"... could life on this planet be descended from alien spores?...Panspermia, the view that the seed of life is diffused throughout the universe, has been favored by a minority of thinkers since the Greek Anaxagoras in the 5th century BC. He, Arrhenius and Fred Hoyle may yet have the laugh on us doubters."
What I don't understand from this theory is how bacteria can survive the reentry pressure and especially heat that is generated! Or does the inside of a big enough asteroid stay cool? I wouldn't think so but does anybody have a definitive answer?
My opinion is that Napster is dead. It is dead not because it is a bad idea, or because we lack the technology, or even because it costs something. No. It is dead because free P2P is still around. And as long as Joe Blow Billie Bob is able to download music and leaves his Gnutella/WinMX/limewire/bearchare/etc (TM) client open and shares-all-his-music-while-using-all-the-bandwith (TM2), napster has no chance to recover it's glory of old.
UNLESS
Some big phat cie (ie AOL Time-Warner Microsoft etc) includes a big link on a portal and gets ol' granpa to subscribe.
The "F" root server, located at the Internet Software Consortium offices in Redwood City, California, is fitted with eight gigabytes of Ram and handles over 272 million domain queries per day.
Sorry, I didn't explain my idea correctly. The prices will go up, you are right, but usually the production will follow and the prices will stabilise then drop. Now all they do is go up, up, up... My error, sorry.
I'm in Quebec and my cable provider is Videotron. The price hasn't moved since at least 2 years : $35 canadian (that's about $22 US). The service is great, unlimited download-upload; 16kB/s upload and I often reach 350kB/s sustained downloads.
Recently, the speeds were dropping and the pings going up. We called up videotron (we have 3 cable modems in the house) and they came in and replaced the whole wiring from the street, putting in a new solo cable for each modem and upping the signal, free of charge. The problem is fixed.
In Sweden, large apartment complexes can get 10 or 100Mbit ethernet (if upwards of 80% of the people want it) for $20US per month. Government subventions.
Why is the US in such a weird situation? I mean, lots of people want the product, the law of demand/offer states that the prices should go DOWN not up!
"Sauvante believes that Intel and other chip-making giants "are essentially jostling around a pie that's getting smaller and smaller, instead of going out to find the game-changing new paradigm. That's what Rolltronics represents.""
This isn't going to change the game. CPUs and other computer chips still need to get smaller and faster. This technology is great, but in the world of power chips, it amounts to nothing!
Relativity and quantum mechanics dump the "classical ides" of space. The problem is that we are thought all our lives to think in those classical bounds. If you look at it from a purely physical, or even purely mathematical point of view, there is nothing classix about the description of space being made. You can't graph the spatial system in any clear way since its more than 3 dimensional...
It has been suggested more than once in the litterature that cosmic rays might actually be linked with the mass repartitionin the universe. Superclusters are aranged in a sponge like maner. Astronomers have and still do wonder how this came to be, since it means either the universe was asymetric in the beginning or somehow became asymetric. Quantum non-locality gives a pretty satisfying answer : As a particle passes in "empty" space, it accelerates. how? well empty space isn't exactly empty, rather it's a swarming soup of particle anti-particle pairs being created and destroyed. The theory goes to say that the particle, over a long period of time, gets accelerated by the absorbtion of these half-photons being created and destroyed. The particles accelerate until they are slowed down by a gravitational field and thus matter conglomerates and empty space gets emptier. Those particles arrive at extremely high speeds and are thought to be the cause for cosmic rays.
I have a 22 inch samsung (not france) CRT monitor. Apart from the fact that the first one failed miserably and Samsung replaced it without a glitch, it works perfectly. Not one burned pixel, perfect color and contrast, 2048*1536 32 bit at 85hz and no distortion. I have seen quite a few LCD monitors, and I AM NOT switching. The difference is just to great. Anything below or equal to 72 hz gives me a headache and I can clearly see it. I wonder how people can work with a 40hz maximum refresh rate and a resolution that is at best 1600*1200 9but for that you have to go in the 18 inch or above LCD and it costs 5000$).02
The problem isn't going to be solved by suing spammers. why? Well,
because spammers are spread out around the globe Because spammers highjack networks to send out their bulk mail Because a lot of spammers aren't even legit cies Because it is too easy to spam from a bogus account, or for that matter from pretty much any email account using a bot that anybody can write.
