...you'll only get ozone around high voltage equipment (where there is corona discharge) or where circuits are being opened and closed.
All electric motors produce ozone. All wires that carry varying currents will produce ozone, as ozone is produced be electrical current (any moving magnetic field) in the presence of gaseous oxygen.
I've learned a lot of detail in this discussion, but nothing that daunts my pursuing the answer to my IF proposition, as you quoted above. To me, if the total amount of ozone in the earth's atmosphere (high or low) is more stable than any of the partial sources, that tends to indicate there is some other process going on.
In the same way that the total number of suicides and homicides (added together) make the US and other nations of the world nearly equal, although Hungary has many more suicides than average and the US has more homicides.
I guess the natural sciences are different than the "hard" sciences.
Cause and effect are not the only operatives in nature.
Wow! I ususally don't reply to followups, but I HAVE to ask you some questions.
Are you certain there is no connection between ozone and the earth;s magnetic field?
Are you certain there is no connection between the loss of ozone in the upper atmosphere and the increase at ground level (due to human activity?)
And you are incorrect about the constituency of ozone: Ozone, according to my understanding, IS dissociated oxygen -- that is, an unbonded, single oxygen atom instead of a pair forming a molecule.
Since you asked (I don't usually reply to follow-ups) I am an FCC First-Class Radio and Television engineer. I started in 1969 and continued until 1982, when I began writing fulltime. I left the field because I was being asked to falsify data to the FCC.
I agree no one but me has suggested a relationship between ground-level ozone and upper-atmosphere ozone. But a fixed earth mag field would produce (was produced by?) a fixed amount of ozone. It is a reasonable possibility, I think, until disproven. Think about it: there is less and less upeer ozone and more and more lower.
Yes, the researchers are trying hard; I am not trying to insult them (or you) it's just no one seems to see the larger view that the earth is a living system and ozone is its breath (metaphor).
I got my news about the weakening magnetic field from the BBC natural science pages. However, a search of the site has produced nothing.
I sent a friend an email about this subject with a link to a BBC article; it's on a Knoppix partition right now, though, and I'm on my new SuSE installation, so it will be some hours till I MIGHT be able to get the link to the reversed field in the ozone hole off New Zealand.
Here, though, are some other links to support my thesis and informtation.
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/FAQs2.ht ml http://www.theozonehole.com/magnetic.htm http:/ /www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=11632
In the article, it is reported that the earth's magnetic field has been measured to have decreased by ten per cent in 150 years; other articles (from BBC, f'rexample) announced other scientists using tree-sections, have determined the field's strength-loss began about three hundred years ago, and now totals about fifteen per cent decrease.
There also have been reports that the earth's magnetic field within the Ozone Hole has already reversed.
This information does not fit with the nuclear-generator theory, but fits better with the destruction of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
As an FCC-licensed radio/TV engineer, I know that ozone is always produced with electrical current. The article quotes (I paraphrase) an "expert" who says motion, magnetism and electricity are a trinity: where two are found, the other will be too. He should have included ozone and made it a quadernity as this is also true of ozone.
During lighting strikes to earth, ozone first rises from the ground to the cloud, and only then is a conductive path to earth made, enabling the lighting strike.
Also, IF it is true, as contended by many scientists, that the ozone hole is related to the increase in ground ozone caused by human activity (electrical production and photochemical smog, largely) then it MIGHT be that there is only a finite amount of ozone that can be produced (or supported) by the earth's magnetic field, and humanity may fairly be seen as the cause.
But I doubt this is true, as the records in the trees show the magnetic field having begun its decrease three hundred years ago -- before Watt and the industrial revolution.
In any case, this is not an easy study as information is scanty and largely the reserve of specialists rather than the generalists who seem to be the only ones with a large enough world-view (weltenshauung, in German) to grasp the problem and explain it to us.
And I doubt strongly that the subjects of the article have any real klew as to what is happening -- not to say I do.
Perhaps...but mebbe that claim is a wee bit disingenuous.
I have worked in photography for several decades, back before Tri-X was developed, before Kodacolor.
There is a standard resolution used to calculate depth-of-field (hyperfocal distance) called the "circle of confusion" in optics, which refers to the human eye's supposed inability to discern features finer than.002 in. This assumption is most definately NOT supported by the better optics providers -- Leitz, Zeiss (for the Hasselblad) and a few others (not Canon, to my knowledge) use circles of confusion for their optical designs of at most (my estimate from experience).0008 inches. This is different than depth-of-field, but related to it.
I have an HP laser printer that can "do" 1200 dpi, which looks smooth to my eye, where 600 dpi doesn't. So, to print a 16 MB image at 1200 dpi, the result would be on the order of 3 inches by four.
