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Yet there are people whose job it is to do so...
How do you get this job? Morally upstanding, my ass...
Y'know... what's really great about filtering software is that it attempts to filter 'The Internet' for naughtiness and subversiveness, yet rarely filters anything other than HTTP. I mean... anyone who knows *anything* about porn, warez, mp3's, texts, etc... realizes that the best place to find them without having to look is Usenet and IRC.
Pressure? What're you smokin', boy? Light is/is almost massless. It has no volume or density and therefore no pressue.
What a Gigawatt+ laser does have is lots and lots of energy! Even if *some* of the energy is reflected, the vast majority is still imparted to the mirrored surface, thus degrading the missle's hull as stated in the CNN article or burning through it altogether.
It's nice to see some non-braindamage regulations emerging from Washington for once. Don't get used to it, tho.
If nothing else, this indicates that the government realizes that the economy of the last several years has been driven largely in part by technology purchases. Now that the primary growth market for server/highended workstations is going to be overseas, we can look for computer hardware companies to start competing on component and upgrade prices in the U.S. and Canada rather than trying to sell sub $500 PC's. I can't wait!
Manufactured diamonds are relatively cheap. I read of one experiment in which film diamond (the old kind) could be condensd out of natural gasses extracted from sewage.
Cast not pearls before swine...
It seems like the embedded kernel would already be so tweaked for use in the car's cpu that the only thing it would really need in the way of modifications would be an RPM/Speed-limit remover like some chippers already do.
Why would you want to hack a car's cpu? This is not rhetorical. Why would you?
Let's not forget that the Earth is millions of miles further from the sun during NH summer than it is during winter due to the elliptical shape of Earth's orbit.
A few measly million miles of distance doesn't mean anything when you get into astronomical measurements.
What does matter is that there is a significant increase and decrease in the amount of sunlight the planet/moon receives, what really matters is the mean amount of light it receives and the surface/atmospheric albedo. If the moon's surface is *mostly* water like Earth's, then you wind up with a situation where the planet cools and warms slowly with the relative extremes depending on the period of its orbit. Io orbits Jupiter about every day and a half. I'm not sure how the math works, but it seems like an Earth-sized moon would orbit about once every five-seven days around a planet that is 17 times larger. (Please correct my math!)
If the mean distance is earthlike, and the mean sunlight is sol-like, humans could still comfortably live on a planet like this, assuming it had a good atmosphere and was not mana-toxic.
Like something seriously worth hacking into and putting in a real computer.
I'll say. This is useless for me, since I don't have webTV. I do have an old video out card, and would grab one of these bad boys in an instant if I could be assured that the wireless keyboard, etc., would work with my blazing home-built.
Bodies of size greater than x, at least in our solar system, almost always have multiple planet-sized satellites. It can be argued that if they occupied their own orbits, the four big Jovians, Io, Europa, etc... would be classified as planetary bodies rather than moons.
When the next generation of big, badass telescopes goes into production, it's going to be neat to see how man moons this guy has, and what kind of stress they go through. If anywhere in explored/known space is going to have a M-Class planet to live on, this seems like a likely candidate.
Stranger than fiction, folks! While the x17 bodies are probably *not* planets, it's nice to see the astronomers and exogeologists get turned on their ears from time to time.
The one with Zoe on the front in her 'Little Devil' outfit with the fishnets and leotard. Whoohoo!
While the idea of micropayments seems a little more friendly to the music industry, I can see how online artists (rightfully) want their slice too. What I think will be infinitely more successful than micropayments, however, is merchandising. There is a wealth of Sluggy Freelance mugs, shirts, and even books available. Elf Life, one of the most popular strips around, has offered a cast shirt and the artist who drawsAcid Reflux offers an original art service where she draws pictures of your favorite RPG or MMOG character.
Even some fanauthors/artists are getting into the act by offering merchandise with pictures of original characters or logos.
Micropayments are good, but I htink that merchandising is the way to go for the online artist if he wants to profit from his work.
One of the biggest problems facing medical researchers who have been trying to come up with a decent way to run a good artificial heart has been the lack of substances with which to build the thing.
Barney Clark, the first artificial heart recipient, died of a stroke due to clotting in the device that eventually traveled to his brain. The new 'heart assist' pumps that are in use now that aid patients until their heart heals from an injury or disease, or until they can find a donor heart are made with certain ceramic materials that are so irregular that blood clots on them more rapidly than on smooth polymers and metals that were used in earlier devices.
