I was the primary programmer for a plasma arc furnace designed for NASA. We drove a 25,000 degree plasma torch in 3D and a 6 inch crucible for pouring exotic metals. The gadget also had forced water cooling and a massive air pump for holding the internal pressure anywhere between.01 and 100 atmospheres. Very Cool real time project.
At one point we had a leak in the water cooling system so the torch refused to ignite. The mechanical engineer on the project disabled my safety interlock and proceeded to blow up a $100,000 torch head. Like I said very cool project.
My brother-in-law is a petroleum engineer specializing in tertiary production; bringing old fields back to life. His opinion, and I believe him, is that there are vast quantities of oil yet to be exploited. It's just a matter of what price we are willing to pay to get it. When they talk of available oil they also talk of "proven reserves" this is an estimate of the oil left in fields already in production. If you add the fields known to exist but not in production then the available reserve grows manifold.
Please note - I'm not anti-green but I am against pop-science that is demonstrably wrong.
While Microsoft may not be a stockholder now they created SCO as a vehicle to sell Xenix. Microsoft cannot be said to be an arms length away although they may have distanced themselves legally.
When I was an adjunct professor of CS we had blackboard at the college but the sysadmins didn't have it set up properly so I used yahoo groups for my classes and it worked just fine.
I don't see them going after Yahoo. If Yahoo can serve as a "learning" environment both inside and outside academia I'm not sure that blackboard has ANY valid claims.
My 10 year old daughter became so insensed that a cop had driven right through an intersection without stopping that she made me drive her to the police station where she reamed the police chief a new one. The chief became the laughing stock of th ecommunity because a reporter just happened to be there and watched. Eventually the chief was forced to quit and the offending cop was fired. Not for what my daughter did, there were many other misdeeds, but she got the ball rolling. I'm still proud of her.
It's true that Canada has more guns than people but the people live so far apart that the guns can't reach any human target. I'd hate to be a deer in Canada though.
Stick a nail in a tree and anotherone in the ground and you will get 2 volts more otr less... It's called a tree battery. Duh! Put 6 of them in parallel and you'll get 12 volts.:)
My old boss, Daryl Rinehart, at Logistic Systems wrote his thesis on shortest path routing in a highway system. That was back in the 1960's. In the 1970's and 80's he sold a package to trucking companies to not only route their trucks but to accurately report the minimum mileage a truck could have taken through a state for mileage based fuel tax reporting. If this isn't prior art I don't know what is. He sold out to Rand McNally which licenses the software to all those map companies.
Since Google has the scratch I'll bet that patent will go away in short order.
Apples move to Intel is a threat to Windows not Linux. How many of us wished that MacOS ran on a generic PC platform and how many of us have said in the past that Apple could kill Microsoft of only they's stop being a hardware manufacturer. Well?
Doctors in Edmonton AB Canada developed this technique about 5 years ago. Islet cells (the ones that produce insulin) are removed from cadavers and transplanted into Type 1 diabetic's livers. Apparently islet cell antibodies won't attack "foreign" cells as aggressively in the liver but the patient still needs to take immune suppressant drugs. The down side to all this is that it takes the pancreases of about 5 cadavers to extract enough islets cells for one injection and a full treatment might take several injections. The solution to this is obviously stem cell research but you won't find this breakthrough research being conducted in the US or in any country dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.
Years ago a friend of mine was laid off from his job at a major University. He had borrowed the world's largest lathe (it was used to turn the 16 inch turrets for WW2 battleships) to build a huge low-pressure test chamber for a plasma fusion experiment. No one asked him where it was or what he had done with it when they gave him 2 weeks notice. A month or two later they discovered, when they did an audit, that my friend had personally borrowed over $10 million worth of equipment. They hired him back immediately when they realized that he was key to the whole lab. Needless to say he's been there ever since and is now close to retiring with a full pension. Where was the lathe? Right under the chamber - he had turned it in place.
That's BS. I happen to know one fellow who has created 2 test strip/monitor companies and sold them both 10 years apart, the last for over a billion. If you have a good idea find some money people and run with it. The market is huge.
Geesh - anyone ever heard of p-code, perl, python, ruby all use "emulators" that allow once write run many applications. Why do we keep rediscovering the wheel?
That's not the point. The problem, as anyone using Wi-Fi in an urban environment knows, is that 50 networks (SSID) don't fit into the channel space very well. Heck I live way out in the boonies. My nearest neighbor is a quarter mile down the road. I still pick up 2 other networks.
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So I guess my tinfoil hat is useless against aliens and my tinfoil wallet won't stop the bad guys from sniffing my rfid enabled credit cards.
Giant cows = mega SUV's, I love it.
I was the primary programmer for a plasma arc furnace designed for NASA. We drove a 25,000 degree plasma torch in 3D and a 6 inch crucible for pouring exotic metals. The gadget also had forced water cooling and a massive air pump for holding the internal pressure anywhere between .01 and 100 atmospheres. Very Cool real time project.
