I'd be willing to bet that they have it in mind to avoid the competition to future models that this model represents.
For example, I'd have a quite nice office class networked, duplexing, HP laserjet 4si printer nestled under my desk at home. It's a 200lb beast that keeps on printing. The $100 cartridges last a year. I got it for $200 off ebay and $50 for a service kit. To buy something similar new would cost me $4-$5k. I expect that it will keep going for years.
Just as test equipment manufacturers know about their old scopes, HP knows that one of it's biggest competitors is not other printer manufacturers, but the installed base of high quality, high reliability, maintainable workhorse printers they sold in the past.
Leasing printing services rather than selling printers means they never suffer from this new model surviving 15 years down the road, competing with their new new model.
>>The bible gives us guideline-by-allegory that we shouldn't go looking for proof, but instead believe blindly. This does not sit well with me.
>Why do you think the Bible says that? It's seems to be part of the Slashdot group-think these days, but blind faith is not something that the Bible advocates, as I have just pointed out. If it was blind faith, then Paul wouldn't be writing about the importance of the resurrection being historical fact.
E.G. Doubting Thomas v.s. the criminal nailed up next to Jesus. My reading of Paul is 'Trust me, it happened'. My reading of the doubting Thomas text is 'If you demand proof, you're marked down a few notches by either God or the nonsensical trinity thing'.
>>The bit about being pitied above all men doesn't really stand up to much analysis in either case.
>Eh? If the resurrection didn't happen, then Christians believe a lie and are in a pitiable position. Where exactly do you disagree with his analysis of the situation?
Why does someone need to be pitied just because what they believe is incorrect. If we follow all the rules in the bible, particularly Leviticus, then sure, there is something to be pitied. Missing out on great seafood & pork, having your penis mutilated shortly after birth, never having cheese on your burger, being forced into a lifelong dysfunctional marriage, when a divorce and subsequent successful marriage could take place etc. It is not the belief itself that is harmful, it is the subsequent action.
>>Paul needs to do better than that and its a bit late for him to change his stance.
>Change his stance? Paul didn't change his stance. He was pointing out that Christianity was dependent on the resurrection being a historical fact and he was so certain of it that he died for it. What are you talking about?
Of course it's a bit late. The poor chap is dead. I have little doubt that the resurrection is not historical fact. People don't tend to come back from the dead. Maybe he wasn't actually dead when they took him down, maybe he didn't come back, maybe the post-crucifixion tale is fiction. However it is plain silly to think anyone came back from the dead, on the word of a 2000 year old tale put to paper long after the event, when the more reliable evidence we can gather from the world around us with direct observation tells a different story.
>>Maybe gods can be destroyed through observation in the same way bugs can be and this is why the bible warns us away from seeking proof.
>Why on earth do you think the Bible says that? If anything, it says the opposite. Taking the Psalms as an example, their are repeated exhortations to remember the past, to remember what God has done and on that basis trust him. The entire relationship with God that people are supposed to have is based on character as revealed through his actions in history. Objective historical facts as critical to Christianity, not vague philosophies, empty claims or blind faith.
I didn't say the bible said that. I was speculating based equivalence with the behavior of my own conception of anthropomorphized computer bugs. It was an attempt at dry humor. But the message is similar.. look at the world around you dilligently enough (I.E. follow the scientific discipline well enough) and you're likely to find that gods don't need to play a part.
> Speaking here for Christianity, the point is for God to be worshipped and people to be saved. An objective proof is in no way contradictory to this; in fact the biblical argument for being a Christian rests on the historicity of the resurrection, and is therefore an objective matter. Either Jesus rose from the dead, or he didn't. If he didn't, then we are to be pitied above all men, according to Paul. If he did, then anyone who does not belief is to be pitied.
The bible gives us guideline-by-allegory that we shouldn't go looking for proof, but instead believe blindly. This does not sit well with me.
The bit about being pitied above all men doesn't really stand up to much analysis in either case. Paul needs to do better than that and its a bit late for him to change his stance.
