Assuming the universe is not infintely folded in on itself, why can we not see the leading edge of the expansion of the universe? Unless we are in the very center of the universe, we should be closer to one side than the other and should be able to see that, I would think.
Another question is that if the universe is folded in on itself in higher dimensional ways, why can't we travel faster than light by crossing the interior of a fold. Going by the spherical surface analogy, why can't we instead of walking along the surface, dig a hole to the other side. That's how I always think of blackholes/wormholes. Also, why can't we make two points closer together by squishing the folds together.
If you told XP that you use a cable modem or dsl to connect to the internet, I believe it automatically turns on the firewall. If you just tell it to use the LAN to connect to the internet, it does not. It has been a while since I last setup XP, so I could be wrong. But it might be something you want to look into.
I dunno, for the kind of money they are sinking on this project, I would expect to see total conversion to this new platform. Which would be terribly interesting, because for the first time in a century, one of the car makers would have a totally different and alternative means to the common goal of an industry. It could go either very well or very bad for GM.
The Aztek was so bad dealers were putting them behind their lots to keep them out of sight. It makes you wonder how a vehicle universally regarded as disguisting made it through to production. Did a CEO, or perhaps more accurately, his eight year old child, design it? I would love to have the inside story on the Aztec's genesis.
If i remember correctly, when a minor enters into a contract with an adult, the adult is required to honor the contract, but the minor may at any time withdraw without penalty.
There is more info on this on another website about zero point energy. It seems a little fantastic to me. Check it out, and search for "Carl B. Tilley" on google for other dubious resources. Zero Point Energy
That's because no one wants to talk about what refined SUGAR does to you. There is seriously some weird conspiracy concerning refined sugar and its effects on people. People were not designed to consume pure sugar by itself, and no one wants to talk about that. There is not necessarily a problem with all carbohydrates, but with the simple carbohydrates like pure sucrose. I think everyone oversimplifies the issue of weight control and diet. The processes that go on in the body are extremely complex and simply saying the problem is fat intake, or calorie content or carbohydrate consumption is misguided.
I think it would be a good idea to not restrict dietary studies to calories, fat, carbohydrates, etc., but also to include the additives they put in food. What we eat may taste like something familiar (or perhaps more accurately, what we think something should taste like), but that does not necessarily mean it has any chemical resemblance to an actual natural food product. The ingredient lists of the things we eat today read like some chemical warfare agent.
There was a word and a group for people like you 65 years ago. NAZI. You don't even have the balls to post under your own name, yet you feel that you are worthy of passing judgement on several billion people. Who are you to decide who should live and who should die? Who are you to even pass a judgement of any kind on someone else? You are entitled to your opinion, as we all are; but I am entitled to say you are a fucking coward and a fucking asshole. If you think your position of deeming several billion people as unworthy of life is so defensible, don't hide behind the shield of anonymity. It simply reveals you for what you are...a pussy.
How would the world react. . .
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if one morning they woke up to find that while they were sleeping the US government had become a totalitarian dictatorship with Pres. Bush at the helm? Granted, that seems unlikely since they apparently prefer to work the government slowly in that direction, but the question still remains.
If the US government was openly and violently suppressing the American people, what do you think the rest of the world would do? Would the Europeans come to our aide? Would the Africans laugh at our disgrace? Would China just go on with its business of becoming the next super-power?
Would the French help an American resistance movement? Would the British sell the people arms? Or would there be endless talk and admonitions of human rights violations? I really can't imagine that anyone would help us.
I really do believe that the greatest threat to American citizens is not terrorism, but our own government. That might be paranoid, but it's how I feel about it. And everyday I become more and more concerned. And then I wonder, who would help us? What would the world do?
If you want a quick burst of energy, go for a short run outside or on the treadmill. Or lift weights or any sort of exercise really. You will feel more energetic afterwards, and the more you do it the energy you will have in general. Drink water while you exercise and stay hydrated. You don't really need those "energy drinks" like Poweraide unless you are seriously working out or it's extremely hot.
