The receiver needs to collect as many photons as possible from the laser transmitter - hence the use of the fresnel lense.
The way a laser works, is all photons are already going parallel to each other (within the bounds of the length of the lasing medium), so you can refract the whole beam, but not focus it much further.
...unless... *thinking*... you are talking about a pair of them, with the receiver being physically separated from the transmitter like so (using my *ahem* 1337 ASCII art 5ki11z): =---->R
R<----= Where '=' is the transmitting laser, '-' is the beam, '>' is the lens, and 'R' is the receiver. So the distance between the lens and R is very short in comparison with the distance rom the laser and the lens, thus compensating for my parenthetical statement above. Was this what you had in mind? That might work.
...and if what I'm saying makes no sense, realize that I'm living by my.sig at the moment.
GM "food" is going to wind up being the next black plague...
I'm glad to see somebody brought out their crystal ball.
Yes, it could end up being the next black plague, or it could end up being the saviour of a starving world. If you do have evidence of the former, I'd love to hear it.
Besides which, kilobyte and megabyte and gigabyte is not jargon. It is a computer term.
According to Merriam-Webster online (here), jargon is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group." I think "computer term" qualifies as jargon.
At the very least, he is having his computer write a copy into RAM or onto a disk according to what's coming down over the network. That's enough to count, given the MAI precedent.
Not disagreeing with you, but think of the ramifications of this.
Every ISP and backbone provider should also be liable. The same electrons don't go directly from one PC to another. If I download a song, their ISP's router will look at the packet, copy it into RAM (or at least a CPU register), then copy it *again* to the other wire.
Furthermore, there's no way around it, since even a manual inspection of what's in the packet will cause another 'copy' to be made of the ever-so-precious copyrighted data. Arrest all ISPs!
Ok first of all, calling it murder is your opinion. Don't use it as if it were a fact.
I just decided to look up 'murder' on m-w.com: "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought."
So, technically, abortion is not murder, because it is not unlawful. OTOH, if the intentional killing of your neighbor on the basis that they are a jerk was legalized, it would not be murder either.
So, if we take the word "unlawfully" out of the definition, the only question then becomes "what is a person?" In my mind, this is the crux of the abortion debate - when is it "a person". I personally believe you become "a person" at conception, because I think science will bear this out. THAT'S why I'm against abortion.
Yes, if you look through my previous posts, you'll see that most people would consider me "religious"*, but I was one of the last "religious" people I knew to decide on my position on abortion, precisely for the reason I specified above - I don't want to kill a person, but is that fetus a person?
* I really dislike the word religious. I believe in God, but I don't go through any weird ceremonies to show it. In the words of my wife when somebody asks if she's "religious," she says "Yes. I brush my teeth every day. I am a religious teeth-brusher."
How many people who know anything about computer security actually continue to allow non-internal hard drive booting on a system that is intended for general use after it's set up and installed?
I did in my former position as a technology director for a small school district. I understood the implications and the potential for abuse, but I still left them able to boot from a CD (but not floppy).
Why?
Cost/benefit ratio. All web traffic still had to go through the squidguard proxy, and the rest of the network was relatively-well secured on the inside. And, quite frankly, I didn't have anybody else who was security-conscious enough to know how to exploit it yet (like I said, it was a small district, and I knew every student who could do anything more with the computer than type a report). Leaving them CD-bootable made my life easier, and as one of many understaffed schools, I would take any break I could get.
PHP just to me looks syntactically like a C/C++ mixed with Perl/TCL/SomeOther$ObessedScriptingLanguage
Precisely. I love it.
PHP reminds me of what a CIS professor told me in college (tongue only slightly in cheek): There's only one thing you can't do with C that you can with other languages. Write legible code.
PHP may approach the definition of "write-only code", but its leniency in structure makes it very easy to throw a short script together quickly.
There's just something inherently wrong about that (IMHO).
I wouldn't mind paying more for a car if it would actually work, and not need service (other than the obvious oil change/tire rotation/add gas stuff you can't get around).
Thank any and all G-d's that ISP's don't operate the way the Cable comapnies do, or your web-surfing would be interrupted every 5 minutes by some ad that takes over your entire system, automatically turns on your speakers to the loudest setting and can't be bypassed.
In my home state of New South Wales, it is illegal to be carrying a knife without a reasonable excuse such as 'the lawful pursuit of the person's occupation'.
If knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
Have to admit, I hadn't heard about this law before. I carry a Gerber multitool-whatever-they-call-it. It has a knife blade, but more importantly it has a #2 Phillips screwdriver tip, perfect for opening just about every PC case made. I already have my excuse.
