My cable modem has four lights (power- always on, PC - blinks continuously, data - only blinks when data is coming down the pipe, cable - always on as long at the modem is connected to the network).
I was curious about the data light continuously blinking and why packet received counters of my system were constantly increasing - seems that the cable network broadcasts IP WhoIS requests to find out each IP address. At 12 packets/second for 24 hours/day this seems to add up to a few Gigabytes/week.
Or maybe someone is using Microsporidia as an insecticide already. From Cornell university:
Some microsporidia are being investigated as microbial insecticides, and at least one is available commercially, but the technology is new and work is needed to perfect the use of these organisms.
If they go anywhere near my womenfolk in the house, they'll be killed off by the nearest object at hand (mouse, keyboard, newspaper, magazine, vacuum cleaner), let alone a cell phone or WiFi router. In any case, the WiFi router is bolted to the wall just for this reason.
In the UK, a CCTV recording is only admissable if it has the date/time written on the video.
Most places with video cameras have "CCTV system in use" signs on the windows. There was also a case in the South coast of England where a home owner was being harassed by kids in his neighborhood (they were throwing stones at his windows and vandalising his car). He installed a CCTV system to record the activity, then after catching the crime happening, he checked the video then called the police. The officers came to his house, asked if he had viewed the tape, then said they couldn't use it as "he had tampered with the evidence".
Another time, a disabled resident who had a similar problem with kids and his disability adapted car and put up a CCTV system without planning permission, was sent a notice by the council to remove the CCTV system. He did so, and his car was vandalised that night.
Converting food sources (proteins, molecules) from left-handedness to right-handedness and vice versa is going to take more energy than just having the same handedness as the food source. Whichever food source became dominant would eventually force everything else up the food chain to have the same handedness. In the end, everything would flip to one state or the other.
I see the TV adverts for online gambling/gaming with virtual Poker, virtual roulette wheel. All the same games that were available on early console systems back in the 1980's; Atari 2600 Poker Plus, Black Jack and Roulette wheel.
Though, the animated 3D characters and realistic background certainly change the atmosphere of the game.
There was a story some time ago about how one of the actors in the Batman movie (Jack Nicholson?) who signed a contract giving him royalties from the Batman movie. Due to a slight legal typing error, an extra comma crept in instead of a full stop, which gave him royalties from all future movies and not just the one he had acted in.
Instead of being a series of rapid movements vertically, sideways, or along the direction of travel, these are going to be extremely slow movements that would take several minutes to complete a single cycle. The energy isn't as damaging, as it is dissipated through friction faster than energy can be transferred by the shaking.
Because you can embed the images in another webpage - just like youtube videos.
You don't have to bother about with unpacking zip files, rpm's, tar's,.run files, especially when you don't have admin permissions on the host machine.
Also, you won't start up your application one day, and read the message "This version is no longer supported. Please exit and upgrade to uber-version X.Y.Z".
But realistically, you can study books all you want, but you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver.
Some of my relatives trained as nurses. When they were taking their courses, all the diagrams of the internal organs such as a heart consisted of a simple hand-drawn outline with some arrows showing the direction of blood flow. Even the most detailed drawings were in black white. When I showed them the modern childrens encyclopedias with colour diagrams, and even some computer animations, they were completed amazed.
When IBM was rumored to be in talks with Sun, rumors were going around that Oracle was looking to buy RedHat.
When the opportunity to buy Sun, Oracle chose them over RedHat. RedHat wouls probably have cost them only $2bln compared to the $5.6bln it's going to cost to buy Sun. So suck it!:)
With the purchase of Sun, Oracle also has whole teams of engineers dedicated to designing hardhware all the way from workstations to servers. That is an advantage over buying RedHat who concentrate on just certifying hardware.
Given the temperature of the ocean surface at the areas where these hurricanes form, either the water evaporates and the air becomes humid, or the lower layers of oceans would start to heat up. Having this warm humid air rise and then cool off seems to be a built-in cooling system of the earth's climate. If the warm air didn't rise and end up forming a rotating system, would the hurricanes just become warm fronts/cold fronts instead?
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures.
That seems to happen with corporate divisions and government departments as well.
For corporations, a new group may be formed to explore a particular business venture as no other division is really interested. Then as soon as that group starts to return a profit, some of the other division directors will be elbowing each other to take control of it. Alternatively, a startup may start making profits and then be bought out.
