For the record, Canada only had one for a few months, and she was only elected by the party. In her first general election she went from one of the largest majorities in history to only two seats.
For the record, she was lucky to get two seats.
Why?
The leader that had preceded her (Brian Mulrooney) and his party had instituted a nationwide 7% goods and services tax. This effectively made him the most reviled prime minister in modern Canadian history, and caused the populace to all but revolt against the party that he represented.
She was NOT voted down because she was a woman - she was voted down because we hated her party. FWIW, She probably could have made a decent leader.
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Could be, but keep in mind that because it's 'common knowledge' that mules can't reproduce, they are often kept in pens with horses/donkeys of the opposite sex. Farmers don't have to watch where they put an infertile animal, so they'll often just stick it in the pen with the most room available. If sex happens - hey, no problem. It's infertile, so no offspring.
We're faster to adapt to different languages than you are (at waterloo). We're force-fed twice as many different languanges in the same time frame.
We consistently rank in the top 3 comprehensive universities in Canada... the same category as waterloo, and we've finished ahead of waterloo a number of times.
We have a major new computer wing. Microsoft now recruits from out computer co-op program.
And yes, our systems engineers are not usually regarded around campus as especially good at coding - that's what the comp sci program is for.
-Pre-encrypt the entire hd/file system -to access anything, query the key from a pcmcia card -the pcmcia card holds the key in RAM and automatically 'forgets' the key every 15-30 seconds -the pcmcia card queries a transponder worn by the user to refresh its memory -the card and transponder have a VERY short range (1 metre MAX)
Therefore, the machine is unuseable when the transponder-wearing owner is more than 1 metre away for more than 30secs, and is equally unuseable should the pcmcia card be removed.
Infinitely cyclic random keys (like those used for 'secure' garage door openers) could be used to decrease the cahnce that the radio signal could be effectively recorded.
The article you cite seems to paint UW as consistently the #1 Canadian university. The site seems to state that UW has been #1 for 10 years running. I beg to differ.
If you care to look at the actual site of the magazine that does the university rankings (scroll to the bottom) you can see that waterloo placed 3rd last year. The year before that, they placed second. In the past 5 years, both Guelph and Simon Fraser have consistenly outranked Waterloo, and both have placed #1. Guelph was #1 two years ago, Simon Fraser was #1 before that.
Sorry to shatter your conceptions.
The link you give (which conincidentally, is to the UW's student newspaper) cites only the reputation rankings, a meaningless figure culled from a survey of high school guidance counsellors.
I read the header and I thought that this would be a fun thing to do!
But I've been thinking lately about how big the world is, and what I should do, and where I should go.
Graduation's looming.
And I realized how lame this all sounds. They're going to get drunk and then program. Think about it. They're going to "Enjoy the bandwidth" - what does that mean, really? They're going to LOVE lower ping times, and LOVE the fact that things download SLIGHTLY FASTER.
My friends, we truly are an insular community of fools.
Well, if broadband was widespread and cheap, and actually fast without too much capping...
And if we as programmers could find a simple, easy way to apply distributed computing to tasks that require absolutely fast super-low-latency real-time results...
And if there was some way to ensure that such games would still work on a ps3 acting alone, unconnected to any network......then it might work. But I don't see this happenning until the ps4 or maybe even ps5 becomes a reality. The ps3 will probably be redesigned at some late stage, and will most likely look like a game system of today.
If this article interests you, I highly suggest that you get (and read) a copy of "Rare Earth" by Ward and Brownlee, Copernicus press.
In it, they lay out their case for why advanced life is rare in the universe, but simple life may be relatively common. The article that's linked to seems to be a condensed form of the argument set out in Rare Earth.
Rare Earth goes over planetary habitable zones, galactic habitable zones, and also goes much further on about the necessity of a "benevolent" jupiter-like planet, planetary extinction events, and plate tectonics.
I think this book was reviewed on slashdot, but I don't feel like looking it up. It's still one of my favourite books.
