That's actually been a problem for several years now at marathons, half-marathons and other road races.
Add in triathlons, bike races, etc... its to the point where the sports supplements companies have started making stuff specifically to combat it. The last Tri I was at one of the free-bes in the grab bags were electrolyte pills. Basically capsules of salts and such to keep you from bonking from losing electrolytes through sweat or diluting them too much by drinking alot of water.
Turn IRC off and they'll do it via usenet and have the bot read a certain (not too spammy) group religiously for his master's voice
Or from right here on slashdot.... Ive seen the pages come across, usually has something like HELLO WOLRD on the first couple of lines, then a series of numbers/characters obviously formatted in a pattern, then ends with another obvious terminator. It looks so blatently like a crypted message I reported it to Taco/other maintainers, but they just closed the ticket with "security related stuff should go through email, not tickets"...bleh
And how well does your phone transmit/receive? Do you drop calls often/go out of range easily? Lower radiation=lower transmition power=shorter range. Sure, it might not cook your brain so much, but there's always a trade off. The only reason it wouldnt is if this EMF radiation were not from the primary source: antenna, but rather output from the internals not related to transmission.
If you then put anything else into one of their buildings, the Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS), which are Telcordia documents that practically carry the force of law, dictate that equipment be DC powered. Among other things -- NEBS gear has to meet the brick schytthaus test. (Sun Netras and many Cisco routers meet NEBS. Your basic rack server doesn't. And aluminum racks are STRICTLY forbidden; it has to be steel.)
You left out the part that mentions WHY only Cisco, Sun Netras and very little else is NEBS compliant: it costs $$$$$$ to get certified, there are few people that actually buy/use it and those that do generally already use Sun and Cisco gear (or other Telecom based stuff like Adtran, etc), and designing stuff to meet NEBS requires alot of extra homework. This all adds up to a very large price difference between your generic AC powered server and a DC powered one, cause if its DC powered, its probably NEBS (at least I havent seen any non-NEBS DC systems). If they were to come out with a DC system that cut out the NEBS tax, the whole DC movement would catch on alot faster.
The fundementals behind it have been in use for a long time, and trace back to the basics of engineering (software engineering as well): define the inputs and outputs, and design an element to meet those needs. In this case, the inputs/outputs are forces, and the elements are fragments of a structure. In basic particle dynamics (physics), the same principals are applied to individual static bodies. Finite element analysis simply takes the same basics, throws in a bit of calculus with integrals to the point where you can calculate the exact forces/moments at any point in a solid body. For paper work, the number and size/complexity of equations involved requires summing over a limited series of rather large finite elements to get an estimated result rather than solving all the integrals to get a perfect result (think low-polygon surfaces, finding the forces at each boundary).
Software has been around for a long time that makes use of the computer's ability to solve things quickly and recursively and allows much faster solutions with much smaller elements. I used the IDEAS package back in '98 at GaTech (IIAME), and I know we had had it for a few years prior to that, and Pro-E does similar stuff and had been out for a while as well. MatLab even has some stuff to do simple solutions, tho its not a 3d modeling engine like IDEAS and Pro-E are. The only advantage hinted at with this one is that it apparently does not need to re-calculate the entire structure based on a change to a few polygons. Not sure how advantageous that is, unless its a minor change that doesnt really affect the overall structure, where the model is large enough that re-calculating it would take forever...
Are way out of date. As in, 3-4x off the actual tax assesment from last year of the home I just purchased and the rest of my neighborhood.... or maybe I paid that much too much (tho mine went for less than the others)... hmmmm
Not to mention, yeh, the images are also several years older than the ones on google.
Well, it looks like Carmack and company have this one pretty much nailed. Liftoff!
Well... once they get their new engines under control, which from the last update looks like it should be soon, they should be able to do this already: they've already done the vertical liftoff/hover/landing, and they have done countless controlled hovers while driving it around with a joystick. Piloting it up, over, and down shouldn't be much more difficult.
btw, the movie of the liftoff/hover/landing (well, the landing was botched from a single foot landing first with a high cross wind and the engines still on and trying to re-level the ship...but anyway): armadilloaerospace.com
...and their other "Boosted hop" attempt, which ran out of fuel on the way up: armadilloaerospace.com
And of course, go to the main page and read more news on what they are doing.
