I think the last thing we want to do is mess around with our own genes. One screw-up and we could simply mutate the disease, or create dozens of new ones.
I more practical solution might be to something in the form of an invitro vaccine, something that makes children immune upon birth. This may be partially available already, as there is a bill being passed to mandate HIV/AIDS checks on pregnant mothers - in order to save the child from being born with the virus (this would indicate that there is a way to prevent it being passed?).
I remember reading on this quite a long time again. It was either in time, or more likely, readers digest (possibly some article in the local doctor clinic too).
Some humans do have an immunity to AIDS. From what I have read, this stems from them either missing a gene which is required for it to propogate, or possibly they have a gene which blocks it from doing so (I believe it was the former, not the latter).
Speculation in this area was that those that were "immune" to AIDS had the difference in genes passed through the family. Apparently many of these people have been linked to survivers of the plague. Either these people developed the change as a resistance to the plague, or having the plague destroyed something in their genetic structure.
In either case, these people apparently will not die of AIDS (or diseases spawned of HIV). However, I believe they are still able to be carriers, if not suffering the symptoms.
But we are already slaves to our own perceptions, and to our own conditioning. We believe what we see, and what we see is greatly controlled. Unless an event is great and affects many, it is covered up, concealed, or just otherwise passes our notice.
Unless there is an immediate threat to one's own views or person, then most people will ignore an issue. As government slowly tramples the rights of citizens, much passes unnoticed, until finally you end up under their feet as well. There's an old saying about this, ending with "and then it happened to me/"
I'm not really familiar with the coding differences between SUN Java and M$ Java, so there are a few things I think it would be good to know before I talk out of my arse (possibly again).
Is the functionality issue here that M$ Java:
a) Would not work in Netscape
b) would only work in Netscape if certain features were not used
c) It would work in Netscape but only if coded in a particular way that was not often used?
As I'm not sure what the case is, it would seem to me that if it were (a), then M$ did effectively kill NS. If it's (b), then it seems that this was a functionality thing, probably due to M$'s tendency toward OS integration. In the case of (c), it would be a dirty move by M$, but would also place the programming community using the dirty standard partly at fault.
Please inform. I dislike Microsoft, but I want to make sure I know the exact reasons why I dislike Microsoft...
Know thy enemy, then use his software anyways but you need it to play your games...
No, I'm not a M$ supporter. I hate their dominate the world attitude. However, I may be missing something, but how is it that courts can force one company to adopt another's product or standards.
I remember the headache back when Netscape was still popular, and I had to deal with the differences between M$ JavaScript and Netscape JavaScript. Then there were differing standards for Stylesheets, and Java, and XML, etc etc.
While I'm entirely in favor of a global standard, how is it that they can force one company to adopt the standards of others. Why not make a plugin allowing standard Java modules to be used, and make it available? I hated M$ JavaScript, I found Netscape's model was initially much nicer to deal with. However, in the end I found that the MS model ended up with more functionality, mainly due to OS integration.
Shouldn't the decision on what standard to offer be in the community? If I want to use a standard, let me download a driver, patch, or module that allows me to use it. The last thing we need is to make bloatware more bloated by having modules to support dual standards. Really, we should enforce MS to use the global standards before they go off and try to change the world by doing things "their way", instead of trying to figure what we want to do with multiple implementations 5 years later.
What I remember reading (actually I think on./, but I can't find the original so just note that I'm not the first person to mention this) is that one of the biggest problems with AIDS is that the virus itself will become dormant in some cells over time. As the virus is not active, but simply lie in wait in cells until their time to rise, "cures" tend to overlook the cells while destroying active viruses.
From what I see, this solution would make it so the virus might not be able to kill you, but it would not make it so that you weren't infectious to others.
In college, our program was noted for often picking crappy teachers during the summer semesters. As most of the experienced teachers went on holidays then, there were a lot of spaces to be filled when regulars were out.
What a lot of people have to learn is that "teaching degree != ability to teach any given material".
This was a heavy IT course, yet the administration kept picking from a list of B. Ed's etc who were using to teaching English or French.
The web class teacher (obviously a MS lover) taught us NOT to use ending tags in tables etc, since it just took a little extra time, filespace, and wasn't needed by Internet Explorer. Because of this, I ended up assisting a lot of my fellow students on the side, to make up for crappy teaching (I got on a teacher's blacklist once when a student who said that I should be teaching the course and embarrassed her in front of the class).