I believe in the anthropomorphic nature of hardware bugs. They are cunning and try to hide and only exposing them through more complete observation (with scopes and logic analyzers) can they be forced to run away. My completely untested hypothesis is that it is the human tendency to anthropomorphize their experiences that leads to the invention of deities. It becomes a problem when others take them seriously. Maybe gods can be destroyed through observation in the same way bugs can be and this is why the bible warns us away from seeking proof.
>There have been many studies that indicate that the human mind is capable of gathering input from sources outside our normal realm of experience(5 senses).
Produce a repeatable, valid, experiment that tests this hypothesis and that when performed by multiple independent parties produces consistent results that both support and fail to refute this hypothesis, then you will be onto something. That this has not happened, despite repeated attempts to do so, points to the fact that you are talking out of your arse.
Where do you read this stuff? What are these 'many studies'? Cite references please.
Belief in god simply is not universal. The numbers above make that clear. If it is a hard wired function of our brains, then explain the variation in brain wiring between Swedes and Americans. On the nature vs. nurture line, this one is at the nuture end.
I know my brain isn't wired for belief in god. My parents ran the Sunday school and brought me up a methodist. My grandparents were religious. My genetic inheritance should make me religious if its a preset brain wiring. Yet as a young child I saw the teachings as a system of inconsistent threats (be nice or go to hell, believe and be saved etc). As an older child I suspected the stories and teaching of being untrue. By the time I was in comprehensive school (age 11, UK) I knew I didn't believe a word of it and knew I was an atheist.
My personal experience leads to the opposite conclusion. We may be wired to follow the logic we understand or are taught. If we are taught how to think rationally and scientifically, then belief in God is vulnerable to rational analysis.
Moving to the USA (from the UK) had transformed atheism for me. It used to just be a fact. Relgious people went to Church and wasted their Sundays. There was no issue. In the USA I find people scared to be frank about their atheism. They find themselves in the minority, and a mistrusted minority at that. The outward effects of religion on society is caustic to education (e.g. evolution in schools), civil rights (e.g. bigotry in law and elsewhere towards homosexuals), personal freedoms (e.g. illogical drug use laws) and public policy (e.g. supporting abstinence education over contraceptive education).
I see the 'war' described in TFA as being an outcropping of this politicized environment and the research around it skewed by the politics.
Since the local Thriftway supermarket started carrying painted hills beef http://www.paintedhillsnaturalbeef.com/ (veggie cows, no antibiotics) at reasonable prices, I've stopped buying other brands. For whatever reason, it tastes better and cooks better. I recommend everyone switch to such products when the opportunity arises.
Yup, that's why I said the info was available to employees and contractors, but employees get alerted to it in their NEO. The 'you' was aimed at readers considering whistle blowing.
I don't work there anymore, so my information may be out of date. I left on aesthetic grounds after they built that data center in front of Jones Farm.
If you're going to blow the whistle, first read the Intel guidelines on whistle blowing, available to Intel employees and contractors. As an employee, you should have been alerted to the presence of the whistle blowing guidelines during your NEO.
I took a look at the spec for the HD-DVD encryption. The data is encrypted with AES-128 in CBC mode. The spec states clearly that the IV is a fixed constant. CBC required the IV to no only be unique, but also random. Not making it unique and random leads to a leak of key material. I assume that this is the weakness through which the keys are being extracted.
It's Bluetooth. It should be able to communicate with up to 7 others in a piconet or many more using a network layer, unless Lego have put artificial contraints on the product.
Mathematicians like stack computers because its easier to formally prove the behaviour of algorithms using stacks. Hardware engineers like stack computers because the hardware is interesting and easy to design Investors hate them because they keep loosing money on them.
Perhaps they can make it possible to configure
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MythTV is a bitch to configure.
I have to lspci, then spend weeks messing around with mythtv-config and mythfrontend to try and get it to receive TV. I've done this with three different cards, all of which are supposed to work with MythTV and still the dumb program fails to be able to do the most basic things, such as let me change channel, or use more than one card at a time, or be able to use an NTSC/ATSC card in anything other than NTSC mode.
It's not like I'm uneducated in these things. I was a principle engineer on a DVB set top box in the past. I do have a clue. However MythTV takes all that is obvious about television and renders it obscure and crash prone.
