I'd love such a function in Mozillaor Chimera because my bank uses javascript in their online banking and I need to have the option of 'allow script to open new window' on otherwise it won't work. If I could make a list and put only my bank on it as an exception then I could turn on the pop-up blocker again.
Taiwan was 'created' after the communist revolution in China (Mainland). The losers went to Taiwan and called it China, they even held the 'china' seat at the UN. It wasn't till in the 60s (??) that the People's Republic of China got that seat and Taiwan doesn't have it anymore. Taiwan is in a bit of a problem regading China. Some politicians want it to be completely away, others want to try to hook up to the mainland in a way. As for the US backing in case of a Chinese invasion, it's 100 km from China to Taiwan and 5000 km from the US to Taiwan. If the Chinese want to, they can take it easily. 3 US carriers won't help a bit against a Chinese offensive with 500,000 men.
I assume you all know what happened after einstein published E=mc^2 and the Germans found out about splitting the Uranium nucleus ± 1938. It opened a box we couldn't close anymore. With a result that was bigger than anyone had ever expected. Imagine the effect of 100g matter and 100g anti-matter. From a scientific point of view I'm very interested in this and would contribute to it if I could, but looking at humanity it also worries me when this would be a real thing. Perhaps we're technically ready for it, but as human beings with our petty quarrels I think we should stay away from it before we do something we'll regret forever.
My favorite would be the infamous [fas.org] time when NASA did half its calculation in metric and the rest in SI.;)
Not to be nitpicking, but the whole SI system is metric. I think you meant SI and imperial or metric and imperial. Where imperial is the UK grown system of feet, pounds and miles.
If IBM would use BSD over Linux and use the BSD licence no one would complain. So why does IBM use linux and thereby upsets 30% of the/. readers?
Re:An interesting step, perhaps not soon useful
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I hate to say it, but the barrier to high-speed rail isn't the locomotives. It's the track. A current GE P42 locomotive, one of the main workhorses of the Amtrak fleet, has 4200HP (hence the name) and an as-configured top speed of 106 mph. There is no track in the US where it can safely go that fast (the Acela service can run faster on the northeast corridor, but it's a quite different train set entirely). The GE AC6000 has 6250 HP (so why isn't it called the AC6250?) and something on the order of 27000 (twenty seven thousand) foot pounds of torque redlined at 1200 rpm. If you need more power, just MU ("multi-unit") as many as 4 of them.
Just look in Japan, France, Germany or Spain, all countries with HST lines. IIRC all these countries except Germany use the just for highspeed passenger trains. The German ones are also use for freight at night. The costs of building such a line go into the billions of Dollars. Most of it atleast in Europe is payed by the governments. So if you want lines in crowded areas in the US (North East, Southern CA) you'll need to find ppl who are willing to invest billions of Dollars into a project and given the current status of US rail traffic I doubt many would be interested. The new Cologne - Frankfurt HSL took 6 years to build, is 110 miles long and the train reaches a speed of 205 mph.
As for power, the best place is to go to Switzerland and see the class 460 SBB engines go up the Gotthard. For major freight trains the SBB puts two class 460 electrical engines with a topspeed of 230 km/h and a maximum power output of 6.1 MW (± 8300 hp). And a maximum tractive effort of 300kN.
You missed the whole point of the article. All of Japan's (And Europe's) high speed trains are electric powered. For the US to use these technologies would require a huge investment on upgrading the current track to electrified. This engine will work on any track, and will save quite a bit of money in the long run if it actually works as described.
There's one train in the UK which is considered the fastest diesel in the world. The former BR class 253, also known as the HST is a diesel train with two motor 'heads' and 8 cars in between. The HSTs came into service in the mid 1970s and reached the 125 mph in their regular schedule. BR used the in the services on the East Coast main line, the West Coast main line and lines into Cornwall. Although BR doesn't exist anymore and the lines to Edinburgh and Glasgow are electrified these days they are still used by GNER, Virgin and others. I sat in one this spring between Darlington and Inverness. It felt great to be in a piece of UK railway history.
Creating your own country can be pretty easy. All you need is an object on which to stay, and a place in international waters. So you go to Shell/BP/Exxon and ask them if you can buy an old oil rig. Then you can park it ANYWHERE in international waters. And then you can start your own country. Since you can make the laws, you can make it illegal to use legal copies of MS software. You might need an army too, incase someone tries to invade your country.
