Lets assume this company is doing the prediction through ELF/ULF electromagnetic monitoring. According to some things I've read (see link), the bigger the earthquake, the longer and louder the ELF/ULF warning signs. That would probably be why they claim 90% accuracy for those over 6.
Accually, something that is said to be a very good early warning sign about earthquakes is ULF (ultra-low frequency). Basically, its an electromagnetic wave between 0.5Hz and 5Hz, pulses of extremely low "vibration" normal humans cant hear/feel (unless you're Travolta in the movie Phenomenon).
The theory is that many animals can feel such vibrations, which can give you a few hours or at most a few days warning about an earthquake. Anyway, this site should give you a little more interesting information about ULF/ELF and earthquake prediction.
While I dislike making blanket statements about a society/culture, I have a theory about the Japanese Buisness style - and I cant really find any paticular situation to dispute it.
The Japanese are extremely good at taking an existing technology and improving it, and taking it to its full potential. Take for example cell phones - the buzz when I was in Japan in Dec/2000 was all about G3, and the full motion (color) video on cell phones. Or cars - Honda makes the best, most economical internal combustion engines out there. Its about quality.
At the same time, try and think of a technology which has done fantastically well that was a purely Japanese invention. They take others work and improve/perfect it.
I think this follows through to animation. While north american companies such as disney and warner brothers put out their Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, the Japanese realized that with animation, you could do *anything*. You could create completely alternative universes, limited only by your imagination. So they made their animation for all levels of audience - from children to adults. It really opened up the market in their country - and all ages accepted animation. In north america, we grew up with our childish animations - so we have this concept that animation is for children.
Thats why, in my opinion, north american animation never took off as a form of entertainment for all ages - and not just for children.
Also, will this mean that OPs will start logging DCCs and crossreference with the channels you're on to determine if a channel is being used to transfer files?
As a DALnet Coder, I can assure you that this will never happen.
I recall this concept differently - perhaps it was posed by someone else...
Level 1 - Capture and harness the energy of the atom. We have NOT done this. Nuclear fission is a bastardization of the true possibilities of the atom. Until we succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion into a viable energy source, we wont reach level 1.
Level 2 - Harness the energy of a star. Ie. A Dyson Sphere. We're probably a couple hundred thousand years away from this - if we dont blow our selves away before then.
Level 3 - Harness the energy of a galaxy. I cant even come up with a direct comparison to pit this against - except perhaps an indirect one. If anyone has read Carl Sagan's Contact (excellent read - the book not the movie) - there it is suggested that a co-operative project between galaxies is *making* Cygnus A - to the end of increasing local matter density to prevent the universe's expansion in that area. Cygnus A is the second loudest radio source in earth's sky -- and its 600 million light years away. Talk about large-scale engineering.
I ran a porn webserver that was doing over 7 million hits a day, spread over 50+ virtualhosts. I'd bet my life that there wasnt a single site that had over 100KB of text, and less than 50MB of images/movies. And that machine was nothing more than a well configured single CPU 550Mhz Xeon running freebsd. Mind you, it did have 1.5 gigs of ram.
Finally, doctors generally rely on pagers. Not cell phones. Pagers have fantastic in-building penetration and coverage area where cell phones do not always.
And, most hospitals will NOT allow cellphones inside. At least here in Canada. Cell phones generate some level of radio interference that can mess with some medial equipment. The cell phones you see people walking around with in hospitals are not cell phones - they're like an advanced version of walkie talkies - and a completely self-contained system to within a few hundred meters of the building.
"Apple and many other companies are pressuring hard to make MPEG-4 the industry standard for video-on-demand services in 3G cellular networks, and to keep Microsoft and its proprietary Windows Media out of the mobile phones market."
At this point, I would highly reccomend a lot of you read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx. Heres a quote that seems relevant:
Each Step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advantage... The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affaris of the whole bourgeoisie.
While I dont consider myself a communist, I find some of the insights that Karl Marx made highly in line with what I see now, 150 Years after it was written.
Doesnt any type of motion require a point of reference? Is there any point of reference in the universe that doesnt move in relation to everything else? How can something be moving, when there is nothing stationary to measure it against?
Ok, maybe im just excessively tired at this point of the evening, but im confused. With everything.
How can any level of motion be constant? If you've got a star moving away from you, the light coming from it is redshifted. Therefor, the light should be moving slower, right? If its coming towards you, blueshift, faster moving light. Am I missing something?
GenerationX in Waterloo, Ontario carries a substantial anime selection. Its located in uptown Waterloo across the street from Waterloo Music, about a block from where Erb Street meets King Street. The anime section is downstairs.
A sea implies salt water. The black sea is accually a sea, because its salt water. I have never heard the great lakes (freshwater) referred to as an inland sea, and I grew up in Ontario.
basically hes saying that once he figures all this stuff out.. we'll be able to use the earths gravitomagnetic field to float, use as transportation, and even use to catapult ourselves into space?
