It's the first few weeks/months (not sure exactly how long) that affect whether the brain will be able to interpret the signals from the eye.
When a child's born they do various health checks. If the kid has been born blind they'll spot it then. Sometimes it can be fixed with an operation, which if they do it quickly enough will allow the child to see fine. This would be the same - if they do the implant quickly enough the child should be able to 'see'.
OK, so it's still no good for anyone who's already around that was born blind, but it would mean that anyone being born blind in future should be able to have their vision corrected either by one of the existing operations or an implant.
Rather it happened in 2001, your president's been pumping non-existant cash into the War on Terror ever since then and it's all come by just increasing your country's debt. That's why the value of the dollar has fallen so much in recent years.
The article seems a good general summary of the subject area. If you want to get at the technical details of the new theory, now you know about it you can go and read the paper itself, which they've handily linked to in the second paragraph.
It's described as a fallback method. If we can't stop global warming through those measures, then we at least can try to use this to slow/stop/reverse global warming. However, yes it is a hack.
More like the choice of using unleaded petrol or diesel in your car, or a particular tire size.
You can use the other if you like, just don't expect it to work as well anymore if at all.
The fault is with Windows AFAIK not supporting the hardware anyway, which is hardly surprising when it was written several years before Apple announced that they'd be moving to Intel.
Our CS department was designed to not need any air conditioning, it would all be done by natural convection.
Turns out the architects forgot to plug the numbers in of 4 computer labs of several dozen 400W computers in each one and at least one of the computers in every other room of the building. Over the last 10 years they've retrofitting the building several times to add air conditioning because it gets so hot, humid, sweaty and smelly when you fill the computer labs with CS students. Still haven't fixed the problem yet either.
On the plus side they probably save on the heating bills in the winter (probably spend it all on air conditioning in the summer though).
No. It's strips all email addresses of periods *then* checks whether it exists/which inbox to route mail to.
If something@gmail.com you can't create some.thing@gmail.com to spy on them because it strips it of periods and then finds the email address already exists.
Not really - you'd be converting mass already on the earth so there wouldn't be an increase in the gravitational pull by it on everything else. A tiny decrease possibly, because it's now slightly further away from everything else.
To create a black hole to swallow the Earth you'd need to bring more mass to Earth first.
NOT a good way of making that decision. That'll be 1% of the people using the site. Who the site already work for.
Anyone using an incompatible browser'll see the first page, then have to go away. It won't show up that many people are using the browser to view the web pages, even if a lot want to.
So that method'll be biased towards saying there's no point because 99.9% of your users use a browser which is already compatible.
Some people who can't will simply open another browser such as IE and come back. Others can't - it's pretty much impossible to use many sites designed for IE (especially any that require ActiveX) on anything other than Windows. *nix users are completely cut out of your user base, and Mac users too now that IE won't be available for that any more.
These users probably won't have Windows to load IE in and therefore won't use your site. Even if they do, having to reboot into Windows would turn them away from using your site. And probably to your competitors site, which does happen to work in their browser.
Most annoying I find are the sites that turn away anything that's not IE because they don't support 'Netscape' (I actually use Firefox), even though their website would work perfectly without any changes except removing that damn message.
While that's true, these strong magnetic fields are far stronger than the Earth's field.
Earth's field is between around 30 microteslas and 60 microteslas. The fields you're talking about on the other hand are measured in thousands of teslas - 6 or 7 orders of magnitude greater.
So the Earth's magnetic field will only affect "metal things like coins and buses" (at least to a noticeable degree).
However, if you like DIY projects then this becomes 2. Fun and gets bumped up into the advantage section.
4. Connecting the DVD-player needs DVI connection ? Not done it myself, but I have heard other people have done it successfully: It's possible to convert RGBs SCART to VGA simply by directly connecting the pins between the connectors in the correct order (and possibly adding a cheap £1 chip to decode composite sync into horizontal + vertical syncs). The voltage levels are handily all the same. The 15kHz horizontal sync means almost all CRTs can't use it (they have a minimum of 30kHz), but LCDs can cope with this fine. So it would seem to be fine, as long as the DVD player has RGBs SCART output and your LCD has a VGA input. The extra work(/fun) is almost non existant compared to the effort of building the projector.
Wouldn't be such a bad thing for all proprietary software. If it's still current and being maintained it'll give the developers the kick up the arse they need to compile a 64 bit version. I expect once MS release a 64bit only OS, you'll find a 64bit version of Flash appearing very quickly indeed.
It would still be a problem for any software which is no longer maintained (company went bust etc, 10 year old program) which people still want to use. But as you said it'll still be possible to run these, it'll just more work.
