I spent years looking for a way to turn off flash. Macromedia doesn't allow you to do it. If you don't install it, you get bugged constantly to install it. Then came Homestar Runner, so I need flash. Recently someone on Slashdot pointed out a Firefox extension called Flashblock. It's perfect. Replaces all flash with a clickable icon and you can easily whitelist a site from a right-click menu.
Well, that number has been "widening" every time ChoicePoint makes a "choice" to reveal more details.
Of course that "choice" is really made by an attorney general. Last night I remember hearing that 19 states have demanded people in those state be informed. We never would have heard about this without the one state that required people be informed of known thefts like this.
If you don't live in Illinois, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington, you may never be informed.
That's the relativistic doppler effect. I used the simpler non-relativistic formula. At 80 MPH relativity isn't much of an issue, so we get the same answer. A quick check shows the answers differ by a little over 10^-5 Hz, not enough to matter.
Light moves a lot faster than sound, so the amount of frequency shift is very small. A 2.4 GHz carrier would be shifted to 2.40000029 at 80 MPH.
The frequencies of radios aren't very exact, so the tuners are designed to deal with some variation. Without knowing exactly how the tuners are designed (especially the filters), I can't answer your question, except to say, a whole lot faster than 80 MPH.
Please tell me if I am wrong, it's just what makes the most sense to me.
I wish the other naysayers cared enough to learn. I'm not sure where they are getting their information, but they certainly haven't read the published science.
The ice sheets don't record temperatures directly (of course). They record it "by proxy". The most common proxy is O18 (an isotope of O16). The ratio of O16/O18 has been shown to be related to the ocean/air temperature. The sorting of O16 vs. O18 happens at the ocean surface (evaporation), in the atmosphere (air circulation) and when snow forms (freezing). There's a huge body of literature on this, but that's a quick version.
Of course scientists aren't stupid people. There are lots of ways to verify this method. It's good for known history and it matches known events (volcanoes and orbital effects). There are other proxies and they mostly agree. One thing they all agree on is, right now something really big is happening to our global environment.
What I find most scary about the ice core data is that it shows the temperatures over human history have been far more stable than the rest of the record. It's quite possible things like the little ice age could become common problems in the next thousand years. CO2 increases may have perminently destabalized global temeratures.
I just wish we'd get over this whole denial thing and start talking about what to do. People here, not you, are saying ice sheet data worthless because it's not a real thermometer. I don't think anything will ever convince these people and I wont waste my time.
I have to give him some credit. I ignored the picture as a stock photo until I read that ~50mm part, and I thought, "Ok, that's why the stock photo looks so strange, tt's a light waveguide! Still, it's a great advance. You'd really only need one laser for a huge range of really cool computer chips.
There's no such thing as playing fair. It's a kindergarten concept that just doesn't work in the real world.
It does work, just not in the short term. That often confuses people. Playing fair and being honest does work. You just have to understand that you will lose a few battles, but win the war. It's a hard concept in today's world where everyone is focused on short-term gain. After decades of watching social battles, I can say, the scumbags always lose in the end. It's just a question of how many lives they fuck-up on the way out. Please, don't be one of those people.
The problem is that those cops sitting on the side of the road monitoring traffic with laser guns are now called traffic cops. I agree that's not right and dictionary.com only lists your definition, but I hear it used the new way more often than the old way.
If it's a head control language or something you might in trouble, but if it's simply an image being sent you should be able to figure it out eventually.
I decoded a head control language once. Eventually I had great black and white, but color was really tough, since you had to interleave the data based on when each head was going to pass over an area. I gave up when I bought another really nice printer for ~$200. Still, for years later, I got e-mail thanking me for my black-and-white GPL ghostscript driver.
I don't know much about laser printers (mine was an inkjet), but I'd say make sure the printer is worth the effort. Many cheap printers off load most of the work to the driver. It's not about reverse engineering, it's about developing another whole printer yourself. You don't want to do that.
Right now, I'm stuck with a scanner. I want to network it, but TWAIN sucks and there's no SANE driver. I'll probably just buy a supported scanner. Too bad, because I love how this one fits in my desk.
The biggest flaw in this thinking is that it looks at all improvements in society as business and finance driven instead of people/consumer driven.
It's not even business driven. It's the government that's making all the rules over who pays who to make a product. With patents we have a form of a command economy. The idea that the goverenment I find it very strange we are trying to push this idea of heavy government control over industry on the Chinese!
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Exactly. This argument has going on for ages and we're not going to decide it here. My favorite variation is, "If a bug cannot be detected by running the executable is it still a bug."
The biggest problem with small claims court is that when you win (you will, they wont show up), you have to convince them to pay you. That can take years. Most of these companies wait until they have dozens of judgments against them, then file for bankruptcy.
