The very first part of his post now contains a link to a newspaper report on it (it may have been edited in later). And a little further down he has another post with more newspaper links, the "details" of the story may be a bit embellished, but it looks like the story as a whole really happened... which is still pretty crazy.
Objects that travel at the speed of light have no rest mass. And therefore no "real" mass to speak of. Using the E=mc^2 and using algebra to derive the mass is not really the correct way to do things. See this post and it's reply which has a bit more info. Now if you want the truth I don't know much about the Higgs mechanism which is theorized to be what actually gives rise to mass, but AFAIK mass and energy aren't the same thing. You can turn one into the other and vice versa, pair production or particle/anti-particle reactions, but they have to be converted first by these reactions.
This seems to be a good overview of a photon's mass and why it needs to be zero for certain phenomenon to exist (such as gauge invariance and inverse square law):
So if we're lucky we might soon be able to use a GSM cell phone through a wireless base station and experience a seemless handoff to a cellular network once out of range."
I think that actually reads correctly. It means that you would be sitting at home under your WIFI cloud and if you venture to far outside your cloud, the cell phone companies network picks up your call and allows it to continue.
And found a fix for it. All of the FUD that I've seen about SP2 breaking things mainly focuses around which apps aren't automagically detected by the built in firewall as "allowed". Considering that having to add rules to a firewall config is pretty standard amongst all firewalls, I'm pretty lost as to why this is considered "breaking" an app. I'll admit the TCP thing was frustrating, but that's the only problem I've encountered.
So for what it's worth, I've been running SP2 in beta and release form for about 1 month now on my primary system. And I've had only the one TCP issue. I've also had it running on 5 other "test" boxes (read: other family member's computers). And so far no one has reported a problem. Although obviously YMMV.
I'll admit I haven't formally been running the XP firewall (I turned it on to check it out, but I have my own firewall solution that I prefer). But turning it off was easy enough and I checked into configuring it and that seemed easy enough as well (you go into the control panel icon and select the programs you want to allow incoming access on).
Now lets not continue down the road complaining that it's broken because it's too difficult for "Joe Blow" to configure his firewall and as a result we should consider it "broken". Realize that at the same time "Joe Blow" probably can't properly configure ANY firewall. User ignorance doesn't mean something is broken. If I put power steering fluid in my brake lines because I don't know better, and my brakes lock up, that's not the car's fault.
Not to mention that they are pretty cheaply made. I've had 3 of them. All broke within a week. One came broken the others had tabs inside break off so that the suction cup falls out. I'm sick of paying for the return shipping, so I'm just leaving it.
I personally think there is a bit more too this. Keep in mind that support being provided by a lot of companies for devices/internet/software is via phone. Linux traditionally requires CLI interfaces for a lot of the admin tasks (or requires the use of a clunky GUI). I recognize that this is changing somewhat, but personally I don't want to be the one on the other end of the phone telling someone to configure their network settings, drivers, etc. The GUI's for admin tasks need to develop a common theme and feel (so that people supporting can have a general idea of how to lead people) and they need to be easy to not only navigate while sitting at the computer, but also for someone to walk you through over the phone. It's useless for a Desktop OS to be difficult to support, because if it is no average person will switch if it's gonna cost them $40/hour to have someone configure their TCP/IP settings, as opposed to calling their ISP and having them walk them through it for free on Windows.
You might want to check out the work that Tomas Matejicek (the creator of Slax is doing). He is attempting to create a script that will box up a linux distro that you configure. So you install your distro, then you configure the hell out of it. Then you remove all of the useless stuff. Run the script and poof! out comes a live distro of you chosing. I believe the scripts currenty only work with Slackware (and a few others), but it would be interesting to see something like this take off. Then your idea could easily be transferred to the idea of a coporate or library network with a singe computer in a locked room that acts as the test bed, and everytime they want a change the just change the test bed run the script and burn 20 or so CD's.
I'm not sure if you've come accros these:
Accusys.