Any "enlargement" above this would mean either using "interpolation" (which reduces resolution, or texture), or adding noise and/or distortion/pixelation.
This is not professional or commercial 35-mm quality yet. But it is quite acceptable for most color snaphot amateurs who are used to "shooting" on low or medium-quality amateur 35s and getting 4x6es back from Walgreens, rather than those who process and enlarge our own film or who shoot for reproduction in another medium, like the printing press.
All that resolution, however, is wasted if the image is destined to be displayed on a website, where the loading time of such big images might be unmagageable even on a DSL or cable connection.
So it is a perfect high-end amateur device.
And it is a big step in the right direction!
Go, Canon! Go Nikon! Go Asahi, Fuji and Kodak! Go competition!
Just, please, tone down the rhetoric in the marketing, please.
If so, build your own luggable case from a convenient toolbox, cabinet or whatever and use a multiprocessor outfit of either brand.
This will be the fastest solution for i86 and should outperform a single 3500 Intel or Opteron by a considerable amount on 32-bit apps -- about a fifty-to eighty per cent increase can be expected from a 2-processor system. Tyan makes some interesting, relatively inexpensive SMP mobos, check them out http://www.tyan.com
If you must use standard off-the-shelf cases and such, then you must deduct the extra money the ITX case and mobo costs from a 2-CPU array outlined above.
Both had proportional fonts. The sample PDF from CBS looks more like the Executive from 1964-5 as used IN THE MILITARY. The Selectric was the ball-using model and had a lighter touch on the paper.
It was not uncommon for Officers to use Selectrics or Executives obtained through normal supply channels while NCO company clerks and reporters like me pounded on manuals, with no proportional spacing.
I wish these Republican spreaders of FUD would make it more believable -- at least lift it to the level of the crap that came out of SCO recently.
are you suggesting that IQ below 135 is supposed to be very bad?
I am suggesting that only ten per cent of scientists are bright enough to understand the generalities of their disciplines (rather than the specifics on which they are working drone-like) and its connection to the rest of the world.
Agnew was smart enough to figure out how to take cash bribes in the Vice President's White House office.
The teacher was teaching TV-transmitter theory and practice -- not simple electricity.
The point I was trying to make was Pons and Fleishman's work was reviewed by "peers" who were bound to their ignorance (and probably inhabited the ninety per cent) rather than open to following the (admittedly sketchy and unscientific) announcement of the discovery fifteen years ago and trying to replicate it.
There is quite a difference between setting out to disprove "cold fusion" and replicating its proponents' methods and principles calmly and patiently.
Science acts like it is a closed system where everything we need to know is already known, when, indeed, it is an open system where some fraction of its "knowledge" will be proved wrong in future.
For a decent explanation of this, see http://www.active-stream.com/Story/KazanisSci.shtm l
Since "Cold Fusion" may have national defense applications, I would not be surprised if the early reports discounting its truth might have sprung from a government agency intent to keep such a principle secret -- or to discredit it enough so other governments won't believe it.
In any case, science marches on -- one step back and two steps ahead.
Pons and Fleishman told of trying an experiment in a portable cooler; when no positive results were immediately apparent, the cooler was put into a closet and forgotten about for years -- until there was a fire which the arson investigators deduced started in the closet, in the cooler....
Pons and Fleishman were clear (to me) in saying the "apparatus" had to spend years "charging." Their words.
Right after their announcement, a Palo Alto, CA laboratory charged with trying to replicate their experiment used the same brand cooler and put it in a closet for years.... Students graduated, professors retired or moved on, and suddenly, there was a fire in the lab, which investigators reported started in a closet....
(This based on contemporary news reports carried in the SF CHronicle.)
I doubt the PA replication experiment was designed to start a fire inadvertently, but that appears to be what happened.
Pons and Fleishman's explanation of their apparatus was MORE accurate than most of the doubters realized or even accepted.
It appears to me (an interested amateur) that the battery uses time to somehow attract a Deuterium atom to each palladium atom, at which time, according to the article, energy amplification ("cold fusion") occurs 100 per cent of the time.
The electric motor/generator part is listed as becoming available in the fall/winter of 2004. This makes it vaporware, as far as I'm concerned.
Now give me a hand while I try to keep my tinfoil hat on while installing this little fan under my carburetor that will supermix the gas, giving me 25 per cent more power....
Thanks for the information. I know about Fedora, but I am on a dialup connection, so downloading the three CD-ROMS is out of the question. I have d/led but not yet installed Lorma, Fedora with Multimedia and kernel realtime patches on once CD-ROM, and I know about CCRM for RH-9 and Fedora Multimedia files should I need them.
