A lot...cast your mind back 100 years to the period when a strange new science called Quantum Physics was making its debut. This new theory grew out of the need to explain a few strange results from the experiments of the time. Of course at the time this theory was extremely esoteric and not much use to the common person on the street. However application of this theory to semiconductors lead directly to the development of modern computers. Of course, nobody at the time, least of all the scientists realized how incredibly useful this new theory would be. The problem is with "blue skies" research is that it can take considerable time before the results are directly useful.
I would argue that the current state of particle physics is very similar to that at the turn of the last century. We have several experimental results that we cannot explain with our existing best theory (the Standard Model) namely: the apparent non-baryonic dark matter in the universe, neutrino masses and mixing and the cause of the particle masses. Perhaps resolving these problems will cause as big and as useful a revolution in physics as there was 100 years ago and perhaps not....but the only way to find out is to find the resolution to these problems and that means spending money on big accelerators like the LHC and NLC.
Actually this is one of the few times in science when we really can be certain that we will see something interesting with a new accelerator. Certain cross sections exceed unitarity, i.e. the probability of two particles interacting exceeds 100% at LHC energies if we simply extrapolate existing theory to ~1TeV. Since this is a nonsense result we either have to see somethng new even if its just a completely unexplained bahvaiour of these cross-sections or we have to reinterpret was 100+% chance of interacting means. Either way it will be exciting....we can't just have the current theoretical model continuing to work as normal.
Ummm...according to a review of the book in French he also had an inflatable raft. That's not the same as being dropped off by yourself. To return to the space analogy you could be dropped off in an inflatable ball with a reentry heatshield and perhaps, with the proper preparation, you'd survive too. True we can't build one of those yet, but neither could we build an inflatable raft when America was first discovered by the Vikings (or even later when Columbus finally got around to it:-).
You are missing the point. What I was trying to refute was the argument that the early ocean explorers were somehow sailing through an aquatic paradise where the environment was non-hostile.
The ocean is, or at least can be, a very hostile environment. Not as quite as hostile as space but none the less dangerous given primitive (by our standards) technology. You cannot survive it without a ship, no more than you could survive space travel without a ship. Thus, the two media are in this regard very similar.
First off, the medium that the oceanic explorers travelled on was also the one that could sustain them. They could pull their food out of the ocean. Space is the opposite - exposure to the native environment is fatal.
So say I was sailing to America from Europe and dropped you off in the North Atlantic 500+km offshore you'd be able to sustain yourself in the native ocean environment? Somehow I doubt it...even if you did survive the cold and could tread water to prevent drowning you would eventually need fresh water.
Its certainly faster with space and harder to protect yourself against it but we have come a long way technologically since we stuck a sail on a few planks of wood and set sail to conquer the oceans.
The Stone Masson Association of America will not stand for such a thing. They will soon lobby for a DMCA-like legislation to outlaw progress like this.
That's ok - the Free Masons will stop them....at least if you know the right handshake.
Is a B.S. degree the same as a B.Sc.? I have to ask because that's not normally what springs to mind when someone says they have a B.S. degree.....
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But when an unreasonable law is rarely applied, and therefor publicly accepted/ignored, then everyone becomes a criminal, though usually thy're not prosecuted. Think of stupid 55 mph speed limits. Everyone (in my area) drive at 60-80 miles an hour, and 99% never get a ticket, so they never lobby to get the unreasonable law repealed and the limit raised. But for those who do get caught, they have no recourse in court, and the argument "everyone else was driving 80 mph" never proves to be an effective defense, since the law was so clearly broken and teh speeder was so clearly guilty.
You must live in Chicago! It's the only place I have ever driven where it is dangerous to drive at or below the speed limit. The first time I drove on the motorways there, attempting to be a good foreign visitor I followed the 55mph speed limit. After nearly getting run over by several lorries going at 70+mph I decided my defence in court, were I ever to get pulled over, would simply be that it was too dangerous to travel at only 55mph when the majority of traffic is doing 65+.
In order to get the latent prints (from which the 'fake' prints are created), the experimenters had their subjects wipe their finger on their nose (to make the latent prints easier to capture), had them press their finger on a glass platen, and even checked if their fingers had scars (if so, they chose another, better finger).
On the other hand this was one person doing a master's thesis. The bad guys are likely to be far more persistent and have better resources.
Somehow I doubt my hands will be within 1 degree of 37C in the middle of a Canadian winter when its -45C outside. Of course a good solution to that would be to carry a gelatin fingerprint model in my pocket, close to my skin to keep it warm.....hmmm sounds sort of like the copy protected CDs that they are now withdrawing from Europe because they found it increased online piracy. Nobody was sure that they would be able play their CDs on their computer so they used p2p to get the music online!!
