Re:The problem with all these equations...
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probably no one want's to excluding a method of changing velocity without accelerating, relativity makes any significant space travel strickly one-way, millions of years would pass back home.
any one who did would have to stop periodicaly to reprovision, make hostile contact if other life already existed there ala indepenance day.
I suppose that you could turn a solar system into a bussard ram ship and actualy go some where by building a ring world arround your star, but if you have to drag a whole solar arround with you, why bother, anything you were trying to escape would be dragged along with you
What is alive seriously
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living people are definatly alive, metabolic activity, reproduction locomtion and the same follows all the way down to bacteria.
rocks are definatly dead no metabolic activity, no reproduction and non-locomative
but there are things in the grey zone, are viri alive? no reproduction, they are manufactered by the host, no metabolism again taken care of by the host and non-locomotive but they are considered alive by most people.
let's say viri are non-living just like a computer program with out hardware is non-functional consider ricketsia and chalymedia each class of organisms missing things that we consider part of being alive.
the point is there is no definition of alive just like we know the Earth is a planet and a rock isn't but there is a lot of stuff in the middle, where is the line drawn?
as for me I'll keep on crunching seti@home because it's likly one of us will stumble across some signal that'll lead to an interesting phenomina probaly not associated with an intelligent source.
I think that in a sense we are protected by the media companies' refusal to settle for anything less than absolute control These companies are dominated by laywers and if there is anything that lawyers had better be able to do well it's negotiate. They'll give you a minor point here and there, stall it wear you down then take back what they gave you a while ago. This ain't no fat lady singing here it's just a warm-up, this hasn't got anything to do with piracy, it's about controlling All of the distribution channels
I remember a magazine artical at least 5 yrs ago where the author was ranting about the superiority of wavelet, loss-less compression compaired to jpeg compression. Points made about it included lossless compression, and get this integer math much faster for the end-user.
So why jpeg2000 all of a sudden, 1 loss-less compression giving users better pictures helps, 2 better compression ratios conserving band-width to keep down the pesky band-width charges helps, 3 but I'll bet a donut against the whole that it's about the Seminar papers on watermarking and security relating to JPEG 2000. Think digital content management here. Imagine S2048 computers wouldn't display porn images stored on the hard disk, only from the website. Disney will like this, no more storing mickey or goofy on the 'puter for the kids; well you get the idea.
Most websites don't even properly check the browser for plugins anyways, they just expect them to be in the default windows instalation location and look there, that's why 3/4 of the website pop-up a plug-in down load windows for Linux users even when we have the correct plugins installed. It's easy to send the correct images to each browser using DHTML techniques, we have to do it for javascript bugs all the time anyways!
I think it's more like a promo the state of Michigan did to support american made cars by giving away a Corvette made in Bowling Green Ohio instead of a Toyota made in Flat Rock Michigan.
After a war, and decades of football rivalry you would have thought anyplace but Ohio.
That always happens to the government, retention is more difficult than recruiting, so it's just a cost of doing business. Of course just about the time they're due to get out, there will be a sexy must-have course that will make their lives perfect on the outside just for a four year commitment. Then it's I'm one third of the way to a cushy government pension at age 40... of course along the way you realize that the college kids today get the same training minus the obsolete stuff you still have to maintain so now you worry about competeing with them etc.
Re:They did NOT stop light!
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I am not a quantum mechanic but it has to be said that we do not know what light or anything is. All we know about light is that it is a thingy that displays certain properties such as mass, energy, velocity, position, spin, quantum number ect. Sort of like the blind men describing an elephant, the guy examining the trunk sees something very different from the one examining the tail.
So What is a particle? It's a thing that has specific and unique properties, therfore when two things aquire the exact same properties, they have become one particle! If you make liquid hellium out of a specific isotope, and cool it to a certian temperature, all of the individual atoms aquire the exact same quantum properties and become one particle. That means that we can make a quantum partical that is big enough to physicaly see with the naked eye. One warning, if you ever actualy understand quantum mechanic, your mental state would be indistingishable from insanity.
