The best thing you can do is plan to mitigate any damage done. Of course this is easiest by not giving anyone any rights at all, but when you do have to give someone any kind of power try to wall them in as much as possible, so what damage they can do is very limited. Offsite backups that they dont have access to is best for recovery, especially if they have physical access to the site. I know some people will complain that treating everyone like a criminal will encourage destructive behaviour, but at the same time using smart/sane security precautions shouldnt scare away any reasonable people, and those who do react badly to being walled in probably arent the people you want on your site to begin with...
I was seriously considering picking one of these up as i tend to do a lot of low level fabrication (right up to casting noble and non-noble metals) and have yet to find a reasonable and quick method to fab plastics. However looking on the website and reading the review the quality of this product seems extremely questionable, not only did this one unit have 2 major issues within the first day of running (with a complex system like this not exactly a horrid start) but the company itself has a blog post on the front page about how its favorite customer service interaction was one in which the customer decided to fix all the problems on their unit themselves. So my first two impressions are that this unit will most likely be in a state of disrepair in between quick burts of usefulness? I'd rather just submit my renderings to online stores and pay the shipping, etc. simply for the lack of frustration. Now if they got these problems under control i'd have one tomorrow.
Unfortunately the crowns you have gotten probably cost the same for the actual prep, but lab costs have gone way up. The majority of crowns have a large portion of and/or are completely gold. Look at the cost of gold in the last couple years and you'll see why lab costs have gone way way up.
I've done a lot of work out at chalk river with neutron diffraction, and talking to some of the people there apparently a lot of the "issues" are petty little things like signage for hot pipes, etc. The largest issue is back up generators for 2 key pumps, but in reality there are back up pumps with seperate power supplies that could take over in a worst case senario (not likely though). It all appears to be political gesturing as usual but unfortunately this time peoples lives are truly at stake. But then again considering the previous actions of the liberal party i'm truly not that suprised, just saddened that a grab for political power is so negatively affecting peoples lives world wide
They're doing amazing work with protein folding, but even if you can semi predict how the protein is going to fold, it doesnt help as we cant currently say this is the configuration we want, with these amino acids at these sites, how would we make it? It getting there but there's still a lot of work to do
Creating an RNA sequence is not that hard, nor transcribing it to DNA (heck, its just as easy to build the DNA sequence) The problem is building one that's useful, that where the protein folding problem comes in (See folding@home) becuase what the point of having DNA/RNA if the encoded protein is useless?
I know this is gonna burn me by saying so, but i honestly see this as a money grab more than anything else. Microsoft isnt going to change its business strategy anytime soon because of this. If they really cared about this fine they'd refuse to pay it and watch the uproar that would ensue when it became illegal to sell Windows in the EU. Do you really believe the majority would accept that they could not use the most popular OS in the world? The really sad part is that judgements like this are the reason windows sells for $300-400 instead of 50-100, as future judgements like this are part of their pricing model
The sizes are governed by 2 factors, the wavelength of the UV light used, currently 193nm, transitioning to the 157nm for the 45nm chips, and the diffraction gratings/refraction of immersion fluid/polarization of said fluid, etc. used. Due to the physics behind this (i wont bore you with the long equations, because i dont want to do them again) there's basically certain points at which these effects add up to the greatest possible resolution/intensity/etc. Any more in depth and i'd have to dig up my lithography text, and i dont really want to:)
But at the same time i can teach a monkey to fit the different shaped components together and put a disc in the drive. Seriously, i know people who've built computers that have no idea what the difference between PCI/AGP/PCI-X is and they'll blindly open attachments and download programs that offer great "weather forecasts". putting tab A into slot b is no big difference from double clicking an icon on the desktop. Explain it to them once or and most people can do it over and over without having any understanding. And installing an OS like XP does nothing to educate them. Once again its a simple matter of put disc in drive, press power, select yes a lot (Put in key, that part gets tricky) and then they have a full working machine. Unfortunately with the ease of new systems its hard to find a reason to learn the basics, like when i started with with my old Apple IIe and then later DOS machines. but then again most people dont need to know this anymore, as everything is so automated nowadays. Basic skills such as what is a program, what is an OS, etc would be the most important things i would teach a complete newbie. That and common file extensions and turn off "hide file extensions" seriously that has to be one of the biggest security issues in XP in my mind. paris hilton nude.jpg.exe is probably one of the more sucessful viruses out there
Its also getting to the point where some of those enclosures are getting down to a reasonable price (ie. firewire ones for 15$) and hopefully eSATA will as well, and the direct connection is still way faster than anything shared over network, even with Gbit networking its just not the same, trust me, i have an old machine sitting around for long term storage, but playing with multiple GB files over a network sucks, seriously.