BTW: it's not some crackpot theory, either. Ward and Brownlee are both professors at the University of Washington in Seattle and they site 26 pages of scientific references at the back of the book.
But for the DMCA to apply you would probably have to decompile a copyrighted organism, like GM maize or roundup-ready grass or soy or something like that.
Now, I forget exactly which slashdot editor it was that posted "the lone gunmen are dead" several hours early... ... but whoever they are they should be forced to watch the divx BEFORE being allowed to see the movie. And the divx should be as grainy, low quality, and stuttery as possible.
Jurasdiction has lately been a problem for the courts of the world.
Elcomsoft: a Russian company that sold product over the internet, and some (ok, most) of it's buyers were in the states.Yahoo France: an American company that peddled its wares to the French people of the world (mostly in France).
If the US can claim jurasdiction over elcomsoft, does it not follow that france can claim jurasdiction over Yahoo France? And if this is the case, do the American people not forfeit their right to cause an uproar when an American company is subject to non-American rules?
Everyone seems to be missing the point (including the original company) of a technology like this that's capable of delivering high resolution.
It seems to me that you could EASILY increase the brightness of this system by using more powerful LEDs/Lasers, and have the whole contraption project a wall-sized image at high res.
This has the potential to be a heckuva lot cheaper than current bigscreen and even projection TVs, plus it could be made so light that you could hang it on the wall without ripping out the plasterboard!
Well, the technology seems basically identical to Nintendo's virtual boy, but with three leds (red, green, & blue) instead of virtual boy's one (red).
Same concept: a flashing LED is scanned by an oscillating mirror, and you hold the whole thing up close to your eyes.
The Virtual Boy came with an automatic-pause feature, wherein it FORCED you to take a break every 15 minutes. Additionally, a strong warning was stuck right on the machine... it was NOT to be used by young children, because PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE could occur.
I distinctly remember watching a WIDE array of sports broadcast from the CBC's website, onto my family's ancient powermac 6100. Unsure of the year, but this must've been back in '98.
It was all barely bigger than a postage stamp, and the sound was bad, but yes, you COULD watch basically whatever you wanted.
That's really why this whole thing bothers me. The IOC isn't just preventing technology from going forward as fast as it should, but rather they have actively retarded the spread of webcasting.
There are myraid other religions out there. I would be interested to see what other views of creation have arisen from them, and how christian creationists would respond to the creationist views of other religions.
If you thump your bibles at them, they'll do the same right back at you. THEN who's right? heh? heh?
When using hard drives as a backup medium, you must remeber that you have to buy TWO extra hard drives, not one.
The pitfalls of a 2-hd backup system are apparent when you consider the following:
Hard drive A is in your computer. You're backing it up onto hard drive B, when hard drive A fails during the backup...
...and now you're hosed. All the data on both drives is gone, which is a potentially FATAL scenario if you're a small business.
The solution? Like I already said, get two backup drives, and alternate them.
IANAP (physicist) but I've taken a bunch of courses.
Here's something like a partial answer to your question, as best as I can remember from my quantum-physics course.
Mass and energy are essentially the same thing. The principle difference between energy and matter is the wavelength. Matter has a very short wavelength, whereas energy has a relatively long wavelength.
Otherwise, matter and energy can be treated as the same thing for most operations.
When I was a kid (early-mid 80s) I had this toy called "The animator". It looked a lot like an etch-a-sketch, but with an LCD screen. You could create pictures on its bw screen, copy them, and animate them. I think you could store something like 8-10 images.
The year after I got it, they came out with an advanced version called the "Animator 2000" which had a stylus and a touch screen.
This pixter thing bears an uncanny resemblance to the Animator 2000, except for the price and the fact that the pixter can take expansion cartridges, and the colour has changed. (The animators were grey with blue buttons, IIRC)
I've tried to find links for these, but to no avail. It was a pretty cool toy, though.
Actually, I've got a pack of Verbatim mini-CDR's here, of the 3-inch size.
