Much as Outlook comes in for a lot of flak here on/. thanks to its interesting way of dealing with security, it is a very nice piece of software which makes dealing with work a hell of a lot easier. With all of the "productivity" features that it includes it couldn't fail to be a hit with PHB's everywhere and since it's PHBs that get to buy the software (unfortunately) many of us have to use at work, any alternative is going to need to give an equivalent set of features.
From what information there is on the website it appears as though this is what Evolution provides. What does this mean? It means that it's another piece of software which contributes to the possibility of your boss choosing Linux instead of Windows for their desktop machines. We now have an office suite and a "productivity" mail client, and these are two of the most essential elements of the modern office desktop.
So despite all of Linux's other strengths, this program is likely to be one of the things that gets Linux into offices. Which, in the long run, can only be a good thing.
Not so much in terms of economics (a space elevator would make space travel vastly more feasable from an economic viewpoint), but in terms of public perception. Sure, we've put men on the moon, but the moon is still pretty much part of the Earth from a perception point of view - after all you can see it in space every night with your very own eyes.
But Mars is definitely out there. Putting people on Mars would be an acheivement with some real impact on public perception of the space industry - people are in general bored with Shuttle launches, but look at the attention that has been paid to the Mars missions recently.
Given that the technology to colonise Mars (and indeed other places in the solar system) is there it is only the will to do so that is lacking. People on Mars would make manned space travel an issue to the public again, and once something becomes an issue, governments tend to want to look good about it. And if one country does it, you can bet they'll all want to do it.
is the relation you're looking for. However since these dimensions aren't large-scale but are curled up, this relation will be different due to the topological differences between a (relatively) flat surface and a curled up tube.
There probably will be a spate of buy-outs and takeovers in the online news industry in coming years, but that's fairly standard for any industry. Whilst this means that most people will be getting their news from one of a few large news services, there will still be a market for specialised news.
For instance/. is never going to be as popular as news.com, but it doesn't have to be since it caters for a specialised market. And there are plenty more niches where a small news service can thrive without ever coming into competition with the big services.
Sorry, but I don't really see how this is going to be a major problem for people. So they link to adverts in the posts they get. It's not like they're inserting great big bandwidth eating banner adds into them is it? A few A HREF="" isn't going to hurt download times.
And besides if you're using a free service then you have to expect this kind of thing. If they're not charging you then they have to have some way of making money, and advertisement is the usual model. And Deja seem to be doing it in a way that is a lot less intrusive than most sites. Hell, you might even find the links useful sometimes!
And anyone who has been using the web for any amount of time should be used to checking where a link leads anyway. If you read/. you should be used to it, otherwise you'll end up at some pretty grim sites:)
IIRC you set c=1, h-bar=1 and G=1 in natural units - it makes equations a hell of a lot simpler since you don't need to deal with conversion factors for units.
So far I've never need a decent case presented that says gravity pulls and isn't a push effect. Of course that would be as hard to prove as the differnce between gravity and acceleration.
Eh? Gravity is an attractive force because the "gravitational charge" - mass - is always positive. Or are you trolling? I think you are - your post contains enough complete errors that it almost got me...
Dimensions do not have a size. Objects have sizes in a set of dimensions.
Of course dimension have a size, due to the fact that they are either limited in some extent or infinite. For instance time has a definite starting point and may be infinite in size (an open universe) or finite in size (a closed universe with a Big Crunch). Since the Universe isn't infinitely large the three spatial dimensions we're familiar with also have a size.
In superstring theory the compactified dimensions have a size corresponding to the Planck length in usual models - approx 10^-33 metres. There are models in which the size of these dimensions could be much larger, as in the article, and in those the idea in the article could be made to mesh with superstring theory.
Well nicotene helps me when I'm stressed. Sure it may noy solve the long-term problems, but it certainly helps to go and sit down and have a quick smoke.
Heck, I'd be happy if X-based window managers would do simple things-- like make sure that dialogs can't be moved behind their parent windows if they're modal dialogs.
Or make it so that when you click on a window any modal dialogs it has are bought to the front and focused on. Those things are real killers when you've got a busy screen.
Imagine, you're in the middle of an important videoconference and you can't participate because that your database interface insists on having all of your attention.
Hmmm, Alt-Tab should solve that problem, although I'd think that it wouldn't arise in the first place since the notification program will be aware of the fact that you're in a videoconference and will assign a higher priority to that. Your example is overly simplistic and doesn't add to the argument.