Those of us who dont happen to have any room left in the case for new HDs seems to be a potential use. Or as a a portable boot up device for those who have to use multiple machines. Or those who would rather buy an external device without sacrificing the speed of an internal device.
Unfortunately for us i dont think you're going to see a HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo drive anytime soon. The laser technology is completely different between the two, unlike the fiasco with DVD-R/+R as this was more of a data layout issue, not a change in wavelength (at least to my knowledge). those drives that are going to be multifunction are going to require 2 sets of optics, and i'll give you one guess as to what the most expensive part of a CD/DVD system is. This is why HD-DVD has yet another advantage over the blu-ray spec, especially as the HD-DVD format is designed with future expansion in mind (ie. increased data density)
Ermm, actually film does have a "pixel" per say, but they are actually grains of various chemicals that when struck by light undergo a photochemical change,these grains just happen to be distributed statistically rather than ordered as in a digital sensor (where the "grain" is always in the same posistion) this is why high ISO film is "grainy" because the particle size is larger (so as to better absorb said light so not as much is needed to activate said grains). this is also why black and white film is(was? not 100% sure of current color photography chemistry)looks better than color (only need 1 kind of grain that absorbs all light, rather than 3 different chemicals to absorb the 3 primary colors). This is the same as for digital cameras, and why the mars rover with a 1 MP camera can take such great images (they use different filters and then combine the resulting images to get color) while your 1MP color digital sucks.
Hehe, alchemy always reminds me of Luminol (and i'm sure if you've taken any chemistry you've probably seen the picture of the guy looking into a vial that is glowing white), one of my personal favorite experiments to awe kids. What throws me for a loop in this article is that nature of all places has a mistake so glaring obvious in the article. In the caption under the picture "Imploding bubbles, caught on film emitting light. Are they emitting energy too?". Now i'm a simple grad student, but seriously, even grade 10 students know that light == energy. Now i'm sure he meant are they emitting more energy than is put into the system, but still, boo on you Nature.
My PhD in chemistry and my degree in geology are what i base this knowledge on. Talk to ANY geologist or chemist and they will agree with me 100%, these systems are not in a stationary state, and while diffusion and other processes will be slowed down, there is no way there is no flux whatever... Now what do you base your doubt of my information on? And as to the levels of prozac and caffeine in salmon, i'd be more worried about the levels of female hormones being flushed down the drain on a daily basis. The pill is great except for the feminization of frogs and other species in the water system.
Seriously... Just because CO2 and CH4 are up does NOT mean global warming is anthropogenic... and these models assume the gases in these bubbles in not in flux. I assure you this ice is not a system that is "frozen" (sorry about the pun, but...) as i'm sure these gases do migrate through the ice, especially for those layers closest to the surface, but also for the ones further down. And even if this was shown to be 100% factual (i know, can never be in science) it STILL doesnt mean that this is whats responsible for global warming. Just because you can correlate something does mean there's actually a relationship. After all you could correlate the amount of environmentalists with global warming, so therefor its environmentalist's fault that we're warming. We're coming out of an ice age, its a known fact. These models almost never correlate the preturbations in the earths orbit and spin, as well as solar output (how can we know the suns activities 1000s of years ago? we cant) when a 1% increase in solar output would cause way more of an impact than this unproven facts.
