All the advanced physics was interesting and fun to read, but the answer to the comment by the poster, wondering about the mass of the black hole vs the volume of space, is not a matter of black hole physics. Read carefully the sentence from the article:
"The orbital perimeter means that the entire mass of the interior object, between 2.6 million and 3.7 million times more massive than the sun, lurks inside an area three times the size of our solar system."
Get it? It doesn't say the black hole *is* 3 times the size of the solar system, it says the black hole "lurks within" a space that size. It's just a literary turn of phrase.
Small webcasting is utterly insignificant to the music industry in real terms. Anybody in a college dorm could play music 12 hours a day to an average of 7 listeners. Small webcasting is two cans and a string. Why does the RIAA care? Don't ask. The RIAA is run by people who are so mindlessly greedy that it is *impossible* for normal people to understand how they think. It's useless to try. They simply want all the money in the world and will do anything in their power to collect it. If they could, the RIAA would send a surgeon to your house to implant a metering device in your head that would send them money every time you heard a musical note. The only reason they don't is that they can't, at least not yet.
It's a waste of time to try to figure out the RIAA's motivation. Accept that they are insanely greedy and deal with their actions as insanity.
"Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing." Bill Gates, Jan 15, 2002.
Really, Bill? Is that why you are disguising advertising as customer feedback? To promote trust? Or is it that customers trust each other more than they trust you, so you'll just pretend to be customers and steal some of that trust?
"Theft of trust" - that has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Or how about trust infringement, or trust piracy?
This isn't just a Microsoft thing, it's a good illustration of the absolute contempt people with a lot of money often have for the rest of the world. We are nothing, and lying to us means nothing. If you own enough of the law, getting caught doesn't even mean much.
Corporate America is cutting its own throat day after day. Whether it's inventing demographic data or telling accountants what to make 2 and 2 add up to, every crooked move blackens another tooth in the shining smile. Trustworthy Computing isn't going to be a commercial product, Bill, because you guys just can't be trusted.
Not knowing the physics, but using my imagination... could you get better resolution by using the signals from two cell towers as a kind of interferometer? (with enough processing)
I think tech sgt. Chen used this technique to locate Tawny Madison in Galaxy Quest ep 37, "Peekaboo". Or was it ep 38?
Smite those who moderate as "insightful" the comments of others like themselves who failed to read the article. Or in this case, who failed even to read closely the./ posting, which clearly mentions that the cell towers are used as radar.
It's not about tracking people's phones, it is about using the signals from the cell towers as radar waves, to track ANYTHING that moves. You don't have to have a cell phone, you don't have to have it turned on, you just have to be physically in the area covered by the tower.
I agree 100% with what David H. Lynch says, and he certainly says it eloquently. But suppose the worst: what if the Supreme Court upholds copyright extension, the RIAA gets its hacking license, and the government embarks on a War on Piracy with the zeal of its decades-long War on Drugs. What do we do then?
I'm thinking what should happen is open defiance of copyright extension. As many people as possible should post as many pictures of Steamboat Willie as they can find, on as many webservers and p2p networks as possible. Give the courts so many cases to handle that they simply can't do it. Robert Cringely proposed this same idea, and I like it. But I wonder how many people would actually participate? The legal system's only trump card is that few people ever go all the way to the wall to defend a principle. That's a significant fact. Who wants to risk going to a real jail in order to share some music files over Kazaa?
I sure don't. I have a family to support, and if people started getting snatched out of their houses there's no way I am going to have my house seized and be the bitch for some knuckle scraping troglodyte in a cell. Even if those prospects didn't bother me, justifying my actions to my wife would be another matter. Actually, I'm not sure which would be worse. If the enforcement starts to get harsh, my p2p files are coming right down. And I bet 99% of you reading this are the same way. When the rubber meets the road, how many of you have stood your ground when you knew you were going to get your ass kicked?
That's one thing that gives me a really fatalistic feeling about all this. I sure hope the legal brains arguing Eldred vs Ashcroft are in top form, because I really believe that the fate of this issue will rest on the shoulders of a few heroes, not on the masses who will mostly run for cover if the shit hits the fan.
