My XP is fully updated. But auto update is off and so is auto download. Why? Because I triple boot the machine, and it's only in XP 10% of the time.
When I do boot XP, it's usually for a time critical reason. I've had enough of the machine slowing to a crawl as it downloads at high priority and then badgers me with multiple popups while I'm trying to do something important.
I tried keeping download on auto and update on manual, but the performance hit is too great. Manual is the way to go for me.
I'm a heavy Opera user also. You will find that Opera's memory usage gradually increases, especially when viewing multimedia. I interpret this to be Opera adding memory to its arenas and never returning it, as opposed to leaks. After a session of heavy video, I usually have to restart Opera. But I only have 512 MB of physical and it's not unusual to get 400 MB into virtual in one of those sessions, which really drags down the system.
Also, lately I'm having a lot of trouble with Opera and Flash. Opera will freeze quite often, but not if I disable the plugins. I'm using Opera 9.02 on Arch and 9.23 on Debian Sid, and the latter is no improvement.
Opera is much better than Firefox as far as usability goes, and I hope the Flash problem gets fixed soon.
Although TFA doesn't actually discuss the hypothesis that "universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing" (I suppose you'd have to go to the webcast for that), Hawking's use of the phase "that he now believes" implies that this is something new, and that he's in the process of developing it.
In fact, the idea is decades old, and has been popularized in several widely read books.
I recollect Gamov's book, "My World Line", wherein he recounts a time he and Einstein were crossing the street in traffic while discussing how an energetic universe could have arisen. Gamov pointed out that since gravitational energy was negative and the energy of matter was positive, they could balance and a universe could form without a net input of energy. The idea struck Einstein so forcefully that he froze in the middle of the street while he considered it.
A prion is an 'infectious' protein which causes similar proteins to change their structure, rather like seeding a supersaturated solution. What has been done is to clone cattle which lack the protein which could be altered by the prion.
I believe that if you buy a copy of his book, "Free Software, Free Society" that he will be happy to provide his "Happy Hacking" autograph, as he did for my copy.
(Then read it all, especially the chapter "The Right to Read"!)
Also, FSF Associate Members can get him or Eben Moglen to record a personalized greeting if they convince three other people to join the FSF.
It's a shame that they didn't include backing up to DVD or disk. Yes, you can use the disk holding area and manually clean it out periodically so it doesn't fill up. That's what I do.
But it would be nice if you could specify the equivalent of some number of tape sets in the holding area and have them overwrite themselves without manual intervention.
Right. As an example, check out the gold-gold collisions being generated at Brookhaven. All that's left is a quark-gluon plasma. (We're still here, so strangelet or black hole production hasn't occurred, yet). Radiation damage, or worse, seems to be a major issue with hypervelocity space travel.
GOOG is just following the market down. Every time the market moves, the analysts have to come up with an explanation, which is almost always bogus.
It seems extraordinarily clumsy of the Justice Department to subpoena this information from the search engines. First and foremost, by what right can the US government require confidential information from a company or person when there is no criminal action contemplated? The fourth amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure, and this seems to be just such a case.
Second, the traditional way for the US government to get this kind of information is to fund a 'study' and pay the web search companies for a series of analyses on a given topic of interest. The companies get to keep their methods confidential, get some return for their trouble, and the government has the benefit of expert analysis. Is this ethical? I'm sure Google and the government could agree on a degree of data anonymity that would satisfy both parties.
In this specific case, it appears that the government is trying to access data that isn't going to satisfy their objective. By being confrontational, they aren't going to get the benefit of Google's guidance.
Finally, it's pretty cynical to try to extract this information under the guise of combating child pornography. They are trying to get their nose in the tent using an issue that no one dares to counter.
My hypothesis on the origin of those (rare) Kimberlite pipes is that they are formed following the transit of a strangelet (or possibly a small black hole) through the earth. That would imply that there should be Kimberlite pipes on opposite sides of the earth (aligned on a chord), but in only a relatively small fraction of the cases would both sides be found on land. I suppose it would be very difficult and expensive to attempt to locate them, even with the proposed detection network. OTOH, the possible diamond find might encourage the exploration.
