the Exchange server is rebooted pretty much weekly.
Sounds like something out of the ordinary is causing problems.
We have 10+ dedicated Exchange servers that handle mailboxes for many thousands of users, and the only time they've crashed regularly was when a third-party backup utility caused some kind of system lockup.
Vista's UI is nice, and I like that it finally uses non-boneheaded names for system directories (e.g. c:\users\blincoln\documents instead of c:\documents and settings\blincoln\reparse point that sometimes shows as 'my documents' and others as 'blincoln's documents).
I was thinking the same thing. It looks like a cross between a package of birth control pills and a makeup compact, designed for use by the female robot from that old pinball game.
Slow down, Buck Rogers. There's still a lot of the US that aren't even using your space age wireless communication units yet, let alone something fancier built on the same technology.
They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us.
That's an interesting claim. Most of the anime I've seen borrows extensively from its own genre and Hollywood films, even if it is nicely designed and animated.
It also seems to have more of a tendency than American films to have scenes near the end where some incredibly lame nonsensical pseudo-philosophy is spouted out that's supposed to explain everything and/or be a huge revelation to the audience, but is really just a tautology and/or stupid.
I imagine that disabling images and what not would improve your chances.
I don't think so. When I couldn't load the page in my browser, I tried telnetting in on port 80 in order to do a raw GET of the URL. I couldn't even connect to enter the command.
There is a beige Toshiba Tecra laptop in our pile of obsolete gear. It's got an original Pentium chip, and 64MB of RAM. No battery pack or hard drive, so I can't boot it up to find out what speed the chip is.
I would argue that the problem with restricting "apparent" child porn is more basic than that.
Kurt Wimmer said it well in the commentary for Equilibrium - that the very concept of making a distinction for "hate" crimes is flawed because they punish people for their thoughts, not their actions. How can you prove what someone was thinking? "Apparent" child porn is the same way - it involves believing that you can know that the people who consumed it did so thinking that it involved the exploitation of children, and that if they hadn't been, they wouldn't be guilty.
Thought crime laws are always wrong - even when they might be passed with the intent of doing real good.
My main point being that I don't buy into using drugs to work around the inconveniences of being alive. I even avoid medication when people try to put me on it.
I can understand your point of view, but that doesn't mean I should necessarily want to live my life that way. I've always believed that performance-enhancing drugs of any kind are just another tool in the box that we've built ever since our ancestors started making stone knives and using fire.
Most of the ones now have some sort of tradeoff - e.g. steroids and stimulants. But I don't think that means they shouldn't be available, just that they should be used by people who understand that they're not getting the benefits without some significant side-effects.
So have I. However, if it gets in-between the sheets of plastic, the keyboard will have problems with various bits of the grid being shorted, so that keys will do different things than what they're labelled as. It doesn't happen *every* time you spill a drink on one, but it's happened maybe 33-50% of the time for me.
I don't like modern membrane keyboards because if you spill a drink on them, they're basically done for. You can take them apart and clean the plastic sheets all you want, but it's next to impossible to make all the keys work ever again.
That being said, I use them at home and at work because I haven't seen an MS Natural-style keyboard with real switches, let alone one at an affordable price.
Right. Sorry if I was confusing. What I meant was that at least to me with my superficial knowledge of physics, the entanglement aspect doesn't seem to add much to this particular experiment. As you say, I don't expect anything surprising to be detected - it seems like in order for his theory to work, the measurement of the first particle by the first detector would have to *not* collapse the wavefunction of either particle in the pair.
Thanks for providing an actual, properly-informed perspective on it, because yes, all the news articles seemed pretty crappy.
It means little to a non-Christian that the Israelites worshipped a bronze snake in the Book of Numbers, or that Methuselah was the oldest human who ever lived.
You can say what you want about your so-called "Bible," but "Methuselah syndrome" is mentioned in Blade Runner, and therefore anyone who doesn't know how it got its name doesn't belong anywhere near electronic equipment. Possibly even anything requiring electricity.