The thing they need to fix is autoconfigure code that scans for TV cards, asks you some basic questions (OTA/Cable/SAT? What country are you in?) and works out the rest, scanning for available NTSC/ATSC/DVB-T/DVB-S/DVB-C/DVB-H, logging them, mapping them against known channels (all available from the feds in the US and public sources in other countries).
My TV gets by without knowing what channels are being sent. It just finds them. MythTV should be able to work out of the box in the same way.
It would be nice if it could actually watch or import DVDs, like it claims it can. WatchDVD drops out after the first intro section, playing only 1 section. Import DVD does nothing. Yes I did install the CSS library. It did not help.
MythTV needs a configuration and functionality fix before they address minor UI issues.
Los Angeles, CA | 26 October 2004 -- Researchers at UCLA have demonstrated the first silicon laser, which could lead to more effective biochemical detection, secure communications, and defense against heat-seeking missiles.
In a paper published February 17, 2005 by the prestigious scientific journal Nature, Intel researchers disclosed the development of the first continuous wave all-silicon laser using a physical property called the Raman Effect. They built the experimental device using Intel's existing standard CMOS high-volume manufacturing processes. This is the third silicon photonics paper Intel has published in Nature since 2004, beginning with the modulator breakthrough (see the Learn More section).
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 21 -- Silicon has made its way into everything from computers to cameras. But a silicon laser? Physically impossible -- until now. A Brown University research team led by Jimmy Xu has engineered the first directly pumped silicon laser by changing the structure of the silicon crystal through a novel nanoscale technique.
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Really it isn't hard. Identify the code you own, replace the code you don't, put on a GPL header and release.
Promises are cheap.
No, I meant a 4si. It does 17ppm, duplexes and takes two full reams of paper in the paper trays. I may upgrade to a 5si in a few years :)
I'd be willing to bet that they have it in mind to avoid the competition to future models that this model represents.
For example, I'd have a quite nice office class networked, duplexing, HP laserjet 4si printer nestled under my desk at home. It's a 200lb beast that keeps on printing. The $100 cartridges last a year. I got it for $200 off ebay and $50 for a service kit. To buy something similar new would cost me $4-$5k. I expect that it will keep going for years.
Just as test equipment manufacturers know about their old scopes, HP knows that one of it's biggest competitors is not other printer manufacturers, but the installed base of high quality, high reliability, maintainable workhorse printers they sold in the past.
Leasing printing services rather than selling printers means they never suffer from this new model surviving 15 years down the road, competing with their new new model.
It may be a Storm Trojan in the USA, however in the UK it would be called a Storm Durex. Either are good for penetration.
Could it just be that Casino Royale is a better film that Air Force One?
>>The bible gives us guideline-by-allegory that we shouldn't go looking for proof, but instead believe blindly. This does not sit well with me.
>Why do you think the Bible says that? It's seems to be part of the Slashdot group-think these days, but blind faith is not something that the Bible advocates, as I have just pointed out. If it was blind faith, then Paul wouldn't be writing about the importance of the resurrection being historical fact.
E.G. Doubting Thomas v.s. the criminal nailed up next to Jesus. My reading of Paul is 'Trust me, it happened'. My reading of the doubting Thomas text is 'If you demand proof, you're marked down a few notches by either God or the nonsensical trinity thing'.
>>The bit about being pitied above all men doesn't really stand up to much analysis in either case.
>Eh? If the resurrection didn't happen, then Christians believe a lie and are in a pitiable position. Where exactly do you disagree with his analysis of the situation?
Why does someone need to be pitied just because what they believe is incorrect. If we follow all the rules in the bible, particularly Leviticus, then sure, there is something to be pitied. Missing out on great seafood & pork, having your penis mutilated shortly after birth, never having cheese on your burger, being forced into a lifelong dysfunctional marriage, when a divorce and subsequent successful marriage could take place etc. It is not the belief itself that is harmful, it is the subsequent action.
>>Paul needs to do better than that and its a bit late for him to change his stance.
>Change his stance? Paul didn't change his stance. He was pointing out that Christianity was dependent on the resurrection being a historical fact and he was so certain of it that he died for it. What are you talking about?
