firstly, cds read from the inside outwards, which why those little business card cds work.
the way the toc system works is that the computer reads the real toc at the start of the disk, and is sent to read the computer toc at the end (outside) of the disk, which is corrupt. An audio player won't go and read the corrupt, computer toc, so isn't affected. If the computer can't find the corrupt toc on the outer edge, it'll ignore the direction to the corrupt toc and go back to the audio one.
The limit of the fines that the EU can levy is 10% of either profits or revenue (can't remember which) which would be a nice addition to the EU budget.
I assume they can also impose conditions that Microsoft have to meet to avoid the above.
They might also be able to recommend that EU governments stop using Microsoft products.
Re:Why harebrained?
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If you take two opposite directions, and look at the CMB spectrum in those directions, the temperature is the same to within 0.00001K. Since the CMB radiation was emitted from those points at a redshift of about 1000, the emitting points that we can see today are about 2ct apart, where t is the age of the universe
Due to the way in which the universe is currently expanding, extrapolating the motion of those two points back to the big bang shows that the two points were always further apart than ct, the maximum distance that light can have travelled since the big bang. The question then is: Why are two points in space, that can never have been in contact at the exact same temperature?
Inflation answers the question by saying that when t->0 the expansion of the universe was so fast that the two points 2ct apart now were closer than ct.
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universe here means the area of the universe that we can (possibly) see, communicate with, and/or do physics experiments in. Since physics is limited to that region of the universe in which we can do physics experiments, then it is conceivable that there exist regions of spacetime that are inaccessible to us, by virtue of distance or some other parameter.
Whether it is meaningful for physicists to talk amount these regions as _seperate_ universes comes down to what you think universe means, and what the values of the cosmological parameters are this week.
What criteria would you use for making the distinction?
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Why is inflation harebrained on first examination?
It was originally proposed to address one of the big problems in the old big bang theory, namely that parts of the universe visible from Earth, that were so far apart that light couldn't have travelled between them since the big bang, looked pretty much the same. For this too happen, they must have been some sort of communication between them at some point in the past, but a fixed, unbreakable speed of light prevents this happening. This assumes that the universe has always been expanding, with the expansion being slowed by gravity only.
Inflation just says that if the universe initially expanded much much faster than the current rate suggests it did, then those parts of the universe that are too far apart to communicate now, might have been able to communicate in the past. All of the complexity of the theory is in producing the physics that allows for, and causes the inflation.
I was listening to Our Lady Peace's Spiritual Machines when the Rob Kurzweil story appeared a while back. It was just on one of the reading's from the book when I loaded/.
Reuters can also argue that when the file was copied to the webserver, with no secure access controls, In-whats-its-name-it-sounds-like-every-other-solut ions-provider specifically authorised public access to the document. That's why you set up a webserver and connect it to the net after all.
When the server responded to the http request, it served the document, thereby publishing it.
Or if you look at it another way, someone copied the document to a folder on the server that could be accesed by the public. This act may also be regarded as publishing.
The complaint seems to be the equivalent to a book publisher complaining that a book store sold a copy of a new book to someone who came in and asked for it, before the publisher started the marketing campaign.
Lawrence reportedly got the idea for the cyclotron after looking at the pictures in a foreign (German?) engineering journal. An engineer had come up with the idea of making high voltages by linking pairs of cylinders at opposite phase of a HV AC cycle into a line. Lawrence basically coiled the idea up into a circle. The fact that charged particles in a magnetic field always circulate with the same period allows this to work efficiently.
It is claimed that Leo Szilard independently came up with this idea about 6 months before, but didn't do anything with it.
Costs here include the possible costs of defending a lawsuit under the Data Protection Act or the Human Rights Act. If the Government asks (rather than requires) the ISPs to do something that may break UK law, then the ISPs are liable for any damges claims etc. Plus they would have to bear the costs of defending themselves.
Basically there is nothing in it for the ISPs, and even a tax break probably wouldn't make it worth their while.
Speedometers are already regulated so that they are allowed to read 10 percent over the actual speed, but not a jot under the actual speed. So most speedos read 10 percent high. So to be caught doing 65 in a 60 zone (the UK doesn't have much in the way of 50 zones, but out of town single lane roads are generally 60 limits), the speedo would probably be reading 70+.
I wish I'd kept my mod points from this morning to mod this troll down.
