What's more interesting is if you take the first letters of each word in their mission statement and parse them correctly, you get 'UPC is a cat' followed by a list of acronyms for all sorts of shadowy secret organizations and technologies...
upc is a cat dto ados dod in a pta wd cfs mco io tea ia de UA foa i cad tst oa
Sadly Nuts and Volts is dumbed down compared to the old Radio-Electronics mags. I let my subscription expire after only a year because it became too repetitive. Too much stuff about how to make LED's blink and the like. I don't think there is a good general electronics hobby mag anymore.
I hope local TV stays. I am on the verge of ditching the huge sewage pipe AKA Verizon FIOS and just go with local digital TV, internet options, and maybe re-activate my C-Band Sat system. Verizon FIOS has a zillion channels of which almost all of it is garbage programming and the rest is near un-watchable due to 5 minute+ commercials.
Corporations are not human, they have no intelligence, they aren't even alive in any meaningful sense. If companies could ditch the actual end consumer entirely, they would.
Seems like most of the web pages now are written to snare search engines more that to attract readers. For a good example, check out this SEO patheticized home page www.spawb.com, first with flash turned on, then with flash turned off.
I can confirm this too. On Network Solutions hosting. It hit the index.html in the root directory and index.shtml in my awstats directory. I replaced the index.html and it hit it again within 30 minutes. I then disabled all the.htpasswd's, and moved the awstats and vti_pvr dirs. It hasn't come back yet. It was easy to detect, viewing source with firefox showed the problem. It would insert a long script after the <body> tag that started like this...
Sorry, I did mean 100W equivalent. I only was loaned the LED bulb for one night so I didn't get to measure the power. However, I did compare it to both a CFL and an incandescent floodlight. The color was dead on with the incandescent, and better than the CFL. It was brighter than both the CFL and the incandescent. All the bulbs claimed a warm room color temperature (3800C ?). The LED lamp was unmarked and no information was volunteered as to the source or the price. The LED lamp apparently had one yellow looking emitter inside the glass envelope. After leaving the LED on for more than an hour I could feel no temp rise on the bulb itself and very little around the base. I suspect there will be a huge power savings not just from the LED bulb, but also from the AC not having to remove heat generated by incandescent bulbs in the summer time. This wasn't your typical Home Depot LED lamp.
Just wait until LED light bulbs start hitting the fan. Watch the coal lobbiests and their pet politicians scramble then. I was recently allowed to try some 100W LED floodlights that were indistinguishable from the incandescent version, except no heat and a lot less power.
If they have really found neutralinos then wouldn't that would mean supersymmetry is confirmed? It that case it is a whole new ballgame in particle physics. There are blogs out there that are saying that CERN is about to announce something big too.
This treaty shows that the USA still has the best lawyers, legislators, and corporations in the world. Everyone else needs to jump on the USA bandwagon and support this treaty. You all should be thankful that the USA, MPAA, RIAA, Sony, Disney, and the other sponsors of this treaty are looking out for you. Large corporations need to protect their rightful customary income streams so that everyone can enjoy all the benefits of corporate oversight of your lives. So quit whining.
I'm sure the methane based party animals on Titan also point to Earth and oooh and aaah about how solid H2O actually melts, vaporizes, and falls from the sky as rain, hail, and snow under the tremendous heat we have here.
Maybe it's just me, but one thing I've noticed is that new programmers tend to use very elaborate and extensive logging code with logging calls that take a zillion parameters like log level, error type, error code, short message, long message, so-one and so-on. The experienced programmers seem to use something like fprintf(stderr," log message... . That combined with maybe a few compile time macros. Of course the their code may just need less logging anyway.
Not quite the same as the article but close. Thought about this some time ago. Before some gomer patent troll patents this, here is the general idea in kit form to get it in the public domain.
Take a board video camera and remove the lens assembly to expose the imaging surface on the chip. Assume your specimen is on a standard microscope slide with a cover glass. Turn slide over and place cover glass in contact with imaging surface on CCD chip. Shine light thru the microscope slide and view image on video monitor. Can do this with all sorts of specimen containers, even tiny aquariums containing live pond water samples.
Now here is the really cool part. If you replace the light with an array of LED's and control them with software while capturing the video frames, you can reconstruct 3D images of whatever is on the slide.
Though most policemen are good people, I've heard stories of various 'Rambos' and other scummy types in police departments that would give the Zimbabwe PD a good run for the money. Most of these abuses are not reported by other cops because of guaranteed retribution. We need the anonymous blogs to get this crap in the open and dealt with. This case needs to be unsealed (public office after-all) and dealt with fairly.
Here's another thought. The Russian have some huge heavy lift rockets that are tested and reliable. Use the Russian rockets to do the heavy lifting and concentrate on developing the manned equipment. Actually if you tell the Ares V contractors this is the plan then they may just find a way to get things done on time and on schedule for a change.
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North Korea deployed robots a long time ago. They are called North Koreans.
What's more interesting is if you take the first letters of each word in their mission statement and parse them correctly, you get 'UPC is a cat' followed by a list of acronyms for all sorts of shadowy secret organizations and technologies...
upc is a cat dto ados dod in a pta wd cfs mco io tea ia de UA foa i cad tst oa
Sadly Nuts and Volts is dumbed down compared to the old Radio-Electronics mags. I let my subscription expire after only a year because it became too repetitive. Too much stuff about how to make LED's blink and the like. I don't think there is a good general electronics hobby mag anymore.
and the event horizon should just disappear due to Hawking_radiation and Black_hole_evaporation leaving a naked singularity.
