I'm going to patent a method for exercising dogs then.
Very tenuous link between story and lifters
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I don't see anything in the text of the article about lifters, UFOs, or anything of the sort. All rather tenuous.
Can someone else see anything that has to do with homemade high voltage electricity toys?
Incidentally, this all reminds me of the high voltage stuff that came from science toys a while back: aluminium foil on your CRT linked to a polystyrene cup with foil on it making a motor out of simple office equipement.
I have Opera under KDE, and yes, the bar has more height than usual.
I can't easily tell from the HTML why this is being rendered like that, but I think there is a class for one of the input styles which is not referenced.
I don't know about all this. Increasing yields, paying huge sums of money... in the end, it still means that less and less human intervention is needed, less jobs are created, big farms get richer and smaller farms just can't keep up.
It's not really like technology is helping democratise here, is it?
Go to the link about the actual project. Look at the PDF. It explains things quite well, it's a wicked thang that is happening...
Here, for the lazy, are some of the objectives:
Computational modeling,multi-disciplinary simulation,and scientific data analysis with a world-wide scope of participants and the use of computing and data resources at many sites.
High Energy Physics data analysis that involves hundreds of collaborators,and tens of institutions providing data and computing resources
Observational cosmology that involves data collection from a world-wide collection of instruments, analysis of that data to re-target the instruments,and subsequent comparison of the observational data with simulation results
Climate modeling that involves coupling simulations running on different supercomputers
Real-time data analysis and collaboration involving on-line instruments,especially those that are unique national resources
Generation, management, and use of very large,complex data archives that are shared across global science communities e..g.high energy physics data,earth environment data,human genome data
Collaborative,interactive analysis and visualization of massive datasets e.g.DOEs Combustion Corridor project
Multi-disciplinary R&D that integrates the computing and data aspects of the different scientific disciplines.
Thus, the applications are enormous. Not that you couldn't do it distributed across desktops à la SETI, but here we're talking data integrity, and let's not forget that even SETI has a kick-ass centralised server setup or the whole thing wouldn't work anyway.
But especially interesting is the document filename:-
Is there? Or is it rather that there is plenty of science in art. Generally, research shows that art itself, if generally accepted to be "good", harks back to some scientific principle. Like most portraits having part of the eye along the central vertical axis, etc. It's all about geometry and natural forms, which all come down to science of molecule binding, the way atoms arrange themselves, etc.
For more on portraits and face perception, see this link on Amazon, to the book of the study by 3 Scottish postgrads. I saw an exhibition of this at the Scottish National Portrait gallery and it was cool. Lot of science in portrait "art", for sure.
But then... if you're an artist you'd say there was plenty of science in art, and as a scientist the inverse.
What is cool with this origami stuff is that really folding in the natural world (protein folding, etc) predates everything by several million years. Now they're playing catchup, and it's getting really interesting.
The interesting thing about all this is that hackers and geeks will always be ahead of the game, and the best police in the business won't be up with the technology.
Why? Because good hackers and good netizens ain't going to join the police:)
...post comments about the conception part, and watch 50% or more of posts go on about their kids being conceived there, shagging in ice and all that.
The CNN article, apart from giving fodder to go on about Arctic Sex, is uninteresting. Nothing scientific about it, just pure, watered down, stretched out simple fact.
You could write it like this: The North Pole is moving. People might go and look at it. Some even conceive there.
I can't believe, in this age of information, that CmdrTaco could post something like that.
I see you are on the Israeli side, but even if you are, you are nulling your argument by calling the Palestinian people scum.
I cry inside to think that intelligent people have not analysed the situation, and the reason the Palestinians are fighting, and just diminish them to "scum".
Can't see that any real typists will ever use this. Can't see it being useful on a train or in any moving vehicle. Can't see it being allowed in planes. Medical use, sure, I can see that one.
Useful gimmick for your Palm? In a meeting you say suddenly "can you clear me a keyboard sized space while I project my virtual keyboard to type notes at a small amount of words per minute" and such.