Of course it's a bit late. The poor chap is dead. I have little doubt that the resurrection is not historical fact. People don't tend to come back from the dead. Maybe he wasn't actually dead when they took him down, maybe he didn't come back, maybe the post-crucifixion tale is fiction. However it is plain silly to think anyone came back from the dead, on the word of a 2000 year old tale put to paper long after the event, when the more reliable evidence we can gather from the world around us with direct observation tells a different story.
>>Maybe gods can be destroyed through observation in the same way bugs can be and this is why the bible warns us away from seeking proof.
>Why on earth do you think the Bible says that? If anything, it says the opposite. Taking the Psalms as an example, their are repeated exhortations to remember the past, to remember what God has done and on that basis trust him. The entire relationship with God that people are supposed to have is based on character as revealed through his actions in history. Objective historical facts as critical to Christianity, not vague philosophies, empty claims or blind faith.
I didn't say the bible said that. I was speculating based equivalence with the behavior of my own conception of anthropomorphized computer bugs. It was an attempt at dry humor. But the message is similar.. look at the world around you dilligently enough (I.E. follow the scientific discipline well enough) and you're likely to find that gods don't need to play a part.
> Speaking here for Christianity, the point is for God to be worshipped and people to be saved. An objective proof is in no way contradictory to this; in fact the biblical argument for being a Christian rests on the historicity of the resurrection, and is therefore an objective matter. Either Jesus rose from the dead, or he didn't. If he didn't, then we are to be pitied above all men, according to Paul. If he did, then anyone who does not belief is to be pitied.
The bible gives us guideline-by-allegory that we shouldn't go looking for proof, but instead believe blindly. This does not sit well with me.
The bit about being pitied above all men doesn't really stand up to much analysis in either case. Paul needs to do better than that and its a bit late for him to change his stance.
I believe in the anthropomorphic nature of hardware bugs. They are cunning and try to hide and only exposing them through more complete observation (with scopes and logic analyzers) can they be forced to run away. My completely untested hypothesis is that it is the human tendency to anthropomorphize their experiences that leads to the invention of deities. It becomes a problem when others take them seriously. Maybe gods can be destroyed through observation in the same way bugs can be and this is why the bible warns us away from seeking proof.
>There have been many studies that indicate that the human mind is capable of gathering input from sources outside our normal realm of experience(5 senses).
Produce a repeatable, valid, experiment that tests this hypothesis and that when performed by multiple independent parties produces consistent results that both support and fail to refute this hypothesis, then you will be onto something. That this has not happened, despite repeated attempts to do so, points to the fact that you are talking out of your arse.
Where do you read this stuff? What are these 'many studies'? Cite references please.
9% of USA Americans are non believers in God. They are no more representive than Swedes (85%) http://www.adherents.com/largecom/com_atheist.html .
Belief in god simply is not universal. The numbers above make that clear. If it is a hard wired function of our brains, then explain the variation in brain wiring between Swedes and Americans. On the nature vs. nurture line, this one is at the nuture end.
I know my brain isn't wired for belief in god. My parents ran the Sunday school and brought me up a methodist. My grandparents were religious. My genetic inheritance should make me religious if its a preset brain wiring. Yet as a young child I saw the teachings as a system of inconsistent threats (be nice or go to hell, believe and be saved etc). As an older child I suspected the stories and teaching of being untrue. By the time I was in comprehensive school (age 11, UK) I knew I didn't believe a word of it and knew I was an atheist.
My personal experience leads to the opposite conclusion. We may be wired to follow the logic we understand or are taught. If we are taught how to think rationally and scientifically, then belief in God is vulnerable to rational analysis.
Moving to the USA (from the UK) had transformed atheism for me. It used to just be a fact. Relgious people went to Church and wasted their Sundays. There was no issue. In the USA I find people scared to be frank about their atheism. They find themselves in the minority, and a mistrusted minority at that. The outward effects of religion on society is caustic to education (e.g. evolution in schools), civil rights (e.g. bigotry in law and elsewhere towards homosexuals), personal freedoms (e.g. illogical drug use laws) and public policy (e.g. supporting abstinence education over contraceptive education).
I see the 'war' described in TFA as being an outcropping of this politicized environment and the research around it skewed by the politics.
I wonder if I can find work and a visa in Sweden?
