You do realise that by extracting energy from the sea you will be affecting the currents and temperature gradients, and this will have a knock on effect on the weather?
You may think 0.5mA is not much, but just wait until Canada turns into a barren desert and then you'll be sorry.
But Microsoft doesn't use the bundled software to do their work (yet).
When you leave a Windows XP machine left on, it doesn't download workunits from MS, process them and send them back, using your bandwidth and your electricity.
Once the client starts receiving and transmitting data it shouldn't be hard to get a rough idea of what's being transmitted and then we can start sending duff data to their servers. It doesn't matter whether we know what the data is or not, it just going to be a binary chunk with probably a checksum somewhere. Fill their servers with random data and see how long they want to continue using our resources
Obviously Disney must have had huge control on how their characters were used but this still smells of gimmick... Disney characters don't hang around in space and have major battles.
The damning quote from the review...
"What`s really great about Kingdom Hearts is that throw aside all the Disney and Square references, and you still seem to have an enjoyable game"
If you're going to have a game/book/movie/whatever with famous characters in it then the work ought to have some reliance and relevance to those characters. Don't just drop them in to make a quick buck.
Yeah... I know, this is major corporations at work and I ought to know better than to whine about greed in this day and age... oh well.
Are the blind etc. as fanatical about Linux and community projects as much as the non-blind? After all, the alternatives may have their problems but accessibility isn't one of them.
The alternate worlds are very different though. Modern Oxford, Oxford 100 years ago with magic, the land with the wheeled creatures.
Lyra never meets another Lyra who happened to have strawberry jam instead of raspberry one breakfast 3 years and is therefore now queen of the world. The characters never(*) meet alternate versions of themselves at all. (Unless you consider Will and Lyra to be too similar to each other for comfort)
(*) It has been a while since I read it, so I hope my memory is correct.
well-drawn characters, detailed worlds, and intricate plotting
I agree with the first two; it is well written. Realise, however, that it is a children's book. They plot may be intricate for its target audience, but it's been a while since I was that young, but it it is pretty much A to B to C stuff for adults. There is a single plot line for much of the 1st book and the latter books have a couple of sets of protagonists.
The trilogy is an entertaining, but quick, read for an adult.
The spark-chamber experiments simulated conditions on earth. Warm, wet with an atmosphere. These show amino acids can be created in space. Cold vacuum filled with nasty radiation.
Chemically it's the same - you're making the same compounds from the same ingredients. Physically it seems pretty similar too. Put lots of energy in to break everything apart and hope the bits come together in the right way with a means to carry off the excess energy (so the acids stay together)
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So, there is a noise source producing sound energy and I have a so-called noise cancelling machine producing out-of-phase sound energy.
The end result is no sound, therefore energy has been destroyed.
This violates all the fundamental rules of nature.
I urge you not to build this thing
Can something be called popular when a story about Quake on the Newton gets 0 comments?
Look at the graph on page 5.
The original version (yellow) is always significantly better than the "optimized" version (green).
I hope they have the key wrong; or Steve Schmitt needs to rethink his optimisations.
You do realise that by extracting energy from the sea you will be affecting the currents and temperature gradients, and this will have a knock on effect on the weather?
You may think 0.5mA is not much, but just wait until Canada turns into a barren desert and then you'll be sorry.
But Microsoft doesn't use the bundled software to do their work (yet).
When you leave a Windows XP machine left on, it doesn't download workunits from MS, process them and send them back, using your bandwidth and your electricity.
I'm not sure if this is an april fools joke or not
It's in their annual report and I don't think the SEC like jokes.
Once the client starts receiving and transmitting data it shouldn't be hard to get a rough idea of what's being transmitted and then we can start sending duff data to their servers.
It doesn't matter whether we know what the data is or not, it just going to be a binary chunk with probably a checksum somewhere. Fill their servers with random data and see how long they want to continue using our resources
How much would Microsoft have to pay for a slashvertisment?
How much would Microsoft have to pay to get Moderation disabled on their slashvertisment?
Obviously Disney must have had huge control on how their characters were used but this still smells of gimmick
The damning quote from the review
If you're going to have a game/book/movie/whatever with famous characters in it then the work ought to have some reliance and relevance to those characters. Don't just drop them in to make a quick buck.
Yeah
Are the blind etc. as fanatical about Linux and community projects as much as the non-blind? After all, the alternatives may have their problems but accessibility isn't one of them.
Island do what you want?
Are they poisonous? Do they taste nice?
Try the CDC (scroll down)
Looks like I'm pretty safe this week.
Sign up for it here. 2nd option down.
anti-fans are "freaks"
e.g.
My friends : People I love
My fans : People who love me
My foes : People I hate
My freaks : People who hate me
There's something about this that troubles me.
I can't decide how I would implement the web-form used to sign up for the tour.
Should I use radio buttons,
or a checkbox
Verisign offer Tours of their Virginia NOC. Do they take you there blindfolded?
The massive lasers - two for each molecule - will be a bit of a giveaway though.
And /.'s coverage (18th Jan 2001)
And here's the story from when it was news, last year.
except a bee farts
The alternate worlds are very different though. Modern Oxford, Oxford 100 years ago with magic, the land with the wheeled creatures.
Lyra never meets another Lyra who happened to have strawberry jam instead of raspberry one breakfast 3 years and is therefore now queen of the world. The characters never(*) meet alternate versions of themselves at all. (Unless you consider Will and Lyra to be too similar to each other for comfort)
(*) It has been a while since I read it, so I hope my memory is correct.
The back cover is here.
well-drawn characters, detailed worlds, and intricate plotting
I agree with the first two; it is well written. Realise, however, that it is a children's book. They plot may be intricate for its target audience, but it's been a while since I was that young, but it it is pretty much A to B to C stuff for adults. There is a single plot line for much of the 1st book and the latter books have a couple of sets of protagonists.
The trilogy is an entertaining, but quick, read for an adult.
So will the rest of the scientific community!
Amino acids are the component parts of proteins, not DNA.
The spark-chamber experiments simulated conditions on earth. Warm, wet with an atmosphere. These show amino acids can be created in space. Cold vacuum filled with nasty radiation.
Chemically it's the same - you're making the same compounds from the same ingredients. Physically it seems pretty similar too. Put lots of energy in to break everything apart and hope the bits come together in the right way with a means to carry off the excess energy (so the acids stay together)