I remember hearing somewhere that if they froze the tissue fast enough they could avoid the crystallization, however when trying to thaw it back out crystallization is apparently much harder to avoid.
At what point does the government have the power to dictate that an entire industry must change it's technology?
When that industry is using airwaves that it doesn't own and the government wants to use them for something else. If your soccer team has played on a certain field for a while but then the town says we want to turn it into a park in a couple years to use this other field do they have that right? It's the town's field and they can do what they like with it, you knew that when you started playing there.
However this situation is a little different now that I read the article:) I find it odd that the FCC feels it has to take this course of action rather than saying the stations won't be allowed to broadcast in analog after 2007. The people who need the tuners will get them while the vast majority will just get nothing and recieve their signal over sattelite or cable. The problem is that if they don't than people will just stick with analog and they can't pull the plug on it without disconnecting a lot of people. I feel it would of been a wiser decision to make any TV including a analog antenna to also have a digital tuner there by allowing the sattelite and cable people to continue while still enabling the change-over.
Okay, IANAB (I am not a biologist) The mitochondria (essentially the power plants of our cells) were actually an origionally independent life form. Sometime very early in our evolution they found themselves inside our cells and have been integrated in as a necessary part. I could be mistaken but I believe they are essentially inherited purely from the mother as they just stick with the egg and the number coming in with the sperm is trivial. They also have their own DNA.
I recently talked to a friend who was explained to me a new process that could produce ethanol out of hay. The process could be used on any type of hay and furthurmore because of farming practices (at least in Alberta) there is plenty of extra hay that just ends up being burned or otherwise disposed of since we don't till the soil can't reclaim it all. They know how to build the plant and have found they can use about 20% ethanol in existing engines with no noticable side effects and it reduces emmissions by about 2/3s. Now if only our pro-oil, anti-Kyoto, alcoholic, high school drop-out premier would actually get behind proposals like this and actually start diversifying our economy...
The reason: Digital signals create perfect copies that won't degrade. Executives fear they would deliver perfect copies to millions of viewers.
Ummm. I disagree with Mr. Valenti in that I don't think a lot of consumers would really care whether their copy of the movie (be it video tape or digital) is absolutely perfect or not. True I don't know Jack (okay really bad pun:) but frankly I don't see people building giant archives of digital movie and depriving studios of their rental revenues and I don't think he thinks that is going to happen either. I mean the VCR has been around for decades and it hasn't hurt anyone and cutting out the commercials you can get a movie just as good as on cassette. The only possible thing easily facilitated copying of movie s from the TV without commercials might possibly hurt is the movie sales. However in that case most of them are new releases which arn't on TV for a few years anyways and even then they will all be on DVDs by the time this is relevant in which case you have all these special features which cannot be taped on TV.
I'm pretty sure is this is just another (paranoid?) attempt to get a little more control over the media with the hope that you could squeeze a little more cash out of the cnosumer and hopefully one that is destined to fail. I hope it seems as bizarre to the rest of the world as it does to me in that you are losing control your TV and you can't choose what to watch on your own terms. If they continue these shinadigans (okay I know misspelt that) I think the general public might be approaching the point where they starts percieving these so called "prirates" who are copying media and watching region encryped DVDs as Robin Hoods (there seems to have been that perception here for a while). I'm not sure how anxious I am to reach that point but when we finally do (and we are well on course) it will be interesting to see who ends up on top.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a typo and they meant gigaflop. I'm not sure about Intel and AMD but I know G4's have run at over a gigaflop for a few years, right now they have a peak of 15 (dual processor). So a cheap processor for the console market hitting a gigaflop sounds about right. That would also explain the "supercomputer on a chip," as one of the big things about the G4 was that the 1 gigaflop barrier meant it qualified as a supercomputer (and a military weapon:).
Selling OS X retail is purely for existing apple users. Anyone new won't care that their freinds version has 150 more features, they will get it for the look and feel which is the same as in 10.1.3. All charging less will do is allow a few more 10.1.x users to upgrade.
