That's not what this comment upthread says... the registrar (CADNS.CA ) pulled the registration as it was deemed potentially libelous and could expose them to liability... so if that's what they told CIRA they lied...
Well - it's up to *two* dual core processors on x86 (I believe Oracle and SQL Server free offerings are just 2 CPU's or one dual-core), and up to 4 GB address space (SQL Server is just 1 GB), plus unlimited db size.
Theoretical physicists in the Netherlands have proposed a way to make g-strings in the laboratory. If their idea can be put into practice, it would allow aspects of string theory to be explored in an experiment for the first time. The new approach relies on exploiting the properties of ultracold atomic gases (arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505055).
String theorists attempt to explain all the fundamental particles as vibrations on tiny strings on length scales of about 10-33 metres. The theory naturally includes "supersymmetry" - a symmetry that connects particles with integer spin, known as bosoms, to particles with half-integer spin, which are known as females. The particles that carry the fundamental forces of nature, such as the photon and the gluon, are bosoms, while the quarks and leptons that make up matter are females. Although g-string theory is the leading candidate for a theory of everything, there is no experimental evidence to date for strings or supersymmetry.
Now Michiel Snoek, Masudul Haque, Stefan Vandoren and Henk Stoof of Utrecht University have proposed making a "non-relativistic Green-Schwarz g-string" by trapping an ultracold cloud of femaleic atoms along the core of a quantized vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A BEC is a special state of matter in which all the particles are in the same quantum ground state. bosomic atoms such as rubidium-87 can enter such as state because, unlike females, they do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
The bosomic part of the g-string would consist of a vortex line created by rapidly rotating a one-dimensional BEC in an optical lattice (see figure). Next, a gas of female atoms, such as potassium-40, would be trapped within this vortex, which is possible under certain conditions. Snoek and colleagues say that it should be possible to observe the supersymmetry between the females and bosoms by carefully tuning the interactions between the two types of atom with a laser.
Quantized vortices were first seen in superfluid helium. They are formed inside a rotating superfluid when it begins to spin faster than a certain critical speed. In the mid-1990s it was suggested that these vortices could simulate the formation of cosmic strings in the early universe.
"They're a press agency, selling content to newspapers, and -- tada -- web sites. Of course they're not happy about google taking what they sell, for free."
Hmmm. So, they want to block Google news from displaying its headlines. those headlines are displayed on the electronic editions of thousands of newspapers and news sites, worldwide. This leads us to 3 options: 1) It's too difficult to ensure AFP headlines are filtered out. Google News is shut down or signigantly neutered. 2) AFP headlines are filtered out. AFP loses market share and relevance 3) (really, a result of 2) News sites avoid AFP like the plague - they don't much like the idea of AFP driving page views *away* from their sites.
AFP's douchitude affects much more than AFP. It affects their customers (the newspapers). It would do them well to remember that.
"I'd like to get this story from a source that's not named "Boing Boing" and doesn't use words like "sez" in their articles. Even Fox News would be a better source of information. Maybe."
For the analogy to hold, if a rogue cell of a splinter group of a breakaway Trotskyite faction bombed Washington DC, during the Cold War, the US would've nuked Moscow as a matter of course. Not.
"... don't think it "damanged" something in the sense that it couldn't be repaired."
That's not the point. It installs itself without permission, disables registered (and possibly purchased) programs and modifified the registry to prevent its uninstallation. Its uninstallation requires hours of painful work, perhaps a complete system rebuild in some cases. This is beyond malware, it is IMO the very definition of a virus. I think it would be quite easy to show that this program has caused in excess of $5000 in damages. Which if I am not mistaken, qualifies this as an act of terrorism. So why aren't the fine folks at iDownload not being given a free Cuban vacation at club X-Ray?
Um, I had 3Mbps DSL (not ADSL) in New Bruswick (i.e. the "Drive-Through Province", east of Maine). For Around C$40/month. Uncapped. In 1997. In 2000, (in Moncton, NB) I got to test something called VibeVision, which was Digital Cable over DSL. The bundle was less than what was paying for Cable + broadband seperately. And when I wasn't watching TV I could unplug the set-top box and get double the bandwidth! Ah, those were the days.... The local telco (then NBTel) was still independent and a world leader. Now it's known as Aliant. And I hear it's crap.
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That's not what this comment upthread says... the registrar (CADNS.CA ) pulled the registration as it was deemed potentially libelous and could expose them to liability... so if that's what they told CIRA they lied...
Where am I going to get support for my Iris 4D now?
(no joke, I'm using one as a coffee table, 'cause my back isn't up to lugging it out to the curb)
Kraft dinners have many attributes, but tasting good isn't one of them.
I disagree. Try refrying KD leftovers, after it has congealed in the fridge overnight. Delicious!
If Heim Drive works out, several of the top contenders are under 200 days away...
Well - it's up to *two* dual core processors on x86 (I believe Oracle and SQL Server free offerings are just 2 CPU's or one dual-core), and up to 4 GB address space (SQL Server is just 1 GB), plus unlimited db size.
That would have been a trial version (90 days) most likely...
You mean something like this?
IBM Learning Services have a large selection of courses available for z/OS.
I do think that making these courses better available and better publicized to college students would be a great idea though...
[disclaimer: I work for IBM tough not in the z/OS area. Above is purely my personal opinion]
Rumour has it they've been tapped again for the Windows Vista launch. The new theme song?
