This can be acheived quite easily in the browser, without upsetting the other functionality. IE does just that - when you mistype a domain name, it returns to a MSN search page.
Two months ago my main sewer line backed up, and I had shit and water all over my basement floor. The plumber came and cleared the drain while standing in my family's shit for two hours.
Don't begrudge them $125/hour. It is hard earned money.
I live in an upper-middle class neighborhood in DC. I love going to the library (to read, not to use the computer), but I rarely do. They are not open on Sunday, they only stay open late one day a week. It would really suck if I was trying to do any serious learning there while holding down a job.
Also, library hours were recently cut back because of budget problems here in DC.
It stands to reason that there are trace quantities of Plutonium
Remember, heavy elements are made in supernovae, and elements heavier than Uranium have too short a half life to have lasted long enough to be around. Uranium is only around because it's got an enormously long half life. Radioactive elements lighter than Uranium with short half lives are found in nature only because they decayed from heavier elements with longer half lives. So no, there's no plutonium out there.
When you go to work as a sysadmin/programmer/telemarketer/burger flipper, do you think you're doing the "right" thing?
This was probably a retorical question, but yes, I do. I'm a manager/Senior Engineer at a small technology company, and doing the "right" thing is something I take seriously. I try to make sure my managees are interested in what their doing, and to treat them with respect and dignity. Same with our customers and vendors.
People go to work because they need to, but that shouldn't preclude them from have some self-respect and pride. I am truly glad my work doesn't force me to be a hypocrite or a liar. Would I do it to support my family? I honestly don't know, but I'd be pretty miserable if I did.
And I'm sure McBride could probably manage to put food on the table if he quit his job today.
But my original posting wasn't meant to be a condemnation - not that I like the man - but a geniune curiousity. You say you're a hypocrite - do you think McBride feels he's a hypocrite?
I've always wondered about people like Darl McBride. Obviously, they are paid a great deal of money to put a certain spin on things, and they try very hard to do it. What I've never understood about the psychology of it is this: do they actually believe themselves? Do they start out knowing they are lying, then convince themselves about it along the way? Or does the notion of truth not even cross their minds, as they are busy trying to define the reality they want?
While previous DDoS attack were troubling, and certainly illegal, there is something qualitatively more disturbing about an attack that has a profit motive.
Thrill seekers come and go, and are a nuisance. But they aren't inherently dangerous to other people. But when something like this happens, who else is going to come to the party? Organized crime? What's to stop the same people from personally threatening anti-spammers?
Actually, fusion can produce neutrons. A deuteron hits a deuteron, and can produce Helium-3 + a neutron. It also can produce Hydrogen-3+proton, or Helium-4 + gamma radiation.
As a graduate of the Philadelphia public school system, I'll be interested to see how this turns out. They haven't picked a location yet, but there are plenty of places Philadelphia that could use some innovation in the schools.
If it actually goes to helping the most disadvantaged students, where it would be the most difficult to make succesful, I'd applaud the effort.
If it goes to mostly middle class and upper middle class students, then I'd have to view it as simply a further corporatization of the public schools.
I'd love to see a follow up on this in three years.
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I wince every time the subject of Israel comes up.
The problem is that it's a terrible situation for everyone over there. Surely everyone has a right to live in peace, and surely that's what most people, Palestinian and Israeli, really want. However, the problems there have become a proxy for everyone else in the world to line up against each other. Arab leaders use it to strengthen their position by distracting their people from their own problems. It has become a platform for conservatives and liberals in this country to each claim the moral high ground on, and to demonize each other.
Somehow, the world gets much more out of the conflict than it gets out of a peaceful resolution. If everyone thinks one side is truly evil, than only that side's elimination or expulsion is satisfactory. So how can peace be satisfactory to the world? Does the Arab world really have an interest in ending the conflict? Do people in the U.S. using it to demonize their political enemies on both sides have an interest in it ending?
I would like to go back there some day with my family and visit all the holy sites, wherever they may be, without fear of being wounded or killed. That is part of my stake. What is the rest of the world's stake?
As someone who works in this frequency range, I'd like to point out a few things. First, there are many commercial applications in use up to 40 GHz or so. The center around communications, mostly. The military uses higher frequencies for radar and fuzing applications.
Chips in these frequency ranges are analog - low noise amplifiers, mixers, and power amplifiers. Commercially available chips are available up to 100 GHz or more. These chips typically have no more than 20 or 30 transistors, if not much less. The chips are ussually based around GaAs or InP processes.
