Whilst it might be extremely juvenile I got a good chuckle out of "your mother": - "Measure the popularity of your mother on the internet" - "Explore your mother in 3D" (uhhhhh) - "Alert me about your mother"
Brilliant way to spend a Friday afternoon at work;)
I'm not sure what its like in other countries but the Australian Federal Police has been, for quite a while now, watching online RMTs as many criminals are in fact laundering their money through gold/isk/whatever services.Considering how little auditing there is on in game transactions I'm not surprised that they've taken to it readily.
Whilst I'm sure there will be something like AdBlock for Twitter I can imagine them making the terms of use for the API so that doing so would be a violation of their TOS. Considering that many of the clients are ad supported already (and Twitter has mentioned that there might be a revenue sharing arrangement in the works) the larger majority would comply with the new ads, lest they get blocked and overtaken by another client that does.
Facebook is already in decline, and will tank once something "better" comes along. The Twitter phenomenon isn't new... it's just the newest version of the same thing.
I think you might be confusing Facebook with MySpace since the former hasn't showed any signs of decline. In fact they've been growing at a fairly consistent rate for the past year or so and are nipping at Google's heels for that number 1 most visited spot on the net. MySpace on the other hand has been in decline for well over a year.
Would you care to cite a few examples of a Twitter-esque service that came before Twitter? The only other microblogging service that's been around almost as long as them (off the top of my head) is Tumblr and even they were launched about a year later. There were of course those engaged in microblogging before such services existed, but Twitter was still arguably the first to market.
Whilst it doesn't appear that there is actually legislation preventing the reprocessing of nuclear waste on American soil there seems to be a "lack of formal approval" from the government to allow anyone to do it. There's been funding for projects for looking into the technology but as of right now it does not appear that the government has given the required approval for reprocessing to occur.
While this is true it doesn't take much to become a registered business in Australia. I went through the auDA to get my domain name registered and was held up because of this. 20 minutes later I had a registered ABN and no questions about whether I was actually conducting business under it. So whilst the idea behind it is sound, the implementation is somewhat lacking.
Granted now they have some of my details on record but none of them were above being fudged.
AIS data is also used for things like oil spills and search and rescue. When I used to work for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority we had a couple incidents where the AIS data was used to reconstruct the events leading up to the disaster (such as the pacific adventurer one earlier this year). They also use it to track any vessels going near the Great Barrier Reef without having a qualified pilot on board (basically someone who knows their way around the reef) so the vessel doesn't crash into anything.
I can't speak for other countries though, but in Australia we're definitely using AIS data as part of our safety programs.
10.1" screen and a decent amount of grunt behind it. The reviews I've read on it so far seem to be positive and I've ordered one for myself since the only other option was the T91, which you mentioned. The difference in features between the two was more than enough to justify the higher price on the T1028X, although the clincher for me was the screen.
Since I got mine for under AU$900 it would seem to fit the bill quite nicely for you:)
Whilst I like the basic idea the whole article seems dedicated to peddling his wares. Sure he's giving away the basic concepts and some implementation details away but the primary focus of the article is to drive sales to his new income avenue. I would've understood if he built another business based on the concept (that would've shown it works for smaller outfits as well) but from what I can tell he's basically using the Techdirt name to peddle wares on his readership.
Maybe I'm just jealous because I can't monetize anything I've done on the Internet.....:)
An Australian Space Science program is great first step to getting Australia involved in space but for the most part I'll bet that it will rely on either currently deployed satellites and probes or will piggy back onto other's work. Whilst we might be a resource rich country we don't have the spare cash to invest in a fully fledged space program.
We might see a couple Australian experiments going along for a ride with the big wigs of space (Russia and the USA) but I wouldn't expect much more then that for a long, long time. It's a real shame since we have so much spare room for testing experimental rockets and the like.
It could be a great stepping stone for aspiring Australian astronauts and space researchers to get into other programs. We already ship a lot of our talent overseas why not our aeronautical people to!:P
Seems Microsoft might be trying to make the best of a bad situation when it comes to people pirating their software, but turning them into beta testers. Sure you have to give them something for free but in the end you'll get a whole lot of people who would just pirate your software anyway doing a whole lot of free QA for you. Pretty smart move if you ask me.