Worse yet, you have to make a live update to the database for the sake of the conference and the conferencing software won't let you change focus to make the change.
See above. This isn't some kind of "you must do this now" scheme, it's merely something to help you make the most of your time. If needs be you'll be able to override the program.
Surely if you don't want your programs to be constantly intefering with what you're doing then you have them minimized? Outlook will stick a mail icon in the system tray when mail arrives, if you don't want to be bothered by it then don't look at it...
Still, this kind of thing can only be a good thing for people with a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. Probably over half of the mail you receive during the day is pointless, but currently you still have to check it just in case. And when you're in the middle of something important, the last thing you want is your train of thought inturrupted by someone mailing you about some sports result you already knew about.
So priority systems like this that rely on contextual information are likely to be a great help to anybody in a busy office, but only if they work! If the system fails to notify you of urgent tasks whilst letting through rubbish then this will make your job even more difficult.
So it's really all down to how well it works. If it works, MS will win big on this, if it doesn't then it'll be Bob Mk 2...
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It's not only the fact that public funding for health service money has declined, it's also the fact that as more and more treatments are developed the money has to be stretched to cover more and more things. Even if funding has remained constant in real terms, quality of service and the degree of slack would have dropped simply in order to make these treatments available to people who previously would have had to have gone without.
Saying that of course, does not mean that the general unwillingness of voters and governments to give money to health services is right. With more and more threats to the American people from rogue nations and Islamic terrorists, this kind of threat becomes more and more likely. After all, it takes a hell of a lot of infrastructure to develop and maintain nuclear weapons, and it is relatively easy for intelligence services to spot such activities.
However a biological weapon can be developed in a small lab using off the shelf technology easily bought as "medical supplies". The risks of detection are minimal, especially in an age where the very people that protect us from these threats are perceived as being somehow evil and wrong. Despite liberal notions that "we are all the same underneath", we aren't, and there are a lot of people out there like Osama Bin Laden who hate the US and all it stands for.
Strong international security measures and a more proactive stance along with an increased emphasis internally on such threats is the only way to deal with this possibility. Son of Star Wars is a child's toy designed to protect against a threat highly unlikely to ever materialize, but we have nothing no defend our country against this far more dangerous threat.
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Much as Outlook comes in for a lot of flak here on /. thanks to its interesting way of dealing with security, it is a very nice piece of software which makes dealing with work a hell of a lot easier. With all of the "productivity" features that it includes it couldn't fail to be a hit with PHB's everywhere and since it's PHBs that get to buy the software (unfortunately) many of us have to use at work, any alternative is going to need to give an equivalent set of features.
From what information there is on the website it appears as though this is what Evolution provides. What does this mean? It means that it's another piece of software which contributes to the possibility of your boss choosing Linux instead of Windows for their desktop machines. We now have an office suite and a "productivity" mail client, and these are two of the most essential elements of the modern office desktop.
So despite all of Linux's other strengths, this program is likely to be one of the things that gets Linux into offices. Which, in the long run, can only be a good thing.
Not so much in terms of economics (a space elevator would make space travel vastly more feasable from an economic viewpoint), but in terms of public perception. Sure, we've put men on the moon, but the moon is still pretty much part of the Earth from a perception point of view - after all you can see it in space every night with your very own eyes.
But Mars is definitely out there. Putting people on Mars would be an acheivement with some real impact on public perception of the space industry - people are in general bored with Shuttle launches, but look at the attention that has been paid to the Mars missions recently.
Given that the technology to colonise Mars (and indeed other places in the solar system) is there it is only the will to do so that is lacking. People on Mars would make manned space travel an issue to the public again, and once something becomes an issue, governments tend to want to look good about it. And if one country does it, you can bet they'll all want to do it.
Here's hoping for a manned Mars mission soon!
is the relation you're looking for. However since these dimensions aren't large-scale but are curled up, this relation will be different due to the topological differences between a (relatively) flat surface and a curled up tube.
There probably will be a spate of buy-outs and takeovers in the online news industry in coming years, but that's fairly standard for any industry. Whilst this means that most people will be getting their news from one of a few large news services, there will still be a market for specialised news.
For instance /. is never going to be as popular as news.com, but it doesn't have to be since it caters for a specialised market. And there are plenty more niches where a small news service can thrive without ever coming into competition with the big services.
Sorry, but I don't really see how this is going to be a major problem for people. So they link to adverts in the posts they get. It's not like they're inserting great big bandwidth eating banner adds into them is it? A few A HREF="" isn't going to hurt download times.
