Not originally it was not. It was more like AOL or Compuserve, a dial up thing into a walled garden. However very quickly it was changed into an internet thing as Microsoft realized that their AOL clone was not going to fly.
Note the E-ELT is in the southern hemisphere, where Hawaii is in the northern hemisphere. Consequently each will be able to see things the other cannot. Hence we need both.
While that might well be true, Russia is not a modern wannabe nuclear state, having detonated it's first atomic weapon in 1949 and first thermonuclear weapon in 1953. That's a whole 60 years ago.
Ggedanken experiment, take one hobby programmer who maintains an OSS project. Let's assume they have a garden which needs the lawn cutting once a week, and general maintenance. Takes couple hours a week for six months of the year, lets say 80 hours a year for round figures. Perhaps if someone where giving him money to work on his hobby aka the OSS project he could afford to get in a gardener and spend that time on his hobby.
I would add that even having cash is no good if the power is out. These days even the till won't open, the scales won't weigh anything and the pump's won't pump the fuel. Heck even the water in the taps will stop flowing rather quicker than you might imagine without power.
So while I do have emergency cash and both VISA and Mastercard credit cards I am realistic that in the event of a total failure it won't get me that far.
Yeah just look at what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland last year. Some people at Ulster Bank (a subsidiary of RBS) where unable to access their account for the best part of a month.
And exactly how does key authentication stop the malware loging onto remote machines. Clue it does not. Even if I ditched key based authentication as well and kerberosied everything in sight that would still not help, because presumably I have a valid kerberos ticket when I log on...
The only solution is to stop being lazy and require a password ever time you log into a remote machine and/or to run anything under sudo require a password.
Well saying they are complete is wrong. Both General Relativity and the Standard Model are correct within experimental error within the tested limits, which does leave very little wiggle room. However they are not complete and very unlikely to be complete even in regions of normal space-time curvature.
It would be like saying Newtonian Mechanics was complete at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sure within experimental error at the time it appeared complete. However we now know that it was not. A combination of experiments with smaller uncertainties and moving to a faster speeds showed that for certain.
The problem is getting to regions of high space-time curvature or reducing the uncertainties in our experiments is very hard and very expensive and nobody has managed to do it yet. When they do it will hopefully provide the insight necessary to come up with a way of unifying gravity and quantum. mechanics.
Basic explanation. So I have two entangled particles, and we move them apart so you have one and I have one. At this point we have no idea what the spin on either of them is, in fact it is not determined till we try and measure it, but they must be different. I now measure the spin on mine and find it is +1, meaning yours is -1 "instantly". You can now measure the spin on yours to confirm that.
The problem is because the spin of the particle is undetermined until I read it and when I do read it the result will be random, there is no way to transmit any useful information.
I doubt the extra 400km you get from doing it on the ISS is the point, because picking two points on the earth's surface that are opposite each other would be 12740km apart so the extra 3% is hardly significant.
Probably of more interest is that the ISS is doing an average speed of around 27,800 km/h which is sufficient for relativistic effects to noticeably come into play. In addition the ISS is in a different frame of reference to anything on the ground. These factors are much more interesting than the extra distance.
I would expect all artillery positions in range of South Korea to be already identified and their precise positions recorded. Any opening of fire by North Korea would be followed by a rapid and devastating bombardment of the said positions.
While North Korea could cause damage to Seul, there is not a hope in hell that they could flatten it or even cause extensive/devastating damage before they are taken out.
Any actual invasion of South Korea would have to overcome the heavily land mined buffer zone on the South Korean side.
Except these batteries generate electricity by turning aluminium into aluminium oxide. Admittedly it will be nice pure oxide that can go straight back to the electrolytic smelter to be turned back into aluminium. However it cannot be just melted back into aluminium and is more like $300 per tonne.
The problem is that the current implementation is effectively VNC done using the RDP protocol. That is it is just sending the changed areas of the screen. What is needed is something more like x11rdp. That is an X11 server that rather than talking to hardware spits out RDP protocol instead. Draw a rectangle on the X11 screen and the corresponding RDP gets spat down the line to the client. It is much much faster than VNC which is a total dog over slow links, rather like X11 being a total dog on links that don't have really low latency.
You would be wrong then. RDP 6.1 along with Windows Server 2008 introduced RemoteApp which allows a single application to be forwarded rather than a whole desktop.
You could download it straight onto a USB pen drive of suitable capacity.
I would note that you can buy audio books in MP3-CD format. That is a CD conforming to the Yellow book standard with a bunch of MP3 on in. Apparently selling these second hand is now illegal, hum...
Yet here in the UK where we don't drive around at stupid speeds our death rate in motor vehicle accidents is lower than in Germany by any measure you choose to use.
