damn glad i am atheist
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Want Freedom?
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· Score: 1
don't got no church they can spy on. ha!
you place great faith in the abilities of humans
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Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity
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· Score: 3, Interesting
The implications are scary because several things:
(as it's friday afternoon, I am kinda lazy to provide links, but all should be found on the web here or another)
1) HIV is spreading, and doing so at a faster rate than before. Partly it's because of people are getting the idea that the "cocktail treatment" has effect -- but the truth is that it's not nearly that effective for the amount of casual sex people tend to want to carry.
2) HIV mutates faster than we can come up with drugs for them. some strains, in fact, was resistant / became resistant (through mutation, presumably) even before a vaccine / treatment was made into mass production
3) many leads for possible cure has turned out to be dead-ends. I am sure many have heard about the people (select few, 5% or so?) who contract HIV but does not actually exhibit the symptoms of AIDS for a long time (15-20 years) -- Eventually it turns out that these are people who simply had a combination of good immune system and a "weak" strain of HIV. they eventually got AIDS.
4) vaccination requires a response from the immune system toward an agent (mutated, harmless version of HIV, for example) -- however this response we want to elicit from the immune system is *not a natural one*, meaning that it is not one that occurs, or have been observerd to occur (through much searching, as you could imagine) natually, and worse yet, *MAY NOT EXIST*.
there are a couple others; but unless much more breakthrough level results are obtained, soon, the AIDS epidemic will become a catastrophic event that will have no less impact on the world today as the Black Plague had in times past.
i was refering to the stamping costs involved. not counting the artists and the cover designers etc. just the physical CDs.
I got some CDs stamped before; twas ~50cents in quantities of ~2000 (that's WITH PRINTING), and IIRC the price dropped sharply as the quantity rose (as it should, thanks to the Gold -> mother -> father stamping method); i would not be surpriced if Sony's actual costs per CD (again, excluding case and stuff) are in the single digit region.
i mean -- even if it costed them 50 cents / disc; and then you add the case, the booklet, and the royalties: it's still a *fat* profit margin, eh?
you and i both know that it's just chump change for Sony. i mean... look at the music CD prices for a change? 16.99 for a CD that costs 5 cents to produce? even after royalties and packaging and the ads (and the really expensive RIAA lawyers)... they would still have bundles left over.
so what's a couple million here and there... they probabbly paid it just so Forgent can afford some lawyers and Sony execs can have something to bet on.
Google responds by stating that now all of their pigeons will go through an "intruduction to democracy" short course, and all "bird seed" websites are now ranked by humans instead of the patented "pigeon rank" system.
"I am some poor guy who runs a second-grade website and since I can't get google to list me high, I will elicit some news media to get my site slashdotted"
Moore's law has been exceeded in several tech areas, for a while now.
DRAM is one of those, but the pace is comming back down due to the lack of demand, hence $$, hence research. and ultimately since they are silicon-based.
Flash is another that's been doubling every... i dunno, 8 monthes?
magnetic storage (hard disks) has been working at ~2x moore's law for several years now. it's really not even a good thing anymore because the supply WAY exceeds demand, and several companies are getting out of the business (say, IBM).
there was another sector that was doing the "exceed moore's law" thing but i can't remember right off my head.
i am *convinced* that younger / smaller kids are more adept at games like this than relatively full grown adults like myself.
the key seem to lie within their short, therefore fairly limble (is that a word?) extremeties.
as legs grow longer, it need more and more energy to move them; and unfortunately our "power" (in J/s) grows at an inferior rate compared to volume (and therefore mass) as we get taller (and hopefully longer legs). Hence while a kid can match his legs to a 1/64th beat with no problems, you will sweat and pant and cry for miracles before your legs can keep up.
and last thing: most "soft" pads are no match for the arcade pad's quality. and i generally recommend against the soft ones cuz they and usually too sensitive and when you go to the arcade you tend to not press the button hard enough to reigster a hit. (if you practice with the "hard hit", you will torn up your pads mighty quick).
go on ebay for some "hard" pads, or build your own. it's probabbly going to get you much further.
It seems that they are not expecting you to be connected to the internet while you are phoning, and if they are using the POTS, you get a maximum data-rate of 53.2kbps, which will have to carry your voice data AND the video data, both ways.
so it either means REALLY bad quality video, or really SLOW video, either of which seem quite pointless.
I videoconference every night with about ~200kbps, and the quality still can stand improvement.