At one point we had a leak in the water cooling system so the torch refused to ignite. The mechanical engineer on the project disabled my safety interlock and proceeded to blow up a $100,000 torch head. Like I said very cool project.
My brother-in-law is a petroleum engineer specializing in tertiary production; bringing old fields back to life. His opinion, and I believe him, is that there are vast quantities of oil yet to be exploited. It's just a matter of what price we are willing to pay to get it. When they talk of available oil they also talk of "proven reserves" this is an estimate of the oil left in fields already in production. If you add the fields known to exist but not in production then the available reserve grows manifold.
Please note - I'm not anti-green but I am against pop-science that is demonstrably wrong.
While Microsoft may not be a stockholder now they created SCO as a vehicle to sell Xenix. Microsoft cannot be said to be an arms length away although they may have distanced themselves legally.
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What are you looking at?
When I was an adjunct professor of CS we had blackboard at the college but the sysadmins didn't have it set up properly so I used yahoo groups for my classes and it worked just fine.
I don't see them going after Yahoo. If Yahoo can serve as a "learning" environment both inside and outside academia I'm not sure that blackboard has ANY valid claims.
My 10 year old daughter became so insensed that a cop had driven right through an intersection without stopping that she made me drive her to the police station where she reamed the police chief a new one. The chief became the laughing stock of th ecommunity because a reporter just happened to be there and watched. Eventually the chief was forced to quit and the offending cop was fired. Not for what my daughter did, there were many other misdeeds, but she got the ball rolling. I'm still proud of her.
It's a plant for a band named "For Mein Fraulein " which is having an online concert June 10th see: http://freeradiosaic.org/program/shows/37/
I'm sure this was a plant to get everyone google "For Mein Fraulein." It worked
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It's true that Canada has more guns than people but the people live so far apart that the guns can't reach any human target. I'd hate to be a deer in Canada though.
They say it's patented. What about the clapper isn't that prior art.
It's called India.
Stick a nail in a tree and anotherone in the ground and you will get 2 volts more otr less ... It's called a tree battery. Duh! Put 6 of them in parallel and you'll get 12 volts. :)
My old boss, Daryl Rinehart, at Logistic Systems wrote his thesis on shortest path routing in a highway system. That was back in the 1960's. In the 1970's and 80's he sold a package to trucking companies to not only route their trucks but to accurately report the minimum mileage a truck could have taken through a state for mileage based fuel tax reporting. If this isn't prior art I don't know what is. He sold out to Rand McNally which licenses the software to all those map companies.
Since Google has the scratch I'll bet that patent will go away in short order.
Didn't Neanderthals have bigger brains?
Apples move to Intel is a threat to Windows not Linux. How many of us wished that MacOS ran on a generic PC platform and how many of us have said in the past that Apple could kill Microsoft of only they's stop being a hardware manufacturer. Well?
Doctors in Edmonton AB Canada developed this technique about 5 years ago. Islet cells (the ones that produce insulin) are removed from cadavers and transplanted into Type 1 diabetic's livers. Apparently islet cell antibodies won't attack "foreign" cells as aggressively in the liver but the patient still needs to take immune suppressant drugs. The down side to all this is that it takes the pancreases of about 5 cadavers to extract enough islets cells for one injection and a full treatment might take several injections. The solution to this is obviously stem cell research but you won't find this breakthrough research being conducted in the US or in any country dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.
Steve's law of disks: Any disk will become 90% full of essential stuff in 6 months.
For Red Hat I use Webmin so I don't have to remember where they put things.
Years ago a friend of mine was laid off from his job at a major University. He had borrowed the world's largest lathe (it was used to turn the 16 inch turrets for WW2 battleships) to build a huge low-pressure test chamber for a plasma fusion experiment. No one asked him where it was or what he had done with it when they gave him 2 weeks notice. A month or two later they discovered, when they did an audit, that my friend had personally borrowed over $10 million worth of equipment. They hired him back immediately when they realized that he was key to the whole lab. Needless to say he's been there ever since and is now close to retiring with a full pension. Where was the lathe? Right under the chamber - he had turned it in place.
None have anything to do with the kernel and none of these require a reboot.
That's BS. I happen to know one fellow who has created 2 test strip/monitor companies and sold them both 10 years apart, the last for over a billion. If you have a good idea find some money people and run with it. The market is huge.
Management at work. Upgrade indeed.
Geesh - anyone ever heard of p-code, perl, python, ruby all use "emulators" that allow once write run many applications. Why do we keep rediscovering the wheel?
That's not the point. The problem, as anyone using Wi-Fi in an urban environment knows, is that 50 networks (SSID) don't fit into the channel space very well. Heck I live way out in the boonies. My nearest neighbor is a quarter mile down the road. I still pick up 2 other networks.
No, Xenix also ran on a PDP-11 and was, in fact, the reference implementation at Microsoft. Yes, dear folks, Microsoft owned Xenix. SCO just sold it.