support of the apple floppy design is a good test on the worth of someone's opinion about apple products. If they strongly defend it, they're not objective. If they say something like, "yeah, it's a bad design, however...", then they're probably an apple fan that will give you an honest opinion.
how many in IT are 25 to 35 now?
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how many in IT are 25 to 35 now? Because that's the age when many people have kids now. My wife was in IT till our son was born. She's staying home with him. Although not as many moms stay home while the kids are in school, a lot more stay home with them for the first year or so.
About 45% are home atleast a year -- "55 percent of women who gave birth between July 1999 and July 2000 returned to the labor force within a year of having their babies". "Of the 41.8 million kids under 15 who lived with two parents last year, more than 25 percent had mothers who stayed home, according to a Census Bureau report."
Some might think this is a bad thing. But "You're not how much money you have in the bank."
First a warning: IANAP, and it's been atleast 10 years since I've had a physics class. I haven't used anything from my modern physics class (mostly wave functions) since then. Heck, I haven't even used calc or dif eq for atleast 10 years. So I might be wildly off here.
If I'm understanding it correctly, there's an argon atom sitting there. The light pulse comes along and causes it to emit an electron -- the peaks cause it to emit the electron towards one screen, the trough cause it to emit the electron towards a different screen. The laser pulse they used had 2 peaks and one trough -- 1.5 cycles.
The fastest the electrons would travel would be at the speed of light. So we should be able to calculate the maximum distance the first electron could travel before the 2nd excitation happened: c * delta time = distance traveled (3*10^8 m/s) * (5*10^-15 s) = 15*10^-7 ~= 10^-6 m
Now, that distance doesnt mean much to me. If we compare it to the diameter of an argon atom (found via google), we get: diameters traveled = distance traveled / diameter 10^-6m / 4*10^-10m =.25*10^4 = 2500 diameters
So, if our electron is traveling at the speed of light, it's about 2500 diameters away. Obviously it's going to be moving much slower than that. I'm going to guess that it's much less than 1/2500 c.
So, isn't it possible that the first electron is still quite close (possibly still within the argon atom) when the 2nd peak excites the atom? Might they be close enough to interfere in a way that is consistent with what we already know?
My desktop is windows, but most of my work is through ssh connected to various linux boxes.
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I checked out his music and didn't like it. That he gives away his music on his site and is still successful (because of it?) is very cool. Many people get enjoyment out of his work, which is also cool.
I don't watch the cartoon network, which he seems to have had involvement with. I suppose, unless you watch CN or regularly converse with people who do, you probably don't know him.
However, the/. story was basically a commercial for him, and it worked (I now know who he is, as do many others). I'd say that's why so many people are so negative, even if he didn't pay for getting a story on/. If the tone of the story were different, I'd bet there'd be a lot fewer flames.
oh yeah: lynx http://www.mcchris.com/
FRAME: main
No frames eh? get yer ass over to a modern browser. what's up with that?:)
This is one of those types of bills that will be a test of corruption. This should not be partisan, if it is, then that says something about the side that goes against it.
I cancelled digital cable (cabal?) because my wife and I just didn't watch much tv and scifi is on the digital channels here. I liked being able to see it, and I'll probably rent the series through netflix.
what about hula? http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/20 05/02/p r05014.html
"Feb. 15, 2005 -- Novell today announced the formation of Hula(TM), a new community project to create an open source collaboration server. "... "Hula today includes standards-based e-mail, calendaring and address book functionality that can scale to 250,000 registered users on a single PC with 50,000 simultaneously connected users."
I haven't had a chance to really look for more info, but this looks promising on the surface.
Sure, my roof might have snow on it for 30 days a year. Solar would not be there to replace all of my power usage, it would be there to reduce it. My electric bill is highest in the summer due to air conditioning. Just cutting the extra cost of ac in the summer in half would save me a fair ammount of cash. I'd guess that the highest electricity usage occurs when the sun is out.
Dont forget, windows and dos succeeded because it was free for home users. Not legally, of course, but windows and dos were pirated like crazy. Guess what it got them? Marketshare. They sold it in the workplace, but won it in the homes of the hobbiests.