Since the local Thriftway supermarket started carrying painted hills beef http://www.paintedhillsnaturalbeef.com/ (veggie cows, no antibiotics) at reasonable prices, I've stopped buying other brands. For whatever reason, it tastes better and cooks better. I recommend everyone switch to such products when the opportunity arises.
Yup, that's why I said the info was available to employees and contractors, but employees get alerted to it in their NEO. The 'you' was aimed at readers considering whistle blowing.
I don't work there anymore, so my information may be out of date. I left on aesthetic grounds after they built that data center in front of Jones Farm.
If you're going to blow the whistle, first read the Intel guidelines on whistle blowing, available to Intel employees and contractors. As an employee, you should have been alerted to the presence of the whistle blowing guidelines during your NEO.
I bet they now regret cooking up their own incompatible proprietary broadcast protocols to lock their service to the equipment.
There is such a thing as open standards.
I took a look at the spec for the HD-DVD encryption. The data is encrypted with AES-128 in CBC mode. The spec states clearly that the IV is a fixed constant. CBC required the IV to no only be unique, but also random. Not making it unique and random leads to a leak of key material. I assume that this is the weakness through which the keys are being extracted.
So rejoice. The HD-DVD media keys will be free.
I didn't like my cube ridden environment. I quit and joined an employer who did these things better.
So that's where Hans hid Nina's body.
So using the courts they have failed to get royalties and achieved what they could have achieved with some robots.txt files.
>Each brick can communicate with three others?
It's Bluetooth. It should be able to communicate with up to 7 others in a piconet or many more using a network layer, unless Lego have put artificial contraints on the product.
Mathematicians like stack computers because its easier to formally prove the behaviour of algorithms using stacks.
Hardware engineers like stack computers because the hardware is interesting and easy to design
Investors hate them because they keep loosing money on them.
Because that would mean that there is something wrong with the wire and it needs fixing.
>See the Boston Tea Party and the American War of Independence.
That's why the tea is crap in America and good in Britain.
Troglographs are not new.
It's not theft. It's fraud.
MythTV is a bitch to configure.
I have to lspci, then spend weeks messing around with mythtv-config and mythfrontend to try and get it to receive TV. I've done this with three different cards, all of which are supposed to work with MythTV and still the dumb program fails to be able to do the most basic things, such as let me change channel, or use more than one card at a time, or be able to use an NTSC/ATSC card in anything other than NTSC mode.
It's not like I'm uneducated in these things. I was a principle engineer on a DVB set top box in the past. I do have a clue. However MythTV takes all that is obvious about television and renders it obscure and crash prone.
The thing they need to fix is autoconfigure code that scans for TV cards, asks you some basic questions (OTA/Cable/SAT? What country are you in?) and works out the rest, scanning for available NTSC/ATSC/DVB-T/DVB-S/DVB-C/DVB-H, logging them, mapping them against known channels (all available from the feds in the US and public sources in other countries).
My TV gets by without knowing what channels are being sent. It just finds them. MythTV should be able to work out of the box in the same way.
It would be nice if it could actually watch or import DVDs, like it claims it can. WatchDVD drops out after the first intro section, playing only 1 section. Import DVD does nothing. Yes I did install the CSS library. It did not help.
MythTV needs a configuration and functionality fix before they address minor UI issues.
Another first silicon laser? So who was really first?
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Los Angeles, CA | 26 October 2004 -- Researchers at UCLA have demonstrated the first silicon laser, which could lead to more effective biochemical detection, secure communications, and defense against heat-seeking missiles.
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http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/sp/
First Continuous Silicon Laser
In a paper published February 17, 2005 by the prestigious scientific journal Nature, Intel researchers disclosed the development of the first continuous wave all-silicon laser using a physical property called the Raman Effect. They built the experimental device using Intel's existing standard CMOS high-volume manufacturing processes. This is the third silicon photonics paper Intel has published in Nature since 2004, beginning with the modulator breakthrough (see the Learn More section).
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http://www.photonics.com/readart.asp?url=readarti
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 21 -- Silicon has made its way into everything from computers to cameras. But a silicon laser? Physically impossible -- until now. A Brown University research team led by Jimmy Xu has engineered the first directly pumped silicon laser by changing the structure of the silicon crystal through a novel nanoscale technique.