Avagadro's # sounds fine to me, as long as they define Avagadro's number independantly.
Why? The meter started as a platinium bar, and later we redefined it to something else, that matched this platinium bar. Why can't we do the same with kg? We're only trying to base it on something natural phenomen, not to redefine it. The point is that if it is a common criteria, and nnot a single object, anyone can measure a kg _exactly_
Ahh that's classic.
Who knew an mp3 player wasn't appropriate for playing music.
And here lies the entire problem. I don't buy music anymore, it seems I buy the medium for the music. This menas I can't have backup of my _music_, since I bought a cd... In my opinion, *any* music player should be considered relevant for music, as long as I've bought the music. Sure, I'd accept that while I was using my MP3-player, I had to ensure noone was playing the cd, or atleast that the cd was in my possession, so noone else could play it at the same time. And as the times are changing, why would I want to carry a piece of 20 year old technology taking up a lot of space to play 70 lousy minuts of audio, when I can have 700 minutes in my pocket, only with minor quality degration? This is simply forcing people to use old technology... And they won't reach anywhere with it. People will continue to use MP3players, and my guess is that this will be socially accepted, and also that the cops/TONO (Tono == RIAA) won't really care as long as I don't have pirated content on it...
Bein attracted to children ISN'T a problem. The girl next door to me is 14 and VERY hot (I'm in the UK she's legal in two years).
In my eyes, it is a very big difference in being attracted to a sexually evolved woman, like the 14 yr old you're looking at, and to someone who ain't grown up yet. The 14 year old girl probably is quite capable of reproducing, the 8 year old in those photos probably not. There's a difference. Our firmware is preprogrammed to reproduce ourself. You can do that with your neighbhour. You can't with the 8 year old girl. Also, a few years in age do a lot. A 8 year old is not able to do this of free will, some 14 years old have sex with people at their own age, because they enjoy it, outta free will. There's the big difference.
And this is important for microsoft. They make budgets that incorporate future earnings, which has been steady. The fact that they change their formats every now and dhten, and then manage to "plant" new versions of software around the net, ensures that upgrades need to happend. If their formats where open, people would stick with office 97, as it is plenty enough for most business. Those few that need office2k3 would buy it, and send the files to people using office 97, certain that they would loose nothing important.
If MS was using open formats, it would be easier for people to switch, instead of upgrading...
I really hope this don't become patended. In fact, I have something that works almost the same way, right in front of me...it is called a transformer. If a company is allowed to patent this idea, they might sue us for use of transformers!
If you really want that kind of music just set up a system that automatically generates songs which would be free to download to the first 2,000 people who would be required to rank the song and then at the end of each week make the top ranked song available for sale to everyone else.
Interesting tought really. With the internet availvable, distrobution costs has dropped extremly, and this should enable the music industry to put out even smaller artists, or niche-groups, wich would not bear to record on a cd. However, with distrobution costs approaching 0, for example by using bittorrent to server content, it would be possible to put out those artist and still don't loose any money on it...
But this will not happend. In my eyes, all music industry is thinking about is creating the next block buster that will enable them to sell more than anyone previously has done...sadly!
A side issue is the sale of sensitive technology to Lenovo, which may have connections to the Chinese military.
Huh? Afaik (have not RTFA), it is about selling it's PC division, which hardly have any sensitive information. Even Big Blue builds the desktop/workstation boxen of commodity parts, which Chinese governement can buy freely anyway. It is not Big Blue's research division or anything like that they sell of. And for the connection with the military: IBM, SGI , and others have contracts for (and probably deep bindings with) pentagon, which as far as I know, has been trough more wars than China, and probably killed more people, in wars that has no relation to USA what so ever. So I'll highly question your argumentation.
I guess this ain't a CCD, but rather a CMOS.
CMOS is much cheaper, and consumes only a fraction of the power, but with lower quality (more noise, not so sharp colours and so on).
CCD is superiour in quality, but is to expencive, and consumes to much power for mobile applications like this.
Only IBM. They don't do it out of kindness, they do it to make money. But truth be told, they are the only company not simply paying lip service.
Well...I could mention many:
HP has delivered Linux Bewolf clusters to NOTUR
IBM has delivered clusters there...
SGI Has delivered supercomputers there.
Sun: NFS, and StarOffice/OpenOffice
Novell (whihch at least has been very powerful, dunno right now, but seems to be pretty much used) has bought suse, and is making Linux Solutions wich kicks ass on the desktop/workstation side,and also on the server side. Combining Novell's expirence in network business with SuSE's expirence in the Dekstop Linux Market is a extremly powerful coalliation.
