the problem arose when the oil company drilled through a relatively thin clay layer into a very thick mud bearing layer under very high pressure. The clay layer acted as a dike to stop the underlying liquids from migrating upward. Normal drilling technique when such geography is present would have been to insert a liner in the drillhole in order to protect the clay strata from erosion, but this was not employed here. When the drillhole pierced the clay strata, the high pressure mud below it quickly eroded the initial breach into a large breach which followed the drillhole upward to transform it into the mud volcano that now exists.
Of course this changes everything. But maybe venting it in a more convenient place (the location is problematic) will cause the outflow to drop. The geology is everything.
would be to explode a deeply placed high explosive device, in the range of kilotons. The idea is to breakup the the flow channels, and let it collapse on itself and clog itself up. The explosive does not have to be nuclear, but it needs to be both large and deeply located. Correct placement would help as well.
He cites the common book at the best example of a perfect form of copy protection, and looks forward when a similar state will will exist with HD media. I suspect that Moore's Law will undo him more than he realises. Thus, it may be a constant race of technology.
In some ways, the HD ecosystem is going to buy time to help DRM reach that magic steady state that we enjoy with books. With HD movies requiring huge amounts of space, there's already a barrier to casual copying if only for HDD space issues. The HD-DVD rips that have been unleashed onto the Internet still represents gigabytes and gigabytes of storage. As bandwidth and HDD space increases, technologies such as BD+ potentially will maintain sufficient copy protection to prevent casual copying while still ensuring that the optical disc is a) not counterfeit and b) can be used for managed copy (allowing you to transcode the content to portable players). Potentially being the key phrase - the industry has had rough enough start with HDCP. [...]
I'm even hopeful about Hollywood increasing the visibility of screenwriters in the industry. As movies like Fight Club and TV shows like 24 and Heroes continue to push the envelope of storytelling and captivate an increasingly sophisticated audience, writers are increasingly forced to write more sophisticated movies. A screenplay from a 1990's Van Damme movie wouldn't fly today. Would any movie which uses "it was just a dream" as a plot device work today? Only if it's told like A Beautiful Mind.
The elite group of screenwriters who are capable of writing such movies is relatively small, and that is good news because it means Hollywood only needs to spend a lot of money on a few number of people. So if anyone you know is a creative executive at a studio, debate with them why stories like Thank You For Smoking, Good Will Hunting, Napoleon Dynamite, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Nemo or God forbid, Titanic were more successful than Stealth, Lady in the Water, Basic Instinct 2, Poseidon, and Flushed Away...
Peter Berdovsky, 27, of Arlington, was arrested Wednesday night and charged under a new statute that makes it a crime to place, transfer or possess a hoax device that results in panic. He was also charged with one count of disorderly conduct.
I can't help but think of the major company names that would be up for grabs with the new TLD. I am reminded of photos I saw recently of of products (in Eastern Europe, I think) such as Linux Dishwashing Liquid, and Microsoft Toilet Paper.
These are uses of the names in non-computer venues, and as such are likely not infringements of the brand names.
Of course, in the vein of the famous PC-Mac Ads by Apple, I can imagine the ads for MS Porn vs Linux Porn.
Japan uses Aluminum for their 1 Yen coins, and it works fine. They don't get damaged, but they are really really light (which makes them feel like a toy, not money).
Since lead is low cost as well, maybe we can have a lead core for weight.
Looks like somebody may have indulged is some prior art. And I am sure they are not the only ones. I recall someone from a few years ago developing a project to laser enscribe data on a titanium disc for archive purposes. All you needed was a microscope to read the data. with many many thousands of pages on something smaller than your hand. Better than sheets of copper, for sure.
But it accurately reflects what their attitudes was, and likely still is. They view people as pieces in their game. Which is well until people realise what is going on.
As Jerry Pournelle (long of Chaos Manor from Byte Magazine in ages past) has noted
The LA Times has a We Hate Gates series. Most of the press seems to have a similar crusade against Apple. One wonders if some press consortium has sold Apple stock short and is working to make it come true?
Because whatever irregularities in the stock option of many years ago, Jobs has taken Apple from a struggling company to a major player, and the stockholders were rewarded with a 1200% stock value increase.