The particle is not being detected either as a particle or as a wave.
Further down in the comments, someone mentions that the detector is actually a two-slit apparatus. So what is meant is that if the first particle is acting as a wave, there will be an interference pattern, but if it's acting as a particle, there will just be a single point of impact.
I'm not sure how the second one would work.
But yes, even with my basic armchair physics knowledge, I agree with what you're saying. It seems to me to be just a more overly-complicated version of the variation on the two-slit experiment where you put detectors in the slits to try and see which one the particle passed through, and in so doing destroy the quantum effect and don't get an interference pattern.
I'm not a physicist at all, but I am interested in the field.
My amateur level of knowledge implies to me that one of two things will happen:
- Because the first particle is going to hit its detector first, that will collapse the wavefunction of both particles, meaning that the second one will always behave as a wave, no matter how the second detector is configured.
- The entanglement will be broken if the second detector is configured to force the second particle to be detected as a particle and not a wave, and he will get different results for the two at that point.
The parent and great-grandparent are correct. The 500's composite output was greyscale. My friends and I in high school ended up forking out for genlock boxes to do colour output and overlay over analogue video.
Maybe it's because Official Xbox Magazine has pleasant writing, and a staff that seems genuinely excited about the console. For an official magazine, they even have very honest reviews of games.
I don't subscribe to gaming magazines anymore, because I don't have that much time for games. But when I did, I was continually annoyed by OPM's descent into insulting their readership and trying to seem "edgy." I had been wondering when Sony was going to realize that that was bad for business.
Yeah because after all, it's impossible for there ever to be more than one SF series set on a space station.
I think the reason people make the comments the do about DS9 and B5 is that IIRC, before either was made, JMS took the B5 concept to Paramount and was turned down. Paramount then went on to make DS9 a few years later, and it had a suspiciously similar concept.
Of course, one of my personal theories is that JMS got a good chunk of his inspiration (and an actor or three) from the B-grade film Arena, so he's not entirely innocent either.
Or maybe it was just off-putting that this writer thought that a socially superior hominid would be even MORE cliquey and xenophobic than us humans.
I haven't read the Darwin books, but one of his old novellas called "Hardfought" has what I assume is a similarly pessimistic perspective on humanity's children. I don't say that in a negative way, it's one of my favourite short stories.
OTOH, I enjoyed the first book enough that I'm willing to give Bear another chance. Any recommendations?
IMO, Anvil of Stars is his best work, but not everyone feels that way. I also am a big fan of Eon/Eternity, Queen of Angels/Slant, and Blood Music, although I really like everything of his that I've read. I'm still kicking myself for not waiting around to ask him for an autograph when I found out he was sitting a few rows in front of me at the sci fi short film festival Paul Allen threw a year or two ago.
I assume it's just using motion detection. The video looks like a more advanced version of the homebrew airsoft sentry gun that a hobbyist put together last year (I'd post a link, but he took down the site and replaced it with a page implying he was taking it commercial).
Basically what his software did was compare the previous frame and the current one, then draw a bounding box around things that had changed. That's all this system appears to be doing, except instead of aiming for the center of the box, it is estimating where the target's head is.
I went on a long drive the last couple of weeks. The Eastward trip included those three states, and for the Westward part I went through Nebraska and Colorado instead. It's amazing how much difference it made in the temperature. Wyoming had snow and ice all over, and all three were bone-chillingly cold at night and/or if there was a lot of wind, which there usually was. And that was late fall, not winter.
Texas is also closer to the water, in case they need to ditch a rocket in the ocean. Historically, it's also had more space-related activities going on, and giving a nod to history seems pretty important to this company.
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the Exchange server is rebooted pretty much weekly.
Sounds like something out of the ordinary is causing problems.
We have 10+ dedicated Exchange servers that handle mailboxes for many thousands of users, and the only time they've crashed regularly was when a third-party backup utility caused some kind of system lockup.