Funnily enough I didn't hear anything about Microsoft pursuing the Pirate Bay for hosting the torrent of their latest builds, which seems to support this theory. Anyone seen anything?
I would've reccomended Eve Online to if they hadn't killed "Ghost Training" (I.E. you can cancel your account and your last skill trains until its finished). That was the reason it kept me coming back because I could play Eve in-between new MMO releases and then train a large skill when I was playing another MMO.
But they canned it and now you have to be paying in order to train. They deny that it's a money grab but I fail to see how it isn't.
Such a shame to, I liked the game and would return to it regularly if they hadn't trashed it.
Now this might not be a factor in itself but whatever caused Venus to spin slowly in the opposite direction to everything else in the solar system probably had some effect on its magnetic field as well.
Over here in Australia we have a system called HELP (Higher Education Loan Program) whereby the government covers your tuition fees for the whole of the course. Then when you get a decent paying job you're basically taxed at a higher rate until you repay the loan. It's also interest free (although a small portion is indexed to keep the loan in line with inflation).
The great thing about this is that if you land yourself a crappy $40,000 job straight out of uni you won't be paying anymore tax. I think it kicks in at about $45,000 and it's about 3% more. The highest is 8% additional tax when you're earning above $85,000 or so.
It always suprised me when I was talking to my American counterparts the amount of debt students got themselves into which basically kept their lives on hold for 5~10 years when studying in America. Whilst I was uncomfortable with the recent change from HECS to HELP (HECS was a contribution scheme so it wasn't treated like a loan. More like a gratuity or tithe back to the government) it still seems a whole lot better then have debt collectors chasing you down for your vital organs.
I'm not sure how they're doing it with these apps (Haven't looked at WPF) but I know that it was quite possible to write an application in C# and have it converted into a webpage using the ASP.NET AJAX extensions in Visual Studio. It was a bit convoluted to start off with but you could easily write an entire application in C# and then port into a web based solution pretty quickly.
I remember doing this with an incident logging application I made. I started off by just making an installed application and managed to get most of it working as a web page in only a few hours (I had never touched web dev stuff before).
I'm sure there's someone far more experienced with these sorts of things then I am that can explain it a whole lot better;)
Back in the day of DDR1 you'd be right, but these days the timings on the RAM are much larger but this isn't necessairly a bad thing. DDR3 runs much faster then it's older brothers and so the actual latency times are quite comparable.
The bigger numbers in timings mean a whole lot less when the clock is ticking that much faster:)
The major point here is that although there will be a number of companies peddling the same product this will then lend itself to more competition in the area. This then leads onto innovation so that they can get the competitive edge and so on. The more companies we have in the sub-orbital space tourism market the quicker we will get to cheap orbital space tourism. If you watch the Discovery channel program "Black Sky - The Race for Space" you'll see that Burt Rutan already has some designs for SpaceShipThree (the rumored orbital space plane). I'd say we're a lot closer to private orbital space flight then most people here would think.
Vulnerable packages
All versions of VMware's desktop products that include the Shared Folders feature up to:
* VMWare Workstation 6.0.2
* VMWare Workstation 5.5.4
* VMWare Player 2.0.2
* VMWare Player 1.0.4
* VMWare ACE 2.0.2
* VMWare ACE 1.0.2
Non-vulnerable packages
* VMWare ESX
* VMWare Server So in reality the systems that are affected are really only the desktop solutions and not the server solutions that the majority of places would use. Hell, even everyone who's downloaded VMWare Server for free is protected! I'd say the majority of users aren't affected at all by this exploit.
Unless you're stupid enough to use the affected products in production environments (don't laugh, I know places that do).
I submitted a story a while back about something very similar to this. It does however use water instead of molten salt to store the heat before it's used to turn the turbines:
The advantage of molten salt is its ability to hold a lot more energy in the same space when compared to water (especially when it's molten). There is the issue though of storing such stuff and then using it to turn a turbine or similar (which is why Spain's plant uses water, it was the easiest to get running). So whilst a few people here believe that it's not really feasible to get it up and running there are already examples of this technology being used today.
one linked in the article? I've had a snoop around and I'm coming up with nothing.
