If you look at the side view, it sports a standard CRT display tube through the colored lexan. The front view, however, shows a TFT flat panel display.
Normal CRTs don't do very well with a severe aspect ratio. It is hard to get the electrons to the correct place on the screen when the horizontal and vertical distances are dramatically different. -----------------
IIRC, there was a brief segment on a NOVA episode talking about lasers and holographic storage. The commentator said that it was feasible to hold the entire contents of the library of congress on a single holographic cube the size of a sugar cube.
DISCLAIMER: by "contents of the library of congress" the poster means to say all the volumes contained in the library of congress and digitized into ASCII text files. The poster does not imply that the people who are sometimes found inside the library of congess can be holographically stored in a sugar cube. That would be silly.
From the story on the main page, the little quip at the end posted by CmdrTaco:
Recently a spammer got one of my addresses and is spamming me 10 times a day. Forged everything, random everything, many different messages, only a similiarities in the subject line to tie them together. At least I can filter it, but I'd love to see this ass get 6 months of jail time, especially if he's doing this to thousands of others.
From my previous post:
I meant for all that spam to go to Cowboy Neal, but I guess the spambot picked up your address instead. My sincerest apologies.
This post was meant to be humorous! CmdrTaco's real name (who posted the story on the main page) is Rob Malda. I was facetiously apologizing for sending him spam which was meant to go to Cowboy Neal. Yes, I was karma whoring, but I thought the moderators would recognize humor.
He-Ne laser --> 683 nm --> red
Ar-Ion laser --> 514 nm --> green
blue diode laser --> does not exist
Blude diode lasers are in development, but have not quite reached the stage where they are reliable/cheap/mass-producable. The substrate material will eat istelf after ~5 days of use.
I doubt that laser intensity and reflectivity prevent CD-R's from being read by a DVD player.
My laptop, which has a toshiba DVD drive, can read CD-R's just fine. It only has one laser. My conclusion from this observation would be that Sony is jerking you around.
To prepare a q-bit into a particular state, you hit it with one photon of the proper frequency and phase. To get the information out of the q-bit, it releases one photon, indistinguishable from the original photon used to prepare the q-bit. At least that is how it works in theory.
In real life, we don't have systems accurate enough to deliver one photon to one atom (or nucleus). Instead, we play the odds and bombard the q-bits with a very large number of photons until it is in the proper state. All the other photons are lost.
Technically, they could capture all the photons emitted by the q-bits and return them into the system at a later time. But I don't think that will happening any time in my lifetime!
The socioinformatic ramifications of this kind of action are quite disturbing. Imagine this sort of thing taken the other way...dictatorial regimes refusing to let anyone from outside nations access anything but shiny, happy government propaganda; entire nations being blocked from seeing certain information because it's "not useful to them," or "they don't need to know." The problem is, who decides?
The american government decides all the time what information it's citizens get to see/not see in the media. Haven't you ever heard of censors? That is why nudity is not allowed on TV nor swearing on radio and why pornographic magazines cannot be sold withing 500 yards of a public school - porno and cigarettes.
If a governemnt chooses to extend this power of censorship to the internet, why should we complain. Again, the US is already doing this with child porn; try downloading some and see how many FBI agents bust in your door the next day.
Remember, it was DARPA and Al Gore that brought you the internet <grin>! Don't complain if they want to regulate it.
How do you go about proving that you were discriminated against based on race, creed, or religion? I mean there are thousands of reasons that someone might get passed over for a promotion. Yes, they are a very technically competent person and quite capable in their work, but their managerial skills just might suck!
I am a good programmer, but I know that I am not a good teacher. If someone does not give me a teaching position then, should I sue them for not giving me the job? I can make all the claims I want about having the experience and know how, but if I don't have teaching skills I should not be a teacher.
How is the plaintiff going to prove to the court that he truly has managerial skills -- i.e. he is good at directing people, coordinating projects, etc.
I also have to wonder if the plaintiff worked in the system to find out why he was passed over for promotion. Did he talk to his boss and get a performance review? Did he exhibit the qualities they were looking for in a manager (or whatever position he was desiring).
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Since all the facts have not been revealed, it smells like someone trying to get some money from the MS cash cow. Imagine the stigma this guy is going to have associated with him for the rest of his life. I hope he invests his settlement money well because he would be one hot potatoe in any tech environment from here on out.