Why regulations designed to protect minority stockholders are now being used to smear Jobs is a story someone with more resources than I have should dig into. I doubt it's really coincidence.
What we have here is the counterpart to a similar problem in image formats and other media.
The problem is how to create a specification for documents that will not obsolete after five or ten years. You see the issue brilliantly with the old NASA video and data tapes that no longer have appropriate reader equipment to access the data, meaning that the information is potentially lost to our posterity.
Now we have it regular documents, with the very real possibility that in the event of a technology disaster, the formats used with not be accessible. Data Encryption to protect copyright holders will prevent easy access to data vital for a rebuild.
On a tangent, so far the best storage solution I can come up with is the HD-Rosetta Stone project which only requires an optical microscope.
But this does not address the issue of obsolete file formats. There is the chance that that the most durable and accessible will be the most simple. Not Frontpage HTML or some similar monstrousity. In this case, simple IS good.
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This also points to an incomplete and/or incorrect model. But then, many ministers are not scientists.
I'm not sure if you're accusing me of making a one-dimensional analysis,
Sorry, not at all. Just pointing out the limits of common run of the mill view points. Even a double axis may have its limitationsas you noted yourself. Note for comparision the Pournelle Axis.
You can probably have as many dimensions as seem reasonable. The fact of simply recognizing the issue does make it easier to deal with.
You can have free will within a set of constraints.
For example, you play WOW with the constraints of character, ability, location, etc etc etc - Does this make you or your character any less subject to free will?
The biggest problem here is the Aristotilian logic, the binary logic, the assertion that it is either White of Black, that it is either ALL freewill, or NO free will.
The reality is that there is alot of grey zone in this debate, and in this debate we have a lot of urges and compulsions vs the ability to exercise free will. It is a grey zone, a gradient scale, if you wise.
You naturally run into lots of controversy regarding acceptable vs unacceptable behavior, such as in the realm of sexuality. Would you want to "cure" homosexuality with psychosurgury? I certainly do not recommend this option.
This has also been discussed to one degree or another in philosophical and religious thinking. And at least one controversial religious group has made the issue (Urges/Compulsions vs Free Will) a core component of their doctrine. So naturally some people run in horror from the topic rather than risk even the appearance of affiliation with "them".
The fact of a grey zone, with multiple elements and factors of differing weights contributing to the issue is pretty certain to me. But it also seems that many people lack the ability to conduct a rational discussion on this because of these same factors.
It is not all freewill, but it is not all biologic robot either.
This is also the root of a major political issue, since freewill can be argued as congruent with responsibility, and no free will has been used as an excuse for irresponsible actions. "It was my disease that killed the kids, not me...."
In reality, people never use 100% of a systems power.
What would you do with as system that was pegged at 100% CPU usage, or 100% bandwidth usage, or 100% drive and/or swap file usage?
I bet you would start troubleshooting right away. And maybe upgrade that Wang Word Processor or the IBM PS/2 with Microchannel Technology to something with a little more punch.
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the problem arose when the oil company drilled through a relatively thin clay layer into a very thick mud bearing layer under very high pressure. The clay layer acted as a dike to stop the underlying liquids from migrating upward. Normal drilling technique when such geography is present would have been to insert a liner in the drillhole in order to protect the clay strata from erosion, but this was not employed here. When the drillhole pierced the clay strata, the high pressure mud below it quickly eroded the initial breach into a large breach which followed the drillhole upward to transform it into the mud volcano that now exists.
Of course this changes everything. But maybe venting it in a more convenient place (the location is problematic) will cause the outflow to drop. The geology is everything.
would be to explode a deeply placed high explosive device, in the range of kilotons. The idea is to breakup the the flow channels, and let it collapse on itself and clog itself up. The explosive does not have to be nuclear, but it needs to be both large and deeply located. Correct placement would help as well.
He cites the common book at the best example of a perfect form of copy protection, and looks forward when a similar state will will exist with HD media. I suspect that Moore's Law will undo him more than he realises. Thus, it may be a constant race of technology.