One semester, they couldn't get any B'eds. We ended up with somebody from a local corporation, an expert programmer who had a love for computing. He ended up as being the best teacher in the program. Everybody loved him, and we all learned a lot from his classes. This isn't to say that all programmers can teach, but neither can all teachers teach programming.
Teachers don't have to know everything, but they should know (and like) what they have to teach. I don't need my math teacher to know IT, but my IT teacher should know how to teach tech. Somehow I don't think I'd be getting a "quality education" when the IT instructor was also the Phys-ed/English instructor too...
Doesn't this seem just slightly pathetic to everyone? You have to carry your laundry to the machine anyways. Once you put it in, there's almost always a clean indication of cycle duration. If you aren't smart enough to be able to either set a timer or check you watch to know when the laundry will be done in an hour WITHOUT using the internet, then how the heck did you get into college.
The internet IS a useful tool and I wouldn't care to be without it, but truthfully there are some things that it doesn't need to be used for. If people become so useless as to need an online reminder that their 1-hour wash cycle is up, then what have we become.
How far will this go? I mean, it could be that 10 years from now you get your email from your watch...
FROM: toilet
Subject: You just flushed
Just a friendly reminder from your toilet... don't forget to wipe. Also, the air is getting pretty thick in here, turn on the fan. A little bowl cleaner and disinfectant would be nice too, I'm getting skid marks.
Idiotic inventions make money off of idiotic consumers... don't buy stupidity!
It it's happy days, the laptop used to run for about 1h30-2h+ playing divX movies.
This was while juicing the CD-ROM, which hugely increased the power consumption. Without the CD-ROM or a lot of flashy stuff it run quite a bit longer. The batteries were also small (2.5*3*1" or so I think), I have about 3 so it wasn't a big deal to suspend the memory (or better do a quick plug-in if possible) and plunk in a new one.
Between 3 batteries that's about 12h+ actual usage. I could probably have played some mp3's while typing and not drain the battery too much.
Oh, and the thing fit in the leg pocket of my cargo pants... which was cool. It was a Travelmate 312T if I remember correctly
a) Acer laptop wasn't a handheld, hence I used linux. I said nothing about trying to run linux on the Newton, I don't think that would work overly well.
b) The laptop worked great as a mini-mirror for my website, so that I could test all my scripts while on the road. etc. Can a new run Apache+PhP+Mysql and allow me to connect to it through a standard ethernet or serial connection?
c) 4MB of RAM... greaaaat
"People stick with the Newton because the community is so strong," Muniz said
d) This is probably the reason. Apple users love other Apple, and each other. It's a nice community, but no reason not to look at other solutions.
I'm surprised none of the Mac lovers haven't gone so far as to love their mac this much. Or perhaps they have
Early models were bulky, expensive and bug-ridden. Apple marketed the Newton poorly, and it was widely ridiculed; a memorable Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau effectively doomed the device.
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If a comic strip could "doom" something, then MS/Windows would be dead a long time ago. It seems that slashdot alone has a large amount of these linked from user comments.
-------------------
After shopping around, he found a machine that did it all: Web, e-mail, calendar and address book, but it could also recognize ordinary, cursive handwriting that wasn't as awkward as graffiti
The biggest problem with a Newton is its size: It's as big as a brick.
-----------
I had a nice little acer laptop that did all of that and more. It had a 233Mhz MMX processor. It ran windows 2000 decently on 80MB (max) of RAM, and was wonderful for Linux. Unfortunately it took a spike in a power surge, silly me for not getting a surge guard
Seems to me that one could do a lot better by getting a used mini-laptop. Mine didn't cost me a huge amount, and it was a lot more productive than any handheld.
It seems that handhelds are often just used as toys, with a cheap notebook at least you can run linux or do some programming
An then we count the amount of windows machines that come with Internet Explorer... and the ones that come with Netscape.
And then we count in all the components of windows and/or activeX thingies that probably show up as IE
And then we wonder we used to love Netscape. And we remember that we started hating it when it began to crash continuously, and switched to IE. And then we remember that the crashing started after installing Office XX or other MS-type software...
The point was however, that the human (of greater mass) will reach a point where he/she would no longer be accelerating, and maintain a constant velocity (ignoring the fact that a human would be less than charcoal dust if falling through the atmosphere).
The rock, having a lower mass, would have a lower potential velocity. This means that although it might accelerate faster (gravity - drag is less), it would have a lower MAX speed.