I am not completely sure about HK, but in Japan, it seems that houses are rarely renovated, as in the US, but much more frequently torn down and rebuilt altogether. Some people blame it on the "bad taste" of the previous owners and their funky designs of the house, and then build some funky design themselves.
Is situations like that -- when the interior can be EASILY re-configured, you bet it would be much more efficient. It would also have the added advantage of being able to just create a room for, say a baby.
I mean, the alternatives are shoddy at best: most interior partitions people built themselves are not exactly fire-code compliant; and have people come in and actually do professional work costs a CHUNK of cash. have ceiling-high configuable walls would be a dream! i am just worried about the wall strength (kids running into them), acoustic damping (sex in the next room), and plumbing (probabbly harder to wire than electrical, no?)...
otherwise I am all for it.
p.s. there has always been talks of "modular apartments" and the such. I am really kind of disappointed that they havn't show up more often. but this is a good direction
Probabbly some VP of Dell got drunk with some VP of HP and made a bet: "if you go with Corel then I go too".
And some other VP got too much coke in him when the Corel salesguys are around and probabbly said dumb stuff like "if you (Corel Wordperfect) can last to 2002 then I will ship all PCs with it!" and was caught on tape.
so one after another, the chips fall.
Otherwise, i warn you (everyone) to be wise and cautious. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" -- it is taken out of context of the original meaning -- but still rings very true here. it's a fine line between cautious and paranoia, but when big money is on the line, i'd err on the side of too cautious rather than not sufficiently so.
within it mentions an experiment where some lab rats were kept awake for ~2 weeks (the longest human record is 11 days) and then they died. the acticle keep emphasizing that it was not proven that the death was caused by sleep depravation. but well... They just don't want to admit that they tortured a buncha cute lil mice to death.
on a even MORE related point: try red bull / blue donkey / green chicken and all that -- they seem to work pretty well. i drove across the US (SJ to NY) on those. 2 bux a can (8.6 oz) is steep, but hey -- when you gotta stay awake, you GOTTA stay awake.
lastly... erm... try some speed. they work too, so i hear.
you can carry weapons to modify the environment in real-time as you multi-player.
imagine a "wall gun". somebody is running, running, you shoot, and a wall (of spikes) appear in front of him. he can't stop in time and loses 30% health. you laugh your ass off until another team-member hits the ground you are standing on with an "infinite abyss canon".
you can also do texture guns / mirror guns etc. imagine painting all the walls into (100%) reflective surfaces in real time, when you run into an enemy. (like in bruce-lee movies). or even spray the texture of yourself all over the place.
it would make an interesting game, for sure.
it would also make excellent "god" games. where you raise the lava or cause huge chasms in the ground, etc.
I really, really did not expect that many people out there to be buying the penis enlargment pills. I mean... think about it for a moment here: It is really indicative of either a) a lot of people are erm... sub-par intelligence-wise. or b) porn / magazine / whatever has gotten a lot of men in a same gridlock as mannaquins has on women: except while you have the "our store sells clothes to 'real women' and we use 'natual models'", you won't ever find a "real-sized penis men's club"... when's the last time you really saw "size small" condoms on sale? c) or both.
it is really worth worrying to a certain degree. as for the part that basically says "sex sells," well no kidding...
with the "keychain USB flash storage thingys" multiplying size every couple monthes or so, why DO you need to shell out that much dough for DVD burners?
i mean, i can get 512MB worth of go-anywhere storage on a key chain. OR i can get credit card sized CDR worth 30M or so for a quarter or so each. so... what's the benefit of a 5 dollar DVDR disk again?
i'd say money is better spent on wireless connectivity, bluetooth and the like, which is more convenient, less hassle, and no ongoing maintainence cost (media).
for archival purposes (the above has been regard to data-sharing), get a second hard disk. i am willing to say that everyone (personal use) has the CRITICAL data which would all fit onto about a CD, maybe two. kids who do video editing or whatever may need more, but then they already got DVDR and stuff already anyway... me as average joe, i am sticking with floppies.
interesting, but nontheless silly idea
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Electric Armor
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· Score: 1, Redundant
okay. let's first work out how much energy is needed to vaporize a chunk of copper.
grumble grumble -- calculate calculate:
A WHOLE FSCKING LOT. not an amount you will get out of a parallel plate capacitor the size of the tank's outer area.
okay you say: i will connect an external capacitor (like one of those nifty maxwell energy discharge capacitors.)