I'm thinking this may actually be what you are looking for. External, hotswappable, IDE RAID solutions, with very little hassle, just plug in and go.
It really depends on the level. I currently work for an executive level placement firm and by and large the work that they do is phenomenal (at least IMHO). I personally believe that at lower level positions the idea of outsourcing your hiring can be ridiculous. A headhunter should be hired when finding a person to fill the role is difficult.
Case in point the reason why the company I work only fills executive level positions is because it's ussually difficult for a Board of Directors to have the time, resources, or HR know-how to find the right talent for their CEO opening. Especially if the last one was canned because he left the company in a whole lot of trouble. It's important that the headhunter look for a particular person to fill that niche. Whether the company needs someone to come in a cut the fat, tighten things up, or keep the company on the straight and narrow, the point is at these higher level positions the job requirements become so focused and specialized that only a hand full of people can fill it. A headhunter has the resources, contacts, experience, and negotiating skills to find the few people that will fill these positions.
And it's this work experience, knowledge and contacts that you end up paying for, when you hire a headhunter. Agreed $30,000/hire may sound like a lot of money for someone who simply acts as an HR person and that's why I don't believe that you should use a head hunter for a lower level/easily filled position. Headhunters were designed to fill a specialty market and assist with the search for talent.
The firm I work is one of the few in the business that offers a warranty on the search work. If the person leaves a position within one year of hire, we redo the search for expenses only. And if that person leaves, we redo the search again (and it's happened). Not to mention that most agencies stop after shortlisting a group of candidates, our company is one of the few that liason with both sides until a candidate has been found. We don't just give you 4 people and their resumes. We sit through the final interview process, schedule everything and help draw up the contracts.
The point is that at lower level positions where thousands of people can fill the position hiring a headhunter is pointless. They shouldn't be used to cull a huge list of resumes, they should be used to generate a list of candidates when it appears as though none exist.
If you want a list of good, professional, search agencies try AESC
while everyone else is trolling and flaming about how the admin should be fired or if this had been a "windows box"... this seems to be one of the few posts that makes a good point... at least someone is paying attention to the details instead of just pointing fingers...
yeah... that's what I though too... so the only thing I could think of was that they were commenting on the lack of bandwidth on DSL connections... or maybe a slow system which can't route fast enough...
try http://www.qubit.org they have lots of info and links on the topic.
Re:Students think CDs are expensive? No surprise.
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CD's are expensive though, at least where I live. Not to sound horribly nostalgic but I do remember a time when most CD's were $15CDN a pop (I honestly can't remember the time frame, this was probably about 5 - 6 years ago). Now if I walk into a music store CD's are $18.99CDN. But that's not the whole problem, the problem is that the only music that goes for that price is the stuff that the store has decided to put on sale (Ussually top 40). Everything else in the store easily comes to $25CDN - $30CDN. So for everything that the store doesn't deem as a sale item, the prices have almost doubled. Like I said though, this may be just a result of where I live.
As for moaning about other overpriced things, I can guarantee you that students whine about the other things too, but that isn't played up as much in the media. I mean a bunch of students whining isn't a big thing, but a bunch of students whining and stealing music is news.
And personally music isn't the thing that I whine about most as a student. The thing that irks me is bank charges, and I'll bet that a lot of other students out there would label this as the most horribly overpriced thing that they have to deal with. Once again, we have no measure to steal from banks, so it doesn't make news, so no one knows it irks us.
I'm currently in a B.Sc. (Physics) and I'm a little worried about what to do after. I spend a large amount of time sharing that worry with others in the program. I was told when I got into the program that getting a job would be just as easy as if I had a B.A.Sc. (Engineering Degree). What I've discovered is that this isn't true. Most people aren't ready to offer the jobs to a person trained in the theory, they want someone who requires no training and can be thrust immediatly into that job. I fully understand this reality. My training does to a certain extent very nicely parrallel the Engineering program (I still have large amount of friends from my first year in Engineering, so I find out what they are doing and compare it to what I do). But after spending some time speaking with my dad about how disheartening it's going to be when I'm going to have spent $30,000 on just tuition (plus living expenses and the time I've invested) over these last 5 years (4 year program + 1 in Engineering) I realized something, largely with his help: No one owes me a job! It's my responsibility to carve out my place in life.