Actually R. Daneel first appeared in the Foundation series in Foundation and Earth which, although the last chronologically speaking, was written before Prelude which I must say I think would have been better off not being written since it added nothing new.
Personally I thought that the Foundation series had a very neat ending but, along with Foundation's Edge and Second Foundation you did get the feeling of repetitivity...
The First Foundation is the power in the galaxy,...no wait the Second Foundation is the power in the Galaxy...no actually its Gaia...ummm no really its R. Daneel
However the tie in to aliens was a very clever way to explain it.
No, it's you not understanding that American English spells things differently from British English.
I can respect your right to change the spellings, add new words etc. to your own language. However if you are going to do that STOP CALLING IT ENGLISH! It's not, it's American.
You don't hear Norwegian's claiming that they speak Danish or Norwegian Danish, and yet I've been told, not being able to speak either, that those languages are about as similar as American and English.
They just shook their heads and said that the metric system is so much better. Personally, I agree... but it's hard to change what you first learn. That's why I give it another 40 years... there's still too many working class adults that are using the imperial system here.
I'm not so sure. One of the (many) things I was really looking forward to when moving to Canada from the US (I'm a Brit) was finally not having to deal with the US's archiac measurement system. So imagine my horror on visting the local DIY store where all of the stuff is imported from the US. Even when getting some wood cut when I gave the dimensions in metres the guy did a double take and then said he could probably do it since the saw table came from Germany.
So while there might be a generational gap I think we'll still have problems in Canada until we persuade our southern neighbours to join us in the 21st century.
It turns out it is cheaper (and faster) to put it on magnetic storage and fly it from London to Los Angeles than it is to try and move it over the Internet.
Until you remember that you have to pay someone to feed the hundreds of tapes into drives to copy the data to disk and that you'd have to buy and run well over 10 drives in order to get the bandwidth of a 10Gbit connection and a lot more into order to beat that bandwidth. I think if you worked out the cost and time disk-to-disk the result would be more favourable toward the network scenario.
You might be right. I certainly went in "with positive vibes" about SUSE and, had I not had the problem mentioned (or had I received a more impressive support response) I would have certainly managed to overcome the inevitable "...but why didn't they do it the way I'm used to!" negativity.
Given that Fedora does seem to be turning out more like the old RedHat than RedHat originally announced I think that I will be sticking with that. I might have given SUSE another chance were it a free download but I'm not going to risk throwing good money after bad when I can download others for free. However I can quite see why some people would prefer SUSE had they not had my experience. The installer and the overall presentation are definitely slicker than RedHat/Fedora plus it had a far wider selection of apps in the distribution. Besides, as the RedHat/Fedora switch has shown it is definitely a good thing to have multiple "main stream" Linux distributions out there!
Ooops....sorry. Yes it should have read SUSE 9.0 in the title. That's what I was thinking when I typed it at least. Somehow the message got confused between the brain and the hands.
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or at least I haven't seen any here. So for us a DIY MythTV solution is the only way to go.
A lot...cast your mind back 100 years to the period when a strange new science called Quantum Physics was making its debut. This new theory grew out of the need to explain a few strange results from the experiments of the time. Of course at the time this theory was extremely esoteric and not much use to the common person on the street. However application of this theory to semiconductors lead directly to the development of modern computers. Of course, nobody at the time, least of all the scientists realized how incredibly useful this new theory would be. The problem is with "blue skies" research is that it can take considerable time before the results are directly useful.
I would argue that the current state of particle physics is very similar to that at the turn of the last century. We have several experimental results that we cannot explain with our existing best theory (the Standard Model) namely: the apparent non-baryonic dark matter in the universe, neutrino masses and mixing and the cause of the particle masses. Perhaps resolving these problems will cause as big and as useful a revolution in physics as there was 100 years ago and perhaps not....but the only way to find out is to find the resolution to these problems and that means spending money on big accelerators like the LHC and NLC.
Actually this is one of the few times in science when we really can be certain that we will see something interesting with a new accelerator. Certain cross sections exceed unitarity, i.e. the probability of two particles interacting exceeds 100% at LHC energies if we simply extrapolate existing theory to ~1TeV. Since this is a nonsense result we either have to see somethng new even if its just a completely unexplained bahvaiour of these cross-sections or we have to reinterpret was 100+% chance of interacting means. Either way it will be exciting....we can't just have the current theoretical model continuing to work as normal.
Ummm...according to a review of the book in French he also had an inflatable raft. That's not the same as being dropped off by yourself. To return to the space analogy you could be dropped off in an inflatable ball with a reentry heatshield and perhaps, with the proper preparation, you'd survive too. True we can't build one of those yet, but neither could we build an inflatable raft when America was first discovered by the Vikings (or even later when Columbus finally got around to it :-).
