Traces of other elements still makes a difference, according to Adia, anyway. Metallic inclusions may be visible, and a few other tests that require very expensive tools can detect them.
Both mined and laboratory-created diamonds are diamonds, therefore they exhibit absolutely the same properties. For example, a response of any diamond tester would be the same for mined and created diamonds.
However, there are some minor differences between the two. Created diamonds have metallic inclusions which are never present in natural diamonds. Inclusions, if any, could be visible with a loupe or microscope. So, by studying inclusions a trained gemologist could tell if this particular stone is created or natural. In case there are no visible inclusions, one could opt for advanced analytical testing such as X-ray Fluorescence Analysis or Photo Luminescence or Cathodoluminescence Analysis. Those tests could show presence or absence of certain trace elements or reveal the growth history of a diamond. These sophisticated instruments are very expensive, and very few of the top gemological laboratory have them. DeBeers markets a machine called DiamondView which can potentially determine the origin of a diamond, whether it is mined or created. Again, only major gemological laboratories could afford this instrument. Please read more at the EGL website.
Unless they've done some changes since the last time I watched a PBS special on the subject (and I'm VERY sure they have made some changes), these diamonds may be different in a few ways. One of them is response to ultraviolet light.
The really early versions of lab diamonds had metal inclusions.
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My mistake, I meant Worlds Apart's stable of online trading card games. Lots of them, though I've not gotten into any of them at all.
Magic Online is probably the closest to the "free to dl game client, charges to get new cards" model though.
Astral and Etherlords claim to use the "trading card game" play model somehow, but as you noted, not actually sell extra cards.
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I guess the GP's point was that this game isn't a particularly amazing type of new video game. MtG can be played online, using cards purchased in "booster packs" and "starter packs", at (I believe) similar prices. Astral Tournament was around long enough to have a sequel published, Astral Masters. Etherlords has also had a sequel published, Etherlords II. So, why this particular game, aside from the possibility that it was just released?
What's special and different from the other similar online trading card games?
Nice... If you can get the math right for Fundamentals of Physics, just about all other math required for video games should be simple to pick up and learn.
You might like to know that the person whose head was rotated backwards was shown to be just fine afterwards. Invulnerable, but not super-strong maybe? Odd, definitely.
Check out Project Entropia. MMO where you do actually buy clothing, weapons, and ammo with real currency. Kind of an shooter-game based casino, but not exactly. The future you predict has already been tried.
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No batch processing that I could see, but it does look like a reasonable graphics editor, FOSS style called Paint.NET
Other options include Inkscape for some very cool ideas, and perhaps starting with Gimp. It's not necessarily counter-intuitive to everyone. Gimp does things more towards the X style, instead of Windows, which does make it different.
Yep, despite the fact that every NPC corporation in the game meets the definition of "mega-corp to be taken out by agent who found out what was really going on";) The Eve devs are, at least if you've paid them recently, up front about what's going on.
In fact, one of the back stories counts as a bit of a horror story... "Jovian Wetgrave"
So many of them cost almost as much, or more than, the original paper editions, and can't be easily moved from one computer to another. Several of the formats can't even be quoted from without opening an editor, and typing the quote by hand.
More expensive, and less functional than paper is not encouraging the adoption of ebooks.
There's only one publisher that I know of that does ebooks right, and that's www.baen.com's webscription service. $15 for 4-6 ebooks, in HTML and other formats with the DRM set to "no protection".
OK, I have a Windows 3.1 machine sitting near my desk. It is named "enterprise", and is entirely secure, due to being powered off, not connected to any network, and never used for anything of any importance. This meets all requirements to make a secure "enterprise" OS, but not a secure enterprise OS...
One thing you might notice on those magnets, is the metal backing on them. Many internal HD magnets have EM shielding to keep them from damaging data. Plus they're usually set up so most of the field lines will be between the magnets, and not out over the disk itself. Modern disks also have shielding in the case to prevent things like the compass heading of the case from effecting things.
More interesting and fun way: 1) Accelerate particles of lead covered with steel to high, but not relativistic, velocities. 2) Have an enemy attempt to place the hard drive where these particles will hit it. 3) ??? 4) Profit!!!
Replacing data on a hard drive to sufficiently large levels of randomness doesn't need a drill, unless you are the NSA, or somebody else with an extreme level of secrecy required. Please, think of the poor magnetite particles.
You forgot the Magic Smoke that's held in all that "stuff". Every once in a while, you might hear a pop, and see some smoke come out of your computer as it stops working. That's the Magic Smoke. It's very important to keep that smoke inside the computer.
Yep, and they'll have to start putting an M rating on 3ds max, because it can be used to model nude things that look like they might have been women at some point. You can even model a very dangerous looking sword.
OpenOffice, too... you can use it to write stories that might not be completely true (the horror).
My feeling about it, going by what some teenagers 14 years ago thought, is "M? I gotta see that." So, this might be good for Oblivion sales after all.
Yes, you can represent yourself in US courts. For criminal cases, you can get a public defender (cheap/free lawyer paid by the court to be on "your side"). For civil ones, I suspect you could as well, IF the case was big enough.
Representing yourself, in most criminal cases, means you have an idiot for a client.
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They don't ban you for using LUA AddOns in WoW, either.
Traces of other elements still makes a difference, according to Adia, anyway. Metallic inclusions may be visible, and a few other tests that require very expensive tools can detect them.
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How to distinguish between mined and created diamonds?
Both mined and laboratory-created diamonds are diamonds, therefore they exhibit absolutely the same properties. For example, a response of any diamond tester would be the same for mined and created diamonds.