If I do follow, the applications are absolutely revolutionary...
But then, audiophiles also buy gigantic cables because they imagine that their speakers will sound better attached to them... etc.
They will. Audiophiles buy gigantic cables for two reasons:
The magnetic interference from electrical current running anywhere near the wires will distort the signal. If you're familiar with car audio, think alterator whine in your speaker. (That can also be due to a bad ground on one of your amplifiers, but there are a billion things that can cause it.) Bigger cable are better insulated against these things.
If you want minimal distortion, that means providing sufficiant power to the speaker. The bigger the speaker wire, the more power you can shove through it without melting it.
You have to understand, distortion isnt confined to the amplifiers. Speaker distortion works like this...
For the sake of simplicity, imagine a perfect sine wave. It goes as much up as it does down. Speakers do exactly the same thing as the wave, moving back and forth. Now, when you're doing this at any significant amplitude, theres issues of air pressure to take into account. You've got the forward push which creates a vacuum behind the speaker, and higher pressure in front of the speaker. Since the higher pressure in front usually disapates forward, you've really only gotta worry about the vacuum behind the speaker.
Now, moving on to the second half of the wave, that vacuum behind the speaker has air very quickly rushing to fill that space. As a result, on the back swing of the wave, you require a lot of power to fight against the incoming wave of air.
At about 160db, its phyically impossible to have sound without distortion (half the wave is flattened out!).
So yah.. 'gigantic cables' accually do make the speakers sound better. (If you like it loud.)
-Boss- I want you to implement something to grab all ICQ messages sent through our network. -Me- No. -Boss- Why? -Me- Because I've got better things to do with my time than set up big brother stuff so you can make sure you're employees are working. -Boss- But you're playing UT -Me- No. -Boss- Yes you are, I can see you doing it right now. -Me- You are mistaken. This is a highly advanced network troubleshooting tool. See, thats a Windows box emitting smb traffic, that red flag. I've come to kill it.
-Boss- So you're not going to implement this thing for me? -Me- Correct. Boss wanders off annoyed
This Conversation is paraphrased, but did happen. The moral of the story is, arent *we* the network admins. If we cant push our boss around like I used to be able to (the company went backrupt in the.bomb), then we should at least be able to talk them out of it.
I searched for my nickname on google and teoma. Goggle provided 296 matches, teoma provided 47. Google had the relevent matches to my query placed near the top. (The relevent ones being ones I was looking for.) Teoma had the relevent ones (much less in numbers) on the fourth of five pages.
If they want to challenge Google, they have a long way to go.
University of Waterloo is just like every other Canadian University. It recieves subsidies from the Government to allow basically equivelent affordable cost on education in ANY field it offers.
Unlike the US, the Canadian post-secondary education system is relatively affordable and still a decent education. (Unlike secondary School.)
Please dont make assumptions about things you know nothing about, especially considering I was commenting on something to which I grew up within 20 minutes drive from. The UofW is without a doubt in the top 5 computer education schools in the world.
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Can someone explain to me a little better what a 3D display is exactly? I dont get it. As far as I'm concerned, my monitor already does 3D.
Lets assume this company is doing the prediction through
ELF/ULF electromagnetic monitoring. According to some things I've read (see link), the bigger the earthquake, the longer and louder the ELF/ULF warning signs. That would probably be why they claim 90% accuracy for those over 6.
Accually, something that is said to be a very good early warning sign about earthquakes is ULF (ultra-low frequency). Basically, its an electromagnetic wave between 0.5Hz and 5Hz, pulses of extremely low "vibration" normal humans cant hear/feel (unless you're Travolta in the movie Phenomenon).
The theory is that many animals can feel such vibrations, which can give you a few hours or at most a few days warning about an earthquake. Anyway,
this site should give you a little more interesting information about ULF/ELF and earthquake prediction.
The Japanese are extremely good at taking an existing technology and improving it, and taking it to its full potential. Take for example cell phones - the buzz when I was in Japan in Dec/2000 was all about G3, and the full motion (color) video on cell phones. Or cars - Honda makes the best, most economical internal combustion engines out there. Its about quality.
At the same time, try and think of a technology which has done fantastically well that was a purely Japanese invention. They take others work and improve/perfect it.
I think this follows through to animation. While north american companies such as disney and warner brothers put out their Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, the Japanese realized that with animation, you could do *anything*. You could create completely alternative universes, limited only by your imagination. So they made their animation for all levels of audience - from children to adults. It really opened up the market in their country - and all ages accepted animation. In north america, we grew up with our childish animations - so we have this concept that animation is for children.
Thats why, in my opinion, north american animation never took off as a form of entertainment for all ages - and not just for children.
Also, will this mean that OPs will start logging DCCs and crossreference with the channels you're on to determine if a channel is being used to transfer files?
As a DALnet Coder, I can assure you that this will never happen.