An analogy is like having two very similar cars with different gear ratios. One allows for a greater speed at a lesser acceleration (human), another allows for lesser speed at greater acceleration (rock). Graph it, at the beginning the smaller object will have a higher max speed, but further into the graph the larger wins out.
Also, the little rock could have broken off of a bigger rock, so the acceleration would at that point. Still enough to hurt, maybe not enough to dent somebody's foot or blow it to pieces.
And when you've had the "screw it" attitude for the past 3 years, and either quit jobs or just generally been an ass, then how do you find another job when you have no good resume references from former employers.
Interview/Application Question: Previous employment
Ummm.... I've worked at many companies, but prefer not to name them as they now hate me. It's all their fault though, really!
I prefer to do a good job, enjoy my work and take pride in what I do. I do check my own emails, post to/read slashdot, etc.
However, I try to not tie up a lot of time I could be being productive. It also helps that when I ask for a day off, or a perk/raise, I often get it or at least get reasonable consideration. There's no reason to work like a slave, but a little honest dedication tends to have its rewards.
I confirmed that projects made on my own time, that don't use company resources (including work time) are my own. When you're starting a new job, it really doesn't hurt to ask about right-of-ownership. Most employers I know didn't find the question offensive, in fact many found it intelligent - and indicative that I enjoyed what I do (if I were also the type to code on my own time).
Just as a safeguard, you can also request an anmendment to your contract indicating that your work at home is your own, and what constitutes non-company owned work.
In my case, much of what I work personally I offer to the company free, but allowing that I may offer the non-proprietary stuff elsewhere, and use it personally, so long as it's clear that I will never charge my employer for the use of said code/knowledge (even should I be terminated or quit).
I believe that there's some sort of rule of maximum velocity due to acceleration depending on max. If it's like lava rock, it's probably got a fairly low mass, in which case there is a possiblity that it might not be able to reach an overly high speed.
But still. You see something flash from by the rooftop, something hits your foot... it's still gotta be moving at a decent rate. I imagine it would still smart quite a bit, guess it would depend on what shoes she was wearing?
Could you extract the gold from the alfalfa and then sell use it as hay anyways?
I suppose centrifuging would probably give you a little gold particle and a lot of alfalfa oatmeal-like (alfalfameal?) slop... not sure if the slop would still be useful?
Oh, and there may be plants that do this better than alfalfa. It still depends on the amount of gold nanoparticles actually in the soil, but we could probably build/grow something that quickly sucks up what is available...
Seems to me cactuses survive by sucking up what they need to live and harvesting what they have efficiently... wonder if they'd make good gold suckers. If they did, they'd have built-in protection, looters would have to watch out for those nasty spikes...
If they can fiddle with light and directly manipulate it, does this mean they could possibly simulate some form of "invisibility". E.g. bending light completely around an object, so that the object no longer refracts light itself, but is essentially hidden within a sphere of redirected light?
I suppose the current theory applies only to light within some conduit of sorts, like fibre optics, but it would be cool if it had other such uses
I'm not a physacists, so feel free to critisize, but it's just a thought... direct manipulation of light could be a powerful thing.
-Quote-
"Using these plasmonic nanomaterials, we hope to directly manipulate light, guide it around corners with no losses and basically do all the fundamental operations we do with electronic circuits today, but with photons instead," said Shalaev.
-EndQuote-
Here's a good point. Back in the day, it *WAS* possibly to hack BBS's. Most of the time it wasn't all that easy, since there wasn't an internet full of script-kiddy solutions or a buttload of docs, but at times it was done. And yes, BBS's did prevail.
Having large local Wireless networks doesn't sound like such a hugely bad idea, provided that somebody is willing to pick up the tab for the access, and maintain the security. Knowledgable hackers will probably get in for free, but that's true to a lot of situations.
Doors and locks only keep honest people honest...
perhaps the WiFi script kiddies should dedicate some time to learning how to create security instead of break it, it might get them some local recognition, and looks better on a resume...
Sounds like what used to happen up here with housing and land-leasing... actually I think it still happens.
Lease out some really nice land, at a decent price, for say 10-20 years. When the lease ran out, the new leasing fees were somewhere in the area of 400%+
Most of the leasers couldn't afford the new rates, some fought against it but the court costs were also huge. In short, a lot of people ended up giving up the land, and the landowners got some nice houses to go with us (exempting the smart ones, who bulldozed their places and made things as messy as possible).