okay... fine. let us suppose that it worked; you charge up the sucker to 75kv, and without even bothering with the physics (10kJ does not vaporize that much copper, btw) -- let's say it worked. and bam we got ourselves a stopped charge.
what happens then? you used up your juice -- the copper vapor does not stay vaporized forever, you know. so there we got some copper solder (pretty much) bridging between the two nodes. do you think you can EVER recharge that capacitor? nope
okay you say: let's divide the outer surface into areas and dis-joint them. THAT WOULD SURELY WORK, right? if one "plate" stops a charge, the others are still charged up and ready to go.
so now let's consider the SIZE of the things. two points become blatently obvious: 1) if you divide the surface area of the tank into small areas, no way in heck will you get enough capacitance on them things to have any effect lest you charge them up to about 750 million volts. goot luck finding a dielectric to withstand that. (or a power-supply, for than matter) 2) given the above, we will be using discharge capacitors individually for each division of the armor. anybody who ever saw a picture of an energy discharge capacitor already know this is rediculous. those things are HUGE. i mean it: the casing can fit a person. not mentioning the weight of all the capacitor oil and dielectric material inside.
so in a last effort, lets suggest: one capacitor, many divisions. we can relay the divisions in and out of the charge section.
HA! relay = massive inductance. don't expect any kind of realistic "copper vaporizing" current if you use a relay. btw... with any kind of respectable current, your relay is probabbly the only thing that will be vaporizing.
They keep changing the units from KM to Mile across the article. an annoying feature, and really points out that it was rather rushed and the reporter probabbly just copied some figures and pasted them together.
so what about using MacroVision - disabling VCRs? how about speeding on highways?
IMHO the army and the FBI is taking this *way* too seriously. I mean, fine if they were doing this for criminal intent, then alright. but proceeding with criminal prosecutions? that's 158% bullshit.
the sad fact is unless you generate some publicity, a whole lot of times shit in the govn't does not get done. (same with M$, btw). Illinois had ppl warning them for YEARS that they need to seriously wipe the old PC's hard disks they put on auctions; and what did they do? promptly ignored it until someday ABC channel 7 news (i actually don't remember the channel #, so am making this part up) found out.
i mean, fucking a, i'd appreciate some kind of apology from the army instead of this. instead of "i am tracking down the 'law breakers' and taking a firm stand on unauthorized computer access", i think The Right Thing (tm) to do is actually apologize to ME, Joe Citizen, that they fucked up and should have kept this shit more secure in the first place, and things are being done about it; and they are switching to open source and capable sys admins.
glad my tax dollars are going toward such useful endeavors.
yeah. it's called exchange server. and fscking outlook.
i do wish that people would realize when you kill exchange / outlook combo with something with similar functionality but either not-on-windown-period, or OS independent (i.e. web interface), windows just lost 2/3 of it's charm to large organizations.
i am sooooo lucky that my gf rather have a 23" cinema display like this than a diamond.
at the mean time, please realize that diamonds are not all that precious (material-wise), and it's under heavy monopolic powers (deBeers). however, platinum IS, so get a good platinum band and engrave something on there.
p.s. artificial diamonds are making good progress. it (crystal structure) is getting too perfect until they exhibit phosphorescence. which is how they distinguish artificial diamond now. ha! (the most perfect diamonds are actually worthless. isn't that amazing?)
anyway. ask her if a dual G4+dual CinemaHD would cut it engagement-wise =)
Intel used to do research in fractal image compression too. back in the early 90's.
btw, why nobody uses it? it compresses much better than JPEG, IIRC, and it has smaller file size etc.
besides -- a common 3D thingy can probabbly help Intel optimize code for their SSE and MMX etc. which is all about "the web" now-a-days =) (p.s. anyone notice there are no more intel commercials on TV now?)
I can not speak for RedHat because I have never installed it. but i have done solaris a couple times and have to say that UNIX installs are, or, *SEEMS*, a lot easier for people who are familiar with terminologies like "root", "/opt", and somesuch. Or at least not as frightening.
I just want to say that "easy" is a very subjective idea, and any results need to be taken with a grain of salt. I would not be surprised if a MCSE find UNIX / LINUX installs very difficult, not because it's difficult per-se, but rather simply the scared and don't know what's comming mentality
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don't got no church they can spy on. ha!