Steve Ballmer, is that you?
Vista's UI is nice, and I like that it finally uses non-boneheaded names for system directories (e.g. c:\users\blincoln\documents instead of c:\documents and settings\blincoln\reparse point that sometimes shows as 'my documents' and others as 'blincoln's documents).
However, no way is that worth the upgrade price.
I was thinking the same thing. It looks like a cross between a package of birth control pills and a makeup compact, designed for use by the female robot from that old pinball game.
I agree.
Slow down, Buck Rogers. There's still a lot of the US that aren't even using your space age wireless communication units yet, let alone something fancier built on the same technology.
They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us.
That's an interesting claim. Most of the anime I've seen borrows extensively from its own genre and Hollywood films, even if it is nicely designed and animated.
It also seems to have more of a tendency than American films to have scenes near the end where some incredibly lame nonsensical pseudo-philosophy is spouted out that's supposed to explain everything and/or be a huge revelation to the audience, but is really just a tautology and/or stupid.
I imagine that disabling images and what not would improve your chances.
I don't think so. When I couldn't load the page in my browser, I tried telnetting in on port 80 in order to do a raw GET of the URL. I couldn't even connect to enter the command.
There is a beige Toshiba Tecra laptop in our pile of obsolete gear. It's got an original Pentium chip, and 64MB of RAM. No battery pack or hard drive, so I can't boot it up to find out what speed the chip is.
I would argue that the problem with restricting "apparent" child porn is more basic than that.
Kurt Wimmer said it well in the commentary for Equilibrium - that the very concept of making a distinction for "hate" crimes is flawed because they punish people for their thoughts, not their actions. How can you prove what someone was thinking? "Apparent" child porn is the same way - it involves believing that you can know that the people who consumed it did so thinking that it involved the exploitation of children, and that if they hadn't been, they wouldn't be guilty.
Thought crime laws are always wrong - even when they might be passed with the intent of doing real good.
Eh eh?
Watch out, if you make fun of the Canadians they might come burn down Washington, DC again.
My main point being that I don't buy into using drugs to work around the inconveniences of being alive. I even avoid medication when people try to put me on it.
I can understand your point of view, but that doesn't mean I should necessarily want to live my life that way. I've always believed that performance-enhancing drugs of any kind are just another tool in the box that we've built ever since our ancestors started making stone knives and using fire.
Most of the ones now have some sort of tradeoff - e.g. steroids and stimulants. But I don't think that means they shouldn't be available, just that they should be used by people who understand that they're not getting the benefits without some significant side-effects.
So have I. However, if it gets in-between the sheets of plastic, the keyboard will have problems with various bits of the grid being shorted, so that keys will do different things than what they're labelled as. It doesn't happen *every* time you spill a drink on one, but it's happened maybe 33-50% of the time for me.
Yeah, I hadn't seen that until your link, and I would love a device like that, assuming the price was reasonable.
I don't like modern membrane keyboards because if you spill a drink on them, they're basically done for. You can take them apart and clean the plastic sheets all you want, but it's next to impossible to make all the keys work ever again.
That being said, I use them at home and at work because I haven't seen an MS Natural-style keyboard with real switches, let alone one at an affordable price.
How about replacing the regular Novell icon with an N made from thirty pieces of silver?
Harsh Questioning sounds like a name Alastair Reynolds might give to a Conjoiner warship.
Right. Sorry if I was confusing. What I meant was that at least to me with my superficial knowledge of physics, the entanglement aspect doesn't seem to add much to this particular experiment. As you say, I don't expect anything surprising to be detected - it seems like in order for his theory to work, the measurement of the first particle by the first detector would have to *not* collapse the wavefunction of either particle in the pair.
Thanks for providing an actual, properly-informed perspective on it, because yes, all the news articles seemed pretty crappy.
It means little to a non-Christian that the Israelites worshipped a bronze snake in the Book of Numbers, or that Methuselah was the oldest human who ever lived.
