" Even if we point SETI-type radio telescopes at it and monitor it for signals, they will have spent 1400 years getting to us and there is no guarantee that whatever civilization was there is still there." "Interesting discovery, but I can't muster up much excitement about this one." Really? You are an idiot. The discovery of life in another solar system would be a HUGE discovery. Finding a technologically advanced civilisation would change everything. There is no telling what we could find out if we could read the data from the signals over time. However just knowing that we are not the only life in the Universe would be huge. Sorry sparky this is science not Star Wars.
Exactly. You have a specific task and probably specific software for that task. If the software supports CUDA then you might want to spend money on Tesla cards over CPUs. Does it use Open CL? Then you might want to look at AMD GPU compute cards. Do you need a large memory space? Do you need a lot of threads or just a few really fast ones. If you have 50k for the system then I suggest you spend a little of it on someone that really knows this subject. It may make more sense to just use Amazon E2C.
Actually I knew people buying CP/M machines as late as 85 actually I knew some vertical markets that sold CP/M machines well into the early 90s. Truth is that MS-DOS was not a lot better than CP/M for many years. It really was not until Lotus 123 and WordPerfect came out that MS-DOS was a lot better than CP/M. That combined with the price drop from the clone makers and you finally had the death of CP/M. However by 1985 you had the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and the Mac. All of which were far better machines than the IBM intel based PC. I blame the decline of those machine in part to the magazines of the day. They lived and died by ads so could never say the PC was really outdated. It is simple math. Do you want ads from IBM, Compaq, Kaypro, Corona, Sanyo, and all the rest of the clone makers or do you want ads from just Commodore, Apple, and Atari? Pushing PCs meant more ads.
You left out that they failed when they did not listen to the husband/techie/mans advice and produced a PC compatible. Had they done that they might have been Compaq.
Actually it was not Commodore that drove down CP/M prices. That was Osbourne then Kaypro. Commodore is the the tragedy because Wintel PCs did not really match the Amiga until around 1995. The issue was marketing and expectations.
Not exactly. It is pure evolution in action stranger=danger. It is a biological adaptation to trust the people that are most like us. You trust your close family more than your more distant family and so on. The easer to see the difference the greater the distrust. From an evolutionary point of view the amount people look, smell, and act alike reflects the amount of common genetic material they share. So you care more about their survival and they care about yours. Frankly the fact that humans have come so far in ignoring this instinct show just how important community is to humans.
Exactly ". First, advertising imposes costs on individuals without permission or compensation." You usually get entertainment and or information in compensation.
I would say yes. Having moons is not a requirement but if you have other object in your planetary moon system the planet is the one with the most mass. Titan is not a planet but it could be if it had an independant orbit as could our moon.
The scientist that runs the Pluto mission disagrees with you. Pluto is a planet. As he put it The Astronomers should not decide what is and is a planet. They Planetary geologists should. Pluto is large enough that it has been pulled into a spherical shape. It has moons that orbit it, and it has the most mass of the bodies in the planet moon system it occupies.Pluto has an atmosphere. Ceres could also qualify but it does not have a moon and is much smaller than Pluto. I also have no problem with Eris being called a planet if it's orbit remains within the heliopause. Now the moons of Mars should not be called moons IMHO since they are really just captured asteroids.
I knew that Wirth did some work in that direction but I never could find it again. One idea he had was compile right to the point of code generation and then stop. When you got the file the browser/installer would then complete the code generation. All the parsing and optimization was already done.
Only if you are dumb. This is Open Source from the NSA every security deeb on the planet will tear into it hopping to get a paper out of some exploit and big consulting contracts. Odds are really good it is rock solid.
Or it could be this. "Poitras has been subject to monitoring by the U.S. Government, which she speculates is because of a wire transfer she sent in 2006 to Iraqi doctor Riyadh al-Adhadh, a suspected Sunni insurgent"
The AS400 and System 38 before it used an "ideal" ISA that the computer then translates when you load the program on to the system. Think of it as an install time compiler. It would be great if Linux had the same concept built in. You could do it the first time you run the program if need by. Maybe pick the IBM zseries as the ISA so that you do not tick off Intel, AMD, or ARM.