Perhaps you will spill your coffee on the projection area and end up writing a masterpiece, like random monkeys in front of typewriters?
Anybody also note that it comes from Israel. Boycott it if you support human rights and equal opportunities and all that. Then, at least, you can participate in a _real_ revolution and not some virtual fad revolution that apparently, happen EVERY day with some new gimmick that is going to revolutionise our lives.
Perhaps he would not even be in this mess if he did not tell Qualcomm. ( The company who owns the secure mail deamon Qmail) After all they were the ones who went to the FBI after machines were getting owned with a 0-day exploit for qpop. In his post to BugTraq he did say "I found this overflow myself earlier this month. Seems someone else recently found it before Qualcomm was able to issue a patch." But lets not be naive, he is a smart kid.
Isn't Qmail open source, and Qpopper what he is talking about really?
What a great age we live in, where you can teach YOURSELF your entire profession!
Since time immemorial, the principle of being self taught has been prevalent throughout society. Especially in the arts, but also in Sciences, where people read books and all that and became famous without any professional qualification.
The difference with Internet, is that you can learn about it by using it, from anywhere, at the same time as everyone else, and it truly is becoming a universal skill.
But in all, apart from overuse of the exclamation mark, a reasonable review.
Just the kind of attitude that keeps Microsoft at the top.
Being different is what Apple are all about, to believe their advertising campaign of 98-99
And Linux is be different too.
Shame on you I bet you listed to MP3s with WMP and not XMMS or WinAmp. Think about what that means for the self-perpetuating monopoly that is Microsoft. Does it have the best products? No. But it has people like you who default to using their software because you don't have the energy to go use something else. And PAY them for the privilege.
There is not ONE Microsoft product which can beat an equivalent Open Source product. Not ONE.
However, than Real / Apple Darwin share equivalent honours, is interesting. However, Real have content, coporate sponsorship, and perhaps the easiest "player" concept.
However, they are working hard to make money. Apple, on the other hand, already have a number of companies that subscribe to Apple for the graphics capability, are more likely to be streaming, and will use their product. They may well use it to sell Apple (even if it is cross platform) to their niche audience.
I mean, if you have OSX, you have a Mac. And you didn't actually buy the Mac to run BSD, you bought it because it was cool/great for graphics/already used by your publishing company, etc.... no? Even if you ARE pleasantly surprised that OSX's shell is familiar, is cool, can run all your favourite friends like apache, named, etc...)
Considering how much that rich US guy paid to go up to the Space station, $100,000 is a snap!
However you may moan and groan, they probably have a reasonable market for this kind of thing. I remember my ex boss, for example, who said things like $1,000,000 for a house, cheap don't you think? When of course my house was costing me the earth (for me) at a mere $100,000....
You can run reasonable quality audio over about 30-50m of CAT5 and then solder phone jacks on the end and plug it into your stereo, or buy a cheap amplifier and be done with it.
So what is the advantage of this box? Doesn't appear to have Remote control, and anyway, you could use remote control for your PC as it is.
Great if you have the money, but my PC with DVD sends audio and video over about 20m of CAT5 and the Audio and Video quality are just fine thank you very much (using Composite signal from TV out card).
The collaborative nature of Internet is, in the case of 99% of/. readers, clearly something that is important in today's business.
Those people who don't "get it" will eventually, as long as their business is one that is clearly in need of Internet.
Here in Africa, Internet is very expensive, but HUGE amounts of development money are spent connecting people, because Education and Development can only be improved by having access to the wonderful resources made available on the net.
The Americans have already got it. These virtual company psychiatrists are all very well, but the point is that this is stage two or three of the process, not stage one.
I'm all for content like this, but frankly what I am really interested in is information for development, learning, self improvement. It's only the developed world that have gone on from the "obvious" that is net and are spending time with such frivolity.
