Exactly. These big screens are usually used as monitors only. You don't usually use it as a tuner since someone with a screen like this will have DirectTV, Tivo, Digital Cable, etc. And you don't use the speakers in the display for your DVD playing either, because they are junk compared to even a half-way decent receiver + speakers.
I have a big RPTV and I don't know when the last time I used either the tuner or the built in speakers was.
So to solve this, you're left with building a delay circuit into a receiver and one that has multiple settings (for multiple sources and formats) and then having the user "tune" it until it seems right. This is not a good situation.
The only reasonable solution is to have a responsive monitor, not to try to delay the audio to compensate.
Not really. All the article says is that Baystar is unhappy with how SCO has been acting in public. And we all *know* how they've been acting in public. This could be a sigh of relief. Investor's might have been worried that Baystar concluded SCO's case had no merit. That would have been bad for their investors.
On the other hand, Baystar doesn't have their money yet, and if they came out and said "SCO's case has no merit" the stock might tank to the point where they couldn't get it. (SCO's market cap is ~$100M, Baystar is asking for 20% of that back in cash.)
I do, all the time, frankly. Sound built into the latest version of Via's/Intel's chipsets is often problematic. Either there is no sound, the sound is choppy, the hardware is unrecognized, etc. A year later when I install an upgraded OS, there is no problem.
Case in point, Mandrake 10 installs ALSA drivers on my Centrino laptop. They didn't seem to work. Installing the i810 OSS driver works fine, but Joe Sixpack is not going to know that.
Sadly, the only sure-fire way to get sound with any "recent" (last 18 months) linux is to buy an SB Live, as far as I can tell.
Of course, I wonder how well Windows 95 would do with the sound card on a Intel 875 or Centrino motherboard, too.
In a sense, yes. We have a 35 CPU cluster. The master node is actual RH 3.0 EL. The worker nodes are Fermilab's version of 3.0 (which is free as in beer).
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You're misinformed. While I couldn't find the pope's original statement regarding evolution, take a look here or Google on Catholic church and evolution (and maybe "position").
The real religious opponents to evolution, at least in this country, are the evangelicals, not the catholics.
7. "Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
I don't even understand this.
Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
The point is, that if you have a good idea, you can take a lot of good work that others have done and incorporate that as a base on which to build the innovative part of what you want to do. You don't have to waste your time re-coding the boring parts.
Most radioactive waste from a fission power plant comes from decaying fission fragments
Some of the worst stuff comes from fission fragments, but there is a lot of activated material, exactly what the original poster was asking about, produced too. Also, there is unspent fuel and plutonium produced. The total mass of the fission fragments is probably pretty low. I don't even know what the rest of that sentence is trying to say.
These fission fragments then decay through a long decay chain up toward lead. Most of them have relatively long lives
No, the heavier than lead (lead is 206, Uranium is 235-239) elements decay "down" towards lead. Lots of these have long half-lives. Most of the fission products have short half-lifes, a few are longer.
Fusion power will also create fusion products - but those products tend to be more stable - grabbing neutrons from the stew and much more rapidly settling down into nuclides that are much less radioactive than those produced by fission.
Partly true, mostly false. Fusion products also usually suffer radiactive decay, not absorb neutrons from the environment. But, yes, they do tend to be shorter lived (or stable). There probably fewer flavors, too. (He-3, He-4 are both stable, H-3 (tritium) has a half life on the order of a decade, I think).
Here's a link that summarizes a lot of this research the last time this went around.
Until this is confirmed with careful studies that really measure this effect on humans, I think a betting person would bet that this will go away. The hype, unfortunately, won't as most people still believer power lines are harmfull to your health.
Yes, all of that is true, but he is a politician in the generic sense of the word. (I don't think you can be a university president or a lab director without being a politician, even if your education is in science).
Many of us had high hopes because Marburger was more of a scientist than the last few people who've held his post, but this administration is more autocratic than previous administrations. No deviation from the party line is allowed.
BTW, Howard Dean and Bill Frist are doctors by training, but they are certainly politicians too.
Read the web page. They have suggested actions for the administration, congress, scientists, and the *public*. The public is asked to be aware of the issue and contact their representatives.
But the organization is the "Union of Concerned Scientists" so it makes sense that to sign their statement, you should be a scientist.
I may be really interested, say, in what the Bush administration is doing with respect to reproductive health care, but I wouldn't expect to be asked to sign an AMA statement on it.
The summary doesn't point out that that the report (which is well worth a read) takes pains not to criticize the decisions of the Bush administration, but takes them to task for distorting the scientific input into that process. For instance, you might decide (as a political matter) that reducing lead exposure to children is too costly for the benefits received. This is a political question. Removing people from a panel and censoring the science that can be presented in making that decision is an abuse of the public trust.