Given that I work on detectors for the THz band which sits between the far-IR (down to about 4 THz) and the mm band (up to about 300 GHz) I can say that the parent is complete, utter BS. The 3G band is not very far from the 802.11b band anyway, and below the 802.11a band (I think, I await corrections).
However, the brain can adapt around the loss of portions of the brain, to regain functionality. This doesn't leave a person identical to before though. I guess today's story about a guy becoming a paedophile due to a tumour, and recovering on it's removal is relevant.
And they're patented, and licenced under terms the people who would benefit most from them can't afford, or even trial. There has been a case(s?) of farmers being sued for growing gm wheat from seeds that blew onto their fields due to negligance by the plaintiffs. I can't remember the result of the case, but it cost a lot to fight.
At least one african country has refused donations of US gm wheat for this reason.
Possibly the April spike is the UK budget announcement. Since that knd of thing has a lot of information involved, most of which only applies to a small portion of the audience, it works a lot better on the web than on TV.
The general increase since summer may be due to the increasing availability of broadband connections in the UK, or thousands of students who normally look at the site through the academic caches getting summer jobs (though I doubt it).
Other challenges are combining the light from each mirror in phase to within about a tenth of a wavelength (50 nm say for light). Then you would have a telescope that could _only_ see details 1 milli arc second across. You'd get no signal from details 2 milli arc second across. To make an image you have to scan the distance between the mirrors, and you have to scan the whole system in 2-d to build a 2-d image. You get let the earth's rotation do one of those things for you if you wish. The computer reconstruction time to build the image would probably stop any of the hoax nutters believing you.
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No, I pointed out that every specialist AV shop, and all the big supermarkets (including Asda, who are owned by Walmart) does this, and it's completely legal.
What's the point of a region system if it's completely and openly flouted? All it does is reduce MPAA profits.
You go to a shop in almost any country in Europe, and buy a DVD player that has been hacked by the shop or the manufacturer. It can actually be quite difficult to find a DVD player that isn't region free, particularly at the cheap end of the market.
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firstly, cds read from the inside outwards, which why those little business card cds work.
the way the toc system works is that the computer reads the real toc at the start of the disk, and is sent to read the computer toc at the end (outside) of the disk, which is corrupt. An audio player won't go and read the corrupt, computer toc, so isn't affected. If the computer can't find the corrupt toc on the outer edge, it'll ignore the direction to the corrupt toc and go back to the audio one.
The limit of the fines that the EU can levy is 10% of either profits or revenue (can't remember which) which would be a nice addition to the EU budget.
I assume they can also impose conditions that Microsoft have to meet to avoid the above.
They might also be able to recommend that EU governments stop using Microsoft products.
If you take two opposite directions, and look at the CMB spectrum in those directions, the temperature is the same to within 0.00001K. Since the CMB radiation was emitted from those points at a redshift of about 1000, the emitting points that we can see today are about 2ct apart, where t is the age of the universe
Due to the way in which the universe is currently expanding, extrapolating the motion of those two points back to the big bang shows that the two points were always further apart than ct, the maximum distance that light can have travelled since the big bang. The question then is: Why are two points in space, that can never have been in contact at the exact same temperature?
Inflation answers the question by saying that when t->0 the expansion of the universe was so fast that the two points 2ct apart now were closer than ct.
universe here means the area of the universe that we can (possibly) see, communicate with, and/or do physics experiments in. Since physics is limited to that region of the universe in which we can do physics experiments, then it is conceivable that there exist regions of spacetime that are inaccessible to us, by virtue of distance or some other parameter.
Whether it is meaningful for physicists to talk amount these regions as _seperate_ universes comes down to what you think universe means, and what the values of the cosmological parameters are this week.
What criteria would you use for making the distinction?
Why is inflation harebrained on first examination?
It was originally proposed to address one of the big problems in the old big bang theory, namely that parts of the universe visible from Earth, that were so far apart that light couldn't have travelled between them since the big bang, looked pretty much the same. For this too happen, they must have been some sort of communication between them at some point in the past, but a fixed, unbreakable speed of light prevents this happening. This assumes that the universe has always been expanding, with the expansion being slowed by gravity only.
Inflation just says that if the universe initially expanded much much faster than the current rate suggests it did, then those parts of the universe that are too far apart to communicate now, might have been able to communicate in the past. All of the complexity of the theory is in producing the physics that allows for, and causes the inflation.