Rather, the most immediate application may come in the form of a battery-operated, portable neutron generator. Such a device could be used to detect explosives or to scan luggage at airports, and it could also be an important tool for a wide range of laboratory experiments.
Not to mention bringing the ghostbuster's proton pack/particle beams to reality! Back in the 80s they had to walk around with a cyclotron strapped on their back, now they can have a portable Fusion reactor!
However, in the case of Vista, Avalon is a managed vector-based graphics API utilizing XML
Back to the days of Active Desktop are we? Ahhh.. the memories, how many computers I "fixed" simply by turning it off and watching response time go from seconds to instant....
..peering through several different networks, including "sprintlink", that presumably neither I nor Google pay any money to...
Welcome to the internet, where anyone's traffic is routed to anyone else via different networks. Seriously, do you think these "other networks" get nothing for transmitting traffic? What kind of buisness would that be? If it did not net them a profit, they would not be doing it at all. Sure, top level backbone providers generally peer with each other for free (see Level3 vs Cogent a few months ago...), but anyone smaller than that usually has to pay for bandwidth to peer based on consumption. No one is going to run a network for free. We as end users pay for our connection to the ISP. Part of that pays for the ISP's upstream connection to their provider. If that provider has another upstream provider, a part of the fees go to that as well, up until you get to the free peering agreements. If Verizon is complaining about the traffic Google is creating eating up their bandwidth, they should re-evaluate their pricing with the peers generating the traffic, not try to charge Google. The best analogy from this thread is a few replies up "If Google were in the Pie baking buisness, and used Verizon (or other carrier) to supply them with gas to cook the pies, is Verizon entitled to charge Google more than other pie bakers (or anyone else) because their pies are better than anyone else's and they happen to make a ton of money off of them?" No, they charge a set rate for what is consumed. If they arent making enough, they raise their rates. If they cant raise rates and remain competitive, tough, thats capitalism and competition.
As for relating to the reserving of bandwidth issue...Verizon can do as they like with their own bandwidth, if their customers dont approve, they can go elsewhere. However, being that there is a psudo monopolistic situation with LECs, certain customers might have no alternative, in which case Telecom regulations step in to protect the customer from price gouging and other unfair monopolistic practices. Given the recent results of the Trianual Review by the FCC, most of these protections are sadly being stripped away, and the LECs are falling back together into another AT&T, this time named SBC it would seem. One of the protections still around though, is also protection for the LEC itself for the content they might carry: "Common Carrier" status. The LEC treats all traffic the same, and as such, cannot be held liable if that traffic happens to be transmitting illeagle content, or be going places it shouldnt. If they start filtering traffic based on where it is going and charging or reducing bandwidth based on the source/destination, they stand a good chance of losing "Common Carrier" as they are now filtering specific traffic: so why couldn't they filter all traffic including Illeagle traffic...
This is specifically why I think content providers should be seperated completely from service providers. Its the same as Microsoft being both an OS company and general software company, if they control one part, they tend to use that to force the other down the customer's throats (Netscape vs IE).
Is it morally right for this third party to require microsoft to remove this feature when they don't offer a product with similar functionality? Is it moral to use patent law to deny technology to society?
Its not a matter of denying technology, Im sure the patent holder would allow Microsoft to continue using the patented software for a price. That is the whole reason for the patent system: Invent something, and have a legal way to keep others from selling your invention for their profit. If you create a work of art, is it moral for you to force all museums or Art stores displaying or selling coppies of it with some other artist's name to take those coppies down and/or stop selling them (and attempt to recover the ones sold)?
I agree, Starcraft is one of the only games I actually purchased for my PC. The only thing that turned me off of playing it on the battle.net servers was the influx of soo many Cheater/scriptors. Between people you know, its simply awesome. Just not too fond of the "OMG! Zerg rush! kekeke" people.
