Further evidence that time and space is an illusion. Nothing really exists. Anything is possible except waking up. Rod Sterling [would be => is => will be ] proud .
Now the problem comes in when I try to get work. People hire me because they think they can pay me less because of my degree when in fact I'm one of the top programmers in the world.
Who would have thunk it? An "anonymous coward" claiming to be one of the world best programmers.
I would pay you less just because you made that statement.
Sure you don't need a fan in a power supply for TWT's. That's because they are usually mounted to a cold plate along with the TWT. The cold plate is liquid cooled with coolanol, a silion based coolant. The pumps pumping the coolant are 20 time as loud as any PC. PC power supplies really don't require a fan either. The fan is used to suck air from the front of the case to the back. A CPU fan is useless if you don't have sufficient air flow. Putting a PSU without a fan in many cases will cause your CPU to overheat. The way to fix it is guess what? Add a fan, you don't gain anything.
Z80 processor, tape drive, programmed in basic. I didn't have another computer until I bought an Atari 800XL. After that it was commodore 64,126 Amiga. I didn't buy a PC until 94.
I agree. My only problem with evolution is the way it was presented to me in school. In school both high school and college, evolution was used to explain how life evolved and was used by two different teachers/professors as a basis to declare "there is no god". Now evolution only explains the process of change in already living creatures. We do it when we select different attributes in breeding stock. We even come close to mutating a different species by combining a horse and a donkey. It produces a mule which cannot reproduce, but if we were to use a closer cousin to both the horse & donkey and breed that with the horse & the donkey eventually you could get a very mule like animal that would be able to reproduce.
But what evolution does not and cannot ever do is disprove the theory of a creator. You cannot take chemicals and have them naturally select to become life. You cannot zap some organic coumpounds and have them start forming cells, or viruses and reproduce. Evolution does not explain life, nor is it an excuse for athiests.
Intelligent Design like any belief in a god or higher being requires a leap of faith. It shouldn't be used in the classroom. And likewise people who use it to support their "belief" system ie. "no God" don't belong in a classroom teaching science either. What a lot of the christian right is doing is trying to legislate their belief system. It's a knee jerk reaction to the athiests in the ACLU. The ACLU was founded by and continues to be funded by athiests and marxists to promote their beliefs. Islam, goes the same route to a much greater extreme. Athiests only have to look to Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao etc. They are all nuts!
Well if a city can take someones home to get higher taxes, what is to stop it from being taken and given away for the greater good? In fact that is one eminent domain seizure I can whole heartedly agree with.
Here is a little more perspective. One moron does not mean there is a concerted effort by the White House to prove Intelligent Design. I work for NASA in atmospheric sciences, for the past 10 years it has been well known to get funding for a project, "You Need to Ty it to Climate Change and Global Warming". If your study doesn't have a climatological tie in, good luck getting funding. So the one the that screams the loudest "it's the end of the world as we know it", gets publicity and therefore usually, funding. Some of the statements made by supposedly bright scientists include the often heard.
"This is the warmest global temperature since 1700"
Well since they didn't have electronic instruments, satellite systems, Arctic & Antarctic measuring stations, a some what stable international picture and international cooperation among scientists globally, how accurate do you think the global temperature measurments were from WWI and before?
I'm not saying that man has or has not negatively affected his environment and global temperatures, my bet is we have. But making unsubstantiated statements and bold claims not supported by good science can lead people to doubt anything you say or do. Look at the cloning issue in Korea, Scientists do have their own politcal agendas. Want to know what was the most visited sites by our network in 2005 besides Google? MoveOn.org & the Drudge Report.
NASA is now mostly staffed by corporations with cooperation of Universities and foriegn governments. You want to see cheap spin offs? How about commercial satelites, weather applets on PC's showing satellite imagery, google maps?
If not, I would argue that we don't need it right now. NASA to me was always a ploy to keep us aware of communism and the USSR.
Yeah we have track Russian Movements so we send satellites past pluto! You forget that pure science can be extremely expensive. Somethings don't have immediate benefits and profit. It is unlikely one could ever raise the kind of money needed from corporations. They tend to be short sighted and expect returns immediately. You can't get a company to bet it's future on sending a rocket into deep space to see try to understand why previous rockets aren't where they were projected to be. A company could care less about unexplained spacecraft acceleration.
Pure science might not deliver for a hundred years. Benjamin Franklin studied electricity look how long it too before Edison, Tesla, Marconi came along and made practical use of it. And how much longer it took before the internet. A company wouldn't have had the forsight. Government has played a large part in aeronautics, electronics, communication and medicine.
Many government discoveries were capitalized by companies and then sold back to the very same government agencies.