If they are just going to lay the cable on top of the ice, which is more or less smooth, why can't they just put a huge spool of fiber in a slow flying airplane or a helicopter. They could fly close to the ground so it would be falling from 350000ft. Not much to crash into. The spool could have an electric motor to deploy the cable at the same speed the plane was traveling at to avoid creating tension in the cable. The process would be so quick you could lay several cables over different routes for redundancy.
Why should this be more difficult than laying fiber optic cables at the bottom of the ocean.
my experience with ie and mozilla is tha whenver you open a new window, the program relaods the current page in the new window. i don't know, but perhaps the speed increase with opera is that rather than refreshing the page, it just renders the same page from the cache.
It would be interesting to watermark a popular song and release it into the wilds of the P2P networks and track how quickly it moves through the community.
It seems like it would be a good idea to implement this as distributed honeypots instead of one on ISP's network. Otherwise, what would stop the RIAA attack drones/bots from just blacklisting the blacklist and ignoring the honeypot.
Re:Companies need to learn how to make money.
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of course the problem with moving jobs off shore is that the unskilled/semi-skilled workers in the US go jobless because we have no effective programs for retraining and reemployment for those whose jobs are displaced by free trade. sure there are token efforts, but they really fall short of what we need to be seeing.
and then of course comes the problem with those unemployed/underemployed people being able to buy those shiny new things they used to manufacture right here but whose production is now farmed out to asian sweatshops. sure the manufacturers are realizing reduced costs by using cheap asian labor, but at the same time they are shrinking the market at home. but then they can't really expand effectively into the developing nations because they and every other employer there does not pay well enough for their workers to afford what they produce.
There are two problems I see with globalization. The first is that it only works long run if the job exporter country has effective retraining and reemployment policy and programs. It doesn't do any good for a manufacturer to ship jobs off to lower costs when the result is that their market shrinks.
The second problem I see is that as more and more jobs go off shore to places like Malaysia and Indonesia, the labor there will not always be so cheap. It may be for a long time, but it absolutely cannot remain that way forever. When they rise, the corporations will be more than happy to pull up stakes and relocate their labor pulls to the next developing country. The result of such a pullout, of course, can go two ways. Either the government manages to create and maintain a domestic job base, or the country becomes a used up hulk of old industrial labor.
What I really see happening is not true globalization, but rather commercial exploitation of low labor cost countries. I really hope these countries are building some strong infrastructure while they are enjoying their manufacturing boom because the jobs WILL move out when labor costs become too high. And when people become unemployed in large numbers, it tends be bad for national stability unless the government is able to manage things well.
In the end I see either real globalization taking place after the period we are in now, or cyclic exploitation of developing/underdeveloped countries at the hands of more stable western nations.
i think the reason why one would want 64 or 128 bit color depths is to avoid dithering as much as possible. even though you may have a palette of 16 million colors at 32 bits, if you are rendering an image and the software says a pixel should be some color between between color number 14,528,208 and 14,528,209 then it has to dither either up or down. if the software was rendering in 64bit color, it may avoid that imprecision. and as we know, imprecision from rounding tends to snowball through sucessive operations.
the end result is an image that is truer to what was supposed to be rendered.
Our crotchety old K-Mart got some cool new IBM cash registers not long ago. They have 15" touch sensitive flat panel monitors. Now why does a cash register need that? Considering that K-Mart is bankrupt, one would think they would choose not to install $5000 dollar cash registers all over the place.
I remember reading a story on Slate around this time last year about that very phenomenon. The author lamented the boredom that August always brings to journalists, and he hoped that September would bring something newsworthy. I remembered that story on Sept. 11, I though it was sad irony.
This guy was on NPR this morning. When asked about his remarks in context of the laws against such hacking he specifically said that he was talking about hacking by "security professionals" only and then only for the purpose of quietly notifying the software maker. In fact, he explicitly said it should remain illegal for any regular joe to hack or reverse engineer software looking for exploits just for the fun of it.