I have a set of Wharfedale flat panel speakers, which use similar technology I suppose. The sound quality is decidedly "thin" and the old magnet driven cones beat it hands down.
I would love to see a more technical analysis of the soundbug and I looked around.
However, I did not find a nice frequency response graph based on some standard material like a pane of glass one metre square, or MY office desk;-) for example.
In all, it looks reasonably cool, and I can see applications everywhere. Now, when am I going to be able to get one in Morocco??
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I'm going to patent a method for exercising dogs then.
I don't see anything in the text of the article about lifters, UFOs, or anything of the sort. All rather tenuous.
Can someone else see anything that has to do with homemade high voltage electricity toys?
Incidentally, this all reminds me of the high voltage stuff that came from science toys a while back: aluminium foil on your CRT linked to a polystyrene cup with foil on it making a motor out of simple office equipement.
I have Opera under KDE, and yes, the bar has more height than usual.
I can't easily tell from the HTML why this is being rendered like that, but I think there is a class for one of the input styles which is not referenced.
I don't have the HTML of the other to compare.
I don't know about all this. Increasing yields, paying huge sums of money... in the end, it still means that less and less human intervention is needed, less jobs are created, big farms get richer and smaller farms just can't keep up.
It's not really like technology is helping democratise here, is it?
Well until hard disks are sold in Gibibytes I'll assume everyone is following the multiples of 1024 type scenario
Here, for the lazy, are some of the objectives:
Thus, the applications are enormous. Not that you couldn't do it distributed across desktops à la SETI, but here we're talking data integrity, and let's not forget that even SETI has a kick-ass centralised server setup or the whole thing wouldn't work anyway.
But especially interesting is the document filename:-
DOE_Science_Grid_Collaboratory_Pilot_Proposal_03_1 4.nobudget.pdf
Now, who can get me the version WITH the budget? I want it. Hehe.
Is there? Or is it rather that there is plenty of science in art. Generally, research shows that art itself, if generally accepted to be "good", harks back to some scientific principle. Like most portraits having part of the eye along the central vertical axis, etc. It's all about geometry and natural forms, which all come down to science of molecule binding, the way atoms arrange themselves, etc.
For more on portraits and face perception, see this link on Amazon, to the book of the study by 3 Scottish postgrads. I saw an exhibition of this at the Scottish National Portrait gallery and it was cool. Lot of science in portrait "art", for sure.
But then... if you're an artist you'd say there was plenty of science in art, and as a scientist the inverse.
What is cool with this origami stuff is that really folding in the natural world (protein folding, etc) predates everything by several million years. Now they're playing catchup, and it's getting really interesting.
Now.. what is perhaps more worrying is that some retro furniture designer could start making awful 70s plastic chairs and they may never fully die?
The interesting thing about all this is that hackers and geeks will always be ahead of the game, and the best police in the business won't be up with the technology.
:)
Why? Because good hackers and good netizens ain't going to join the police
Simon
...post comments about the conception part, and watch 50% or more of posts go on about their kids being conceived there, shagging in ice and all that.
The CNN article, apart from giving fodder to go on about Arctic Sex, is uninteresting. Nothing scientific about it, just pure, watered down, stretched out simple fact.
You could write it like this:
The North Pole is moving. People might go and look at it. Some even conceive there.
That's it.
OK so I didn't bother to look, which means I will remove my sig.
However, clearly this is a problem with the code. Since when are _spaces_ valid in filenames/logins/user ids/etc
Euh... how can 2 people share one nick?
Please explain
This is a security issue
Yeah, if only... people were all as intelligent as ...insert name here... then there would be no war and all that.
I can't believe, in this age of information, that CmdrTaco could post something like that.
I see you are on the Israeli side, but even if you are, you are nulling your argument by calling the Palestinian people scum.
I cry inside to think that intelligent people have not analysed the situation, and the reason the Palestinians are fighting, and just diminish them to "scum".
I'm disappointed.