The article quoted that only 2.6% of the general MS employees were black and only 1.6% of the managers were black. I wonder how many of the graduating CS/CIS/Technical Degree majors over the past five years were black? If it is only 2%, then I would say that MS is actually doing very well at being ethinically diverse.
It also sounds like this person pursuing the lawsuit might be kind of a jerk. "I didn't get what I deserve; therefore, I am going to sue for way more money than I would ever make at MS!" If they are a jerk, then I could understand why they got passed over for promotion. Promotions not only depend upon skill level and experience, but also on interpersonal skills, knowing the right people, and being in the right place at the right time. Maybe this guy just pissed of the wrong person at the wrong time and sees it as "racial discrimination".
You can get the source code to the core java APIs and the platform specific C/C++ code; you just have to sign an agreement stating that you won't release or post the source code in any form.
I was interested in Sun's implementation of the CORBA ORB in JDK 1.3, so I downloaded the source code. Interesting stuff to look at -- mind numbing at times, too. Then again, people looking over some of my code from five years ago would say the same thing.
I'm just curious about which state will get the money? I live in Colorado and recently bought a Dell laptop (Dell is headquartered in Texas). Would the state of Colorado get the tax money or would Texas? Or maybe both states would tax the transaction at a reduced rate so they could split the revenue?
There is no easy answer to this question. As the buyer, it would be my preference for the tax money to go to Colorado. That it would benefit the infrastructure of my state and not Texas. But I'm sure Dell and the state of Texas could make the same arguemnt.
Then there is also the question of verifying the location of the purchaser. How are they going to do that on the internet. Shipping address would work, unless you have the item sent to a friend who lives in a state with no sales tax.
But that is my biggest question, who gets the revenue?
Likewise for redirect links. If the actual link to the article you want to read requires that you step through, say, DoubleClicks site in order to see the ad and hence, retrieve the URL, then you'll be effectively blocked from content if your blocking proxy prevents you from visiting doubleclick.
Hmm . . . this made me think! Would webmasters and other such webmonkeys stop using these ad services if they were causing a substantial amount of traffic to be "lost" into the black hole of their advertisements? Let's say you click a cool link, get redirected to an advertisement first, and then end up checking out some other product without ever having seen the initial cool link that you clicked on. Would webauthors and webmasters really go for something like this?
Internet Explorer (flame me if you will, I've been desensitized by the American media) has this feature already. You can set the security levels for different sites on the web.
For example, only my "trusted sites" are allowed to run JavaScripts in IE while the rest of the web is not. It is a really nice feature and now I'm even happier that IE has it.
But your forget that government has the good of the people in mind. Just take a look at George W. Bush and Al Gore . . . both of them fighting tooth and nail to be the most powerful^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, uh, I mean the one who wants to preserve the rights of their fellow citizens.
I voted for Kodos!
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Their web page states that they are going to disable all local storage devices -- floppy drives, hard drives, zip disks, etc. -- and store all your encrypted files in a data-haven.
I really don't see how this is going to help them. The UK law says that the governemnt will monitor and store all internet traffic for seven years as well as be able to demand files / PGP keys from citizen's computers. This system still relies on the internet to transport your information to and from the data-haven. The boys at Scottland yard will still have access to your files as they travel though the ether.
We have ten digit dialing (tdd) in the greater Denver metro area. The annoying part is that the entire state was not switched over to tdd. So, when I visit my sister in Colorado Springs, I am always asking if I have to dial the area code.
My biggest gripe is that USWest decided in their glorious wisdom to intermingle the two area codes that we use, 720 and 303. We have a 303 area code, but our neighbors have a 720 area code. The term "area code" no longer seems to apply.
I wonder if this is the FCC's first step towards giving everyone a single telephone number that they can take with them wherever they move?
There is a company called CyberLocator in Boulder, CO. USA, currently offering this kind of technology. They have a few patents and some white papers, but I could not find any product information on the website. ??Vaporware??
Anyway, it sounds like some other people have thought about this stuff, too, and have thought it worthwhile enough to form a company based on the technology. Give it a look.
Personally, and speaking for all "Tims" everywhere, I am deeply offended that.tim was nowhere proposed or recommended. It is in the interest of "Tims" everywhere to have a.tim TLD to act as convienent and easy to find collection point for all things relating to "Tim". The conventional three letter TLD names works very well for our purposes. In fact, I fail to see how the web will continue to function in a coherent manner with the.tim TLD.
On a more humorus note, I am surprised that no one recommended.tld for a TLD.
