It is very difficult to do this kind of thing across borders. You were lucky that the Russian company owning the St. Petersburg ISP was seeking a listing in NY. In many cases, this doesn't happen so you have little edge in getting law enforcement involved.
In my case after working for a while in St. Pete, I found that a spammer based in Russia was spoofing using my EMail address (easily obtainable from my business cards). It didn't seem to be coming from my systems and when I could get headers from annoyed victims - it looked like that it was a St. Petersburg based ISP. After that, I was a lot more careful with my EMail address and the problem disappeared.
Two problems, first there are hot spots at other than wavelength/2 because a Microwave is a reflective cavity with the reflections interfering with the inbound signal. With a small mass inside the microwave there are a lot of reflections. An oven is designed to reflect efficiently, so unloaded, the reflections are at almost the level of the inbound radiation.
Second problem is that it is actually difficult to stop something rotating. You need an inverted soup bowel or something to give clearance over the turntable drive peg.
Ok, if I use enough clearance to prevent rotation I get about 1cm between hot spots.
Cutting open a magnetron to check the cavity size works only if you have a spare! And in any case, the resonance of a Magnetron cavity depends directly on wavelngth and is only related to frequency by the speed of light (which you are trying to measure).
The frequency will almost certainly be 2.45 GHz - a couple of other frequencies are allocated but aren't used much. The frequency isn't constant because the magnetron's operating frequency typically varies with temperature however for getting a 5% accuracy, it should be ok.
One complication of measuring by beat frequency is that a magnetron is pulsed. The duty cycle allowing power control. The problem is that this may mess up any indirect measurements.
It would have to be an inverted soup bowl on my microwave to get it over the spindle. A plate wouldn't work as the clearance must be at least a couple of cm.
Most modern microwaves have a turntable to prevent hot spots from forming so that whatever you are cooking is more evenly heated. The end result of trying this experiment is a pool of molten chocolate.
Actually the military / CIA mislead the manager of the shuttle program about the capabilities of the satellites because he didn't have the required security clearance.
Um, where does it say this. The manager was not informed at all by the CIA and was making an uninformed decision on the basis of bad assumptions. Most engineers would be aware of the resolution of Hubble and be awae that the USAF/NRO used similar technology looking downwardsas well as having some ground based technology for examining unfriendly satellites. The manager obvious didn't have a clue and was not prepared to even make the request.
The thing is that for all the bad words, Venture Capitalism is well regulated. Those contributing money have to be ble to demonstrate that they can afford high risks and all the actions are governed by the need to improve share holder value and the exercise of 'due dilligence'.
Sometimes there are exceptions like 'SCO' but I would say that VCs on the whole have been better at nurturing talent than record companies.
Would the record companies want such an alternative, well probably not. Unfortunatelzy, because their money is, in effect, recycled into the services that they provide, it isn't really lost if the artist tanks.
t would be a whole lot better for an artist to just get a loan from a bank and pay for the recording and promotion themself. Unfortunately (or fortunately for other customers), they're not likely to get approved for such a large loan (>$100K-$1M) with little or no collateral.
Banks do not do high risk loans now. This really isn't their line of business. However there are people that do, Venture Capitalists. They are used to failure, or at least lack of success. The interesting thing is that they get up to some dodgy things, but they deal in money rather than marketing services, so they don't take the capital raised in your name and force you to spend it on overpriced services that they offer.
what I like from the calculator you refer to is the default fee for 'breakage': 10% This is a shit quality level, even when Vinyl was being shipped. 10% failure rate now is a criminal overestimate.
The coelacanth was not the same species, just the same family as the fossils. This is actually an example of something that from the leves, appears to be the same species.
First, this has been around for a while and a sapling is on display at the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Yes, the announcement is pure PR for the company developing the technqiues, but the plant did cause a stir when it was first discovered. It was literally a living fossil, as that was how it was first seen.
Everything mutates, but the fittest survives. If the fittest is already well adapted then any mutation must be radical to offer an improvment - or conditions need to change so that the plant/creature is no longer competitive in its ecological niche.
However it isn't necessarily unique. We have also seen the same over shorter periods of time for animals. Think of the coelacanth, for example.
The main problem is a conflict of interest. Many politicians are lawyers by training and the EU is no exception. Software patents are an area where a lot of disputes will end up in court (mostly because an algorithm is less well defined than something physical like a jet engine or automobile). The guy who can pay the best lawyers will win.
Ok, you are probably Dutch, but the rest is a troll, but I'll bite anyway.
A patent grants a limited monopoly on an invention in return for disclosure. I guess they taught you that in school.
The problem is with the patent system is that it does not protect the small inventor very well. The period of monopoly granted is totally at odds with the speed of movement in new areas of technology and the level of diclosure in a software patent is so little as to make it worthless.
The main issue for me is that software and algorithms are difficult to define and this means that essentially he who has the best lawyers will usually win. Not he who is right.