Right shame to because I love big pictures of space but I've never really found a good repository of large images (1024 x 768 just doesn't cut it when you have monitors capable of much higher resolutions).
Back in my university days I had the pleasure of being taught by a physicist turned engineer who was actually working on one of these things. The trouble with traditional antennas is their giant radar footprint and traditionally they solved this problem by flopping the antennas up and down when they needed to send signals. Not the most graceful solution so they started looking for alternatives.
We had one of the prototypes of these things in the plasma instrumentation lab and it was pretty adept at sending some small signals. The great thing about them is their tunability. Just like any kind of woodwind instrument if you change the length of the tube (imagine a giant piston that's got plasma in it) you change the resonant frequency. My lecturer referred to it as playing the plasma trombone.
Good to see these things finally making their way through to practical uses. I was always hoping my crazy lecturer's tinkerings would be used someday.
I used to work as a Sys Admin for the guys who worked on Xena, and I can say you should be modded far up bringing XENA to our attention.
Digital obsolescence is a big problem that all Digital Archives are looking into ever since the Domesday problems encountered a while back (google it and you'll see what I mean. The UK has been bitten by this bug before). The National Archives of Australia is really one of the pioneers in this field as they're actively seeking out file formats and making converters for them.
I can tell you now that they have an incredible set up over there for dealing with all sorts of files. XENA is exceptionally good with pretty much anything text and it's almost there for sound and video. Even though people will scream and shout about the upcoming file format problem they seem to fail to realize that there are so many people working on this issue.
There are many other projects that are attempting to try and solve this problem but none of them are as complete as XENA is.
I for one, see a bloody huge difference between Intelligent Design and the Big Bang theory. Mostly in part due to the evidence that the Big Bang theory presents in relation to what Intelligent Design tries to explain.
Just to start off with, there's some reading you should do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design
Now once you've read both of these and understood the points on both sides you can see that while Intelligent Design is one of the more intellectual ways of arguing your faith it's pretty much inherently flawed. Because even though you can argue for days that a creator designed everything we know it still poses the greatest question of all: Who created the creator?
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Whilst it might be extremely juvenile I got a good chuckle out of "your mother":
- "Measure the popularity of your mother on the internet"
- "Explore your mother in 3D" (uhhhhh)
- "Alert me about your mother"
Brilliant way to spend a Friday afternoon at work ;)
I'm not sure what its like in other countries but the Australian Federal Police has been, for quite a while now, watching online RMTs as many criminals are in fact laundering their money through gold/isk/whatever services.Considering how little auditing there is on in game transactions I'm not surprised that they've taken to it readily.
By their powers combine they are captain Fappoogle.
Whilst I'm sure there will be something like AdBlock for Twitter I can imagine them making the terms of use for the API so that doing so would be a violation of their TOS. Considering that many of the clients are ad supported already (and Twitter has mentioned that there might be a revenue sharing arrangement in the works) the larger majority would comply with the new ads, lest they get blocked and overtaken by another client that does.
Facebook is already in decline, and will tank once something "better" comes along. The Twitter phenomenon isn't new... it's just the newest version of the same thing.
I think you might be confusing Facebook with MySpace since the former hasn't showed any signs of decline. In fact they've been growing at a fairly consistent rate for the past year or so and are nipping at Google's heels for that number 1 most visited spot on the net. MySpace on the other hand has been in decline for well over a year.
Would you care to cite a few examples of a Twitter-esque service that came before Twitter? The only other microblogging service that's been around almost as long as them (off the top of my head) is Tumblr and even they were launched about a year later. There were of course those engaged in microblogging before such services existed, but Twitter was still arguably the first to market.
Citation provided.
Whilst it doesn't appear that there is actually legislation preventing the reprocessing of nuclear waste on American soil there seems to be a "lack of formal approval" from the government to allow anyone to do it. There's been funding for projects for looking into the technology but as of right now it does not appear that the government has given the required approval for reprocessing to occur.
