It says that half the compound was made two years ago, and that to make the other half:
Metal compounds might offer a route to synthesizing N5-, suggest Laura Gagliardi of the University of Bologna in Italy and Pekka Pyykko of the University of Helsinki in Finland.
They think that the N5- ring could be made, along with a ring of seven nitrogen atoms (N73-), in a compound with a metal atom, such as titanium or zirconium, sandwiched between the rings3. Carbon-ring compounds like this already exist; ferrocene, for example, is an iron atom sandwiched between two five-atom carbon rings.
So we're partway there and with recent developments in chemical synthesis without use of heavy engineering plants we have good hope of getting a decent rocket fuel!
Beware sounds cards, 8KHz is often not quite 8KHz and it might matter; esp if you wish to correlate recordings made simulaneously from two cards, or from a sound card to a video card.
You may find that 30 mins of recordings from each card are not the same length.
You may prefer to take continuous small blocks of samples and timestamp them yourself, but I don't really know if this would help.
For a real sound card expect to pay over a hundred dollars; but you may find it cheaper to add a trimmer capacitor to the crystal oscillator circuit on the sound card and calibrate yourself.
I bugh a copy of Click'n'Create in the bad old days but not till you open the box do you see a stupid license that stops you distributing yourself the games you create unless you pay a load more money..
My wife took it back to "GAME" and they said "No sorry", so I took it back and they accepted it no questions asked.
I didn't even get a chance to explain about the stupid license, they just took it and gave a refund.
But it has further implications; It seems like MS are prohibiting combining use GPL software with windows except those GPL packages which they sell themselves.
I hope Mr Hollings gets his way and people, reluctant to be owned, suddently discover a whole new world out there, one they can be part of instead of watch.
Once availability or inconvenience reaches a threshold people change behaviour.
If pay per view and STUPID content control takes over, people will just play more golf, more football or karting, or take to amateur dramatics, or evening coding in pascal.
Forget interactive TV, interact! In the real world you can contribute!
I believe the license is required to operate a television receiver. So desolder the tin-can RF stage at the back of your telly AND video and you should be fine!
There's only a few connections and it should go back on fine if you want to change your mind.
There's nothing so wrong about the ISP intercepting port 80 connections BUT WHY DON'T THEY MAKE A NOTE OF THE ORIGINAL TARGET ADDRESS and use that as part of the caching key as well as the GET request?
AND then use the SAME IP when forwarding the connection.
Sorry; I meant roll on the activeX wrapper, then al the Delphi newbies will be knocking out their own browsers that host this activeX (the rendering engine).
I didn't mean it needed to be able to host activeX itself.
The general public cannot afford the costs of secure bug free software, and generally software houses don't charge the sort of prices you might associate with secure bug free software and so software houses can't afford to provide bug free and secure software.
Thats the end of the story,
If someone has enough money they could possibly negotiate better terms.
Though like buses and txais one will never be around when you want it; qoute:
"Its designers say ULTra could spell the end of taxi lines, because passengers would find on-call pods at designated stops at least 80 percent of the time."
That 80% of the time would be night time when everyone is in bed and non-rush hour during the day.
So if they don't like Linux being free, soak 'em good for it and turn it into "excellent quality of support" which should please the customer and get some referrals.
Whinging is a fine sport and can be enjoyed in groups or when alone.
It can bring about much change and can be well worthwhile.
The ultimate solution of course is to do it yourself if you don't like the way other people are doing it.
If you can't you are left to consider that these companies are perhaps merely excercising their market value to extract as much as they can for their efforts. You might also think that the various competitors didn't start up at the same time yet are following the same revenue generation model.
This model exists I believe due to the short-term gullability of purchasers and the cunning of marketers.
If you are just paying for a new user interface, then more fool you for paying. Of course you are not aware of changes in the underlying byte-stream scanning engine, why should you be, but what efforts have you made to find out? Or did you hope the marketing arm would [raise the price and] tell you all about these [proprietary and hard to understand to the layman] changes when pricing gimmicks sell better?
Remember how scanners had to change to be able to detect all variants of polymorphic viruses, consider Nortons trick of emulating the first few instructions of each program to see if they matched the pattern of dodgyness. Testing the viability of these options costs a lot, so expect to pay again and again even if the research did not pay off.
Unless you suspect a cartel in operation, the wide variety of companies practicing such schemes surely indicates there is not that much fleecing going on.
As for licensing terms, yes I find them rather bogus but it is the best attempt at defence from a lawsuit crazy country when the software industry was weak and growing.
And the answer has always been if you don't like the terms, do it yourself.
I happily am able to but have better things to do (family) and so don't, but get more enjoyment.
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Try to get written acknowledgement of your report; merely "to cover yourself".
The bosses bosses may not be keen to give this and wonder why you are so insistent on covering yourself.
They may then take another look for fear that they end up uncovered when the dirt starts to fly.
Sam
I don't think so, read the nature article;
It says that half the compound was made two years ago, and that to make the other half: So we're partway there and with recent developments in chemical synthesis without use of heavy engineering plants we have good hope of getting a decent rocket fuel!"Islam's interaction with other religions has always been with its followers holding a sword to the followers of the other religion's necks."
This is not true. Early Muslim states defended christians minorities living around.
Join in Tux-Racer or other open source games.
Without having to have many-many spare hours you can do something demonstratable and perhaps discover if game-coding really is for you after all.
Sam
> Sherk ahd problems with feet and hands
:-)
> interacting with other objects
Not just sherk by the looks of it, LOL!
Sam
Is there anybody who will go to the trouble of downloading this who is NOT planning to view it at the cinema as soon as reasonable?
I don't see how this will reduce revenue in any way!