The current limitation of these chips is power. The leader is TriQuint, which produces chips that produce 1 to 4 watts around 40 GHz. Thermal limitations are important - GaAs is a terrible thermal conductor. And these analog amplifiers are biased with transistors in conduction, so the efficiencies are on the order of 15% - they generate a lot of heat. (There are other limitations as well, of course, having to do with breakdown voltages,gate width, and switching speed.)
Up until now, the option for high power is a good old fashioned vacuum tube - the traveling wave tube. They have several problems - poor linearity, high noise, the need for kilovolt power supplies, and reliability. Also, they're not cheap to make.
All this to say, diamond is an exciting prospect for analog power amplifiers, and it wouldn't take very many transistors to really make something valuable.
I'm away from my reference books at the moment - does anyone have a comparison of the electron mobility in diamond versus GaAs?
(My associates would consider me remiss in my duties if I didn't mention their high power solid state amplifiers, at Sophia Wireless
Actually, multi-level memory has been around for a while, at least in flash memory. It always seems to be implemented in powers of two (A four or eight level gate), so a single storage cell can hold multiple bits.
Flash memory cells, however, are read by an analog sense amplifier, so multi-level LOGIC doesn't really come into play. And I think it's the multilevel logic that really presents the challenges.
I don't have much experience with other scripting languages, but I've found python to have a lot of very easy to use modules. I've found modules for polynomial fitting to data, large data sets, polygons operations - just out there when I looked for them. And many a useful library in C or C++ has been wrapped in Python. For example, I've written some CAD software (for very specific design operations we do where I work), and needed a way to merge polygons. I found a wrapper for the generalized polygon clipper (GPC) library, installed it and got it working in a few minutes. And because of the nice structure of the language, the modules are usually very easy to learn how to use.
Given the size of the vulnerability (all windows systems connected to the internet, regardless of whether you're running any applications), we should be thankful this worm came out so everyone will get out and patch their system.
If this worm didn't exist, the systems would remain unpatched until some much more destructive exploit was distibuted (say, deleting all your files).
Think of it as vaccination - a mild form to shore up our defenses, so a killer form doesn't get us.
I know it's popular to rag on RMS - and he sometimes comes across as a kook - but the implications of the GPL in this legal mess really make me sit back and admire it.
It seems to me the GPL acts as a balancer against a changing legal climate - the more "IP" friendly and less "fair use" friendly that climate becomes, the stronger the GPL becomes.
Yes, you're right of course about trisomies vs. triploidies.
The point I was trying to make is just that because you have a bunch of cells at the initial stages of embryo formation, is no indication it will come even close to becoming a viable organism. The genetics can be pretty bad, and you can still get cell division at that stage.
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This can be acheived quite easily in the browser, without upsetting the other functionality. IE does just that - when you mistype a domain name, it returns to a MSN search page.
>>> x[0:4]
'linu'
>>>
The python slice [0:4] includes characters 0,1,2, and 4, but not 4.
Two months ago my main sewer line backed up, and I had shit and water all over my basement floor. The plumber came and cleared the drain while standing in my family's shit for two hours.
Don't begrudge them $125/hour. It is hard earned money.
shouldn't that be
sys.platform[0:5] == "linux"?
hmmm??? Snake got your tongue?
if os.find("nix") != -1:
Also, library hours were recently cut back because of budget problems here in DC.
Remember, heavy elements are made in supernovae, and elements heavier than Uranium have too short a half life to have lasted long enough to be around. Uranium is only around because it's got an enormously long half life. Radioactive elements lighter than Uranium with short half lives are found in nature only because they decayed from heavier elements with longer half lives. So no, there's no plutonium out there.
With Bush in office, what's the difference?
This was probably a retorical question, but yes, I do. I'm a manager/Senior Engineer at a small technology company, and doing the "right" thing is something I take seriously. I try to make sure my managees are interested in what their doing, and to treat them with respect and dignity. Same with our customers and vendors.
People go to work because they need to, but that shouldn't preclude them from have some self-respect and pride. I am truly glad my work doesn't force me to be a hypocrite or a liar. Would I do it to support my family? I honestly don't know, but I'd be pretty miserable if I did.
And I'm sure McBride could probably manage to put food on the table if he quit his job today.
But my original posting wasn't meant to be a condemnation - not that I like the man - but a geniune curiousity. You say you're a hypocrite - do you think McBride feels he's a hypocrite?
I've always wondered about people like Darl McBride. Obviously, they are paid a great deal of money to put a certain spin on things, and they try very hard to do it. What I've never understood about the psychology of it is this: do they actually believe themselves? Do they start out knowing they are lying, then convince themselves about it along the way? Or does the notion of truth not even cross their minds, as they are busy trying to define the reality they want?