Frankly, I find apt painful on dialup (I tried a harddisk install of Knoppix, but for various reasons knoppix will not install the apps I need from apt repositories because of library inconsistencies between Knoppix and Debian.) So yum will be, I suspect, no better on 56k -- assuming the apps I want are in the freshrpm or other repository. Some are, most are not (I checked.)
I am used to rpm. Unlike others, I like it in concert with rpmfind.net, as I can get an idea of how many hours of dependencies will be required over 56k telepohone lines.
I currently plan to install SuSE (KDE is the default) from a Linux Magazine CD and if its MM performance isn't up to snuff, to use Lorma (fedora core.)
BTW, At first I thought it was strange I didn't notice the Knoppix I use every day was *cured* of its slow keyboard. I guess we don't miss annoyances until they reappear. Like when I (rarely) boot back into Windows....
I have been using Knoppix off the CD-ROM for a while, while I looked in vain for a popular, non-KDE-needing distribution which can play multimedia files (not RH-9 or Fedora.) I just checked the version I'm running now (3.2) and its behavior is fine. The Knoppix release previous to this, however, was as I described.
Knoppix does not include the keyboard rate slider as part of KDE in 3.2 (KDE 3.1.2.) -- or I can't find where they moved it to!
IIRC, everything was fine with RH-6.2 UNTIL I set the KDE keyboard rate. FRom that time on, I got 10.9/sec. as described in my previous post. The same was true when I updated KDE 1.1 to 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.1 in that distro, and for Knoppix 3.1. Strangely, it took complete uninstallation of all KDE components to restore the fast keyboard rate I set in the BIOS.
It's fixed now, it appears. Thanks for the reply -- I have avoided installing Knoppix or SuSE to hd partly because of a bug that no longer exits!
BTW: The Knoppix I use sets the default kbdrate to 33.3/sec. -- faster than I could set it manually!
And, yes, I reported this behavior while I was using Caldera 1.3/KDE 1.0 and got a bot reply saying my bug report was received -- nothing more.
Will KDE still clobber any keyboard repeat rate higher than 10.9 per second, like other KDEs I have used (1.x, 2.x, 3.1 on Caldera, TurboLinux, RedHat and Knoppix) do?
Even if I put a faster rate in.bashrc, if I open a terminal (or even a non-KDE editor!) I have 10.9 cps. again.
It makes the whole OS seem slow.
It p*sses me off so much I have de-installed KDE on all but Knoppix (!) to get my fast keyboard response back -- and Knoppix' KDE survives only because one cannot uninstall KDE in Knoppix.
"The basis for the feelings that "everyone is just like me" and "I am just like everyone else" is called empathy and is a fondamental part of human nature."
Um, in a most polite way, no. Empathy is a different beast. It is not generalized, it is specific. "If I were that person, how would I feel?" is an empathetic question. It is an escape when it becomes "That person must feel just like me -- anyone would!" or even "I would feel just like that person does -- whatever that feeling may be -- anyone would."
The reality we are "escaping" from appears to be that each of us is unique in a unique world of our own perceptions. That may seem obvious, but it is often ignored.
Socrates was, I think and believe, wrong when he "reasoned that his fellow Greeks were humans like himself. They were unique Greeks, each unlike him. That was exactly my point.
It is historically generally recognized that Socrates rationalized his teaching by claiming that "each man would do the right if he only knew it" and reason, he taught, was the tool with which to determine the right.
I dunno whether my namesake is Ziggy's daughter or granddaugther, and since neither of us cares, f'sck it...
The original post was about Microsot's marketing, and my comment was about the prevalence of lawyers in societies that allow deceptive marketing.
With due respect, I believe ypou make the same error here as Socrates did in estimating the characters of himself and others -- namely projection.
Socrates was known for believing that everyone would do the right if s/he only knew what it was.
As Anna Freud pointed out, the two major escapes from reality are projection (everyone is just like me) and identification (I am just like everyone else.)
The truth is, for every ten youths who see Star Wars, at least one will want to be Darth Vader and do as much evil as possible.
And several others will not care a whit either way.
I suspect the more of these types a society has, the more lawyers it needs.
I was born with a (minor) case of scoliosis, so my back is VERY sensitive. Here's what I found --
1. Back problems (aches) due to fatigue are helped most by strengthening the abdominal muscles, which are what keeps the back aligned.
2. A straight back chair is best, but only if you put your feet FLAT on the floor. Otherwise, they are a pain (literally.)
3. Soft padding is a no-no. Maybe gel is good, I haven't tried it.
4. The backrest and seat should be adjustable for angle and height/reach. Change positions often.
5. I made my own perfect-for-me seat from a wrecked Thunderbird with the inflatable seatback option. I took the passenger seat (it was less worn) to a welding shop and had some straight pieces added for legs. It is adjustable, inflatable, durable, comfortable and cheap.
