Oh lord no! Have you read the comments around here lately? No offense to people like you and me, but I'd prefer to get my news from people who know what they are talking about.
And this is covered by modern day journalism? Seriously you need to wake up. Reporters have idea what they are talking about. Just how to make it sound interesting.
True story. They wouldn't take a photo with us next to the 1 million dollar mass spec because they thought that other instrument looked more authentic. It was the printer.
I just use write over ssh. But if they have a warrant they could put key logger on my keyboard or put bugs in the house. Once there are warrants, all bets are off.
So who uses napster today? How many people even know they exist?
This was when people where claiming that there was no way they could be "shutdown" or prevented from sharing files illegally because of the p2p nature of the network. Well, as far as anyone why uses TPB is concerned, napster was shut down.
Strawman. There is nothing to say that they weren't asked to leave. We don't have the facts and we only have one side of the story. In my experience cops don't turn up to school for no reason, much less push any kind of charges unless this person really pissed them off.
A thats the point. TPB may or may not be illegal in Sweden. But there are countries that do make the assisting illegal. Remember how the Naspter turned out.
Not everybody particularly cares about 3D graphics performance. If you ask the common joe, they probably care more about video performance than 3D performance, as people typically watch videos on their PCs more often than play 3D games.
Yea, and then ask more clued up friends why a game they just got runs like crap. Just because they don't care does not mean they don't use it.
By the way, both desktop machines at my place have unused integrated gfx.
I don't disagree the wiki is not a source. But the preprints have some nice papers on it. You can even run the numbers yourself. Your getting single photons. You can't change the basic physics. Even the MW rage your not getting much back after traveling almost 2 light seconds. Not to mention that adaptive optics don't save you with this either. Wide band lasers don't work too well because its harder to discriminate once they get back.
Yes, we have done this also. But not at stage 1. That was the context. We did this in stage 3. It was the better part of 3 nights of clear seeing and a *lot* of flat fields.
Even with obsolete code. Properly configured routers shouldn't have had a problem like what is claimed. So it really wasn't 1 incorrectly configured router. It was a lot of them.
But really, I'm in Austria and we use a lot of internet sites and resources in Czech, we have noticed nothing. So it not really widespread at all.
But right now/. is a bit borked for me. Posts not loading properly, preview taking a long time. Perhaps that would have been more news worthy.
I'm in Europe and my internet has been flawless (both within the EU and to the outside). So if by affecting they mean "one redundant link somewhere" then perhaps it would be true.
But really, if the internet goes down for 24 hours. So What. I will have to go to work and talk to my colleagues instead of emailing them.
In fact model rocketry is a good one too. However 1st years shouldn't be too basic. A good one is calculating the expected performance. Water rockets have some nice dynamics. You are pushing a fluid through a small orifice and you have a compressed gas providing the energy.
If this is done on a test stand with a strain gauge you can get into some nice data gathering and analysis. Water can make a mess but you could leave that out and use compressed air.
For even more fun, if you have some budget to get something made in the workshop (I did), steam rockets offer even more physics (state changes) and more performance. But now safety is something that has to be considered and I would tend to leave this as a test stand experiment. Noise can also be a big deal for something like this.
I also did most of the experiments you describe in high school. But we did them again in 1st year. But we only have 3 hours for each one, and we had to hand in the lab report at the end of the session. 36 hours is a lot of time, and you could get quite a lot done.
There was an article about this on/. a while ago. They are *counting* photons. From the wiki:
..under good conditions, one photon will be received every few seconds.
This makes a difficult experiment for 1st years. Also you may find getting the telescope time hard unless you have one on campus (can anyone say light pollution).
Thats takes quite a bit more time than 36 hours. And cost of materials for this sort of thing also needs to be considered. A normal experimental can be repeated with minimal part replacement.
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Oh lord no! Have you read the comments around here lately? No offense to people like you and me, but I'd prefer to get my news from people who know what they are talking about.
And this is covered by modern day journalism? Seriously you need to wake up. Reporters have idea what they are talking about. Just how to make it sound interesting.
True story. They wouldn't take a photo with us next to the 1 million dollar mass spec because they thought that other instrument looked more authentic. It was the printer.
SnR of blogs is no worse that normal reporting. Remember the photo scandal with reuters?
In fact with my experiences of "journalism" by training is that you are less trustworthy than joe blogs blog.