So, I guess there's plenty of the big ones making Linux solutions.
Don't get me wrong, I don't belive, for a second, that they do it out of kindness, they do it because they hope to earn money. And currently Linux can enable them to earn more money. Simple as that.
Aint Mozilla under the Mozilla Public License? Don't this basicaly prevent you from making a closed source version based upon anything under MPL (which mozilla is)?
OK, they could make a patch set and their own binaries, but do they intend to have an OSS (no, not free software because mozilla ain't free) browser? sadly, I doubt it.
You never could. It merely said that it was unlikely for you to be getting something else.
Exactly. And for my main use, which is checking iso files and so for download erreors, it is sufficent really. If you flip *any* random bit in a iso, it still should be hard to get the exactly same checksum. And for *important* stuff, I tend to use gpg or other signing mechanisms, with AFAIK is pretty bulletproof at the time of being... So for md5's main use (for me atleast, running sha1 passwd's) it ain't that important if you can match different content to the same hash, as it still will probably stop random bits flipped.
All *changed* files can be detected with md5, even only if it is a single bit that is flipped. The point is that as long as you don't have a uncluttered (without message embedded) jpeg, you can't distinguish it from one with a message embedded. If you embedd data, you change the file in some way, which can be detected by a cyclic redunancy check or md5summing. Just try with i.e steghide. md5sum won't show the same sum. But as long as your enemy don't have both original and the one with hidden message, they can't get to know if it got any message hidden.
I have a 2x400 Celeron running XP and a 1.8Ghz Celeron running Linux.
Well, two cpus *is* more responsive, since the box can handle two threads side by side. On a 1-cpu system, you can only handle one thread at a time, and thus if the box is already doing something, that has to be done before the next thing can be done. In a SMP-setup your box can handle two threads, and in this case, it might handle each thread slower, but still the system will feel much more responsive.
Good for you. However, if you have been upgrading hardware or installing software, Windows does break, and more often than not, the breakage is hidden somewhere deep down inside the system.
Heh... With my debian installation, I ripped out my disk from my old PC. Put in new. Boot new computer. Recompile kernel. Adjust module settings. Done. Took 10 minutes to move the _entire_ os over... From a 5-6 year old pc to a shining new one. With windows my expirience is that if you as much as change a non-os harddrive, windows becomes confused. I do not wish a system where a god damn wizard shows me trough everything. I want to be able to do modprobe --force-vermagic nvidia to get my nvidia card to work. I'm simply tired of the non-forcing wizards, which seems to belive that the user is always a newbie. Maybe this system suits some. It don't suit me. I don't wanna be asked if I really wanna rm -Rf / . When I ask my system to do that, I want it done, even if ain't a smartie...
I don't really see how you could use secure internet voting. As a part of a democracy, it is important that the election is a) secret b) and that the voter ain't forced in any way. This goes into a ring. If the voter is ensured that the election is 100% secret, ie. no one can _ever_ get to know who you voted for, then it's also more difficult to force someone to vote for a certain candidate. This is allready becoming difficult to ensure, as the bad guy might force the voter to bring a video cam, and film the list as he fills it out. However, the bad guy can't come with the voter, into the voting booth, and stick a gun to his head. If voting via the internet, from home, becomes possible, we suddenly have this problem. The bad guy can be standing behind the voter, with a shotgun pointed at his head. And even if you imply such things as a cam, it still can be faked relatively easy. And it is easier to steal a digital signature or something, as it either matches, or don't. A handwritten signature can be faked, but it is still possible to check further if things points in direction of fraud or not, by comparing the signature with others that you have positively done. With a digital signature, it either matches or not. There's no grayzone between a fraud and a real. So I don't think decentralized voting is a thing for the future. We still need the centrals, the voting boths, with a controlled envirorment.
No. They're owned by whomever sent them up, afaik.
Also, see the UN faq on this.
This faq takes the question of lost satelites, but then again, if it applies to lost satelits, I'd guess it applies to still working ones.
I strongly agree. Google's ads actually made me buy something from them. They're relevant ads, about a topic I'm surfing usually. And also, its small ads, theyre text only, no blinking shit, and they're quick to load. Overall, they work fine, and don't piss me off, because they're so specific, and not ugly to look at either.
But I can't realy see how this is gonna work? Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on. Someone care to explain this to me?
