For that kind of data environment, I would expect the sysadmins to be doing incremental backups during the week, and a full backup once a week. For transaction based servers, to archive each individual transaction as it is received.
What I'm curious to know is how they can claim there is a "signature" that could link this material to anyone,
Using the ratio of the different isotopes of the Polonium. There is a whole range of isoptopes going from Polonium-180 to Polonium-210. The number indicates the sum of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. Since the number of protons remains constant with all atoms of the same element, only the number of neutrons can vary. In the case of Polonium, this ranges from 104 to 136. Depending upon the process used to manufacture the Polonium, these isotopes will be in different ratios. This can be measured using gamma and alpha spectroscopy.
According to this 3G tutorial, (page 118) wireless LAN's are the biggest threats to 3G dominance:
Biggest Threat to Today's 3G -- Wireless LANs
Faster than 3G - 11 or 56 Mbps vs. 2 Mbps for 3G when stationary
Data experience matches the Internet with the added convenience of mobile
Same user interface (doesn't rely on small screens)
Same programs, files, applications, Websites.
Low cost, low barriers to entry
Organizations can build own networks - Like the Internet, (Wireless) will grow virally
Opportunity for entrepreneurs!
Opportunity for wireless operators?
The Linux MACE ethernet driver (used on the SGI O2) is substantially the same as that in IRIX. Right down to the logic flow and variable names, especially in the PHY probe code. There's even a comment about loading in PHY errata; that reference appears only in the IRIX source code.
Perhaps both drivers are based on the same sample implementation provided by the Ethernet board maker? Or from the same specification document file? It's rare to see a device driver written completely from scratch. More often than not, there is always some form of template/empty framework that is used, either by using a generic null driver, or by scooping out the contents of an existing driver.
Though, companies usually require staff to reference where particular blocks of source code have come from (register specifications.
For software patents, surely it is possible for an API developer to state whether or not third parties can apply for patent using their technology, by using the licensing terms?
But the problem is that some highly respected bible scholar decided to do this study. Because of his seniority and respect in the community (he went to university, they didn't), nobody could really prove otherwise. So this belief becomes common wisdom (and now a website.
I'll agree with you there - back in the 1980's the first home computers came out. One guy at our electronics club got a ZX80 (the white computer with a flat keyboard), while another guy at our computer club had an Atari 400. When I had the chance to use these systems, I would end up having pins and needles in my finger tips after less than an hour. Fortunately, my Dad agreed on buying a computer with a full size keyboard to learn touch-typing.
Well, your torpedo might hit the odd whale, shark, iceberg, or even beach (thinking of an old war movies). But if you add an explosive warhead, and send your cavitating torpedoes in groups of three, one is bound to get through.
The issue wasn't that he wasn't paying taxes. The issue was that he was transferring large amounts of money out of the country. As a tool against money laundering, nearly all banks across the world are required to report any such transfers to the authorities (do a google search for "suspicious transactions").
Since he was a student, there is the natural expectation that he would be bringing money into the country, rather than actively sending it out. If had just deposited the money into a Chinese bank account, the Japanese authorities probably wouldn't have been any the wiser.
This does open up an interesting concept of work. If you create something (online game artifact, video, animation, shareware application) which you do in your spare time while abroad, then market it online, does that constitute work?
There was a school in Glasgow which wanted to do this - but the parents object because they feared it might damage the career prospescts of their offspring.
It does - some European cultures (noticeably Mediterranean) do seem to respect personal space less highly than the UK/US does.
Some time ago, there was study done in the UK which showed that the personal space of a person was determined by the population density of the area that the person lived in. For someone in the countryside, the personal space is around 90 centimetres, while someone from London, the personal space is around 60 centimetres. This was made most obvious when attempting to cross a moderately busy shopping street or chatting at a party, and you found yourself wanting to take a step sideways or backwards.
Zaphod is understandably worried. He tries to explain to Arthur why they are having difficulty with the controls.... "Every time I try to operate one of these weird controls, which is labelled black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it!"
The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as the temperature is lowered. However, in ordinary conductors such as copper and silver, impurities and other defects impose a lower limit. Even near absolute zero a real sample of copper shows a non-zero resistance.
Besides, To me, it looks like the Ribbon interface is merely horizontal menus instead of vertical menus, based on the couple of screenshots I've seen of it.
I was wondering about that too - as far as I could tell from the video, it looks like a Trolltech Qt QTabWidget with a whole load of icons and QComboBox widgets on each page.
Apparently (acccording to our family doctor), getting sleep between the hours of 2.00am and 4.00am are the most important hours. Not sure if that is due to the rotation of the Earth/Sun (maybe there are fewer cosmic rays at this time?), or relative to the internal biological clock.
What I meant to say, was that the police officers were drafted away from small villages and towns to monitor the picket lines, life went on as normal in these places. Then the government realised, they could make cutbacks in police service by not having as many police officers as before (or redistributing them to the major cities). This worked in the short term, but eventually some places became crime zones because the police response times became so bad.