I mostly use the PhotoPaint component, and it runs rings around Photoshop6 on the same machine, and for that matter around PSP7 as well. ...
And as to Reveal Codes, there's nothing else in the same league.
Speaking of things that aren't in the same league. Photo-paint is a low-end "fix red-eye" and "crop to taste" program. It's much more analogous to Adobe's Photoshop Album than THE Photoshop 6....and it's available for free download from Adobe's website, too.
Photo Paint isn't a bad tool (I've used it extensively), but be fair about it.
1) OSS would put Windows on the same playing field as Linux and BSD. On the same playing field, Linux is just flat out superior to Windows in most respects.
...but the question is "would it be after they opened it up?" Even if they extended their "look, but don't touch" shared source to "look, but don't touch, and send any contributions (along with your signed waiver that all your code are belong to us) to WindowsCodeSuggestions@microsoft.com" and made it publically available, I think you'd see a huge resurgence in MS-Windows popularity among geeks. Its current popularity could be further reinforced.
This could be more-than-counteracted by your point #2, however.
I doubt #3 also, because they do have multiple coders that all have to have at least a basic understanding of the code. Even if it could use a major ground-up rewrite, it's likely it could be done very quickly, as having this many people working on a coherent project means a decent level of commenting must be present.
Above all, Microsoft won't do it because it would be admitting defeat.
For the US, I think the burning of the White House by the English, Alamo, the Seminole wars, Little Big Horn, Vietnam and now Iraq are rather exemplar that sometimes you win, sometimes you loose...
Battle != war
Last I checked, we didn't become a British colony again after 1812, Texas is part of the U.S. ("Texas - it's like a whole other state!"), as are the black hills, and you notice how the Iraqi troops kicked us right out.
Vietnam listed here is legitimate, and I'm not familiar enough with the Seminole wars to comment.
Iraq may be a political "loss" (we're still too close in history to judge it), but it certainly isn't a military loss.
Now having said that, I must also acknowledge that if it weren't for the French, we may still be a British colony.
Try starting up Doom/Doom 2 sometime and see the warning text as the game loads!
I don't have my copy of Doom with me (coincidentally enough), but wasn't it when you quit the game that it gave the spiel? Along with something to the effect of "If you don't register, it's funny how hard drives can get, you know, erased and all."...or am I thinking of a different game?
The REA had nothing to do with telephones BTW, (except that Ma Bell may have paid for the privilege of using the poles the REA had already put up).
Was the REA good for America as a whole? Absolutely. Was it worth the price? That's still up for debate.
I think you'll find the problem even more exaggerated for broadband. The costs are high and the benefits are nice, but certainly not necessary, especially since broadband is available anywhere in the lower 48 states (latency is horrible, but bandwidth is fine) using Starband or DirecPC.
I dunno, maybe some LEO satellites to hit everyone that wants it with low latency connections would be a better investment?
Nevertheless I feel obligated to send a big "Howdy!" to those people at that institution that I still consider a friend, even though it's doubtful that one of those people will find this post.
I live in a small town with ~21.000 peoples in it.
You don't know what a small town is, then. I live in a town of about 650. Our "library" of approx. 800 titles is open one day a week. I'm just happy we have a grocery store and a gas station.
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The way a laser works, is all photons are already going parallel to each other (within the bounds of the length of the lasing medium), so you can refract the whole beam, but not focus it much further.
=---->R
R<----=
Where '=' is the transmitting laser, '-' is the beam, '>' is the lens, and 'R' is the receiver. So the distance between the lens and R is very short in comparison with the distance rom the laser and the lens, thus compensating for my parenthetical statement above. Was this what you had in mind? That might work.
Absolutely. Today.
I was actually referring to the future, since the ZPG ...er... *ahem* Population Connection folks don't appear to be having much success.
I'm glad to see somebody brought out their crystal ball.
Yes, it could end up being the next black plague, or it could end up being the saviour of a starving world. If you do have evidence of the former, I'd love to hear it.
According to Merriam-Webster online (here), jargon is "the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group." I think "computer term" qualifies as jargon.
Hmmm... but who gets the prize if the flight attendant opens the can to give it to you?
Not disagreeing with you, but think of the ramifications of this.
Every ISP and backbone provider should also be liable. The same electrons don't go directly from one PC to another. If I download a song, their ISP's router will look at the packet, copy it into RAM (or at least a CPU register), then copy it *again* to the other wire.
Furthermore, there's no way around it, since even a manual inspection of what's in the packet will cause another 'copy' to be made of the ever-so-precious copyrighted data. Arrest all ISPs!
Yeah, but then I have to fumble through both my pager and my cellphone.
Pager stays on vibrate. Phone stays on audible, fairly unique ringtone.