What about this? (The one I use because I think it prevents hash collisions being found).
hash = MD5(secretstring.input)
So long as secretstring remains secret, the attacker now has to find values inputs which begin with secretstring which will cause a collision. And since they don't know the values of secretstring they wouldn't be able to use use the collision source code to find a collision in this case.
So doing some number crunching, you have about 235 gallons on a full tank which gets you 1600 miles. Or $648.37 to get you 1600 miles.
So you'll save $64.84 every 1600 miles.
216 tank fulls and you've saved the original $14000 investment. (Or around 285 fill ups since you fill up at quarter tanks.)
Let's say you're driving 2500 miles a week. That's 138 weeks driving to break even. 2 and a half years, last time I heard trucks last much longer than that so you're going to save money in the long term.
If you mean that 4500 miles is your truck on it's own, then you'll break even even sooner, after only 77 weeks.
Perhaps it's not worth it for a family car going to the shops once a week, but it's *very* worth it for truckers on the road every day.
The disadvantage being you need a fiber optic cable directly connecting the sender and receiver to sent the photons down. You can't use routers because they'd change it and if they act as a relay the source is no longer able to detect eavesdropping in the network segment after the router. So it's useful for say connecting two banks, but not for the Internet.
If it takes >= 90 years to crack (by brute forcing), you can't break it *now* (or rather in the next 90 days).
Similarly, if in 20 years we have computers good enough to break it within 90 days that's not much good when they won't exist for another 20 years.
So my original point of the 90 days wouldn't have done the police any good stands. It wouldn't as the computers won't get fast enough to break it in that time quickly enough. Even then, you just need to double the number key bits and you need an exponentially faster computer to break it.
"You're forgetting how fast computers change. In 20 years, everything we ever thought of in terms of security will be pitifully obsolete."
Yes, but this is now.
The better current encryption algorithms are currently uncrackable within 90 days, unless the government has a secret supercomputer thousands of times faster than the current #1 or have a secret working quantum computer hidden away somewhere. I suppose it's possible, but highly unlikely.
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It's the first few weeks/months (not sure exactly how long) that affect whether the brain will be able to interpret the signals from the eye.
When a child's born they do various health checks. If the kid has been born blind they'll spot it then. Sometimes it can be fixed with an operation, which if they do it quickly enough will allow the child to see fine. This would be the same - if they do the implant quickly enough the child should be able to 'see'.
OK, so it's still no good for anyone who's already around that was born blind, but it would mean that anyone being born blind in future should be able to have their vision corrected either by one of the existing operations or an implant.
Rather it happened in 2001, your president's been pumping non-existant cash into the War on Terror ever since then and it's all come by just increasing your country's debt. That's why the value of the dollar has fallen so much in recent years.
The article seems a good general summary of the subject area. If you want to get at the technical details of the new theory, now you know about it you can go and read the paper itself, which they've handily linked to in the second paragraph.
It's described as a fallback method. If we can't stop global warming through those measures, then we at least can try to use this to slow/stop/reverse global warming. However, yes it is a hack.
There's virtually no innovation in anything - we're all "standing on the shoulders of giants".
More like the choice of using unleaded petrol or diesel in your car, or a particular tire size.
You can use the other if you like, just don't expect it to work as well anymore if at all.
The fault is with Windows AFAIK not supporting the hardware anyway, which is hardly surprising when it was written several years before Apple announced that they'd be moving to Intel.
Our CS department was designed to not need any air conditioning, it would all be done by natural convection.
Turns out the architects forgot to plug the numbers in of 4 computer labs of several dozen 400W computers in each one and at least one of the computers in every other room of the building. Over the last 10 years they've retrofitting the building several times to add air conditioning because it gets so hot, humid, sweaty and smelly when you fill the computer labs with CS students. Still haven't fixed the problem yet either.
On the plus side they probably save on the heating bills in the winter (probably spend it all on air conditioning in the summer though).
No. It's strips all email addresses of periods *then* checks whether it exists/which inbox to route mail to.
If something@gmail.com you can't create some.thing@gmail.com to spy on them because it strips it of periods and then finds the email address already exists.
Not really - you'd be converting mass already on the earth so there wouldn't be an increase in the gravitational pull by it on everything else. A tiny decrease possibly, because it's now slightly further away from everything else.
To create a black hole to swallow the Earth you'd need to bring more mass to Earth first.
Fair enough. I'd read it as 'hits from the old site that doesn't work in browser x to justify building the new site which would work in browser x'.
NOT a good way of making that decision. That'll be 1% of the people using the site. Who the site already work for.
Anyone using an incompatible browser'll see the first page, then have to go away. It won't show up that many people are using the browser to view the web pages, even if a lot want to.