. . . the Aura from Poetic Technologies. Although the price tag ranks it right up there with the B1 bomber, it would still be fun to find it under the Christmas tree (or in place of it).
Just an addendum to the above post: when you do write your congressmen, make sure to include the title of the bill. The copy I found on Rep. Rich Boucher's web page did not include a house bill number. The title of the bill is . . .
Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000
It is very concise and well written as others have already pointed out. Read it over before you send your vote of confidence to your congressmen.
The insecurity here resides on the bank's server machines. This British lad apparently found some way to do a html get command and retrieve a list of passwords for the server. Basically, their database was wide open.
But I do agree with you that even after the banks clean up their security loopholes there still needs to be some second factor authentication (big buzz word there) like a smart card reader.
Since most online banking takes place from the home, it would be cool if the banks could use GPS (global positioning system) to verify the users location (they are at home or at their office) before allowing any transactions to take place. Simply attach a GPS sensor to the client's machine and send some of the raw GPS data to the bank for authentication in conjunction with the username and password.
As chip features get smaller and smaller, quantum tunneling effects will become very noticeable. If you will recall from your modern physics course back in the undergraduate days (or at least for those who took it), as you decrease the physical size of the box containing your particle, there is a greater probability that your particle will be found outside your box. For computer chips this means that as the physical features on the chip get smaller and closer together, the electrons will be able to tunnel from one wire to another. This is called a tunneling current. As features approach 100nm it becomes fairly noticeable, and you have to start taking it into account.
Tired of looking for the best bargin on the web, or are you simply annoyed at having to provide your personnal information to all these different websites. With our patened Zero-click shopping technology, we'll make your online experience easier then ever! Just give us your credit card number and other personal information and we'll assure you that you will be purchasing the latest and greatest of everything at the best prices around. Our trained staff of Bolivian Whooping Llamas will start purchasing items for you faster than you can say "credit limit". So register today and avoid all that clicking hassle!
I would have to agree with the XML idea -- it is definitely the way to go in the 90's . . . uh, I mean the 00's.
If you really want to put together a standard schema for describing code, you need to get in touch with the World Wide Web Consortium. They are currently working on standard schemas for generic databases, generic word processor formats, and just about everything else you could imagine.
XML definitely fits the bill for this idea. If you design your schema correctly, it could easily be converted into a web page and it could easily be parsed by search engines and web crawlers. I'm done now.
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If you look at the side view, it sports a standard CRT display tube through the colored lexan. The front view, however, shows a TFT flat panel display.
Normal CRTs don't do very well with a severe aspect ratio. It is hard to get the electrons to the correct place on the screen when the horizontal and vertical distances are dramatically different.
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DISCLAIMER: by "contents of the library of congress" the poster means to say all the volumes contained in the library of congress and digitized into ASCII text files. The poster does not imply that the people who are sometimes found inside the library of congess can be holographically stored in a sugar cube. That would be silly.
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If you want a few more pictures of NGC 4013 you can find them here and here. Quite an impressive display of beauty.
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He-Ne laser --> 683 nm --> red
Ar-Ion laser --> 514 nm --> green
blue diode laser --> does not exist
Blude diode lasers are in development, but have not quite reached the stage where they are reliable/cheap/mass-producable. The substrate material will eat istelf after ~5 days of use.
I doubt that laser intensity and reflectivity prevent CD-R's from being read by a DVD player. My laptop, which has a toshiba DVD drive, can read CD-R's just fine. It only has one laser. My conclusion from this observation would be that Sony is jerking you around.
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In real life, we don't have systems accurate enough to deliver one photon to one atom (or nucleus). Instead, we play the odds and bombard the q-bits with a very large number of photons until it is in the proper state. All the other photons are lost.
Technically, they could capture all the photons emitted by the q-bits and return them into the system at a later time. But I don't think that will happening any time in my lifetime!
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The american government decides all the time what information it's citizens get to see/not see in the media. Haven't you ever heard of censors? That is why nudity is not allowed on TV nor swearing on radio and why pornographic magazines cannot be sold withing 500 yards of a public school - porno and cigarettes.
If a governemnt chooses to extend this power of censorship to the internet, why should we complain. Again, the US is already doing this with child porn; try downloading some and see how many FBI agents bust in your door the next day.
Remember, it was DARPA and Al Gore that brought you the internet <grin>! Don't complain if they want to regulate it.
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I am a good programmer, but I know that I am not a good teacher. If someone does not give me a teaching position then, should I sue them for not giving me the job? I can make all the claims I want about having the experience and know how, but if I don't have teaching skills I should not be a teacher.