With government departments, any small department which starts to receive additional funding will soon be absorbed by another larger department.
When these laws were passed, their may not have been any internet, web sites or forums, but there were newspapers, notice boards, newsletters, circulars and mailing lists, and telegraphs. An individual-to-individual communication is expected to remain exactly that, unless the person sending the information gives permission for the information to be made public.
When the economy was booming, many residents questioned why the city councils were maintaining "rainy day budget funds" they weren't using while they were putting up taxes. So the taxpayers forced the cities to use up these budgets before raising taxes. Now, there are massive waiting lists for council housing; asylum seekers, single parent families, immigrants who cannot find work and can't afford to go home, pensioners who lost their company pensions and the unemployed workers who were paying for everyone else.
Florida does the same - so many people moved there to rent a holiday while renting out property in their home states, that the state has a "out of state earnings tax".
The innovation isn't in the projection system - it is the fact that they are visualizing large amounts of data interactively in real-time, particularly volume rendering. Everything from the Schrodinger equations defining the probabilistic orbits of electrons to functional MRI directly from the scanner in real-time. It is easy to play a pre-recorded movie of a fMRI scan on a number of large monitors, but they want to visualize more complex information such as what effect the increased demand on blood flow has on the turbulence of blood circulation, or allow surgeons to visualize the best way to thread a catheter through an artery to treat an aneurysm.
Simple, they always have two researchers standing back to back, so that all 360 degrees are covered. That way, there's never any chance of anything sneaking up behind them and stealing their funding.
Phorm purchased slots to place adverts - when there was a match between what the user was reading and adverts available, the advert would be displayed. When there was not match, the charities advert would be displayed. They weren't stealing anyone's advertising space but they were still intercepting the communications of unsuspecting BT customers who had neither been informed or consented to taking part in the experiment.
Slashdot Mirror
My cable modem has four lights (power- always on, PC - blinks continuously, data - only blinks when data is coming down the pipe, cable - always on as long at the modem is connected to the network).
I was curious about the data light continuously blinking and why packet received counters of my system were constantly increasing - seems that the cable network broadcasts IP WhoIS requests to find out each IP address. At 12 packets/second for 24 hours/day this seems to add up to a few Gigabytes/week.
Stairway to Heaven by Rolf Harris would get me out of bed in zombie mode and change the CD-player/radio to anything else.
Dephormation
There is also the anti-dephormation league
We're doomed!
Or maybe someone is using Microsporidia as an insecticide already. From Cornell university:
Some microsporidia are being investigated as microbial insecticides, and at least one is available commercially, but the technology is new and work is needed to perfect the use of these organisms.
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/biocontrol/pathogens/protozoa.html
But according to this paper, it is naturally present in insect populations, and that other factors allow it to multiply to fatal levels.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a713568331~db=all~order=date
If they go anywhere near my womenfolk in the house, they'll be killed off by the nearest object at hand (mouse, keyboard, newspaper, magazine, vacuum cleaner), let alone a cell phone or WiFi router. In any case, the WiFi router is bolted to the wall just for this reason.
In the UK, a CCTV recording is only admissable if it has the date/time written on the video.
Most places with video cameras have "CCTV system in use" signs on the windows. There was also a case in the South coast of England where a home owner was being harassed by kids in his neighborhood (they were throwing stones at his windows and vandalising his car). He installed a CCTV system to record the activity, then after catching the crime happening, he checked the video then called the police. The officers came to his house, asked if he had viewed the tape, then said they couldn't use it as "he had tampered with the evidence".
Another time, a disabled resident who had a similar problem with kids and his disability adapted car and put up a CCTV system without planning permission, was sent a notice by the council to remove the CCTV system. He did so, and his car was vandalised that night.
Converting food sources (proteins, molecules) from left-handedness to right-handedness and vice versa is going to take more energy than just having the same handedness as the food source. Whichever food source became dominant would eventually force everything else up the food chain to have the same handedness. In the end, everything would flip to one state or the other.
I see the TV adverts for online gambling/gaming with virtual Poker, virtual roulette wheel.
All the same games that were available on early console systems back in the 1980's; Atari 2600 Poker Plus, Black Jack and
Roulette wheel.
Though, the animated 3D characters and realistic background certainly change the atmosphere of the game.