In some ways, the HD ecosystem is going to buy time to help DRM reach that magic steady state that we enjoy with books. With HD movies requiring huge amounts of space, there's already a barrier to casual copying if only for HDD space issues. The HD-DVD rips that have been unleashed onto the Internet still represents gigabytes and gigabytes of storage. As bandwidth and HDD space increases, technologies such as BD+ potentially will maintain sufficient copy protection to prevent casual copying while still ensuring that the optical disc is a) not counterfeit and b) can be used for managed copy (allowing you to transcode the content to portable players). Potentially being the key phrase - the industry has had rough enough start with HDCP. [...]
I'm even hopeful about Hollywood increasing the visibility of screenwriters in the industry. As movies like Fight Club and TV shows like 24 and Heroes continue to push the envelope of storytelling and captivate an increasingly sophisticated audience, writers are increasingly forced to write more sophisticated movies. A screenplay from a 1990's Van Damme movie wouldn't fly today. Would any movie which uses "it was just a dream" as a plot device work today? Only if it's told like A Beautiful Mind.
The elite group of screenwriters who are capable of writing such movies is relatively small, and that is good news because it means Hollywood only needs to spend a lot of money on a few number of people. So if anyone you know is a creative executive at a studio, debate with them why stories like Thank You For Smoking, Good Will Hunting, Napoleon Dynamite, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Nemo or God forbid, Titanic were more successful than Stealth, Lady in the Water, Basic Instinct 2, Poseidon, and Flushed Away...
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This link to the Graffitti Research Lab, who disavows any connection with the incident. They also have a YouTube video of the prank.
Local news story on arrest here
;-)
Peter Berdovsky, 27, of Arlington, was arrested Wednesday night and charged under a new statute that makes it a crime to place, transfer or possess a hoax device that results in panic. He was also charged with one count of disorderly conduct.
Video of the stunt is available here - (Direct link to 27mb Quicktime file) Please save file locally before playing
Sort of like all the colors are in HiDef, slightly oversaturated.
....)
and everthing looks slightly puffy
like it's bloated, or slightly over-inflated
Almost like the world has been redone in the Microsoft Cute Theme.
Can Steve Ballmer look Cute? (Now that's an image
Will let you know when I see more....
I can't help but think of the major company names that would be up for grabs with the new TLD. I am reminded of photos I saw recently of of products (in Eastern Europe, I think) such as Linux Dishwashing Liquid, and Microsoft Toilet Paper.
These are uses of the names in non-computer venues, and as such are likely not infringements of the brand names.
Of course, in the vein of the famous PC-Mac Ads by Apple, I can imagine the ads for MS Porn vs Linux Porn.
The scripts practically write themselves
Zinc, I think is about $1.65/lb, and copper $2.60/lb????
but both were as much as $0.50 per pound more expensive in the past year. Which is a problem
Japan uses Aluminum for their 1 Yen coins, and it works fine. They don't get damaged, but they are really really light (which makes them feel like a toy, not money).
Since lead is low cost as well, maybe we can have a lead core for weight.
Therefore, the metal that needs to be used should be selling for a bit less than $1.81 per pound. Especially since there is overhead, etc.
Aluminium qualifies (at around a buck per pound), but it is rather soft. So it looks like we'll need something else for use in an alloy.
Any Ideas?
Looks like somebody may have indulged is some prior art. And I am sure they are not the only ones. I recall someone from a few years ago developing a project to laser enscribe data on a titanium disc for archive purposes. All you needed was a microscope to read the data. with many many thousands of pages on something smaller than your hand. Better than sheets of copper, for sure.
- Game maker
- Game player
- Game player - low level
- Game Piece
- Broken Piece
- Road Kill
Of course, games are fractal, and there is a range of awareness/education that runs along side of this, going from the Clue Zone to the No Clue ZoneOne nice tidbit - when you know you are a piece, you have become a player on some level.
But it accurately reflects what their attitudes was, and likely still is. They view people as pieces in their game. Which is well until people realise what is going on.
Skadet, your homepage weblink goes to a defunct spam autogenerated website. Would have loved to see the original.