Hmmm. That would catch my old "watch" program. It would watch a list of files for changes including read access times. I would put a few tempting targets in my home directory (world readable) and it would tell me when someone looked. These days I have my own UNIX machines, so my security is much different.
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Is the point of this that law enforcement can't subpoena records that don't exist?
Hackers also like these records and they are more common than law enforcement where I work.
A natural monopoly is an industry where the most efficient production is through a monopoly.
It seems obvious to me that having one closed source operating system is much more efficient than having multiple ones. In part this is do to the low marginal cost of making complex software. Dell doesn't provide desktop Linux anymore. It costs extra to support multiple operating systems. That's what it takes to form a natural monopoly. All natural monopolies also use unnatural tactics, so listing them doesn't support your argument.
Please, drop the stupid insults in your subjects. You write well enough to not need them.
I'm amazed how more and more when I see someone driving like a drunk, they are on a cell phone. I'm not talking about 2 am when the streets are empty, since half the people look drunk at that time. Remember lack of sleep kills more people than drunk driving. I'm talking about people driving like drunks during rush hour!
It used to be you'd see people reading, brushing their teeth, checking their hair or even dancing. Now all the drunk looking drivers are on cell phones, except the very rare very extreme alcoholics (I hope they die alone).
I drive a long distance on a nasty interstate, through a couple of major cities, so I've seen all kind of driving styles (even seen a drunk hit someone) and cell phone problems are getting worse and worse. I don't think this problem will solve itself without some kind of government involvement. I wish we had a hand signal for "hang up and drive, you look drunk."
I admit I have my own problem, but I've finally convinced my wife that just because she wants to have a fight over the cell phone and I hang up, it isn't personal, since if she wants me to live long enough to fight again, I need to hang up and drive. I've exaggerating, I've never really had a girlfriend.
You'd like to think police would have extra training to learn how to drive better. They should be trained to handle the multiple demands they must deal with every day. Removing radios is not a good idea and is a side issue, since they have computers. Computer are both better and worse than radios. Maybe we need a special can talk while driving license.
From what I've seen no one cares if police are a good role model for other drivers. Few police ever use their turn signals where I live. By state law they are required to follow safety laws unless the lights are on.
BTW, I can't decode your second line. It's hard to figure out which parts are sarcastic and which you think are true. I think I agree with you and I'd reply in an equally complex manner, but then I'm sure a third person would missunderstand the whole thing.
Since you like Wikipedia, I'll point out one more thing to you. Read the second paragraph on isulator. Notice it says "a perfect insulator is impossible".
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I spent years looking for a way to turn off flash. Macromedia doesn't allow you to do it. If you don't install it, you get bugged constantly to install it. Then came Homestar Runner, so I need flash. Recently someone on Slashdot pointed out a Firefox extension called Flashblock. It's perfect. Replaces all flash with a clickable icon and you can easily whitelist a site from a right-click menu.
Of course that "choice" is really made by an attorney general. Last night I remember hearing that 19 states have demanded people in those state be informed. We never would have heard about this without the one state that required people be informed of known thefts like this.
If you don't live in Illinois, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Washington, you may never be informed.
That's the relativistic doppler effect. I used the simpler non-relativistic formula. At 80 MPH relativity isn't much of an issue, so we get the same answer. A quick check shows the answers differ by a little over 10^-5 Hz, not enough to matter.
That may be, but we can still lead our way out of a wet paper bag. I think Bush might even be able to lead us out of a dry paper bag. So there!
The frequencies of radios aren't very exact, so the tuners are designed to deal with some variation. Without knowing exactly how the tuners are designed (especially the filters), I can't answer your question, except to say, a whole lot faster than 80 MPH.
Aliens? There are people who do this. LSD causes a similar effect.
Somehow I don't find it hard to beleive that modern humans are having a bigger impact on the environment than prehistory ones.
I wish the other naysayers cared enough to learn. I'm not sure where they are getting their information, but they certainly haven't read the published science.
The ice sheets don't record temperatures directly (of course). They record it "by proxy". The most common proxy is O18 (an isotope of O16). The ratio of O16/O18 has been shown to be related to the ocean/air temperature. The sorting of O16 vs. O18 happens at the ocean surface (evaporation), in the atmosphere (air circulation) and when snow forms (freezing). There's a huge body of literature on this, but that's a quick version.
Of course scientists aren't stupid people. There are lots of ways to verify this method. It's good for known history and it matches known events (volcanoes and orbital effects). There are other proxies and they mostly agree. One thing they all agree on is, right now something really big is happening to our global environment.
What I find most scary about the ice core data is that it shows the temperatures over human history have been far more stable than the rest of the record. It's quite possible things like the little ice age could become common problems in the next thousand years. CO2 increases may have perminently destabalized global temeratures.