Put a half-inch or so of ordinary white sugar in a small beaker and add some *fuming* sulfuric acid. I have no idea of the quantities. Over the next minute or so it turns orange, then begins to smoke and bubble, then turns black as the carbon is stripped out. The carbon is then pushed upward by more carbon, rising straight up out of the beaker to a height of 6 inches or so, like a cylinder of black rock.
The way I saw this demonstrated was in a short film produced by one of my high school classmates. All you saw was the torsos of two guys at a chem lab table, measuring and pouring things, as one of them talked about his dinner at a middle eastern restaurant the night before. As he got to the part where the belly dancer came up to his table, the bubbling and steaming got going. When she started shaking her body in his face the carbon was rising out of the beaker...
Wow! The thermal version described in the article is very similar to the "glidoons" proposed in The Inventions of Daedalus a number of years ago. A glidoon is an inflatable glider containing a substance that is gaseous at sea level and condenses in the cold of high altitude. The craft glides up and down without fuel, driven only by the endlessly reversing buoyancy. Exact same principle, and they really did it!
The reason people with decent jobs don't have money is that they spend it all. That's not saying Generation X is any more stupid or less responsible than their parents or grandparents. It's that they have grown up in a world where things are instantly available, advertising is designed by psychologists, and credit is doled out like candy.
People often simplistically credit WWII for the economic boom of the 1950's, as if war itself creates prosperity. The war did create employment, but more significantly it created huge shortages because so much production was diverted to the military. Everything from cars to coffee was hard to get. For several years people were making decent money and couldn't spend it. They saved like crazy. When the war ended and the tooled up factories switched to consumer goods, people poured all that money back into the economy. High demand, high production, high employment, it was party time. Citizens devolved into consumers. It wasn't the euphoria of victory that drove the economy, it was that people simply had tons of real money to spend. That generation is retired now and is generally able to live comfortably on its own leftovers.
We won't have a situation like that in the near future. If anybody thinks going to war with Iraq or terrorists will boost the economy, they're not reading the liner notes. We don't want to get into a big war, and little wars that don't deprive the public in a way that creates postwar prosperity. At least not when the message from leadership is Business as Usual instead of Batten Down the Hatches.
I don't look forward to the next few decades in America at all.
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Interesting though the article was, their sampling could have been a little better. "Jessica, an art therapist and professional harpist, has $50,000 in student loans." Art therapist? Well duh! Everybody knows the big money is in pet psychiatry.
Say you've driven up into the hills to find the meteorite, thinking you could maybe sell it to some them scientist fellers upta college. If it has broken open and is pulsing greenly, DO NOT poke it with a stick.
This could have other long-term implications for Microsoft, quite apart from sales. Microsoft employs a lot of programmers from India, and I have found them to be among the brightest people I've ever met. If Indian schools move away from turning out expert Microsoft developers, it could dry up this important pool.
Quickest costume I ever made, and to my astonishment it won me 2nd place in a contest. All you need is a box of safety pins, your laundry and an old t-shirt. Be sure to mix whites and colors. Starting at the bottom of the t-shirt, pin on articles of clothing and work your way up. Higher items should partially overlap lower ones to hide the pins. Pin the topmost items on from the inside, and put a couple socks up around the neck area. You want your head to be sticking out of the pile. In about 10 minutes you will have what looks like a heap of laundry. Carefully slide into the t-shirt, put a (clean) pair of undershorts on your head, and you are good to go.
I think you are absolutely correct, and I think it's an indication of the confidence level of those who rule the USA. The more invincible you feel, the easier it is to act like a complete asshole. Who cares what the rest of the world thinks? What are they going to do about it? That, I believe, sums up our foreign policy at this point.
Yeah, but those annoyingly long handshakes salespeople give you will go on forever when they get the capability to upload multimedia presentations to your PDA.:-)
Wow! That's really amazing. My initial reaction, knowing only a little about this area, was that it sounded completely whimsical. Amidst all the noise here it's nice to get detailed information from somebody who actually knows what they're talking about.