The moral, beware of any contract with an ability to change or a time-limit...
Unless it automatically associates the spam with you...
In this case, they've profiled you as having an odd fetish for watersports and interspecies mating, as well as having an undersized libedo among various other email discernable details.
Suddenly the police show up at your door with a search warrant for unlawful pornography... and your boss demotes you for similar reasons...
So whenever my girlfriend uses my computer it will add more fun things to my profile, and I get can breast enlargement ads in addition to penile-enlargement ads? I'm sure most of the information they have on a large amount of users is more-or-less useless...
Hmmm... doubleclick is reading in that a user likes websites about uses for gerbils that certainly aren't sanctioned by my local petstore. Of course, the user was just looking for pet food supplies and found that gerbillove.com isn't actually to do with standard affection for your fine furry friends. That won't stop google though, so now you can enjoy the pleasure of having your email address added to lists such as "gerbilfetish" and "rodentlust" etc etc
Anyone notice that the amount of Mountain Dew intake tends to directly correspond to the amount of times you have to make a bathroom break...same thing applies to tea
The last thing you want in the middle of a fragging match is to have your bladder on the verge of critical overload just when the action is getting hot and nearing the frag count. I'd recommend eating a watermelon or some grapes... a little bit of natural sugar and they don't tend to trigger the "call of nature" quite so often.
And of course... bathroom rush can sometimes lead to the in-a-hurry-zipped-up-too-fast syndrome... it tends to wake you up in a hurry, but the pain tends to be distracting during the quest for more frags...
Last time I checked a hard drive wouldn't fit into a TV-DvD player though... tried stuffing it in the slot and it just wouldn't fit. And my friends aren't equipped with caddy's to swap in a portable hard-drive.
One must consider that DVD writables are used for a lot more than backup... it's also portability of data, and the use between mediums.
If you're thinking just for home PC, a secondary HD is a good backup in case your first one craps out. With DvD players popping up in cars and almost everything else, I don't think we'll be seeing somebody plug a portable hard drive into their dashboard anytime soon.
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I think the last thing we want to do is mess around with our own genes. One screw-up and we could simply mutate the disease, or create dozens of new ones.
I more practical solution might be to something in the form of an invitro vaccine, something that makes children immune upon birth. This may be partially available already, as there is a bill being passed to mandate HIV/AIDS checks on pregnant mothers - in order to save the child from being born with the virus (this would indicate that there is a way to prevent it being passed?).
I remember reading on this quite a long time again. It was either in time, or more likely, readers digest (possibly some article in the local doctor clinic too).
Some humans do have an immunity to AIDS. From what I have read, this stems from them either missing a gene which is required for it to propogate, or possibly they have a gene which blocks it from doing so (I believe it was the former, not the latter).
Speculation in this area was that those that were "immune" to AIDS had the difference in genes passed through the family. Apparently many of these people have been linked to survivers of the plague. Either these people developed the change as a resistance to the plague, or having the plague destroyed something in their genetic structure.
In either case, these people apparently will not die of AIDS (or diseases spawned of HIV). However, I believe they are still able to be carriers, if not suffering the symptoms.
But we are already slaves to our own perceptions, and to our own conditioning. We believe what we see, and what we see is greatly controlled. Unless an event is great and affects many, it is covered up, concealed, or just otherwise passes our notice.
Unless there is an immediate threat to one's own views or person, then most people will ignore an issue. As government slowly tramples the rights of citizens, much passes unnoticed, until finally you end up under their feet as well. There's an old saying about this, ending with "and then it happened to me/"
I'm not really familiar with the coding differences between SUN Java and M$ Java, so there are a few things I think it would be good to know before I talk out of my arse (possibly again).
Is the functionality issue here that M$ Java: a) Would not work in Netscape b) would only work in Netscape if certain features were not used c) It would work in Netscape but only if coded in a particular way that was not often used?
As I'm not sure what the case is, it would seem to me that if it were (a), then M$ did effectively kill NS. If it's (b), then it seems that this was a functionality thing, probably due to M$'s tendency toward OS integration. In the case of (c), it would be a dirty move by M$, but would also place the programming community using the dirty standard partly at fault.
Please inform. I dislike Microsoft, but I want to make sure I know the exact reasons why I dislike Microsoft...
Know thy enemy, then use his software anyways but you need it to play your games...