Useful gimmick for your Palm? In a meeting you say suddenly "can you clear me a keyboard sized space while I project my virtual keyboard to type notes at a small amount of words per minute" and such.
Perhaps you will spill your coffee on the projection area and end up writing a masterpiece, like random monkeys in front of typewriters?
Anybody also note that it comes from Israel. Boycott it if you support human rights and equal opportunities and all that. Then, at least, you can participate in a _real_ revolution and not some virtual fad revolution that apparently, happen EVERY day with some new gimmick that is going to revolutionise our lives.
Isn't Qmail open source, and Qpopper what he is talking about really?
Qmail, as I understood it, has NEVER been hacked.
Since time immemorial, the principle of being self taught has been prevalent throughout society. Especially in the arts, but also in Sciences, where people read books and all that and became famous without any professional qualification.
The difference with Internet, is that you can learn about it by using it, from anywhere, at the same time as everyone else, and it truly is becoming a universal skill.
But in all, apart from overuse of the exclamation mark, a reasonable review.
I guess we should try
/. as the referrer :)
gnuenemies.org
if we're sending
I should have said not one server product.
They certainly have command of the desktop office suite market.
Just the kind of attitude that keeps Microsoft at the top.
Being different is what Apple are all about, to believe their advertising campaign of 98-99
And Linux is be different too.
Shame on you I bet you listed to MP3s with WMP and not XMMS or WinAmp. Think about what that means for the self-perpetuating monopoly that is Microsoft. Does it have the best products? No. But it has people like you who default to using their software because you don't have the energy to go use something else. And PAY them for the privilege.
There is not ONE Microsoft product which can beat an equivalent Open Source product. Not ONE.
However, than Real / Apple Darwin share equivalent honours, is interesting. However, Real have content, coporate sponsorship, and perhaps the easiest "player" concept.
However, they are working hard to make money. Apple, on the other hand, already have a number of companies that subscribe to Apple for the graphics capability, are more likely to be streaming, and will use their product. They may well use it to sell Apple (even if it is cross platform) to their niche audience.
I mean, if you have OSX, you have a Mac. And you didn't actually buy the Mac to run BSD, you bought it because it was cool/great for graphics/already used by your publishing company, etc.... no? Even if you ARE pleasantly surprised that OSX's shell is familiar, is cool, can run all your favourite friends like apache, named, etc...)
Considering how much that rich US guy paid to go up to the Space station, $100,000 is a snap!
However you may moan and groan, they probably have a reasonable market for this kind of thing. I remember my ex boss, for example, who said things like $1,000,000 for a house, cheap don't you think? When of course my house was costing me the earth (for me) at a mere $100,000....
You can run reasonable quality audio over about 30-50m of CAT5 and then solder phone jacks on the end and plug it into your stereo, or buy a cheap amplifier and be done with it.
So what is the advantage of this box? Doesn't appear to have Remote control, and anyway, you could use remote control for your PC as it is.
Great if you have the money, but my PC with DVD sends audio and video over about 20m of CAT5 and the Audio and Video quality are just fine thank you very much (using Composite signal from TV out card).
Those people who don't "get it" will eventually, as long as their business is one that is clearly in need of Internet.
Here in Africa, Internet is very expensive, but HUGE amounts of development money are spent connecting people, because Education and Development can only be improved by having access to the wonderful resources made available on the net.
The Americans have already got it. These virtual company psychiatrists are all very well, but the point is that this is stage two or three of the process, not stage one.
I'm all for content like this, but frankly what I am really interested in is information for development, learning, self improvement. It's only the developed world that have gone on from the "obvious" that is net and are spending time with such frivolity.
I would love to see a more technical analysis of the soundbug and I looked around.
The official site is here, and has a nice photo.
A german article is here
However, I did not find a nice frequency response graph based on some standard material like a pane of glass one metre square, or MY office desk ;-) for example.
In all, it looks reasonably cool, and I can see applications everywhere. Now, when am I going to be able to get one in Morocco??