I just decided to look up 'murder' on m-w.com: "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought."
So, technically, abortion is not murder, because it is not unlawful. OTOH, if the intentional killing of your neighbor on the basis that they are a jerk was legalized, it would not be murder either.
So, if we take the word "unlawfully" out of the definition, the only question then becomes "what is a person?" In my mind, this is the crux of the abortion debate - when is it "a person". I personally believe you become "a person" at conception, because I think science will bear this out. THAT'S why I'm against abortion.
Yes, if you look through my previous posts, you'll see that most people would consider me "religious"*, but I was one of the last "religious" people I knew to decide on my position on abortion, precisely for the reason I specified above - I don't want to kill a person, but is that fetus a person?
* I really dislike the word religious. I believe in God, but I don't go through any weird ceremonies to show it. In the words of my wife when somebody asks if she's "religious," she says "Yes. I brush my teeth every day. I am a religious teeth-brusher."
I did in my former position as a technology director for a small school district. I understood the implications and the potential for abuse, but I still left them able to boot from a CD (but not floppy).
Why?
Cost/benefit ratio. All web traffic still had to go through the squidguard proxy, and the rest of the network was relatively-well secured on the inside. And, quite frankly, I didn't have anybody else who was security-conscious enough to know how to exploit it yet (like I said, it was a small district, and I knew every student who could do anything more with the computer than type a report). Leaving them CD-bootable made my life easier, and as one of many understaffed schools, I would take any break I could get.
Precisely. I love it.
PHP reminds me of what a CIS professor told me in college (tongue only slightly in cheek): There's only one thing you can't do with C that you can with other languages. Write legible code.
PHP may approach the definition of "write-only code", but its leniency in structure makes it very easy to throw a short script together quickly.
I wouldn't mind paying more for a car if it would actually work, and not need service (other than the obvious oil change/tire rotation/add gas stuff you can't get around).
Dangit! Stop giving them ideas!
If knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
Have to admit, I hadn't heard about this law before. I carry a Gerber multitool-whatever-they-call-it. It has a knife blade, but more importantly it has a #2 Phillips screwdriver tip, perfect for opening just about every PC case made. I already have my excuse.
Obviously not. In this case (porn porn) the result would be the same. Maybe they're XORing? Quick, somebody try "porn porn porn".
...
And as to Reveal Codes, there's nothing else in the same league.
Speaking of things that aren't in the same league. Photo-paint is a low-end "fix red-eye" and "crop to taste" program. It's much more analogous to Adobe's Photoshop Album than THE Photoshop 6. ...and it's available for free download from Adobe's website, too.
Photo Paint isn't a bad tool (I've used it extensively), but be fair about it.
This could be more-than-counteracted by your point #2, however.
I doubt #3 also, because they do have multiple coders that all have to have at least a basic understanding of the code. Even if it could use a major ground-up rewrite, it's likely it could be done very quickly, as having this many people working on a coherent project means a decent level of commenting must be present.
Above all, Microsoft won't do it because it would be admitting defeat.
FWIW, I personally like the SPF approach.
Battle != war
Last I checked, we didn't become a British colony again after 1812, Texas is part of the U.S. ("Texas - it's like a whole other state!"), as are the black hills, and you notice how the Iraqi troops kicked us right out.
Vietnam listed here is legitimate, and I'm not familiar enough with the Seminole wars to comment.
Iraq may be a political "loss" (we're still too close in history to judge it), but it certainly isn't a military loss.
Now having said that, I must also acknowledge that if it weren't for the French, we may still be a British colony.
Obviously the FBI has never played it, then. It's a great game!
I don't have my copy of Doom with me (coincidentally enough), but wasn't it when you quit the game that it gave the spiel? Along with something to the effect of "If you don't register, it's funny how hard drives can get, you know, erased and all." ...or am I thinking of a different game?
Was the REA good for America as a whole? Absolutely. Was it worth the price? That's still up for debate.
I think you'll find the problem even more exaggerated for broadband. The costs are high and the benefits are nice, but certainly not necessary, especially since broadband is available anywhere in the lower 48 states (latency is horrible, but bandwidth is fine) using Starband or DirecPC.
I dunno, maybe some LEO satellites to hit everyone that wants it with low latency connections would be a better investment?
Maybe not that doubtful. Howdy!
$ date --date=102935
Mon Jun 4 00:00:00 CDT 2012
Midnight.
Winter into spring
Perl-based Spamassassin
allows bogus Habeas
I live in a small town with ~21.000 peoples in it.
You don't know what a small town is, then. I live in a town of about 650. Our "library" of approx. 800 titles is open one day a week. I'm just happy we have a grocery store and a gas station.