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I just recently acquired a gmail account and the one feature that I have not been able to find anything on is permenancy(sp?). I would like to use gmail exclusively but without any gaurantee that I will always have my account it is a step that I am not willing to take just yet.
that would imply that either growing one 4cm long swcnt in time x would magically allow the growth rate to double during every subsequent time interval or that each 4cm swcnt would magically spawn 2 or more during the next time interval (they are not living things).
Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of freely available scientific work that is funded via federal dollars. However, there wtill needs to be a peer review system. That is what you pay for when you subscribe to scientific journals. If you could impliment a peer review panel in any given field as part of Federal as a requitrement for funding then this just might work.
It seems as if some ideas must have several false starts before they become widely accepted. I think media wiki ( and all of its sub projects) are going to be around for a good long time!
media wiki is built on PHP, served from a webserver and keeps its data in a database. Currently I am running Apache and mysql. I believe their are windows ports of both available, as well php. Here are a few links.
I have not heard of anyone installing it on windows, so if you do get it running you may want to consider documenting your results and post it somewhere for others who want to follow in your footsteps. If you decide that it is to much effort, Linux generally installs very well on older hardware that can be had for virtually pennies.
Oh, and I feel safe enough from a slashdotting now that the thread activity has decreased, here is my website http://butsuri.homelinux.net/. It is on a dynamic IP but freely hosted through dyndns.
Actually what I am suggesting is that you have the wiki framework with your data in it. When you install the wiki you don't have to install their database, in fact you would have to make a special effort to import the wikidatabase of information.
Now that the thread activity has decreased somewhat, I feel safe in posting a link to my wiki as an example of what I am talking about; http://butsuri.homelinux.net/
Like I said in my post, use it for topical material that is pertinent to you and or a small group of people you know. That way you don't fill up the wiki sites with a bunch of largely irrelevant cruft.
My wiki is a great place for me to keep track of stuff that is probably not that interesting to most people.
While opentextbook is an interesting start up, you may want to consider WikiBooks. It is already in a huge number of languages and covers many more topics. Not to mention the other Wiki's available.
PS. If you run your own linux box, set up a mediawiki on it. I use mine for doing research, homework and keeping course notes. Very nice!
Does it seem like NASA made the most publically sucsessful project into a false sacrificial lamb in order that they might both increase their budget by special appropriation and appear to be managing their budget by cutting costs on supposedly outdated hardware.
It seems that their gambit is paying off. The public (ok, a bunch of geeks) wailed loud enough that congress is willing to consider special funding.
I am not advocating gene splicing from other organisms etc. All I find odd is that if you apply cross breeding and get gene sequence 'gattaca' it is OK, but if you use tweezers and knives and get gene sequence 'gattaca' it is evil.
They are going to use the mapped gene literally as a map. Since Brazil has banned GMO's the genome will be used as a guide for determining which cross pollinations etc. will be most effective.
So if you modify the genes by natural methods its not GM, but if you use artificial means to accomplish the exact same result, it is GM. God! I love the un-inteeligent masses that find this acceptable.
The article is about getting the smallest ELF that will return 42. If returning 42 were an actual requirement and size is all that matters, then this is much more effective as it takes advantage of an already existing process - the shell. Much like the ELF is taking advantage of the kernel. I suppose that one could actually write machine code to run in place of the kernel that would generate the number 42 and do it in fewer than 45 bytes, but I didn't want to ruin my uptime;-)
It is not false. While simulations can give you a good basis there is no substitute for the real thing when it comes to science. The way that a person will behave when they are in some sim chamber versus sitting in a capsule a couple million miles from earth will have greatly different psychological impacts. Not to mention that we don't have the technology to simulate microgravity for extended periods of time.
To declare my statement to be false without making a satisfactory argument... are you by any chance just trolling?
Doing it now tells us what we need to understand about creating an environment that will sustain us both physically and psychologically. You are not going to get any solid information about the requirements for humans in space without having humans in space.
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I just recently acquired a gmail account and the one feature that I have not been able to find anything on is permenancy(sp?). I would like to use gmail exclusively but without any gaurantee that I will always have my account it is a step that I am not willing to take just yet.
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OK, I signed up, are you offering gmail invites for signing up? I am sstill looking to get a gmail account.
Uhmmm, no.
that would imply that either growing one 4cm long swcnt in time x would magically allow the growth rate to double during every subsequent time interval or that each 4cm swcnt would magically spawn 2 or more during the next time interval (they are not living things).
Geostationary orbital radius 38,785 km.
Growth rate 11x10^-6 m/s
elapsed time = 38,785,000 / 11x10^-6 = 3.526x10^12 s ~= 112,113 Years.
It going to be a long time till we have a swnt all the way at this rate.
