Offhand, only some classics might survive. Not necessarily in english;-)
like the Bible, Iliad, Odyssey, Aesop, Confucius, LaoTse, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Beowulf (not cluster, the book.
None of the ^H^H bestsellers. Certainly not lame "science fiction". These just appeal to us, now.
tektites of martian origin have already been collected and analysed. of course the long journey may have changed the characterisitics in some manner. do a search on 'tektites' on search engines.
crypto is used by the government and miltiraies worldwide, as a matter of course. since ages. whats the bug fuss about? corporations also use it to protect confidential data, R&D, competitive bidding for contracts and the like. Maybe some politicl activists in china or n korea..or even terrorists in pakistan and UK. whats new about these things? does the nsa even care about mr joe sixpack fooling with encryption.
gold as a mineral isnt rare. for instance in sea water. only problem it is distributed widely in solution in minute quantities per gram. I read some years ago about mine dumps leaching metals, the problem was tackled by using some specialised bacteria. so using bacteria to concentrate metals is not new. seabed nodules are made by bacteria which gollect Nickel. but this takes thousands of years. by pumping sea water over beds of bacteria in factories the concentration of gold could be increased.
ask any sound engineer, or for that matter someone who knows classical music. mp3s or oggs or any similar compressed formats are LOSSY by design. The discarded components( frequency, formant effect) certainly play a role in the musical experience. Mp3's merely serve as a bait to buy the real cd. I dont understand this RIAA crap-- people who see jurassic park on tv are certainly going to go out and watch it in a big movie theatre hall. make good music, real music, instead of cynically applying "marketing". watch the napsters gnutella fade away.
people's ears/hearing/frequency response seem to be very crude, if popularity of mp3s are any indication. or maybe the music is so bad nowadays theres no difference.
Unfortunately I dont know if there exists a quantitative yardstick for measuring this...but it must be succesively several orders of magnitude between live performance, then hi quality recording and playback, then poor quality rec/playback, and finally the various lossy compression schemes like frauenhofer, (ogg, mp3, ) real etc.
1. fake/imitation damascus or pattern welded steel. beautiful, modern knives available. pattern developed by artist smith. this is the usual damascus we hear about.
2. crude arab armor damascus cast iron sheets laminate.
3.original damascus or wootz (ukku). from andhrapradesh/karnataka. (read-hyderabad/bangalore). The pattern develops intrinsically.
All original damascus dates BEFORE 1700. the supply stopped around 1680. The swords/knives are not glamorous looking. They just mean business, meant for professionals. (big iron:-)
This has never been reproduced, neither russki bulat or verhoven come near. (accomplished scientists all).
seems theres an awful lot of trust in the courts..has it ben challenged and upheld anywhere ? usa? other places?
what if MS uses a bit of the code "without anybody knowing" how would the gpl developed ever know this is the case?
what new media. salon etc are the same as old media r.i.p. New media hasnt even been born..or at least the glimmerings are visible. individuals' weblogs or something similar, once the technology matures ( 6 months) and can be available to readers/participants according to their preferences will be the new media of the future. plus freenet/gnutella something.
besides unless cranks get to post on goatse portman beowulf, VA,it isnt really interactive. hopefully/.will remain interactive in spite of the mod system quirks. my 2bits
sure his views seem bit rigid/extreme. but the nature of the problem is only such people can make any impact. if the philosophy becomes popular all the world over its not just code that becomes open for all to to inspect...etc etc too many very powerful vested interests around to oppose it. it seems to have political social ramifications too, making the world a better place to live in...
rms is a crank? we need a thousand more cranks like him. shouting at the top of their voices.
dont know about fungus, but i got three spiders roaming all over my pc case, preferring the back just below the smps vent. they seem to re make their webs every three days. sometimes the web is smaller and designed differently. i couldnt understand what they were eating...but later i saw them trapping a small flying insect which looked like a mossquito. ( several of these fly at night near my place. i didnt disturb the spiders ( web, etc you know )but lately theyve gone away. note a small lizard...ok gecko maybe. so he too stays. but i also saw a toad just round the corner , behind the door. any softweare with tha name? else he gets kicked out fast.
known since thousand years or more. the area is very close to iran and india. population explosions in the steppes take place periodically. a long time ago some people migrated for hereabouts to europe, mixed with the european aborigines (who were probably negroid seeing the cave paintings and grimaldi skeletons) and formed the ancestors of europeans (including vikings) and those of today. so they resemble some europeans of today.
unions less important in sunrise industries. question is how long its going to remain sunrise. basically unions are a good defensive association to keep up with inflation price rise , ensure training, help out members in times of problems ( hospitalisation, health care, family stuff like kids education, many more commonplace things which worry most of us. why not call them asociation or mutual help group.
several posters seem to think theyre political. not really. The only people against unions...are very obviously , employers. as an employer naturally i dont want anything like them. but the smarter employers know unions are ok.
in times of social crisis, of course, unions raise the red flag. like recession, great depressions. in china, russia tomorrow, for instance.
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Offhand, only some classics might survive. Not necessarily in english ;-)
like the Bible, Iliad, Odyssey, Aesop, Confucius, LaoTse, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Beowulf (not cluster, the book.
None of the ^H^H bestsellers. Certainly not lame "science fiction". These just appeal to us, now.
today's macrotech.