If you had any scientific knowledge you would know oil is not renewable because it is made of decomposed "fossils" (hence "fossil fuels"). There are not unlimited "fossils" on this planet. Your speaking gibberish to make a very invalid point.
And if you had a scientific attitude you would be less dogamatic in your statements. It's unlikely that the vast quantities of petroleum came from rotting vegetation. Rather, it's primordial, derived from methane and similar hydrocarbons dating back to the formation of the earth. Check out "The Deep, Hot Biosphere" by Thomas Gold.
You need to take into account that many of the graduate students teach the introductory classes. Also, typically the school's endowment covers much of the costs. As I recollect, at MIT the endowment generates income equivalent to all the undergrad tuition.
It's caused by radio energy moving on multiple paths, which are formed by reflections off buildings or local terrain. When the various path's energy arrives in phase you get a good signal. When it's out of phase, you don't. Since the wavelengths involved are less than a foot, small movements in phone position can make a big difference.
In strong signal areas, even the out of phase paths are usually energetic enough to provide good signals.
Does he even write code anymore? Or is it 100% politics for him nowdays?
Seems like he's quite a wizard.
He still develops Emacs, and he's leading the design of the GNU System (all GNU, Hurd kernel, no Linux).
He write the GNU C compiler (gcc), the debugger gdb, emacs, and many other critical utilities, all of which were prerequisites when Linus developed the Linux kernel. He's a legendary hacker.
Current theory suggests that your perception of time has something to do with the speed you're traveling at. So far, it is speculated that to a photon, which travels at the speed of light, time "stands still".
Actually, your perception of time is unchanged, otherwise physics would seem different to you, which violates SR. What happens is distances in the direction of your velocity are compressed. At the speed of light, the distance to wherever you are going is zero, so it takes zero time to get there. To an observer moving relative to you and watching your situation, the distance is not zero, but your clock appears to be running very slow: at the limit of the speed of light, it stops.
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My mother-in-law has a 800 MHz iMac. Spec calls for 867 MHz. I wonder what would happen if we tried to upgrade her to Leopard.
My XP is fully updated. But auto update is off and so is auto download. Why? Because I triple boot the machine, and it's only in XP 10% of the time.
When I do boot XP, it's usually for a time critical reason. I've had enough of the machine slowing to a crawl as it downloads at high priority and then badgers me with multiple popups while I'm trying to do something important.
I tried keeping download on auto and update on manual, but the performance hit is too great. Manual is the way to go for me.
I'm a heavy Opera user also. You will find that Opera's memory usage gradually increases, especially when viewing multimedia. I interpret this to be Opera adding memory to its arenas and never returning it, as opposed to leaks. After a session of heavy video, I usually have to restart Opera. But I only have 512 MB of physical and it's not unusual to get 400 MB into virtual in one of those sessions, which really drags down the system.
Also, lately I'm having a lot of trouble with Opera and Flash. Opera will freeze quite often, but not if I disable the plugins. I'm using Opera 9.02 on Arch and 9.23 on Debian Sid, and the latter is no improvement.
Opera is much better than Firefox as far as usability goes, and I hope the Flash problem gets fixed soon.
in Python:
>>> "4" * 4
'4444'
>>> "4" * 4.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
TypeError: can't multiply sequence by non-int
>>> "4" + 4.0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'float' objects
The first one is useful, e.g. "*" * 32 creates a line of 32 stars
Although TFA doesn't actually discuss the hypothesis that "universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing" (I suppose you'd have to go to the webcast for that), Hawking's use of the phase "that he now believes" implies that this is something new, and that he's in the process of developing it.
In fact, the idea is decades old, and has been popularized in several widely read books.
I recollect Gamov's book, "My World Line", wherein he recounts a time he and Einstein were crossing the street in traffic while discussing how an energetic universe could have arisen. Gamov pointed out that since gravitational energy was negative and the energy of matter was positive, they could balance and a universe could form without a net input of energy. The idea struck Einstein so forcefully that he froze in the middle of the street while he considered it.
The concept of using an ark to get to the stars is almost as old as science fiction. The technology has been evaluated in depth for many decades.
A prion is an 'infectious' protein which causes similar proteins to change their structure, rather like seeding a supersaturated solution. What has been done is to clone cattle which lack the protein which could be altered by the prion.