The theory behind these is that because the surface is so rough, the blood clots that do form are much less likely to break off and work their way into a critical artery blockage. It seems to work, but these devices are *Very* high maintenance and require tubes and/or wires to extend from the chest cavity to power them.
This new material could have a profound effect on artificial organ research because, like the smooth muscle of the heart, blood won't clot on this stuff. If the research proves out, artificial heart devices can be made smaller, more powerful and less intrusive.
I just hope these guys realize this and will provide samples to research hospitals...
Having worked in a Mac-friendly environment for quite a while, I have to say that saying that Steve is a wacko and then saying that you like the way his products turn out is a little irresponsible.
For the last several years, Apple has made several blunders, usually as much at their customer's expense as their own. Many of these 'blunders' were marketing or pricing attempts that are aimed directly at asserting Apple's control over the Macintosh market. First and foremost of these in my mind is Apple's rather ruthless elimination of the Apple Clones. This is a direct result of Job's 'Militant' and 'Psychotic' nature. As much as I like MacOS and as much as I'd truly *like* to have an iBook or a new G4 server, I will not spend my hardware money to support a company that engages in these sorts of business practices. (MS is even worse, but I don't have to buy un-upgradeable hardware from Redmond.)
While I'm certain that this is a major boon for scientists, mathemeticians, and even doctors, I would much rather have seen a W3C Reccomendation for a non proprietary vector graphic format.
This is dumb anyway. A DVD is supposed to be damn near perfect quality anyway, right? I mean if you look really, *really* carefully, you can seem some blockiness in diffrent shades of black Neo's coat when the screen is almost totally black.
For my Anime DVD's there is *no* noise whatsoever. DVD is an incomparable video format in terms of quality. Even if they did start releasing super-bulky video data like this, why not just rip to DVD-R ????
Uhhmm... No. I'm saying that Athlon's 500 mhz doesn't really get as much done as PPC's 500mhz. It's like comparing two cars that can both get 10000 rpm. Which one uses it better?
I can't find a link to the opinion or the dissenting opinion, but this was probably decided on the basis of State's Rights. It has been upheld many, many times in the past that states and local communities have the right to make legislation affecting morality and ethics. This is why Nevada can have legal brothels and most other states cannot.
I'm certain that the argument here is that since the professors are 'employees of the state', then the state gets full and free reign over what they consider is moral and ethical behavior on the job.
First of all, Quantum Theory as we know it has been devised over the last century. I could name a lot of famous scientists names like Heisenberg, Schroedinger, and Fermi, but you don't care so I won't.
The meat and potatoes of quantum theory is this: All particles, no matter what the size, act as both a wave and a particle. According to research, either the location *or* the mass of a particle may be known at any time.
Also, as we all know, wave interfere with eachother. If the crests of two waves overlap, they grow. This is referred to as 'Constructive' interference. 'Destructive' interference happens when a crest of one wave overlaps the trough of another wave. This gives rise to many observable phenomena, such as diffraction lines you can see when you stare at a bright light through your eyelashes. This is what causes 'ice rings' around bright lights in cold weather and the occasional 'moon ring'. It's also why you have to have your surround sound speakers positioned just so, so that they don't interfere with eachother.
Early experiments where researchers shot electrons through tiny holes in a lead sheild and onto film created similiar diffraction patterns, because, since electrons are indeed particles, they are also waves. The real shock comes when you only shoot one electron (or other particle) at a time through a sheild to create a pattern on film. Even though there was nothing for the particles to interfere with when shot one at a time, they *still* created a diffraction pattern.
This gives rise to the thought that particles that store their energy in 'quanta' and are small enough not to interact instantly with their environment, exist in multiple probability states. The electrons that created the diffraction pattern were interfering with the possibility that they existed elsewhere in the experiment.
In quantum computing, this is useful because electrons can be made to do different things at the same time, such as be in different places or aborb and release different amounts of energy. They can also simply stop existing at one place and start existing at another. They can also rock back and forth through time. Quantum computing, for the uninitiated, relies on harnessing these seemingly paradoxical phenomena. If the theories are all correct, this means that information storage will simply become infinite because there are an infinite number of states that any electron can occupy. Energy required to run a quantum process will be very little or zero, due to basic laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. Speed of computations will be astronomical because quantum interactions take place on the pico-scale.
Quite a nifty thing...
Schroedinger's Cat says: It is not the world that must bend, but your mind. You must realize taht there is no mouse.
The main reason a non-Graphics professional would want to buy a Mac or other PPC machine would be because of the hardware. An intense speed boost given to certain kinds of math-intensive work: e.g. Run Photoshop or Premeire on a G4 500 and an Athlon 500. They simply run faster on the Mac. Anyone have experience with non-MM apps on PPC platforms?