The implications are scary because several things:
(as it's friday afternoon, I am kinda lazy to provide links, but all should be found on the web here or another)
1) HIV is spreading, and doing so at a faster rate than before. Partly it's because of people are getting the idea that the "cocktail treatment" has effect -- but the truth is that it's not nearly that effective for the amount of casual sex people tend to want to carry.
2) HIV mutates faster than we can come up with drugs for them. some strains, in fact, was resistant / became resistant (through mutation, presumably) even before a vaccine / treatment was made into mass production
3) many leads for possible cure has turned out to be dead-ends. I am sure many have heard about the people (select few, 5% or so?) who contract HIV but does not actually exhibit the symptoms of AIDS for a long time (15-20 years) -- Eventually it turns out that these are people who simply had a combination of good immune system and a "weak" strain of HIV. they eventually got AIDS.
4) vaccination requires a response from the immune system toward an agent (mutated, harmless version of HIV, for example) -- however this response we want to elicit from the immune system is *not a natural one*, meaning that it is not one that occurs, or have been observerd to occur (through much searching, as you could imagine) natually, and worse yet, *MAY NOT EXIST*.
there are a couple others; but unless much more breakthrough level results are obtained, soon, the AIDS epidemic will become a catastrophic event that will have no less impact on the world today as the Black Plague had in times past.
am not making the 5 cents up.
i was refering to the stamping costs involved. not counting the artists and the cover designers etc. just the physical CDs.
I got some CDs stamped before; twas ~50cents in quantities of ~2000 (that's WITH PRINTING), and IIRC the price dropped sharply as the quantity rose (as it should, thanks to the Gold -> mother -> father stamping method); i would not be surpriced if Sony's actual costs per CD (again, excluding case and stuff) are in the single digit region.
i mean -- even if it costed them 50 cents / disc; and then you add the case, the booklet, and the royalties: it's still a *fat* profit margin, eh?
you and i both know that it's just chump change for Sony. i mean... look at the music CD prices for a change? 16.99 for a CD that costs 5 cents to produce? even after royalties and packaging and the ads (and the really expensive RIAA lawyers)... they would still have bundles left over.
so what's a couple million here and there... they probabbly paid it just so Forgent can afford some lawyers and Sony execs can have something to bet on.
Google responds by stating that now all of their pigeons will go through an "intruduction to democracy" short course, and all "bird seed" websites are now ranked by humans instead of the patented "pigeon rank" system.
"I am some poor guy who runs a second-grade website and since I can't get google to list me high, I will elicit some news media to get my site slashdotted"
hope you like your servers toasty, bud.
Moore's law has been exceeded in several tech areas, for a while now.
DRAM is one of those, but the pace is comming back down due to the lack of demand, hence $$, hence research. and ultimately since they are silicon-based.
Flash is another that's been doubling every... i dunno, 8 monthes?
magnetic storage (hard disks) has been working at ~2x moore's law for several years now. it's really not even a good thing anymore because the supply WAY exceeds demand, and several companies are getting out of the business (say, IBM).
there was another sector that was doing the "exceed moore's law" thing but i can't remember right off my head.
i am *convinced* that younger / smaller kids are more adept at games like this than relatively full grown adults like myself.
the key seem to lie within their short, therefore fairly limble (is that a word?) extremeties.
as legs grow longer, it need more and more energy to move them; and unfortunately our "power" (in J/s) grows at an inferior rate compared to volume (and therefore mass) as we get taller (and hopefully longer legs). Hence while a kid can match his legs to a 1/64th beat with no problems, you will sweat and pant and cry for miracles before your legs can keep up.
and last thing: most "soft" pads are no match for the arcade pad's quality. and i generally recommend against the soft ones cuz they and usually too sensitive and when you go to the arcade you tend to not press the button hard enough to reigster a hit. (if you practice with the "hard hit", you will torn up your pads mighty quick).
go on ebay for some "hard" pads, or build your own. it's probabbly going to get you much further.
It seems that they are not expecting you to be connected to the internet while you are phoning, and if they are using the POTS, you get a maximum data-rate of 53.2kbps, which will have to carry your voice data AND the video data, both ways.
so it either means REALLY bad quality video, or really SLOW video, either of which seem quite pointless.
I videoconference every night with about ~200kbps, and the quality still can stand improvement.
I am not completely sure about HK, but in Japan, it seems that houses are rarely renovated, as in the US, but much more frequently torn down and rebuilt altogether. Some people blame it on the "bad taste" of the previous owners and their funky designs of the house, and then build some funky design themselves.