For the last 75 years we've been spamming the universe in our area, up to 75 lightyear with all kinds of spam. Crappy radio and TV shows, daiper commercials, etc. If we continue at this rate, I'm sure we'll get either sued or attacked by some aliens who can't receive their local sports channel due to earth interference.
You're talking about legal precedent. This case is a CA state case. What appeal options doesthe accused have? Is the last stop the CAsupreme court or the US Supreme court? If it is the latter the judgement would be much more interesting. Can someone with some US law system knowledge explain where this will end? Can a CA Supreme Court ruling apply to the whole USA, or do you need the US Supreme Court for that?
If you know all variables and I'm sure NASA does than it's fairly simply Physics. Since the speed of the rocket goes no where towards c, you can keep using Newtonian Mechanics. I remember an exercise in my Physics book where we had to calculate where stages 1,2,3 of a rocket would fall.
It seems this build is only targeted to x86 (both Windows and Linux). Does any one know if there are plans to expand the compatibilty to other platforms? I mean we have Chimera 0.5.0 for OS X now, but the more compatible browsers the better.
Just think of that other company Steve Jobs is CEO of; Pixar. Right now they use few Macs and only for the light stuff due to the fact that they're not fast enough. But imagine a Mac box with 4 or 8 new IBM or Mot CPUs and one or more 8xAGP busses. That would certainly make them interesting for such companies.
Besides, 10 years ago with Photoshop 2 ????? people used a Quadra 800 or 900 with a 25Mhz 68040 CPU. Back them people didn't complain about the speed. But now any Mac with a pre-PPC CPU is an old-timer. If IBM/Mot make the faster CPUs and Apple makes the faster Macs, I'm sure people will write apps that take full advantage of them.
Hmm, I thought it was on BBC Choice in the UK, which is a BBC station I can't get. I do hope a commercial station here (NET5, SBS) will buy the series, because I sure as hell won't fork over 15 for 90 minute videos.
If Scottie was ever the true Scotsman he played in StarTrek TOS and those 6 films, he must have had a storage for his scotch somewhere. A Scot abroad isn't complete without a decent supply of Whisky
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C'mon people. This news has been out ages. It not new news if Physics Today prints an article about it. Nature had an article about 3-4 weeks ago about the element-118 case. The article on element-118 was published and had to be retrackted, but the publishers wouldn't post a correction if not all 15 autographs were under the letter. In the end a correction was print, even though only 14 people had signed the letter asking the editor to do it. One person still claims his data was correct. And this person also worked on the discovery of element-112.
Physics is completely self correcting. If you claim to get cold fusion at 295K it isn't worth a thing till someone else has repeated it. If it can't be repeated and you don't have a decent excuse you can kiss your career good bye.
Over here in the Netherlands the majority of the polling stations use computers to vote. A very easy and secure way to vote. You go to the 1st person with your card. This person reads the number on it and person 2 checks it against the registered voters register. Number 2 gives me a number and I give that to number 3 who in turn clears the machine for entry. I can cast one vote and then the system is locked till the number 3 person releases it again for the next voter.
The security measures:
A vote can only be made if the system is open and it needs to be opened by the 3rd person.
The machine registers the number of votes and at the end that number has to be the same as the number of cards they've received.
They do not keep track of which number you used to vote. The system knows that voter 467 voted socialist, but there's NO way to track voter 467.
The benifits, 5 minutes after the polling station closes you have the results. These results are phoned to the central place where they are used. Within 30 minutes you have a preliminary result for the whole county. The lists the machine prints get printed in multiple numbers and all data including the results and the cards are secured (secured in a way that tempering after they've been secured, something the public can see, is considered a crime) and brought to the central place. There they will go over them again. In general you can say that if a polling station closes at 21:00, next morning's paper has the almost official results.
It's not so much a matter of getting permission, but to inform people of what's going on. MOST launches are at least announced, since especially in this day and age, you don't want to launch off rockets without informing anyone. Jittery governments who are in the dark might think its the start of a nuclear attack. This HAS happened in the past. We don't care that you launch rockets, we just want to make sure they're going into space and not somewhere else.
Don't tell me that all those spy sats the US has do nothing? If someone put a 10m^2 piece of cloth at the Baikanur base, the US government will know within minutes. Since it takes time to prepare a rocket before lift off any nation with sats out there will be able to see what's happening days before anything gets launched. hiding a rocket bound for the moon is in this day and age almost impossible.