I think that it can be sucessfully argued that while Linux in any incarnation is a powerful OS for servers, development and office work, it falls critically short for multimedia creation. If you install LinuxPPC, it's because you want the powers for the first three and not the latter. This is going to be LinuxPPC's chokehold over OSX. I'm not saying that they'll lose it to OSX's *nix parts, I'm just saying that that's what they got right now.
When the ISP I used to work for realized that Peachtree just wasn't going to cut the mustard for 30k+ customers, our development team spent about a year creating a Perl based helpdesk/dbm/accounting package that ran under Linux/Slorais and MySQL and had a web interface. The first version was rather neat, and worked pretty well, even when used by Level 1 support, the PHB's, and the MBA's in accounting and sales.
Unfortuneately, the second version was written by programmers *for* programmers. It didn't go over very well. I think they have refined it since...
...but with a little better spin. Surely, I'm not the first paranoid to realize that government controlled or funded monitoring utilities, be they hardware-based like Carnivore, or software based like this guy, are a little scary.
EMERALD (They must have *really* worked to put this acronym together) seems on the surface to be quite a bit less scary than Carnivore. It monitors your network and reports back to you, but the project *is* DARPA funded, and ultimately serves the DOD's (and therefore the FBI and NSA's) best interests. This is the line that has me really concerned:
Plus, with resolver, an additional EMERALD software component, alerts are consolidated across multiple network domains within a single reporting console.
Does this mean that there are ways built into the software to monitor one firewalled network from another? They had better release the source for all components for reveiw, or I ain't touchin' it with a ten-foot pole. If there are backdoors in Windows, then it's just too-too easy to put a DOD or NSA back-door into something like this.
Failing that they would have been asked for permission to feature their products gratis. Microsoft's absence implies express denial.
This is hardly surprising considering that this movie's badguy, like the badguy in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' could easily called 'Bill' with no change to the plot. Regardless of how you feel about him, a *lot* of people are uncomfortable with how much power this man really has in the world, and are wont to satirize him.
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Yet there are people whose job it is to do so...
How do you get this job? Morally upstanding, my ass...
Y'know... what's really great about filtering software is that it attempts to filter 'The Internet' for naughtiness and subversiveness, yet rarely filters anything other than HTTP. I mean... anyone who knows *anything* about porn, warez, mp3's, texts, etc... realizes that the best place to find them without having to look is Usenet and IRC.
Pressure? What're you smokin', boy? Light is/is almost massless. It has no volume or density and therefore no pressue.
What a Gigawatt+ laser does have is lots and lots of energy! Even if *some* of the energy is reflected, the vast majority is still imparted to the mirrored surface, thus degrading the missle's hull as stated in the CNN article or burning through it altogether.
It's nice to see some non-braindamage regulations emerging from Washington for once. Don't get used to it, tho. If nothing else, this indicates that the government realizes that the economy of the last several years has been driven largely in part by technology purchases. Now that the primary growth market for server/highended workstations is going to be overseas, we can look for computer hardware companies to start competing on component and upgrade prices in the U.S. and Canada rather than trying to sell sub $500 PC's. I can't wait!
...but at 500 C, it melted a hole right through my motherboard.
Manufactured diamonds are relatively cheap. I read of one experiment in which film diamond (the old kind) could be condensd out of natural gasses extracted from sewage. Cast not pearls before swine...
It seems like the embedded kernel would already be so tweaked for use in the car's cpu that the only thing it would really need in the way of modifications would be an RPM/Speed-limit remover like some chippers already do. Why would you want to hack a car's cpu? This is not rhetorical. Why would you?
Let's not forget that the Earth is millions of miles further from the sun during NH summer than it is during winter due to the elliptical shape of Earth's orbit.
A few measly million miles of distance doesn't mean anything when you get into astronomical measurements.
What does matter is that there is a significant increase and decrease in the amount of sunlight the planet/moon receives, what really matters is the mean amount of light it receives and the surface/atmospheric albedo. If the moon's surface is *mostly* water like Earth's, then you wind up with a situation where the planet cools and warms slowly with the relative extremes depending on the period of its orbit. Io orbits Jupiter about every day and a half. I'm not sure how the math works, but it seems like an Earth-sized moon would orbit about once every five-seven days around a planet that is 17 times larger. (Please correct my math!) If the mean distance is earthlike, and the mean sunlight is sol-like, humans could still comfortably live on a planet like this, assuming it had a good atmosphere and was not mana-toxic.