I am using postnuke on our website and I agree that it's certainly able to give yahoo groups a run for it money. What I can't figure out is why the postnuke developer's forum is hosted in yahoo groups; it not like they are picky about membership or anything.
Who better than a Linux Distro company, they can testify that say windows version whatever will not interoperate with a standards compliant server or client, the code has been audited with an independant third party and is completely compatable with the published standards.
The second problem is commonly referred to as the ``Analog hole.'' As
protected digital programming, usually delivered over satellite or cable, but also available on the Internet, is decrypted for viewing by consumers, most frequently on television sets, the programming is temporarily ``in the clear.'' At this point, pirates may have the opportunity to take advantage of an ``Analog hole'' by copying the content into a digital format, i.e. re-digitizing it, and then illegally copying and/or retransmitting the content. The technology to solve this problem either exists today, or will be available shortly. Regardless, the solution is technologically feasible. As with the ``broadcast flag'' the solution to the ``Analog hole'' will require a government mandate to ensure its ubiquitous adoption across consumer devices.
MPAA could easily get a T3 line and hammer these guys into the ground if it was really about piracy. What host or net admin would put up with his network getting hosed by the MPAA?
I want to see absolutely no evidence of any sort of compression... that's why I watch em Sorry guy but my almost 50 year old eyes sees all kinds of compression artifacts when I play most commercial DVD's on my almost twenty year old TV. Just imagines the trash that the eyes of a twentysomthing would see on a HDTV.
If you want to see them, play arround with some jpegs and blown them up about 200-800%, you learn to recognise the compression artifacts quickly. Them watch your dvd's and you see them there too. Carefull tho it's like the blue pill, you can't go back
True, infact the vacuum may actualy increase any ion wind effect due to it being easier to generate ions at near vacuume rather than at 1 bar pressure.
I remember a figure of 4 atoms/cm^3 as an average for interstellar space, in something about bussard ramjet drives.
The lifters seem like a cool way to waste a saturday afternoon, but the power to lift ratios don't seem good enough to give the oil companies nightmares. I also noted that Jean-Louis Naudin's device seems rather different from what was described in the NASA experiment
You gotta put the cat inside a mesh bag, it doesn't stop all puncture wounds but it definately stops the rips!
Most cats quit struggling once they are completely wet, it takes shampoo to completely wet them to the skin, with some cats wearing welding gloves is necessary.
let's see 385Kb of DSL w/ISP = $40.00,
128Kb of ISDN =$90.00/month + $40 for the ISP
385Kb of fracT1 is $400.00 / month If I were a telco it would be a no-brainer, dial-up ISDN and T1 win hands down. I'm waiting with baited breath for cable-modems, my connection is at 26400 becuase of ameritech rotten phone lines, but a second line is aready wired to the network interface.
Maybe not, I always hate taking a cd-rom or DVD out of the jewel case for fear of the plastic breaking and 12-24 bucks going down the drain. I'd much rather have a flexable, break resistant media and a broken adaptor costing 50 cents anyday.
actualy at tv frequencies 55 Mhz is enough for 6 TV stations, or 9 FM bands combined, but at 2.4GHz it might only be the difference between room temperate and operating temperature or how much the parts are jiggled when your car goes over a bump.
Actualy the.2 MHz is only theoretical, in reality FM stations that are physicaly close are assigned much greater freq differences. FM transmitters have infinite sidebands so they transmit on all frequencies, but the power levels drop off quickly as the freq moves away from the center freq.
The part of the article I found interesting is that microwave ovens operate in the 2.4Ghz band, just think about canibalizing on old oven and building an 802.11 xmitter with 1.3 Kwatts of DC input power! I bet that would really light up the old pringles can.
I remember when Windows 95 first was sent out to reviewers and nobody could figure out how to get it to do anything becuase the start button was so non-intuitive to everybody who had been using windows 3.10 and 3.11 for years.
