Speaking of reboots I laughed outloud when our sysadmin said "its all installed except for the reboot". I told him a real operating system doesn't have to reboot after installing a simple application and heard him say "of course it does, or how would it know the new stuff is there"...!
Exactly! Redhat detected my audio, but not SuSE. SlackWare is the only distribution to ever detect my zipdrive. The installation is simple where it works. Anybody could do it. In terms of applications the install couldn't be easier (and uninstall is much cleaner than windows). Hardware probing and autoconfiguring is whats really needed to go mainstream.
I have had to install linux in order to use lilo to run windows because after installing windows couldn't boot. This is after dos fdsk-ing and formating (giving windows the entire disk).
don't you think
it is a bit arrogant of us as one of the many species that inhabit the planet Earth to believe that we alone can overtly destroy so much in mere decades that
has survived for milleniums. Actually, if we tried to destroy the current ecosystem it wouldn't be at all undoable. As to the impact we are having and especially the consequences there is debate. As to our cability to influence this planet we easily could (if we were insane and tried).
I dualboot Win95 and SuSE 6.4 and can compare them for a 233Mhz Pentium w/ MXX and 128Mb ram.
GMC and Explorer are similar in speed.
MC is so much faster that even in X I use MC most of the time. In regards to using a mouse, perhaps you are thinking of Lynx in file manager mode? Rather than MC?
over copper wire, over fiber, over the airwaves, whatever, I still
just sent Actually it does matter. A cordless phone transmission doesn't have the same "expectation of privacy" as a cellphone. No court orders are required for a cordless because its considered "public" transmission, just as no court orders are needed to overhear someone on a street corner. So the question is, do we continue to support a two-tiered privacy system? Affordable "public" vs. the more expensive "private"? Remember (anyone?) when telephones were partylines? Hasn't there always been a precident for this?
means and medians are both forms of "average". you'd expect half to fall either side of the mean...while medians are a better measure of central tendency when the curve is skewed then there are root mean square averages...weighted averages...the thingee they call the critical pt
But VMware (whiles its on my serious "to buy" list: only $99 for us students:-) isn't solving the same problem as these guys. VM = virtual machine to allow multi OS running simultaneously. But you still have to *own* MS Windows. These guys aren't trying to run linux (or Be or BSD) and windows. They want to run office *without* MS Windows. Very different.
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Actually silicon's position directly underneath carbon indicates it also forms 4 bonds. And indeed polymers of silicon are known...for instance the silicone used for weather proofing window cracks.
The NYTimes refered to the journal Science, and indeed www.science.com has it listed. Unfortunately its a subscription site, and my school's library doesn't include that particular online journal. (Also, I noticed that while they mentioned the name of the journal the Times didn't provide *any* links (!) at all...:-(
Actually the number of electrons/sec is the amplitude of the "wave". Frequency is a measure of a characteristic of each individual photon. Consider a swarm of people. The number who pass by is expressed in people/sec (a large or small wave of pedestrians), but the color of each person is independent (the "frequency" of that photon-person).
"Ray gun"-style directed energy weapons require high power." Isn't there also a problem with energy dispersion? I seem to recall that particle beams are more effective than lasers as the lasers tend to heat alot of air. No problem in re: to medical procedures (as you aren't trying to go through miles of air to reach your target).
