Just curious when mod_google is going to be released for the apache webserver. It would be nice to have the power of Google indexing available to those of us without significant IT budgets (i.e. wife won't let me "buy another #$*@! computer").
The university is using a program called "Active Campus" that you can download for your Journada. You have to have an account, though, to track someone from the web. Here is their webpage.
As for black holes, they have no magnetic fields. It's part of the "hair" that they shed on their formation. The only physical properties they have are angular momentum, mass and charge.
Ahem... along with angular momentum, mass, and charge, black holes also have color: black!
*rimshot*
Poor QCD humor, but induldge me -- my company is turning into a dot-bomb.
Milk is so insanely overpriced. I for one will be glad the day comes when most mundane tasks such as farming are mostly automated.
Can you say "government subsidies" boys and girls? I knew you could.
For the American dairy farmer to copmete in the global market, the US Government subsidises the dairy industry. This drives up the prices of dairy products locally and allows American dairy products to be dumped on other markets at a much lower cost (because the government is paying the price difference).
So, when you are paying $2.50 (US) a gallon for milk think about this: some of your tax money has already been spent to purchse that milk. You are paying twice for the same product. This is true of any governemnt subsidised industry.
Well, it has been a while since I cracked open my abstract algebra book from college, and I seemed to have gotten into a bit of group theory there:/ After consulting my good math Ph.D. wielding friend, Mike, a simple bijection is required to make the assertion that f(x)=f(y) implies x=y.
I stand corrected. Or at least I sit corrected. "Back to work" the bossman yells as the whip starts a crackin'.
The force (or power) an electric motor can generate is directly proportional to the current going through the motor and the strength of the magnetic field. If the magnetic field is stronger, you can have a motor of the same size but with more power. Or you could have a motor of the same size and power, but it would consume less current. This would give you a longer battery life.
For cars, you could now have more powerful electric motors that consume the same amount of power as current electric motors. Or you could have electric motors with the same power output of todays models but with a lower power consumption.
Stronger magnets make for more effecient electric motors. You can use that efficiency for greater power or greater battery life.
Cute! However, the same logic can be applied to determine that 2=-2, 3=-3, 4=-4, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. In fact, using a third order mapping function you can show that three values (X1,X2,X3) are equivalent. Using a fourth order mapping function you can show that four values are equivalent. And so on . . .
And now you see the problem of trying to apply a tautology to mapping functions that are not homeomorphic -- i.e. "one to one" and "onto".
The function X^2=Y involves the loss of some information when mapping X to Y. There are two X values which will resolve to the same Y value. Therefore, the assertion that X1=X2 is correct since the inverse function is ambiguous as to which value of X was used to produce the given Y value. However, to assert that the value is zero you must impose the restriction on your mapping function that it is monotonically increasing or decresing -- i.e. that it is homeomorphic. X^2=Y is not.
Now we can pick out EXACTLY which targets to choose
Now, I know you meant that comment as a joke, but it was in poor taste.
The satellites used to take these photos are in low earth orbit. This means they complete one orbit in roughly two or three hours. You really can't get a live video feed covering one geographic region for an extended period of time. Sorry:(
IANACB (cellular biologist), but do we even know "why" a cell undergoes mitosis?
And related to that question, these researchers are simply taking the nucleus out of an adult cell and placing it into the casing of an unfertilzed egg, replacing the egg nucleus along the way. The nucleus contains the DNA, but doesn't the casing contain RNA? Is there some sort of sequencing mismatch going on between the two?
For those who know what they are talking about (the cellular biologists), please feel free to inform the rest of us about what is going on.
I don't remember which Feynman book this is from, but the story goes that Feynman was approached by some government patent person and offered one dollar for a few of his ideas. As the gentleman was leaving, Feynman naturally asked for his one dollar. "That is just a formality," the government type replied. Feynman persisted and eventually got his one dollar which was then used to purchase some candy for everyone else in the lab.
"Where did you get the candy," was the next question asked of Feynman by his associates. "Oh, I used my one dollar from the government patent gentlemen." Soon enough all the lab workers were asking for their dollar as well for previous inventions.
My memory is rusty, and so the story might have a few errors or omissions. Feel free to correct.
But, concerning the NSA's secure Linux, does that qualify as prior art in this case? Someone should do a comparison of what the NSA has implemented with the MS patent claims and see if it holds water.
Couldn't the secure OS port of Linux being developed by the NSA be extended a little bit to include DRM? It seems that DRM applications are just a subset of applications requiring a secure operating system environment. And, since it is the federal government developing the software, Microsoft could not sue for patent enfringement;)
For that matter, is the NSA's secure Linux project an example of prior art in this case? The MS patent is fairly specific about memory allocation and long term storage. Does the secure OS project implement memory wiping/protection? If it does, then by all means it is prior art!
The patent should not stand, though, since we already have prior art from the NSA. The Microsoft patent seems to be a subset of the development work done by the NSA. It focuses mainly on digital rights management whereas the NSA secure OS project would apply to all applications and data types, not just DRM.
and I believe I have a final payment to make on the cable modem purchased.