This guy is not your friend. He, like the rest of the administration, is solely concerned with corporate interests. What he has in mind here is definitely not exposing exploits and causing bad corporate PR. It is the quiet uncovering of holes and the quiet informing of the software makers so they can issue mystery patches.
The reasoning behind that I suppose is to keep malicious hackers from using public exploits. But in reality, by the time the so called "security experts" stumble on the holes, the real evil hackers have already known about them for a long time. This is just more the "keep the problem secret and it will go away" policy that has gotten us into trouble.
ah, but what if it was a meteor composed of iridium. or perhaps a fragment of or part of a group of iridium bearing meteors. the density of iridium is 17% higher than uranium, so it would definitely have enough energy to give the earth a good whack. maybe enough to make those interesting rings.
the (at least partial) disintegration of such meteorites might help explain the iridium layer. perhaps the earth passed through a field of iridium bearing objects during that time. who knows. it will be interesting to see what they dig up.
I wonder if these mandated digital receivers will include the Gemstar guide software. When I got digital cable, I was given a Motorola receiver and it uses this monstrosity. It is excruciatingly slow, and it is plastered with ads. Why should I have to look at ads that take up half the screen When I want to view the program guide? Not to mention that it's ugly and hard to use.
The motorola receiver is junk too. I have managed to lock it up and get it into a loop where it turns itself on and off. And it's so slow. If the rest of the gemstar guide such a peice of crap, I would blame the slowness just on the receiver.
I'm not saying I agree or disagree, but I think what the author said deserves some consideration. All I'm seeing here is people attacking the man, and not his message. But that seems to be the case any time someone posts something critical about Linux. Criticism is almost always more constructive than mindless ego boosting.
Sesh, is Boeing behind the curve or what! Everybody knows that the military already has anti-gravity technology taken from alien spacecraft. Just ask Bob Lazar!
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Assuming the universe is not infintely folded in on itself, why can we not see the leading edge of the expansion of the universe? Unless we are in the very center of the universe, we should be closer to one side than the other and should be able to see that, I would think.
Another question is that if the universe is folded in on itself in higher dimensional ways, why can't we travel faster than light by crossing the interior of a fold. Going by the spherical surface analogy, why can't we instead of walking along the surface, dig a hole to the other side. That's how I always think of blackholes/wormholes. Also, why can't we make two points closer together by squishing the folds together.
These are the things I wonder about, lol.
Well, 50% of Americans DO afterall think that the first amendment gives them too much freedom.
That is what sickens me.
If you told XP that you use a cable modem or dsl to connect to the internet, I believe it automatically turns on the firewall. If you just tell it to use the LAN to connect to the internet, it does not. It has been a while since I last setup XP, so I could be wrong. But it might be something you want to look into.
I dunno, for the kind of money they are sinking on this project, I would expect to see total conversion to this new platform. Which would be terribly interesting, because for the first time in a century, one of the car makers would have a totally different and alternative means to the common goal of an industry. It could go either very well or very bad for GM.
The Aztek was so bad dealers were putting them behind their lots to keep them out of sight. It makes you wonder how a vehicle universally regarded as disguisting made it through to production. Did a CEO, or perhaps more accurately, his eight year old child, design it? I would love to have the inside story on the Aztec's genesis.
It was a good movie, but it was actually called My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
If i remember correctly, when a minor enters into a contract with an adult, the adult is required to honor the contract, but the minor may at any time withdraw without penalty.
There is more info on this on another website about zero point energy. It seems a little fantastic to me. Check it out, and search for "Carl B. Tilley" on google for other dubious resources. Zero Point Energy
That's because no one wants to talk about what refined SUGAR does to you. There is seriously some weird conspiracy concerning refined sugar and its effects on people. People were not designed to consume pure sugar by itself, and no one wants to talk about that. There is not necessarily a problem with all carbohydrates, but with the simple carbohydrates like pure sucrose. I think everyone oversimplifies the issue of weight control and diet. The processes that go on in the body are extremely complex and simply saying the problem is fat intake, or calorie content or carbohydrate consumption is misguided.