No, I'm not a M$ supporter. I hate their dominate the world attitude. However, I may be missing something, but how is it that courts can force one company to adopt another's product or standards.
I remember the headache back when Netscape was still popular, and I had to deal with the differences between M$ JavaScript and Netscape JavaScript. Then there were differing standards for Stylesheets, and Java, and XML, etc etc.
While I'm entirely in favor of a global standard, how is it that they can force one company to adopt the standards of others. Why not make a plugin allowing standard Java modules to be used, and make it available? I hated M$ JavaScript, I found Netscape's model was initially much nicer to deal with. However, in the end I found that the MS model ended up with more functionality, mainly due to OS integration.
Shouldn't the decision on what standard to offer be in the community? If I want to use a standard, let me download a driver, patch, or module that allows me to use it. The last thing we need is to make bloatware more bloated by having modules to support dual standards. Really, we should enforce MS to use the global standards before they go off and try to change the world by doing things "their way", instead of trying to figure what we want to do with multiple implementations 5 years later.
What I remember reading (actually I think on ./, but I can't find the original so just note that I'm not the first person to mention this) is that one of the biggest problems with AIDS is that the virus itself will become dormant in some cells over time. As the virus is not active, but simply lie in wait in cells until their time to rise, "cures" tend to overlook the cells while destroying active viruses.
From what I see, this solution would make it so the virus might not be able to kill you, but it would not make it so that you weren't infectious to others.
In college, our program was noted for often picking crappy teachers during the summer semesters. As most of the experienced teachers went on holidays then, there were a lot of spaces to be filled when regulars were out.
What a lot of people have to learn is that "teaching degree != ability to teach any given material".
This was a heavy IT course, yet the administration kept picking from a list of B. Ed's etc who were using to teaching English or French.
The web class teacher (obviously a MS lover) taught us NOT to use ending tags in tables etc, since it just took a little extra time, filespace, and wasn't needed by Internet Explorer. Because of this, I ended up assisting a lot of my fellow students on the side, to make up for crappy teaching (I got on a teacher's blacklist once when a student who said that I should be teaching the course and embarrassed her in front of the class).
One semester, they couldn't get any B'eds. We ended up with somebody from a local corporation, an expert programmer who had a love for computing. He ended up as being the best teacher in the program. Everybody loved him, and we all learned a lot from his classes. This isn't to say that all programmers can teach, but neither can all teachers teach programming.
Teachers don't have to know everything, but they should know (and like) what they have to teach. I don't need my math teacher to know IT, but my IT teacher should know how to teach tech. Somehow I don't think I'd be getting a "quality education" when the IT instructor was also the Phys-ed/English instructor too...
Doesn't this seem just slightly pathetic to everyone? You have to carry your laundry to the machine anyways. Once you put it in, there's almost always a clean indication of cycle duration. If you aren't smart enough to be able to either set a timer or check you watch to know when the laundry will be done in an hour WITHOUT using the internet, then how the heck did you get into college.
The internet IS a useful tool and I wouldn't care to be without it, but truthfully there are some things that it doesn't need to be used for. If people become so useless as to need an online reminder that their 1-hour wash cycle is up, then what have we become.
How far will this go? I mean, it could be that 10 years from now you get your email from your watch...
FROM: toilet
Subject: You just flushed
Just a friendly reminder from your toilet... don't forget to wipe. Also, the air is getting pretty thick in here, turn on the fan. A little bowl cleaner and disinfectant would be nice too, I'm getting skid marks.
Idiotic inventions make money off of idiotic consumers... don't buy stupidity!
It it's happy days, the laptop used to run for about 1h30-2h+ playing divX movies.
This was while juicing the CD-ROM, which hugely increased the power consumption. Without the CD-ROM or a lot of flashy stuff it run quite a bit longer. The batteries were also small (2.5*3*1" or so I think), I have about 3 so it wasn't a big deal to suspend the memory (or better do a quick plug-in if possible) and plunk in a new one.
Between 3 batteries that's about 12h+ actual usage. I could probably have played some mp3's while typing and not drain the battery too much.
Oh, and the thing fit in the leg pocket of my cargo pants... which was cool. It was a Travelmate 312T if I remember correctly
a) Acer laptop wasn't a handheld, hence I used linux. I said nothing about trying to run linux on the Newton, I don't think that would work overly well.
b) The laptop worked great as a mini-mirror for my website, so that I could test all my scripts while on the road. etc. Can a new run Apache+PhP+Mysql and allow me to connect to it through a standard ethernet or serial connection?
c) 4MB of RAM... greaaaat
"People stick with the Newton because the community is so strong," Muniz said d) This is probably the reason. Apple users love other Apple, and each other. It's a nice community, but no reason not to look at other solutions.