I was listening to Our Lady Peace's Spiritual Machines when the Rob Kurzweil story appeared a while back. It was just on one of the reading's from the book when I loaded /.
Reuters can also argue that when the file was copied to the webserver, with no secure access controls, In-whats-its-name-it-sounds-like-every-other-solut ions-provider specifically authorised public access to the document. That's why you set up a webserver and connect it to the net after all.
As I see it the material was published.
When the server responded to the http request, it served the document, thereby publishing it.
Or if you look at it another way, someone copied the document to a folder on the server that could be accesed by the public. This act may also be regarded as publishing.
The complaint seems to be the equivalent to a book publisher complaining that a book store sold a copy of a new book to someone who came in and asked for it, before the publisher started the marketing campaign.
The parent is untrue. See other posts in this thread for details.
Lawrence reportedly got the idea for the cyclotron after looking at the pictures in a foreign (German?) engineering journal. An engineer had come up with the idea of making high voltages by linking pairs of cylinders at opposite phase of a HV AC cycle into a line. Lawrence basically coiled the idea up into a circle. The fact that charged particles in a magnetic field always circulate with the same period allows this to work efficiently.
It is claimed that Leo Szilard independently came up with this idea about 6 months before, but didn't do anything with it.
It'd have to go to Saturn to find that... Japetus (or maybe Iapetus) is the place to go.
If the ratio of the circumference to the radius of a physical realisation of a circlular object _was_ fixed, then gravity wouldn't work.
Or was this supposed to be a trick question?
Is this a US or a UK reference? The UK Nov 5th seems a much more effective way to change government...
Boom.
How about AutoCAD? R13 runs very happily on the Sun machines at my work.
Costs here include the possible costs of defending a lawsuit under the Data Protection Act or the Human Rights Act. If the Government asks (rather than requires) the ISPs to do something that may break UK law, then the ISPs are liable for any damges claims etc. Plus they would have to bear the costs of defending themselves.
Basically there is nothing in it for the ISPs, and even a tax break probably wouldn't make it worth their while.
Speedometers are already regulated so that they are allowed to read 10 percent over the actual speed, but not a jot under the actual speed. So most speedos read 10 percent high. So to be caught doing 65 in a 60 zone (the UK doesn't have much in the way of 50 zones, but out of town single lane roads are generally 60 limits), the speedo would probably be reading 70+.
I wish I'd kept my mod points from this morning to mod this troll down.
Given that I work on detectors for the THz band which sits between the far-IR (down to about 4 THz) and the mm band (up to about 300 GHz) I can say that the parent is complete, utter BS. The 3G band is not very far from the 802.11b band anyway, and below the 802.11a band (I think, I await corrections).
However, the brain can adapt around the loss of portions of the brain, to regain functionality. This doesn't leave a person identical to before though. I guess today's story about a guy becoming a paedophile due to a tumour, and recovering on it's removal is relevant.
And they're patented, and licenced under terms the people who would benefit most from them can't afford, or even trial. There has been a case(s?) of farmers being sued for growing gm wheat from seeds that blew onto their fields due to negligance by the plaintiffs. I can't remember the result of the case, but it cost a lot to fight.
At least one african country has refused donations of US gm wheat for this reason.
Software midi?
Possibly the April spike is the UK budget announcement. Since that knd of thing has a lot of information involved, most of which only applies to a small portion of the audience, it works a lot better on the web than on TV.
The general increase since summer may be due to the increasing availability of broadband connections in the UK, or thousands of students who normally look at the site through the academic caches getting summer jobs (though I doubt it).
Other challenges are combining the light from each mirror in phase to within about a tenth of a wavelength (50 nm say for light). Then you would have a telescope that could _only_ see details 1 milli arc second across. You'd get no signal from details 2 milli arc second across. To make an image you have to scan the distance between the mirrors, and you have to scan the whole system in 2-d to build a 2-d image. You get let the earth's rotation do one of those things for you if you wish. The computer reconstruction time to build the image would probably stop any of the hoax nutters believing you. COAST does this
No, I pointed out that every specialist AV shop, and all the big supermarkets (including Asda, who are owned by Walmart) does this, and it's completely legal.
What's the point of a region system if it's completely and openly flouted? All it does is reduce MPAA profits.
You go to a shop in almost any country in Europe, and buy a DVD player that has been hacked by the shop or the manufacturer. It can actually be quite difficult to find a DVD player that isn't region free, particularly at the cheap end of the market.