reaches an equilibrium pressure and stays there) or open (i.e. water evaporates and is constantly being removed by winds or whatever).
atmospheric pressure is only slightly lower than Earth's pressure (0.6-0.9 kPa versus 1.01 kPa for earth, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars). The biggest hurdle is the large temperature swings between night and day. So in this case the mirror will probably help a lot, especially if the intent is to grow plants (remember that Mars' atmosphere is almost completely carbon dioxide).
"Consumers are the final arbiters because they can vote with their wallets," Usher added. "This is as it should be in any well-functioning market, and we believe the improvements in Windows Vista play to this strength."
Usher assumes that those doing the voting comprehend the problem. Also, with billion dollar corporations voting with their wallets, does my vote truly count? This is a case where other companies such as Apple and (name your fav Linux distro here) have an opportunity to distinguish themselves. I would expect most non-slashdotters to not even give a second thought to purchasing Vista with a new PC or for a business unless their are other truly equal (in performance, ease of use, etc...) choices.
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...has always been that they contained malicious software that will slow down my computer and drain my bank account...this simply proved it!
Does anyone have experience with the Asus K8V. I recall at some point I had a motherboard that actually "spoke" when it could not find memory or a video card instead of the usual beeps. I'm just wondering if this one may have had the same feature. I tried the manual from the Asus site but it doesn't seem to include a troubleshooting guide (I had to use the Chinese site since the global site said "too many users").
...programs not designed for multi-core systems don't use them efficiently.
The Cat 797 mining truck actually hauls 400 tons, not 240 as stated in the article. The 240 ton truck is the 793.
no, I'm not talking about the test pilot but the guy who had the guts to ask her...
In June 1997, seven weeks after the birth of his second child, Mr. Martin figured his prototype was now powerful enough to lift its first flier, so long as that person weighed less than 130 pounds. So he turned to his wife. "I said, Hey, Vanessa, what are you doing tonight? "
but seriously that's quite a feat to do with an ICE, especially if you take into consideration that it needs to be balanced.
As for me personally, I think I'll hold off until they figure out how to fit a microturbine into a school-sized backpack.
...wouldn't this classify as image or sound analysis package with really advanced algorithms and not really AI in the strictest sense? I mean by this definition "the animal" program written in Basic, where the program learns patterns to yes/no questions can likewise be considered an "AI". I would consider this program an AI if it was able to call 911 and describe the attacker/situation.
I worked on a closely related project while I was at Argonne National Lab many years ago. The main problem was that once you run too much current through the lines, the self-induced magnetic field from the current running through the line will cause superconductivity to collapse. Does anyone know the technical details, such as how big the lines are and how much current can they run and at what voltage?
The type of ceramic also matters. Y-Ba-Cu-O type ceramics need to be in a crystalline form that has texture since superconductivity is present in only one crystal plane, which would be difficult if not impossible to implement as a wire (at best they could use something rigid akin to pipes). I will assume that they are using metal sheathed Ba-Sr-Ca-Cu-O ceramics, which have lower current carrying capacity, but maybe will be more practical. This would probably increase the size of the lines and drive up the cost of cooling. If anyone has more technical information, please share
also, anyone else find this funny:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Sc
I thought the point of the story was that the schoolboard demoted Global Warming into the realm of unproven fact. I watched the movie and as both, a scientist and an engineer, I found the facts a bit lacking and Gore's personal thoughts out-of-place, but I was also glad that it brought the issues to the publics attention. If anything it will make kids more interested in learning about science and the environment. By your comments I assume that you would want Al Gore to disappear and never be heard from again regardless if he has something beneficial to share or not. Even if he makes himself look like an idiot on the big screen, I am grateful for what he has done to support the scientists that are studying this that actually know what they are talking about. To me it was silly for him to say invented the internet but it also does not matter because the point is that he at least saw the benefits and knew enough to vote for funding it.
example to prove I'm not full of it:
Mount Everest has an elevation of approximately 29,000 feet and grows by 2.4 inches/year (http://www.extremescience.com/HighestElevation.h
Time to make mount Everest: 29,000 feet * 12 inches per foot / 2.4 inches per year = 145,000 years.
This does not account for erosion when the mountain rock was not protected by snow and nice during its early development.
By saying that the earth was 145,000 - 14,000 years = 131,000 years you are not really saving yourself any trouble of having to explain away these geological theories, but complicating matters because you no longer literally interpret the bible but rather have your own version of events.
To summarize my rambling, you can make other scientific arguments based on geological observations and the most effective way that a literal reading of the bible deals with these is that God placed these features that way when the planet was created (i.e. ancient riverbeds were pre-carved, oil was already present and did not need to decompose from dead creatures, etc...), but once you remove the literal interpretation then you open yourself upto having to prove why your version is right.
just a few questions:
= /opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/0 4/09/ixworld.html [telegraph.co.uk] - "that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase, there was actually a slight decrease"
1998 happens to also be the year NASA went full tracking of the phenomena by satalites , which is much more accurate then ground sensors.
Later NASA released a press release(it was on cnn and i dont feel like grabbing it right now, search for it yourself if you feel you want to) saying that they had fixed the problem with thier satalites that had caused the skewed numbers.(Effectively skewing all thier readings the other way to get the expected results) Thier official reason was the satalites where actually recording upper atmospheric temperatures, and upper atmospheric temperatures had actually decreased durring this time. However for that to occur the sensors would have to both be picking up data for higher elevations which is theoredically impossible using infared scanning, and have tempatures skewed so that they had resembled the ground tempatures , the coincidence is near impossible. Science and politics have recently mergered, which creates a science of the politicians, one where it is hard to sepperate lies from truth and where everyone loses. Scientists and polititions are like V8 and whiskey, they are two things that should never be mixed.