Thats just faster download speeds and bigger hard drives. My PIII plays all the porn I have.......uh, I mean... I IMAGINE my PIII would play any porn somebody MIGHT want to download.
hehe, i bet not the new 1080p true HD videos you can download, my xbox cant do them... ermm i heard you could download them, and that an xbox wouldnt be fast enough, thank goodness for the 360...
heh, no way am i gonna argue with you on this one, you're preaching to the choir here... but the sad part remains someone who's looking for an admin probably doesnt know that much about computers, and they'll see they can get an admin for windows much cheaper than a unix/linux/multiplatform admin (Although i will admit i've met some pretty sad unix admins in my day, its like any field i guess). The other part is that unfortunately MS has the MSCE title, which does look good on someone's CV. The various certs you can get from RH and various other vendors just doesnt have the same weight (Not the actual usefulness of the cert, but weight in the HR department... of course i dont believe in most certs as all they mean is you can study for a test)
But this draw to seperate the water would require a lot of energy, which would be drawn from the engine causing it to work harder (like A/C). Plus the problem of constantly refilling the reservoir (and who cant see the first lawsuit when people have to add caustic chemicals like KOH)
This is a BIG point that a lot of "environmentalist" people seem to miss, it takes ~20 years to recoop the investment in energy it takes to produce these solar panels, not including the cleanup of waste materials produced... Possibly in the future when the actual eff. numbers rise above the ~20-something percent of crystaline SiO2 (which is the hardest, and most expensive, to make) panels, especially with the possibilities nanomaterials are presenting will these be a true alternative
heh, its funny cuz its true... i've "burned" many an email message once a contract was complete and the money was in my pocket... its safer for me to put the money in my pocket and then deny all contact with a company than to actually archive all transactions if someone decides they do not like me any more. IE. i remember one client who threatened legal action if i did not update his website after actually making said website for a certain fee... after asking him to prove it and due to a HD crash it was better for me to delete any correspondence than to actually update said site.
I'm suprised they didnt mention that Linux servers had the greatest overall growth with 35.4%, and that they're 10% of the entire market. Now if Microsoft hits the 50% mark then thats when i'll start believingthe whole Unix/*BSD is dead hype
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The best thing you can do is plan to mitigate any damage done. Of course this is easiest by not giving anyone any rights at all, but when you do have to give someone any kind of power try to wall them in as much as possible, so what damage they can do is very limited. Offsite backups that they dont have access to is best for recovery, especially if they have physical access to the site. I know some people will complain that treating everyone like a criminal will encourage destructive behaviour, but at the same time using smart/sane security precautions shouldnt scare away any reasonable people, and those who do react badly to being walled in probably arent the people you want on your site to begin with...
I was seriously considering picking one of these up as i tend to do a lot of low level fabrication (right up to casting noble and non-noble metals) and have yet to find a reasonable and quick method to fab plastics. However looking on the website and reading the review the quality of this product seems extremely questionable, not only did this one unit have 2 major issues within the first day of running (with a complex system like this not exactly a horrid start) but the company itself has a blog post on the front page about how its favorite customer service interaction was one in which the customer decided to fix all the problems on their unit themselves. So my first two impressions are that this unit will most likely be in a state of disrepair in between quick burts of usefulness? I'd rather just submit my renderings to online stores and pay the shipping, etc. simply for the lack of frustration. Now if they got these problems under control i'd have one tomorrow.
Unfortunately the crowns you have gotten probably cost the same for the actual prep, but lab costs have gone way up. The majority of crowns have a large portion of and/or are completely gold. Look at the cost of gold in the last couple years and you'll see why lab costs have gone way way up.
I've done a lot of work out at chalk river with neutron diffraction, and talking to some of the people there apparently a lot of the "issues" are petty little things like signage for hot pipes, etc. The largest issue is back up generators for 2 key pumps, but in reality there are back up pumps with seperate power supplies that could take over in a worst case senario (not likely though). It all appears to be political gesturing as usual but unfortunately this time peoples lives are truly at stake. But then again considering the previous actions of the liberal party i'm truly not that suprised, just saddened that a grab for political power is so negatively affecting peoples lives world wide
They're doing amazing work with protein folding, but even if you can semi predict how the protein is going to fold, it doesnt help as we cant currently say this is the configuration we want, with these amino acids at these sites, how would we make it? It getting there but there's still a lot of work to do
Creating an RNA sequence is not that hard, nor transcribing it to DNA (heck, its just as easy to build the DNA sequence) The problem is building one that's useful, that where the protein folding problem comes in (See folding@home) becuase what the point of having DNA/RNA if the encoded protein is useless?