So what we have is a graph. That's a standard data structure, cf. Knuth's Stanford GraphBase
google on "you're too fucking stupid to own a computer"
I believe that if you buy a copy of his book, "Free Software, Free Society" that he will be happy to provide his "Happy Hacking" autograph, as he did for my copy.
(Then read it all, especially the chapter "The Right to Read"!)
Also, FSF Associate Members can get him or Eben Moglen to record a personalized greeting if they convince three other people to join the FSF.
It's a shame that they didn't include backing up to DVD or disk. Yes, you can use the disk holding area and manually clean it out periodically so it doesn't fill up. That's what I do.
But it would be nice if you could specify the equivalent of some number of tape sets in the holding area and have them overwrite themselves without manual intervention.
You should say, AC is prevalent. But DC is the King:
Here's some great pics of the Nelson River Bipoles, +/- 450 KV DC, 4.2 GW, nearly 1000 km.
Nelson River Bipole
Dr. Strangelet or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Big Bang
GOOG is just following the market down. Every time the market moves, the analysts have to come up with an explanation, which is almost always bogus.
It seems extraordinarily clumsy of the Justice Department to subpoena this information from the search engines. First and foremost, by what right can the US government require confidential information from a company or person when there is no criminal action contemplated? The fourth amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure, and this seems to be just such a case.
Fourth Amendment
Second, the traditional way for the US government to get this kind of information is to fund a 'study' and pay the web search companies for a series of analyses on a given topic of interest. The companies get to keep their methods confidential, get some return for their trouble, and the government has the benefit of expert analysis. Is this ethical? I'm sure Google and the government could agree on a degree of data anonymity that would satisfy both parties.
In this specific case, it appears that the government is trying to access data that isn't going to satisfy their objective. By being confrontational, they aren't going to get the benefit of Google's guidance.
Finally, it's pretty cynical to try to extract this information under the guise of combating child pornography. They are trying to get their nose in the tent using an issue that no one dares to counter.
Gas Origin Theories to be Studied
My hypothesis on the origin of those (rare) Kimberlite pipes is that they are formed following the transit of a strangelet (or possibly a small black hole) through the earth. That would imply that there should be Kimberlite pipes on opposite sides of the earth (aligned on a chord), but in only a relatively small fraction of the cases would both sides be found on land. I suppose it would be very difficult and expensive to attempt to locate them, even with the proposed detection network. OTOH, the possible diamond find might encourage the exploration.
Did quark matter strike Earth? Also, check Wikipedia for "strangelet".
If you think it's hard to uninstall Symantec, you should try uninstalling the stuff that McAfee sells.
You need to take into account that many of the graduate students teach the introductory classes. Also, typically the school's endowment covers much of the costs. As I recollect, at MIT the endowment generates income equivalent to all the undergrad tuition.
You could look at pychecker; it will catch these kinds of problems.
http://pychecker.sourceforge.net/
Yeah, my eyes popped a bit, too. However, one of the abstracts referenced on the article web page says,
"In addition, we show in practice that the method offers an efficient way to do nondemolition readout of the CPB quantum state."
I'd have to read the referenced article to see how he supports that seemingly provocative statement.
It's caused by radio energy moving on multiple paths, which are formed by reflections off buildings or local terrain. When the various path's energy arrives in phase you get a good signal. When it's out of phase, you don't. Since the wavelengths involved are less than a foot, small movements in phone position can make a big difference.
In strong signal areas, even the out of phase paths are usually energetic enough to provide good signals.
He still develops Emacs, and he's leading the design of the GNU System (all GNU, Hurd kernel, no Linux).
He write the GNU C compiler (gcc), the debugger gdb, emacs, and many other critical utilities, all of which were prerequisites when Linus developed the Linux kernel. He's a legendary hacker.
I didn't realize Redmond was so cosmopolitan. Do the inventors have to live in the USA for Microsoft to get a patent?
Actually, your perception of time is unchanged, otherwise physics would seem different to you, which violates SR. What happens is distances in the direction of your velocity are compressed. At the speed of light, the distance to wherever you are going is zero, so it takes zero time to get there. To an observer moving relative to you and watching your situation, the distance is not zero, but your clock appears to be running very slow: at the limit of the speed of light, it stops.