On their website is also a form to "sign" the statement yourself if you have an advanced degree in a scientific or technical field or are a graduate student pursuing one. Please read the report, though, before signing on.
ESR may have a bit of a primiadonna attitude, but compared to RMS he is humble as they get.
I don't agree. RMS (who I am no big fan of) certainly has strong and unrelenting views, but Raymond is much bigger into self-promotion than RMS is. Plus, as the original poster points out, RMS has done a lot more for the open (small caps) software movement than Raymond has, so I'm more inclined to cut him slack.
Raymond seems as interested in getting his name in lights as helping "the cause."
I think the point is that the fix for the bug may not have been applied, but the exploit may not work (or a different exploit would be needed) because the whole binary might have changed a little.
When an exploit is found for, say, the Red Hat 7.3 kernel, it may not work on Red Hat 8.0 let alone Debian for just this reason. That's not to say the bug isn't present in all three.
Well, a monochrome Palm can be had for $80 and a color Clie for about $150, so I don't know if that's something you'd want to afford.
The first thing a paper organizer can never do is beep to tell you were to go. Also, with Palms there is an amazing amount of software out there (www.palmgear.com) which will do all kinds of stuff. My two favorites are a great shopping list program (HandyShop) and a program to keep track of all my business travel (TravelTracker).
You'd likely find other things that were very useful.
There are several plausible candidates for dark matter. There are lots of suggestions from particle physics that every particle we know now has a partner. This theory is called "super symmetry" and the lightest of these particles may be stable (and many times heavier than a proton).
This question we may actually know the answer to in a decade or so when the LHC comes online and is producing results.
Five years ago, every cosmologist "knew" that the universe was flat and matter supplied the critical density (in other words, no dark energy, that 70%). Conventional wisdom has completely changed with the discovery of the accelerating universe.
If the data is there and convincing, the views will change. But any alternative theory is going to have to explain all the observables, not just the two mentioned in the artice.
(E.g., the convincing data on dark energy comes from two independent groups studying supernovae.)
Kodak is getting out of the chemical film *camera* business, a business they were hardly in to begin with. I assume they'll still continue to make disposable camera's too, just not cheap point and shoots.
35mm film for SLRs and existing point and shoots isn't going anywhere fast. Plus there are movies (as someone else pointed out) and a ton of industry/science/medical applications. Kodak still makes a wide variety of black and white films, so there is no way they'll drop print film any time in the next 25 years.
I don't think that's right. I can't run Warcraft except as administrator, I think, so it's not like I'm going to log into a special crippled account to surf the web when I can't play games in that mode.
Maybe there is a security setting I'm missing, though, since I use Windows so infrequently,
The serious answer to your question is that no one knows what the probability of coming down with vCJD is, but...
1. Britain has had more than 100K cases of BSE
2. Less than 200 people in Britain have come down with vCJD
This suggests its low even if you ingest the protein and...
3. The probability that contaminated meat (nerve and intestine tissue) got into the food chain is small.
4. Unless you're eating hamburger, the probability that meat from the infected cow is what was in *your* recalled meat is low.
There may be lots of reasons not to eat beef, but BSE in the U.S. isn't in one of them.
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I have a big RPTV and I don't know when the last time I used either the tuner or the built in speakers was.
So to solve this, you're left with building a delay circuit into a receiver and one that has multiple settings (for multiple sources and formats) and then having the user "tune" it until it seems right. This is not a good situation.
The only reasonable solution is to have a responsive monitor, not to try to delay the audio to compensate.
On the other hand, Baystar doesn't have their money yet, and if they came out and said "SCO's case has no merit" the stock might tank to the point where they couldn't get it. (SCO's market cap is ~$100M, Baystar is asking for 20% of that back in cash.)
He probably didn't know, exactly. He said it was integrated into an Intel chipset (I think, or maybe just a motherboard with an Intel processor).
Case in point, Mandrake 10 installs ALSA drivers on my Centrino laptop. They didn't seem to work. Installing the i810 OSS driver works fine, but Joe Sixpack is not going to know that.
Sadly, the only sure-fire way to get sound with any "recent" (last 18 months) linux is to buy an SB Live, as far as I can tell.
Of course, I wonder how well Windows 95 would do with the sound card on a Intel 875 or Centrino motherboard, too.
In a sense, yes. We have a 35 CPU cluster. The master node is actual RH 3.0 EL. The worker nodes are Fermilab's version of 3.0 (which is free as in beer).
The real religious opponents to evolution, at least in this country, are the evangelicals, not the catholics.