I'm surprised none of the Mac lovers haven't gone so far as to love their mac this much. Or perhaps they have
Early models were bulky, expensive and bug-ridden. Apple marketed the Newton poorly, and it was widely ridiculed; a memorable Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau effectively doomed the device.
-------------------
If a comic strip could "doom" something, then MS/Windows would be dead a long time ago. It seems that slashdot alone has a large amount of these linked from user comments.
-------------------
After shopping around, he found a machine that did it all: Web, e-mail, calendar and address book, but it could also recognize ordinary, cursive handwriting that wasn't as awkward as graffiti The biggest problem with a Newton is its size: It's as big as a brick. ----------- I had a nice little acer laptop that did all of that and more. It had a 233Mhz MMX processor. It ran windows 2000 decently on 80MB (max) of RAM, and was wonderful for Linux. Unfortunately it took a spike in a power surge, silly me for not getting a surge guard
Seems to me that one could do a lot better by getting a used mini-laptop. Mine didn't cost me a huge amount, and it was a lot more productive than any handheld.
It seems that handhelds are often just used as toys, with a cheap notebook at least you can run linux or do some programming
An then we count the amount of windows machines that come with Internet Explorer... and the ones that come with Netscape.
And then we count in all the components of windows and/or activeX thingies that probably show up as IE
And then we wonder we used to love Netscape. And we remember that we started hating it when it began to crash continuously, and switched to IE. And then we remember that the crashing started after installing Office XX or other MS-type software...
The point was however, that the human (of greater mass) will reach a point where he/she would no longer be accelerating, and maintain a constant velocity (ignoring the fact that a human would be less than charcoal dust if falling through the atmosphere).
The rock, having a lower mass, would have a lower potential velocity. This means that although it might accelerate faster (gravity - drag is less), it would have a lower MAX speed.
An analogy is like having two very similar cars with different gear ratios. One allows for a greater speed at a lesser acceleration (human), another allows for lesser speed at greater acceleration (rock). Graph it, at the beginning the smaller object will have a higher max speed, but further into the graph the larger wins out.
Also, the little rock could have broken off of a bigger rock, so the acceleration would at that point. Still enough to hurt, maybe not enough to dent somebody's foot or blow it to pieces.
And when you've had the "screw it" attitude for the past 3 years, and either quit jobs or just generally been an ass, then how do you find another job when you have no good resume references from former employers.
Interview/Application Question: Previous employment
Ummm.... I've worked at many companies, but prefer not to name them as they now hate me. It's all their fault though, really!
I prefer to do a good job, enjoy my work and take pride in what I do. I do check my own emails, post to/read slashdot, etc.
However, I try to not tie up a lot of time I could be being productive. It also helps that when I ask for a day off, or a perk/raise, I often get it or at least get reasonable consideration. There's no reason to work like a slave, but a little honest dedication tends to have its rewards.
I confirmed that projects made on my own time, that don't use company resources (including work time) are my own. When you're starting a new job, it really doesn't hurt to ask about right-of-ownership. Most employers I know didn't find the question offensive, in fact many found it intelligent - and indicative that I enjoyed what I do (if I were also the type to code on my own time).
Just as a safeguard, you can also request an anmendment to your contract indicating that your work at home is your own, and what constitutes non-company owned work.
In my case, much of what I work personally I offer to the company free, but allowing that I may offer the non-proprietary stuff elsewhere, and use it personally, so long as it's clear that I will never charge my employer for the use of said code/knowledge (even should I be terminated or quit).
Heard about a shop teacher that did a similar trick with a bandsaw in shop class... glove filled with red dye and something that looked chunky.
Until one day he really *wasn't* paying attention, and nipped off part of a real finger. I don't think he uses that trick anymore
I believe that there's some sort of rule of maximum velocity due to acceleration depending on max. If it's like lava rock, it's probably got a fairly low mass, in which case there is a possiblity that it might not be able to reach an overly high speed.
But still. You see something flash from by the rooftop, something hits your foot... it's still gotta be moving at a decent rate. I imagine it would still smart quite a bit, guess it would depend on what shoes she was wearing?