You forgot the 4th option.
D) Downloading music becomes mainstream and consumers and voters react strongly. The RIAA screws up and sues a Kennedy, Senator Ed's head swells more and turns a darker red and that was all she wrote. It takes longer but that is the only likely solution to the current RIAA strategy.
So how much trust to do you have in "world wide" temperature monitoring prior to the invention of the computer, telephone and satelites to measure the thermal IR emmission from space?
Actually the reason Bush bybassed the court was because, the court was modifying wiretap requests and sitting on them. The secret court is controlled by the democrats. They had never before modified wiretap requests. This was a case of the democrats stonewalling, the president doing an end run around them and everyone else is fed crap by the media running around yelling police state. Their is so much polarization and bickering, that nothing gets done. It's happening all over washington, you could have a terrorist nuke DC and whoever is left would be pointing fingers at each other ignoring the fact they have a common enemy. Osama Bin Laden would have to blow up hollywood before anyone in the media would focus on him as the enemy and put him on the front page before the "missing pretty girl" story du jour.
Aldridge Ames was wiretapped without a court order. Wiretaps originating from overseas have been routinely tapped for years prior to this administration. I've been to the NSA, I've known quite a few spooks while I was in the Air Intelligence Agency. They do data mining, they take intercepted calls and create a "web" showing associations. This way they can find one terrorists and use his communications to find his associates. This is how they monitor "chatter", by sifting through the conversations they can hopefully piece together a larger plan before someone gets killed. I find it interesting that it's perfectly legal to listen to a terrorists calls overseas but if he calls someone here to discuss a plan to kill people we argue about listening to both sides of the conversation.
What if we listen to the overseas end then the Brits who can legally listen to our outging end do so and then they can get together and compare notes. Don't think that has not already been done. If your talking overseas the US may or may not be monitoring it, but someone over there is. This is not a case of Nixon tapping political enemies phones, this is trying to stop another 911. We seem to forget that this is what this is about. No we're too busy arguing about the finer question of congress actually declaring war on the terrorists, and since the might not have we can't do anything within our ability about them.
I imagine it is easier to translate repetitive phrases such as
"The zionist oppresssor shall be eliminated", "The great Satan America will be destroyed" and "Our martyrs have struck fear in the hearts of the infidels ".
I was in Kuwait and watched arab TV with english subtitles, it was enlightening to say the least. One long tribute to racism paid for by the Amir of Quatar. Only on arab TV will you see such trash as "the jews are descended from pigs".
I just lend people PC for Dummies. I bought it for my mother, and it helped her a lot. I've lent this and a couple of other Dummies books for Office & Windows it usually keeps them from asking the really dumb questions. Except for one individual who has a notebook with written instructions on reading his email. Go to the email icon on the desktop, click twice etc., he is beyond all hope.
It's also a slang term for non-judicial punishment,letter of reprimand, article 15 etc. Yes, it also means spanking. The term corporal punishment, is a variation from the term "slap on the wrist".
"Will Sony face future repercussions for this potentially long-term damage?"
Sony won't be harmed at all. But since this incident an Air Force unit I used to belong to can no play music cd's on computers. Doing so can result in corporal punishment.
The reason I don't use it is because I already have a free webhost and up to 10 email addresses with my ISP, why would I want to pay for something my ISP already gives me? Now if it were free, I might be advertising apples domain instead of cox! The OS X integration with.mac is nice but pay for it? I'll just ftp my files to the free webhost thank you. $99 is way over priced for place to put family photos and store a few files!
Codeweavers does wonders, I have a powerbook with Office 2004 for Mac but I use OpenOffice more because that's usually what I'm on. I found MathCad on Linux with codeweavers is exactly the same user experience as natively for me. I do all my presentations with OpenOffice it's got alot better interface than powerpoint.
The point I was making is yes, the CONITS contract is for Windows. But except for managers and admin and such, hardly anybody is using them. If I do all of my work on a Linux box, including sending emails and surfing slashdot in my spare time, and never even turn on the windows machine except when instructed to run windows update. Which is my desktop? The machine in front of me I'm typing on now or the one turned off behind me? The technical staff here is almost all contractor, out numbering nasa employees 12 - 1, it's the technical people who don't care which OS they use as long as it has a unix heritage. Yes we have workstations here lot's of them, most are not Linux. It's the guys that want to use ssh, not putty, bash not dos prompt and cannot stand Norton Internet Security or a system tray that takes 4 minutes to finish loading.
Well I work at NASA Langley and have worked at Goddard. In peoples cubicles you will find mostly RedHat Linux or a few have SGI & Sun workstations. We have two Clusters running RedHat. We have about 25 Origin servers (about 300k each), 20 or so Sun & SGI workstations and a very large AMASS tape storage system (5 silos).