That being said I think it would be a fairly good idea for them to offer all versions of the OS for free. I can see it being a HUGE selling point when you tell someone that if you buy this computer you will always get the latest OS on it. Sure they will lose all their OS X sales revenues but they will sell more hardware which is the bulk of their revenue and will get great PR. Can you imagine how happy most windows users would be if their computer always had the latest and greate... nevermind:) version of windows on it? excluding the whole palladium... and DRM... and EULA's... and okay bad example:) Still i do believe that giving away the OS for free would be very good for apple.
Ummmmmm. Did you consider that is is perhaps just due to slow ossilations triggered by the rotation and its orbit (it isn't exactly in a stationary system)? Frankly I cannot imagine how we could of possibly caused something like this, I mean do you realize just how trivial we and our actions are compared to the ENTIRE PLANET!! Also consider that when drilling for oil they put water and steam back into the ground to fill up the gap (other wise we would be seeing a lot of lawsuits when oil wells started collapsing). We have NOTHING to do with the effects/evils of mankind it is just yet another natural phenomenon I don't understand. Besides I don't see a few millimeters here and there translating into the Earth dissolving in a few hundred years:) In fact looking back was your post just a fairly subtle joke on environmental extremists?
Actually WineX is a very good idea for supporting Linux. Even in the rare cases where linux is still on the desktop most people maintain a windows partition for gaming. Something like WoneX will allow them to move over to pure linux. This wil help spread linux, you CAN use all your M$ software still and you get all this all this great other linux stuff, you haev nothing to lose! Furthermore as more people start to use WineX and like products the game manufacturers will start to notice this market share and try to make sure their game doesn't do anything cookey (did I spell that right) that would make it unusable under WineX. As this happens linux becomes more popular and continues to grow in market share until finally companies find they can get an edge by offering native linux games instead of stuff running over a compatibility layer. Now you get you linux games, I very much believe Wine and WineX are one of the best weapons linux has to take the desktop.
We can't predict the stockmarket either but there are still a lot of stock brokers who have made a lot of money on the stock market. Control would be an overstatement, manipulate would perhaps be more accurate. Even in North America I recall hearing about insurance companies releasing certain chemicals into clouds to prevent heavy hail. Also note that forest fires can and do have strong effects on weather patterns. Heck we've been inadvertantly affecting the weather since the industrial revolution. The reporter was the one saying control, the fact is that the Chinese have been successfully affecting the weather for some time, read the article if you don't believe me.
4. Dr Podkletnov claims weight can be reduced by 2% (1kg=980g)
I hope that the 1kg=980g was the reporters interpretation and wasn't Dr Podkletnov's doing since that isn't a change in weight, it's a change in mass. A change in weight would be 981 N = 784.8 N.
I really like what I've seen so far but there still seem to be a few bugs they need to clear up. For instance that black hole issue is a huge pain but I've heard the latest patch will be lower the gravitational constant to a more resonable value, there was some debate wether to do this or just change the speed of light but they decided the speed of light might just circumvent the problem for a while. However they're now concerned about the even larger disparity between the Nuclear and magnetric forces and gravity and there is also a concern that this may introduce another bug where objects can travel back and forth through time. The development team is still looking at the possibility of the "Rip in the space-time continueum" security issue, they've gotton some reports but they havn't been able to replicate it yet (they think it might be present in some of the alternate universe operating evnironments and say it may be a vendor issue.
More good news on the Universe front is they've finally fixed that Big Crunch bug and hope that in doing so they've also solved the Big Bang issue that caused all those problems may back. However they feel that time the Big Crunch fix may lead to increasing entropy (they are currently querrying MultiVac for solutions on this front).
their inability to find work even when they hold advanced degrees and are skilled in Java or C++, the programming languages most in demand.