Let's do some math; Microsoft Windows®, is a 17 letter trademark and dows is 29 percent of their trademark. Linux® is a 5 letter trademark and lin is 60 percent of Linus's trademark. So clearly microsoft's damages in the suit pale compared to Linus's damages! Linus should join the suit; picture Bill's chargrin at being a co-plaintiff with Linus, this is just too funny
law firms offering e-mail aliasing to avoid the spammers?:) actualy the impression I got was that mofo has multiple offices in multiple countries and actual uses the internet and Email to conduct real business that actualy generate a profit, and all of the spam was interfereing with there ability to conduct real commerce. It could be that Etract's was just hitting randomly generated user names at the mofo domain. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if the spammers didn't even know that mofo.com was a law firm
Re:I thought the article missed the point.
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I don't want one of these crippled computers, so I won't buy one, no matter how much I see ads for them."
The point is still missed; everybody is talking about computers, dvd player, mp3 players, video games ect. But when you actualy read the act it in only refers to digital interactive devices. Sorry guys but that also includes my wrist watch (it has a chip and two buttons) as well as my car, (a computer and many buttons).
Also the impression I get is that the act treats hardware/software combinations as a system; so they may be able to treat an upgrade/patch as a change requiring the whole system to be re-certified. This certification is going to be expensive Do we believe that Redhat is going to spend millions to get their latest/greatest version certified or that Microsoft will be able to?
Grandfatering will not help much either because sooner or later something is going to break, and the repair or patch will make it a new system and then it falls under the law.
I agree that, the whois should be protected by some kind of official use only clause. Anybody can look, but the info can be used for official uses such as tracking spam, owners, technical problems.
The biggest problem would be actualy getting the law written that does this, only this, and wouldn't be twisted to pieces by the lawyers.
Sure maybe your Aunt Sally might get a little freaked by the notice, but hey she'd be pretty low on the radar compared the asian's who can send 100k SPAM's a hour.
a little off topic but i got SPAMMED by Microsoft the other day, after all the hype about security and privacy and evil-hackers, the send a Email pimping Visual Studio.NET is here! to a non-existant user!
Finally (my personal biggest gripe) is DO NOT OPEN NEW WINDOWS when I click on a link. EVER. I totaly disagree with EVER, sure like anything else over-useage is crude, but one of the big advantageages of HTML is hyper-linking, it alows the reader to compare your content to the original source by clicking back and forth if desired, anybody can take a "sound bite" out of context, and get anybody to say anything, the new windows alows for comparison, side by side with out wait for each page to load over and over.
A good place would be my sig, both Sara and Bill said more, but it contains the meat of both the Q and A.
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probably no one want's to excluding a method of changing velocity without accelerating, relativity makes any significant space travel strickly one-way, millions of years would pass back home.
any one who did would have to stop periodicaly to reprovision, make hostile contact if other life already existed there ala indepenance day.
I suppose that you could turn a solar system into a bussard ram ship and actualy go some where by building a ring world arround your star, but if you have to drag a whole solar arround with you, why bother, anything you were trying to escape would be dragged along with you
living people are definatly alive, metabolic activity, reproduction locomtion and the same follows all the way down to bacteria.
rocks are definatly dead no metabolic activity, no reproduction and non-locomative
but there are things in the grey zone, are viri alive? no reproduction, they are manufactered by the host, no metabolism again taken care of by the host and non-locomotive but they are considered alive by most people.
let's say viri are non-living just like a computer program with out hardware is non-functional consider ricketsia and chalymedia each class of organisms missing things that we consider part of being alive.
the point is there is no definition of alive just like we know the Earth is a planet and a rock isn't but there is a lot of stuff in the middle, where is the line drawn?
as for me I'll keep on crunching seti@home because it's likly one of us will stumble across some signal that'll lead to an interesting phenomina probaly not associated with an intelligent source.
I think that in a sense we are protected by the media companies' refusal to settle for anything less than absolute control These companies are dominated by laywers and if there is anything that lawyers had better be able to do well it's negotiate. They'll give you a minor point here and there, stall it wear you down then take back what they gave you a while ago. This ain't no fat lady singing here it's just a warm-up, this hasn't got anything to do with piracy, it's about controlling All of the distribution channels
I remember a magazine artical at least 5 yrs ago where the author was ranting about the superiority of wavelet, loss-less compression compaired to jpeg compression. Points made about it included lossless compression, and get this integer math much faster for the end-user.