6. But most of the time, I compute on a yoga mat on the floor with the keyboard in my lap. Half Lotus works for me.
1. No one signs the same exact way twice. That's how some forgers get caught -- copying TOO exactly.
2. We have all developed habits. Although your signatures may look different from each other, the pressure patterns are usually identical. Forgery detectors use magnifying glasses to detect dicontinuities in the letters or words, indicating a lifting of the pen for a glance at the original being copied. Most people do not lift and replace the pen on the paper while signing their own name.
3. Some forgers use the trick of holding the signature being copied UPSIDE-DOWN so they can "draw it" instead of writing it. That way they avoid the traps of their own habits showing to an investigator. They are usually the good ones who escape being caught. This technique woiuld easily show that the signature was drawn upside down and last letter first, and they will be caught.
4. The harder the signature is to read, the EASIER it is to forge. My own signature is perfect Victorian calligraphy done with a chisel-point felt-tip or fountain pen. Let them copy THAT!
5. Most organizations never check signatures until there is a anamoly. By then, the pro forger is long gone.
6. Pro forgers will defeat these machines by practicing their marks' signatures until they are perfected.
As they always have.
...is like MS buying Debian
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Craigslist has/had its problems but it has become an institution here in NCAL. It is so hugely popular that people try selling their castoffs for incredibly high prices -- two-year-old laptops for a couple of hundred more than when they were NEW. And because the ads are free, nothing is lost. A poster, f'rexample, has advertised the same 1983 650cc motorcycle for $2500 every other day for nearly two years. Craisglist is, to me, a free spam area as well as a public, community service. Myself, I have bought several motorcycles (one FREE) and two laptops, a mobo/CPU combo, and the odd PC network card and CD-burner through CL over the years.
NB: I believe it is a credit to Craig's readers that the overpriced motorcycle has NOT been sold!
And because, like/., there is no moderation as such of their forums, and mostly no registration needed either, flame wars, OT posts, misinformation, etc. abound.
"Craig is a coder" is the `explanation in the feedback forum. He bu8ilds what people ask for or seem to need, and pays little attention to the way his service is used.
If EBay can buy into Craigslist, can't someone sell shares of Debian (if there are any) to MS?
I don't understand how a.com can own a.org. Or am I missing something?
Same here. One question, though; how do you get the function keys to work without clobbering the linux x windows use of the same keys?
When I use the -c -k option to start DOSemu in a x-session, I still cannot pass the function key combinations to WP, so no menus, limited functionality (no save, no print) and no Help, either.
My workaround is to use a separate console for a DOSemu session, avoiding the dosbox/xdos issue, and switch between x and console. An ugly kludge.
It is almost never trivial to install a new major version of a kernel on a distro not designed for it -- and RH9 was not designed for 2.6. That's why backporting of newer features can be a Good Thing.
Until three months ago, I used RH-6.2 with many features backported from 2.4 including USB support. I also have successfully installed plain jane kernels from kernel.org and custom kernels of my own. No probs that can be traced to incompatibilities -- just nincompooperies on my part.
We are given three discrete states of cognition by nature:
Sleeping so deeply there are no dreams (delta or deeper)
Sleeping with dreams (alpha, beta state)
Eyes-open sleep (ordinary waking)
But we can have several others:
Observation and info-gathering (adult ego-state)
Understanding and compassion (unnamed by science)
Insight (unnamed by science)
Oneness with God
The fourth and later stages of consciousness usually are unpredictable and come and go by mood.
The first three stages are culturally-defined and mandated, and the later stages are spoken of in metaphor by mystics, as language is incompetent to describe them.
Eastern religious practices (yoga, zen, t'ai chi) are curricula for attaining these states.
In Christianity, Insight is called "The Holy Spirit (or Ghost)." Anyone who has had an insight can remember wanting to sing, dance, shout, tell the world -- this is a religious experience that even scientists can share.
In fact, science has another vector of similarity with religions: The scientific method (do it and see what happens) is exactly as useful as faith (I'll do it because I know God wants it done.)
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We are not humans in search of the spiritual, we are spirits out to experience the truly human.
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All electric motors produce ozone. All wires that carry varying currents will produce ozone, as ozone is produced be electrical current (any moving magnetic field) in the presence of gaseous oxygen.
I've learned a lot of detail in this discussion, but nothing that daunts my pursuing the answer to my IF proposition, as you quoted above. To me, if the total amount of ozone in the earth's atmosphere (high or low) is more stable than any of the partial sources, that tends to indicate there is some other process going on.
In the same way that the total number of suicides and homicides (added together) make the US and other nations of the world nearly equal, although Hungary has many more suicides than average and the US has more homicides.
I guess the natural sciences are different than the "hard" sciences.