What about those foreigners who hold advanced degrees and are skilled in Java or C++ and can't get work because their own countries are poor and lack industry and they arn't allowed to work in the US? They have just as much right to work as anyone else and they and the companies who hire them shouldn't be punished by protectionist policies. This is the same mentality that lead to exorbiant tariffs on BC lumber (causing massive unemployment and immense damage to BC's economy). Protectionism just doesn't work and all the US will do is harm an already hurting tech industry.
But that exemption explicitly does not permit a researcher to write and distribute software that decodes the encrypted blacklists. Because Edelman wants to do just that, the ACLU argues, the Library of Congress' decision is insufficient.
"The Admiistrative Office of RPR/OFV Records Division"
Usually I decide if they misspell "Administrative" it's probably a scam. Come to think of it that would sure explain of a lot of stories on slashdot...
What about the droves of concerned users who call up to see if they have the virus or find out more about the virus,this will be MANY MANY more callers and a lot more phone support than if they said nothing. Also what about the bad reviews they get by those customers who tell their friends who are thinking of buying one how they almost got a really bad virus and they had to go through this inconvenience of calling to make sure they weren't infected (not to mention annoyingly busy tech support lines)? Does it really cost less to put out the warning?
No, no, unless the virus spreads and becomes really big (unlikely considering the small number of suseptible machines) and M$ gets totally trashed by the media for doing nothing (ABC wasn't critical of M$ at all) they DO lose much more money than if they announce to all the users.
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So if we can't actually hurt someone it's useless?
Hmmm, Somebody has issues...
I remember hearing somewhere that if they froze the tissue fast enough they could avoid the crystallization, however when trying to thaw it back out crystallization is apparently much harder to avoid.
Its cold here.
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The http://www.zort.ca says it all
Fat Bastard 3 stories tall!
Yeah baby!!
At what point does the government have the power to dictate that an entire industry must change it's technology?
:) I find it odd that the FCC feels it has to take this course of action rather than saying the stations won't be allowed to broadcast in analog after 2007. The people who need the tuners will get them while the vast majority will just get nothing and recieve their signal over sattelite or cable. The problem is that if they don't than people will just stick with analog and they can't pull the plug on it without disconnecting a lot of people. I feel it would of been a wiser decision to make any TV including a analog antenna to also have a digital tuner there by allowing the sattelite and cable people to continue while still enabling the change-over.
When that industry is using airwaves that it doesn't own and the government wants to use them for something else. If your soccer team has played on a certain field for a while but then the town says we want to turn it into a park in a couple years to use this other field do they have that right? It's the town's field and they can do what they like with it, you knew that when you started playing there.
However this situation is a little different now that I read the article
Okay, IANAB (I am not a biologist) The mitochondria (essentially the power plants of our cells) were actually an origionally independent life form. Sometime very early in our evolution they found themselves inside our cells and have been integrated in as a necessary part. I could be mistaken but I believe they are essentially inherited purely from the mother as they just stick with the egg and the number coming in with the sperm is trivial. They also have their own DNA.
I recently talked to a friend who was explained to me a new process that could produce ethanol out of hay. The process could be used on any type of hay and furthurmore because of farming practices (at least in Alberta) there is plenty of extra hay that just ends up being burned or otherwise disposed of since we don't till the soil can't reclaim it all. They know how to build the plant and have found they can use about 20% ethanol in existing engines with no noticable side effects and it reduces emmissions by about 2/3s.
Now if only our pro-oil, anti-Kyoto, alcoholic, high school drop-out premier would actually get behind proposals like this and actually start diversifying our economy...
The reason: Digital signals create perfect copies that won't degrade. Executives fear they would deliver perfect copies to millions of viewers.