However, there are some minor differences between the two. Created diamonds have metallic inclusions which are never present in natural diamonds. Inclusions, if any, could be visible with a loupe or microscope. So, by studying inclusions a trained gemologist could tell if this particular stone is created or natural. In case there are no visible inclusions, one could opt for advanced analytical testing such as X-ray Fluorescence Analysis or Photo Luminescence or Cathodoluminescence Analysis. Those tests could show presence or absence of certain trace elements or reveal the growth history of a diamond. These sophisticated instruments are very expensive, and very few of the top gemological laboratory have them. DeBeers markets a machine called DiamondView which can potentially determine the origin of a diamond, whether it is mined or created. Again, only major gemological laboratories could afford this instrument. Please read more at the EGL website.
Unless they've done some changes since the last time I watched a PBS special on the subject (and I'm VERY sure they have made some changes), these diamonds may be different in a few ways. One of them is response to ultraviolet light.
The really early versions of lab diamonds had metal inclusions.
My mistake, I meant Worlds Apart's stable of online trading card games. Lots of them, though I've not gotten into any of them at all.
Magic Online is probably the closest to the "free to dl game client, charges to get new cards" model though.
Astral and Etherlords claim to use the "trading card game" play model somehow, but as you noted, not actually sell extra cards.
I guess the GP's point was that this game isn't a particularly amazing type of new video game. MtG can be played online, using cards purchased in "booster packs" and "starter packs", at (I believe) similar prices. Astral Tournament was around long enough to have a sequel published, Astral Masters. Etherlords has also had a sequel published, Etherlords II. So, why this particular game, aside from the possibility that it was just released?
What's special and different from the other similar online trading card games?
Nice... If you can get the math right for Fundamentals of Physics, just about all other math required for video games should be simple to pick up and learn.
I may be biased, I've read that book.
Either that, or he has more servers than you think ;)
XPSP1 gives you: WIA v2.0 (Windows Image Acquisition), and helps Microsoft stop pirates. I have no idea what else it gives you though.
If the above quote is accurate, there's an interesting bit of math in that number.
3263827
3+2+6=11
Replacing in the above:
113827
Yet another Lucas 1138!
You might like to know that the person whose head was rotated backwards was shown to be just fine afterwards. Invulnerable, but not super-strong maybe? Odd, definitely.
Sure, try http://www.thejimi.com/wallet/index.php
Check out Project Entropia. MMO where you do actually buy clothing, weapons, and ammo with real currency. Kind of an shooter-game based casino, but not exactly. The future you predict has already been tried.
No batch processing that I could see, but it does look like a reasonable graphics editor, FOSS style called Paint.NET
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Other options include Inkscape for some very cool ideas, and perhaps starting with Gimp. It's not necessarily counter-intuitive to everyone. Gimp does things more towards the X style, instead of Windows, which does make it different.
Yep, despite the fact that every NPC corporation in the game meets the definition of "mega-corp to be taken out by agent who found out what was really going on" ;) The Eve devs are, at least if you've paid them recently, up front about what's going on.
In fact, one of the back stories counts as a bit of a horror story... "Jovian Wetgrave"
So many of them cost almost as much, or more than, the original paper editions, and can't be easily moved from one computer to another. Several of the formats can't even be quoted from without opening an editor, and typing the quote by hand.
More expensive, and less functional than paper is not encouraging the adoption of ebooks.
There's only one publisher that I know of that does ebooks right, and that's www.baen.com's webscription service. $15 for 4-6 ebooks, in HTML and other formats with the DRM set to "no protection".
You don't like it, fine, nobody's forcing you to take his money.
Yeah, but I've never been offered the choice to refuse his money.
OK, I have a Windows 3.1 machine sitting near my desk. It is named "enterprise", and is entirely secure, due to being powered off, not connected to any network, and never used for anything of any importance. This meets all requirements to make a secure "enterprise" OS, but not a secure enterprise OS...
*turns off literal interpreter for next post*
One thing you might notice on those magnets, is the metal backing on them. Many internal HD magnets have EM shielding to keep them from damaging data. Plus they're usually set up so most of the field lines will be between the magnets, and not out over the disk itself. Modern disks also have shielding in the case to prevent things like the compass heading of the case from effecting things.
More interesting and fun way:
1) Accelerate particles of lead covered with steel to high, but not relativistic, velocities.
2) Have an enemy attempt to place the hard drive where these particles will hit it.
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Replacing data on a hard drive to sufficiently large levels of randomness doesn't need a drill, unless you are the NSA, or somebody else with an extreme level of secrecy required. Please, think of the poor magnetite particles.
You forgot the Magic Smoke that's held in all that "stuff". Every once in a while, you might hear a pop, and see some smoke come out of your computer as it stops working. That's the Magic Smoke. It's very important to keep that smoke inside the computer.
The real weakness of extortion is the lack of cooperative script-writers in the real world.
But that'd just give you ... random data ... oh, nevermind.
Yep, and they'll have to start putting an M rating on 3ds max, because it can be used to model nude things that look like they might have been women at some point. You can even model a very dangerous looking sword.
OpenOffice, too... you can use it to write stories that might not be completely true (the horror).
My feeling about it, going by what some teenagers 14 years ago thought, is "M? I gotta see that." So, this might be good for Oblivion sales after all.
Yes, you can represent yourself in US courts. For criminal cases, you can get a public defender (cheap/free lawyer paid by the court to be on "your side"). For civil ones, I suspect you could as well, IF the case was big enough.
Representing yourself, in most criminal cases, means you have an idiot for a client.