Cause and effect are not the only operatives in nature.
You are correct, I found out. o-sub-1 is a "free radical." You do not, however, seem certain of your other posits -- the ones I mentioned. Eh?
Wow! I ususally don't reply to followups, but I HAVE to ask you some questions.
Are you certain there is no connection between ozone and the earth;s magnetic field?
Are you certain there is no connection between the loss of ozone in the upper atmosphere and the increase at ground level (due to human activity?)
And you are incorrect about the constituency of ozone: Ozone, according to my understanding, IS dissociated oxygen -- that is, an unbonded, single oxygen atom instead of a pair forming a molecule.
Ozone is O-sub-1 and oxygen is O-sub-2.
Since you asked (I don't usually reply to follow-ups) I am an FCC First-Class Radio and Television engineer. I started in 1969 and continued until 1982, when I began writing fulltime. I left the field because I was being asked to falsify data to the FCC.
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I agree no one but me has suggested a relationship between ground-level ozone and upper-atmosphere ozone. But a fixed earth mag field would produce (was produced by?) a fixed amount of ozone. It is a reasonable possibility, I think, until disproven. Think about it: there is less and less upeer ozone and more and more lower.
Yes, the researchers are trying hard; I am not trying to insult them (or you) it's just no one seems to see the larger view that the earth is a living system and ozone is its breath (metaphor).
I got my news about the weakening magnetic field from the BBC natural science pages. However, a search of the site has produced nothing.
I sent a friend an email about this subject with a link to a BBC article; it's on a Knoppix partition right now, though, and I'm on my new SuSE installation, so it will be some hours till I MIGHT be able to get the link to the reversed field in the ozone hole off New Zealand.
Here, though, are some other links to support my thesis and informtation.
http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/FAQs2.h
http://www.theozonehole.com/magnetic.htm
http:
In the article, it is reported that the earth's magnetic field has been measured to have decreased by ten per cent in 150 years; other articles (from BBC, f'rexample) announced other scientists using tree-sections, have determined the field's strength-loss began about three hundred years ago, and now totals about fifteen per cent decrease.
There also have been reports that the earth's magnetic field within the Ozone Hole has already reversed.
This information does not fit with the nuclear-generator theory, but fits better with the destruction of the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere.
As an FCC-licensed radio/TV engineer, I know that ozone is always produced with electrical current. The article quotes (I paraphrase) an "expert" who says motion, magnetism and electricity are a trinity: where two are found, the other will be too. He should have included ozone and made it a quadernity as this is also true of ozone.
During lighting strikes to earth, ozone first rises from the ground to the cloud, and only then is a conductive path to earth made, enabling the lighting strike.
Also, IF it is true, as contended by many scientists, that the ozone hole is related to the increase in ground ozone caused by human activity (electrical production and photochemical smog, largely) then it MIGHT be that there is only a finite amount of ozone that can be produced (or supported) by the earth's magnetic field, and humanity may fairly be seen as the cause.
But I doubt this is true, as the records in the trees show the magnetic field having begun its decrease three hundred years ago -- before Watt and the industrial revolution.
In any case, this is not an easy study as information is scanty and largely the reserve of specialists rather than the generalists who seem to be the only ones with a large enough world-view (weltenshauung, in German) to grasp the problem and explain it to us.
And I doubt strongly that the subjects of the article have any real klew as to what is happening -- not to say I do.
Perhaps...but mebbe that claim is a wee bit disingenuous.
.002 in. This assumption is most definately NOT supported by the better optics providers -- Leitz, Zeiss (for the Hasselblad) and a few others (not Canon, to my knowledge) use circles of confusion for their optical designs of at most (my estimate from experience).0008 inches. This is different than depth-of-field, but related to it.
I have worked in photography for several decades, back before Tri-X was developed, before Kodacolor.
There is a standard resolution used to calculate depth-of-field (hyperfocal distance) called the "circle of confusion" in optics, which refers to the human eye's supposed inability to discern features finer than
I have an HP laser printer that can "do" 1200 dpi, which looks smooth to my eye, where 600 dpi doesn't. So, to print a 16 MB image at 1200 dpi, the result would be on the order of 3 inches by four.
Any "enlargement" above this would mean either using "interpolation" (which reduces resolution, or texture), or adding noise and/or distortion/pixelation.
This is not professional or commercial 35-mm quality yet. But it is quite acceptable for most color snaphot amateurs who are used to "shooting" on low or medium-quality amateur 35s and getting 4x6es back from Walgreens, rather than those who process and enlarge our own film or who shoot for reproduction in another medium, like the printing press.
All that resolution, however, is wasted if the image is destined to be displayed on a website, where the loading time of such big images might be unmagageable even on a DSL or cable connection.