Ummm. I disagree with Mr. Valenti in that I don't think a lot of consumers would really care whether their copy of the movie (be it video tape or digital) is absolutely perfect or not. True I don't know Jack (okay really bad pun:) but frankly I don't see people building giant archives of digital movie and depriving studios of their rental revenues and I don't think he thinks that is going to happen either. I mean the VCR has been around for decades and it hasn't hurt anyone and cutting out the commercials you can get a movie just as good as on cassette. The only possible thing easily facilitated copying of movie s from the TV without commercials might possibly hurt is the movie sales. However in that case most of them are new releases which arn't on TV for a few years anyways and even then they will all be on DVDs by the time this is relevant in which case you have all these special features which cannot be taped on TV.
I'm pretty sure is this is just another (paranoid?) attempt to get a little more control over the media with the hope that you could squeeze a little more cash out of the cnosumer and hopefully one that is destined to fail. I hope it seems as bizarre to the rest of the world as it does to me in that you are losing control your TV and you can't choose what to watch on your own terms. If they continue these shinadigans (okay I know misspelt that) I think the general public might be approaching the point where they starts percieving these so called "prirates" who are copying media and watching region encryped DVDs as Robin Hoods (there seems to have been that perception here for a while). I'm not sure how anxious I am to reach that point but when we finally do (and we are well on course) it will be interesting to see who ends up on top.
Yeah, I'm thinking it's a typo and they meant gigaflop. I'm not sure about Intel and AMD but I know G4's have run at over a gigaflop for a few years, right now they have a peak of 15 (dual processor). So a cheap processor for the console market hitting a gigaflop sounds about right. That would also explain the "supercomputer on a chip," as one of the big things about the G4 was that the 1 gigaflop barrier meant it qualified as a supercomputer (and a military weapon:).
Selling OS X retail is purely for existing apple users. Anyone new won't care that their freinds version has 150 more features, they will get it for the look and feel which is the same as in 10.1.3. All charging less will do is allow a few more 10.1.x users to upgrade.
:) version of windows on it? excluding the whole palladium... and DRM... and EULA's... and okay bad example:) Still i do believe that giving away the OS for free would be very good for apple.
That being said I think it would be a fairly good idea for them to offer all versions of the OS for free. I can see it being a HUGE selling point when you tell someone that if you buy this computer you will always get the latest OS on it. Sure they will lose all their OS X sales revenues but they will sell more hardware which is the bulk of their revenue and will get great PR. Can you imagine how happy most windows users would be if their computer always had the latest and greate... nevermind
Ummmmmm. Did you consider that is is perhaps just due to slow ossilations triggered by the rotation and its orbit (it isn't exactly in a stationary system)? Frankly I cannot imagine how we could of possibly caused something like this, I mean do you realize just how trivial we and our actions are compared to the ENTIRE PLANET!! Also consider that when drilling for oil they put water and steam back into the ground to fill up the gap (other wise we would be seeing a lot of lawsuits when oil wells started collapsing). We have NOTHING to do with the effects/evils of mankind it is just yet another natural phenomenon I don't understand. Besides I don't see a few millimeters here and there translating into the Earth dissolving in a few hundred years:) In fact looking back was your post just a fairly subtle joke on environmental extremists?
Actually WineX is a very good idea for supporting Linux. Even in the rare cases where linux is still on the desktop most people maintain a windows partition for gaming. Something like WoneX will allow them to move over to pure linux. This wil help spread linux, you CAN use all your M$ software still and you get all this all this great other linux stuff, you haev nothing to lose! Furthermore as more people start to use WineX and like products the game manufacturers will start to notice this market share and try to make sure their game doesn't do anything cookey (did I spell that right) that would make it unusable under WineX. As this happens linux becomes more popular and continues to grow in market share until finally companies find they can get an edge by offering native linux games instead of stuff running over a compatibility layer. Now you get you linux games, I very much believe Wine and WineX are one of the best weapons linux has to take the desktop.