All in all, spamming is as controllable as peer-to-peer, as long as people really want to spam, there's not much you can do against it. As long as there's money to make, people that don't have money will be tempted, and unfortunatly a lot of those people are in countries in which there is little or no legislation (not that's it's better in more developped countries)...
the bandwith is all used up. About one out of 10 hotline server out there is run from a US university. Those servers pull about 10 users each, downloading at 50k/s and upping at 50k/s each. And that's just hotline!
The bandwith problem will never be resolved. The bandwith allocated is going to be saturated so maybe they should introduce a paying system instead of whinning. If you top 5 gig download a week, pay for your banwith. Hitting students where it hurts more - the wallet - maybe the only viable solution.
Well at the time Unreal Tournament was released I had just bought a 500 mhz athlon with 256 megs of ram and a tnt ultra 32mb card. that was really hightech back then and the framerate i got was about 50 in 1024*768 32bits. I expect about the same to be true on the top hardware in 2048*1536 32bits when unreal tournament 2 comes out . It'll run on crappy machines, but in 800*600 16 bit. The crappy machine will be the machine that was state of the art when I bought it, that 500mhz athlon.
We have been able to control individual atoms for a little while now, and this opens up a wide range of interesting domains. The basic principle came from research on the Snell microscope. Electrons have a non nul probability of existing outside of their electronic shell. They have an associated waveform that is made up of a whole number of cycles (1,2,3...) on a given electronic shell. The tunelling microscope detects electrons (with the help of a very thin piece of material positionned above a surface) that "exist" out of their orbit because they are a waveform. This creates a very small displacment of the tip due to magnetic forces, which is then detected by a doppler shift in a laser bouncing on the tip.
The next step is to reverse the process : move the atoms with the help of a very small tip. This allows for the creation of practically anything. From microscopic valves to pistons, to electrical switches and transistors. The most recent techniques use an etching similar to the one used in making CPUs to build these nano circuits and pieces. The precision achieved is fabulous! People are working on ways to deliver medicine to specific areas of the body or make ultra high quality lubricants with these techniques. By having precise release mechanisms and guiding the nanorobots with a magnetic field, it is possible to release medicine on a cancer tumor, instead of everywhere in the body.
The storage mechanisms works on similar grounds, providing a way to move matter in smaller and smaller increments, and due to the nature of the forces involved, in a very precise way too.
I've always wanted to get an OC192... of Jolt! lets pass an electric current through that nectar and still be able to tap the pipe for the precious stuff;P
"Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., questioned whether the settlement, which he called "an invitation to further litigation, might have "a few too many loopholes."
At lest one of them got it right. As long as it is monolithic and full of $$$, Microsoft won't change much.
It's not a couple of supervisors that are going to change their business practice. It just looks good and they are excellent at making things look good so everybody will fall for it.
I just bought a Samsung 22 inch true flat wonder and a klipsch Promedia 5.1 and I have to say that my computer is still in my room. and I am a student. Could have bought a car, but what fun is that?;-)
Seriously, I think that as prices come down, people will tend to converge everything in one box : the computer. Looking forward to those 50 inch affordable plasma screens...:P
who thinks that portals suck? What kind of experienced user uses a portal? I'm just curious as wether somebody can enlighten me on this.
I'd think experienced users know what they are doing, meaning they go directly to the most relevant specialised site that gives them the info they are looking for at that point in time. Personally, google is my choice. Fast, reliable, popup and ad free, and it contains a link to absolutly everything I could want (or almost)...
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on why anybody experienced should use a portal.
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What I don't understand from this theory is how bacteria can survive the reentry pressure and especially heat that is generated! Or does the inside of a big enough asteroid stay cool? I wouldn't think so but does anybody have a definitive answer?
