I suspect your wrong. It seems likely to me that the military *has* developed reliably particle beam weapons. If you doubt this check out the state of civilian adaptive optics. Note the push to deploy missile defense without testing missile based interceptors. Which in all likelihood don't work and are a smoke screen. Rather the push is to get the tracking radars deployed. Ones going up on Shemya with or without missile defense approval. Also, you may want to look at the power consumed by certain Alaskan military bases.
This is off-topic, but here is a very interesting experiment for you to try....
In the 1940's and 50's McGraw-Hill published a series called the National Nuclear Energy Series. Google for list of the titles. A number of them have been classified but a few haven't. Next proceed to google each individual title you were able to find.
Make sure you have a network monitoring/logging utility such as snort to watch your net traffic. Within 48 hours or so you should see a number of cool probes come in from off-shore CIA and NSA shell corps. They really like the Bahamas, probably nice and warm.
P.S. this isn't a troll or joke, you have been warned.
I find this whole debate about Microsoft and and it's "technology" highly entertaining. Who cares, Microsoft is doomed, yes doomed, bitches.
Corporations, government, and private section are moving servers and network boxes to linux in droves. Heck, even hollywood is migrating to the penguin. With the price of commercial software higher than that of hardware how can Linux (or other free OS's for that matter) not succeed? When Microsoft dies all this "technology" will go away anyway, protect your investment, don't buy into this crap.
Let Microsoft masterbate all they want with their palladium. In the end all they'll have is a hand full of sticky goo.
The linux kernel has numerous ethernet drivers that you've written. I was wondering how you are able to write and maintain drivers that are compatible with literally dozens of different ethernet cards. How to you manage change control and regression testing?
This is something that really chaps my ass. It is *easy* to start your own Certificate Authority (CA). The problem is getting your CA recognized in the web browers of the world. In a nutshell you need to pay many fat bribes, on the order of several hundred thousand dollars, to Microsloth, AOL, etc.,etc...to get your CA listed in the browsers. Big companies, like Sun for instance, can afford to do this.
It would be great if some respected non-profit organization like the Free Software Foundation had enough pull to start a free Certificate Authority that could get listed in the browsers.
I'm sure Verisign and the other blood suckers at large would hate, despise, and bring on the legal nazi's against this. Hence it isn't likely to happen anytime soon. To bad since this is a major roadblock to the common use of encryption on the net.
In the grand scheme of things diamonds are pretty boring gemstones with the majority cut as generic brilliants. Consider sapphires instead. I spent a year mining sapphires in Australia and really liked the golden yellows, grassy greens, and parti colors (stones with multiple colors often blue, green, yellow). Sapphires are actually a lot rarer than diamonds, rank 9 on the hardness scale, and make great gemstones.
Now for the bad news... If you didn't know it or suspect it already diamonds, sapphires, and just about all gemstones in retail stores are are grossly over-priced small crappy stones. A decent rough sapphire, short of flawless rubies and truly phenomenal material, usually cost anywhere from $5-15 a caret rough. So you buy a 10 caret stone (~$100), have it cut in Thailand for a few cents a caret (bad advice), loose about 2/3 (the average) and wind up with a 3 caret cut stone. In the US this stone could go for anywhere from $300-$800 a caret or $900-$2400 retail.
The trick is too buy directly from miners. They are typically starving, will cut you a good deal, and really appreciate non-taxable cash. Rubyvale and Sapphire Queensland, Tanzania, and Uganda are relatively good safe places to do this. Have the stones cut by a reputeable local faceter and pay someone to fabricate a ring to match. I guarantee you'll wind up with a piece of jewelry a heck of lot nicer than whats in the shops.
The "3 C's" are a marketing gimmick. Heres some more concrete advice... When buying cut gemstones be sure to look at them outside in the sunshine. This is important! Bad light hides flaws and distorts the true color of the stone. Make sure has good color (that you like). It should be clear and *bright*. Make sure the stone has sharp meets, ie where the facets come togethor. Determine this with a 10x loupe or magnifier. If the meets don't meet is was cut for crap (most are). The bottom of the stone should reflect light like a sea of mirrors. If it doesn't or you can see through the bottom it was cut at the wrong angle, is too shallow, or is crappy material. A good stone looks good, accept nothing less. If there is anything suspicious or strange about the stone or dealer don't buy - they are trying to rip off.
Short of being a gemologist with a well equipped lab there is no way for you to determine if a stone is synthetic. Certificates don't mean shit. Buy stones you *like* not for investment. You are bound for dissappointment otherwise.