1. Is a poli-titian is what I think it is...because that sounds hott!
2. Did you know that my niece, who is in the sixth grade, corrected your spelling... (she wasn't sure about "mergered" and so she gave it to you on a draw)
3. That the data supporting global warming is based on ground temperature measurements and carbon dioxide levels that seem to follow the same cyclic pattern, and consequently since the carbon dioxide levels are steadily rising, temperatures expected to do so as well. The temperature data is based on measurements done on tree rings and geological finds and the carbon dioxide levels are based on measurements done arctic ice cores. No SATTELLITE data is necessary because SATTELLITES were not around long enough to be useful to generate a trend.
4. And finally, did you know that if you expect to convince people that you have an intelligent argument, you should at least learn to spell better than a sixth grader?
I am really not trying to insult you, but since you didn't bother to check your spelling how could I possibly expect you to have checked your facts?
Well... either that or it will turn out to be something made up by 6 Washington DC lawyers like it is. I have a newsweek article with excerpts from the leading scientists of the 1970s that said we're all going to freeze to death. The fact is that global warming was effectivly started by lawyers and polititians in the late 70s and early 80s, they where the only one's preaching it before the scientists came on board. Scientists started jumping on once they saw that ever one that did instantly became famous and praised as the savior of our time. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml
The next step to Debian supremacy is to get an installer that will save Linux rookies from having to edit scripts or for that matter use a terminal, which would include automatically installing synaptic and let them choose any additional software they like via KDE/Gnome. Also, an effort should be made to make Wine available so that they can use some Windows apps if necessary. I've been using Debian since 1999/2000 and I would still rather reboot my box into Windows than configure Wine to run some app. Never underestimate how lazy and impatient some people can be. I have installed Debian for many new Linux users and they either ask me for something easier (and I give them FC) or they just leave the Linux partition alone and continue using Windows. my $0.0002
I believe that if you ionize oxygen molecules you will create ozone (O3 instead of O2) due to lone electrons residing on the individual oxygen atoms of the ionized molecules(can anyone confirm this?) and the ionized nitrogen molecules would probably end up as N2O (laughing gas) or NOx. Why would you use such a method if it provides no inherent advantages over mechanical methods?
I can understand that if we found liquid water elsewhere in the solar system it should make news, but who cares about liquid methane? Afterall Jupiter (http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html) has "exotic" liquid metallic hydrogen and liquid helium. I doubt it is possible to drive any biologically important reactions at the temperatures present on Titan. We simply confirmed that our knowledge of the methane phase diagram is correct. Let me know if they find something useful, like platinum or palladium on Phobos...
Yes, you are correct that a creator who is infinitely more intelligent than a human (literally) would probably design a flexible system as a set of physical rules that we may never be able to fully comprehend rather than a rigid predefined system. The issue is that most people that consider themselves creationists do not argue this point, they instead argue that the bible was written by God through a divinely inspired intermediary and that evolution is not described in the bible and that the earth is a little more than 5000 years old and therefore science has somehow made a mistake with regard to the age of the earth and with evolution. After having various discussions on this topic with creationist friends of mine (I'm not btw) I realized that most of their arguments stem from the idea that if one part of the bible is not 100% accurate then the rest of it is false/contaminated/wrong as well and their faith (or ego) requires that everything is solid and simple with no room for interpretation. So the ability to be flexible may not be with the religious versions of creation and evolution but rather with those that interpret those texts. If you want to look into this further, you can research Hebrew cosmology (http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/ThreeTieredUnive rse.htm) to see why the creation story in the bible is written this way and why the issue will probably never be fully resolved.
I am not an IT major but I've used Debian ever since slink. I've introduced one of my friends who is an IT major to Debian and he was absolutely terrified of (1) non-graphical install menus and (2) typing commands in a console. It does not matter if the long-term benefits of apt over yum, customizability (this is just my opinion, please don't treat it as flame bait), etc are spelled out in big, bold letters - if the installation of the distro is not newbie friendly and if the learning curve is steeper than the Windows installer, some fraction of people will always be turned away and forced to find an alternative. I gave him a copy of Knoppix (which he now uses to fix unbootable computers) and I introduced him to FC (which provides a GUI tool for everything - including updates) and he's happy. His favorite feature is the AIGLX desktop, which he compares to Vista. Go figure - to each his own, as it should be. One day (maybe) he will find more useful features that he likes but for now I'm just glad he's at least exploring alternatives to Windows because he intends on one day being a network admin.
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water boils off at any pressure, including 1 atm and including at sub-zero temperatures (subliming). the question is at what rate and whether or not the system is closed (i.e. water vapor reaches an equilibrium pressure and stays there) or open (i.e. water evaporates and is constantly being removed by winds or whatever).
atmospheric pressure is only slightly lower than Earth's pressure (0.6-0.9 kPa versus 1.01 kPa for earth, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars). The biggest hurdle is the large temperature swings between night and day. So in this case the mirror will probably help a lot, especially if the intent is to grow plants (remember that Mars' atmosphere is almost completely carbon dioxide).