I never got into Redit. Everytime I tried kept stumbling into the nasty parts. Shame because every once in a while I find some really good posts that link to Redit subredits.
I do not know about the rarely used part but MUMPS has been around for a very long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... VistA can use MUMPS for the backend so it is probably still in pretty wide use.
" Ultraviolet is classified into near, medium and far UV according to energy, where near and medium ultraviolet are technically non-ionizing, but where all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization (including DNA damage and carcinogenesis)" Far UV is ionizing and near and medium are close enough to cause the same kind of damage as ionizing radiation so you can treat it as ionizing. Plus you have a really odd cell phone if it emits UV.
I used a Windows Phone for a while and it is actually a good product. It was fast and stable and did what I wanted it to do. The UI was actually pretty nice. The one thing that made me go back to Android was the lack of apps and the quality of some of them. I really missed the Google apps that I was used to using. Google is no more of a villain for doing that than Microsoft is for not producing Office or Exchange for Linux, or Apple not producing iTunes for WindowsPhone or Android but Windows Phone with gmail, youtube, and google maps would have been really nice. BTW yes I know about bing maps and using imap for gmail and the third party youtube apps but I liked google better. In the end I really wish that WP did better than it looks like it will do. Now what Microsoft is doing to Nokia is shameful.
" UV isn't ionizing at least the far UV bands are, the lower bands are close enough in energy to cause photochemical reactions that break bonds so they are treated as ionizing radiation" So yes it is.
With EM non-ionizing radiation in the RF bands the only concern is tissue heating. Even with the standard inverse square law at the standard transmission power of a phone the difference in the heating effect between a belt clip and a phone in your pocket would not be significant.
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" Even if we point SETI-type radio telescopes at it and monitor it for signals, they will have spent 1400 years getting to us and there is no guarantee that whatever civilization was there is still there."
"Interesting discovery, but I can't muster up much excitement about this one."
Really? You are an idiot.
The discovery of life in another solar system would be a HUGE discovery. Finding a technologically advanced civilisation would change everything. There is no telling what we could find out if we could read the data from the signals over time. However just knowing that we are not the only life in the Universe would be huge.
Sorry sparky this is science not Star Wars.
Yes I would have to agree that the S100 was on the way out by then.
Exactly. You have a specific task and probably specific software for that task. If the software supports CUDA then you might want to spend money on Tesla cards over CPUs. Does it use Open CL? Then you might want to look at AMD GPU compute cards.
Do you need a large memory space?
Do you need a lot of threads or just a few really fast ones.
If you have 50k for the system then I suggest you spend a little of it on someone that really knows this subject.
It may make more sense to just use Amazon E2C.
Actually I knew people buying CP/M machines as late as 85 actually I knew some vertical markets that sold CP/M machines well into the early 90s.
Truth is that MS-DOS was not a lot better than CP/M for many years. It really was not until Lotus 123 and WordPerfect came out that MS-DOS was a lot better than CP/M. That combined with the price drop from the clone makers and you finally had the death of CP/M.
However by 1985 you had the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and the Mac. All of which were far better machines than the IBM intel based PC.
I blame the decline of those machine in part to the magazines of the day. They lived and died by ads so could never say the PC was really outdated. It is simple math. Do you want ads from IBM, Compaq, Kaypro, Corona, Sanyo, and all the rest of the clone makers or do you want ads from just Commodore, Apple, and Atari?
Pushing PCs meant more ads.
You left out that they failed when they did not listen to the husband/techie/mans advice and produced a PC compatible.
Had they done that they might have been Compaq.
Actually it was not Commodore that drove down CP/M prices. That was Osbourne then Kaypro.
Commodore is the the tragedy because Wintel PCs did not really match the Amiga until around 1995. The issue was marketing and expectations.
Not exactly.
It is pure evolution in action stranger=danger. It is a biological adaptation to trust the people that are most like us. You trust your close family more than your more distant family and so on. The easer to see the difference the greater the distrust. From an evolutionary point of view the amount people look, smell, and act alike reflects the amount of common genetic material they share. So you care more about their survival and they care about yours.