Most cubicles have a windows machines in addition to the others, that windows machine is the only thing supported by the CONITS contract. JPL mission control is not indicative of all of NASA.
Most developers I work with have Linux desktops and or laptops, some dual boot with windows. System admins around here seem to prefer SGI's, they scarf up many of the used SGI workstations as they get upgraded or bid on pallets of discarded ones. Some have Linux Boxes, and a group of them are using FreeBSD! I had a compact Alpha running Redhat until about 6 Months ago. Now I'm using FC4 on a AMD64 system, and I have a company bought powerbook.
Among the scientists it's about 65% Windows with Linux making up almost all of the rest. Windows Laptops were running almost 100%. But every meeting I see an new Powerbook on the desks. Last Science team meeting I attended had about 5 powerbooks and the same number of windows laptops. I remember 3 years ago I had the only powerbook in the room. Mine is still the only one that dual boots Yellow Dog. It's my uber geek badge;)
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Further evidence that time and space is an illusion. Nothing really exists. Anything is possible except waking up. Rod Sterling [would be => is => will be ] proud .
Who would have thunk it? An "anonymous coward" claiming to be one of the world best programmers. I would pay you less just because you made that statement.
Sure you don't need a fan in a power supply for TWT's. That's because they are usually mounted to a cold plate along with the TWT. The cold plate is liquid cooled with coolanol, a silion based coolant. The pumps pumping the coolant are 20 time as loud as any PC. PC power supplies really don't require a fan either. The fan is used to suck air from the front of the case to the back. A CPU fan is useless if you don't have sufficient air flow. Putting a PSU without a fan in many cases will cause your CPU to overheat. The way to fix it is guess what? Add a fan, you don't gain anything.
If I were apple I would have bought Beos, the beos micro kernel put Mach to shame. I suspect that someone at Apple is in love with micro-kernels.
I was an EW technician in the AirForce, we had a processor that used bubble memory. That was about 1981.
Z80 processor, tape drive, programmed in basic. I didn't have another computer until I bought an Atari 800XL. After that it was commodore 64,126 Amiga. I didn't buy a PC until 94.
But what evolution does not and cannot ever do is disprove the theory of a creator. You cannot take chemicals and have them naturally select to become life. You cannot zap some organic coumpounds and have them start forming cells, or viruses and reproduce. Evolution does not explain life, nor is it an excuse for athiests. Intelligent Design like any belief in a god or higher being requires a leap of faith. It shouldn't be used in the classroom. And likewise people who use it to support their "belief" system ie. "no God" don't belong in a classroom teaching science either. What a lot of the christian right is doing is trying to legislate their belief system. It's a knee jerk reaction to the athiests in the ACLU. The ACLU was founded by and continues to be funded by athiests and marxists to promote their beliefs. Islam, goes the same route to a much greater extreme. Athiests only have to look to Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao etc. They are all nuts!
Well if a city can take someones home to get higher taxes, what is to stop it from being taken and given away for the greater good? In fact that is one eminent domain seizure I can whole heartedly agree with.
"This is the warmest global temperature since 1700"
Well since they didn't have electronic instruments, satellite systems, Arctic & Antarctic measuring stations, a some what stable international picture and international cooperation among scientists globally, how accurate do you think the global temperature measurments were from WWI and before?
I'm not saying that man has or has not negatively affected his environment and global temperatures, my bet is we have. But making unsubstantiated statements and bold claims not supported by good science can lead people to doubt anything you say or do. Look at the cloning issue in Korea, Scientists do have their own politcal agendas. Want to know what was the most visited sites by our network in 2005 besides Google? MoveOn.org & the Drudge Report.
If not, I would argue that we don't need it right now. NASA to me was always a ploy to keep us aware of communism and the USSR.
Yeah we have track Russian Movements so we send satellites past pluto! You forget that pure science can be extremely expensive. Somethings don't have immediate benefits and profit. It is unlikely one could ever raise the kind of money needed from corporations. They tend to be short sighted and expect returns immediately. You can't get a company to bet it's future on sending a rocket into deep space to see try to understand why previous rockets aren't where they were projected to be. A company could care less about unexplained spacecraft acceleration.
Pure science might not deliver for a hundred years. Benjamin Franklin studied electricity look how long it too before Edison, Tesla, Marconi came along and made practical use of it. And how much longer it took before the internet. A company wouldn't have had the forsight. Government has played a large part in aeronautics, electronics, communication and medicine. Many government discoveries were capitalized by companies and then sold back to the very same government agencies.