My opinion is that Napster is dead. It is dead not because it is a bad idea, or because we lack the technology, or even because it costs something. No. It is dead because free P2P is still around. And as long as Joe Blow Billie Bob is able to download music and leaves his Gnutella/WinMX/limewire/bearchare/etc (TM) client open and shares-all-his-music-while-using-all-the-bandwith (TM2), napster has no chance to recover it's glory of old.
UNLESS
Some big phat cie (ie AOL Time-Warner Microsoft etc) includes a big link on a portal and gets ol' granpa to subscribe.
F.root-servers.net and I'm serious, check it!
very well, the address is F.root-servers.net and I'm serious, check it!
The "F" root server, located at the Internet Software Consortium offices in Redwood City, California, is fitted with eight gigabytes of Ram and handles over 272 million domain queries per day.
I challenge us to slashdot it!
Sorry, I didn't explain my idea correctly. The prices will go up, you are right, but usually the production will follow and the prices will stabilise then drop. Now all they do is go up, up, up... My error, sorry.
I'm in Quebec and my cable provider is Videotron. The price hasn't moved since at least 2 years : $35 canadian (that's about $22 US). The service is great, unlimited download-upload; 16kB/s upload and I often reach 350kB/s sustained downloads.
Recently, the speeds were dropping and the pings going up. We called up videotron (we have 3 cable modems in the house) and they came in and replaced the whole wiring from the street, putting in a new solo cable for each modem and upping the signal, free of charge. The problem is fixed.
In Sweden, large apartment complexes can get 10 or 100Mbit ethernet (if upwards of 80% of the people want it) for $20US per month. Government subventions.
Why is the US in such a weird situation? I mean, lots of people want the product, the law of demand/offer states that the prices should go DOWN not up!
"Sauvante believes that Intel and other chip-making giants "are essentially jostling around a pie that's getting smaller and smaller, instead of going out to find the game-changing new paradigm. That's what Rolltronics represents.""
This isn't going to change the game. CPUs and other computer chips still need to get smaller and faster. This technology is great, but in the world of power chips, it amounts to nothing!
Imdb also advertises the release of the sequel to Tron, Tron 2.0. Hope it's not a flop
Relativity and quantum mechanics dump the "classical ides" of space. The problem is that we are thought all our lives to think in those classical bounds. If you look at it from a purely physical, or even purely mathematical point of view, there is nothing classix about the description of space being made. You can't graph the spatial system in any clear way since its more than 3 dimensional...
It has been suggested more than once in the litterature that cosmic rays might actually be linked with the mass repartitionin the universe. Superclusters are aranged in a sponge like maner. Astronomers have and still do wonder how this came to be, since it means either the universe was asymetric in the beginning or somehow became asymetric. Quantum non-locality gives a pretty satisfying answer : As a particle passes in "empty" space, it accelerates. how? well empty space isn't exactly empty, rather it's a swarming soup of particle anti-particle pairs being created and destroyed. The theory goes to say that the particle, over a long period of time, gets accelerated by the absorbtion of these half-photons being created and destroyed. The particles accelerate until they are slowed down by a gravitational field and thus matter conglomerates and empty space gets emptier. Those particles arrive at extremely high speeds and are thought to be the cause for cosmic rays.
Well I'm up in Canada and the canadian $ is 1.6 canadian to 1 american $.
I have a 22 inch samsung (not france) CRT monitor. Apart from the fact that the first one failed miserably and Samsung replaced it without a glitch, it works perfectly. Not one burned pixel, perfect color and contrast, 2048*1536 32 bit at 85hz and no distortion. I have seen quite a few LCD monitors, and I AM NOT switching. The difference is just to great. Anything below or equal to 72 hz gives me a headache and I can clearly see it. I wonder how people can work with a 40hz maximum refresh rate and a resolution that is at best 1600*1200 9but for that you have to go in the 18 inch or above LCD and it costs 5000$) .02
The problem isn't going to be solved by suing spammers. why? Well,
because spammers are spread out around the globe
Because spammers highjack networks to send out their bulk mail
Because a lot of spammers aren't even legit cies
Because it is too easy to spam from a bogus account, or for that matter from pretty much any email account using a bot that anybody can write.