Why have the police lost the implicit moral authority they used to have?
Because they have been centralised. Before, the police officer used to live on the same neighbourhood as everyone else, and was a community figure (in the church, sports club, mens club, whatever...). This is what the residents in troublespot areas want to go back to - to have a local police station open 24 hours/day, or even just have the officers live locally. Now, the officers only drive in pairs in squad cars, and are only called out when there is trouble. Now they are just known as a badge and a number.
Blame Thatcher for that one - during the Miner's strike, police officers were called in from all across the country to watch the picket lines. Live went on as normal in the villages, and the Tories realized that the police cover could be reduced with no immediate consequences (closing the smaller police stations). Now the solution to crime is to have a central monitoring station with CCTV cameras everywhere.
Because the air is being rapidly compressed, then decompressing, before returning to normal pressure.
Any object moving through air creates sound waves. For an aircraft travelling close to the speed of sound, these sound waves build up into a pressure wave of compressed air in front of the aircraft. If you compress air, the pressure goes up and the air becomes warmer (the faster you go, the more compressed the air becomes). But every compression wave also has a decompression wave behind it. When air pressure is reduced, the temperature goes down. In this case, this is enough to bring the air temperature below the condesation point of water, and so the moisture in the air briefly condenses into a cloud. Once pressure is restored (regaining a bit of heat), the water droplets immediately dissipate back into vapour.
These photographs and videos were taken in a hot humid environment that was on the coast or at sea.
Just launch lots and lots of weather balloons - they should be white/silver enough to reflect all that light back out to space. And if arranged correctly, they could be used to create advertising visible from space, offering unlimited advertising opportunities.
I remember that song... I used to use an alarm clock radio to wake up in the morning. After just about every radio station kept playing this song at least once each morning for a week, I switched over to using a CD album instead.
Talk about the right technology for the wrong problem.
With this keyboard, you will have the choice of having a completely blank keyboard or a labelled keyboard.
I can't wait to see what people will do with this keyboard - like having a giant "DON'T PANIC" message going all away across the keyboard, or even the BSOD. Perhaps even games like Pong or Breakout.
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For that kind of data environment, I would expect the sysadmins to be doing incremental backups during the week, and a full backup once a week. For transaction based servers, to archive each individual transaction as it is received.
What I'm curious to know is how they can claim there is a "signature" that could link this material to anyone,
Using the ratio of the different isotopes of the Polonium. There is a whole range of isoptopes going from Polonium-180 to Polonium-210. The number indicates the sum of protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus. Since the number of protons remains constant with all atoms of the same element, only the number of neutrons can vary. In the case of Polonium, this ranges from 104 to 136. Depending upon the process used to manufacture the Polonium, these isotopes will be in different ratios. This can be measured using gamma and alpha spectroscopy.
According to this 3G tutorial, (page 118) wireless LAN's are the biggest threats to 3G dominance:
Biggest Threat to Today's 3G -- Wireless LANs
Faster than 3G - 11 or 56 Mbps vs. 2 Mbps for 3G when stationary
Data experience matches the Internet with the added convenience of mobile
Same user interface (doesn't rely on small screens)
Same programs, files, applications, Websites.
Low cost, low barriers to entry
Organizations can build own networks - Like the Internet, (Wireless) will grow virally
Opportunity for entrepreneurs!
Opportunity for wireless operators?
The Linux MACE ethernet driver (used on the SGI O2) is substantially the same as that in IRIX. Right down to the logic flow and variable names, especially in the PHY probe code. There's even a comment about loading in PHY errata; that reference appears only in the IRIX source code.
Perhaps both drivers are based on the same sample implementation provided by the Ethernet board maker?
Or from the same specification document file? It's rare to see a device driver written completely from scratch. More often than not, there is always some form of template/empty framework that is used, either by using a generic null driver, or by scooping out the contents of an existing driver.
Though, companies usually require staff to reference where particular blocks of source code have come from
(register specifications.
For software patents, surely it is possible for an API developer to state whether or not third parties can apply for patent using their technology, by using the licensing terms?
Some believe they have been around for thousands of years
The helicopter shaped hieroglyphic is the strangest. It's more likely to mean
something like "the setting sun behind the gate of the temple".
But the problem is that some highly respected bible scholar decided to do this study. Because of his seniority and respect in the community (he went to university, they didn't), nobody could really prove otherwise. So this belief becomes common wisdom (and now a website.
"It's even easier to get fish to levitate in water if you never feed them."
One stick of dynamite does the job a lot quicker
Attempts at levitating large creatures such as whales using this method have so far proved unsuccessful.
I'll agree with you there - back in the 1980's the first home computers came out. One guy at our electronics club got a ZX80 (the white computer with a flat keyboard), while another guy at our computer club had an Atari 400. When I had the chance to use these systems, I would end up having pins and needles in my finger tips after less than an hour. Fortunately, my Dad agreed on buying a computer with a full size keyboard to learn touch-typing.