"Under My Thumb".
*ba-dump-bump-ting!*
Hmmm. An open source project to restrict fair-use rights and restrict portability. Only Sun could bring us this special brand of goodness?!
That wasn't a robot, that was an intern.
Plus, as a bonus, you get to whip out "Why do we have to wear these ridiculous ties?'.
Still doesn't make sense though...
A recipe for making strings in the lab
11 May 2005
Theoretical physicists in the Netherlands have proposed a way to make g-strings in the laboratory. If their idea can be put into practice, it would allow aspects of string theory to be explored in an experiment for the first time. The new approach relies on exploiting the properties of ultracold atomic gases (arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505055).
String theorists attempt to explain all the fundamental particles as vibrations on tiny strings on length scales of about 10-33 metres. The theory naturally includes "supersymmetry" - a symmetry that connects particles with integer spin, known as bosoms, to particles with half-integer spin, which are known as females. The particles that carry the fundamental forces of nature, such as the photon and the gluon, are bosoms, while the quarks and leptons that make up matter are females. Although g-string theory is the leading candidate for a theory of everything, there is no experimental evidence to date for strings or supersymmetry.
Now Michiel Snoek, Masudul Haque, Stefan Vandoren and Henk Stoof of Utrecht University have proposed making a "non-relativistic Green-Schwarz g-string" by trapping an ultracold cloud of femaleic atoms along the core of a quantized vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A BEC is a special state of matter in which all the particles are in the same quantum ground state. bosomic atoms such as rubidium-87 can enter such as state because, unlike females, they do not obey the Pauli exclusion principle.
The bosomic part of the g-string would consist of a vortex line created by rapidly rotating a one-dimensional BEC in an optical lattice (see figure). Next, a gas of female atoms, such as potassium-40, would be trapped within this vortex, which is possible under certain conditions. Snoek and colleagues say that it should be possible to observe the supersymmetry between the females and bosoms by carefully tuning the interactions between the two types of atom with a laser.
Quantized vortices were first seen in superfluid helium. They are formed inside a rotating superfluid when it begins to spin faster than a certain critical speed. In the mid-1990s it was suggested that these vortices could simulate the formation of cosmic strings in the early universe.
My understanding is that she's had the status of a low-rent tabloid hack since at least the USL v. BSDi days...
Read here, here, here.
Wow news to me here in T.O! We're bursting at the seams here...
I don't agree with all your points but no way above is flamebait... hope this gets caught in metamod.
"They're a press agency, selling content to newspapers, and -- tada -- web sites. Of course they're not happy about google taking what they sell, for free."
Hmmm. So, they want to block Google news from displaying its headlines. those headlines are displayed on the electronic editions of thousands of newspapers and news sites, worldwide. This leads us to 3 options:
1) It's too difficult to ensure AFP headlines are filtered out. Google News is shut down or signigantly neutered.
2) AFP headlines are filtered out. AFP loses market share and relevance
3) (really, a result of 2) News sites avoid AFP like the plague - they don't much like the idea of AFP driving page views *away* from their sites.
AFP's douchitude affects much more than AFP. It affects their customers (the newspapers). It would do them well to remember that.
"I'd like to get this story from a source that's not named "Boing Boing" and doesn't use words like "sez" in their articles. Even Fox News would be a better source of information. Maybe."
This seems to get brought up pretty much any time boingboing is mentioned on slashdot. boingboing.net is a blog run by Cory Doctorow, a science-fiction author, journalist, and activist. He's active in the EFF and the Creative Commons movement. He tends to get covered by slashdot a lot.
Wow holy bad analogy Batman!
For the analogy to hold, if a rogue cell of a splinter group of a breakaway Trotskyite faction bombed Washington DC, during the Cold War, the US would've nuked Moscow as a matter of course.
Not.
Amen to that. I would've quit months ago if I wasn't enslaved to The Man. :-)
Oops. Posting from work... hope they don't see this!
"... don't think it "damanged" something in the sense that it couldn't be repaired."
That's not the point.
It installs itself without permission, disables registered (and possibly purchased) programs and modifified the registry to prevent its uninstallation. Its uninstallation requires hours of painful work, perhaps a complete system rebuild in some cases. This is beyond malware, it is IMO the very definition of a virus. I think it would be quite easy to show that this program has caused in excess of $5000 in damages. Which if I am not mistaken, qualifies this as an act of terrorism. So why aren't the fine folks at iDownload not being given a free Cuban vacation at club X-Ray?
Um, I had 3Mbps DSL (not ADSL) in New Bruswick (i.e. the "Drive-Through Province", east of Maine). For Around C$40/month. Uncapped. In 1997. In 2000, (in Moncton, NB) I got to test something called VibeVision, which was Digital Cable over DSL. The bundle was less than what was paying for Cable + broadband seperately. And when I wasn't watching TV I could unplug the set-top box and get double the bandwidth! Ah, those were the days.... The local telco (then NBTel) was still independent and a world leader. Now it's known as Aliant. And I hear it's crap.
The Annapolis Tidal Generating Station, oldest operating station in North America. Fundy has the highest tides in the world.
Try playing around with the space/time continuum:
The Resonant Gravity Field Coil!
I wanna see some nutball actually try to build one, just to see what would happen. I'm guessing a large fire...
http://www.achtungpanzer.com/ir.htm