I did read the article. Maybe you should try actually reading my post. The sentence I quoted about handbags and pockets came directly from it. I also read the fish translation of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which is patchy at best, then went to the nttdocomo website, found nothing, and finally tried google to get some sort of confirmation. The difficulty of finding material on this thing makes me more suspicious that it is vapor. I could be wrong, but forgive me for having an opinion.
Does anybody else think this sounds just a teensy bit flaky? The article says the connection works through clothing... "Apparel and handbags have their own conductivity, allowing an electrical connection to a PDA that can remain in one's pocket..." Huh?? 10 mbps using the cloth of my pocket as a conductor??
I have a suspicion that news.au.com is getting one slipped to them. The closest Google result I could get with "NTT NoCoMo skin" is this article about a cell phone that conducts sound through bone and cartilage, enabling you to listen to the call by sticking your finger in your ear.
I hope somebody has the presence of mind to WiFi this out, or at least record and share it. I would sure like to listen in. Assuming the RIAA doesn't ban recording.
Something like: Software Engineering 201 - Large Project Design. Fall 2002 McMartin/Dhawan, T-Th 1-3pm, Rm A104. Students will produce a detailed project plan for a large graphical software package, with emphasis on design, resource requirements and critical path.
I've heard that there is a growing trend in Japan to make cars more homey and luxurious, like little living rooms, as mentioned here and here for example. Partly because they spend so much time in their cars due to heavy traffic. The pictures and diagrams really brought this home. Check out the size of that mother, and look at the flat-floor diagram, with the wide seat sideways and the others arranged around it. I could easily imagine adding a coffee table and a lamp.
Yes, and this is just a preview of the next economic layer that is going to be laid on top of the Internet with the arrival of Palladium. What do you suppose you will have to do to get your content enabled so everybody's PC will be allowed to open it? It's not just a scam, it's maybe the ultimate scam. Inflict the publishing industry's business model on the Internet by taking control of all the hardware connected to it.
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All the advanced physics was interesting and fun to read, but the answer to the comment by the poster, wondering about the mass of the black hole vs the volume of space, is not a matter of black hole physics. Read carefully the sentence from the article:
"The orbital perimeter means that the entire mass of the interior object, between 2.6 million and 3.7 million times more massive than the sun, lurks inside an area three times the size of our solar system."
Get it? It doesn't say the black hole *is* 3 times the size of the solar system, it says the black hole "lurks within" a space that size. It's just a literary turn of phrase.
Small webcasting is utterly insignificant to the music industry in real terms. Anybody in a college dorm could play music 12 hours a day to an average of 7 listeners. Small webcasting is two cans and a string. Why does the RIAA care? Don't ask. The RIAA is run by people who are so mindlessly greedy that it is *impossible* for normal people to understand how they think. It's useless to try. They simply want all the money in the world and will do anything in their power to collect it. If they could, the RIAA would send a surgeon to your house to implant a metering device in your head that would send them money every time you heard a musical note. The only reason they don't is that they can't, at least not yet.
It's a waste of time to try to figure out the RIAA's motivation. Accept that they are insanely greedy and deal with their actions as insanity.
"Trustworthy Computing is the highest priority for all the work we are doing."
Bill Gates, Jan 15, 2002.
Really, Bill? Is that why you are disguising advertising as customer feedback? To promote trust? Or is it that customers trust each other more than they trust you, so you'll just pretend to be customers and steal some of that trust?
"Theft of trust" - that has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Or how about trust infringement, or trust piracy?
This isn't just a Microsoft thing, it's a good illustration of the absolute contempt people with a lot of money often have for the rest of the world. We are nothing, and lying to us means nothing. If you own enough of the law, getting caught doesn't even mean much.
Corporate America is cutting its own throat day after day. Whether it's inventing demographic data or telling accountants what to make 2 and 2 add up to, every crooked move blackens another tooth in the shining smile. Trustworthy Computing isn't going to be a commercial product, Bill, because you guys just can't be trusted.
Not knowing the physics, but using my imagination... could you get better resolution by using the signals from two cell towers as a kind of interferometer? (with enough processing)
I think tech sgt. Chen used this technique to locate Tawny Madison in Galaxy Quest ep 37, "Peekaboo". Or was it ep 38?