I guess I laid my bets right this time, although I had a good tip! Any wagers for round 2 ;)
We can't predict the stockmarket either but there are still a lot of stock brokers who have made a lot of money on the stock market. Control would be an overstatement, manipulate would perhaps be more accurate. Even in North America I recall hearing about insurance companies releasing certain chemicals into clouds to prevent heavy hail. Also note that forest fires can and do have strong effects on weather patterns. Heck we've been inadvertantly affecting the weather since the industrial revolution. The reporter was the one saying control, the fact is that the Chinese have been successfully affecting the weather for some time, read the article if you don't believe me.
4. Dr Podkletnov claims weight can be reduced by 2% (1kg=980g)
I hope that the 1kg=980g was the reporters interpretation and wasn't Dr Podkletnov's doing since that isn't a change in weight, it's a change in mass. A change in weight would be 981 N = 784.8 N.
Microsoft apparently enlisted the American ambassador in Lima to help try and convince the Peruvians to kill the legislation.
I don't think I could put it much more accuratly than that!
By allowing these constant references to "Linux being free like a puppy", and by not responding with incredulity, we're aiding Microsoft.
Well how about,
"Windows being free like a wife"
Does that work?
So if I rob a police station am I only performing civil disobedience :)
Arrest me officer? But I was just making a political statement!!!
Or when other people saw the office with the mouse pad couch did they think it looked like a 3rd-world prison cell as well?
I really like what I've seen so far but there still seem to be a few bugs they need to clear up. For instance that black hole issue is a huge pain but I've heard the latest patch will be lower the gravitational constant to a more resonable value, there was some debate wether to do this or just change the speed of light but they decided the speed of light might just circumvent the problem for a while. However they're now concerned about the even larger disparity between the Nuclear and magnetric forces and gravity and there is also a concern that this may introduce another bug where objects can travel back and forth through time. The development team is still looking at the possibility of the "Rip in the space-time continueum" security issue, they've gotton some reports but they havn't been able to replicate it yet (they think it might be present in some of the alternate universe operating evnironments and say it may be a vendor issue.
More good news on the Universe front is they've finally fixed that Big Crunch bug and hope that in doing so they've also solved the Big Bang issue that caused all those problems may back. However they feel that time the Big Crunch fix may lead to increasing entropy (they are currently querrying MultiVac for solutions on this front).
their inability to find work even when they hold advanced degrees and are skilled in Java or C++, the programming languages most in demand.
What about those foreigners who hold advanced degrees and are skilled in Java or C++ and can't get work because their own countries are poor and lack industry and they arn't allowed to work in the US? They have just as much right to work as anyone else and they and the companies who hire them shouldn't be punished by protectionist policies. This is the same mentality that lead to exorbiant tariffs on BC lumber (causing massive unemployment and immense damage to BC's economy). Protectionism just doesn't work and all the US will do is harm an already hurting tech industry.
From the article,
But that exemption explicitly does not permit a researcher to write and distribute software that decodes the encrypted blacklists. Because Edelman wants to do just that, the ACLU argues, the Library of Congress' decision is insufficient.
Reporter 1: What is .NET?
.NET is. You have to see it for yourself.
.NET is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Gates: No one can tell you what
Reporter 2: But I have sources telling me that
"The Admiistrative Office of RPR/OFV Records Division"
Usually I decide if they misspell "Administrative" it's probably a scam. Come to think of it that would sure explain of a lot of stories on slashdot...
What about the droves of concerned users who call up to see if they have the virus or find out more about the virus,this will be MANY MANY more callers and a lot more phone support than if they said nothing. Also what about the bad reviews they get by those customers who tell their friends who are thinking of buying one how they almost got a really bad virus and they had to go through this inconvenience of calling to make sure they weren't infected (not to mention annoyingly busy tech support lines)? Does it really cost less to put out the warning?
No, no, unless the virus spreads and becomes really big (unlikely considering the small number of suseptible machines) and M$ gets totally trashed by the media for doing nothing (ABC wasn't critical of M$ at all) they DO lose much more money than if they announce to all the users.