The unit of time, the second, was defined originally as the fraction 1/86 400 of the mean solar day. The exact definition of "mean solar day" was left to astronomicaltheories. However, measurement showed that irregularities in the rotation of the Earth could not be taken into account by the theory and have the effect that this definition does not allow the required accuracy to be achieved. In order to define the unit of time more precisely, the 11th CGPM (1960) adopted a definition given by the International Astronomical Union which was based on the tropical year. Experimental work had, however, already shown that an atomic standard of time-interval, based on a transition between two energy levels of an atom or a molecule, could be realized and reproduced much more precisely. Considering that a very precise definition of the unit of time is indispensable for the International System, the 13th CGPM (1967) decided to replace the definition of the second by the following (affirmed by the CIPM in 1997 that this definition refers to a cesium atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 K):
The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
Oh very true. I think it is a good idea. Although
it is not much of a mony maker, in fact the US has to keep putting up new satellites into the system. The US uses 24 satellites in the system but there are more then 24 GPS satellites up in orbit.
The resolution that the civilian receivers still are not as good as the military ones. Even with out Selective Availability the civilian receiver accuracy is about 15m (49') where the Military is about 1m (3.3').
This is due to ionospheric interference. When a radio signal travels through the free electrosn in the ionosphere, it experiences a certain amount of delay. Signals of different frequencies are delayed differently. So in creating the GPS system the military thought of using two signals when the satellites broadcast there info. Called L1 and L2 the military use both signals mesure the amount of delay between them and make corrections for the effect of the ionosphere. The Civilian receivers cannot correct for the ionospheric interference since it only picks up the L1 frequency.
So I guess there is a good, long explanation on
why to invest the capital. Or you could buy the
military reciver.:)
While I agree that this is nothing more then a band-aid on the bigger problem. At least they are trying to make a differance. If everyone did a little something to help out. Maybe they would not have the 60% high-school dropout rate.
Also the current goup they are working with are already out of high school.
Not really. It does not say that you can't copy the music from other phones. You might but then it would only be in the Nokia format. And could only be played on Nokia stuff. So it might not conflict.
How every it would be nice if the all the music was in an open format like MP3. But of course that would give the consumer too much power over the music they listen to.
Well it looks like we will be able to get a copy on Saturday. Although I bet it will be longer for some of us who don't live close to the new store. I hope it lives up to all the hype.
Now this is cool. I have two PVRs made by dish network and was thinking that it would be real nice to be able to watch the programs on either TV.
But I wonder if not just the companies advertising on the networks but the networks them selves are not going to like this box. You could start serving up shows to anyone who wanted to watch them over the internet/Lan.
I do think they are giving the consumer what they want but it is not what the Networks want!
Yea but can you beleive the addresses are to their home address? Most likely, however I did a quick search on Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker don't have the same address?:)
Oh yea forgot to say that you NEED management buy in. That is very key to a successful XP shop. Also when you set up time to work with your partner you need to treat it like a meeting and put your phone on DND and don't read any email that comes in and not hopping over to/. to read the latest. It is very surprising on how much coding you get done.
Ever look into Extreme
Programming? One of the aspects of XP is that all coding is done
in pairs, know as pair programming. This type of programming creates
better code in about haft the time and if any production code it not
programmed with your partner it is thrown out.
I know the concept sounds very strange especially to people, like my
self, who view code more as art the engineering. But it does work.
Not all programs are cut out for XP but if all the shop does it. It
can be very beneficial to all.
I don't think the geeks did go wrong. You have to look at why we went to the moon. It was a competition. "We had to beat the Russians!" It was sort of a Olympics for geeks, to help releave or take public view away from the cold war. So I think you have to look at the general US interest and the policical machine to lay fault. IMHO.
Well if you feel that you can compare this new subscription based software to DVDs then let's
hope it goes the way of DIVX. And if that market can be used as a bell weather then we, software users do not have much to be concerned about. However Micro$oft does have a bit more market share then the DIVX people did.
Yea but how long will it take to port the OPEN AFS to (Free|Net|Open)BSD? As long as we have the source. It will just take man hours.
Now I like Arla and the development team has done a great job of getting arla stable to use in every day applications. And I most likely stick with it for now.
I think that the author has some very good points I use to do a indi show at a small radio station. And I could see the decline of the number of lables comming out with new music. I also am one to love to buy CD and have them in my hands. I just can't get the same feeling with MP3s. I don't feel like I have anything, and maybe that is why people feel like they should get it for free. Since it does not feel like you really have anything with the MP3.
Just to let you know that MP3 IPO was for $28. So the investors are still making money.
I think part of the problem is that too many people feel that the stock market is a place to make a lot of quick money. In general that is not the case.
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I think you are on to something, let's use Archie to search the ftp archives for MP3 files and use the ftp protocal to down load them.
The infrastructure is already there all we need to do now is to have everyone set up anonymous ftp sites.
-S
Simple answer is yes it has been redefined...