In a few months time (aka this year) outside of the USA MP3 is going to be patent free. Even in the USA in a couple of years decoding will be patent free. MP3 is going to be around for a very very long time because there is a huge amount of material encoded in it, so it has momentum and the patents are expiring rapidly.
Note that only applies if you live in the USA. In most of the rest of the world, it's a straight 20 years from date of filing, and anything published prior to the date of filing is prior art.
Practical application of which is that give the final version of the MPEG1 specification was published in August 1993, then the later this year MP3 audio becomes patent free to decode outside the USA, as does MPEG1 video decoding. We have another three years to wait for MPEG2 video.
Note most of the MPEG2 patents have or are about to expire anyway. MP3 decoding is patent free everywhere from September 2015, and MP3 becomes fully free in April 2017. MPEG2 video becomes free in February 2018.
On the other hand H.264 does not become patent free till 2027. My preferred solution is to bury my head for the next few months to years and just use MP3 and MPEG2.
Vikings have a reputation for being "evil" because they luted,raped and pillaged large areas of the British Isles. Sure they might have done other smart things, but that does not detract from the fact that they where nasty pieces of work.
Invoking Godwin's Law the Nazi's had lots of wonderful technological stuff as well. They where however still evil bastards.
I would suggest that this is the perfect market segment for a Chromebox or Chromebook. The HP Chromebook with the 14" screen is ideal for those with ageing eyesight, they boot up really fast and do everything many "parents" do. The only issue is the lack of Skype, I think Android tablet is the solution there. You can fix the camera issue with an EyFi card. Printing will probably require a new cloudprint capable device or using something like a Raspberry Pi as a smart print server.
I remain convinced that the ChromeOS has it roots in a senior Google exec sick and tired of doing tech support for a parent:-)
It is not the "officially" executed that counts it is the millions that died due to starvation as a result of his policies. As such Stalin is way beyond Hitler. That includes the millions who died due to the fact that Stalin had "purged" the Red Army of all the effective officers who could have stopped Hitler much much sooner.
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Not originally it was not. It was more like AOL or Compuserve, a dial up thing into a walled garden. However very quickly it was changed into an internet thing as Microsoft realized that their AOL clone was not going to fly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN#MSN_Classic
Better places than a Lagrangian point are Antarctica and the moon.
Note the E-ELT is in the southern hemisphere, where Hawaii is in the northern hemisphere. Consequently each will be able to see things the other cannot. Hence we need both.
While that might well be true, Russia is not a modern wannabe nuclear state, having detonated it's first atomic weapon in 1949 and first thermonuclear weapon in 1953. That's a whole 60 years ago.
Ggedanken experiment, take one hobby programmer who maintains an OSS project. Let's assume they have a garden which needs the lawn cutting once a week, and general maintenance. Takes couple hours a week for six months of the year, lets say 80 hours a year for round figures. Perhaps if someone where giving him money to work on his hobby aka the OSS project he could afford to get in a gardener and spend that time on his hobby.
I would add that even having cash is no good if the power is out. These days even the till won't open, the scales won't weigh anything and the pump's won't pump the fuel. Heck even the water in the taps will stop flowing rather quicker than you might imagine without power.
So while I do have emergency cash and both VISA and Mastercard credit cards I am realistic that in the event of a total failure it won't get me that far.
None of which helps if you have a piece of software storing all the credentials you need to log onto a remote machine.
Yeah just look at what happened at Royal Bank of Scotland last year. Some people at Ulster Bank (a subsidiary of RBS) where unable to access their account for the best part of a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_computer_system_problems
Now imagine that every bank is in the same situation as RBS along with VISA and Mastercard.
And exactly how does key authentication stop the malware loging onto remote machines. Clue it does not. Even if I ditched key based authentication as well and kerberosied everything in sight that would still not help, because presumably I have a valid kerberos ticket when I log on...
The only solution is to stop being lazy and require a password ever time you log into a remote machine and/or to run anything under sudo require a password.
Well saying they are complete is wrong. Both General Relativity and the Standard Model are correct within experimental error within the tested limits, which does leave very little wiggle room. However they are not complete and very unlikely to be complete even in regions of normal space-time curvature.
It would be like saying Newtonian Mechanics was complete at the beginning of the 20th Century. Sure within experimental error at the time it appeared complete. However we now know that it was not. A combination of experiments with smaller uncertainties and moving to a faster speeds showed that for certain.
The problem is getting to regions of high space-time curvature or reducing the uncertainties in our experiments is very hard and very expensive and nobody has managed to do it yet. When they do it will hopefully provide the insight necessary to come up with a way of unifying gravity and quantum. mechanics.