I think it would be a good idea to not restrict dietary studies to calories, fat, carbohydrates, etc., but also to include the additives they put in food. What we eat may taste like something familiar (or perhaps more accurately, what we think something should taste like), but that does not necessarily mean it has any chemical resemblance to an actual natural food product. The ingredient lists of the things we eat today read like some chemical warfare agent.
There was a word and a group for people like you 65 years ago. NAZI. You don't even have the balls to post under your own name, yet you feel that you are worthy of passing judgement on several billion people. Who are you to decide who should live and who should die? Who are you to even pass a judgement of any kind on someone else? You are entitled to your opinion, as we all are; but I am entitled to say you are a fucking coward and a fucking asshole. If you think your position of deeming several billion people as unworthy of life is so defensible, don't hide behind the shield of anonymity. It simply reveals you for what you are...a pussy.
if one morning they woke up to find that while they were sleeping the US government had become a totalitarian dictatorship with Pres. Bush at the helm? Granted, that seems unlikely since they apparently prefer to work the government slowly in that direction, but the question still remains.
If the US government was openly and violently suppressing the American people, what do you think the rest of the world would do? Would the Europeans come to our aide? Would the Africans laugh at our disgrace? Would China just go on with its business of becoming the next super-power?
Would the French help an American resistance movement? Would the British sell the people arms? Or would there be endless talk and admonitions of human rights violations? I really can't imagine that anyone would help us.
I really do believe that the greatest threat to American citizens is not terrorism, but our own government. That might be paranoid, but it's how I feel about it. And everyday I become more and more concerned. And then I wonder, who would help us? What would the world do?
If you want a quick burst of energy, go for a short run outside or on the treadmill. Or lift weights or any sort of exercise really. You will feel more energetic afterwards, and the more you do it the energy you will have in general. Drink water while you exercise and stay hydrated. You don't really need those "energy drinks" like Poweraide unless you are seriously working out or it's extremely hot.
If they are just going to lay the cable on top of the ice, which is more or less smooth, why can't they just put a huge spool of fiber in a slow flying airplane or a helicopter. They could fly close to the ground so it would be falling from 350000ft. Not much to crash into. The spool could have an electric motor to deploy the cable at the same speed the plane was traveling at to avoid creating tension in the cable. The process would be so quick you could lay several cables over different routes for redundancy.
Why should this be more difficult than laying fiber optic cables at the bottom of the ocean.
my experience with ie and mozilla is tha whenver you open a new window, the program relaods the current page in the new window. i don't know, but perhaps the speed increase with opera is that rather than refreshing the page, it just renders the same page from the cache.
It would be interesting to watermark a popular song and release it into the wilds of the P2P networks and track how quickly it moves through the community.
It seems like it would be a good idea to implement this as distributed honeypots instead of one on ISP's network. Otherwise, what would stop the RIAA attack drones/bots from just blacklisting the blacklist and ignoring the honeypot.
of course the problem with moving jobs off shore is that the unskilled/semi-skilled workers in the US go jobless because we have no effective programs for retraining and reemployment for those whose jobs are displaced by free trade. sure there are token efforts, but they really fall short of what we need to be seeing.
and then of course comes the problem with those unemployed/underemployed people being able to buy those shiny new things they used to manufacture right here but whose production is now farmed out to asian sweatshops. sure the manufacturers are realizing reduced costs by using cheap asian labor, but at the same time they are shrinking the market at home. but then they can't really expand effectively into the developing nations because they and every other employer there does not pay well enough for their workers to afford what they produce.
There are two problems I see with globalization. The first is that it only works long run if the job exporter country has effective retraining and reemployment policy and programs. It doesn't do any good for a manufacturer to ship jobs off to lower costs when the result is that their market shrinks.