They hold 185MB (21 mins of music), not 380MB.
Also, they do fit in a regular CD storage case because those cases generally hold CDs by the central hole, and are not dependant on their size. Slipcovers, however, do present a problem.
In any case, I find them useful for transporting a good amount of data in a form-factor that's much more suited to my pocketses!
I can take all the files I need from homeschoolwork and never notice that they're in my pocket.
Plus, they're realy cute.
Unfortunately, they cost about 2x as much as a regular CD, but it's not like I run through a lot of mini-CDs. I only burn about a meg or two at a time onto the mini-CD, and then leave for the day, so each one lasts a looooong time.
It would be nice if I could buy a mini-CDRW, but they don't seem to be available (around here, at least).
BTW: you're absolutely correct about the business card CD things. the only problem is that they cost QUITE a bit more than you'd expect...
I've seen a few other ideas proposed... GM is tinkering with the idea of only running 4 of the 8 cylinders in some of their SUV engines (during low load/stops) in order to increase economy. I don't really understand how they plan to pull it off...
Back in the mid-to-early 80's, my mother had a gigantic grey V-8 cadillac which she had bought almost new. It was supposed to have this experimental system whereby it deactivated two cylinders (or was that 4... it's been a long time) at low speed, and brought all 8 on at higher speeds/loads.
However, the cylinder-deactivator thing never worked properly, apparently, because when my mother got the car, the engine had been tinkered to run all 8cyls all the time... because the preceding owner got so PO'd at the stupid deactivator system that he (she?) had it bypassed.
So something like this has been done before, but IIRC, not very well.
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For the record, she was lucky to get two seats.
Why?
The leader that had preceded her (Brian Mulrooney) and his party had instituted a nationwide 7% goods and services tax. This effectively made him the most reviled prime minister in modern Canadian history, and caused the populace to all but revolt against the party that he represented.
She was NOT voted down because she was a woman - she was voted down because we hated her party. FWIW, She probably could have made a decent leader.
Could be, but keep in mind that because it's 'common knowledge' that mules can't reproduce, they are often kept in pens with horses/donkeys of the opposite sex.
Farmers don't have to watch where they put an infertile animal, so they'll often just stick it in the pen with the most room available.
If sex happens - hey, no problem. It's infertile, so no offspring.
From what I understand of this sort of screen, no, you cannot have any sort of indiglo-style lighting.
Essentially, the screens are opaque, like a thick piece of paper, and reflect light about the same.
They reflect light much like paper, so the screen can be illuminated from above without glare, just like a book.
Therefore, indiglo or similar is not needed. A good, bright LED would do the trick.
--R
We're faster to adapt to different languages than you are (at waterloo). We're force-fed twice as many different languanges in the same time frame.
We consistently rank in the top 3 comprehensive universities in Canada... the same category as waterloo, and we've finished ahead of waterloo a number of times.
We have a major new computer wing. Microsoft now recruits from out computer co-op program.
And yes, our systems engineers are not usually regarded around campus as especially good at coding - that's what the comp sci program is for.
Yeah, I know, I'm an idiot.
The site was
D'OH
-Pre-encrypt the entire hd/file system
-to access anything, query the key from a pcmcia card
-the pcmcia card holds the key in RAM and automatically 'forgets' the key every 15-30 seconds
-the pcmcia card queries a transponder worn by the user to refresh its memory
-the card and transponder have a VERY short range (1 metre MAX)
Therefore, the machine is unuseable when the transponder-wearing owner is more than 1 metre away for more than 30secs, and is equally unuseable should the pcmcia card be removed.
Infinitely cyclic random keys (like those used for 'secure' garage door openers) could be used to decrease the cahnce that the radio signal could be effectively recorded.
Seems like a better solution.
The article you cite seems to paint UW as consistently the #1 Canadian university. The site seems to state that UW has been #1 for 10 years running. I beg to differ.
