My point was that there has never been any proper proof of there being either water or heavy hater on comets only hydroxyl (OH) in the coma. There are several ways the hydroxyl could have gotten there, so you cant say there has to be water in the comet core for there to be hydroxyl in the coma.
The press release should have said: The comet is dry as bone, Earth water must have come from somewhere else.
So far no water ice has been found and the pictures shows a completely dry hard rock. That they keep calling it an "Ice mountain" is just crazy. There is no proof that there is ice on a comet. Only that there is hydroxyl in the coma. Saying "We know of no other way for there to be hydroxyl in the coma without there being ice in the comet" is just bad science. Especially when there have been lab experiments showing how hydroxyl can be created from silica rock hit by protons (solar wind)
If you want good pictures of children. It is really only one thing that is important and that is the delay from pressing the button to taking the picture.
I got a D40 from Nikon just when they released it four years ago and have gotten tons of great pictures with it.
It has a rather small sensor and not that many functions, but the shutter delay is measured in milliseconds.
A frew decades ago the supply of copper seemed to run out. This resulted in a large hike in copper prices that made the copper in AT&T's wires in the US more valueble than the stocks of the entire company. Then a bunch of people opened new copper mines that extracted copper ore that was not profitable to extract at the earlier lower price.
Then the price fell again, but to a higher level than it was before.
This is what happens with all kinds of raw materials. The price goes up, but the supply doesn't try out.
Oil has the same tendency, the oil that they have started digging now is much more expensive to get out of the ground than the 20$ a barrel they used to dig out a few years ago. (Ofcause the oil fields that were profitable at 20$ a barrel are now astronomically profitable at 130$ a barrel!)
It is because it is basically a software defined radio. You have a DPS and a set of AD/DA converters and a baseband (low freqency) to RF (high freqency) converter.
Only difference here is that they are hacking the firmware for their Atheros wifi cards a bit more than the rest of us.
The concept relies on using power from the solar cells to make the force. This is opposed to carrying fuel.
Using this system only a very small amount of mass is needed to accelerate the craft to quite high velocities, because the energy isn't lifted from the gound but produced in orbit.
On a normal probe the energy for popultion would reside in the fuel carried in tanks, here it resides in the rather large fusion reactor at the center of the solar system.
The basic idea is to find and flip 12 twocoloured pucs, so that the color you fight for is up. Two robots compete for 1.5 minutes, and the pucs are placed on the board after the robots.
This year 32 teams from Europe and Asia are competing. My teams homepage is here, but in Norwegian, to not give away too much to our competitors.
When you buy a VHS-tape they can punish you for *building* your own VCR and playing it, just as they can't punish you for building your own DVD-player to play your DVD's.
The IBM PC I am writing this message makes less noice than my screen. It is so silent I keep getting this eery feeling that that it doesn't really boot when I turn it on because it is so silent.
The reason is that I pulled out the disks and all the fans, an booted it over a network from another machine in a hallway in the flat next door. There it doesn't bother anyone, and we can use it to share out our common mp3-collection to everyone that lives in the two flats.
Linux does this beautifully, with only a night of hacking.
If you read the document properly you will see that one of the things that helped them get at technology A was a patendt filed by verance.
I think this means that the technology talked about in the letter is patented, and that most of the information about it is allready available to anyone who wants to take a look.
Nice trick, telling people to stop spreading confidential information that is allready in the patent databases.
Bluetooth and 802.11b have two very different applications. The goal of Bluetooth is to connect all kinds of different mobile equipment with some speed and very high reliability. 802.11b is made for speed, and I can't see a them getting 802.11b on chip, but getting bluetooth on a chip has been the goal all along.
I think this is only microsoft being angry for not being invited along in the first place.
The most known example of this is the Arabica coffee bean in the eastern parts of Africa.
Ethiopian farmers now have to pay royalties to an american company if they want to sell their coffee on the american market. (It is an american patent, and not valid in Europe)
The reason is that this company has isolated the gene that makes this plant resistant to a very widespread coffee disiese that kills cromps in the entire region. The arabica coffee is the only one resistant.