You can say what you want about your so-called "Bible," but "Methuselah syndrome" is mentioned in Blade Runner, and therefore anyone who doesn't know how it got its name doesn't belong anywhere near electronic equipment. Possibly even anything requiring electricity.
The particle is not being detected either as a particle or as a wave.
Further down in the comments, someone mentions that the detector is actually a two-slit apparatus. So what is meant is that if the first particle is acting as a wave, there will be an interference pattern, but if it's acting as a particle, there will just be a single point of impact.
I'm not sure how the second one would work.
But yes, even with my basic armchair physics knowledge, I agree with what you're saying. It seems to me to be just a more overly-complicated version of the variation on the two-slit experiment where you put detectors in the slits to try and see which one the particle passed through, and in so doing destroy the quantum effect and don't get an interference pattern.
I'm not a physicist at all, but I am interested in the field.
My amateur level of knowledge implies to me that one of two things will happen:
- Because the first particle is going to hit its detector first, that will collapse the wavefunction of both particles, meaning that the second one will always behave as a wave, no matter how the second detector is configured.
- The entanglement will be broken if the second detector is configured to force the second particle to be detected as a particle and not a wave, and he will get different results for the two at that point.
Am I missing something horribly obvious?
The parent and great-grandparent are correct. The 500's composite output was greyscale. My friends and I in high school ended up forking out for genlock boxes to do colour output and overlay over analogue video.
Maybe it's because Official Xbox Magazine has pleasant writing, and a staff that seems genuinely excited about the console. For an official magazine, they even have very honest reviews of games.
I don't subscribe to gaming magazines anymore, because I don't have that much time for games. But when I did, I was continually annoyed by OPM's descent into insulting their readership and trying to seem "edgy." I had been wondering when Sony was going to realize that that was bad for business.
Yeah because after all, it's impossible for there ever to be more than one SF series set on a space station.
I think the reason people make the comments the do about DS9 and B5 is that IIRC, before either was made, JMS took the B5 concept to Paramount and was turned down. Paramount then went on to make DS9 a few years later, and it had a suspiciously similar concept.
Of course, one of my personal theories is that JMS got a good chunk of his inspiration (and an actor or three) from the B-grade film Arena, so he's not entirely innocent either.
Or maybe it was just off-putting that this writer thought that a socially superior hominid would be even MORE cliquey and xenophobic than us humans.
I haven't read the Darwin books, but one of his old novellas called "Hardfought" has what I assume is a similarly pessimistic perspective on humanity's children. I don't say that in a negative way, it's one of my favourite short stories.
OTOH, I enjoyed the first book enough that I'm willing to give Bear another chance. Any recommendations?
IMO, Anvil of Stars is his best work, but not everyone feels that way. I also am a big fan of Eon/Eternity, Queen of Angels/Slant, and Blood Music, although I really like everything of his that I've read. I'm still kicking myself for not waiting around to ask him for an autograph when I found out he was sitting a few rows in front of me at the sci fi short film festival Paul Allen threw a year or two ago.
I assume it's just using motion detection. The video looks like a more advanced version of the homebrew airsoft sentry gun that a hobbyist put together last year (I'd post a link, but he took down the site and replaced it with a page implying he was taking it commercial).
Basically what his software did was compare the previous frame and the current one, then draw a bounding box around things that had changed. That's all this system appears to be doing, except instead of aiming for the center of the box, it is estimating where the target's head is.
No kidding.
I went on a long drive the last couple of weeks. The Eastward trip included those three states, and for the Westward part I went through Nebraska and Colorado instead. It's amazing how much difference it made in the temperature. Wyoming had snow and ice all over, and all three were bone-chillingly cold at night and/or if there was a lot of wind, which there usually was. And that was late fall, not winter.
Texas is also closer to the water, in case they need to ditch a rocket in the ocean. Historically, it's also had more space-related activities going on, and giving a nod to history seems pretty important to this company.