Like something seriously worth hacking into and putting in a real computer.
I'll say. This is useless for me, since I don't have webTV. I do have an old video out card, and would grab one of these bad boys in an instant if I could be assured that the wireless keyboard, etc., would work with my blazing home-built.
Bodies of size greater than x, at least in our solar system, almost always have multiple planet-sized satellites. It can be argued that if they occupied their own orbits, the four big Jovians, Io, Europa, etc... would be classified as planetary bodies rather than moons.
When the next generation of big, badass telescopes goes into production, it's going to be neat to see how man moons this guy has, and what kind of stress they go through. If anywhere in explored/known space is going to have a M-Class planet to live on, this seems like a likely candidate.
Stranger than fiction, folks! While the x17 bodies are probably *not* planets, it's nice to see the astronomers and exogeologists get turned on their ears from time to time.
The one with Zoe on the front in her 'Little Devil' outfit with the fishnets and leotard. Whoohoo!
While the idea of micropayments seems a little more friendly to the music industry, I can see how online artists (rightfully) want their slice too. What I think will be infinitely more successful than micropayments, however, is merchandising. There is a wealth of Sluggy Freelance mugs, shirts, and even books available. Elf Life, one of the most popular strips around, has offered a cast shirt and the artist who drawsAcid Reflux offers an original art service where she draws pictures of your favorite RPG or MMOG character.
Even some fanauthors/artists are getting into the act by offering merchandise with pictures of original characters or logos.
Micropayments are good, but I htink that merchandising is the way to go for the online artist if he wants to profit from his work.
One of the biggest problems facing medical researchers who have been trying to come up with a decent way to run a good artificial heart has been the lack of substances with which to build the thing.
Barney Clark, the first artificial heart recipient, died of a stroke due to clotting in the device that eventually traveled to his brain. The new 'heart assist' pumps that are in use now that aid patients until their heart heals from an injury or disease, or until they can find a donor heart are made with certain ceramic materials that are so irregular that blood clots on them more rapidly than on smooth polymers and metals that were used in earlier devices.
The theory behind these is that because the surface is so rough, the blood clots that do form are much less likely to break off and work their way into a critical artery blockage. It seems to work, but these devices are *Very* high maintenance and require tubes and/or wires to extend from the chest cavity to power them.
This new material could have a profound effect on artificial organ research because, like the smooth muscle of the heart, blood won't clot on this stuff. If the research proves out, artificial heart devices can be made smaller, more powerful and less intrusive.
I just hope these guys realize this and will provide samples to research hospitals...
Having worked in a Mac-friendly environment for quite a while, I have to say that saying that Steve is a wacko and then saying that you like the way his products turn out is a little irresponsible.
For the last several years, Apple has made several blunders, usually as much at their customer's expense as their own. Many of these 'blunders' were marketing or pricing attempts that are aimed directly at asserting Apple's control over the Macintosh market. First and foremost of these in my mind is Apple's rather ruthless elimination of the Apple Clones. This is a direct result of Job's 'Militant' and 'Psychotic' nature. As much as I like MacOS and as much as I'd truly *like* to have an iBook or a new G4 server, I will not spend my hardware money to support a company that engages in these sorts of business practices. (MS is even worse, but I don't have to buy un-upgradeable hardware from Redmond.)
And when they do, it will run slow and be full of security vulnerabilities and allow scr1pt k1d33s to haXor your site.
While I'm certain that this is a major boon for scientists, mathemeticians, and even doctors, I would much rather have seen a W3C Reccomendation for a non proprietary vector graphic format.
This is dumb anyway. A DVD is supposed to be damn near perfect quality anyway, right? I mean if you look really, *really* carefully, you can seem some blockiness in diffrent shades of black Neo's coat when the screen is almost totally black.
For my Anime DVD's there is *no* noise whatsoever. DVD is an incomparable video format in terms of quality. Even if they did start releasing super-bulky video data like this, why not just rip to DVD-R ????
Uhhmm... No. I'm saying that Athlon's 500 mhz doesn't really get as much done as PPC's 500mhz. It's like comparing two cars that can both get 10000 rpm. Which one uses it better?
Ah, they didn't even review it. Well, my previous statement still stands.
I can't find a link to the opinion or the dissenting opinion, but this was probably decided on the basis of State's Rights. It has been upheld many, many times in the past that states and local communities have the right to make legislation affecting morality and ethics. This is why Nevada can have legal brothels and most other states cannot.
I'm certain that the argument here is that since the professors are 'employees of the state', then the state gets full and free reign over what they consider is moral and ethical behavior on the job.
for Quantum Computing Purposes...