While this is true it doesn't take much to become a registered business in Australia. I went through the auDA to get my domain name registered and was held up because of this. 20 minutes later I had a registered ABN and no questions about whether I was actually conducting business under it. So whilst the idea behind it is sound, the implementation is somewhat lacking.
Granted now they have some of my details on record but none of them were above being fudged.
AIS data is also used for things like oil spills and search and rescue. When I used to work for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority we had a couple incidents where the AIS data was used to reconstruct the events leading up to the disaster (such as the pacific adventurer one earlier this year). They also use it to track any vessels going near the Great Barrier Reef without having a qualified pilot on board (basically someone who knows their way around the reef) so the vessel doesn't crash into anything.
I can't speak for other countries though, but in Australia we're definitely using AIS data as part of our safety programs.
After spending about a week searching for a decent netbook I came across this little beasty:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Notebook/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3191
10.1" screen and a decent amount of grunt behind it. The reviews I've read on it so far seem to be positive and I've ordered one for myself since the only other option was the T91, which you mentioned. The difference in features between the two was more than enough to justify the higher price on the T1028X, although the clincher for me was the screen.
Since I got mine for under AU$900 it would seem to fit the bill quite nicely for you :)
Whilst I like the basic idea the whole article seems dedicated to peddling his wares. Sure he's giving away the basic concepts and some implementation details away but the primary focus of the article is to drive sales to his new income avenue. I would've understood if he built another business based on the concept (that would've shown it works for smaller outfits as well) but from what I can tell he's basically using the Techdirt name to peddle wares on his readership.
Maybe I'm just jealous because I can't monetize anything I've done on the Internet..... :)
An Australian Space Science program is great first step to getting Australia involved in space but for the most part I'll bet that it will rely on either currently deployed satellites and probes or will piggy back onto other's work. Whilst we might be a resource rich country we don't have the spare cash to invest in a fully fledged space program.
We might see a couple Australian experiments going along for a ride with the big wigs of space (Russia and the USA) but I wouldn't expect much more then that for a long, long time. It's a real shame since we have so much spare room for testing experimental rockets and the like.
It could be a great stepping stone for aspiring Australian astronauts and space researchers to get into other programs. We already ship a lot of our talent overseas why not our aeronautical people to! :P
Seems Microsoft might be trying to make the best of a bad situation when it comes to people pirating their software, but turning them into beta testers. Sure you have to give them something for free but in the end you'll get a whole lot of people who would just pirate your software anyway doing a whole lot of free QA for you. Pretty smart move if you ask me.
Funnily enough I didn't hear anything about Microsoft pursuing the Pirate Bay for hosting the torrent of their latest builds, which seems to support this theory. Anyone seen anything?
I would've reccomended Eve Online to if they hadn't killed "Ghost Training" (I.E. you can cancel your account and your last skill trains until its finished). That was the reason it kept me coming back because I could play Eve in-between new MMO releases and then train a large skill when I was playing another MMO.
But they canned it and now you have to be paying in order to train. They deny that it's a money grab but I fail to see how it isn't.
Such a shame to, I liked the game and would return to it regularly if they hadn't trashed it.
It might also be worth mentioning that Venus' rotation is also retrograde:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_motion
Now this might not be a factor in itself but whatever caused Venus to spin slowly in the opposite direction to everything else in the solar system probably had some effect on its magnetic field as well.
Over here in Australia we have a system called HELP (Higher Education Loan Program) whereby the government covers your tuition fees for the whole of the course. Then when you get a decent paying job you're basically taxed at a higher rate until you repay the loan. It's also interest free (although a small portion is indexed to keep the loan in line with inflation).
The great thing about this is that if you land yourself a crappy $40,000 job straight out of uni you won't be paying anymore tax. I think it kicks in at about $45,000 and it's about 3% more. The highest is 8% additional tax when you're earning above $85,000 or so.
It always suprised me when I was talking to my American counterparts the amount of debt students got themselves into which basically kept their lives on hold for 5~10 years when studying in America. Whilst I was uncomfortable with the recent change from HECS to HELP (HECS was a contribution scheme so it wasn't treated like a loan. More like a gratuity or tithe back to the government) it still seems a whole lot better then have debt collectors chasing you down for your vital organs.