So it is a perfect high-end amateur device.
And it is a big step in the right direction!
Go, Canon! Go Nikon! Go Asahi, Fuji and Kodak! Go competition!
Just, please, tone down the rhetoric in the marketing, please.
Thank kew.
If so, build your own luggable case from a convenient toolbox, cabinet or whatever and use a multiprocessor outfit of either brand.
This will be the fastest solution for i86 and should outperform a single 3500 Intel or Opteron by a considerable amount on 32-bit apps -- about a fifty-to eighty per cent increase can be expected from a 2-processor system. Tyan makes some interesting, relatively inexpensive SMP mobos, check them out http://www.tyan.com
If you must use standard off-the-shelf cases and such, then you must deduct the extra money the ITX case and mobo costs from a 2-CPU array outlined above.
Understand that tomorrow, it will be obsolete....
Both had proportional fonts. The sample PDF from CBS looks more like the Executive from 1964-5 as used IN THE MILITARY. The Selectric was the ball-using model and had a lighter touch on the paper.
It was not uncommon for Officers to use Selectrics or Executives obtained through normal supply channels while NCO company clerks and reporters like me pounded on manuals, with no proportional spacing.
I wish these Republican spreaders of FUD would make it more believable -- at least lift it to the level of the crap that came out of SCO recently.
I am suggesting that only ten per cent of scientists are bright enough to understand the generalities of their disciplines (rather than the specifics on which they are working drone-like) and its connection to the rest of the world.
Agnew was smart enough to figure out how to take cash bribes in the Vice President's White House office.
The teacher was teaching TV-transmitter theory and practice -- not simple electricity.
The point I was trying to make was Pons and Fleishman's work was reviewed by "peers" who were bound to their ignorance (and probably inhabited the ninety per cent) rather than open to following the (admittedly sketchy and unscientific) announcement of the discovery fifteen years ago and trying to replicate it.
There is quite a difference between setting out to disprove "cold fusion" and replicating its proponents' methods and principles calmly and patiently.
Science acts like it is a closed system where everything we need to know is already known, when, indeed, it is an open system where some fraction of its "knowledge" will be proved wrong in future.
For a decent explanation of this, see http://www.active-stream.com/Story/KazanisSci.shtm l
Since "Cold Fusion" may have national defense applications, I would not be surprised if the early reports discounting its truth might have sprung from a government agency intent to keep such a principle secret -- or to discredit it enough so other governments won't believe it.
In any case, science marches on -- one step back and two steps ahead.
Pons and Fleishman told of trying an experiment in a portable cooler; when no positive results were immediately apparent, the cooler was put into a closet and forgotten about for years -- until there was a fire which the arson investigators deduced started in the closet, in the cooler....
Pons and Fleishman were clear (to me) in saying the "apparatus" had to spend years "charging." Their words.
Right after their announcement, a Palo Alto, CA laboratory charged with trying to replicate their experiment used the same brand cooler and put it in a closet for years.... Students graduated, professors retired or moved on, and suddenly, there was a fire in the lab, which investigators reported started in a closet....
(This based on contemporary news reports carried in the SF CHronicle.)
I doubt the PA replication experiment was designed to start a fire inadvertently, but that appears to be what happened.
Pons and Fleishman's explanation of their apparatus was MORE accurate than most of the doubters realized or even accepted.
It appears to me (an interested amateur) that the battery uses time to somehow attract a Deuterium atom to each palladium atom, at which time, according to the article, energy amplification ("cold fusion") occurs 100 per cent of the time.
Q. from student in back row: "What IS electricity?"
A. "Flow of electrons..."
Q. "What are electrons?..."
A. "We don't know. They may be made of quarks..."
Q. You don't know what electricity is but you are going to teach us all about it?"
A. "Although we don't know what is, we know how to make it work -- to change them into photons of a certain frequency. Trust us."
For thos who don't understand metaphor, science blithely accepts as truth things it does not understand and so, cannot explain.
They (science) just didn't like Pons and Fleishman's attitude.
F'sck 'em.
Ninety percent of scientists have IQ's below that of Spiro Agnew (135).
It's the other ten percent you want to talk to.
The electric motor/generator part is listed as becoming available in the fall/winter of 2004. This makes it vaporware, as far as I'm concerned.
Now give me a hand while I try to keep my tinfoil hat on while installing this little fan under my carburetor that will supermix the gas, giving me 25 per cent more power....
Thanks for the information. I know about Fedora, but I am on a dialup connection, so downloading the three CD-ROMS is out of the question. I have d/led but not yet installed Lorma, Fedora with Multimedia and kernel realtime patches on once CD-ROM, and I know about CCRM for RH-9 and Fedora Multimedia files should I need them.