Frankly the fact that humans have come so far in ignoring this instinct show just how important community is to humans.
Then Neptune and Earth do not.
Neptune has not cleared it's orbit of Pluto and many comets and apollo bodies cross earth's orbit.
Exactly ". First, advertising imposes costs on individuals without permission or compensation."
You usually get entertainment and or information in compensation.
I would say yes. Having moons is not a requirement but if you have other object in your planetary moon system the planet is the one with the most mass. Titan is not a planet but it could be if it had an independant orbit as could our moon.
The scientist that runs the Pluto mission disagrees with you.
Pluto is a planet. As he put it The Astronomers should not decide what is and is a planet. They Planetary geologists should.
Pluto is large enough that it has been pulled into a spherical shape. It has moons that orbit it, and it has the most mass of the bodies in the planet moon system it occupies.Pluto has an atmosphere.
Ceres could also qualify but it does not have a moon and is much smaller than Pluto.
I also have no problem with Eris being called a planet if it's orbit remains within the heliopause.
Now the moons of Mars should not be called moons IMHO since they are really just captured asteroids.
So it is better to leave the exploits that it does close open?
Now this is heading into crazytown.
If true.
1. Those are already open.
2. It does improve security by closing other holes.
So why not use it?
Why limit it to those in public housing? Why not offer it to all low income families?
I knew that Wirth did some work in that direction but I never could find it again. One idea he had was compile right to the point of code generation and then stop. When you got the file the browser/installer would then complete the code generation. All the parsing and optimization was already done.
Combine that with her contacts with Snowden and yea I can see it.
It is not just one thing.
Only if you are dumb.
This is Open Source from the NSA every security deeb on the planet will tear into it hopping to get a paper out of some exploit and big consulting contracts.
Odds are really good it is rock solid.
Or it could be this.
"Poitras has been subject to monitoring by the U.S. Government, which she speculates is because of a wire transfer she sent in 2006 to Iraqi doctor Riyadh al-Adhadh, a suspected Sunni insurgent"
The AS400 and System 38 before it used an "ideal" ISA that the computer then translates when you load the program on to the system. Think of it as an install time compiler.
It would be great if Linux had the same concept built in. You could do it the first time you run the program if need by.
Maybe pick the IBM zseries as the ISA so that you do not tick off Intel, AMD, or ARM.
I never got into Redit. Everytime I tried kept stumbling into the nasty parts.
Shame because every once in a while I find some really good posts that link to Redit subredits.
I do not know about the rarely used part but MUMPS has been around for a very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... VistA can use MUMPS for the backend so it is probably still in pretty wide use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
" Ultraviolet is classified into near, medium and far UV according to energy, where near and medium ultraviolet are technically non-ionizing, but where all UV wavelengths can cause photochemical reactions that to some extent mimic ionization (including DNA damage and carcinogenesis)"
Far UV is ionizing and near and medium are close enough to cause the same kind of damage as ionizing radiation so you can treat it as ionizing.
Plus you have a really odd cell phone if it emits UV.
I used a Windows Phone for a while and it is actually a good product. It was fast and stable and did what I wanted it to do. The UI was actually pretty nice. The one thing that made me go back to Android was the lack of apps and the quality of some of them. I really missed the Google apps that I was used to using. Google is no more of a villain for doing that than Microsoft is for not producing Office or Exchange for Linux, or Apple not producing iTunes for WindowsPhone or Android but Windows Phone with gmail, youtube, and google maps would have been really nice.
BTW yes I know about bing maps and using imap for gmail and the third party youtube apps but I liked google better.
In the end I really wish that WP did better than it looks like it will do. Now what Microsoft is doing to Nokia is shameful.
I guess it makes sense for a startup that wants access to hardware. Still seems like a large waste of money.
" UV isn't ionizing at least the far UV bands are, the lower bands are close enough in energy to cause photochemical reactions that break bonds so they are treated as ionizing radiation"
So yes it is.
With EM non-ionizing radiation in the RF bands the only concern is tissue heating. Even with the standard inverse square law at the standard transmission power of a phone the difference in the heating effect between a belt clip and a phone in your pocket would not be significant.