If you care to look at the actual site of the magazine that does the university rankings (scroll to the bottom) you can see that waterloo placed 3rd last year. The year before that, they placed second. In the past 5 years, both Guelph and Simon Fraser have consistenly outranked Waterloo, and both have placed #1. Guelph was #1 two years ago, Simon Fraser was #1 before that.
Sorry to shatter your conceptions.
The link you give (which conincidentally, is to the UW's student newspaper) cites only the reputation rankings, a meaningless figure culled from a survey of high school guidance counsellors.
That would be known as the "Adobe Ebook Method", and it's proven not to work.
--R
I read the header and I thought that this would be a fun thing to do!
But I've been thinking lately about how big the world is, and what I should do, and where I should go.
Graduation's looming.
And I realized how lame this all sounds. They're going to get drunk and then program. Think about it. They're going to "Enjoy the bandwidth" - what does that mean, really? They're going to LOVE lower ping times, and LOVE the fact that things download SLIGHTLY FASTER.
My friends, we truly are an insular community of fools.
--R
Well, if broadband was widespread and cheap, and actually fast without too much capping...
...then it might work. But I don't see this happenning until the ps4 or maybe even ps5 becomes a reality. The ps3 will probably be redesigned at some late stage, and will most likely look like a game system of today.
And if we as programmers could find a simple, easy way to apply distributed computing to tasks that require absolutely fast super-low-latency real-time results...
And if there was some way to ensure that such games would still work on a ps3 acting alone, unconnected to any network...
With better graphics, of course.
--R
The link to the code on the provided web page is broken.
The proper address to the location of the tar.gz file is:
http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.tar.gz
--R
If this article interests you, I highly suggest that you get (and read) a copy of "Rare Earth" by Ward and Brownlee, Copernicus press.
In it, they lay out their case for why advanced life is rare in the universe, but simple life may be relatively common. The article that's linked to seems to be a condensed form of the argument set out in Rare Earth.
Rare Earth goes over planetary habitable zones, galactic habitable zones, and also goes much further on about the necessity of a "benevolent" jupiter-like planet, planetary extinction events, and plate tectonics.
I think this book was reviewed on slashdot, but I don't feel like looking it up. It's still one of my favourite books.
BTW: it's not some crackpot theory, either. Ward and Brownlee are both professors at the University of Washington in Seattle and they site 26 pages of scientific references at the back of the book.
--RC
Sadly, tha answer is probably 'yes'.
But for the DMCA to apply you would probably have to decompile a copyrighted organism, like GM maize or roundup-ready grass or soy or something like that.
--RC
Now, I forget exactly which slashdot editor it was that posted "the lone gunmen are dead" several hours early...
... but whoever they are they should be forced to watch the divx BEFORE being allowed to see the movie.
And the divx should be as grainy, low quality, and stuttery as possible.
Poetic justice.
Jurasdiction has lately been a problem for the courts of the world.
Elcomsoft: a Russian company that sold product over the internet, and some (ok, most) of it's buyers were in the states.Yahoo France: an American company that peddled its wares to the French people of the world (mostly in France).
If the US can claim jurasdiction over elcomsoft, does it not follow that france can claim jurasdiction over Yahoo France? And if this is the case, do the American people not forfeit their right to cause an uproar when an American company is subject to non-American rules?
Food for thought.
Everyone seems to be missing the point (including the original company) of a technology like this that's capable of delivering high resolution.
It seems to me that you could EASILY increase the brightness of this system by using more powerful LEDs/Lasers, and have the whole contraption project a wall-sized image at high res.
This has the potential to be a heckuva lot cheaper than current bigscreen and even projection TVs, plus it could be made so light that you could hang it on the wall without ripping out the plasterboard!
You get the idea...
Well, the technology seems basically identical to Nintendo's virtual boy, but with three leds (red, green, & blue) instead of virtual boy's one (red).
Same concept: a flashing LED is scanned by an oscillating mirror, and you hold the whole thing up close to your eyes.