Basic explanation. So I have two entangled particles, and we move them apart so you have one and I have one. At this point we have no idea what the spin on either of them is, in fact it is not determined till we try and measure it, but they must be different. I now measure the spin on mine and find it is +1, meaning yours is -1 "instantly". You can now measure the spin on yours to confirm that.
The problem is because the spin of the particle is undetermined until I read it and when I do read it the result will be random, there is no way to transmit any useful information.
I doubt the extra 400km you get from doing it on the ISS is the point, because picking two points on the earth's surface that are opposite each other would be 12740km apart so the extra 3% is hardly significant.
Probably of more interest is that the ISS is doing an average speed of around 27,800 km/h which is sufficient for relativistic effects to noticeably come into play. In addition the ISS is in a different frame of reference to anything on the ground. These factors are much more interesting than the extra distance.
I would expect all artillery positions in range of South Korea to be already identified and their precise positions recorded. Any opening of fire by North Korea would be followed by a rapid and devastating bombardment of the said positions.
While North Korea could cause damage to Seul, there is not a hope in hell that they could flatten it or even cause extensive/devastating damage before they are taken out.
Any actual invasion of South Korea would have to overcome the heavily land mined buffer zone on the South Korean side.
The maintenance on an electric motor is a tiny tiny fraction of that on any internal combustion engine.
Except these batteries generate electricity by turning aluminium into aluminium oxide. Admittedly it will be nice pure oxide that can go straight back to the electrolytic smelter to be turned back into aluminium. However it cannot be just melted back into aluminium and is more like $300 per tonne.
The problem is that the current implementation is effectively VNC done using the RDP protocol. That is it is just sending the changed areas of the screen. What is needed is something more like x11rdp. That is an X11 server that rather than talking to hardware spits out RDP protocol instead. Draw a rectangle on the X11 screen and the corresponding RDP gets spat down the line to the client. It is much much faster than VNC which is a total dog over slow links, rather like X11 being a total dog on links that don't have really low latency.
You would be wrong then. RDP 6.1 along with Windows Server 2008 introduced RemoteApp which allows a single application to be forwarded rather than a whole desktop.
You could download it straight onto a USB pen drive of suitable capacity.
I would note that you can buy audio books in MP3-CD format. That is a CD conforming to the Yellow book standard with a bunch of MP3 on in. Apparently selling these second hand is now illegal, hum...
Yet here in the UK where we don't drive around at stupid speeds our death rate in motor vehicle accidents is lower than in Germany by any measure you choose to use.
In a few months time (aka this year) outside of the USA MP3 is going to be patent free. Even in the USA in a couple of years decoding will be patent free. MP3 is going to be around for a very very long time because there is a huge amount of material encoded in it, so it has momentum and the patents are expiring rapidly.
Note that only applies if you live in the USA. In most of the rest of the world, it's a straight 20 years from date of filing, and anything published prior to the date of filing is prior art.
Practical application of which is that give the final version of the MPEG1 specification was published in August 1993, then the later this year MP3 audio becomes patent free to decode outside the USA, as does MPEG1 video decoding. We have another three years to wait for MPEG2 video.
Note most of the MPEG2 patents have or are about to expire anyway. MP3 decoding is patent free everywhere from September 2015, and MP3 becomes fully free in April 2017. MPEG2 video becomes free in February 2018.
On the other hand H.264 does not become patent free till 2027. My preferred solution is to bury my head for the next few months to years and just use MP3 and MPEG2.
Vikings have a reputation for being "evil" because they luted,raped and pillaged large areas of the British Isles. Sure they might have done other smart things, but that does not detract from the fact that they where nasty pieces of work.
Invoking Godwin's Law the Nazi's had lots of wonderful technological stuff as well. They where however still evil bastards.
The HP Chromebook has a 14" display with the same number of pixels as a the 11" Samsung. Ideal I think for older eyes.
You could also try a Chromebox, and stick any display that works on it. They are not "cheap" but they are unbreakable as far as I can tell.
I would suggest that this is the perfect market segment for a Chromebox or Chromebook. The HP Chromebook with the 14" screen is ideal for those with ageing eyesight, they boot up really fast and do everything many "parents" do. The only issue is the lack of Skype, I think Android tablet is the solution there. You can fix the camera issue with an EyFi card. Printing will probably require a new cloudprint capable device or using something like a Raspberry Pi as a smart print server.
I remain convinced that the ChromeOS has it roots in a senior Google exec sick and tired of doing tech support for a parent :-)
It is not the "officially" executed that counts it is the millions that died due to starvation as a result of his policies. As such Stalin is way beyond Hitler. That includes the millions who died due to the fact that Stalin had "purged" the Red Army of all the effective officers who could have stopped Hitler much much sooner.