You say that software is not protected by copyright? Um, unless they have explicitly removed this protection in this legislation, then you will find that it is protected. Uniquely is protected by both Copyright and Patent legislation.
Your last point is where I understand that you do not know what you are talking about. The fact that I am posting this from Mozilla is because Microsoft pushed the whole browser thing forward. Without the competition between Internet Explorer and Netscape, the technology would have stayed static. And whoops, sorry, Lynx and Opera would have been locked out of the business.
Distinguishing between a 'true invention' implemented on a computer and an existing invention that just happens to be implemented on a computer for the first time is a big one.
Actually this doesn't really help because you are left arguing in court. If you can afford a big ($$$$$) court case, you can always defeat someone else so the little guy doesn't benefit at all from patents.
There isn't much difference now between thin-client costs and a full pc, because the full pc can be sold retail and quantity = discounts.
The performance of thin client solutions such as Citrix sucks big time if people are dedicated users (i.e., more than ocassional PC users). Just scrolling rapidly through large documents in Word can slow the server to a crawl (and strangely this is process rather than network related) so say each power user = at least 4 Citix standard users.
Citrix is slow but it is a good way to deploy Windows amongst the non-power users because it does centralise management control. However, I wouldn't call it a cheap solution because you still have to buy all the Microsoft licenses as well as paying for Citrix.
So for a Microsoft shop, I would recommend just going out and buying cheap but good spec PC and let them run their own XP-Pro. For serving, well you may need a Win 2k3 server somewhere, but file serving is best done with Samba - you don't need to pay for client licenses. However, use a Samba on top of XFS or something that supports ACLs - without ACLs it isn't easy controlling shares in a company.
There is a lot of data, some of it even from the EPA, but unfortunately, the whitehouse doesn't like it being published. It comes down to the Earth being less adept at radiating the input heat from the sun.
Fact: We know what increasing CO2 does in an atmosphere.
Fact: We see the result of smaller experiments corresponding with the early stages of what has been happening over the last 50 years or so.
Heat input varies over time (mostly due to the sun) however we have been measuring the Sun quite well over the last hundred years.
Runaway greenhouse effect is the name. If we persist, we may discover what it is like to live on Venus, but without leaving earth.
Pratchett has had one or two issues with Hollywood optioning his work after they wanted to drop Death from Mort. Apart from being a key character in the story, Death is also one of Pratchet's favourite characters (being the perfect observer of humanity).
God knows what Hollywood would make of "Good Omens" - after all all it is a funny pastiche of various end of the world stories. Gilliam could make it well, but forget the others - they would overdose on the humour side making it ridiculous rather than very, very, funny.
I once corresponded with pTerry on this one in the mid nineties. First, he isn't "the other guy" - he has more recognition than Neil (I suspect more money too) with his Discworld series. He enjoyed working with Gaiman on Good Omens but would find it difficult to merge into another style again. Neil worked a lot with comics in those days and was hanging out in the US. Pratchett rmeained in England.
The uplink sitting on top of the cabinet ministers office was 64K about four years ago. They were overdue for an upgrade to 1MB but there was an argument over who should pay. The irony is that they were bang on a fibre connecting them to China and Europe, but there were disputes about who was going to pay to access the node (it was built, but idle).
Dips can put up what they want, but most didn't have bandwidth to do so. The only ones that impressed me were the Worldbank who had oodles of bandwidth to spare. The US military are in that country now but they bring their own bandwidth in the form of MCI earthstations.
Kyrgyzstan has a slighly less braindead policy over foreign exchange hence it is easier to put up modern telecomms.
If the fibre node would be properly connected then it would be possible to get VOIP and all the rest working as the latency would be negligiable.
At least one FSU country I was in had a bandwidth to the Internet of 64KB. Yes, that is the country. Own sattelite dishes require a lot of paperwork. The US embassy has one, the World Bank has one but I don't think that any of the other diplomatic missions do.
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In my case after working for a while in St. Pete, I found that a spammer based in Russia was spoofing using my EMail address (easily obtainable from my business cards). It didn't seem to be coming from my systems and when I could get headers from annoyed victims - it looked like that it was a St. Petersburg based ISP. After that, I was a lot more careful with my EMail address and the problem disappeared.
Actually many commercial companies that grant access to source, strip comments out, especially the funny ones.
Second problem is that it is actually difficult to stop something rotating. You need an inverted soup bowel or something to give clearance over the turntable drive peg.
Ok, if I use enough clearance to prevent rotation I get about 1cm between hot spots.
The frequency will almost certainly be 2.45 GHz - a couple of other frequencies are allocated but aren't used much. The frequency isn't constant because the magnetron's operating frequency typically varies with temperature however for getting a 5% accuracy, it should be ok.
One complication of measuring by beat frequency is that a magnetron is pulsed. The duty cycle allowing power control. The problem is that this may mess up any indirect measurements.
It would have to be an inverted soup bowl on my microwave to get it over the spindle. A plate wouldn't work as the clearance must be at least a couple of cm.