So why jpeg2000 all of a sudden,
1 loss-less compression giving users better pictures helps,
2 better compression ratios conserving band-width to keep down the pesky band-width charges helps,
3 but I'll bet a donut against the whole that it's about the Seminar papers on watermarking and security relating to JPEG 2000.
Think digital content management here. Imagine S2048 computers wouldn't display porn images stored on the hard disk, only from the website. Disney will like this, no more storing mickey or goofy on the 'puter for the kids; well you get the idea.
Most websites don't even properly check the browser for plugins anyways, they just expect them to be in the default windows instalation location and look there, that's why 3/4 of the website pop-up a plug-in down load windows for Linux users even when we have the correct plugins installed. It's easy to send the correct images to each browser using DHTML techniques, we have to do it for javascript bugs all the time anyways!
I think it's more like a promo the state of Michigan did to support american made cars by giving away a Corvette made in Bowling Green Ohio instead of a Toyota made in Flat Rock Michigan.
After a war, and decades of football rivalry you would have thought anyplace but Ohio.
That always happens to the government, retention is more difficult than recruiting, so it's just a cost of doing business. ... of course along the way you realize that the college kids today get the same training minus the obsolete stuff you still have to maintain so now you worry about competeing with them etc.
Of course just about the time they're due to get out, there will be a sexy must-have course that will make their lives perfect on the outside just for a four year commitment. Then it's I'm one third of the way to a cushy government pension at age 40
I am not a quantum mechanic but it has to be said that we do not know what light or anything is. All we know about light is that it is a thingy that displays certain properties such as mass, energy, velocity, position, spin, quantum number ect. Sort of like the blind men describing an elephant, the guy examining the trunk sees something very different from the one examining the tail.
So What is a particle? It's a thing that has specific and unique properties, therfore when two things aquire the exact same properties, they have become one particle! If you make liquid hellium out of a specific isotope, and cool it to a certian temperature, all of the individual atoms aquire the exact same quantum properties and become one particle. That means that we can make a quantum partical that is big enough to physicaly see with the naked eye. One warning, if you ever actualy understand quantum mechanic, your mental state would be indistingishable from insanity.
I am using postnuke on our website and I agree that it's certainly able to give yahoo groups a run for it money. What I can't figure out is why the postnuke developer's forum is hosted in yahoo groups; it not like they are picky about membership or anything.
Who better than a Linux Distro company, they can testify that say windows version whatever will not interoperate with a standards compliant server or client, the code has been audited with an independant third party and is completely compatable with the published standards.
in short they know about it
MPAA could easily get a T3 line and hammer these guys into the ground if it was really about piracy. What host or net admin would put up with his network getting hosed by the MPAA?
I want to see absolutely no evidence of any sort of compression... that's why I watch em
Sorry guy but my almost 50 year old eyes sees all kinds of compression artifacts when I play most commercial DVD's on my almost twenty year old TV. Just imagines the trash that the eyes of a twentysomthing would see on a HDTV.
If you want to see them, play arround with some jpegs and blown them up about 200-800%, you learn to recognise the compression artifacts quickly. Them watch your dvd's and you see them there too. Carefull tho it's like the blue pill, you can't go back
True, infact the vacuum may actualy increase any ion wind effect due to it being easier to generate ions at near vacuume rather than at 1 bar pressure.
I remember a figure of 4 atoms/cm^3 as an average for interstellar space, in something about bussard ramjet drives.
The lifters seem like a cool way to waste a saturday afternoon, but the power to lift ratios don't seem good enough to give the oil companies nightmares. I also noted that Jean-Louis Naudin's device seems rather different from what was described in the NASA experiment
You gotta put the cat inside a mesh bag, it doesn't stop all puncture wounds but it definately stops the rips!
Most cats quit struggling once they are completely wet, it takes shampoo to completely wet them to the skin, with some cats wearing welding gloves is necessary.
let's see 385Kb of DSL w/ISP = $40.00, /month + $40 for the ISP
128Kb of ISDN =$90.00
385Kb of fracT1 is $400.00 / month
If I were a telco it would be a no-brainer, dial-up ISDN and T1 win hands down.