Pulled from physics.nist.gov
Unit of time (second)
The unit of time, the second, was defined originally as the fraction 1/86 400 of the mean solar day. The exact definition of "mean solar day" was left to astronomicaltheories. However, measurement showed that irregularities in the rotation of the Earth could not be taken into account by the theory and have the effect that this definition does not allow the required accuracy to be achieved. In order to define the unit of time more precisely, the 11th CGPM (1960) adopted a definition given by the International Astronomical Union which was based on the tropical year. Experimental work had, however, already shown that an atomic standard of time-interval, based on a transition between two energy levels of an atom or a molecule, could be realized and reproduced much more precisely. Considering that a very precise definition of the unit of time is indispensable for the International System, the 13th CGPM (1967) decided to replace the definition of the second by the following (affirmed by the CIPM in 1997 that this definition refers to a cesium atom in its ground state at a temperature of 0 K):
The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.
Oh very true. I think it is a good idea. Although
it is not much of a mony maker, in fact the US has to keep putting up new satellites into the system. The US uses 24 satellites in the system but there are more then 24 GPS satellites up in orbit.
-Scott
This is due to ionospheric interference. When a radio signal travels through the free electrosn in the ionosphere, it experiences a certain amount of delay. Signals of different frequencies are delayed differently. So in creating the GPS system the military thought of using two signals when the satellites broadcast there info. Called L1 and L2 the military use both signals mesure the amount of delay between them and make corrections for the effect of the ionosphere. The Civilian receivers cannot correct for the ionospheric interference since it only picks up the L1 frequency.
So I guess there is a good, long explanation on
why to invest the capital. Or you could buy the
military reciver.
-Scott
While I agree that this is nothing more then a band-aid on the bigger problem. At least they are trying to make a differance. If everyone did a little something to help out. Maybe they would not have the 60% high-school dropout rate.
Also the current goup they are working with are already out of high school.
Just my $0.02
-Scott
Not really. It does not say that you can't copy the music from other phones. You might but then it would only be in the Nokia format. And could only be played on Nokia stuff. So it might not conflict.
How every it would be nice if the all the music was in an open format like MP3. But of course that would give the consumer too much power over the music they listen to.
-Scott
Well it looks like we will be able to get a copy on Saturday.
Although I bet it will be longer for some of us who don't live close to the new store.
I hope it lives up to all the hype.
-S
Now this is cool. I have two PVRs made by dish network and was thinking that it would be real nice to be able to watch the programs on either TV.
But I wonder if not just the companies advertising on the networks but the networks them selves are not going to like this box. You could start serving up shows to anyone who wanted to watch them over the internet/Lan.
I do think they are giving the consumer what they want but it is not what the Networks want!
-S
Yea but can you beleive the addresses are to their home address? Most likely, however I did a quick search on Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker don't have the same address? :)
-ScottOne would assume that companies are paying for more support then just the distro with IDS configured.
-Scott
It is called job security :)
Really most people don't have time to learn how a computer works even if they want to. They have other priorities in their life.
-S
But you do need management to support it.
-Scott
Ever look into Extreme Programming? One of the aspects of XP is that all coding is done in pairs, know as pair programming. This type of programming creates better code in about haft the time and if any production code it not programmed with your partner it is thrown out.
I know the concept sounds very strange especially to people, like my self, who view code more as art the engineering. But it does work. Not all programs are cut out for XP but if all the shop does it. It can be very beneficial to all.
-Scott
So with the email just hit the print button spend the $0.35 or so and send both :)
Where did us geeks go wrong?
I don't think the geeks did go wrong. You have to look at why we went to the moon. It was a competition. "We had to beat the Russians!" It was sort of a Olympics for geeks, to help releave or take public view away from the cold war. So I think you have to look at the general US interest and the policical machine to lay fault. IMHO.
Well they were most likely running a patent review
and came across this one and said look my Palm III
does this. Let's get them.
Well if you feel that you can compare this new subscription based software to DVDs then let's
hope it goes the way of DIVX. And if that market can be used as a bell weather then we, software users do not have much to be concerned about. However Micro$oft does have a bit more market share then the DIVX people did.
-Scott
Yea but how long will it take to port the OPEN AFS to (Free|Net|Open)BSD? As long as we have the source. It will just take man hours.
Now I like Arla and the development team has done a great job of getting arla stable to use in every day applications. And I most likely stick with it for now.
-Scott
srs@flynnstone.com
I think that the author has some very good points I use to do a indi show at a small radio station. And I could see the decline of the number of lables comming out with new music. I also am one to love to buy CD and have them in my hands. I just can't get the same feeling with MP3s. I don't feel like I have anything, and maybe that is why people feel like they should get it for free. Since it does not feel like you really have anything with the MP3.
I had to turn off the Java script. That fixed the :|
crashes. But of course no Java. Which maybe a good thing
-Scott
Well it looks like it worked. They pulled the story.
Daily News
Solaris and Linux Vulnerable To Hack
By Sherman Fridman, Newsbytes.
February 11, 2000
Due to flagrant inaccuracies this article has been pulled and is being re-written.
Occasionally one of these slips through the editorial process. Computer
Currents regrets the error.
February 11,2000 11:17:00 AM PST
Just to let you know that MP3 IPO was for $28. So
the investors are still making money.
I think part of the problem is that too many people feel that the stock market is a place to make a lot of quick money. In general that is not
the case.