The Virtual Boy came with an automatic-pause feature, wherein it FORCED you to take a break every 15 minutes. Additionally, a strong warning was stuck right on the machine... it was NOT to be used by young children, because PERMANENT EYE DAMAGE could occur.
Yikes.
I distinctly remember watching a WIDE array of sports broadcast from the CBC's website, onto my family's ancient powermac 6100. Unsure of the year, but this must've been back in '98.
It was all barely bigger than a postage stamp, and the sound was bad, but yes, you COULD watch basically whatever you wanted.
That's really why this whole thing bothers me. The IOC isn't just preventing technology from going forward as fast as it should, but rather they have actively retarded the spread of webcasting.
If the other sources somehow become slashdotted, NewScientist also has an article up on this.
It's up under the title "Anger plays key role in human cooperation".
--R
There are myraid other religions out there. I would be interested to see what other views of creation have arisen from them, and how christian creationists would respond to the creationist views of other religions.
If you thump your bibles at them, they'll do the same right back at you. THEN who's right? heh? heh?
--R
When using hard drives as a backup medium, you must remeber that you have to buy TWO extra hard drives, not one.
The pitfalls of a 2-hd backup system are apparent when you consider the following:
Hard drive A is in your computer. You're backing it up onto hard drive B, when hard drive A fails during the backup...
...and now you're hosed. All the data on both drives is gone, which is a potentially FATAL scenario if you're a small business.
The solution? Like I already said, get two backup drives, and alternate them.
--R
IANAP (physicist) but I've taken a bunch of courses.
Here's something like a partial answer to your question, as best as I can remember from my quantum-physics course.
Mass and energy are essentially the same thing. The principle difference between energy and matter is the wavelength. Matter has a very short wavelength, whereas energy has a relatively long wavelength.
Otherwise, matter and energy can be treated as the same thing for most operations.
But not always.
When I was a kid (early-mid 80s) I had this toy called "The animator". It looked a lot like an etch-a-sketch, but with an LCD screen. You could create pictures on its bw screen, copy them, and animate them. I think you could store something like 8-10 images.
The year after I got it, they came out with an advanced version called the "Animator 2000" which had a stylus and a touch screen.
This pixter thing bears an uncanny resemblance to the Animator 2000, except for the price and the fact that the pixter can take expansion cartridges, and the colour has changed. (The animators were grey with blue buttons, IIRC)
I've tried to find links for these, but to no avail. It was a pretty cool toy, though.
--R
Actually, I've got a pack of Verbatim mini-CDR's here, of the 3-inch size.
They hold 185MB (21 mins of music), not 380MB.
Also, they do fit in a regular CD storage case because those cases generally hold CDs by the central hole, and are not dependant on their size. Slipcovers, however, do present a problem.
In any case, I find them useful for transporting a good amount of data in a form-factor that's much more suited to my pocketses!
I can take all the files I need from homeschoolwork and never notice that they're in my pocket.
Plus, they're realy cute.
Unfortunately, they cost about 2x as much as a regular CD, but it's not like I run through a lot of mini-CDs. I only burn about a meg or two at a time onto the mini-CD, and then leave for the day, so each one lasts a looooong time.
It would be nice if I could buy a mini-CDRW, but they don't seem to be available (around here, at least).
BTW: you're absolutely correct about the business card CD things. the only problem is that they cost QUITE a bit more than you'd expect...
--R
Back in the mid-to-early 80's, my mother had a gigantic grey V-8 cadillac which she had bought almost new. It was supposed to have this experimental system whereby it deactivated two cylinders (or was that 4 ... it's been a long time) at low speed, and brought all 8 on at higher speeds/loads.
However, the cylinder-deactivator thing never worked properly, apparently, because when my mother got the car, the engine had been tinkered to run all 8cyls all the time... because the preceding owner got so PO'd at the stupid deactivator system that he (she?) had it bypassed.
So something like this has been done before, but IIRC, not very well.
--R