Personally I should have realized this a long time ago. I left engineering for physics because I had a genuine interest in what I could learn. The concepts and theory's were captivating and I had this thirst to learn them. I'm in my program because I enjoy it, but at the same time I though that maybe it would provide me with a job to help pay off the loans.
While I was in school though I started a small business with a friend and started making money there. It helps to pay for school etc, but what it really made me realize is that if the work you want doesn't exist, maybe you should attempt to create it. I understand the yearning for a job to help pay off the loans, but really after thinking about it, no one owes that to me. I owe it to myself to find a place in society and to find my niche (which I kind of did, but I'm not sure if this will support me). And realistically opening a small consulting business is remarkably easy (well I didn't have much trouble, it's amazing how many resources are out there for entreprenuers, especially young ones).
Either way though, good luck it's a hard road to travel, but you're definitely not alone.
i'd have to guess that it's firewire (ieee 1394) but the SB is "Sound Blaster". This prolly has somthing to do with creative putting firewire on the audigy cards.
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The very first part of his post now contains a link to a newspaper report on it (it may have been edited in later). And a little further down he has another post with more newspaper links, the "details" of the story may be a bit embellished, but it looks like the story as a whole really happened... which is still pretty crazy.
I'm glad to see there's another saskatoon person here to point that out. I was a little confused when I read the article.
There is a nice overview/tutorial on how the process of slowing light works here:
a rd_files/v3_document.htm
http://qis.ucalgary.ca/quantech/storage.html
Dr. Hau also has a powerpoint presentation on how it works as well:
http://www.deas.harvard.edu/haulab/101204%20stand
I don't think you've quite nailed it either.
N uclear/photon_mass.html
Objects that travel at the speed of light have no rest mass. And therefore no "real" mass to speak of. Using the E=mc^2 and using algebra to derive the mass is not really the correct way to do things. See this post and it's reply which has a bit more info. Now if you want the truth I don't know much about the Higgs mechanism which is theorized to be what actually gives rise to mass, but AFAIK mass and energy aren't the same thing. You can turn one into the other and vice versa, pair production or particle/anti-particle reactions, but they have to be converted first by these reactions.
This seems to be a good overview of a photon's mass and why it needs to be zero for certain phenomenon to exist (such as gauge invariance and inverse square law):
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/ParticleAnd
I was using Jinzora for a while and it's a pretty slick little php app that does pretty much what you are looking for:
http://www.jinzora.org/
So if we're lucky we might soon be able to use a GSM cell phone through a wireless base station and experience a seemless handoff to a cellular network once out of range."
I think that actually reads correctly. It means that you would be sitting at home under your WIFI cloud and if you venture to far outside your cloud, the cell phone companies network picks up your call and allows it to continue.
yeah... something like that ;-)
feel your pain buddy... so I sent you an invite... ;-)...
I fired one off to you...
Gizmodo has pictures and bit better of a review:
e verything-but-a-price-019630.php
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/archos-gmini-400-
As far as I've managed to tell it has only "broken" one thing for me. The outbound TCP connections were limited to 10/sec. But then I went here:
http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools#4226patch
And found a fix for it. All of the FUD that I've seen about SP2 breaking things mainly focuses around which apps aren't automagically detected by the built in firewall as "allowed". Considering that having to add rules to a firewall config is pretty standard amongst all firewalls, I'm pretty lost as to why this is considered "breaking" an app. I'll admit the TCP thing was frustrating, but that's the only problem I've encountered.