Most modern microwaves have a turntable to prevent hot spots from forming so that whatever you are cooking is more evenly heated. The end result of trying this experiment is a pool of molten chocolate.
No, the fluffers in conventional cinema for the director and producer don 't get paid so they won't be affected - they just call it a career move!
Sometimes there are exceptions like 'SCO' but I would say that VCs on the whole have been better at nurturing talent than record companies.
Would the record companies want such an alternative, well probably not. Unfortunatelzy, because their money is, in effect, recycled into the services that they provide, it isn't really lost if the artist tanks.
what I like from the calculator you refer to is the default fee for 'breakage': 10% This is a shit quality level, even when Vinyl was being shipped. 10% failure rate now is a criminal overestimate.
The coelacanth was not the same species, just the same family as the fossils. This is actually an example of something that from the leves, appears to be the same species.
Everything mutates, but the fittest survives. If the fittest is already well adapted then any mutation must be radical to offer an improvment - or conditions need to change so that the plant/creature is no longer competitive in its ecological niche.
However it isn't necessarily unique. We have also seen the same over shorter periods of time for animals. Think of the coelacanth, for example.
The main problem is a conflict of interest. Many politicians are lawyers by training and the EU is no exception. Software patents are an area where a lot of disputes will end up in court (mostly because an algorithm is less well defined than something physical like a jet engine or automobile). The guy who can pay the best lawyers will win.
A patent grants a limited monopoly on an invention in return for disclosure. I guess they taught you that in school.
The problem is with the patent system is that it does not protect the small inventor very well. The period of monopoly granted is totally at odds with the speed of movement in new areas of technology and the level of diclosure in a software patent is so little as to make it worthless.
The main issue for me is that software and algorithms are difficult to define and this means that essentially he who has the best lawyers will usually win. Not he who is right.
You say that software is not protected by copyright? Um, unless they have explicitly removed this protection in this legislation, then you will find that it is protected. Uniquely is protected by both Copyright and Patent legislation.
Your last point is where I understand that you do not know what you are talking about. The fact that I am posting this from Mozilla is because Microsoft pushed the whole browser thing forward. Without the competition between Internet Explorer and Netscape, the technology would have stayed static. And whoops, sorry, Lynx and Opera would have been locked out of the business.
The performance of thin client solutions such as Citrix sucks big time if people are dedicated users (i.e., more than ocassional PC users). Just scrolling rapidly through large documents in Word can slow the server to a crawl (and strangely this is process rather than network related) so say each power user = at least 4 Citix standard users.
Citrix is slow but it is a good way to deploy Windows amongst the non-power users because it does centralise management control. However, I wouldn't call it a cheap solution because you still have to buy all the Microsoft licenses as well as paying for Citrix.
So for a Microsoft shop, I would recommend just going out and buying cheap but good spec PC and let them run their own XP-Pro. For serving, well you may need a Win 2k3 server somewhere, but file serving is best done with Samba - you don't need to pay for client licenses. However, use a Samba on top of XFS or something that supports ACLs - without ACLs it isn't easy controlling shares in a company.
Well if has two eyes, then I call it an "optical mouse".
Fact: We know what increasing CO2 does in an atmosphere.
Fact: We see the result of smaller experiments corresponding with the early stages of what has been happening over the last 50 years or so.
Heat input varies over time (mostly due to the sun) however we have been measuring the Sun quite well over the last hundred years.
Runaway greenhouse effect is the name. If we persist, we may discover what it is like to live on Venus, but without leaving earth.
God knows what Hollywood would make of "Good Omens" - after all all it is a funny pastiche of various end of the world stories. Gilliam could make it well, but forget the others - they would overdose on the humour side making it ridiculous rather than very, very, funny.
I once corresponded with pTerry on this one in the mid nineties. First, he isn't "the other guy" - he has more recognition than Neil (I suspect more money too) with his Discworld series. He enjoyed working with Gaiman on Good Omens but would find it difficult to merge into another style again. Neil worked a lot with comics in those days and was hanging out in the US. Pratchett rmeained in England.
There is a torrent link on the site but for anyone else, it (well the EN version of 3.3) is being shared on eDonkey. Sorry, no link though.
Dips can put up what they want, but most didn't have bandwidth to do so. The only ones that impressed me were the Worldbank who had oodles of bandwidth to spare. The US military are in that country now but they bring their own bandwidth in the form of MCI earthstations.
Kyrgyzstan has a slighly less braindead policy over foreign exchange hence it is easier to put up modern telecomms.
If the fibre node would be properly connected then it would be possible to get VOIP and all the rest working as the latency would be negligiable.
At least one FSU country I was in had a bandwidth to the Internet of 64KB. Yes, that is the country. Own sattelite dishes require a lot of paperwork. The US embassy has one, the World Bank has one but I don't think that any of the other diplomatic missions do.
Laptop screens can be watched quite easily, unless they have been Tempest shielded.