Smite those who moderate as "insightful" the comments of others like themselves who failed to read the article. Or in this case, who failed even to read closely the ./ posting, which clearly mentions that the cell towers are used as radar.
It's not about tracking people's phones, it is about using the signals from the cell towers as radar waves, to track ANYTHING that moves. You don't have to have a cell phone, you don't have to have it turned on, you just have to be physically in the area covered by the tower.
READ THE ARTICLES BEFORE YOU POST.
I agree 100% with what David H. Lynch says, and he certainly says it eloquently. But suppose the worst: what if the Supreme Court upholds copyright extension, the RIAA gets its hacking license, and the government embarks on a War on Piracy with the zeal of its decades-long War on Drugs. What do we do then?
I'm thinking what should happen is open defiance of copyright extension. As many people as possible should post as many pictures of Steamboat Willie as they can find, on as many webservers and p2p networks as possible. Give the courts so many cases to handle that they simply can't do it. Robert Cringely proposed this same idea , and I like it. But I wonder how many people would actually participate? The legal system's only trump card is that few people ever go all the way to the wall to defend a principle. That's a significant fact. Who wants to risk going to a real jail in order to share some music files over Kazaa?
I sure don't. I have a family to support, and if people started getting snatched out of their houses there's no way I am going to have my house seized and be the bitch for some knuckle scraping troglodyte in a cell. Even if those prospects didn't bother me, justifying my actions to my wife would be another matter. Actually, I'm not sure which would be worse. If the enforcement starts to get harsh, my p2p files are coming right down. And I bet 99% of you reading this are the same way. When the rubber meets the road, how many of you have stood your ground when you knew you were going to get your ass kicked?
That's one thing that gives me a really fatalistic feeling about all this. I sure hope the legal brains arguing Eldred vs Ashcroft are in top form, because I really believe that the fate of this issue will rest on the shoulders of a few heroes, not on the masses who will mostly run for cover if the shit hits the fan.
Put a half-inch or so of ordinary white sugar in a small beaker and add some *fuming* sulfuric acid. I have no idea of the quantities. Over the next minute or so it turns orange, then begins to smoke and bubble, then turns black as the carbon is stripped out. The carbon is then pushed upward by more carbon, rising straight up out of the beaker to a height of 6 inches or so, like a cylinder of black rock.
The way I saw this demonstrated was in a short film produced by one of my high school classmates. All you saw was the torsos of two guys at a chem lab table, measuring and pouring things, as one of them talked about his dinner at a middle eastern restaurant the night before. As he got to the part where the belly dancer came up to his table, the bubbling and steaming got going. When she started shaking her body in his face the carbon was rising out of the beaker...
Classic.
Be sure to look at the video clips of Arthur (the earlier prototype). The German musical accompaniment is worth the wait.
Wow! The thermal version described in the article is very similar to the "glidoons" proposed in The Inventions of Daedalus a number of years ago. A glidoon is an inflatable glider containing a substance that is gaseous at sea level and condenses in the cold of high altitude. The craft glides up and down without fuel, driven only by the endlessly reversing buoyancy. Exact same principle, and they really did it!
If female testers are so damn hard to find, seems like they should get More pay. Or am I smoking crack?
The reason people with decent jobs don't have money is that they spend it all. That's not saying Generation X is any more stupid or less responsible than their parents or grandparents. It's that they have grown up in a world where things are instantly available, advertising is designed by psychologists, and credit is doled out like candy.
People often simplistically credit WWII for the economic boom of the 1950's, as if war itself creates prosperity. The war did create employment, but more significantly it created huge shortages because so much production was diverted to the military. Everything from cars to coffee was hard to get. For several years people were making decent money and couldn't spend it. They saved like crazy. When the war ended and the tooled up factories switched to consumer goods, people poured all that money back into the economy. High demand, high production, high employment, it was party time. Citizens devolved into consumers. It wasn't the euphoria of victory that drove the economy, it was that people simply had tons of real money to spend. That generation is retired now and is generally able to live comfortably on its own leftovers.