So for what it's worth, I've been running SP2 in beta and release form for about 1 month now on my primary system. And I've had only the one TCP issue. I've also had it running on 5 other "test" boxes (read: other family member's computers). And so far no one has reported a problem. Although obviously YMMV.
I'll admit I haven't formally been running the XP firewall (I turned it on to check it out, but I have my own firewall solution that I prefer). But turning it off was easy enough and I checked into configuring it and that seemed easy enough as well (you go into the control panel icon and select the programs you want to allow incoming access on).
Now lets not continue down the road complaining that it's broken because it's too difficult for "Joe Blow" to configure his firewall and as a result we should consider it "broken". Realize that at the same time "Joe Blow" probably can't properly configure ANY firewall. User ignorance doesn't mean something is broken. If I put power steering fluid in my brake lines because I don't know better, and my brakes lock up, that's not the car's fault.
Not to mention that they are pretty cheaply made. I've had 3 of them. All broke within a week. One came broken the others had tabs inside break off so that the suction cup falls out. I'm sick of paying for the return shipping, so I'm just leaving it.
I personally think there is a bit more too this. Keep in mind that support being provided by a lot of companies for devices/internet/software is via phone. Linux traditionally requires CLI interfaces for a lot of the admin tasks (or requires the use of a clunky GUI). I recognize that this is changing somewhat, but personally I don't want to be the one on the other end of the phone telling someone to configure their network settings, drivers, etc. The GUI's for admin tasks need to develop a common theme and feel (so that people supporting can have a general idea of how to lead people) and they need to be easy to not only navigate while sitting at the computer, but also for someone to walk you through over the phone. It's useless for a Desktop OS to be difficult to support, because if it is no average person will switch if it's gonna cost them $40/hour to have someone configure their TCP/IP settings, as opposed to calling their ISP and having them walk them through it for free on Windows.
Probably if you have a 640x480 setup ;-)
A stereotype??
You might want to check out the work that Tomas Matejicek (the creator of Slax is doing). He is attempting to create a script that will box up a linux distro that you configure. So you install your distro, then you configure the hell out of it. Then you remove all of the useless stuff. Run the script and poof! out comes a live distro of you chosing. I believe the scripts currenty only work with Slackware (and a few others), but it would be interesting to see something like this take off. Then your idea could easily be transferred to the idea of a coporate or library network with a singe computer in a locked room that acts as the test bed, and everytime they want a change the just change the test bed run the script and burn 20 or so CD's.
I'm not sure if you've come accros these: Accusys. I'm thinking this may actually be what you are looking for. External, hotswappable, IDE RAID solutions, with very little hassle, just plug in and go.
It really depends on the level. I currently work for an executive level placement firm and by and large the work that they do is phenomenal (at least IMHO). I personally believe that at lower level positions the idea of outsourcing your hiring can be ridiculous. A headhunter should be hired when finding a person to fill the role is difficult.
Case in point the reason why the company I work only fills executive level positions is because it's ussually difficult for a Board of Directors to have the time, resources, or HR know-how to find the right talent for their CEO opening. Especially if the last one was canned because he left the company in a whole lot of trouble. It's important that the headhunter look for a particular person to fill that niche. Whether the company needs someone to come in a cut the fat, tighten things up, or keep the company on the straight and narrow, the point is at these higher level positions the job requirements become so focused and specialized that only a hand full of people can fill it. A headhunter has the resources, contacts, experience, and negotiating skills to find the few people that will fill these positions.
And it's this work experience, knowledge and contacts that you end up paying for, when you hire a headhunter. Agreed $30,000/hire may sound like a lot of money for someone who simply acts as an HR person and that's why I don't believe that you should use a head hunter for a lower level/easily filled position. Headhunters were designed to fill a specialty market and assist with the search for talent.
The firm I work is one of the few in the business that offers a warranty on the search work. If the person leaves a position within one year of hire, we redo the search for expenses only. And if that person leaves, we redo the search again (and it's happened). Not to mention that most agencies stop after shortlisting a group of candidates, our company is one of the few that liason with both sides until a candidate has been found. We don't just give you 4 people and their resumes. We sit through the final interview process, schedule everything and help draw up the contracts.