I'm not sure how they're doing it with these apps (Haven't looked at WPF) but I know that it was quite possible to write an application in C# and have it converted into a webpage using the ASP.NET AJAX extensions in Visual Studio. It was a bit convoluted to start off with but you could easily write an entire application in C# and then port into a web based solution pretty quickly.
I remember doing this with an incident logging application I made. I started off by just making an installed application and managed to get most of it working as a web page in only a few hours (I had never touched web dev stuff before).
I'm sure there's someone far more experienced with these sorts of things then I am that can explain it a whole lot better ;)
Back in the day of DDR1 you'd be right, but these days the timings on the RAM are much larger but this isn't necessairly a bad thing. DDR3 runs much faster then it's older brothers and so the actual latency times are quite comparable.
The bigger numbers in timings mean a whole lot less when the clock is ticking that much faster :)
The major point here is that although there will be a number of companies peddling the same product this will then lend itself to more competition in the area. This then leads onto innovation so that they can get the competitive edge and so on. The more companies we have in the sub-orbital space tourism market the quicker we will get to cheap orbital space tourism. If you watch the Discovery channel program "Black Sky - The Race for Space" you'll see that Burt Rutan already has some designs for SpaceShipThree (the rumored orbital space plane). I'd say we're a lot closer to private orbital space flight then most people here would think.
I submitted a story a while back about something very similar to this. It does however use water instead of molten salt to store the heat before it's used to turn the turbines:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2006/2006-06-30-02.asp
The advantage of molten salt is its ability to hold a lot more energy in the same space when compared to water (especially when it's molten). There is the issue though of storing such stuff and then using it to turn a turbine or similar (which is why Spain's plant uses water, it was the easiest to get running). So whilst a few people here believe that it's not really feasible to get it up and running there are already examples of this technology being used today.
Champion! Thanks so much, I'm sure to lose hours looking through all these.
one linked in the article? I've had a snoop around and I'm coming up with nothing. Right shame to because I love big pictures of space but I've never really found a good repository of large images (1024 x 768 just doesn't cut it when you have monitors capable of much higher resolutions).
Back in my university days I had the pleasure of being taught by a physicist turned engineer who was actually working on one of these things. The trouble with traditional antennas is their giant radar footprint and traditionally they solved this problem by flopping the antennas up and down when they needed to send signals. Not the most graceful solution so they started looking for alternatives. We had one of the prototypes of these things in the plasma instrumentation lab and it was pretty adept at sending some small signals. The great thing about them is their tunability. Just like any kind of woodwind instrument if you change the length of the tube (imagine a giant piston that's got plasma in it) you change the resonant frequency. My lecturer referred to it as playing the plasma trombone. Good to see these things finally making their way through to practical uses. I was always hoping my crazy lecturer's tinkerings would be used someday.
I used to work as a Sys Admin for the guys who worked on Xena, and I can say you should be modded far up bringing XENA to our attention.
Digital obsolescence is a big problem that all Digital Archives are looking into ever since the Domesday problems encountered a while back (google it and you'll see what I mean. The UK has been bitten by this bug before). The National Archives of Australia is really one of the pioneers in this field as they're actively seeking out file formats and making converters for them.
I can tell you now that they have an incredible set up over there for dealing with all sorts of files. XENA is exceptionally good with pretty much anything text and it's almost there for sound and video. Even though people will scream and shout about the upcoming file format problem they seem to fail to realize that there are so many people working on this issue.
There are many other projects that are attempting to try and solve this problem but none of them are as complete as XENA is.
I for one, see a bloody huge difference between Intelligent Design and the Big Bang theory. Mostly in part due to the evidence that the Big Bang theory presents in relation to what Intelligent Design tries to explain.
Just to start off with, there's some reading you should do http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Design
Now once you've read both of these and understood the points on both sides you can see that while Intelligent Design is one of the more intellectual ways of arguing your faith it's pretty much inherently flawed. Because even though you can argue for days that a creator designed everything we know it still poses the greatest question of all: Who created the creator?
Answer me that!