I hope local TV stays. I am on the verge of ditching the huge sewage pipe AKA Verizon FIOS and just go with local digital TV, internet options, and maybe re-activate my C-Band Sat system. Verizon FIOS has a zillion channels of which almost all of it is garbage programming and the rest is near un-watchable due to 5 minute+ commercials.
Corporations are not human, they have no intelligence, they aren't even alive in any meaningful sense. If companies could ditch the actual end consumer entirely, they would.
This is very well said and so true.
Seems like most of the web pages now are written to snare search engines more that to attract readers. For a good example, check out this SEO patheticized home page www.spawb.com, first with flash turned on, then with flash turned off.
I figured he would have took credit for creating fusion when that new star appeared when his son was born.
I can confirm this too. On Network Solutions hosting. It hit the index.html in the root directory and index.shtml in my awstats directory. I replaced the index.html and it hit it again within 30 minutes. I then disabled all the .htpasswd's, and moved the awstats and vti_pvr dirs. It hasn't come back yet. It was easy to detect, viewing source with firefox showed the problem. It would insert a long script after the <body> tag that started like this...
var EP="476f4365785d43595a08496d697a667
> What tools do you use that spice up your scripts on the Linux or Unix platforms?
sh -x
Can I am assume you are a software engineer?
Sorry, I did mean 100W equivalent. I only was loaned the LED bulb for one night so I didn't get to measure the power. However, I did compare it to both a CFL and an incandescent floodlight. The color was dead on with the incandescent, and better than the CFL. It was brighter than both the CFL and the incandescent. All the bulbs claimed a warm room color temperature (3800C ?). The LED lamp was unmarked and no information was volunteered as to the source or the price. The LED lamp apparently had one yellow looking emitter inside the glass envelope. After leaving the LED on for more than an hour I could feel no temp rise on the bulb itself and very little around the base. I suspect there will be a huge power savings not just from the LED bulb, but also from the AC not having to remove heat generated by incandescent bulbs in the summer time. This wasn't your typical Home Depot LED lamp.
Just wait until LED light bulbs start hitting the fan. Watch the coal lobbiests and their pet politicians scramble then. I was recently allowed to try some 100W LED floodlights that were indistinguishable from the incandescent version, except no heat and a lot less power.
I got my entropy up to 14+ by becoming a Mozilla/4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC).
Kind of goes along with the huge valuation given to IP assets for US companies compared to their real assets.
If they have really found neutralinos then wouldn't that would mean supersymmetry is confirmed? It that case it is a whole new ballgame in particle physics. There are blogs out there that are saying that CERN is about to announce something big too.
This treaty shows that the USA still has the best lawyers, legislators, and corporations in the world. Everyone else needs to jump on the USA bandwagon and support this treaty. You all should be thankful that the USA, MPAA, RIAA, Sony, Disney, and the other sponsors of this treaty are looking out for you. Large corporations need to protect their rightful customary income streams so that everyone can enjoy all the benefits of corporate oversight of your lives. So quit whining.
I'm sure the methane based party animals on Titan also point to Earth and oooh and aaah about how solid H2O actually melts, vaporizes, and falls from the sky as rain, hail, and snow under the tremendous heat we have here.
>Currently the researchers are "trying to figure out a way to dynamically encode a message on the fly in >the field without specialized equipment."
What about semaphore flags, signal lanterns, smoke signals, mirrors, shouting real loud etc?
And don't forget to 'ulimit -c 0' to increase efficiency beforehand.
Maybe it's just me, but one thing I've noticed is that new programmers tend to use very elaborate and extensive logging code with logging calls that take a zillion parameters like log level, error type, error code, short message, long message, so-one and so-on. The experienced programmers seem to use something like fprintf(stderr," log message... . That combined with maybe a few compile time macros. Of course the their code may just need less logging anyway.
Not quite the same as the article but close. Thought about this some time ago. Before some gomer patent troll patents this, here is the general idea in kit form to get it in the public domain.
Take a board video camera and remove the lens assembly to expose the imaging surface on the chip. Assume your specimen is on a standard microscope slide with a cover glass. Turn slide over and place cover glass in contact with imaging surface on CCD chip. Shine light thru the microscope slide and view image on video monitor. Can do this with all sorts of specimen containers, even tiny aquariums containing live pond water samples.
Now here is the really cool part. If you replace the light with an array of LED's and control them with software while capturing the video frames, you can reconstruct 3D images of whatever is on the slide.
Eat that patent trolls!
Though most policemen are good people, I've heard stories of various 'Rambos' and other scummy types in police departments that would give the Zimbabwe PD a good run for the money. Most of these abuses are not reported by other cops because of guaranteed retribution. We need the anonymous blogs to get this crap in the open and dealt with. This case needs to be unsealed (public office after-all) and dealt with fairly.
GM should do what they already do for old rich oilmen in Texas. Grind the windshields to prescription so they don't have to wear their eyeglasses.
Here's another thought. The Russian have some huge heavy lift rockets that are tested and reliable. Use the Russian rockets to do the heavy lifting and concentrate on developing the manned equipment. Actually if you tell the Ares V contractors this is the plan then they may just find a way to get things done on time and on schedule for a change.