I totally agree... as I am into java-web-coding I was always a bit of jealous on that gui drawing system. I'm glad Sun had a good look to it while building Java Studio Creator (http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/jscreator/) where you can use the java server faces (JSF)framework to nicely draw your work.
This inspired me to lookup how they came to the definition of meter:
from 1791 it was: ten millionth of the length of the meridian of the earth along a quadrant. A quadrant is a quarter of the surface/length of the earth
from 1889 it was based on a piece of artifact somwhere kept in a museum in France. (cannot find a picture) This is the international prototype platinum-iridium. This has the size of one meter.
from 1960 and now it is based on the wavelength of krypton-86 beam.
Indeed, the more pixels, the smaller the pixels. And the less light they capture.
But you should read the article : we talk about a one-halfmeter-diameter DECam , so the pixels (15-micron) arent that small as in your pocket camera;-) quote:
At the heart of the DECam are 60 rectangular (2k x 4k) CCDs, each with 8 million 15-micron pixels. The CCDs, developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are over five times more sensitive at near-infrared wavelengths than conventional CCDs currently used for astronomy. The improved near-infrared sensitivity is critical for the science of the DES, as it allows the survey to obtain galaxy redshifts out to one. The one-halfmeter-diameter DECam will be the first large-scale use of the LBNL CCDs.
In Belgium/Western Europe in general I think , its not very neat of the waiter constantly bothering you to ask if you are ok or to fill up your glass. So the system won't work here. In turn we indeed get better service
MySQL has a speed advantage, but that is because they didn't choose for data integrity options, in favor of speed. (think about lack of roll back buffers). Instead of using one complex query (subselects)mysql users have to write serialised less complex queries and pass data on the application level. This drops the speed advantage on MySQL.
I'm quite lucky, I work in a web-consultancy company. Consultancy companies are wider spread in Europe, projects go quicker and cheaper when you hire the knowledge just for a certain amount of time. (discussable of course;-) )
Sometimes the salesguys from my company sell ideas or stuff that are pretty new in the fast moving web world, that way it happens that we have to get some sudden speed skill drill courses before the new project takes off.
There's also a big difference between inhouse training by f.i. the local guru and official on-product-company training where you get a certification. The first tend to be an excuse for the effort
For the poll: I get 2 weeks a year
Site remark: this more sounds like a/. poll topic, then at least we could get some statistics on the replies.
Indeed, 0db is considered to be the lowest sound level
that a human ear can hear. 1db is the lowest change a human hear can notice. i think they mean something about out of the frequency range a human can hear (20hz-18000hz)
A decibel is one-tenth of a Bel.
It is a measurement system that was
developed by the telephone company to determine the output level of a
line. dB can be used to measure voltage, and power, as well as sound.
It is a relative measure based on a logarithmic scale. That is, 20 dB
is 10 times the power of 10 dB. 30 dB is 10 times the power of 20 dB,
or 100 times the power of 10 dB. You essentially double the energy with
every 3 dB increase.
http://home.phoenixnet.com/privacy/pcusers.html This is bios level spying and advertising, even from Phoenix's partners. I think most users will not even know it is installed (by default). The only way to get rid of it is flashing your bios, which is quite a dangerous operation for the common user
Again about a lawsuit on the rights to a domainname. In this case it was quite provocative, but sometimes I think by myself that it becomes dangerous for an individual to register a domainname for it's humble site, without the risk of an international lawcase of some company that exists in x country with the same name.
None of both is correct. CO2 and carbonates tend to be covered by inorganic chemistry. Molecules in living cells can be inorganic too (think of alcohol-(ethanol) in your blood:-) )
So , the definition we get at school is: " any substance that contains the element carbon, with the exception of carbon dioxide and various carbonates".
but I suspect any meeting of chemists could quibble about the boundary for years...
Exactly: carbon-based molecules
Some organic polymers exhibit semi-conducting properties. Simple OLEDs are manufactured by sandwiching an appropriate polymer layer between two (transparant) electrodes.
I agree with that, but in my opinion recycling can be a cost effective process if production process is tuned to it. The industry should pay their garbage they deliver to the customer, and that was also the point of the the last paragraph in the article I think.
When manufacturers have to cover the costs of recycling, he said, "it creates a powerful incentive ..to reduce such costs by designing products that...
As of the 1st of june Belgium(Europe) already has this system of manufacturars forced to take back let's say your old refrigarator. But it will not make them design products that go longer:.. of course it is again the good old customer that pays the costs of recycling, the Belgian government invented a new tax so that we have to pay about an extra 5% for every household and electronic material.
Anybody using www.groove.net's Groove? It's a Ray Ozzie (formerly Lotus) software product that combines combines ICQ-esque instant messaging and Napsteroid P2P file sharing to create communal shared screen-space(and therefore the underlying shared hard drive space)on the desktops of 2 to 20 groupworkers.
This soft is ment for a business environment, and I think is the best source to fish for usefull P2P usage.
from the article: In the version of its software released since the licensing agreement expired, Roxio directs users to an alternative music recognition database
On their site http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ they announce that also adaptec easy cd recorder 4 will be updatet to use freebd.