In order for nanotech to really make it mass production is necessary. Self-replication rather than pushing molecules around with an Atomic Force Microscope. Biochemistry meets Physical Chemistry and Physics (at least) and Molecular Biology before its really "ready for primetime". How to encourage such cross disciplinary tracks? Most departments are territorial enough to almost seem to have moats surrounding their buildings and equipment. As a Physics grad student I am warned away from computational quantum chemistry "because its not really Physics, you know". The computational chemists I talk to are into analytical chemistry (as though biochemistry "isn't really Chemistry"). A Goldwater scholar at here recently graduated with BS(s) in Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. He was advised that he was really hurting himself, as no one would take him seriously. "You have to focus or people won't think you can. The position you will be seeking will be in a field. The other degrees will detract from your chances." Even though he recieved a Rhodes Scholarship upon graduating he is still refered to here as a black sheep. The problem with such pigeon-holing is that it makes it hard to think outside the paradim. In reference to energy generation, U.C. Berkley recently took the approach of modifing an organism to use photosynthesis to seperate water into hydrogen and oxygen. Yet our chair and local solar energy expert are without interest because its not a solid state device. *sigh*
wavelets are a type of series expansion (like fourier expansions) but wavelets require fewer terms to generate similar results... the FBI has been using wavelets to compress/store fingerprints
a mapping between a source set and a destination set can be reduced to nothing but fields and binary relations so the field of cryptograph has not been "reduced" so much as mapped you of course meant simple XOR relations...but "binary relations" is general enough to include a word to word mapping, or even phrase to phrase...
Doesn't the NSA charter deal only with foreign threats? The NSA wouldn't have any authority to consider the protection of citizens against internal threats. "Without authority there can be no responsibility."
Your arguement is specious in that you presuppose a crime. If a crime exsists it is not the conduit that is at fault but rather the poster. If they went after someone who posted to Napster something that shouldn't have been posted, then perhaps. But to suggest that legal and illegal things have been posted, so lets shut it down is like saying "illegal porn has been posted on the internet, lets shut the web down."
Ah...but the thing is that IP doesn't belong to the originator either...thats not what copyright is all about. The liscense of a short-term monopoly is to promote other creations of public works. To suggest that IP is or ever was anything other than a public work is fiction.
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Speaking of reboots I laughed outloud when our sysadmin said "its all installed except for the reboot". I told him a real operating system doesn't have to reboot after installing a simple application and heard him say "of course it does, or how would it know the new stuff is there"...!
"it's the hardware detection process"
Exactly! Redhat detected my audio, but not SuSE. SlackWare is the only distribution to ever detect my zipdrive. The installation is simple where it works. Anybody could do it. In terms of applications the install couldn't be easier (and uninstall is much cleaner than windows). Hardware probing and autoconfiguring is whats really needed to go mainstream.
I have had to install linux in order to use lilo to run windows because after installing windows couldn't boot. This is after dos fdsk-ing and formating (giving windows the entire disk).
*yes*
don't you think it is a bit arrogant of us as one of the many species that inhabit the planet Earth to believe that we alone can overtly destroy so much in mere decades that has survived for milleniums.
Actually, if we tried to destroy the current ecosystem it wouldn't be at all undoable. As to the impact we are having and especially the consequences there is debate. As to our cability to influence this planet we easily could (if we were insane and tried).
Don't you somtimes wish moderation included "Fool", "Damn Fool", & "Dangerous Damn Fool"?
Except in a democracy. When people get really upset and they could just nationalize the corporation.
Unless the Mississippi expands again and all of Kansas is underwater :-)
I dualboot Win95 and SuSE 6.4 and can compare them for a 233Mhz Pentium w/ MXX and 128Mb ram.
GMC and Explorer are similar in speed.
MC is so much faster that even in X I use MC most of the time.
In regards to using a mouse, perhaps you are thinking of Lynx in file manager mode? Rather than MC?
over copper wire, over fiber, over the airwaves, whatever, I still just sent
Actually it does matter. A cordless phone transmission doesn't have the same "expectation of privacy" as a cellphone. No court orders are required for a cordless because its considered "public" transmission, just as no court orders are needed to overhear someone on a street corner.
So the question is, do we continue to support a two-tiered privacy system? Affordable "public" vs. the more expensive "private"?