It seems to be a habit of certain people to bash ATI for their lousy drivers. I've used ATI cards in Macs since 1997 and NEVER had driver issues. Right now I have a Radeon 8500 in a G4/500/DP and it works. On the Mac people are complaining about buggy nVidia drivers. My next card will probably be another ATI.
One of the authors is Nick dePlume, editor-in-chief of http://www.thinksecret.com. This site has a bit shaky reputation when it comes to rumours. The have a few hits, but most of the things they publish are blanks. In the past this site has had various rumours about OS X on x86 hardware. None of which turned out te be anything. Just because they publish and article on eweek doesn't mean it's more credible.
According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been working steadily on maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of its Unix-based OS.
This doesn't shed any light. Unless they come with a more reliable thing than 'sources' I think it's a miss.
Back in 1993 I got copies of Monkey Island 1 and 2 for our brand new Apple LC II. After that I've bought every adventure LucasArts made for Macintosh. IMO LucasArts was the best company making graphical adventures between 1990 and 1997. I just hope they bring back mouse support. I recently played Escape from Monkey Island and the keyboard interface sucked. The I got SCUMMvm and ran MI 1 and 2 under OS X. It was like being back in 1993, the interface is so great in those adventures.
Imagine, a new adventure with Sam and Max so big they'll need a DVD. 240 hours or more adventure time.
I can send a SMS in The Netherlands for 0.19 and accross the world for 0.29. 160 Characters is usually enough and it saves me a lot of money. Calling international on your mobile is something to avoid at all cost, unless you own the telco.
Next time, come at least one hour in advance. I once had an EEG taken and as the above poster said, theyyneed to configure the 'helmet' use special gel, etc. And I had to lay still for 45 minutes, which isn't a problem if you have all day, but if you have to catch the LAX to Tokio flight in 30 minutes I can imagine that 45 minutes flat and quiet is too much.
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I'd love such a function in Mozillaor Chimera because my bank uses javascript in their online banking and I need to have the option of 'allow script to open new window' on otherwise it won't work. If I could make a list and put only my bank on it as an exception then I could turn on the pop-up blocker again.
Taiwan was 'created' after the communist revolution in China (Mainland). The losers went to Taiwan and called it China, they even held the 'china' seat at the UN. It wasn't till in the 60s (??) that the People's Republic of China got that seat and Taiwan doesn't have it anymore.
Taiwan is in a bit of a problem regading China. Some politicians want it to be completely away, others want to try to hook up to the mainland in a way. As for the US backing in case of a Chinese invasion, it's 100 km from China to Taiwan and 5000 km from the US to Taiwan. If the Chinese want to, they can take it easily. 3 US carriers won't help a bit against a Chinese offensive with 500,000 men.
I assume you all know what happened after einstein published E=mc^2 and the Germans found out about splitting the Uranium nucleus ± 1938. It opened a box we couldn't close anymore. With a result that was bigger than anyone had ever expected.
Imagine the effect of 100g matter and 100g anti-matter. From a scientific point of view I'm very interested in this and would contribute to it if I could, but looking at humanity it also worries me when this would be a real thing.
Perhaps we're technically ready for it, but as human beings with our petty quarrels I think we should stay away from it before we do something we'll regret forever.
My favorite would be the infamous [fas.org] time when NASA did half its calculation in metric and the rest in SI.
Not to be nitpicking, but the whole SI system is metric. I think you meant SI and imperial or metric and imperial. Where imperial is the UK grown system of feet, pounds and miles.
If IBM would use BSD over Linux and use the BSD licence no one would complain. So why does IBM use linux and thereby upsets 30% of the /. readers?
I hate to say it, but the barrier to high-speed rail isn't the locomotives. It's the track. A current GE P42 locomotive, one of the main workhorses of the Amtrak fleet, has 4200HP (hence the name) and an as-configured top speed of 106 mph. There is no track in the US where it can safely go that fast (the Acela service can run faster on the northeast corridor, but it's a quite different train set entirely). The GE AC6000 has 6250 HP (so why isn't it called the AC6250?) and something on the order of 27000 (twenty seven thousand) foot pounds of torque redlined at 1200 rpm. If you need more power, just MU ("multi-unit") as many as 4 of them.