This company hasn't made any changes, they have only found the gene, but still they get to collect royalties.
If you take a look at the bottom of the page reffered to in the story you find this:
"CONFIDENTIAL: The information disclosed herein regarding the Flash Vos(TM) includes confidential, proprietary information of Flash Vos Inc. This document, and the contents thereof, may not be used, reproduced, transmitted, transferred to other documents, or disclosed to any person or entity, in whole or in part, without the prior express written consent of Flash Vos Inc. The Flash Vos(TM) is covered by a United States Pending Patent Application. All rights are reserved to Flash Vos Inc."
The ruling they have made now could only be the beginning of a policy where customer databases are seen as any other form of capital, wich in case of bankrupcy can be sold off.
If this stands the next one to go will probably get less restrictions, and the next even less. In the end people could be alowed to sell their databases without any restricitions at all.
This should be stopped now, or all the "We will not share information"-clauses are without value.
I think your should consider Suse. (The German distro) I run it myself, and have had very good experiences with it.
But then the exact distro shouldn't matter that much, as you probably want to make your custum setup. In my university they have about a hundred dual boot boxes that run Red Hat and WinNT, but the Red Hat they are using doesn't look very much like any other Red Hat I have seen. Among other things they have put most of the configurationfiles in an NFS directory, and have links to them in/etc. This allows them to change setup on all the boxes at once, without having to sit down infront of every one of them. As far as I know the only real difference from setup to setup is the IP adress and the hostname.
As long as you have a network, and most of the hardware is the same this is the way for you to go, and as you have a lot of computers, and probably a lot of manhours you should be able to make a really good setup for the first box and then use it on all of them.
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I think this all is a contiuation of the increas "flexibility" people are faced with today. The company you work at no longer only wants your work for a some hours every day doing more or less the same thing with the same people every day. (This may seem boring, but is very nice for building stability, friendship and security) Now they want you to be dynamic and flexible. They want you to move on short notice, change your work often and move where you are needed. As a whole the companies even dont really care if you stay with them, as long as most people in your field change jobs often. In order to comply to this you cant be rooted to one place, and have to be able to move. If people had been owning houses, cars, stereos, sofas and all kinds of other things getting them to move would be very hard. When everything is leased it can all be turned in, and the employee moved to a new location. Ofcause this is does not apply to the entire society, but it is an increasing trend, and I guess most of the people posting here will be hit by it some time. gaijin_
Trying to integrate a product that has a homebrew hash in its encryption (See earlier story on the hacking of Cyberpatrols database) and something that is to be used for security could never be a good idea.
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It has been repeted again and again that copyright is a good thing, and that a writer or painer or any one else who make intellectual stuff has to have a right to make money form what they have made.
This may be true, but it doesn have much to do with copyright. Atleast the US variant of it. In Europe the creator is protected in the copyright laws. The Norwegian law is even called "Lov om opphavsrett" wich litterally mean "Law on origin rights". It is the originator of the work that is protected.
The US instead have a intelecual property law, that protects the owner and not the originator. Defending this law is defending the proffits of time warner, and not the fair income of poor writers.
IP-laws should be stopped from penetrating Europe, and removed from the US legal system. It is the originator, and not the owner that should be protected.
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My point was that there has never been any proper proof of there being either water or heavy hater on comets only hydroxyl (OH) in the coma. There are several ways the hydroxyl could have gotten there, so you cant say there has to be water in the comet core for there to be hydroxyl in the coma.
The press release should have said: The comet is dry as bone, Earth water must have come from somewhere else.
So far no water ice has been found and the pictures shows a completely dry hard rock. That they keep calling it an "Ice mountain" is just crazy. There is no proof that there is ice on a comet. Only that there is hydroxyl in the coma. Saying "We know of no other way for there to be hydroxyl in the coma without there being ice in the comet" is just bad science. Especially when there have been lab experiments showing how hydroxyl can be created from silica rock hit by protons (solar wind)
Its a big understatement to say that they "tend to be smothered or distorted by travel through water". They don't travel through water.