We won't have a situation like that in the near future. If anybody thinks going to war with Iraq or terrorists will boost the economy, they're not reading the liner notes. We don't want to get into a big war, and little wars that don't deprive the public in a way that creates postwar prosperity. At least not when the message from leadership is Business as Usual instead of Batten Down the Hatches.
I don't look forward to the next few decades in America at all.
Interesting though the article was, their sampling could have been a little better. "Jessica, an art therapist and professional harpist, has $50,000 in student loans." Art therapist? Well duh! Everybody knows the big money is in pet psychiatry.
Say you've driven up into the hills to find the meteorite, thinking you could maybe sell it to some them scientist fellers upta college. If it has broken open and is pulsing greenly, DO NOT poke it with a stick.
This could have other long-term implications for Microsoft, quite apart from sales. Microsoft employs a lot of programmers from India, and I have found them to be among the brightest people I've ever met. If Indian schools move away from turning out expert Microsoft developers, it could dry up this important pool.
Quickest costume I ever made, and to my astonishment it won me 2nd place in a contest. All you need is a box of safety pins, your laundry and an old t-shirt. Be sure to mix whites and colors. Starting at the bottom of the t-shirt, pin on articles of clothing and work your way up. Higher items should partially overlap lower ones to hide the pins. Pin the topmost items on from the inside, and put a couple socks up around the neck area. You want your head to be sticking out of the pile. In about 10 minutes you will have what looks like a heap of laundry. Carefully slide into the t-shirt, put a (clean) pair of undershorts on your head, and you are good to go.
I think you are absolutely correct, and I think it's an indication of the confidence level of those who rule the USA. The more invincible you feel, the easier it is to act like a complete asshole. Who cares what the rest of the world thinks? What are they going to do about it? That, I believe, sums up our foreign policy at this point.
Yeah, but those annoyingly long handshakes salespeople give you will go on forever when they get the capability to upload multimedia presentations to your PDA. :-)
Wow! That's really amazing. My initial reaction, knowing only a little about this area, was that it sounded completely whimsical. Amidst all the noise here it's nice to get detailed information from somebody who actually knows what they're talking about.
I did read the article. Maybe you should try actually reading my post. The sentence I quoted about handbags and pockets came directly from it. I also read the fish translation of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which is patchy at best, then went to the nttdocomo website, found nothing, and finally tried google to get some sort of confirmation. The difficulty of finding material on this thing makes me more suspicious that it is vapor. I could be wrong, but forgive me for having an opinion.
Does anybody else think this sounds just a teensy bit flaky? The article says the connection works through clothing ... "Apparel and handbags have their own conductivity, allowing an electrical connection to a PDA that can remain in one's pocket..." Huh?? 10 mbps using the cloth of my pocket as a conductor??
I have a suspicion that news.au.com is getting one slipped to them. The closest Google result I could get with "NTT NoCoMo skin" is this article about a cell phone that conducts sound through bone and cartilage, enabling you to listen to the call by sticking your finger in your ear.
Uhhh, okie dokie.
I hope somebody has the presence of mind to WiFi this out, or at least record and share it. I would sure like to listen in. Assuming the RIAA doesn't ban recording.
Something like:
Software Engineering 201 - Large Project Design. Fall 2002
McMartin/Dhawan, T-Th 1-3pm, Rm A104.
Students will produce a detailed project plan for a large graphical software package, with emphasis on design, resource requirements and critical path.
I've heard that there is a growing trend in Japan to make cars more homey and luxurious, like little living rooms, as mentioned here and here for example. Partly because they spend so much time in their cars due to heavy traffic. The pictures and diagrams really brought this home. Check out the size of that mother, and look at the flat-floor diagram, with the wide seat sideways and the others arranged around it. I could easily imagine adding a coffee table and a lamp.
Yes, and this is just a preview of the next economic layer that is going to be laid on top of the Internet with the arrival of Palladium. What do you suppose you will have to do to get your content enabled so everybody's PC will be allowed to open it? It's not just a scam, it's maybe the ultimate scam. Inflict the publishing industry's business model on the Internet by taking control of all the hardware connected to it.
These bastards are pure evil.