So that method'll be biased towards saying there's no point because 99.9% of your users use a browser which is already compatible.
Some people who can't will simply open another browser such as IE and come back. Others can't - it's pretty much impossible to use many sites designed for IE (especially any that require ActiveX) on anything other than Windows. *nix users are completely cut out of your user base, and Mac users too now that IE won't be available for that any more.
These users probably won't have Windows to load IE in and therefore won't use your site. Even if they do, having to reboot into Windows would turn them away from using your site. And probably to your competitors site, which does happen to work in their browser.
Most annoying I find are the sites that turn away anything that's not IE because they don't support 'Netscape' (I actually use Firefox), even though their website would work perfectly without any changes except removing that damn message.
While that's true, these strong magnetic fields are far stronger than the Earth's field.
Earth's field is between around 30 microteslas and 60 microteslas.
The fields you're talking about on the other hand are measured in thousands of teslas - 6 or 7 orders of magnitude greater.
So the Earth's magnetic field will only affect "metal things like coins and buses" (at least to a noticeable degree).
Perhaps they're made of dark matter which is why we can't see them.
Call it an advantage:
:o)
Doubles as a coffee table.
2. Work
However, if you like DIY projects then this becomes 2. Fun and gets bumped up into the advantage section.
4. Connecting the DVD-player needs DVI connection ?
Not done it myself, but I have heard other people have done it successfully:
It's possible to convert RGBs SCART to VGA simply by directly connecting the pins between the connectors in the correct order (and possibly adding a cheap £1 chip to decode composite sync into horizontal + vertical syncs). The voltage levels are handily all the same.
The 15kHz horizontal sync means almost all CRTs can't use it (they have a minimum of 30kHz), but LCDs can cope with this fine.
So it would seem to be fine, as long as the DVD player has RGBs SCART output and your LCD has a VGA input. The extra work(/fun) is almost non existant compared to the effort of building the projector.
So we're still 5 nanometers from something everyone has been doing for millenia...
I'm currently sitting at my computer with crumpets and a cup of tea, you insensitive clod! ;)
Wouldn't be such a bad thing for all proprietary software. If it's still current and being maintained it'll give the developers the kick up the arse they need to compile a 64 bit version. I expect once MS release a 64bit only OS, you'll find a 64bit version of Flash appearing very quickly indeed.
It would still be a problem for any software which is no longer maintained (company went bust etc, 10 year old program) which people still want to use. But as you said it'll still be possible to run these, it'll just more work.
Exactly that. :P Point is, it stops (or severely reduces) the risk of a collision being found.
What about this? (The one I use because I think it prevents hash collisions being found).
hash = MD5(secretstring.input)
So long as secretstring remains secret, the attacker now has to find values inputs which begin with secretstring which will cause a collision. And since they don't know the values of secretstring they wouldn't be able to use use the collision source code to find a collision in this case.
So doing some number crunching, you have about 235 gallons on a full tank which gets you 1600 miles. Or $648.37 to get you 1600 miles.
So you'll save $64.84 every 1600 miles.
216 tank fulls and you've saved the original $14000 investment.
(Or around 285 fill ups since you fill up at quarter tanks.)
Let's say you're driving 2500 miles a week. That's 138 weeks driving to break even. 2 and a half years, last time I heard trucks last much longer than that so you're going to save money in the long term.
If you mean that 4500 miles is your truck on it's own, then you'll break even even sooner, after only 77 weeks.
Perhaps it's not worth it for a family car going to the shops once a week, but it's *very* worth it for truckers on the road every day.
The disadvantage being you need a fiber optic cable directly connecting the sender and receiver to sent the photons down. You can't use routers because they'd change it and if they act as a relay the source is no longer able to detect eavesdropping in the network segment after the router.
So it's useful for say connecting two banks, but not for the Internet.
Or have I missed something?
Cheers for that, I hadn't seen the followup. :o)
Grandparent was by me. :o)
If it takes >= 90 years to crack (by brute forcing), you can't break it *now* (or rather in the next 90 days).
Similarly, if in 20 years we have computers good enough to break it within 90 days that's not much good when they won't exist for another 20 years.
So my original point of the 90 days wouldn't have done the police any good stands. It wouldn't as the computers won't get fast enough to break it in that time quickly enough. Even then, you just need to double the number key bits and you need an exponentially faster computer to break it.
"You're forgetting how fast computers change. In 20 years, everything we ever thought of in terms of security will be pitifully obsolete."
Yes, but this is now.
The better current encryption algorithms are currently uncrackable within 90 days, unless the government has a secret supercomputer thousands of times faster than the current #1 or have a secret working quantum computer hidden away somewhere.
I suppose it's possible, but highly unlikely.