Just look in Japan, France, Germany or Spain, all countries with HST lines. IIRC all these countries except Germany use the just for highspeed passenger trains. The German ones are also use for freight at night. The costs of building such a line go into the billions of Dollars. Most of it atleast in Europe is payed by the governments. So if you want lines in crowded areas in the US (North East, Southern CA) you'll need to find ppl who are willing to invest billions of Dollars into a project and given the current status of US rail traffic I doubt many would be interested. The new Cologne - Frankfurt HSL took 6 years to build, is 110 miles long and the train reaches a speed of 205 mph.
As for power, the best place is to go to Switzerland and see the class 460 SBB engines go up the Gotthard. For major freight trains the SBB puts two class 460 electrical engines with a topspeed of 230 km/h and a maximum power output of 6.1 MW (± 8300 hp). And a maximum tractive effort of 300kN.
You missed the whole point of the article. All of Japan's (And Europe's) high speed trains are electric powered. For the US to use these technologies would require a huge investment on upgrading the current track to electrified. This engine will work on any track, and will save quite a bit of money in the long run if it actually works as described.
There's one train in the UK which is considered the fastest diesel in the world. The former BR class 253, also known as the HST is a diesel train with two motor 'heads' and 8 cars in between. The HSTs came into service in the mid 1970s and reached the 125 mph in their regular schedule. BR used the in the services on the East Coast main line, the West Coast main line and lines into Cornwall. Although BR doesn't exist anymore and the lines to Edinburgh and Glasgow are electrified these days they are still used by GNER, Virgin and others. I sat in one this spring between Darlington and Inverness.
It felt great to be in a piece of UK railway history.
Creating your own country can be pretty easy. All you need is an object on which to stay, and a place in international waters. So you go to Shell/BP/Exxon and ask them if you can buy an old oil rig. Then you can park it ANYWHERE in international waters. And then you can start your own country. Since you can make the laws, you can make it illegal to use legal copies of MS software. You might need an army too, incase someone tries to invade your country.
For the last 75 years we've been spamming the universe in our area, up to 75 lightyear with all kinds of spam. Crappy radio and TV shows, daiper commercials, etc. If we continue at this rate, I'm sure we'll get either sued or attacked by some aliens who can't receive their local sports channel due to earth interference.
You're talking about legal precedent. This case is a CA state case. What appeal options doesthe accused have? Is the last stop the CAsupreme court or the US Supreme court?
If it is the latter the judgement would be much more interesting. Can someone with some US law system knowledge explain where this will end? Can a CA Supreme Court ruling apply to the whole USA, or do you need the US Supreme Court for that?
If you know all variables and I'm sure NASA does than it's fairly simply Physics. Since the speed of the rocket goes no where towards c, you can keep using Newtonian Mechanics. I remember an exercise in my Physics book where we had to calculate where stages 1,2,3 of a rocket would fall.
War crimes are expensive.
Is that why the US DoD has a $500 billion a year buget?
It seems this build is only targeted to x86 (both Windows and Linux). Does any one know if there are plans to expand the compatibilty to other platforms? I mean we have Chimera 0.5.0 for OS X now, but the more compatible browsers the better.
Just think of that other company Steve Jobs is CEO of; Pixar. Right now they use few Macs and only for the light stuff due to the fact that they're not fast enough. But imagine a Mac box with 4 or 8 new IBM or Mot CPUs and one or more 8xAGP busses. That would certainly make them interesting for such companies.
Besides, 10 years ago with Photoshop 2 ????? people used a Quadra 800 or 900 with a 25Mhz 68040 CPU. Back them people didn't complain about the speed. But now any Mac with a pre-PPC CPU is an old-timer. If IBM/Mot make the faster CPUs and Apple makes the faster Macs, I'm sure people will write apps that take full advantage of them.
Hmm, I thought it was on BBC Choice in the UK, which is a BBC station I can't get. I do hope a commercial station here (NET5, SBS) will buy the series, because I sure as hell won't fork over 15 for 90 minute videos.
If Scottie was ever the true Scotsman he played in StarTrek TOS and those 6 films, he must have had a storage for his scotch somewhere. A Scot abroad isn't complete without a decent supply of Whisky
C'mon people. This news has been out ages. It not new news if Physics Today prints an article about it. Nature had an article about 3-4 weeks ago about the element-118 case. The article on element-118 was published and had to be retrackted, but the publishers wouldn't post a correction if not all 15 autographs were under the letter. In the end a correction was print, even though only 14 people had signed the letter asking the editor to do it. One person still claims his data was correct. And this person also worked on the discovery of element-112.