Beware sounds cards, 8KHz is often not quite 8KHz and it might matter; esp if you wish to correlate recordings made simulaneously from two cards, or from a sound card to a video card.
You may find that 30 mins of recordings from each card are not the same length.
You may prefer to take continuous small blocks of samples and timestamp them yourself, but I don't really know if this would help.
For a real sound card expect to pay over a hundred dollars; but you may find it cheaper to add a trimmer capacitor to the crystal oscillator circuit on the sound card and calibrate yourself.
I bugh a copy of Click'n'Create in the bad old days but not till you open the box do you see a stupid license that stops you distributing yourself the games you create unless you pay a load more money..
My wife took it back to "GAME" and they said "No sorry", so I took it back and they accepted it no questions asked.
I didn't even get a chance to explain about the stupid license, they just took it and gave a refund.
I think the question was a moral one.
But it has further implications; It seems like MS are prohibiting combining use GPL software with windows except those GPL packages which they sell themselves.
Sam
"the average Joe could care less about Free or Open Source software"
Free? The average Joe shares his installation CD's like he shares his mp3's.
Free is what software is to the average Joe.
Canon don't yet, I was very annoued with my facncy new cheap 650 USB scanner!
They are still "thinking about it" and won't give out any specs in the meantime.
I hope Mr Hollings gets his way and people, reluctant to be owned, suddently discover a whole new world out there, one they can be part of instead of watch.
Once availability or inconvenience reaches a threshold people change behaviour.
If pay per view and STUPID content control takes over, people will just play more golf, more football or karting, or take to amateur dramatics, or evening coding in pascal.
Forget interactive TV, interact! In the real world you can contribute!
Sam
I believe the license is required to operate a television receiver. So desolder the tin-can RF stage at the back of your telly AND video and you should be fine!
There's only a few connections and it should go back on fine if you want to change your mind.
Sam
This would explain why I "know" how to analyse and solve a friends computer problems - but only when I sit down at their keyboard.
Loads of ideas I "should have had" to help I don't have, if I don't get to sit down at the keyboard.
Sam
I know an old gentleman (correct term for this guy) who was getting quite aquainted with computers and had a 384DX40 with 4MB RAM.
He had some motherboard problems and the shop wanted 300 quid (UK pounds) to "repair" it.
These were the days when it cost 30 quid to buy one.
[They also sold him a 4-shade greyscale hand scanner for 150 quid or there-abouts.]
There's nothing so wrong about the ISP intercepting port 80 connections BUT WHY DON'T THEY MAKE A NOTE OF THE ORIGINAL TARGET ADDRESS and use that as part of the caching key as well as the GET request?
AND then use the SAME IP when forwarding the connection.
Sorry; I meant roll on the activeX wrapper, then al the Delphi newbies will be knocking out their own browsers that host this activeX (the rendering engine).
I didn't mean it needed to be able to host activeX itself.
Sam
Roll on activeX support, then we will have a plethora of freeware and shareware alternative web browsers for windows, no doubt.
Sam
As a programmer making fair wages with fair outgoings and a family I can't (or won't?) afford windows + office.
I do contribute to OS software and am happy to use Linux and Open Office along with Lilypond etc etc and all my other favourites.
So OS helps me, the guy with family to put through school.
Sam
The general public cannot afford the costs of secure bug free software, and generally software houses don't charge the sort of prices you might associate with secure bug free software and so software houses can't afford to provide bug free and secure software.
Thats the end of the story,
If someone has enough money they could possibly negotiate better terms.
Though like buses and txais one will never be around when you want it; qoute:
"Its designers say ULTra could spell the end of taxi lines, because passengers would find on-call pods at designated stops at least 80 percent of the time."
That 80% of the time would be night time when everyone is in bed and non-rush hour during the day.
Fwahh! And they'll be testing-modes no doubt that will leak out after product launch whereby people can set their own clocks.
I know my DVD player lets me "hard-fix" the region as soon as I power it own to last until the next power down.
So if they don't like Linux being free, soak 'em good for it and turn it into "excellent quality of support" which should please the customer and get some referrals.
Whinging is a fine sport and can be enjoyed in groups or when alone.
It can bring about much change and can be well worthwhile.
The ultimate solution of course is to do it yourself if you don't like the way other people are doing it.
If you can't you are left to consider that these companies are perhaps merely excercising their market value to extract as much as they can for their efforts. You might also think that the various competitors didn't start up at the same time yet are following the same revenue generation model.
This model exists I believe due to the short-term gullability of purchasers and the cunning of marketers.
If you are just paying for a new user interface, then more fool you for paying. Of course you are not aware of changes in the underlying byte-stream scanning engine, why should you be, but what efforts have you made to find out? Or did you hope the marketing arm would [raise the price and] tell you all about these [proprietary and hard to understand to the layman] changes when pricing gimmicks sell better?
Remember how scanners had to change to be able to detect all variants of polymorphic viruses, consider Nortons trick of emulating the first few instructions of each program to see if they matched the pattern of dodgyness. Testing the viability of these options costs a lot, so expect to pay again and again even if the research did not pay off.
Unless you suspect a cartel in operation, the wide variety of companies practicing such schemes surely indicates there is not that much fleecing going on.
As for licensing terms, yes I find them rather bogus but it is the best attempt at defence from a lawsuit crazy country when the software industry was weak and growing.
And the answer has always been if you don't like the terms, do it yourself.
I happily am able to but have better things to do (family) and so don't, but get more enjoyment.
Sam
Instead of PAUSING, play exceedinly SLOWLY, maybe 1 frame every 10 minutes?
Thats a NOVEL way of pausing, novel in that it isn't actually pausing.
It should be patentable too?
Sam