Frankly, I find apt painful on dialup (I tried a harddisk install of Knoppix, but for various reasons knoppix will not install the apps I need from apt repositories because of library inconsistencies between Knoppix and Debian.) So yum will be, I suspect, no better on 56k -- assuming the apps I want are in the freshrpm or other repository. Some are, most are not (I checked.)
I am used to rpm. Unlike others, I like it in concert with rpmfind.net, as I can get an idea of how many hours of dependencies will be required over 56k telepohone lines.
I currently plan to install SuSE (KDE is the default) from a Linux Magazine CD and if its MM performance isn't up to snuff, to use Lorma (fedora core.)
BTW, At first I thought it was strange I didn't notice the Knoppix I use every day was *cured* of its slow keyboard. I guess we don't miss annoyances until they reappear. Like when I (rarely) boot back into Windows....
Well, I might be talking about obsolete KDE.
I have been using Knoppix off the CD-ROM for a while, while I looked in vain for a popular, non-KDE-needing distribution which can play multimedia files (not RH-9 or Fedora.) I just checked the version I'm running now (3.2) and its behavior is fine. The Knoppix release previous to this, however, was as I described.
Knoppix does not include the keyboard rate slider as part of KDE in 3.2 (KDE 3.1.2.) -- or I can't find where they moved it to!
IIRC, everything was fine with RH-6.2 UNTIL I set the KDE keyboard rate. FRom that time on, I got 10.9/sec. as described in my previous post. The same was true when I updated KDE 1.1 to 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2.1 in that distro, and for Knoppix 3.1. Strangely, it took complete uninstallation of all KDE components to restore the fast keyboard rate I set in the BIOS.
It's fixed now, it appears. Thanks for the reply -- I have avoided installing Knoppix or SuSE to hd partly because of a bug that no longer exits!
BTW: The Knoppix I use sets the default kbdrate to 33.3/sec. -- faster than I could set it manually!
And, yes, I reported this behavior while I was using Caldera 1.3/KDE 1.0 and got a bot reply saying my bug report was received -- nothing more.
OK, that's all fine. But what I want to know is:
.bashrc, if I open a terminal (or even a non-KDE editor!) I have 10.9 cps. again.
Will KDE still clobber any keyboard repeat rate higher than 10.9 per second, like other KDEs I have used (1.x, 2.x, 3.1 on Caldera, TurboLinux, RedHat and Knoppix) do?
Even if I put a faster rate in
It makes the whole OS seem slow.
It p*sses me off so much I have de-installed KDE on all but Knoppix (!) to get my fast keyboard response back -- and Knoppix' KDE survives only because one cannot uninstall KDE in Knoppix.
Um, in a most polite way, no. Empathy is a different beast. It is not generalized, it is specific. "If I were that person, how would I feel?" is an empathetic question. It is an escape when it becomes "That person must feel just like me -- anyone would!" or even "I would feel just like that person does -- whatever that feeling may be -- anyone would."
The reality we are "escaping" from appears to be that each of us is unique in a unique world of our own perceptions. That may seem obvious, but it is often ignored.
Socrates was, I think and believe, wrong when he "reasoned that his fellow Greeks were humans like himself. They were unique Greeks, each unlike him. That was exactly my point.
It is historically generally recognized that Socrates rationalized his teaching by claiming that "each man would do the right if he only knew it" and reason, he taught, was the tool with which to determine the right.
I dunno whether my namesake is Ziggy's daughter or granddaugther, and since neither of us cares, f'sck it...
The original post was about Microsot's marketing, and my comment was about the prevalence of lawyers in societies that allow deceptive marketing.
And your point is...?
With due respect, I believe ypou make the same error here as Socrates did in estimating the characters of himself and others -- namely projection.
Socrates was known for believing that everyone would do the right if s/he only knew what it was.
As Anna Freud pointed out, the two major escapes from reality are projection (everyone is just like me) and identification (I am just like everyone else.)
The truth is, for every ten youths who see Star Wars, at least one will want to be Darth Vader and do as much evil as possible.
And several others will not care a whit either way.
I suspect the more of these types a society has, the more lawyers it needs.
I was born with a (minor) case of scoliosis, so my back is VERY sensitive. Here's what I found --
1. Back problems (aches) due to fatigue are helped most by strengthening the abdominal muscles, which are what keeps the back aligned.
2. A straight back chair is best, but only if you put your feet FLAT on the floor. Otherwise, they are a pain (literally.)
3. Soft padding is a no-no. Maybe gel is good, I haven't tried it.
4. The backrest and seat should be adjustable for angle and height/reach. Change positions often.
5. I made my own perfect-for-me seat from a wrecked Thunderbird with the inflatable seatback option. I took the passenger seat (it was less worn) to a welding shop and had some straight pieces added for legs. It is adjustable, inflatable, durable, comfortable and cheap.