Good point. Maybe we should get MS to fund a jaunt to mars.
Level 1 - Capture and harness the energy of the atom. We have NOT done this. Nuclear fission is a bastardization of the true possibilities of the atom. Until we succeed in harnessing nuclear fusion into a viable energy source, we wont reach level 1.
Level 2 - Harness the energy of a star. Ie. A Dyson Sphere. We're probably a couple hundred thousand years away from this - if we dont blow our selves away before then.
Level 3 - Harness the energy of a galaxy. I cant even come up with a direct comparison to pit this against - except perhaps an indirect one. If anyone has read
Carl Sagan's Contact (excellent read - the book not the movie) - there it is suggested that a co-operative project between galaxies is *making* Cygnus A - to the end of increasing local matter density to prevent the universe's expansion in that area. Cygnus A is the second loudest radio source in earth's sky -- and its 600 million light years away. Talk about large-scale engineering.
Sort of offtopic, but food for thought.
I ran a porn webserver that was doing over 7 million hits a day, spread over 50+ virtualhosts. I'd bet my life that there wasnt a single site that had over 100KB of text, and less than 50MB of images/movies. And that machine was nothing more than a well configured single CPU 550Mhz Xeon running freebsd. Mind you, it did have 1.5 gigs of ram.
Finally, doctors generally rely on pagers. Not cell phones. Pagers have fantastic in-building penetration and coverage area where cell phones do not always.
And, most hospitals will NOT allow cellphones inside. At least here in Canada. Cell phones generate some level of radio interference that can mess with some medial equipment. The cell phones you see people walking around with in hospitals are not cell phones - they're like an advanced version of walkie talkies - and a completely self-contained system to within a few hundred meters of the building.
I know of someone who works there. He also claims they're profitable. VERY profitable.
I'm confused. Quicktime 6 or MPEG-4?
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SMRT! SMRT!
here.
Its an excellent, done-in-1981-but-with-a-late-70s-feel movie. Its extremely low budget, but absolutely hilarious.
Ok, maybe im just excessively tired at this point of the evening, but im confused. With everything.
How can any level of motion be constant? If you've got a star moving away from you, the light coming from it is redshifted. Therefor, the light should be moving slower, right? If its coming towards you, blueshift, faster moving light. Am I missing something?
GenerationX in Waterloo, Ontario carries a substantial anime selection. Its located in uptown Waterloo across the street from Waterloo Music, about a block from where Erb Street meets King Street. The anime section is downstairs.
A sea implies salt water. The black sea is accually a sea, because its salt water. I have never heard the great lakes (freshwater) referred to as an inland sea, and I grew up in Ontario.
basically hes saying that once he figures all this stuff out.. we'll be able to use the earths gravitomagnetic field to float, use as transportation, and even use to catapult ourselves into space?
If I do follow, the applications are absolutely revolutionary...
They will. Audiophiles buy gigantic cables for two reasons:
You have to understand, distortion isnt confined to the amplifiers. Speaker distortion works like this...
For the sake of simplicity, imagine a perfect sine wave. It goes as much up as it does down. Speakers do exactly the same thing as the wave, moving back and forth. Now, when you're doing this at any significant amplitude, theres issues of air pressure to take into account. You've got the forward push which creates a vacuum behind the speaker, and higher pressure in front of the speaker. Since the higher pressure in front usually disapates forward, you've really only gotta worry about the vacuum behind the speaker.
Now, moving on to the second half of the wave, that vacuum behind the speaker has air very quickly rushing to fill that space. As a result, on the back swing of the wave, you require a lot of power to fight against the incoming wave of air.
At about 160db, its phyically impossible to have sound without distortion (half the wave is flattened out!).
So yah.. 'gigantic cables' accually do make the speakers sound better. (If you like it loud.)
-Me- No.
-Boss- Why?
-Me- Because I've got better things to do with my time than set up big brother stuff so you can make sure you're employees are working.
-Boss- But you're playing UT
-Me- No.
-Boss- Yes you are, I can see you doing it right now.
-Me- You are mistaken. This is a highly advanced network troubleshooting tool. See, thats a Windows box emitting smb traffic, that red flag. I've come to kill it.
-Boss- So you're not going to implement this thing for me?
-Me- Correct.
Boss wanders off annoyed
This Conversation is paraphrased, but did happen. The moral of the story is, arent *we* the network admins. If we cant push our boss around like I used to be able to (the company went backrupt in the
Why, the beer tap of course. It can be turned, but unless you can call left or right 'evil', then we're fine.
cept for those damn vertical pull ones, then you're in shit.
first post!
If they want to challenge Google, they have a long way to go.
Unlike the US, the Canadian post-secondary education system is relatively affordable and still a decent education. (Unlike secondary School.)
Please dont make assumptions about things you know nothing about, especially considering I was commenting on something to which I grew up within 20 minutes drive from. The UofW is without a doubt in the top 5 computer education schools in the world.