While previous DDoS attack were troubling, and certainly illegal, there is something qualitatively more disturbing about an attack that has a profit motive.
Thrill seekers come and go, and are a nuisance. But they aren't inherently dangerous to other people. But when something like this happens, who else is going to come to the party? Organized crime? What's to stop the same people from personally threatening anti-spammers?
Or as my high school french teacher used to say, "If that thing over the o is a hat, what's the thing hanging down from the c?"
If it actually goes to helping the most disadvantaged students, where it would be the most difficult to make succesful, I'd applaud the effort.
If it goes to mostly middle class and upper middle class students, then I'd have to view it as simply a further corporatization of the public schools.
I'd love to see a follow up on this in three years.
The problem is that it's a terrible situation for everyone over there. Surely everyone has a right to live in peace, and surely that's what most people, Palestinian and Israeli, really want. However, the problems there have become a proxy for everyone else in the world to line up against each other. Arab leaders use it to strengthen their position by distracting their people from their own problems. It has become a platform for conservatives and liberals in this country to each claim the moral high ground on, and to demonize each other.
Somehow, the world gets much more out of the conflict than it gets out of a peaceful resolution. If everyone thinks one side is truly evil, than only that side's elimination or expulsion is satisfactory. So how can peace be satisfactory to the world? Does the Arab world really have an interest in ending the conflict? Do people in the U.S. using it to demonize their political enemies on both sides have an interest in it ending?
I would like to go back there some day with my family and visit all the holy sites, wherever they may be, without fear of being wounded or killed. That is part of my stake. What is the rest of the world's stake?
I can see the courtroom testimony now:
"Your honor, I swear I'm an idiot and it really took me five years to come with this idea. Really!"
Chips in these frequency ranges are analog - low noise amplifiers, mixers, and power amplifiers. Commercially available chips are available up to 100 GHz or more. These chips typically have no more than 20 or 30 transistors, if not much less. The chips are ussually based around GaAs or InP processes.
The current limitation of these chips is power. The leader is TriQuint, which produces chips that produce 1 to 4 watts around 40 GHz. Thermal limitations are important - GaAs is a terrible thermal conductor. And these analog amplifiers are biased with transistors in conduction, so the efficiencies are on the order of 15% - they generate a lot of heat. (There are other limitations as well, of course, having to do with breakdown voltages,gate width, and switching speed.)
Up until now, the option for high power is a good old fashioned vacuum tube - the traveling wave tube. They have several problems - poor linearity, high noise, the need for kilovolt power supplies, and reliability. Also, they're not cheap to make.
All this to say, diamond is an exciting prospect for analog power amplifiers, and it wouldn't take very many transistors to really make something valuable.
I'm away from my reference books at the moment - does anyone have a comparison of the electron mobility in diamond versus GaAs?
(My associates would consider me remiss in my duties if I didn't mention their high power solid state amplifiers, at Sophia Wireless
Flash memory cells, however, are read by an analog sense amplifier, so multi-level LOGIC doesn't really come into play. And I think it's the multilevel logic that really presents the challenges.
Hey, how about just not bashing people?
Attacking ideas instead of people is a subtle concept, I know, but what's the point? It serves to build animosity, not promote your own point of view.
Awesome find.
I don't have much experience with other scripting languages, but I've found python to have a lot of very easy to use modules. I've found modules for polynomial fitting to data, large data sets, polygons operations - just out there when I looked for them. And many a useful library in C or C++ has been wrapped in Python. For example, I've written some CAD software (for very specific design operations we do where I work), and needed a way to merge polygons. I found a wrapper for the generalized polygon clipper (GPC) library, installed it and got it working in a few minutes. And because of the nice structure of the language, the modules are usually very easy to learn how to use.
As long it will take the conservatives to start whining about media bias? Ooops- looks like that happened first!
If this worm didn't exist, the systems would remain unpatched until some much more destructive exploit was distibuted (say, deleting all your files).
Think of it as vaccination - a mild form to shore up our defenses, so a killer form doesn't get us.
It seems to me the GPL acts as a balancer against a changing legal climate - the more "IP" friendly and less "fair use" friendly that climate becomes, the stronger the GPL becomes.
Brilliant.
The point I was trying to make is just that because you have a bunch of cells at the initial stages of embryo formation, is no indication it will come even close to becoming a viable organism. The genetics can be pretty bad, and you can still get cell division at that stage.