All in all, spamming is as controllable as peer-to-peer, as long as people really want to spam, there's not much you can do against it. As long as there's money to make, people that don't have money will be tempted, and unfortunatly a lot of those people are in countries in which there is little or no legislation (not that's it's better in more developped countries)...
the bandwith is all used up. About one out of 10 hotline server out there is run from a US university. Those servers pull about 10 users each, downloading at 50k/s and upping at 50k/s each. And that's just hotline!
The bandwith problem will never be resolved. The bandwith allocated is going to be saturated so maybe they should introduce a paying system instead of whinning. If you top 5 gig download a week, pay for your banwith. Hitting students where it hurts more - the wallet - maybe the only viable solution.
Well at the time Unreal Tournament was released I had just bought a 500 mhz athlon with 256 megs of ram and a tnt ultra 32mb card. that was really hightech back then and the framerate i got was about 50 in 1024*768 32bits. I expect about the same to be true on the top hardware in 2048*1536 32bits when unreal tournament 2 comes out . It'll run on crappy machines, but in 800*600 16 bit. The crappy machine will be the machine that was state of the art when I bought it, that 500mhz athlon.
We have been able to control individual atoms for a little while now, and this opens up a wide range of interesting domains. The basic principle came from research on the Snell microscope. Electrons have a non nul probability of existing outside of their electronic shell. They have an associated waveform that is made up of a whole number of cycles (1,2,3...) on a given electronic shell. The tunelling microscope detects electrons (with the help of a very thin piece of material positionned above a surface) that "exist" out of their orbit because they are a waveform. This creates a very small displacment of the tip due to magnetic forces, which is then detected by a doppler shift in a laser bouncing on the tip.
The next step is to reverse the process : move the atoms with the help of a very small tip. This allows for the creation of practically anything. From microscopic valves to pistons, to electrical switches and transistors. The most recent techniques use an etching similar to the one used in making CPUs to build these nano circuits and pieces. The precision achieved is fabulous! People are working on ways to deliver medicine to specific areas of the body or make ultra high quality lubricants with these techniques. By having precise release mechanisms and guiding the nanorobots with a magnetic field, it is possible to release medicine on a cancer tumor, instead of everywhere in the body.
The storage mechanisms works on similar grounds, providing a way to move matter in smaller and smaller increments, and due to the nature of the forces involved, in a very precise way too.
can be found here. This dates from spring 2001 and describes the possible linkage between the algae and modern plants, based on fossil similarities.
;-)
Guess the genetics are just confirming an older theory. Now if they could only find the missing link between men and geeks...
I'll just send 'em my kung-fu collection! for those times when you are just lacking the inspiration :P
Does anybody have any figures? how much bandwith is used up during a worm attack such as nimbda?
I've always wanted to get an OC192... of Jolt! lets pass an electric current through that nectar and still be able to tap the pipe for the precious stuff ;P
can be found here and here
"Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., questioned whether the settlement, which he called "an invitation to further litigation, might have "a few too many loopholes."
At lest one of them got it right. As long as it is monolithic and full of $$$, Microsoft won't change much.
It's not a couple of supervisors that are going to change their business practice. It just looks good and they are excellent at making things look good so everybody will fall for it.
I just bought a Samsung 22 inch true flat wonder and a klipsch Promedia 5.1 and I have to say that my computer is still in my room. and I am a student. Could have bought a car, but what fun is that? ;-)
Seriously, I think that as prices come down, people will tend to converge everything in one box : the computer. Looking forward to those 50 inch affordable plasma screens... :P
who thinks that portals suck? What kind of experienced user uses a portal? I'm just curious as wether somebody can enlighten me on this. I'd think experienced users know what they are doing, meaning they go directly to the most relevant specialised site that gives them the info they are looking for at that point in time. Personally, google is my choice. Fast, reliable, popup and ad free, and it contains a link to absolutly everything I could want (or almost)... I'm interested to hear your thoughts on why anybody experienced should use a portal.