They killed/buyed off the competition. Guess what, along comes a competitor that can't be bought or killed off. And it's take the effective part of MS's early strategy one step further. MS doesn't know how to fight it.
The market created a competitor, or put another way, a competitor evolved much like a bacteria in the presence of antibiotics. MS's traditional pills dont work anymore, they've killed off what they could, allowing what remains to have room to thrive. In a way, MS created modern OSS.
support Active X controls under Windows NO!! NO!! NO!!
Active X is the worst security model anyone could think of. Not having active X support is the #1 feature of Mozilla/Firefox. You can say tabbed browsing, better png support, etc all you want, but not having active X support is the number one reason it's better than IE at keeping spyware off of clueless user's computer. Clicking yes/no is not a good security model.
sort of along the lines of: patient: my arm hurts when I do this. Doc: dont do that.
I was simply stating the obvious. It just doesnt seem that odd to me. Today's kids arent the first generation to grow up with video games, they're the 2nd. My parents grew up with TV and no one thinks it's odd if they watch tv together. I bet if you look really hard, you'll find couples that play cards together too.
Oh, and a small correction, 4 network cables: mine, her's, the kids' and the router's.
The record industry is cutting its own throat. THey're screwing their customers and they deserve every bad thing that happens to them. I feel no sympathy for the business, and I no longer feel any sympathy for the artists who get conned into going along with them.
I bought several thousand dollars worth of music in the early 90s. In the last 5 years, I've bought less than $50 worth. I can live without the music and they can fuck off.
I'm not the only one who feels this way. The record companies are the 2000s version of buggy whip makers and they know it, and they're fighting it every step of the way.
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support of the apple floppy design is a good test on the worth of someone's opinion about apple products. If they strongly defend it, they're not objective. If they say something like, "yeah, it's a bad design, however...", then they're probably an apple fan that will give you an honest opinion.
how many in IT are 25 to 35 now? Because that's the age when many people have kids now. My wife was in IT till our son was born. She's staying home with him. Although not as many moms stay home while the kids are in school, a lot more stay home with them for the first year or so.
About 45% are home atleast a year -- "55 percent of women who gave birth between July 1999 and July 2000 returned to the labor force within a year of having their babies". "Of the 41.8 million kids under 15 who lived with two parents last year, more than 25 percent had mothers who stayed home, according to a Census Bureau report."
Some might think this is a bad thing. But "You're not how much money you have in the bank."
By that time, you've grown old, wife left, dog died.. etc.
So in a few years, we'll have to suffer through MMORPG themed country songs?
First a warning: IANAP, and it's been atleast 10 years since I've had a physics class. I haven't used anything from my modern physics class (mostly wave functions) since then. Heck, I haven't even used calc or dif eq for atleast 10 years. So I might be wildly off here.
If I'm understanding it correctly, there's an argon atom sitting there. The light pulse comes along and causes it to emit an electron -- the peaks cause it to emit the electron towards one screen, the trough cause it to emit the electron towards a different screen. The laser pulse they used had 2 peaks and one trough -- 1.5 cycles.
The fastest the electrons would travel would be at the speed of light. So we should be able to calculate the maximum distance the first electron could travel before the 2nd excitation happened:
c * delta time = distance traveled
(3*10^8 m/s) * (5*10^-15 s) = 15*10^-7 ~= 10^-6 m
Now, that distance doesnt mean much to me. If we compare it to the diameter of an argon atom (found via google), we get:
diameters traveled = distance traveled / diameter
10^-6m / 4*10^-10m =.25*10^4 = 2500 diameters
So, if our electron is traveling at the speed of light, it's about 2500 diameters away. Obviously it's going to be moving much slower than that. I'm going to guess that it's much less than 1/2500 c.
So, isn't it possible that the first electron is still quite close (possibly still within the argon atom) when the 2nd peak excites the atom? Might they be close enough to interfere in a way that is consistent with what we already know?
My desktop is windows, but most of my work is through ssh connected to various linux boxes.
I checked out his music and didn't like it. That he gives away his music on his site and is still successful (because of it?) is very cool. Many people get enjoyment out of his work, which is also cool.
/. story was basically a commercial for him, and it worked (I now know who he is, as do many others). I'd say that's why so many people are so negative, even if he didn't pay for getting a story on /. If the tone of the story were different, I'd bet there'd be a lot fewer flames.