And the building referenced was dedicated in 1999. So the summary was truthful, if not exactly timely.
I don't even understand this.
Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
The point is, that if you have a good idea, you can take a lot of good work that others have done and incorporate that as a base on which to build the innovative part of what you want to do. You don't have to waste your time re-coding the boring parts.
Something has gotta be wrong with that.
More like filled with mis-information.
Most radioactive waste from a fission power plant comes from decaying fission fragments
Some of the worst stuff comes from fission fragments, but there is a lot of activated material, exactly what the original poster was asking about, produced too. Also, there is unspent fuel and plutonium produced. The total mass of the fission fragments is probably pretty low. I don't even know what the rest of that sentence is trying to say.
These fission fragments then decay through a long decay chain up toward lead. Most of them have relatively long lives
No, the heavier than lead (lead is 206, Uranium is 235-239) elements decay "down" towards lead. Lots of these have long half-lives. Most of the fission products have short half-lifes, a few are longer.
Fusion power will also create fusion products - but those products tend to be more stable - grabbing neutrons from the stew and much more rapidly settling down into nuclides that are much less radioactive than those produced by fission.
Partly true, mostly false. Fusion products also usually suffer radiactive decay, not absorb neutrons from the environment. But, yes, they do tend to be shorter lived (or stable). There probably fewer flavors, too. (He-3, He-4 are both stable, H-3 (tritium) has a half life on the order of a decade, I think).
Here's a link that summarizes a lot of this research the last time this went around.
Until this is confirmed with careful studies that really measure this effect on humans, I think a betting person would bet that this will go away. The hype, unfortunately, won't as most people still believer power lines are harmfull to your health.
Many of us had high hopes because Marburger was more of a scientist than the last few people who've held his post, but this administration is more autocratic than previous administrations. No deviation from the party line is allowed.
BTW, Howard Dean and Bill Frist are doctors by training, but they are certainly politicians too.
But the organization is the "Union of Concerned Scientists" so it makes sense that to sign their statement, you should be a scientist.
I may be really interested, say, in what the Bush administration is doing with respect to reproductive health care, but I wouldn't expect to be asked to sign an AMA statement on it.
Q: Mr. President, where are the weapons of mass destruction you said were in Iraq?
A: Saddam was an evil man who tortured his citizens.
On their website is also a form to "sign" the statement yourself if you have an advanced degree in a scientific or technical field or are a graduate student pursuing one. Please read the report, though, before signing on.
I don't agree. RMS (who I am no big fan of) certainly has strong and unrelenting views, but Raymond is much bigger into self-promotion than RMS is. Plus, as the original poster points out, RMS has done a lot more for the open (small caps) software movement than Raymond has, so I'm more inclined to cut him slack.
Raymond seems as interested in getting his name in lights as helping "the cause."
When an exploit is found for, say, the Red Hat 7.3 kernel, it may not work on Red Hat 8.0 let alone Debian for just this reason. That's not to say the bug isn't present in all three.
For instance, nedit, a great editor for people coming from Windows/Mac, was developed by Fermilab, a particle physics laboratory.
The first thing a paper organizer can never do is beep to tell you were to go. Also, with Palms there is an amazing amount of software out there (www.palmgear.com) which will do all kinds of stuff. My two favorites are a great shopping list program (HandyShop) and a program to keep track of all my business travel (TravelTracker).
You'd likely find other things that were very useful.
This question we may actually know the answer to in a decade or so when the LHC comes online and is producing results.
Dark energy is much weirder.
If the data is there and convincing, the views will change. But any alternative theory is going to have to explain all the observables, not just the two mentioned in the artice.
(E.g., the convincing data on dark energy comes from two independent groups studying supernovae.)
35mm film for SLRs and existing point and shoots isn't going anywhere fast. Plus there are movies (as someone else pointed out) and a ton of industry/science/medical applications. Kodak still makes a wide variety of black and white films, so there is no way they'll drop print film any time in the next 25 years.
Maybe there is a security setting I'm missing, though, since I use Windows so infrequently,
1. Britain has had more than 100K cases of BSE
2. Less than 200 people in Britain have come down with vCJD
This suggests its low even if you ingest the protein and...
3. The probability that contaminated meat (nerve and intestine tissue) got into the food chain is small.
4. Unless you're eating hamburger, the probability that meat from the infected cow is what was in *your* recalled meat is low.
There may be lots of reasons not to eat beef, but BSE in the U.S. isn't in one of them.
Total dead in U.S. from terrorist attacks since 2001: ~3,000
Total dead in U.S. from vCJD: 1
Total dead in U.S. from U.S. origin vCJD: 0