You are missing the point. What I was trying to refute was the argument that the early ocean explorers were somehow sailing through an aquatic paradise where the environment was non-hostile. The ocean is, or at least can be, a very hostile environment. Not as quite as hostile as space but none the less dangerous given primitive (by our standards) technology. You cannot survive it without a ship, no more than you could survive space travel without a ship. Thus, the two media are in this regard very similar.
So say I was sailing to America from Europe and dropped you off in the North Atlantic 500+km offshore you'd be able to sustain yourself in the native ocean environment? Somehow I doubt it...even if you did survive the cold and could tread water to prevent drowning you would eventually need fresh water.
Its certainly faster with space and harder to protect yourself against it but we have come a long way technologically since we stuck a sail on a few planks of wood and set sail to conquer the oceans.
...but don't we already have Free Masons?
That's ok - the Free Masons will stop them....at least if you know the right handshake.
Is a B.S. degree the same as a B.Sc.? I have to ask because that's not normally what springs to mind when someone says they have a B.S. degree.....
You must live in Chicago! It's the only place I have ever driven where it is dangerous to drive at or below the speed limit. The first time I drove on the motorways there, attempting to be a good foreign visitor I followed the 55mph speed limit. After nearly getting run over by several lorries going at 70+mph I decided my defence in court, were I ever to get pulled over, would simply be that it was too dangerous to travel at only 55mph when the majority of traffic is doing 65+.
Sounds good on the web....but reserve judgement until you've actually eaten there. It's not quite like it sounds.
On the other hand this was one person doing a master's thesis. The bad guys are likely to be far more persistent and have better resources.
....or Donald Rumsfeld?
Somehow I doubt my hands will be within 1 degree of 37C in the middle of a Canadian winter when its -45C outside. Of course a good solution to that would be to carry a gelatin fingerprint model in my pocket, close to my skin to keep it warm.....hmmm sounds sort of like the copy protected CDs that they are now withdrawing from Europe because they found it increased online piracy. Nobody was sure that they would be able play their CDs on their computer so they used p2p to get the music online!!
Personally I thought that the Foundation series had a very neat ending but, along with Foundation's Edge and Second Foundation you did get the feeling of repetitivity...
The First Foundation is the power in the galaxy, ...no wait the Second Foundation is the power in the Galaxy...no actually its Gaia...ummm no really its R. Daneel
However the tie in to aliens was a very clever way to explain it.
Of course, in places which are metric the unit is the 11/9.
I can respect your right to change the spellings, add new words etc. to your own language. However if you are going to do that STOP CALLING IT ENGLISH! It's not, it's American.
You don't hear Norwegian's claiming that they speak Danish or Norwegian Danish, and yet I've been told, not being able to speak either, that those languages are about as similar as American and English.
I'm not so sure. One of the (many) things I was really looking forward to when moving to Canada from the US (I'm a Brit) was finally not having to deal with the US's archiac measurement system. So imagine my horror on visting the local DIY store where all of the stuff is imported from the US. Even when getting some wood cut when I gave the dimensions in metres the guy did a double take and then said he could probably do it since the saw table came from Germany.
So while there might be a generational gap I think we'll still have problems in Canada until we persuade our southern neighbours to join us in the 21st century.
So when I hear people talking about the Australian bush I should be worried?
Until you remember that you have to pay someone to feed the hundreds of tapes into drives to copy the data to disk and that you'd have to buy and run well over 10 drives in order to get the bandwidth of a 10Gbit connection and a lot more into order to beat that bandwidth. I think if you worked out the cost and time disk-to-disk the result would be more favourable toward the network scenario.
While a valid point this is perhaps not the place to raise it since if Linux takes over the desktop who would care about installing Windows?
Well actually if you had read the moderator FAQ you would know that you should really browse at -1 in order to catch abuses.
Then with that set of units you clearly must work for NASA.
Given that Fedora does seem to be turning out more like the old RedHat than RedHat originally announced I think that I will be sticking with that. I might have given SUSE another chance were it a free download but I'm not going to risk throwing good money after bad when I can download others for free. However I can quite see why some people would prefer SUSE had they not had my experience. The installer and the overall presentation are definitely slicker than RedHat/Fedora plus it had a far wider selection of apps in the distribution. Besides, as the RedHat/Fedora switch has shown it is definitely a good thing to have multiple "main stream" Linux distributions out there!
Ooops....sorry. Yes it should have read SUSE 9.0 in the title. That's what I was thinking when I typed it at least. Somehow the message got confused between the brain and the hands.