:)
I don't watch the cartoon network, which he seems to have had involvement with. I suppose, unless you watch CN or regularly converse with people who do, you probably don't know him.
However, the
oh yeah:
lynx http://www.mcchris.com/
FRAME: main
No frames eh? get yer ass over to a modern browser.
what's up with that?
This is one of those types of bills that will be a test of corruption. This should not be partisan, if it is, then that says something about the side that goes against it.
I cancelled digital cable (cabal?) because my wife and I just didn't watch much tv and scifi is on the digital channels here. I liked being able to see it, and I'll probably rent the series through netflix.
what about hula?0 05/02/p r05014.html
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http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2
"Feb. 15, 2005 -- Novell today announced the formation of Hula(TM), a new community project to create an open source collaboration server. "
"Hula today includes standards-based e-mail, calendaring and address book functionality that can scale to 250,000 registered users on a single PC with 50,000 simultaneously connected users."
I haven't had a chance to really look for more info, but this looks promising on the surface.
When I overclocked my soundcard, I thought I had broke it. The dog wasn't happy either.
Sure, my roof might have snow on it for 30 days a year. Solar would not be there to replace all of my power usage, it would be there to reduce it. My electric bill is highest in the summer due to air conditioning. Just cutting the extra cost of ac in the summer in half would save me a fair ammount of cash. I'd guess that the highest electricity usage occurs when the sun is out.
I think creationism is more common as you go south. It doesnt seem to be all that common where I live, atleast among the people I know.
cows produce more green house gases than humans....
and why are there so many cows? I doubt they'd be near as successful on their own.
I don't think it's "rot" that you're smelling...
stop smelling Steve Ballmer's panties.
Dont forget, windows and dos succeeded because it was free for home users. Not legally, of course, but windows and dos were pirated like crazy. Guess what it got them? Marketshare. They sold it in the workplace, but won it in the homes of the hobbiests.
They killed/buyed off the competition. Guess what, along comes a competitor that can't be bought or killed off. And it's take the effective part of MS's early strategy one step further. MS doesn't know how to fight it.
The market created a competitor, or put another way, a competitor evolved much like a bacteria in the presence of antibiotics. MS's traditional pills dont work anymore, they've killed off what they could, allowing what remains to have room to thrive. In a way, MS created modern OSS.
no other woman heads a company as powerful and important as HP.
How about Patricia Dunn?
Maybe we can pay Berman to stay away from the next star trek series?
Yast also works just fine without requiring gui, which is a big plus to many of us.
With GWB in office again, it's no longer needed.
"Obviously, we'll connect Xbox Love up to what we do with Messenger"
great, the return of the dongle.
support Active X controls under Windows
NO!! NO!! NO!!
Active X is the worst security model anyone could think of. Not having active X support is the #1 feature of Mozilla/Firefox. You can say tabbed browsing, better png support, etc all you want, but not having active X support is the number one reason it's better than IE at keeping spyware off of clueless user's computer. Clicking yes/no is not a good security model.
"There is a joke in there somewhere."
sort of along the lines of:
patient: my arm hurts when I do this.
Doc: dont do that.
I was simply stating the obvious. It just doesnt seem that odd to me. Today's kids arent the first generation to grow up with video games, they're the 2nd. My parents grew up with TV and no one thinks it's odd if they watch tv together. I bet if you look really hard, you'll find couples that play cards together too.
Oh, and a small correction, 4 network cables: mine, her's, the kids' and the router's.
"How do you play WoW with your wife?"
2 computers, 2 accounts, 1 room, broadband, switch, couple of network cables.
The record industry is cutting its own throat. THey're screwing their customers and they deserve every bad thing that happens to them. I feel no sympathy for the business, and I no longer feel any sympathy for the artists who get conned into going along with them.
I bought several thousand dollars worth of music in the early 90s. In the last 5 years, I've bought less than $50 worth. I can live without the music and they can fuck off.
I'm not the only one who feels this way. The record companies are the 2000s version of buggy whip makers and they know it, and they're fighting it every step of the way.
Next week: Nikola introduces power over wireless Ethernet.