Well, after your cable access goes dark, that modem will be yours to keep, and don't worry about that final payment;) Glad I decided to rent my modem, and I doubt excite or at&t will be running to my doorstep to get it back anytime soon.
Seriously, with 4.5 million customers and cable modems running ~150(US) a pop, that's around 6.75 million dollars in equipment just sitting around in people's homes that they will never get back! Just my 0.02 dollars.
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Agreed.
The list of buzzwords on their press page caused my head to swim! Just a brief quote:
SenseboardTM contains sensor technology, artificial intelligence, bluetooth, a DC-port and a language processor. SenseboardTM is easy to use, requires no training, and does not decrease typing speed or accuracy. SenseboardTM together with a PDA, a Smart Phone or a Wearable Computer and a Head Mounted Display provides the user with a full-size computer that fits in a pocket.
Just below that quote on their press page, they say that they will be demonstrating their product daily at COMDEX in LasVegas this week -- November 12-16. Are there any Slashdotters at COMDEX right now who have seen this thing in action?
Who said this?
In what context was it said?
Could you give me the Congressional Library reference number and the page number for the volume that contains this quote?
Appropriate size grain of salt will be applied until above requests are met.
Y'all with them damn Win boxes keeping the Internet flooded with this sort of junk, PLEASE either shut of your machines, or get a real OS...
(or at least, apply the damn patch already)
Preaching to the converted;) Windows lusers don't read/. Oh wait, I'm using Mozzila on Win98 to write this. disappears in a puff of logical inconsistancy
Spoken like a true Brit! Was just in London this past week, and I am happy to be home in Colorado now. However, there is a nice pub near Trafalgar Square called "The Sherlock Holmes" with a nice ale by the same name.
Okay, go easy on the newbie! Notice the large user ID number. [S]he is merely trying to fit into the larger/. community. Be graceful and considerate O' cowardly AC! <grin/>
Yeah, that's what the Pine webpage said as well - at least the bit about never support Maildir formats:( Some other much smarter / more persistent person than myself did create a mod for Pine that would support Maildir formats, but alas, the URL has been sent to the/dev/nul of the brain. See what I get for not writing things down.
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Just curious when mod_google is going to be released for the apache webserver. It would be nice to have the power of Google indexing available to those of us without significant IT budgets (i.e. wife won't let me "buy another #$*@! computer").
Using patented "fusion" technology, the new Super Soaker 10000 will never leave you without ammo on those hot summer days.
Ooooo ... What are you going to do? Release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs that shoot bees out of their mouths?
-- Homer --
The university is using a program called "Active Campus" that you can download for your Journada. You have to have an account, though, to track someone from the web. Here is their webpage.
:)
NOTE: They are using PHP
Isn't the soil on Mars already rusted, hence the red color?
As for black holes, they have no magnetic fields. It's part of the "hair" that they shed on their formation. The only physical properties they have are angular momentum, mass and charge.
... along with angular momentum, mass, and charge, black holes also have color: black!
Ahem
*rimshot*
Poor QCD humor, but induldge me -- my company is turning into a dot-bomb.
Milk is so insanely overpriced. I for one will be glad the day comes when most mundane tasks such as farming are mostly automated.
Can you say "government subsidies" boys and girls? I knew you could.
For the American dairy farmer to copmete in the global market, the US Government subsidises the dairy industry. This drives up the prices of dairy products locally and allows American dairy products to be dumped on other markets at a much lower cost (because the government is paying the price difference).
So, when you are paying $2.50 (US) a gallon for milk think about this: some of your tax money has already been spent to purchse that milk. You are paying twice for the same product. This is true of any governemnt subsidised industry.
Well, it has been a while since I cracked open my abstract algebra book from college, and I seemed to have gotten into a bit of group theory there :/ After consulting my good math Ph.D. wielding friend, Mike, a simple bijection is required to make the assertion that f(x)=f(y) implies x=y.
I stand corrected. Or at least I sit corrected. "Back to work" the bossman yells as the whip starts a crackin'.
The force (or power) an electric motor can generate is directly proportional to the current going through the motor and the strength of the magnetic field. If the magnetic field is stronger, you can have a motor of the same size but with more power. Or you could have a motor of the same size and power, but it would consume less current. This would give you a longer battery life.
For cars, you could now have more powerful electric motors that consume the same amount of power as current electric motors. Or you could have electric motors with the same power output of todays models but with a lower power consumption.
Stronger magnets make for more effecient electric motors. You can use that efficiency for greater power or greater battery life.
1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; 1=-1; 1=0
;)
Cute! However, the same logic can be applied to determine that 2=-2, 3=-3, 4=-4, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. In fact, using a third order mapping function you can show that three values (X1,X2,X3) are equivalent. Using a fourth order mapping function you can show that four values are equivalent. And so on . . .
And now you see the problem of trying to apply a tautology to mapping functions that are not homeomorphic -- i.e. "one to one" and "onto".
