Amen to that!
Unless the patent system is going to be reformed, as a company one must play along and cover all bases, or someone else comes along and sues you.
Flinders Petrie certainly qualifies as Victorian,
and he essentially gave archaeology its modern methods. Howard Carter applied
these and it took him three seasons to painstakingly survey and
document Tutankhamun's grave.
The recent press releases also talk of workmen's huts,
so the excavators knew what
they were removing, and I bet they took records.
The very basics of everyday work:
vim
The Editor.
mutt
The E-Mail Client.
ELinks
The Browser.
These are not just for "old" machines,
but also for remote work, and just the apps you use regularly when working primarily with a CLI -- especially an editor.*
It also gives the size and range in a more universally palpable fashion:
The EADS Phoenix, a prototype of the future European Shuttle, will be carried to an altitude of 2,400 meters (7,900 feet) by a heavy-duty helicopter and then dropped so it can glide to earth for a landing....
The ship is just under seven meters (23 feet) long, weighs 1,200 kilograms (2,640 pounds) and has a wingspan of 3.9 meters (13 feet). It's one-sixth the size of the actual planned vehicle.
The test range has been the site of European Space Agency tests because of its remote location and its vast uninhabited areas.
The area has two restricted air spaces, Esrange and Vidsel, each measuring approximately 5,000 square kilometers (6,000 square yards *), available for the tests.
When combined with a temporary air corridor, test vehicles can fly as far as 350 kilometers (217 miles) over land.
* Well, that should be 6000 million sq. ft, but they probably should've said 2000 square miles.
American Physical Society columnist Bob Park
reports in his What's New column that the Hf-experiments were found by several groups to be not reproducible. That puts the claim squarely in the category of Bogus Science.
I have multiple homes, and often use ssh. The private
keys are not stored on all the homes, though. It's convenient to still share the ssh auxiliary files.
The novel by Clarke is a nice read. Clarke is not the source of the idea, though, as he acknowledges himself in the appendix of Fountains:
This apparently outrageous concept was first presented to the West in a letter in the issue of Science for 11 February 1966,
"Satellite Elongation into a True 'Sky-Hook'" , by John D. Isaacs, Hugh Bradner and George B. Backus...
That's in Science vol. 151(3711), p. 682 (1966).
... It was later discovered that the concept had already been developed six years earlier - and on a much more ambitious scale - by a Leningrad engineer, Y. N. Artsutanov (Komsomolskaya Pravda, 31 July 1960). Artsutanov considered a "heavenly funicular", to use his engaging name for the device, lifting no less than 12,000 tons a day to synchronous orbit.
Interestingly, Clarke envisioned the thread leading up (or down) the skytower to be nanodiamond, while these days nanotubes are all the range. The difference in the materials is that in diamond carbon atoms have four neighbours but in tubes they have only three, as in graphite, yet at about the same formation energy. That makes their chemical bonds actually stronger than in diamond and gives nanotubes their extraordinary tensile strength at low mass - perfect for engineering a space elevator.
Oh well. ASCII renderings of phonetics are difficult to read for non-native speakers of English. Just look at the Merriam Webster
or the Jargon file.
However, the sort of phonetic bridges like the one I gave should be much less ambiguous; e.g. most dictionary phonetic tables use sample words.
Techniques like consonants modification are used routinely in teaching foreign languages.
I for one prefer the internal phonetic alphabet, as used by the OED.
Have you ever tried to shave (or, perhaps less dangerously, just use a comb) in front of such a contraption?
It's like bicycling with your arms crossed.
To get past the PR-hype, I suggest to read
the original article in Applied Physics Letters.
The article talks about simulated LC-networks (inductance/capacitance) enhancing
evanescent waves (ie., waves not normally participating in information propagation).
IF this could be realised, the primary application would be for microwaves, nothing
like visible light as the PR bit suggests.
However, there has been an
interesting exchange (with
comment
and
reply) in Physical Review Letters refuting such claims.
(These are subscription journals but should be available in most academic and research institutions).
Well, an external 20GB storage device has other uses besides holding just music, notably acting as a backup device, and mobile at that. I keep a subset of my home dir and my digital photo collection on an Archos (a recent one with USB2).
Soon after I started in this mode I bought a USB2 adapter (Adaptec USB2connect, AUA-1420) because the transfer times over USB1.1 are just intolerable for transferring more than a few MB.
Hmm, the notion of using a physical calculator
seems strange for a programmer in front of a
GHz-class workstation.