Could you extract the gold from the alfalfa and then sell use it as hay anyways?
I suppose centrifuging would probably give you a little gold particle and a lot of alfalfa oatmeal-like (alfalfameal?) slop... not sure if the slop would still be useful?
Oh, and there may be plants that do this better than alfalfa. It still depends on the amount of gold nanoparticles actually in the soil, but we could probably build/grow something that quickly sucks up what is available...
Seems to me cactuses survive by sucking up what they need to live and harvesting what they have efficiently... wonder if they'd make good gold suckers. If they did, they'd have built-in protection, looters would have to watch out for those nasty spikes...
If they can fiddle with light and directly manipulate it, does this mean they could possibly simulate some form of "invisibility". E.g. bending light completely around an object, so that the object no longer refracts light itself, but is essentially hidden within a sphere of redirected light?
I suppose the current theory applies only to light within some conduit of sorts, like fibre optics, but it would be cool if it had other such uses
I'm not a physacists, so feel free to critisize, but it's just a thought... direct manipulation of light could be a powerful thing.
-Quote-
"Using these plasmonic nanomaterials, we hope to directly manipulate light, guide it around corners with no losses and basically do all the fundamental operations we do with electronic circuits today, but with photons instead," said Shalaev.
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Here's a good point. Back in the day, it *WAS* possibly to hack BBS's. Most of the time it wasn't all that easy, since there wasn't an internet full of script-kiddy solutions or a buttload of docs, but at times it was done. And yes, BBS's did prevail.
Having large local Wireless networks doesn't sound like such a hugely bad idea, provided that somebody is willing to pick up the tab for the access, and maintain the security. Knowledgable hackers will probably get in for free, but that's true to a lot of situations.
Doors and locks only keep honest people honest...
perhaps the WiFi script kiddies should dedicate some time to learning how to create security instead of break it, it might get them some local recognition, and looks better on a resume...
Sounds like what used to happen up here with housing and land-leasing... actually I think it still happens.
Lease out some really nice land, at a decent price, for say 10-20 years. When the lease ran out, the new leasing fees were somewhere in the area of 400%+
Most of the leasers couldn't afford the new rates, some fought against it but the court costs were also huge. In short, a lot of people ended up giving up the land, and the landowners got some nice houses to go with us (exempting the smart ones, who bulldozed their places and made things as messy as possible).
The moral, beware of any contract with an ability to change or a time-limit...
Unless it automatically associates the spam with you...
In this case, they've profiled you as having an odd fetish for watersports and interspecies mating, as well as having an undersized libedo among various other email discernable details.
Suddenly the police show up at your door with a search warrant for unlawful pornography... and your boss demotes you for similar reasons...
So whenever my girlfriend uses my computer it will add more fun things to my profile, and I get can breast enlargement ads in addition to penile-enlargement ads? I'm sure most of the information they have on a large amount of users is more-or-less useless...
Hmmm... doubleclick is reading in that a user likes websites about uses for gerbils that certainly aren't sanctioned by my local petstore. Of course, the user was just looking for pet food supplies and found that gerbillove.com isn't actually to do with standard affection for your fine furry friends. That won't stop google though, so now you can enjoy the pleasure of having your email address added to lists such as "gerbilfetish" and "rodentlust" etc etc
And you wonder how they got your email address...
Anyone notice that the amount of Mountain Dew intake tends to directly correspond to the amount of times you have to make a bathroom break...same thing applies to tea
The last thing you want in the middle of a fragging match is to have your bladder on the verge of critical overload just when the action is getting hot and nearing the frag count. I'd recommend eating a watermelon or some grapes... a little bit of natural sugar and they don't tend to trigger the "call of nature" quite so often.
And of course... bathroom rush can sometimes lead to the in-a-hurry-zipped-up-too-fast syndrome... it tends to wake you up in a hurry, but the pain tends to be distracting during the quest for more frags...
Last time I checked a hard drive wouldn't fit into a TV-DvD player though... tried stuffing it in the slot and it just wouldn't fit. And my friends aren't equipped with caddy's to swap in a portable hard-drive.
One must consider that DVD writables are used for a lot more than backup... it's also portability of data, and the use between mediums.
If you're thinking just for home PC, a secondary HD is a good backup in case your first one craps out. With DvD players popping up in cars and almost everything else, I don't think we'll be seeing somebody plug a portable hard drive into their dashboard anytime soon.