The function X^2=Y involves the loss of some information when mapping X to Y. There are two X values which will resolve to the same Y value. Therefore, the assertion that X1=X2 is correct since the inverse function is ambiguous as to which value of X was used to produce the given Y value. However, to assert that the value is zero you must impose the restriction on your mapping function that it is monotonically increasing or decresing -- i.e. that it is homeomorphic. X^2=Y is not.
Still, very cute
Now we can pick out EXACTLY which targets to choose
:(
Now, I know you meant that comment as a joke, but it was in poor taste.
The satellites used to take these photos are in low earth orbit. This means they complete one orbit in roughly two or three hours. You really can't get a live video feed covering one geographic region for an extended period of time. Sorry
Replace the qotd server running on port 17 with the new and improved Google wpotd server running on port 17.
wpotd == "web page of the day"
IANACB (cellular biologist), but do we even know "why" a cell undergoes mitosis?
And related to that question, these researchers are simply taking the nucleus out of an adult cell and placing it into the casing of an unfertilzed egg, replacing the egg nucleus along the way. The nucleus contains the DNA, but doesn't the casing contain RNA? Is there some sort of sequencing mismatch going on between the two?
For those who know what they are talking about (the cellular biologists), please feel free to inform the rest of us about what is going on.
Thanks for the clarification :)
I don't remember which Feynman book this is from, but the story goes that Feynman was approached by some government patent person and offered one dollar for a few of his ideas. As the gentleman was leaving, Feynman naturally asked for his one dollar. "That is just a formality," the government type replied. Feynman persisted and eventually got his one dollar which was then used to purchase some candy for everyone else in the lab.
"Where did you get the candy," was the next question asked of Feynman by his associates. "Oh, I used my one dollar from the government patent gentlemen." Soon enough all the lab workers were asking for their dollar as well for previous inventions.
My memory is rusty, and so the story might have a few errors or omissions. Feel free to correct.
But, concerning the NSA's secure Linux, does that qualify as prior art in this case? Someone should do a comparison of what the NSA has implemented with the MS patent claims and see if it holds water.
Couldn't the secure OS port of Linux being developed by the NSA be extended a little bit to include DRM? It seems that DRM applications are just a subset of applications requiring a secure operating system environment. And, since it is the federal government developing the software, Microsoft could not sue for patent enfringement ;)
For that matter, is the NSA's secure Linux project an example of prior art in this case? The MS patent is fairly specific about memory allocation and long term storage. Does the secure OS project implement memory wiping/protection? If it does, then by all means it is prior art!
This is news because the patent was granted.
The patent should not stand, though, since we already have prior art from the NSA. The Microsoft patent seems to be a subset of the development work done by the NSA. It focuses mainly on digital rights management whereas the NSA secure OS project would apply to all applications and data types, not just DRM.
and I believe I have a final payment to make on the cable modem purchased.
;) Glad I decided to rent my modem, and I doubt excite or at&t will be running to my doorstep to get it back anytime soon.
Well, after your cable access goes dark, that modem will be yours to keep, and don't worry about that final payment
Seriously, with 4.5 million customers and cable modems running ~150(US) a pop, that's around 6.75 million dollars in equipment just sitting around in people's homes that they will never get back! Just my 0.02 dollars.
The list of buzzwords on their press page caused my head to swim! Just a brief quote: Just below that quote on their press page, they say that they will be demonstrating their product daily at COMDEX in LasVegas this week -- November 12-16. Are there any Slashdotters at COMDEX right now who have seen this thing in action?
Boulder . . . pale green glow, hmm . . .
Are you sure it wasn't just the big cloud of marajuana smoke hanging over the Hill?
Who said this?
In what context was it said?
Could you give me the Congressional Library reference number and the page number for the volume that contains this quote?
Appropriate size grain of salt will be applied until above requests are met.
Umm, your command there will not quite work properly - you are counting duplicate IP addresses. Try this one out instead:
/var/log/apache/error.log | cut -d " " -f 8 | cut -d ] -f 1 | sort | uniq | wc -l
:)
grep winnt
That should work a bit better for you, there
Y'all with them damn Win boxes keeping the Internet flooded with this sort of junk, PLEASE either shut of your machines, or get a real OS... (or at least, apply the damn patch already)
;) Windows lusers don't read /. Oh wait, I'm using Mozzila on Win98 to write this. disappears in a puff of logical inconsistancy
Preaching to the converted
Spoken like a true Brit! Was just in London this past week, and I am happy to be home in Colorado now. However, there is a nice pub near Trafalgar Square called "The Sherlock Holmes" with a nice ale by the same name.
Okay, go easy on the newbie! Notice the large user ID number. [S]he is merely trying to fit into the larger /. community. Be graceful and considerate O' cowardly AC! <grin/>
Yeah, that's what the Pine webpage said as well - at least the bit about never support Maildir formats :( Some other much smarter / more persistent person than myself did create a mod for Pine that would support Maildir formats, but alas, the URL has been sent to the /dev/nul of the brain. See what I get for not writing things down.