You forgot the 4th option. D) Downloading music becomes mainstream and consumers and voters react strongly. The RIAA screws up and sues a Kennedy, Senator Ed's head swells more and turns a darker red and that was all she wrote. It takes longer but that is the only likely solution to the current RIAA strategy.
Oh so there never has been a religous issue in Uk. Who were do doing all those bombings for the IRA? We better edit this then.
So how much trust to do you have in "world wide" temperature monitoring prior to the invention of the computer, telephone and satelites to measure the thermal IR emmission from space?
Aldridge Ames was wiretapped without a court order. Wiretaps originating from overseas have been routinely tapped for years prior to this administration. I've been to the NSA, I've known quite a few spooks while I was in the Air Intelligence Agency. They do data mining, they take intercepted calls and create a "web" showing associations. This way they can find one terrorists and use his communications to find his associates. This is how they monitor "chatter", by sifting through the conversations they can hopefully piece together a larger plan before someone gets killed. I find it interesting that it's perfectly legal to listen to a terrorists calls overseas but if he calls someone here to discuss a plan to kill people we argue about listening to both sides of the conversation.
What if we listen to the overseas end then the Brits who can legally listen to our outging end do so and then they can get together and compare notes. Don't think that has not already been done. If your talking overseas the US may or may not be monitoring it, but someone over there is. This is not a case of Nixon tapping political enemies phones, this is trying to stop another 911. We seem to forget that this is what this is about. No we're too busy arguing about the finer question of congress actually declaring war on the terrorists, and since the might not have we can't do anything within our ability about them.
I was in Kuwait and watched arab TV with english subtitles, it was enlightening to say the least. One long tribute to racism paid for by the Amir of Quatar. Only on arab TV will you see such trash as "the jews are descended from pigs".
I just lend people PC for Dummies. I bought it for my mother, and it helped her a lot. I've lent this and a couple of other Dummies books for Office & Windows it usually keeps them from asking the really dumb questions. Except for one individual who has a notebook with written instructions on reading his email. Go to the email icon on the desktop, click twice etc., he is beyond all hope.
It's also a slang term for non-judicial punishment,letter of reprimand, article 15 etc. Yes, it also means spanking. The term corporal punishment, is a variation from the term "slap on the wrist".
Sony won't be harmed at all. But since this incident an Air Force unit I used to belong to can no play music cd's on computers. Doing so can result in corporal punishment.
Find another ISP.
The reason I don't use it is because I already have a free webhost and up to 10 email addresses with my ISP, why would I want to pay for something my ISP already gives me? Now if it were free, I might be advertising apples domain instead of cox! The OS X integration with .mac is nice but pay for it? I'll just ftp my files to the free webhost thank you. $99 is way over priced for place to put family photos and store a few files!
Codeweavers does wonders, I have a powerbook with Office 2004 for Mac but I use OpenOffice more because that's usually what I'm on. I found MathCad on Linux with codeweavers is exactly the same user experience as natively for me. I do all my presentations with OpenOffice it's got alot better interface than powerpoint.
The point I was making is yes, the CONITS contract is for Windows. But except for managers and admin and such, hardly anybody is using them. If I do all of my work on a Linux box, including sending emails and surfing slashdot in my spare time, and never even turn on the windows machine except when instructed to run windows update. Which is my desktop? The machine in front of me I'm typing on now or the one turned off behind me? The technical staff here is almost all contractor, out numbering nasa employees 12 - 1, it's the technical people who don't care which OS they use as long as it has a unix heritage. Yes we have workstations here lot's of them, most are not Linux. It's the guys that want to use ssh, not putty, bash not dos prompt and cannot stand Norton Internet Security or a system tray that takes 4 minutes to finish loading.
Most cubicles have a windows machines in addition to the others, that windows machine is the only thing supported by the CONITS contract. JPL mission control is not indicative of all of NASA.
Most developers I work with have Linux desktops and or laptops, some dual boot with windows. System admins around here seem to prefer SGI's, they scarf up many of the used SGI workstations as they get upgraded or bid on pallets of discarded ones. Some have Linux Boxes, and a group of them are using FreeBSD! I had a compact Alpha running Redhat until about 6 Months ago. Now I'm using FC4 on a AMD64 system, and I have a company bought powerbook.
Among the scientists it's about 65% Windows with Linux making up almost all of the rest. Windows Laptops were running almost 100%. But every meeting I see an new Powerbook on the desks. Last Science team meeting I attended had about 5 powerbooks and the same number of windows laptops. I remember 3 years ago I had the only powerbook in the room. Mine is still the only one that dual boots Yellow Dog. It's my uber geek badge ;)
OS X Tiger calls it's Konfabulator clone Dashbord.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here, don't you mean pride.