I know this is gonna burn me by saying so, but i honestly see this as a money grab more than anything else. Microsoft isnt going to change its business strategy anytime soon because of this. If they really cared about this fine they'd refuse to pay it and watch the uproar that would ensue when it became illegal to sell Windows in the EU. Do you really believe the majority would accept that they could not use the most popular OS in the world? The really sad part is that judgements like this are the reason windows sells for $300-400 instead of 50-100, as future judgements like this are part of their pricing model
The sizes are governed by 2 factors, the wavelength of the UV light used, currently 193nm, transitioning to the 157nm for the 45nm chips, and the diffraction gratings/refraction of immersion fluid/polarization of said fluid, etc. used. Due to the physics behind this (i wont bore you with the long equations, because i dont want to do them again) there's basically certain points at which these effects add up to the greatest possible resolution/intensity/etc. Any more in depth and i'd have to dig up my lithography text, and i dont really want to :)
But at the same time i can teach a monkey to fit the different shaped components together and put a disc in the drive. Seriously, i know people who've built computers that have no idea what the difference between PCI/AGP/PCI-X is and they'll blindly open attachments and download programs that offer great "weather forecasts". putting tab A into slot b is no big difference from double clicking an icon on the desktop. Explain it to them once or and most people can do it over and over without having any understanding. And installing an OS like XP does nothing to educate them. Once again its a simple matter of put disc in drive, press power, select yes a lot (Put in key, that part gets tricky) and then they have a full working machine. Unfortunately with the ease of new systems its hard to find a reason to learn the basics, like when i started with with my old Apple IIe and then later DOS machines. but then again most people dont need to know this anymore, as everything is so automated nowadays. Basic skills such as what is a program, what is an OS, etc would be the most important things i would teach a complete newbie. That and common file extensions and turn off "hide file extensions" seriously that has to be one of the biggest security issues in XP in my mind. paris hilton nude.jpg.exe is probably one of the more sucessful viruses out there
Hehe, you must be a pegger... i dont think anyone outside of manitoba has even heard of FG, let alone had to drink it :)
Its also getting to the point where some of those enclosures are getting down to a reasonable price (ie. firewire ones for 15$) and hopefully eSATA will as well, and the direct connection is still way faster than anything shared over network, even with Gbit networking its just not the same, trust me, i have an old machine sitting around for long term storage, but playing with multiple GB files over a network sucks, seriously.
Those of us who dont happen to have any room left in the case for new HDs seems to be a potential use. Or as a a portable boot up device for those who have to use multiple machines. Or those who would rather buy an external device without sacrificing the speed of an internal device.
Unfortunately for us i dont think you're going to see a HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo drive anytime soon. The laser technology is completely different between the two, unlike the fiasco with DVD-R/+R as this was more of a data layout issue, not a change in wavelength (at least to my knowledge). those drives that are going to be multifunction are going to require 2 sets of optics, and i'll give you one guess as to what the most expensive part of a CD/DVD system is. This is why HD-DVD has yet another advantage over the blu-ray spec, especially as the HD-DVD format is designed with future expansion in mind (ie. increased data density)
Ermm, actually film does have a "pixel" per say, but they are actually grains of various chemicals that when struck by light undergo a photochemical change,these grains just happen to be distributed statistically rather than ordered as in a digital sensor (where the "grain" is always in the same posistion) this is why high ISO film is "grainy" because the particle size is larger (so as to better absorb said light so not as much is needed to activate said grains). this is also why black and white film is(was? not 100% sure of current color photography chemistry)looks better than color (only need 1 kind of grain that absorbs all light, rather than 3 different chemicals to absorb the 3 primary colors). This is the same as for digital cameras, and why the mars rover with a 1 MP camera can take such great images (they use different filters and then combine the resulting images to get color) while your 1MP color digital sucks.