Is situations like that -- when the interior can be EASILY re-configured, you bet it would be much more efficient. It would also have the added advantage of being able to just create a room for, say a baby.
I mean, the alternatives are shoddy at best: most interior partitions people built themselves are not exactly fire-code compliant; and have people come in and actually do professional work costs a CHUNK of cash. have ceiling-high configuable walls would be a dream! i am just worried about the wall strength (kids running into them), acoustic damping (sex in the next room), and plumbing (probabbly harder to wire than electrical, no?)...
otherwise I am all for it.
p.s. there has always been talks of "modular apartments" and the such. I am really kind of disappointed that they havn't show up more often. but this is a good direction
Probabbly some VP of Dell got drunk with some VP of HP and made a bet: "if you go with Corel then I go too".
And some other VP got too much coke in him when the Corel salesguys are around and probabbly said dumb stuff like "if you (Corel Wordperfect) can last to 2002 then I will ship all PCs with it!" and was caught on tape.
so one after another, the chips fall.
Otherwise, i warn you (everyone) to be wise and cautious. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" -- it is taken out of context of the original meaning -- but still rings very true here. it's a fine line between cautious and paranoia, but when big money is on the line, i'd err on the side of too cautious rather than not sufficiently so.
within it mentions an experiment where some lab rats were kept awake for ~2 weeks (the longest human record is 11 days) and then they died. the acticle keep emphasizing that it was not proven that the death was caused by sleep depravation. but well... They just don't want to admit that they tortured a buncha cute lil mice to death.
on a even MORE related point: try red bull / blue donkey / green chicken and all that -- they seem to work pretty well. i drove across the US (SJ to NY) on those. 2 bux a can (8.6 oz) is steep, but hey -- when you gotta stay awake, you GOTTA stay awake.
lastly... erm... try some speed. they work too, so i hear.
you can carry weapons to modify the environment in real-time as you multi-player.
imagine a "wall gun". somebody is running, running, you shoot, and a wall (of spikes) appear in front of him. he can't stop in time and loses 30% health. you laugh your ass off until another team-member hits the ground you are standing on with an "infinite abyss canon".
you can also do texture guns / mirror guns etc. imagine painting all the walls into (100%) reflective surfaces in real time, when you run into an enemy. (like in bruce-lee movies). or even spray the texture of yourself all over the place.
it would make an interesting game, for sure.
it would also make excellent "god" games. where you raise the lava or cause huge chasms in the ground, etc.
I really, really did not expect that many people out there to be buying the penis enlargment pills. I mean... think about it for a moment here:
It is really indicative of either
a) a lot of people are erm... sub-par intelligence-wise. or
b) porn / magazine / whatever has gotten a lot of men in a same gridlock as mannaquins has on women: except while you have the "our store sells clothes to 'real women' and we use 'natual models'", you won't ever find a "real-sized penis men's club"... when's the last time you really saw "size small" condoms on sale?
c) or both.
it is really worth worrying to a certain degree. as for the part that basically says "sex sells," well no kidding...
one does have to wonder:
with the "keychain USB flash storage thingys" multiplying size every couple monthes or so, why DO you need to shell out that much dough for DVD burners?
i mean, i can get 512MB worth of go-anywhere storage on a key chain. OR i can get credit card sized CDR worth 30M or so for a quarter or so each. so... what's the benefit of a 5 dollar DVDR disk again?
i'd say money is better spent on wireless connectivity, bluetooth and the like, which is more convenient, less hassle, and no ongoing maintainence cost (media).
for archival purposes (the above has been regard to data-sharing), get a second hard disk. i am willing to say that everyone (personal use) has the CRITICAL data which would all fit onto about a CD, maybe two. kids who do video editing or whatever may need more, but then they already got DVDR and stuff already anyway... me as average joe, i am sticking with floppies.
okay. let's first work out how much energy is needed to vaporize a chunk of copper.
grumble grumble -- calculate calculate:
A WHOLE FSCKING LOT. not an amount you will get out of a parallel plate capacitor the size of the tank's outer area.
okay you say: i will connect an external capacitor (like one of those nifty maxwell energy discharge capacitors.)
okay... fine. let us suppose that it worked; you charge up the sucker to 75kv, and without even bothering with the physics (10kJ does not vaporize that much copper, btw) -- let's say it worked. and bam we got ourselves a stopped charge.