The point is that at lower level positions where thousands of people can fill the position hiring a headhunter is pointless. They shouldn't be used to cull a huge list of resumes, they should be used to generate a list of candidates when it appears as though none exist.
If you want a list of good, professional, search agencies try AESC
mod this parent up...
while everyone else is trolling and flaming about how the admin should be fired or if this had been a "windows box"... this seems to be one of the few posts that makes a good point... at least someone is paying attention to the details instead of just pointing fingers...
yeah... that's what I though too... so the only thing I could think of was that they were commenting on the lack of bandwidth on DSL connections... or maybe a slow system which can't route fast enough...
What is more, it is would not slow down as more and more people use the service which is the case with DSL - broadband via the phone line.
finally, infinite bandwidth...on another note... I'm off to go play with my perpetual motion machine...
try http://www.qubit.org they have lots of info and links on the topic.
CD's are expensive though, at least where I live. Not to sound horribly nostalgic but I do remember a time when most CD's were $15CDN a pop (I honestly can't remember the time frame, this was probably about 5 - 6 years ago). Now if I walk into a music store CD's are $18.99CDN. But that's not the whole problem, the problem is that the only music that goes for that price is the stuff that the store has decided to put on sale (Ussually top 40). Everything else in the store easily comes to $25CDN - $30CDN. So for everything that the store doesn't deem as a sale item, the prices have almost doubled. Like I said though, this may be just a result of where I live.
As for moaning about other overpriced things, I can guarantee you that students whine about the other things too, but that isn't played up as much in the media. I mean a bunch of students whining isn't a big thing, but a bunch of students whining and stealing music is news.
And personally music isn't the thing that I whine about most as a student. The thing that irks me is bank charges, and I'll bet that a lot of other students out there would label this as the most horribly overpriced thing that they have to deal with. Once again, we have no measure to steal from banks, so it doesn't make news, so no one knows it irks us.
I'm currently in a B.Sc. (Physics) and I'm a little worried about what to do after. I spend a large amount of time sharing that worry with others in the program. I was told when I got into the program that getting a job would be just as easy as if I had a B.A.Sc. (Engineering Degree). What I've discovered is that this isn't true. Most people aren't ready to offer the jobs to a person trained in the theory, they want someone who requires no training and can be thrust immediatly into that job. I fully understand this reality. My training does to a certain extent very nicely parrallel the Engineering program (I still have large amount of friends from my first year in Engineering, so I find out what they are doing and compare it to what I do). But after spending some time speaking with my dad about how disheartening it's going to be when I'm going to have spent $30,000 on just tuition (plus living expenses and the time I've invested) over these last 5 years (4 year program + 1 in Engineering) I realized something, largely with his help: No one owes me a job! It's my responsibility to carve out my place in life.
Personally I should have realized this a long time ago. I left engineering for physics because I had a genuine interest in what I could learn. The concepts and theory's were captivating and I had this thirst to learn them. I'm in my program because I enjoy it, but at the same time I though that maybe it would provide me with a job to help pay off the loans.
While I was in school though I started a small business with a friend and started making money there. It helps to pay for school etc, but what it really made me realize is that if the work you want doesn't exist, maybe you should attempt to create it. I understand the yearning for a job to help pay off the loans, but really after thinking about it, no one owes that to me. I owe it to myself to find a place in society and to find my niche (which I kind of did, but I'm not sure if this will support me). And realistically opening a small consulting business is remarkably easy (well I didn't have much trouble, it's amazing how many resources are out there for entreprenuers, especially young ones).
Either way though, good luck it's a hard road to travel, but you're definitely not alone.
i'd have to guess that it's firewire (ieee 1394) but the SB is "Sound Blaster". This prolly has somthing to do with creative putting firewire on the audigy cards.