If you want good pictures of children. It is really only one thing that is important and that is the delay from pressing the button to taking the picture.
I got a D40 from Nikon just when they released it four years ago and have gotten tons of great pictures with it.
It has a rather small sensor and not that many functions, but the shutter delay is measured in milliseconds.
A frew decades ago the supply of copper seemed to run out. This resulted in a large hike in copper prices that made the copper in AT&T's wires in the US more valueble than the stocks of the entire company. Then a bunch of people opened new copper mines that extracted copper ore that was not profitable to extract at the earlier lower price.
Then the price fell again, but to a higher level than it was before.
This is what happens with all kinds of raw materials. The price goes up, but the supply doesn't try out.
Oil has the same tendency, the oil that they have started digging now is much more expensive to get out of the ground than the 20$ a barrel they used to dig out a few years ago. (Ofcause the oil fields that were profitable at 20$ a barrel are now astronomically profitable at 130$ a barrel!)
It is because it is basically a software defined radio. You have a DPS and a set of AD/DA converters and a baseband (low freqency) to RF (high freqency) converter.
Only difference here is that they are hacking the firmware for their Atheros wifi cards a bit more than the rest of us.
The concept relies on using power from the solar cells to make the force. This is opposed to carrying fuel.
Using this system only a very small amount of mass is needed to accelerate the craft to quite high velocities, because the energy isn't lifted from the gound but produced in orbit.
On a normal probe the energy for popultion would reside in the fuel carried in tanks, here it resides in the rather large fusion reactor at the center of the solar system.
the same technique is used today when creating similar materials.
They seem to have used silver and copper salts and a mix of other things that turned the salts into metal at 600 degrees.
The entire contest seems kind of boring, as it is supposed to use robots built by someone else.
Eurobot is a contest for completely autonomous robots that are constructed for the contest.
The rules can be found at www.anstj.org.
The basic idea is to find and flip 12 twocoloured pucs, so that the color you fight for is up. Two robots compete for 1.5 minutes, and the pucs are placed on the board after the robots.
This year 32 teams from Europe and Asia are competing. My teams homepage is here, but in Norwegian, to not give away too much to our competitors.
But he did have authorized access to the data on the DVD's he has. He probably already had accessed it before the DeCSS was made.
You don't punish a data security responible in a company for breaking through their firewall. But you would punish someone else who did the same.
When you buy a VHS-tape they can punish you for *building* your own VCR and playing it, just as they can't punish you for building your own DVD-player to play your DVD's.
This is about building a DVD player.
The IBM PC I am writing this message makes less noice than my screen. It is so silent I keep getting this eery feeling that that it doesn't really boot when I turn it on because it is so silent.
The reason is that I pulled out the disks and all the fans, an booted it over a network from another machine in a hallway in the flat next door. There it doesn't bother anyone, and we can use it to share out our common mp3-collection to everyone that lives in the two flats.
Linux does this beautifully, with only a night of hacking.
If you read the document properly you will see that one of the things that helped them get at technology A was a patendt filed by verance.
I think this means that the technology talked about in the letter is patented, and that most of the information about it is allready available to anyone who wants to take a look.
Nice trick, telling people to stop spreading confidential information that is allready in the patent databases.
Bluetooth and 802.11b have two very different applications. The goal of Bluetooth is to connect all kinds of different mobile equipment with some speed and very high reliability. 802.11b is made for speed, and I can't see a them getting 802.11b on chip, but getting bluetooth on a chip has been the goal all along.
I think this is only microsoft being angry for not being invited along in the first place.