The second problem I see is that as more and more jobs go off shore to places like Malaysia and Indonesia, the labor there will not always be so cheap. It may be for a long time, but it absolutely cannot remain that way forever. When they rise, the corporations will be more than happy to pull up stakes and relocate their labor pulls to the next developing country. The result of such a pullout, of course, can go two ways. Either the government manages to create and maintain a domestic job base, or the country becomes a used up hulk of old industrial labor.
What I really see happening is not true globalization, but rather commercial exploitation of low labor cost countries. I really hope these countries are building some strong infrastructure while they are enjoying their manufacturing boom because the jobs WILL move out when labor costs become too high. And when people become unemployed in large numbers, it tends be bad for national stability unless the government is able to manage things well.
In the end I see either real globalization taking place after the period we are in now, or cyclic exploitation of developing/underdeveloped countries at the hands of more stable western nations.
i think the reason why one would want 64 or 128 bit color depths is to avoid dithering as much as possible. even though you may have a palette of 16 million colors at 32 bits, if you are rendering an image and the software says a pixel should be some color between between color number 14,528,208 and 14,528,209 then it has to dither either up or down. if the software was rendering in 64bit color, it may avoid that imprecision. and as we know, imprecision from rounding tends to snowball through sucessive operations.
the end result is an image that is truer to what was supposed to be rendered.
Our crotchety old K-Mart got some cool new IBM cash registers not long ago. They have 15" touch sensitive flat panel monitors. Now why does a cash register need that? Considering that K-Mart is bankrupt, one would think they would choose not to install $5000 dollar cash registers all over the place.
I remember reading a story on Slate around this time last year about that very phenomenon. The author lamented the boredom that August always brings to journalists, and he hoped that September would bring something newsworthy. I remembered that story on Sept. 11, I though it was sad irony.
This guy was on NPR this morning. When asked about his remarks in context of the laws against such hacking he specifically said that he was talking about hacking by "security professionals" only and then only for the purpose of quietly notifying the software maker. In fact, he explicitly said it should remain illegal for any regular joe to hack or reverse engineer software looking for exploits just for the fun of it.
This guy is not your friend. He, like the rest of the administration, is solely concerned with corporate interests. What he has in mind here is definitely not exposing exploits and causing bad corporate PR. It is the quiet uncovering of holes and the quiet informing of the software makers so they can issue mystery patches.
The reasoning behind that I suppose is to keep malicious hackers from using public exploits. But in reality, by the time the so called "security experts" stumble on the holes, the real evil hackers have already known about them for a long time. This is just more the "keep the problem secret and it will go away" policy that has gotten us into trouble.
ah, but what if it was a meteor composed of iridium. or perhaps a fragment of or part of a group of iridium bearing meteors. the density of iridium is 17% higher than uranium, so it would definitely have enough energy to give the earth a good whack. maybe enough to make those interesting rings.
the (at least partial) disintegration of such meteorites might help explain the iridium layer. perhaps the earth passed through a field of iridium bearing objects during that time. who knows. it will be interesting to see what they dig up.
I wonder if these mandated digital receivers will include the Gemstar guide software. When I got digital cable, I was given a Motorola receiver and it uses this monstrosity. It is excruciatingly slow, and it is plastered with ads. Why should I have to look at ads that take up half the screen When I want to view the program guide? Not to mention that it's ugly and hard to use.
The motorola receiver is junk too. I have managed to lock it up and get it into a loop where it turns itself on and off. And it's so slow. If the rest of the gemstar guide such a peice of crap, I would blame the slowness just on the receiver.
Anybody else have experience with this crap?
I'm not saying I agree or disagree, but I think what the author said deserves some consideration. All I'm seeing here is people attacking the man, and not his message. But that seems to be the case any time someone posts something critical about Linux. Criticism is almost always more constructive than mindless ego boosting.
Sesh, is Boeing behind the curve or what! Everybody knows that the military already has anti-gravity technology taken from alien spacecraft. Just ask Bob Lazar!