Physics is completely self correcting. If you claim to get cold fusion at 295K it isn't worth a thing till someone else has repeated it. If it can't be repeated and you don't have a decent excuse you can kiss your career good bye.
You go to the 1st person with your card. This person reads the number on it and person 2 checks it against the registered voters register. Number 2 gives me a number and I give that to number 3 who in turn clears the machine for entry. I can cast one vote and then the system is locked till the number 3 person releases it again for the next voter.
The security measures:
A vote can only be made if the system is open and it needs to be opened by the 3rd person.
The machine registers the number of votes and at the end that number has to be the same as the number of cards they've received.
They do not keep track of which number you used to vote. The system knows that voter 467 voted socialist, but there's NO way to track voter 467.
The benifits, 5 minutes after the polling station closes you have the results. These results are phoned to the central place where they are used. Within 30 minutes you have a preliminary result for the whole county. The lists the machine prints get printed in multiple numbers and all data including the results and the cards are secured (secured in a way that tempering after they've been secured, something the public can see, is considered a crime) and brought to the central place. There they will go over them again. In general you can say that if a polling station closes at 21:00, next morning's paper has the almost official results.
Beat that with you pencil and paper.
It's not so much a matter of getting permission, but to inform people of what's going on. MOST launches are at least announced, since especially in this day and age, you don't want to launch off rockets without informing anyone. Jittery governments who are in the dark might think its the start of a nuclear attack. This HAS happened in the past. We don't care that you launch rockets, we just want to make sure they're going into space and not somewhere else.
Don't tell me that all those spy sats the US has do nothing? If someone put a 10m^2 piece of cloth at the Baikanur base, the US government will know within minutes. Since it takes time to prepare a rocket before lift off any nation with sats out there will be able to see what's happening days before anything gets launched. hiding a rocket bound for the moon is in this day and age almost impossible.
Just read R.A. Heinlein's 'The man who sold the moon'. It has great info on how to make profit of that piece of rock that's orbiting us.
;-)
"This is the greatest real estate venture since the pope carved up the new world"
I'm accepting other people's share of the moon starting at 1.00
It seems to be a habit of certain people to bash ATI for their lousy drivers. I've used ATI cards in Macs since 1997 and NEVER had driver issues. Right now I have a Radeon 8500 in a G4/500/DP and it works. On the Mac people are complaining about buggy nVidia drivers. My next card will probably be another ATI.
One of the authors is Nick dePlume, editor-in-chief of http://www.thinksecret.com. This site has a bit shaky reputation when it comes to rumours. The have a few hits, but most of the things they publish are blanks. In the past this site has had various rumours about OS X on x86 hardware. None of which turned out te be anything. Just because they publish and article on eweek doesn't mean it's more credible.
According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif., Mac maker has been working steadily on maintaining current, PC-compatible builds of its Unix-based OS.
This doesn't shed any light. Unless they come with a more reliable thing than 'sources' I think it's a miss.
Back in 1993 I got copies of Monkey Island 1 and 2 for our brand new Apple LC II. After that I've bought every adventure LucasArts made for Macintosh. IMO LucasArts was the best company making graphical adventures between 1990 and 1997. I just hope they bring back mouse support. I recently played Escape from Monkey Island and the keyboard interface sucked. The I got SCUMMvm and ran MI 1 and 2 under OS X. It was like being back in 1993, the interface is so great in those adventures.
Imagine, a new adventure with Sam and Max so big they'll need a DVD. 240 hours or more adventure time.
Now where can I reserve my copy?
I can send a SMS in The Netherlands for 0.19 and accross the world for 0.29. 160 Characters is usually enough and it saves me a lot of money. Calling international on your mobile is something to avoid at all cost, unless you own the telco.
Next time, come at least one hour in advance. I once had an EEG taken and as the above poster said, theyyneed to configure the 'helmet' use special gel, etc. And I had to lay still for 45 minutes, which isn't a problem if you have all day, but if you have to catch the LAX to Tokio flight in 30 minutes I can imagine that 45 minutes flat and quiet is too much.