As the current keplerdata available wont work for this, I can only make a random guess:
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The most known example of this is the Arabica coffee bean in the eastern parts of Africa. Ethiopian farmers now have to pay royalties to an american company if they want to sell their coffee on the american market. (It is an american patent, and not valid in Europe) The reason is that this company has isolated the gene that makes this plant resistant to a very widespread coffee disiese that kills cromps in the entire region. The arabica coffee is the only one resistant. This company hasn't made any changes, they have only found the gene, but still they get to collect royalties.
Seems like the information is confidential.
If you take a look at the bottom of the page reffered to in the story you find this:
"CONFIDENTIAL: The information disclosed herein regarding the Flash Vos(TM) includes confidential, proprietary information of Flash Vos Inc. This document, and the contents thereof, may not be used, reproduced, transmitted, transferred to other documents, or disclosed to any person or entity, in whole or in part, without the prior express written consent of Flash Vos Inc. The Flash Vos(TM) is covered by a United States Pending Patent Application. All rights are reserved to Flash Vos Inc."
What does this mean?
The ruling they have made now could only be the beginning of a policy where customer databases are seen as any other form of capital, wich in case of bankrupcy can be sold off.
If this stands the next one to go will probably get less restrictions, and the next even less. In the end people could be alowed to sell their databases without any restricitions at all.
This should be stopped now, or all the "We will not share information"-clauses are without value.
I think your should consider Suse. (The German distro) I run it myself, and have had very good experiences with it.
But then the exact distro shouldn't matter that much, as you probably want to make your custum setup. In my university they have about a hundred dual boot boxes that run Red Hat and WinNT, but the Red Hat they are using doesn't look very much like any other Red Hat I have seen. Among other things they have put most of the configurationfiles in an NFS directory, and have links to them in /etc. This allows them to change setup on all the boxes at once, without having to sit down infront of every one of them. As far as I know the only real difference from setup to setup is the IP adress and the hostname.
As long as you have a network, and most of the hardware is the same this is the way for you to go, and as you have a lot of computers, and probably a lot of manhours you should be able to make a really good setup for the first box and then use it on all of them.
I think this all is a contiuation of the increas "flexibility" people are faced with today. The company you work at no longer only wants your work for a some hours every day doing more or less the same thing with the same people every day. (This may seem boring, but is very nice for building stability, friendship and security) Now they want you to be dynamic and flexible. They want you to move on short notice, change your work often and move where you are needed. As a whole the companies even dont really care if you stay with them, as long as most people in your field change jobs often. In order to comply to this you cant be rooted to one place, and have to be able to move. If people had been owning houses, cars, stereos, sofas and all kinds of other things getting them to move would be very hard. When everything is leased it can all be turned in, and the employee moved to a new location. Ofcause this is does not apply to the entire society, but it is an increasing trend, and I guess most of the people posting here will be hit by it some time. gaijin_
Trying to integrate a product that has a homebrew hash in its encryption (See earlier story on the hacking of Cyberpatrols database) and something that is to be used for security could never be a good idea.
It has been repeted again and again that copyright is a good thing, and that a writer or painer or any one else who make intellectual stuff has to have a right to make money form what they have made.
This may be true, but it doesn have much to do with copyright. Atleast the US variant of it. In Europe the creator is protected in the copyright laws. The Norwegian law is even called "Lov om opphavsrett" wich litterally mean "Law on origin rights". It is the originator of the work that is protected.
The US instead have a intelecual property law, that protects the owner and not the originator. Defending this law is defending the proffits of time warner, and not the fair income of poor writers.
IP-laws should be stopped from penetrating Europe, and removed from the US legal system. It is the originator, and not the owner that should be protected.
How do you plan on using the spectrum for IP?
In the HF-band the highest practical bandwith is 300bd, but if you dont have a very large transmitter 50 or 75 is the most you'll get.
I dont think setting up a 50bd line over the atlantic by using a HF-tranciver in both ends is very economic.
Now that two of the biggest Quake1 developer groups have joined. Maybe we can tell Epic to go die with microsoft, and play gpl'ed games instead.
If they use that argument they are stupid, because they are already in the same situation.