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now you all know what method laden uses to send messages to his qiada network!! looks like the new guy has his work cut out for him.
since they are clued in they'll ask good questions and hopefully stop moaning abt clueless hacks.
tektites of martian origin have already been collected and analysed. of course the long journey may have changed the characterisitics in some manner. do a search on 'tektites' on search engines.
crypto is used by the government and miltiraies worldwide, as a matter of course. since ages. whats the bug fuss about? corporations also use it to protect confidential data, R&D, competitive bidding for contracts and the like. Maybe some politicl activists in china or n korea..or even terrorists in pakistan and UK. whats new about these things? does the nsa even care about mr joe sixpack fooling with encryption.
gold as a mineral isnt rare. for instance in sea water. only problem it is distributed widely in solution in minute quantities per gram. I read some years ago about mine dumps leaching metals, the problem was tackled by using some specialised bacteria. so using bacteria to concentrate metals is not new. seabed nodules are made by bacteria which gollect Nickel. but this takes thousands of years. by pumping sea water over beds of bacteria in factories the concentration of gold could be increased.
what about bsd ,etc in these places?
oh. for a moment I read "house" as "hose" million email accounts.
ask any sound engineer, or for that matter someone who knows classical music. mp3s or oggs or any similar compressed formats are LOSSY by design. The discarded components( frequency, formant effect) certainly play a role in the musical experience. Mp3's merely serve as a bait to buy the real cd. I dont understand this RIAA crap-- people who see jurassic park on tv are certainly going to go out and watch it in a big movie theatre hall. make good music, real music, instead of cynically applying "marketing". watch the napsters gnutella fade away.
people's ears/hearing/frequency response seem to be very crude, if popularity of mp3s are any indication. or maybe the music is so bad nowadays theres no difference.
Unfortunately I dont know if there exists a quantitative yardstick for measuring this...but it must be succesively several orders of magnitude between live performance, then hi quality recording and playback, then poor quality rec/playback, and finally the various lossy compression schemes like frauenhofer, (ogg, mp3, ) real etc.
Or am I missing something.
1. fake/imitation damascus or pattern welded steel. beautiful, modern knives available. pattern developed by artist smith. this is the usual damascus we hear about.
:-)
2. crude arab armor damascus cast iron sheets laminate.
3.original damascus or wootz (ukku). from andhrapradesh/karnataka. (read-hyderabad/bangalore). The pattern develops intrinsically.
All original damascus dates BEFORE 1700. the supply stopped around 1680. The swords/knives are not glamorous looking. They just mean business, meant for professionals. (big iron
This has never been reproduced, neither russki bulat or verhoven come near. (accomplished scientists all).
..might as well go the whole hog and clone all of windows (gpl, of course)....
scroungers gives a wrong idea of the skills of these guys. call them hardware hackers instead. or coin a new word. like 'scrapers'. or scraperz. or..
20th post on banjo
different from open source, I mean
seems theres an awful lot of trust in the courts..has it ben challenged and upheld anywhere ? usa? other places?
what if MS uses a bit of the code "without anybody knowing" how would the gpl developed ever know this is the case?
(maybe this IS the case)
what new media. salon etc are the same as old media r.i.p. New media hasnt even been born..or at least the glimmerings are visible. individuals' weblogs or something similar, once the technology matures ( 6 months) and can be available to readers/participants according to their preferences will be the new media of the future. plus freenet/gnutella something. ,it isnt really interactive. hopefully /.will remain interactive in spite of the mod system quirks. my 2bits
besides unless cranks get to post on goatse portman beowulf, VA
sure his views seem bit rigid/extreme. but the nature of the problem is only such people can make any impact. if the philosophy becomes popular all the world over its not just code that becomes open for all to to inspect...etc etc too many very powerful vested interests around to oppose it. it seems to have political social ramifications too, making the world a better place to live in...
rms is a crank? we need a thousand more cranks like him. shouting at the top of their voices.
dont know about fungus, but i got three spiders roaming all over my pc case, preferring the back just below the smps vent. they seem to re make their webs every three days. sometimes the web is smaller and designed differently. i couldnt understand what they were eating...but later i saw them trapping a small flying insect which looked like a mossquito. ( several of these fly at night near my place. i didnt disturb the spiders ( web, etc you know )but lately theyve gone away. note a small lizard. ..ok gecko maybe. so he too stays. but i also saw a toad just round the corner , behind the door. any softweare with tha name? else he gets kicked out fast.
known since thousand years or more. the area is very close to iran and india. population explosions in the steppes take place periodically. a long time ago some people migrated for hereabouts to europe, mixed with the european aborigines (who were probably negroid seeing the cave paintings and grimaldi skeletons) and formed the ancestors of europeans (including vikings) and those of today. so they resemble some europeans of today.
and using quantum computers. (turned off, that is)
unions less important in sunrise industries. question is how long its going to remain sunrise. basically unions are a good defensive association to keep up with inflation price rise , ensure training, help out members in times of problems ( hospitalisation, health care, family stuff like kids education, many more commonplace things which worry most of us. why not call them asociation or mutual help group.
several posters seem to think theyre political. not really. The only people against unions...are very obviously , employers. as an employer naturally i dont want anything like them. but the smarter employers know unions are ok.
in times of social crisis, of course, unions raise the red flag. like recession, great depressions. in china, russia tomorrow, for instance.
..whose products are sold in the USA and bought by you.