Hehe, alchemy always reminds me of Luminol (and i'm sure if you've taken any chemistry you've probably seen the picture of the guy looking into a vial that is glowing white), one of my personal favorite experiments to awe kids. What throws me for a loop in this article is that nature of all places has a mistake so glaring obvious in the article. In the caption under the picture "Imploding bubbles, caught on film emitting light. Are they emitting energy too?". Now i'm a simple grad student, but seriously, even grade 10 students know that light == energy. Now i'm sure he meant are they emitting more energy than is put into the system, but still, boo on you Nature.
My PhD in chemistry and my degree in geology are what i base this knowledge on. Talk to ANY geologist or chemist and they will agree with me 100%, these systems are not in a stationary state, and while diffusion and other processes will be slowed down, there is no way there is no flux whatever... Now what do you base your doubt of my information on? And as to the levels of prozac and caffeine in salmon, i'd be more worried about the levels of female hormones being flushed down the drain on a daily basis. The pill is great except for the feminization of frogs and other species in the water system.
Seriously... Just because CO2 and CH4 are up does NOT mean global warming is anthropogenic... and these models assume the gases in these bubbles in not in flux. I assure you this ice is not a system that is "frozen" (sorry about the pun, but...) as i'm sure these gases do migrate through the ice, especially for those layers closest to the surface, but also for the ones further down. And even if this was shown to be 100% factual (i know, can never be in science) it STILL doesnt mean that this is whats responsible for global warming. Just because you can correlate something does mean there's actually a relationship. After all you could correlate the amount of environmentalists with global warming, so therefor its environmentalist's fault that we're warming. We're coming out of an ice age, its a known fact. These models almost never correlate the preturbations in the earths orbit and spin, as well as solar output (how can we know the suns activities 1000s of years ago? we cant) when a 1% increase in solar output would cause way more of an impact than this unproven facts.
Thats just faster download speeds and bigger hard drives. My PIII plays all the porn I have.......uh, I mean... I IMAGINE my PIII would play any porn somebody MIGHT want to download.
hehe, i bet not the new 1080p true HD videos you can download, my xbox cant do them... ermm i heard you could download them, and that an xbox wouldnt be fast enough, thank goodness for the 360...
If it weren't for video games then what other reason would we have to continue to build faster computers?
one word: porn
heh, no way am i gonna argue with you on this one, you're preaching to the choir here... but the sad part remains someone who's looking for an admin probably doesnt know that much about computers, and they'll see they can get an admin for windows much cheaper than a unix/linux/multiplatform admin (Although i will admit i've met some pretty sad unix admins in my day, its like any field i guess). The other part is that unfortunately MS has the MSCE title, which does look good on someone's CV. The various certs you can get from RH and various other vendors just doesnt have the same weight (Not the actual usefulness of the cert, but weight in the HR department... of course i dont believe in most certs as all they mean is you can study for a test)
Yes, but windows admins come a lot cheaper... at least up here where everyone and their dog has an MCSE
But this draw to seperate the water would require a lot of energy, which would be drawn from the engine causing it to work harder (like A/C). Plus the problem of constantly refilling the reservoir (and who cant see the first lawsuit when people have to add caustic chemicals like KOH)
This is a BIG point that a lot of "environmentalist" people seem to miss, it takes ~20 years to recoop the investment in energy it takes to produce these solar panels, not including the cleanup of waste materials produced... Possibly in the future when the actual eff. numbers rise above the ~20-something percent of crystaline SiO2 (which is the hardest, and most expensive, to make) panels, especially with the possibilities nanomaterials are presenting will these be a true alternative
heh, its funny cuz its true... i've "burned" many an email message once a contract was complete and the money was in my pocket... its safer for me to put the money in my pocket and then deny all contact with a company than to actually archive all transactions if someone decides they do not like me any more. IE. i remember one client who threatened legal action if i did not update his website after actually making said website for a certain fee... after asking him to prove it and due to a HD crash it was better for me to delete any correspondence than to actually update said site.
I'm suprised they didnt mention that Linux servers had the greatest overall growth with 35.4%, and that they're 10% of the entire market. Now if Microsoft hits the 50% mark then thats when i'll start believingthe whole Unix/*BSD is dead hype