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I totally agree... as I am into java-web-coding I was always a bit of jealous on that gui drawing system. I'm glad Sun had a good look to it while building Java Studio Creator (http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/jscreator/)
where you can use the java server faces (JSF)framework to nicely draw your work.
This inspired me to lookup how they came to the definition of meter:
from 1791 it was: ten millionth of the length of the meridian of the earth along a quadrant. A quadrant is a quarter of the surface/length of the earth
from 1889 it was based on a piece of artifact somwhere kept in a museum in France. (cannot find a picture) This is the international prototype platinum-iridium. This has the size of one meter.
from 1960 and now it is based on the wavelength of krypton-86 beam.
In Europe Japanese Sony is "cool", and Apple is "expensive"
But you should read the article : we talk about a one-halfmeter-diameter DECam , so the pixels (15-micron) arent that small as in your pocket camera
quote:
they will BUY mono.
In Belgium/Western Europe in general I think , its not very neat of the waiter constantly bothering you to ask if you are ok or to fill up your glass. So the system won't work here. In turn we indeed get better service
MySQL has a speed advantage, but that is because they didn't choose for data integrity options, in favor of speed. (think about lack of roll back buffers).
Instead of using one complex query (subselects)mysql users have to write serialised less complex queries and pass data on the application level.
This drops the speed advantage on MySQL.
who didn't wash its hand and left a skin-oil trace on those keyboards?
I'm quite lucky, I work in a web-consultancy company. Consultancy companies are wider spread in Europe, projects go quicker and cheaper when you hire the knowledge just for a certain amount of time. (discussable of course ;-) )
Sometimes the salesguys from my company sell ideas or stuff that are pretty new in the fast moving web world, that way it happens that we have to get some sudden speed skill drill courses before the new project takes off.
There's also a big difference between inhouse training by f.i. the local guru and official on-product-company training where you get a certification. The first tend to be an excuse for the effort
/. poll topic, then at least we could get some statistics on the replies.
For the poll: I get 2 weeks a year
Site remark: this more sounds like a
do one hang our Halo on our bedpost at night? :-)
Indeed, 0db is considered to be the lowest sound level that a human ear can hear. 1db is the lowest change a human hear can notice. i think they mean something about out of the frequency range a human can hear (20hz-18000hz)
A decibel is one-tenth of a Bel.
It is a measurement system that was developed by the telephone company to determine the output level of a line. dB can be used to measure voltage, and power, as well as sound.
It is a relative measure based on a logarithmic scale. That is, 20 dB is 10 times the power of 10 dB. 30 dB is 10 times the power of 20 dB, or 100 times the power of 10 dB. You essentially double the energy with every 3 dB increase.
http://home.phoenixnet.com/privacy/pcusers.html
This is bios level spying and advertising, even from Phoenix's partners. I think most users will not even know it is installed (by default). The only way to get rid of it is flashing your bios, which is quite a dangerous operation for the common user
Again about a lawsuit on the rights to a domainname. In this case it was quite provocative, but sometimes I think by myself that it becomes dangerous for an individual to register a domainname for it's humble site, without the risk of an international lawcase of some company that exists in x country with the same name.
Just found out that I already subscribed in August 1999, now I'm listed twice, :-(
correction: ethanol is organic
None of both is correct. CO2 and carbonates tend to be covered by inorganic chemistry. Molecules in living cells can be inorganic too (think of alcohol-(ethanol) in your blood :-) )
So , the definition we get at school is: " any substance that contains the element carbon, with the exception of carbon dioxide and various carbonates".
but I suspect any meeting of chemists could quibble about the boundary for years...
Exactly: carbon-based molecules
Some organic polymers exhibit semi-conducting properties. Simple OLEDs are manufactured by sandwiching an appropriate polymer layer between two (transparant) electrodes.
I agree with that, but in my opinion recycling can be a cost effective process if production process is tuned to it. The industry should pay their garbage they deliver to the customer, and that was also the point of the the last paragraph in the article I think.
When manufacturers have to cover the costs of recycling, he said, "it creates a powerful incentive . .to reduce such costs by designing products that... .. of course it is again the good old customer that pays the costs of recycling, the Belgian government invented a new tax so that we have to pay about an extra 5% for every household and electronic material.
As of the 1st of june Belgium(Europe) already has this system of manufacturars forced to take back let's say your old refrigarator. But it will not make them design products that go longer:
Anybody using www.groove.net's Groove? It's a Ray Ozzie (formerly Lotus) software product that combines combines ICQ-esque instant messaging and Napsteroid P2P file sharing to create communal shared screen-space(and therefore the underlying shared hard drive space)on the desktops of 2 to 20 groupworkers.
This soft is ment for a business environment, and I think is the best source to fish for usefull P2P usage.
from the article: In the version of its software released since the licensing agreement expired, Roxio directs users to an alternative music recognition database
On their site http://www.roxio.com/en/support/ they announce that also adaptec easy cd recorder 4 will be updatet to use freebd.
Advanced Power Management (APM) support has been in the kernel since 1.3.46.
Does anybody know where we can find out how CD-Rs are manufactured? Where can we buy a machine to do it? I'd fix this shortage price increase