I have used a calculator the last time several
years ago. These days, wouldn't it be better
to just fire up a program on a GUI-desktop where
you cut&paste operands and results whithout
going through a 10-finger interface and the
chances for typing errors in either direction?
Here is what I use as a little "sticky" window on
my Linux desktop, and it really is quite simple
and sufficient:
You can pre-define constants and even functions.
Changes in base and precision ("scale") are
also possible.
When off-screen, sure, the occasional need for a
calculator comes up. Well, $5 check-card size
thingies and cell phones are perfectly capable
of the basic operations. More serious work,
e.g. programming, aught to be done on-screen.
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Amen to that! Unless the patent system is going to be reformed, as a company one must play along and cover all bases, or someone else comes along and sues you.
The image metadata should match all exposure settings suitable for the scene. This is difficult to achieve in reproduction.
Done. What's your hangup?
Granted, not many dogs in it, so if that's for real, the scheme is not as lucrative as collecting parking tickets.
Alpha Ceti - Khaaaan!
Flinders Petrie certainly qualifies as Victorian, and he essentially gave archaeology its modern methods. Howard Carter applied these and it took him three seasons to painstakingly survey and document Tutankhamun's grave.
The recent press releases also talk of workmen's huts, so the excavators knew what they were removing, and I bet they took records.
Surely you allude to Alien Hand Syndrome (cf. a recent scholarly article)
Jenny, don't change your number
Nope. That's not the reason. Rather, the number is not prime, and I doubt it occurs in e anyway.
These are not just for "old" machines, but also for remote work, and just the apps you use regularly when working primarily with a CLI -- especially an editor.*
'nuff said.
*) Be it emacs or vim. Both also come with GUI's.
Simple: The network also easily carries the phone and all TV signals. No further cabling needed.
(I've been at Case.)
It also gives the size and range in a more universally palpable fashion:
* Well, that should be 6000 million sq. ft, but they probably should've said 2000 square miles.
foo-prompt> cat ~/.ssh/.cvsignore
random*
id*
foo-prompt>
Thus resorted to RCS which works reasonably well for tracking minor changes.
That's in Science vol. 151(3711), p. 682 (1966).
Interestingly, Clarke envisioned the thread leading up (or down) the skytower to be nanodiamond, while these days nanotubes are all the range. The difference in the materials is that in diamond carbon atoms have four neighbours but in tubes they have only three, as in graphite, yet at about the same formation energy. That makes their chemical bonds actually stronger than in diamond and gives nanotubes their extraordinary tensile strength at low mass - perfect for engineering a space elevator.
However, the sort of phonetic bridges like the one I gave should be much less ambiguous; e.g. most dictionary phonetic tables use sample words. Techniques like consonants modification are used routinely in teaching foreign languages.
I for one prefer the internal phonetic alphabet, as used by the OED.
As other folks pointed out, the K in Knoppix is not silent because it stems from a German name. The correct pronunciation is:
Hope that helps.
To me, 6 tons is about 5,000 kilos (grew up in the U.S., but I think in metric ...)
Think again -- to non-US folks 6 tons are 6'000 kg, end of story.
Have you ever tried to shave (or, perhaps less dangerously, just use a comb) in front of such a contraption? It's like bicycling with your arms crossed.
However, there has been an interesting exchange (with comment and reply) in Physical Review Letters refuting such claims. (These are subscription journals but should be available in most academic and research institutions).
Finally, read the Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science by Bob Park (even though rule 1 does not apply here).
BTW: I recommend Unison to sync.
Hmm, the notion of using a physical calculator seems strange for a programmer in front of a GHz-class workstation.
I have used a calculator the last time several years ago. These days, wouldn't it be better to just fire up a program on a GUI-desktop where you cut&paste operands and results whithout going through a 10-finger interface and the chances for typing errors in either direction?
Here is what I use as a little "sticky" window on my Linux desktop, and it really is quite simple and sufficient:
xterm -fn 6x10 -geometry 38x7-160-120 -title "Calculator" \
-name "bc" +ls \
-e sh -c "mesg n; exec bc -l ${HOME}/.bcrc" &
You can pre-define constants and even functions. Changes in base and precision ("scale") are also possible.
When off-screen, sure, the occasional need for a calculator comes up. Well, $5 check-card size thingies and cell phones are perfectly capable of the basic operations. More serious work, e.g. programming, aught to be done on-screen.