Even simpler, just have a sheet of glass/perspex engraved with the keyboard letters. Easy to wipe clean and maintain - no moving parts.
Which gives a totally new meaning to "Fed-Ex delivers anywhere in the world"...
Well, your torpedo might hit the odd whale, shark, iceberg, or even beach (thinking of an old war movies). But if you add an explosive warhead, and send your cavitating torpedoes in groups of three, one is bound to get through.
The issue wasn't that he wasn't paying taxes. The issue was that he was transferring large amounts of money out of the country. As a tool against money laundering, nearly all banks across the world are required to report any such transfers to the authorities (do a google search for "suspicious transactions").
Since he was a student, there is the natural expectation that he would be bringing money into the country, rather than actively sending it out. If had just deposited the money into a Chinese bank account, the Japanese authorities probably wouldn't have been any the wiser.
This does open up an interesting concept of work. If you create something (online game artifact, video, animation, shareware application) which you do in your spare time while abroad, then market it online, does that constitute work?
There was a school in Glasgow which wanted to do this - but the parents object because they feared it might damage the career prospescts of their offspring.
It does - some European cultures (noticeably Mediterranean) do seem to respect personal space less highly than the UK/US does.
Some time ago, there was study done in the UK which showed that the personal space of a person was determined by the population density of the area that the person lived in. For someone in the countryside, the personal space is around 90 centimetres, while someone from London, the personal space is around 60 centimetres. This was made most obvious when attempting to cross a moderately busy shopping street or chatting at a party, and you found yourself wanting to take a step sideways or backwards.
Zaphod is understandably worried. He tries to explain to Arthur why they are having difficulty with the controls.... "Every time I try to operate one of these weird controls, which is labelled black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it!"
Episode 6: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Wikipedia has an explanation.
The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as the temperature is lowered. However, in ordinary conductors such as copper and silver, impurities and other defects impose a lower limit. Even near absolute zero a real sample of copper shows a non-zero resistance.
Besides, To me, it looks like the Ribbon interface is merely horizontal menus instead of vertical menus, based on the couple of screenshots I've seen of it.
I was wondering about that too - as far as I could tell from the video, it looks like a Trolltech Qt QTabWidget with a whole load of icons and QComboBox widgets on each page.
Apparently (acccording to our family doctor), getting sleep between the hours of 2.00am and 4.00am are the most important hours. Not sure if that is due to the rotation of the Earth/Sun (maybe there are fewer cosmic rays at this time?), or relative to the internal biological clock.
What I meant to say, was that the police officers were drafted away from small villages and towns to monitor
the picket lines, life went on as normal in these places. Then the government realised, they could make cutbacks
in police service by not having as many police officers as before (or redistributing them to the major cities).
This worked in the short term, but eventually some places became crime zones because the police response times
became so bad.
Why have the police lost the implicit moral authority they used to have?
Because they have been centralised. Before, the police officer used to live on the same neighbourhood as everyone else, and was a community figure (in the church, sports club, mens club, whatever...). This is what the residents in troublespot areas want to go back to - to have a local police station open 24 hours/day, or even just have the officers live locally. Now, the officers only drive in pairs in squad cars, and are only called out when there is trouble. Now they are just known as a badge and a number.
Blame Thatcher for that one - during the Miner's strike, police officers were called in from all across the country to watch the picket lines. Live went on as normal in the villages, and the Tories realized that the police cover could be reduced with no immediate consequences (closing the smaller police stations). Now the solution to crime is to have a central monitoring station with CCTV cameras everywhere.
Because the air is being rapidly compressed, then decompressing, before returning to normal pressure.
Any object moving through air creates sound waves. For an aircraft travelling close to the speed of sound, these sound waves build up into a pressure wave of compressed air in front of the aircraft. If you compress air, the pressure goes up and the air becomes warmer (the faster you go, the more compressed the air becomes). But every compression wave also has a decompression wave behind it. When air pressure is reduced, the temperature goes down. In this case, this is enough to bring the air temperature below the condesation point of water, and so the moisture in the air briefly condenses into a cloud. Once pressure is restored (regaining a bit of heat), the water droplets immediately dissipate back into vapour.
These photographs and videos were taken in a hot humid environment that was on the coast or at sea.
Just launch lots and lots of weather balloons - they should be white/silver enough to reflect all that light back out to space. And if arranged correctly, they could be used to create advertising visible from space, offering unlimited advertising opportunities.
I remember that song... I used to use an alarm clock radio to wake up in the morning. After just about every radio station kept playing this song at least once each morning for a week, I switched over to using a CD album instead.
Talk about the right technology for the wrong problem.
With this keyboard, you will have the choice of having a completely blank keyboard or a labelled keyboard.
I can't wait to see what people will do with this keyboard - like having a giant "DON'T PANIC" message going
all away across the keyboard, or even the BSOD. Perhaps even games like Pong or Breakout.