And besides if you're using a free service then you have to expect this kind of thing. If they're not charging you then they have to have some way of making money, and advertisement is the usual model. And Deja seem to be doing it in a way that is a lot less intrusive than most sites. Hell, you might even find the links useful sometimes!
And anyone who has been using the web for any amount of time should be used to checking where a link leads anyway. If you read /. you should be used to it, otherwise you'll end up at some pretty grim sites :)
IIRC you set c=1, h-bar=1 and G=1 in natural units - it makes equations a hell of a lot simpler since you don't need to deal with conversion factors for units.
So far I've never need a decent case presented that says gravity pulls and isn't a push effect. Of course that would be as hard to prove as the differnce between gravity and acceleration.
Eh? Gravity is an attractive force because the "gravitational charge" - mass - is always positive. Or are you trolling? I think you are - your post contains enough complete errors that it almost got me...
Dimensions do not have a size. Objects have sizes in a set of dimensions.
Of course dimension have a size, due to the fact that they are either limited in some extent or infinite. For instance time has a definite starting point and may be infinite in size (an open universe) or finite in size (a closed universe with a Big Crunch). Since the Universe isn't infinitely large the three spatial dimensions we're familiar with also have a size.
In superstring theory the compactified dimensions have a size corresponding to the Planck length in usual models - approx 10^-33 metres. There are models in which the size of these dimensions could be much larger, as in the article, and in those the idea in the article could be made to mesh with superstring theory.
Well nicotene helps me when I'm stressed. Sure it may noy solve the long-term problems, but it certainly helps to go and sit down and have a quick smoke.
See, and you thought nobody would read it eh? :)
Heck, I'd be happy if X-based window managers would do simple things-- like make sure that dialogs can't be moved behind their parent windows if they're modal dialogs.
Or make it so that when you click on a window any modal dialogs it has are bought to the front and focused on. Those things are real killers when you've got a busy screen.
Imagine, you're in the middle of an important videoconference and you can't participate because that your database interface insists on having all of your attention.
Hmmm, Alt-Tab should solve that problem, although I'd think that it wouldn't arise in the first place since the notification program will be aware of the fact that you're in a videoconference and will assign a higher priority to that. Your example is overly simplistic and doesn't add to the argument.
Worse yet, you have to make a live update to the database for the sake of the conference and the conferencing software won't let you change focus to make the change.
See above. This isn't some kind of "you must do this now" scheme, it's merely something to help you make the most of your time. If needs be you'll be able to override the program.
Surely if you don't want your programs to be constantly intefering with what you're doing then you have them minimized? Outlook will stick a mail icon in the system tray when mail arrives, if you don't want to be bothered by it then don't look at it...
Still, this kind of thing can only be a good thing for people with a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it in. Probably over half of the mail you receive during the day is pointless, but currently you still have to check it just in case. And when you're in the middle of something important, the last thing you want is your train of thought inturrupted by someone mailing you about some sports result you already knew about.
So priority systems like this that rely on contextual information are likely to be a great help to anybody in a busy office, but only if they work! If the system fails to notify you of urgent tasks whilst letting through rubbish then this will make your job even more difficult.
So it's really all down to how well it works. If it works, MS will win big on this, if it doesn't then it'll be Bob Mk 2...
It's not only the fact that public funding for health service money has declined, it's also the fact that as more and more treatments are developed the money has to be stretched to cover more and more things. Even if funding has remained constant in real terms, quality of service and the degree of slack would have dropped simply in order to make these treatments available to people who previously would have had to have gone without.
Saying that of course, does not mean that the general unwillingness of voters and governments to give money to health services is right. With more and more threats to the American people from rogue nations and Islamic terrorists, this kind of threat becomes more and more likely. After all, it takes a hell of a lot of infrastructure to develop and maintain nuclear weapons, and it is relatively easy for intelligence services to spot such activities.
However a biological weapon can be developed in a small lab using off the shelf technology easily bought as "medical supplies". The risks of detection are minimal, especially in an age where the very people that protect us from these threats are perceived as being somehow evil and wrong. Despite liberal notions that "we are all the same underneath", we aren't, and there are a lot of people out there like Osama Bin Laden who hate the US and all it stands for.
Strong international security measures and a more proactive stance along with an increased emphasis internally on such threats is the only way to deal with this possibility. Son of Star Wars is a child's toy designed to protect against a threat highly unlikely to ever materialize, but we have nothing no defend our country against this far more dangerous threat.