what happens then? you used up your juice -- the copper vapor does not stay vaporized forever, you know. so there we got some copper solder (pretty much) bridging between the two nodes. do you think you can EVER recharge that capacitor? nope
okay you say: let's divide the outer surface into areas and dis-joint them. THAT WOULD SURELY WORK, right? if one "plate" stops a charge, the others are still charged up and ready to go.
so now let's consider the SIZE of the things. two points become blatently obvious:
1) if you divide the surface area of the tank into small areas, no way in heck will you get enough capacitance on them things to have any effect lest you charge them up to about 750 million volts. goot luck finding a dielectric to withstand that. (or a power-supply, for than matter)
2) given the above, we will be using discharge capacitors individually for each division of the armor. anybody who ever saw a picture of an energy discharge capacitor already know this is rediculous. those things are HUGE. i mean it: the casing can fit a person. not mentioning the weight of all the capacitor oil and dielectric material inside.
so in a last effort, lets suggest: one capacitor, many divisions. we can relay the divisions in and out of the charge section.
HA! relay = massive inductance. don't expect any kind of realistic "copper vaporizing" current if you use a relay. btw... with any kind of respectable current, your relay is probabbly the only thing that will be vaporizing.
so... yeah... vaporware. =)
They keep changing the units from KM to Mile across the article. an annoying feature, and really points out that it was rather rushed and the reporter probabbly just copied some figures and pasted them together.
sigh...
but does it contain data about where these guys are located, hmmm? i think not.
before we collect these data, a mars mission is sure to be doomed to failure.
so what about using MacroVision - disabling VCRs?
how about speeding on highways?
IMHO the army and the FBI is taking this *way* too seriously. I mean, fine if they were doing this for criminal intent, then alright. but proceeding with criminal prosecutions? that's 158% bullshit.
the sad fact is unless you generate some publicity, a whole lot of times shit in the govn't does not get done. (same with M$, btw). Illinois had ppl warning them for YEARS that they need to seriously wipe the old PC's hard disks they put on auctions; and what did they do? promptly ignored it until someday ABC channel 7 news (i actually don't remember the channel #, so am making this part up) found out.
i mean, fucking a, i'd appreciate some kind of apology from the army instead of this. instead of "i am tracking down the 'law breakers' and taking a firm stand on unauthorized computer access", i think The Right Thing (tm) to do is actually apologize to ME, Joe Citizen, that they fucked up and should have kept this shit more secure in the first place, and things are being done about it; and they are switching to open source and capable sys admins.
glad my tax dollars are going toward such useful endeavors.
also cut was the MCSE midget attached to each windows system that M$ somehow convinced lucent to buy.
they all got laid off and went to make the Austin Powers trailor.
yeah. it's called exchange server. and fscking outlook.
i do wish that people would realize when you kill exchange / outlook combo with something with similar functionality but either not-on-windown-period, or OS independent (i.e. web interface), windows just lost 2/3 of it's charm to large organizations.
at the mean time, please realize that diamonds are not all that precious (material-wise), and it's under heavy monopolic powers (deBeers). however, platinum IS, so get a good platinum band and engrave something on there.
here is a good link on diamonds and the such.
p.s. artificial diamonds are making good progress. it (crystal structure) is getting too perfect until they exhibit phosphorescence. which is how they distinguish artificial diamond now. ha! (the most perfect diamonds are actually worthless. isn't that amazing?)
anyway. ask her if a dual G4+dual CinemaHD would cut it engagement-wise =)
Intel used to do research in fractal image compression too. back in the early 90's.
btw, why nobody uses it? it compresses much better than JPEG, IIRC, and it has smaller file size etc.
besides -- a common 3D thingy can probabbly help Intel optimize code for their SSE and MMX etc. which is all about "the web" now-a-days =) (p.s. anyone notice there are no more intel commercials on TV now?)
Not to troll or anything -- but it did seem quite amazing. I keep thinking he was like 27 or some such.
Does anybody here have opinions as to "when you grow older, you get [better/worse] at programming"?
I can not speak for RedHat because I have never installed it. but i have done solaris a couple times and have to say that UNIX installs are, or, *SEEMS*, a lot easier for people who are familiar with terminologies like "root", "/opt", and somesuch. Or at least not as frightening.
I just want to say that "easy" is a very subjective idea, and any results need to be taken with a grain of salt. I would not be surprised if a MCSE find UNIX / LINUX installs very difficult, not because it's difficult per-se, but rather simply the scared and don't know what's comming mentality