I just wish we'd get over this whole denial thing and start talking about what to do. People here, not you, are saying ice sheet data worthless because it's not a real thermometer. I don't think anything will ever convince these people and I wont waste my time.
I have to give him some credit. I ignored the picture as a stock photo until I read that ~50mm part, and I thought, "Ok, that's why the stock photo looks so strange, tt's a light waveguide! Still, it's a great advance. You'd really only need one laser for a huge range of really cool computer chips.
You've confused patents with copyrights. The courts have ruled that congress doesn't have to let copyrights expire despite what the constitution says.
It does work, just not in the short term. That often confuses people. Playing fair and being honest does work. You just have to understand that you will lose a few battles, but win the war. It's a hard concept in today's world where everyone is focused on short-term gain. After decades of watching social battles, I can say, the scumbags always lose in the end. It's just a question of how many lives they fuck-up on the way out. Please, don't be one of those people.
The problem is that those cops sitting on the side of the road monitoring traffic with laser guns are now called traffic cops. I agree that's not right and dictionary.com only lists your definition, but I hear it used the new way more often than the old way.
If it's a head control language or something you might in trouble, but if it's simply an image being sent you should be able to figure it out eventually.
I decoded a head control language once. Eventually I had great black and white, but color was really tough, since you had to interleave the data based on when each head was going to pass over an area. I gave up when I bought another really nice printer for ~$200. Still, for years later, I got e-mail thanking me for my black-and-white GPL ghostscript driver.
I don't know much about laser printers (mine was an inkjet), but I'd say make sure the printer is worth the effort. Many cheap printers off load most of the work to the driver. It's not about reverse engineering, it's about developing another whole printer yourself. You don't want to do that.
Right now, I'm stuck with a scanner. I want to network it, but TWAIN sucks and there's no SANE driver. I'll probably just buy a supported scanner. Too bad, because I love how this one fits in my desk.
It's not even business driven. It's the government that's making all the rules over who pays who to make a product. With patents we have a form of a command economy. The idea that the goverenment I find it very strange we are trying to push this idea of heavy government control over industry on the Chinese!
Exactly. This argument has going on for ages and we're not going to decide it here. My favorite variation is, "If a bug cannot be detected by running the executable is it still a bug."
The biggest problem with small claims court is that when you win (you will, they wont show up), you have to convince them to pay you. That can take years. Most of these companies wait until they have dozens of judgments against them, then file for bankruptcy.
Why does Dell (a hardware supplier) need to include OS (software) support?
Because they aren't selling just hardware, they're selling a full computer system. It's far cheaper (total costs) over installing it myself.
Let Windows sufferers call MS support and Linux sufferers call Mandrake (or their respective distribution).
Sure, but Dell buys all sort of wacky cheap hardware (varies depending on the line). I don't want to be caught in a bunch of finger pointing.
Hmmm. That would catch my old "watch" program. It would watch a list of files for changes including read access times. I would put a few tempting targets in my home directory (world readable) and it would tell me when someone looked. These days I have my own UNIX machines, so my security is much different.
Hackers also like these records and they are more common than law enforcement where I work.
It seems obvious to me that having one closed source operating system is much more efficient than having multiple ones. In part this is do to the low marginal cost of making complex software. Dell doesn't provide desktop Linux anymore. It costs extra to support multiple operating systems. That's what it takes to form a natural monopoly. All natural monopolies also use unnatural tactics, so listing them doesn't support your argument.
Please, drop the stupid insults in your subjects. You write well enough to not need them.
No way! It's bad enough losing jobs to India. I'm not going to let them do my girl too!
It used to be you'd see people reading, brushing their teeth, checking their hair or even dancing. Now all the drunk looking drivers are on cell phones, except the very rare very extreme alcoholics (I hope they die alone).
I drive a long distance on a nasty interstate, through a couple of major cities, so I've seen all kind of driving styles (even seen a drunk hit someone) and cell phone problems are getting worse and worse. I don't think this problem will solve itself without some kind of government involvement. I wish we had a hand signal for "hang up and drive, you look drunk."
I admit I have my own problem, but I've finally convinced my wife that just because she wants to have a fight over the cell phone and I hang up, it isn't personal, since if she wants me to live long enough to fight again, I need to hang up and drive. I've exaggerating, I've never really had a girlfriend.
From what I've seen no one cares if police are a good role model for other drivers. Few police ever use their turn signals where I live. By state law they are required to follow safety laws unless the lights are on.
BTW, I can't decode your second line. It's hard to figure out which parts are sarcastic and which you think are true. I think I agree with you and I'd reply in an equally complex manner, but then I'm sure a third person would missunderstand the whole thing.
Sorry, I tried to be nice, but you're clearly a nut case. Bye.
This is like teaching pigs to sing. . .