Skip this if you've had even Physics 101.
First of all, Quantum Theory as we know it has been devised over the last century. I could name a lot of famous scientists names like Heisenberg, Schroedinger, and Fermi, but you don't care so I won't.
The meat and potatoes of quantum theory is this: All particles, no matter what the size, act as both a wave and a particle. According to research, either the location *or* the mass of a particle may be known at any time.
Also, as we all know, wave interfere with eachother. If the crests of two waves overlap, they grow. This is referred to as 'Constructive' interference. 'Destructive' interference happens when a crest of one wave overlaps the trough of another wave. This gives rise to many observable phenomena, such as diffraction lines you can see when you stare at a bright light through your eyelashes. This is what causes 'ice rings' around bright lights in cold weather and the occasional 'moon ring'. It's also why you have to have your surround sound speakers positioned just so, so that they don't interfere with eachother.
Early experiments where researchers shot electrons through tiny holes in a lead sheild and onto film created similiar diffraction patterns, because, since electrons are indeed particles, they are also waves. The real shock comes when you only shoot one electron (or other particle) at a time through a sheild to create a pattern on film. Even though there was nothing for the particles to interfere with when shot one at a time, they *still* created a diffraction pattern.
This gives rise to the thought that particles that store their energy in 'quanta' and are small enough not to interact instantly with their environment, exist in multiple probability states. The electrons that created the diffraction pattern were interfering with the possibility that they existed elsewhere in the experiment.
In quantum computing, this is useful because electrons can be made to do different things at the same time, such as be in different places or aborb and release different amounts of energy. They can also simply stop existing at one place and start existing at another. They can also rock back and forth through time. Quantum computing, for the uninitiated, relies on harnessing these seemingly paradoxical phenomena. If the theories are all correct, this means that information storage will simply become infinite because there are an infinite number of states that any electron can occupy. Energy required to run a quantum process will be very little or zero, due to basic laws of thermodynamics and quantum physics. Speed of computations will be astronomical because quantum interactions take place on the pico-scale.
Quite a nifty thing...
Schroedinger's Cat says: It is not the world that must bend, but your mind. You must realize taht there is no mouse.
Does anyone have a mirror handy?
The main reason a non-Graphics professional would want to buy a Mac or other PPC machine would be because of the hardware. An intense speed boost given to certain kinds of math-intensive work: e.g. Run Photoshop or Premeire on a G4 500 and an Athlon 500. They simply run faster on the Mac. Anyone have experience with non-MM apps on PPC platforms?
I think that it can be sucessfully argued that while Linux in any incarnation is a powerful OS for servers, development and office work, it falls critically short for multimedia creation. If you install LinuxPPC, it's because you want the powers for the first three and not the latter. This is going to be LinuxPPC's chokehold over OSX. I'm not saying that they'll lose it to OSX's *nix parts, I'm just saying that that's what they got right now.
When the ISP I used to work for realized that Peachtree just wasn't going to cut the mustard for 30k+ customers, our development team spent about a year creating a Perl based helpdesk/dbm/accounting package that ran under Linux/Slorais and MySQL and had a web interface. The first version was rather neat, and worked pretty well, even when used by Level 1 support, the PHB's, and the MBA's in accounting and sales.
Unfortuneately, the second version was written by programmers *for* programmers. It didn't go over very well. I think they have refined it since...
...but with a little better spin. Surely, I'm not the first paranoid to realize that government controlled or funded monitoring utilities, be they hardware-based like Carnivore, or software based like this guy, are a little scary.
EMERALD (They must have *really* worked to put this acronym together) seems on the surface to be quite a bit less scary than Carnivore. It monitors your network and reports back to you, but the project *is* DARPA funded, and ultimately serves the DOD's (and therefore the FBI and NSA's) best interests. This is the line that has me really concerned:
Plus, with resolver, an additional EMERALD software component, alerts are consolidated across multiple network domains within a single reporting console.
Does this mean that there are ways built into the software to monitor one firewalled network from another? They had better release the source for all components for reveiw, or I ain't touchin' it with a ten-foot pole. If there are backdoors in Windows, then it's just too-too easy to put a DOD or NSA back-door into something like this.
Failing that they would have been asked for permission to feature their products gratis. Microsoft's absence implies express denial.
This is hardly surprising considering that this movie's badguy, like the badguy in 'Tomorrow Never Dies' could easily called 'Bill' with no change to the plot. Regardless of how you feel about him, a *lot* of people are uncomfortable with how much power this man really has in the world, and are wont to satirize him.