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Why? The meter started as a platinium bar, and later we redefined it to something else, that matched this platinium bar. Why can't we do the same with kg? We're only trying to base it on something natural phenomen, not to redefine it. The point is that if it is a common criteria, and nnot a single object, anyone can measure a kg _exactly_
Ahh that's classic. Who knew an mp3 player wasn't appropriate for playing music.
And here lies the entire problem. I don't buy music anymore, it seems I buy the medium for the music. This menas I can't have backup of my _music_, since I bought a cd... In my opinion, *any* music player should be considered relevant for music, as long as I've bought the music. Sure, I'd accept that while I was using my MP3-player, I had to ensure noone was playing the cd, or atleast that the cd was in my possession, so noone else could play it at the same time. And as the times are changing, why would I want to carry a piece of 20 year old technology taking up a lot of space to play 70 lousy minuts of audio, when I can have 700 minutes in my pocket, only with minor quality degration? This is simply forcing people to use old technology... And they won't reach anywhere with it. People will continue to use MP3players, and my guess is that this will be socially accepted, and also that the cops/TONO (Tono == RIAA) won't really care as long as I don't have pirated content on it...
Yes, but I'm doing so on purpose. Linux/OSS is better on backwards compability.
In my eyes, it is a very big difference in being attracted to a sexually evolved woman, like the 14 yr old you're looking at, and to someone who ain't grown up yet. The 14 year old girl probably is quite capable of reproducing, the 8 year old in those photos probably not. There's a difference. Our firmware is preprogrammed to reproduce ourself. You can do that with your neighbhour. You can't with the 8 year old girl. Also, a few years in age do a lot. A 8 year old is not able to do this of free will, some 14 years old have sex with people at their own age, because they enjoy it, outta free will. There's the big difference.
And this is important for microsoft. They make budgets that incorporate future earnings, which has been steady. The fact that they change their formats every now and dhten, and then manage to "plant" new versions of software around the net, ensures that upgrades need to happend. If their formats where open, people would stick with office 97, as it is plenty enough for most business. Those few that need office2k3 would buy it, and send the files to people using office 97, certain that they would loose nothing important. If MS was using open formats, it would be easier for people to switch, instead of upgrading...
I really hope this don't become patended. In fact, I have something that works almost the same way, right in front of me...it is called a transformer. If a company is allowed to patent this idea, they might sue us for use of transformers!
If you really want that kind of music just set up a system that automatically generates songs which would be free to download to the first 2,000 people who would be required to rank the song and then at the end of each week make the top ranked song available for sale to everyone else.
Interesting tought really. With the internet availvable, distrobution costs has dropped extremly, and this should enable the music industry to put out even smaller artists, or niche-groups, wich would not bear to record on a cd. However, with distrobution costs approaching 0, for example by using bittorrent to server content, it would be possible to put out those artist and still don't loose any money on it...
But this will not happend. In my eyes, all music industry is thinking about is creating the next block buster that will enable them to sell more than anyone previously has done...sadly!
A side issue is the sale of sensitive technology to Lenovo, which may have connections to the Chinese military.
Huh? Afaik (have not RTFA), it is about selling it's PC division, which hardly have any sensitive information. Even Big Blue builds the desktop/workstation boxen of commodity parts, which Chinese governement can buy freely anyway. It is not Big Blue's research division or anything like that they sell of. And for the connection with the military: IBM, SGI , and others have contracts for (and probably deep bindings with) pentagon, which as far as I know, has been trough more wars than China, and probably killed more people, in wars that has no relation to USA what so ever. So I'll highly question your argumentation.
I guess this ain't a CCD, but rather a CMOS.
CMOS is much cheaper, and consumes only a fraction of the power, but with lower quality (more noise, not so sharp colours and so on). CCD is superiour in quality, but is to expencive, and consumes to much power for mobile applications like this.
Dot-Slashoters? Sounds like some funky teenage slang for drugs.
It is the slashdotters in PWD, your insensitive clod!
Only IBM. They don't do it out of kindness, they do it to make money. But truth be told, they are the only company not simply paying lip service.
Well...I could mention many: HP has delivered Linux Bewolf clusters to NOTUR IBM has delivered clusters there... SGI Has delivered supercomputers there. Sun: NFS, and StarOffice/OpenOffice Novell (whihch at least has been very powerful, dunno right now, but seems to be pretty much used) has bought suse, and is making Linux Solutions wich kicks ass on the desktop/workstation side,and also on the server side. Combining Novell's expirence in network business with SuSE's expirence in the Dekstop Linux Market is a extremly powerful coalliation. So, I guess there's plenty of the big ones making Linux solutions.