Remember (anyone?) when telephones were partylines? Hasn't there always been a precident for this?
means and medians are both forms of "average". you'd expect half to fall either side of the mean...while medians are a better measure of central tendency when the curve is skewed
then there are root mean square averages...weighted averages...the thingee they call the critical pt
But VMware (whiles its on my serious "to buy" list: only $99 for us students :-) isn't solving the same problem as these guys. VM = virtual machine to allow multi OS running simultaneously. But you still have to *own* MS Windows. These guys aren't trying to run linux (or Be or BSD) and windows. They want to run office *without* MS Windows. Very different.
Actually silicon's position directly underneath carbon indicates it also forms 4 bonds. And indeed polymers of silicon are known...for instance the silicone used for weather proofing window cracks.
Exactly! Although if you'll permit, methinks you meant "up to" UV>
The NYTimes refered to the journal Science, and indeed www.science.com has it listed. Unfortunately its a subscription site, and my school's library doesn't include that particular online journal. (Also, I noticed that while they mentioned the name of the journal the Times didn't provide *any* links (!) at all... :-(
Actually the number of electrons/sec is the amplitude of the "wave". Frequency is a measure of a characteristic of each individual photon. Consider a swarm of people. The number who pass by is expressed in people/sec (a large or small wave of pedestrians), but the color of each person is independent (the "frequency" of that photon-person).
"Ray gun"-style directed energy weapons require high power."
Isn't there also a problem with energy dispersion? I seem to recall that particle beams are more effective than lasers as the lasers tend to heat alot of air. No problem in re: to medical procedures (as you aren't trying to go through miles of air to reach your target).
In order for nanotech to really make it mass production is necessary. Self-replication rather than pushing molecules around with an Atomic Force Microscope. Biochemistry meets Physical Chemistry and Physics (at least) and Molecular Biology before its really "ready for primetime".
How to encourage such cross disciplinary tracks? Most departments are territorial enough to almost seem to have moats surrounding their buildings and equipment. As a Physics grad student I am warned away from computational quantum chemistry "because its not really Physics, you know". The computational chemists I talk to are into analytical chemistry (as though biochemistry "isn't really Chemistry").
A Goldwater scholar at here recently graduated with BS(s) in Math, Physics, Chemistry, and Computer Science. He was advised that he was really hurting himself, as no one would take him seriously. "You have to focus or people won't think you can. The position you will be seeking will be in a field. The other degrees will detract from your chances."
Even though he recieved a Rhodes Scholarship upon graduating he is still refered to here as a black sheep.
The problem with such pigeon-holing is that it makes it hard to think outside the paradim. In reference to energy generation, U.C. Berkley recently took the approach of modifing an organism to use photosynthesis to seperate water into hydrogen and oxygen. Yet our chair and local solar energy expert are without interest because its not a solid state device. *sigh*
Checkout http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~lkolasa/CppWavelets.htm l for an egcs/c++ "freeware" (sic) for linux c++ wavelet library and join the stampede!
wavelets are a type of series expansion (like fourier expansions) but wavelets require fewer terms to generate similar results...
the FBI has been using wavelets to compress/store fingerprints
a mapping between a source set and a destination set
can be
reduced to nothing but fields and binary relations
so the field of cryptograph has not been "reduced" so much as mapped
you of course meant simple XOR relations...but "binary relations" is general enough to include a word to word mapping, or even phrase to phrase...
Doesn't the NSA charter deal only with foreign threats? The NSA wouldn't have any authority to consider the protection of citizens against internal threats. "Without authority there can be no responsibility."
Your arguement is specious in that you presuppose a crime. If a crime exsists it is not the conduit that is at fault but rather the poster. If they went after someone who posted to Napster something that shouldn't have been posted, then perhaps. But to suggest that legal and illegal things have been posted, so lets shut it down is like saying "illegal porn has been posted on the internet, lets shut the web down."
it is not yours to give away
Ah...but the thing is that IP doesn't belong to the originator either...thats not what copyright is all about. The liscense of a short-term monopoly is to promote other creations of public works. To suggest that IP is or ever was anything other than a public work is fiction.
"What part of Gestalt don't you understand?"
I find the whole thing confusing.
*wink*