There was a story some time ago about how one of the actors in the Batman movie (Jack Nicholson?) who signed a contract giving him royalties from the Batman movie. Due to a slight legal typing error, an extra comma crept in instead of a full stop, which gave him royalties from all future movies and not just the one he had acted in.
Instead of being a series of rapid movements vertically, sideways, or along the direction of travel, these are going to be extremely slow movements that would take several minutes to complete a single cycle. The energy isn't as damaging, as it is dissipated through friction faster than energy can be transferred by the shaking.
Because you can embed the images in another webpage - just like youtube videos.
You don't have to bother about with unpacking zip files, rpm's, tar's, .run files, especially when you don't have admin permissions on the host machine.
Also, you won't start up your application one day, and read the message "This version is no longer supported. Please exit and upgrade to uber-version X.Y.Z".
But realistically, you can study books all you want, but you will not truly understand anatomy until you actually cut into a cadaver.
Some of my relatives trained as nurses. When they were taking their courses, all the diagrams of the internal organs such as a heart consisted of a simple hand-drawn outline with some arrows showing the direction of blood flow. Even the most detailed drawings were in black white. When I showed them the modern childrens encyclopedias with colour diagrams, and even some computer animations, they were completed amazed.
Virtual heart simulator.
When IBM was rumored to be in talks with Sun, rumors were going around that Oracle was looking to buy RedHat.
When the opportunity to buy Sun, Oracle chose them over RedHat. RedHat wouls probably have cost them only $2bln compared to the $5.6bln it's going to cost to buy Sun. So suck it! :)
With the purchase of Sun, Oracle also has whole teams of engineers dedicated to designing hardhware all the way from workstations to servers. That is an advantage over buying RedHat who concentrate on just certifying hardware.
Yes, but make sure all the connectors are gold plated - it helps to improve the quality of the water.
Given the temperature of the ocean surface at the areas where these hurricanes form, either the water evaporates and the air becomes humid, or the lower layers of oceans would start to heat up. Having this warm humid air rise and then cool off seems to be a built-in cooling system of the earth's climate. If the warm air didn't rise and end up forming a rotating system, would the hurricanes just become warm fronts/cold fronts instead?
In the long run, FOSS converges to one winner, challenged by many (much smaller) creatures.
That seems to happen with corporate divisions and government departments as well.
For corporations, a new group may be formed to explore a particular business venture as no other division is really interested. Then as soon as that group starts to return a profit, some of the other division directors will be elbowing each other to take control of it. Alternatively, a startup may start making profits and then be bought out.
With government departments, any small department which starts to receive additional funding will soon be absorbed by another larger department.
When these laws were passed, their may not have been any internet, web sites or forums, but there were newspapers, notice boards, newsletters, circulars and mailing lists, and telegraphs. An individual-to-individual communication is expected to remain exactly that, unless the person sending the information gives permission for the information to be made public.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violation_of_privacy
There's even a 3D periodic table jigsaw.
When the economy was booming, many residents questioned why the city councils were maintaining "rainy day budget funds" they weren't using while they were putting up taxes. So the taxpayers forced the cities to use up these budgets before raising taxes. Now, there are massive waiting lists for council housing; asylum seekers, single parent families, immigrants who cannot find work and can't afford to go home, pensioners who lost their company pensions and the unemployed workers who were paying for everyone else.
Florida does the same - so many people moved there to rent a holiday while renting out property in their home states, that the state has a "out of state earnings tax".
The innovation isn't in the projection system - it is the fact that they are visualizing large amounts of data interactively in real-time, particularly volume rendering. Everything from the Schrodinger equations defining the probabilistic orbits of electrons to functional MRI directly from the scanner in real-time. It is easy to play a pre-recorded movie of a fMRI scan on a number of large monitors, but they want to visualize more complex information such as what effect the increased demand on blood flow has on the turbulence of blood circulation, or allow surgeons to visualize the best way to thread a catheter through an artery to treat an aneurysm.
Ever heard of Imax theaters?
Simple, they always have two researchers standing back to back, so that all 360 degrees are covered. That way, there's never any chance of anything sneaking up behind them and stealing their funding.
Phorm purchased slots to place adverts - when there was a match between what the user was reading and adverts available, the advert would be displayed. When there was not match, the charities advert would be displayed. They weren't stealing anyone's advertising space but they were still intercepting the communications of unsuspecting BT customers who had neither been informed or consented to taking part in the experiment.