Don't get me wrong, I don't belive, for a second, that they do it out of kindness, they do it because they hope to earn money. And currently Linux can enable them to earn more money. Simple as that.
Aint Mozilla under the Mozilla Public License? Don't this basicaly prevent you from making a closed source version based upon anything under MPL (which mozilla is)? OK, they could make a patch set and their own binaries, but do they intend to have an OSS (no, not free software because mozilla ain't free) browser? sadly, I doubt it.
You never could. It merely said that it was unlikely for you to be getting something else. Exactly. And for my main use, which is checking iso files and so for download erreors, it is sufficent really. If you flip *any* random bit in a iso, it still should be hard to get the exactly same checksum. And for *important* stuff, I tend to use gpg or other signing mechanisms, with AFAIK is pretty bulletproof at the time of being... So for md5's main use (for me atleast, running sha1 passwd's) it ain't that important if you can match different content to the same hash, as it still will probably stop random bits flipped.
All *changed* files can be detected with md5, even only if it is a single bit that is flipped. The point is that as long as you don't have a uncluttered (without message embedded) jpeg, you can't distinguish it from one with a message embedded. If you embedd data, you change the file in some way, which can be detected by a cyclic redunancy check or md5summing. Just try with i.e steghide. md5sum won't show the same sum. But as long as your enemy don't have both original and the one with hidden message, they can't get to know if it got any message hidden.
Well, I did choose to recompile my kernel to get support for SMP...
Well, two cpus *is* more responsive, since the box can handle two threads side by side. On a 1-cpu system, you can only handle one thread at a time, and thus if the box is already doing something, that has to be done before the next thing can be done. In a SMP-setup your box can handle two threads, and in this case, it might handle each thread slower, but still the system will feel much more responsive.
Good for you. However, if you have been upgrading hardware or installing software, Windows does break, and more often than not, the breakage is hidden somewhere deep down inside the system.
Heh... With my debian installation, I ripped out my disk from my old PC. Put in new. Boot new computer. Recompile kernel. Adjust module settings. Done. Took 10 minutes to move the _entire_ os over... From a 5-6 year old pc to a shining new one. With windows my expirience is that if you as much as change a non-os harddrive, windows becomes confused. I do not wish a system where a god damn wizard shows me trough everything. I want to be able to do modprobe --force-vermagic nvidia to get my nvidia card to work. I'm simply tired of the non-forcing wizards, which seems to belive that the user is always a newbie. Maybe this system suits some. It don't suit me. I don't wanna be asked if I really wanna rm -Rf / . When I ask my system to do that, I want it done, even if ain't a smartie...
I don't really see how you could use secure internet voting. As a part of a democracy, it is important that the election is a) secret b) and that the voter ain't forced in any way.
This goes into a ring. If the voter is ensured that the election is 100% secret, ie. no one can _ever_ get to know who you voted for, then it's also more difficult to force someone to vote for a certain candidate.
This is allready becoming difficult to ensure, as the bad guy might force the voter to bring a video cam, and film the list as he fills it out. However, the bad guy can't come with the voter, into the voting booth, and stick a gun to his head. If voting via the internet, from home, becomes possible, we suddenly have this problem. The bad guy can be standing behind the voter, with a shotgun pointed at his head. And even if you imply such things as a cam, it still can be faked relatively easy. And it is easier to steal a digital signature or something, as it either matches, or don't. A handwritten signature can be faked, but it is still possible to check further if things points in direction of fraud or not, by comparing the signature with others that you have positively done. With a digital signature, it either matches or not. There's no grayzone between a fraud and a real. So I don't think decentralized voting is a thing for the future. We still need the centrals, the voting boths, with a controlled envirorment.
Well, but just claim you had it with you when you leaved UK?
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No. They're owned by whomever sent them up, afaik. Also, see the UN faq on this. This faq takes the question of lost satelites, but then again, if it applies to lost satelits, I'd guess it applies to still working ones.
I strongly agree. Google's ads actually made me buy something from them. They're relevant ads, about a topic I'm surfing usually. And also, its small ads, theyre text only, no blinking shit, and they're quick to load. Overall, they work fine, and don't piss me off, because they're so specific, and not ugly to look at either.
But I can't realy see how this is gonna work? Usually, higher bandwith means higher frequency. Higher frequemcy means less range, since the waves is easilier interupted by obstacles, like trees. and so on. Someone care to explain this to me?