I use java a *lot*, but i hate applets. Its not the languages strength. But then i also hate flash.
Indeed. This is usually what defines the winner over the loser. A secure (we hope) hash that is faster/cheaper in cpu cycles will get used more.
I just use write over ssh. But if they have a warrant they could put key logger on my keyboard or put bugs in the house. Once there are warrants, all bets are off.
So who uses napster today? How many people even know they exist?
This was when people where claiming that there was no way they could be "shutdown" or prevented from sharing files illegally because of the p2p nature of the network. Well, as far as anyone why uses TPB is concerned, napster was shut down.
My wife pretty much only uses the computer for quake. ;)
Strawman. There is nothing to say that they weren't asked to leave. We don't have the facts and we only have one side of the story. In my experience cops don't turn up to school for no reason, much less push any kind of charges unless this person really pissed them off.
Yea, but trusting media sources and /. summaries and truth is completely reasonable.
Yep all authorities are wrong. We don't need facts here.
As long as someone isn't being noisy...
So you can't do whatever you want. And what was the context here. Was it noisy, was she texting others in class, etc...
A thats the point. TPB may or may not be illegal in Sweden. But there are countries that do make the assisting illegal. Remember how the Naspter turned out.
Not everybody particularly cares about 3D graphics performance. If you ask the common joe, they probably care more about video performance than 3D performance, as people typically watch videos on their PCs more often than play 3D games.
Yea, and then ask more clued up friends why a game they just got runs like crap. Just because they don't care does not mean they don't use it.
By the way, both desktop machines at my place have unused integrated gfx.
Whats a snow day? Its been snowing all week. Is that a snow week. Up north it snows almost every day for months during the winter.
If you can have a day off for a "snow day" then I guess a day off work while the network is fixed isn't that big a deal either.
I don't disagree the wiki is not a source. But the preprints have some nice papers on it. You can even run the numbers yourself. Your getting single photons. You can't change the basic physics. Even the MW rage your not getting much back after traveling almost 2 light seconds. Not to mention that adaptive optics don't save you with this either. Wide band lasers don't work too well because its harder to discriminate once they get back.
Yes, we have done this also. But not at stage 1. That was the context. We did this in stage 3. It was the better part of 3 nights of clear seeing and a *lot* of flat fields.
I am the grad student preparing these things.
Even with obsolete code. Properly configured routers shouldn't have had a problem like what is claimed. So it really wasn't 1 incorrectly configured router. It was a lot of them.
/. is a bit borked for me. Posts not loading properly, preview taking a long time. Perhaps that would have been more news worthy.
But really, I'm in Austria and we use a lot of internet sites and resources in Czech, we have noticed nothing. So it not really widespread at all.
But right now
I'm in Europe and my internet has been flawless (both within the EU and to the outside). So if by affecting they mean "one redundant link somewhere" then perhaps it would be true.
But really, if the internet goes down for 24 hours. So What. I will have to go to work and talk to my colleagues instead of emailing them.
In fact model rocketry is a good one too. However 1st years shouldn't be too basic. A good one is calculating the expected performance. Water rockets have some nice dynamics. You are pushing a fluid through a small orifice and you have a compressed gas providing the energy.
If this is done on a test stand with a strain gauge you can get into some nice data gathering and analysis. Water can make a mess but you could leave that out and use compressed air.
For even more fun, if you have some budget to get something made in the workshop (I did), steam rockets offer even more physics (state changes) and more performance. But now safety is something that has to be considered and I would tend to leave this as a test stand experiment. Noise can also be a big deal for something like this.
I also did most of the experiments you describe in high school. But we did them again in 1st year. But we only have 3 hours for each one, and we had to hand in the lab report at the end of the session. 36 hours is a lot of time, and you could get quite a lot done.
We did this as a 3 hour experiment. Its not really a 36 hour project.....
..under good conditions, one photon will be received every few seconds.
This makes a difficult experiment for 1st years. Also you may find getting the telescope time hard unless you have one on campus (can anyone say light pollution).
Thats takes quite a bit more time than 36 hours. And cost of materials for this sort of thing also needs to be considered. A normal experimental can be repeated with minimal part replacement.
Sorry, I don't follow. My point was that people care about sweat shops right up to the point it costs real money.
yes, I have considered this also. Hence the crossed fingers. Hope eternal and all that.