6. But most of the time, I compute on a yoga mat on the floor with the keyboard in my lap. Half Lotus works for me.
1. No one signs the same exact way twice. That's how some forgers get caught -- copying TOO exactly.
2. We have all developed habits. Although your signatures may look different from each other, the pressure patterns are usually identical. Forgery detectors use magnifying glasses to detect dicontinuities in the letters or words, indicating a lifting of the pen for a glance at the original being copied. Most people do not lift and replace the pen on the paper while signing their own name.
3. Some forgers use the trick of holding the signature being copied UPSIDE-DOWN so they can "draw it" instead of writing it. That way they avoid the traps of their own habits showing to an investigator. They are usually the good ones who escape being caught. This technique woiuld easily show that the signature was drawn upside down and last letter first, and they will be caught.
4. The harder the signature is to read, the EASIER it is to forge. My own signature is perfect Victorian calligraphy done with a chisel-point felt-tip or fountain pen. Let them copy THAT!
5. Most organizations never check signatures until there is a anamoly. By then, the pro forger is long gone.
6. Pro forgers will defeat these machines by practicing their marks' signatures until they are perfected.
As they always have.
Craigslist has/had its problems but it has become an institution here in NCAL. It is so hugely popular that people try selling their castoffs for incredibly high prices -- two-year-old laptops for a couple of hundred more than when they were NEW. And because the ads are free, nothing is lost. A poster, f'rexample, has advertised the same 1983 650cc motorcycle for $2500 every other day for nearly two years. Craisglist is, to me, a free spam area as well as a public, community service. Myself, I have bought several motorcycles (one FREE) and two laptops, a mobo/CPU combo, and the odd PC network card and CD-burner through CL over the years.
/., there is no moderation as such of their forums, and mostly no registration needed either, flame wars, OT posts, misinformation, etc. abound.
.com can own a .org. Or am I missing something?
NB: I believe it is a credit to Craig's readers that the overpriced motorcycle has NOT been sold!
And because, like
"Craig is a coder" is the `explanation in the feedback forum. He bu8ilds what people ask for or seem to need, and pays little attention to the way his service is used.
If EBay can buy into Craigslist, can't someone sell shares of Debian (if there are any) to MS?
I don't understand how a
Word 5.1 for Mac was great. WP-5.1 for anything was great. RedHat 5.1 was great.
5.1 must be the sweet spot.
Same here. One question, though; how do you get the function keys to work without clobbering the linux x windows use of the same keys?
When I use the -c -k option to start DOSemu in a x-session, I still cannot pass the function key combinations to WP, so no menus, limited functionality (no save, no print) and no Help, either.
My workaround is to use a separate console for a DOSemu session, avoiding the dosbox/xdos issue, and switch between x and console. An ugly kludge.
This on RH-6.2 and Knoppix-3.3.
Any suggestions? How do you use it on Linux?
It is almost never trivial to install a new major version of a kernel on a distro not designed for it -- and RH9 was not designed for 2.6. That's why backporting of newer features can be a Good Thing.
Until three months ago, I used RH-6.2 with many features backported from 2.4 including USB support. I also have successfully installed plain jane kernels from kernel.org and custom kernels of my own. No probs that can be traced to incompatibilities -- just nincompooperies on my part.
Thank you so much for your understanding!
When the insights come fast enough, the AHAs join together into one long AHA!aha,aha,ahahahahahahahahahah...
So to be both insightful AND funny is the best compliment I could have hoped for.
Glad you liked it.
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The Universe and the psyche are identical, except they're folded differently.
We are given three discrete states of cognition by nature:
Sleeping so deeply there are no dreams (delta or deeper)
Sleeping with dreams (alpha, beta state)
Eyes-open sleep (ordinary waking)
But we can have several others:
Observation and info-gathering (adult ego-state)
Understanding and compassion (unnamed by science)
Insight (unnamed by science)
Oneness with God
The fourth and later stages of consciousness usually are unpredictable and come and go by mood.
The first three stages are culturally-defined and mandated, and the later stages are spoken of in metaphor by mystics, as language is incompetent to describe them.
Eastern religious practices (yoga, zen, t'ai chi) are curricula for attaining these states.
In Christianity, Insight is called "The Holy Spirit (or Ghost)." Anyone who has had an insight can remember wanting to sing, dance, shout, tell the world -- this is a religious experience that even scientists can share.
In fact, science has another vector of similarity with religions: The scientific method (do it and see what happens) is exactly as useful as faith (I'll do it because I know God wants it done.)
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We are not humans in search of the spiritual, we are spirits out to experience the truly human.