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I suspect your wrong. It seems likely to me that the military *has* developed reliably particle beam weapons. If you doubt this check out the state of civilian adaptive optics. Note the push to deploy missile defense without testing missile based interceptors. Which in all likelihood don't work and are a smoke screen. Rather the push is to get the tracking radars deployed. Ones going up on Shemya with or without missile defense approval. Also, you may want to look at the power consumed by certain Alaskan military bases.
This is off-topic, but here is a very interesting experiment for you to try....
In the 1940's and 50's McGraw-Hill published a series called the National Nuclear Energy Series. Google for list of the titles. A number of them have been classified but a few haven't. Next proceed to google each individual title you were able to find.
Make sure you have a network monitoring/logging utility such as snort to watch your net traffic. Within 48 hours or so you should see a number of cool probes come in from off-shore CIA and NSA shell corps. They really like the Bahamas, probably nice and warm.
P.S. this isn't a troll or joke, you have been warned.
I find this whole debate about Microsoft and and it's "technology" highly entertaining. Who cares, Microsoft is doomed, yes doomed, bitches.
Corporations, government, and private section are moving servers and network boxes to linux in droves. Heck, even hollywood is migrating to the penguin. With the price of commercial software higher than that of hardware how can Linux (or other free OS's for that matter) not succeed? When Microsoft dies all this "technology" will go away anyway, protect your investment, don't buy into this crap.
Let Microsoft masterbate all they want with their palladium. In the end all they'll have is a hand full of sticky goo.
The linux kernel has numerous ethernet drivers that you've written. I was wondering how you are able to write and maintain drivers that are compatible with literally dozens of different ethernet cards. How to you manage change control and regression testing?
This is something that really chaps my ass. It is *easy* to start your own Certificate Authority (CA). The problem is getting your CA recognized in the web browers of the world. In a nutshell you need to pay many fat bribes, on the order of several hundred thousand dollars, to Microsloth, AOL, etc.,etc...to get your CA listed in the browsers. Big companies, like Sun for instance, can afford to do this.
It would be great if some respected non-profit organization like the Free Software Foundation had enough pull to start a free Certificate Authority that could get listed in the browsers.
I'm sure Verisign and the other blood suckers at large would hate, despise, and bring on the legal nazi's against this. Hence it isn't likely to happen anytime soon. To bad since this is a major roadblock to the common use of encryption on the net.
Alas....
In the grand scheme of things diamonds are pretty boring gemstones with the majority cut as generic brilliants. Consider sapphires instead. I spent a year mining sapphires in Australia and really liked the golden yellows, grassy greens, and parti colors (stones with multiple colors often blue, green, yellow). Sapphires are actually a lot rarer than diamonds, rank 9 on the hardness scale, and make great gemstones.
Now for the bad news... If you didn't know it or suspect it already diamonds, sapphires, and just about all gemstones in retail stores are are grossly over-priced small crappy stones. A decent rough sapphire, short of flawless rubies and truly phenomenal material, usually cost anywhere from $5-15 a caret rough. So you buy a 10 caret stone (~$100), have it cut in Thailand for a few cents a caret (bad advice), loose about 2/3 (the average) and wind up with a 3 caret cut stone. In the US this stone could go for anywhere from $300-$800 a caret or $900-$2400 retail.
The trick is too buy directly from miners. They are typically starving, will cut you a good deal, and really appreciate non-taxable cash. Rubyvale and Sapphire Queensland, Tanzania, and Uganda are relatively good safe places to do this. Have the stones cut by a reputeable local faceter and pay someone to fabricate a ring to match. I guarantee you'll wind up with a piece of jewelry a heck of lot nicer than whats in the shops.
The "3 C's" are a marketing gimmick. Heres some more concrete advice... When buying cut gemstones be sure to look at them outside in the sunshine. This is important! Bad light hides flaws and distorts the true color of the stone. Make sure has good color (that you like). It should be clear and *bright*. Make sure the stone has sharp meets, ie where the facets come togethor. Determine this with a 10x loupe or magnifier. If the meets don't meet is was cut for crap (most are). The bottom of the stone should reflect light like a sea of mirrors. If it doesn't or you can see through the bottom it was cut at the wrong angle, is too shallow, or is crappy material. A good stone looks good, accept nothing less. If there is anything suspicious or strange about the stone or dealer don't buy - they are trying to rip off.
Short of being a gemologist with a well equipped lab there is no way for you to determine if a stone is synthetic. Certificates don't mean shit. Buy stones you *like* not for investment. You are bound for dissappointment otherwise.
I hear the New Zealand Moa, like a large chicken, is really tasty. I wonder if they'll bring them back in time for Thanksgiving?