I'm waiting with baited breath for cable-modems, my connection is at 26400 becuase of ameritech rotten phone lines, but a second line is aready wired to the network interface.
Maybe not, I always hate taking a cd-rom or DVD out of the jewel case for fear of the plastic breaking and 12-24 bucks going down the drain. I'd much rather have a flexable, break resistant media and a broken adaptor costing 50 cents anyday.
actualy at tv frequencies 55 Mhz is enough for 6 TV stations, or 9 FM bands combined, but at 2.4GHz it might only be the difference between room temperate and operating temperature or how much the parts are jiggled when your car goes over a bump.
Actualy the .2 MHz is only theoretical, in reality FM stations that are physicaly close are assigned much greater freq differences. FM transmitters have infinite sidebands so they transmit on all frequencies, but the power levels drop off quickly as the freq moves away from the center freq.
The part of the article I found interesting is that microwave ovens operate in the 2.4Ghz band, just think about canibalizing on old oven and building an 802.11 xmitter with 1.3 Kwatts of DC input power! I bet that would really light up the old pringles can.
I remember when Windows 95 first was sent out to reviewers and nobody could figure out how to get it to do anything becuase the start button was so non-intuitive to everybody who had been using windows 3.10 and 3.11 for years.
Let's do some math;
Microsoft Windows®, is a 17 letter trademark and dows is 29 percent of their trademark.
Linux® is a 5 letter trademark and lin is 60 percent of Linus's trademark.
So clearly microsoft's damages in the suit pale compared to Linus's damages! Linus should join the suit; picture Bill's chargrin at being a co-plaintiff with Linus, this is just too funny
I'll bet all of those people who make those glass thingies to go in the walls of houses sure are breathing a lot easier now.
What you realy be funnies is if Linus joined the suit with Microsoft, and asked for half of any damages because of Linux® being his trademark!
law firms offering e-mail aliasing to avoid the spammers? :) actualy the impression I got was that mofo has multiple offices in multiple countries and actual uses the internet and Email to conduct real business that actualy generate a profit, and all of the spam was interfereing with there ability to conduct real commerce. It could be that Etract's was just hitting randomly generated user names at the mofo domain. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if the spammers didn't even know that mofo.com was a law firm
I don't want one of these crippled computers, so I won't buy one, no matter how much I see ads for them."
The point is still missed; everybody is talking about computers, dvd player, mp3 players, video games ect. But when you actualy read the act it in only refers to digital interactive devices. Sorry guys but that also includes my wrist watch (it has a chip and two buttons) as well as my car, (a computer and many buttons).
Also the impression I get is that the act treats hardware/software combinations as a system; so they may be able to treat an upgrade/patch as a change requiring the whole system to be re-certified. This certification is going to be expensive Do we believe that Redhat is going to spend millions to get their latest/greatest version certified or that Microsoft will be able to?
Grandfatering will not help much either because sooner or later something is going to break, and the repair or patch will make it a new system and then it falls under the law.
I agree that, the whois should be protected by some kind of official use only clause. Anybody can look, but the info can be used for official uses such as tracking spam, owners, technical problems.
.NET is here! to a non-existant user!
The biggest problem would be actualy getting the law written that does this, only this, and wouldn't be twisted to pieces by the lawyers.
Sure maybe your Aunt Sally might get a little freaked by the notice, but hey she'd be pretty low on the radar compared the asian's who can send 100k SPAM's a hour.
a little off topic but i got SPAMMED by Microsoft the other day, after all the hype about security and privacy and evil-hackers, the send a Email pimping Visual Studio
Finally (my personal biggest gripe) is DO NOT OPEN NEW WINDOWS when I click on a link. EVER. I totaly disagree with EVER, sure like anything else over-useage is crude, but one of the big advantageages of HTML is hyper-linking, it alows the reader to compare your content to the original source by clicking back and forth if desired, anybody can take a "sound bite" out of context, and get anybody to say anything, the new windows alows for comparison, side by side with out wait for each page to load over and over.
A good place would be my sig, both Sara and Bill said more, but it contains the meat of both the Q and A.