PS yes I know that we don't have to have a single tube all the way there. We are going to have to ramp up the growth rate considerably though.
The reviewers are volunteers. But, if you actually read my statement what you are paying for is the "peer review system ".
Yes, I know that the reviewers are volunteers. However, (if you actually read my statement) what you are paying for is the peer review system .
Don't get me wrong, I am all in favor of freely available scientific work that is funded via federal dollars. However, there wtill needs to be a peer review system. That is what you pay for when you subscribe to scientific journals. If you could impliment a peer review panel in any given field as part of Federal as a requitrement for funding then this just might work.
Its not like image compression using LZW was ever accepted by the masses or the mp3 codecs were ever used by the majority.
All broad sweeping statements are prone to failure, including this one.
It seems as if some ideas must have several false starts before they become widely accepted. I think media wiki ( and all of its sub projects) are going to be around for a good long time!
No, got a link? Google gives to many brain related links.
Yup, very nice! I have posted a couple of new replies in this thread, check them out.
media wiki is built on PHP, served from a webserver and keeps its data in a database. Currently I am running Apache and mysql. I believe their are windows ports of both available, as well php. Here are a few links.
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia/
http://www.cygwin.com/
I have not heard of anyone installing it on windows, so if you do get it running you may want to consider documenting your results and post it somewhere for others who want to follow in your footsteps. If you decide that it is to much effort, Linux generally installs very well on older hardware that can be had for virtually pennies.
Oh, and I feel safe enough from a slashdotting now that the thread activity has decreased, here is my website http://butsuri.homelinux.net/. It is on a dynamic IP but freely hosted through dyndns.
Actually what I am suggesting is that you have the wiki framework with your data in it. When you install the wiki you don't have to install their database, in fact you would have to make a special effort to import the wikidatabase of information.
Now that the thread activity has decreased somewhat, I feel safe in posting a link to my wiki as an example of what I am talking about;
http://butsuri.homelinux.net/
Like I said in my post, use it for topical material that is pertinent to you and or a small group of people you know. That way you don't fill up the wiki sites with a bunch of largely irrelevant cruft.
My wiki is a great place for me to keep track of stuff that is probably not that interesting to most people.
While opentextbook is an interesting start up, you may want to consider WikiBooks. It is already in a huge number of languages and covers many more topics. Not to mention the other Wiki's available.
PS. If you run your own linux box, set up a mediawiki on it. I use mine for doing research, homework and keeping course notes. Very nice!
and a cocaine overdose isn't lethal? Me thinks that you missed the point of comparing coffee to cocain as a tongue in cheek bit of humor.
Does it seem like NASA made the most publically sucsessful project into a false sacrificial lamb in order that they might both increase their budget by special appropriation and appear to be managing their budget by cutting costs on supposedly outdated hardware.
It seems that their gambit is paying off. The public (ok, a bunch of geeks) wailed loud enough that congress is willing to consider special funding.
Note carefully what I said..."exact same result"
I am not advocating gene splicing from other organisms etc. All I find odd is that if you apply cross breeding and get gene sequence 'gattaca' it is OK, but if you use tweezers and knives and get gene sequence 'gattaca' it is evil.
They are going to use the mapped gene literally as a map. Since Brazil has banned GMO's the genome will be used as a guide for determining which cross pollinations etc. will be most effective.
So if you modify the genes by natural methods its not GM, but if you use artificial means to accomplish the exact same result, it is GM. God! I love the un-inteeligent masses that find this acceptable.
Make it produce 20 times the caffiene of a normal bean. Then it can compete with brazils other export the coca plant.
You are an eejit.
;-)
Nice troll, good troll, down boy down.
The article is about getting the smallest ELF that will return 42. If returning 42 were an actual requirement and size is all that matters, then this is much more effective as it takes advantage of an already existing process - the shell. Much like the ELF is taking advantage of the kernel. I suppose that one could actually write machine code to run in place of the kernel that would generate the number 42 and do it in fewer than 45 bytes, but I didn't want to ruin my uptime
It runs and it is only 8 bytes! ./tiny; echo $?
froze@butsuri:~$ cat > tiny
exit 42
froze@butsuri:~$ chmod a+x tiny
froze@butsuri:~$
42
froze@butsuri:~$ wc -c tiny
8 tiny
It is not false. While simulations can give you a good basis there is no substitute for the real thing when it comes to science. The way that a person will behave when they are in some sim chamber versus sitting in a capsule a couple million miles from earth will have greatly different psychological impacts. Not to mention that we don't have the technology to simulate microgravity for extended periods of time.
To declare my statement to be false without making a satisfactory argument... are you by any chance just trolling?
Doing it now tells us what we need to understand about creating an environment that will sustain us both physically and psychologically. You are not going to get any solid information about the requirements for humans in space without having humans in space.