How is the plaintiff going to prove to the court that he truly has managerial skills -- i.e. he is good at directing people, coordinating projects, etc.
I also have to wonder if the plaintiff worked in the system to find out why he was passed over for promotion. Did he talk to his boss and get a performance review? Did he exhibit the qualities they were looking for in a manager (or whatever position he was desiring).
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Since all the facts have not been revealed, it smells like someone trying to get some money from the MS cash cow. Imagine the stigma this guy is going to have associated with him for the rest of his life. I hope he invests his settlement money well because he would be one hot potatoe in any tech environment from here on out.
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It also sounds like this person pursuing the lawsuit might be kind of a jerk. "I didn't get what I deserve; therefore, I am going to sue for way more money than I would ever make at MS!" If they are a jerk, then I could understand why they got passed over for promotion. Promotions not only depend upon skill level and experience, but also on interpersonal skills, knowing the right people, and being in the right place at the right time. Maybe this guy just pissed of the wrong person at the wrong time and sees it as "racial discrimination".
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You can get the source code to the core java APIs and the platform specific C/C++ code; you just have to sign an agreement stating that you won't release or post the source code in any form.
I was interested in Sun's implementation of the CORBA ORB in JDK 1.3, so I downloaded the source code. Interesting stuff to look at -- mind numbing at times, too. Then again, people looking over some of my code from five years ago would say the same thing.
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There is no easy answer to this question. As the buyer, it would be my preference for the tax money to go to Colorado. That it would benefit the infrastructure of my state and not Texas. But I'm sure Dell and the state of Texas could make the same arguemnt.
Then there is also the question of verifying the location of the purchaser. How are they going to do that on the internet. Shipping address would work, unless you have the item sent to a friend who lives in a state with no sales tax.
But that is my biggest question, who gets the revenue?
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Hmm . . . this made me think! Would webmasters and other such webmonkeys stop using these ad services if they were causing a substantial amount of traffic to be "lost" into the black hole of their advertisements? Let's say you click a cool link, get redirected to an advertisement first, and then end up checking out some other product without ever having seen the initial cool link that you clicked on. Would webauthors and webmasters really go for something like this?
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For example, only my "trusted sites" are allowed to run JavaScripts in IE while the rest of the web is not. It is a really nice feature and now I'm even happier that IE has it.
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But your forget that government has the good of the people in mind. Just take a look at George W. Bush and Al Gore . . . both of them fighting tooth and nail to be the most powerful^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, uh, I mean the one who wants to preserve the rights of their fellow citizens.
I voted for Kodos!
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I really don't see how this is going to help them. The UK law says that the governemnt will monitor and store all internet traffic for seven years as well as be able to demand files / PGP keys from citizen's computers. This system still relies on the internet to transport your information to and from the data-haven. The boys at Scottland yard will still have access to your files as they travel though the ether.
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My biggest gripe is that USWest decided in their glorious wisdom to intermingle the two area codes that we use, 720 and 303. We have a 303 area code, but our neighbors have a 720 area code. The term "area code" no longer seems to apply.
I wonder if this is the FCC's first step towards giving everyone a single telephone number that they can take with them wherever they move?
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Anyway, it sounds like some other people have thought about this stuff, too, and have thought it worthwhile enough to form a company based on the technology. Give it a look.
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On a more humorus note, I am surprised that no one recommended .tld for a TLD.
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Music Owners' Listening Rights Act of 2000
It is very concise and well written as others have already pointed out. Read it over before you send your vote of confidence to your congressmen.
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Go to N40 23.4312' W105 83.1452' and locate stash. Inside you will find the DeCSS source code and the latest Metallica album ripped to MP3.
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But I do agree with you that even after the banks clean up their security loopholes there still needs to be some second factor authentication (big buzz word there) like a smart card reader.
Since most online banking takes place from the home, it would be cool if the banks could use GPS (global positioning system) to verify the users location (they are at home or at their office) before allowing any transactions to take place. Simply attach a GPS sensor to the client's machine and send some of the raw GPS data to the bank for authentication in conjunction with the username and password.
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If you really want to put together a standard schema for describing code, you need to get in touch with the World Wide Web Consortium. They are currently working on standard schemas for generic databases, generic word processor formats, and just about everything else you could imagine.
XML definitely fits the bill for this idea. If you design your schema correctly, it could easily be converted into a web page and it could easily be parsed by search engines and web crawlers. I'm done now.
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