As Jerry Pournelle (long of Chaos Manor from Byte Magazine in ages past) has noted
The LA Times has a We Hate Gates series. Most of the press seems to have a similar crusade against Apple. One wonders if some press consortium has sold Apple stock short and is working to make it come true?
Because whatever irregularities in the stock option of many years ago, Jobs has taken Apple from a struggling company to a major player, and the stockholders were rewarded with a 1200% stock value increase.
Why regulations designed to protect minority stockholders are now being used to smear Jobs is a story someone with more resources than I have should dig into. I doubt it's really coincidence.
Basically I sometimes wonder whether putting a PC in every home was such a hot idea after all.
Consider that this was the dream of Bill Gates. Consider the end results as implemented by Microsoft.
Then consider you question again. The answer might be inherent in the original poser of the concept.
What we have here is the counterpart to a similar problem in image formats and other media.
The problem is how to create a specification for documents that will not obsolete after five or ten years. You see the issue brilliantly with the old NASA video and data tapes that no longer have appropriate reader equipment to access the data, meaning that the information is potentially lost to our posterity.
Now we have it regular documents, with the very real possibility that in the event of a technology disaster, the formats used with not be accessible. Data Encryption to protect copyright holders will prevent easy access to data vital for a rebuild.
On a tangent, so far the best storage solution I can come up with is the HD-Rosetta Stone project which only requires an optical microscope.
But this does not address the issue of obsolete file formats. There is the chance that that the most durable and accessible will be the most simple. Not Frontpage HTML or some similar monstrousity. In this case, simple IS good.
This also points to an incomplete and/or incorrect model. But then, many ministers are not scientists.
I get mine through second hand retailers such as Building 19. or through special discount programs.
Sadly, I find that they do not always last as long as the warranty says, and returning a discounted broken bulb is not worth the price.
So of course, the two systems will conflict with each other, and lock up the system tighter than the improper use of superglue in NSFW situations
or randomly locate virtual memory around the HD without regard to pre-existing magnetic conditions.
;-)
I can just imagine the results involving controversial subjects.
Nevermind something as sedate as GWB or Blair or global warning or religion. What about vi vs emacs?
I'm not sure if you're accusing me of making a one-dimensional analysis,
Sorry, not at all. Just pointing out the limits of common run of the mill view points. Even a double axis may have its limitationsas you noted yourself. Note for comparision the Pournelle Axis.
You can probably have as many dimensions as seem reasonable. The fact of simply recognizing the issue does make it easier to deal with.
Thus the typical left-right axis of thought is an example of one dimensional analysis
You can have free will within a set of constraints.
...."
For example, you play WOW with the constraints of character, ability, location, etc etc etc - Does this make you or your character any less subject to free will?
The biggest problem here is the Aristotilian logic, the binary logic, the assertion that it is either White of Black, that it is either ALL freewill, or NO free will.
The reality is that there is alot of grey zone in this debate, and in this debate we have a lot of urges and compulsions vs the ability to exercise free will. It is a grey zone, a gradient scale, if you wise.
You naturally run into lots of controversy regarding acceptable vs unacceptable behavior, such as in the realm of sexuality. Would you want to "cure" homosexuality with psychosurgury? I certainly do not recommend this option.
This has also been discussed to one degree or another in philosophical and religious thinking. And at least one controversial religious group has made the issue (Urges/Compulsions vs Free Will) a core component of their doctrine. So naturally some people run in horror from the topic rather than risk even the appearance of affiliation with "them" .
The fact of a grey zone, with multiple elements and factors of differing weights contributing to the issue is pretty certain to me. But it also seems that many people lack the ability to conduct a rational discussion on this because of these same factors.
It is not all freewill, but it is not all biologic robot either.
This is also the root of a major political issue, since freewill can be argued as congruent with responsibility, and no free will has been used as an excuse for irresponsible actions. "It was my disease that killed the kids, not me
In reality, people never use 100% of a systems power.
What would you do with as system that was pegged at 100% CPU usage, or 100% bandwidth usage, or 100% drive and/or swap file usage?
I bet you would start troubleshooting right away. And maybe upgrade that Wang Word Processor or the IBM PS/2 with Microchannel Technology to something with a little more punch.