My current addiction(s) that were brought back from the dead have to be the re-incarnation of Sub Space (Continuum) and Star Control 2 (Urquon Masters).
I played both back when they were new, was a Sup Space fiend during the early beta testing days up until Virgin started charging for it (and locking guests to one or two type of ships), and completely quit once they killed it off for good. Star Control 2 I picked up from a friend a long time ago and played it for a while until I realized I had started off wrong and would have to start over to have any chance of completing it, and after a few attempts (and computer rebuilds, and College exams and work..) it got forgotten/lost.
A discussion on this very topic (addictive games of the past) had me looking for those two upon which I found they had both been re-built by the fans of the games. I play Sub Space Continuum far more than urquon masters simply because it takes less time, and is generally less involving. Being a Top-view MMPOG shooter, its easy to see why. Jump in, blow up a few ships and get blown up a few times, turn it off... The plot lines involved in Star Control/Urquon Masters makes it harder to leave, especially when you just figure out the next set of clues or get something that you know what to do with. Both are about as addictive as Civ is, to the point where I had to un-install urquon to get any work done.
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ps: Sub Space (Continuum) is up and live at subspace.net And Star Control 2 (Urqon Masters) is on Source Forge at SC2.sourceforge.net
Lets see... Futurama, FireFly (Serenity), and lately Arrested Developement. Futurama is looking more and more like its coming back, almost more of a when than an if. I wish the same were true of FireFly, though we at least got a movie out of it. Hopefully it will get picked up again somewhere. Arrested developement was good too, though I didnt watch too many episodes.
It's called 3M Fluorinert, and now that it's come up in two separate discussions in two days...
And in other stories many times before, including the one that combined fluorinert with liquid nitrogen and circulating pumps to see how far they could push the processor: A Celeron 566...past 1Ghz
As long as there is something to convect through between the layers, otherwise radiation takes over, and since that is the weakest transfer mode available, is usually the best choice for insulation (hence the vaccume thermos). But, if the layers are touching, conduction happens and depending on how strong the junction is and after boundary layer effects, might dominate and reduce the effectiveness as an insulator.
Since when can agreement be given by pressing a mouse button or removing shrinkwrap?...
The EULA itself is an ugly audacious legal fiction.
However, Sony has just proven that. By putting a EULA on its software that was meaningless to both the end user AND their own software, they just proved to the world that the EULA is not serious and should not hold any value what-so-ever. Should someone go to court to sue Sony, they should not try to use the EULA from the standpoint of "I declined the agreement because I did not agree with it", but rather "I clicked decline because it was the first (and probably only) opportunity to halt the installation of software, I was only trying to listen to the music."
However, by typing your reply you already are in violation! You translated your analog thoughts and movements into digitaly stored characters by typing them into your comptuer!!!
Buncha medical terms... something about cells and heart tissue not dieing as much after injecting stuff into them... a few pictures with more medical jargon descriptions saying something about why and how the pictures are different, tho they look the same to me... and be sure to look at more pretty pictures here: URL
Yeh, thats about it. Summary was a copy of the first paragraph, and is about as far as you can go and still make sense of it without a med degree...
Ever watch the video of the guy pouring LOx over a pile of charcoal that had one piece lit? It left nothing of the grill other than a large burn spot on the ground. Google might find you something more than his site which has only the message about people requesting the "experiment" be removed from the webpage. Another site has a couple images: here
Anyway, he also stated that if he poured first, then lit, each briquet would detonate with about as much power as a stick of dynamite.
Just make sure the drop of blood you put on the chipset isnt too big or you will anger the controller and it will let out the magic smoke that makes it work. The drives are usually more forgiving, thus a nice big blob usually appeases them.
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Add in triathlons, bike races, etc... its to the point where the sports supplements companies have started making stuff specifically to combat it. The last Tri I was at one of the free-bes in the grab bags were electrolyte pills. Basically capsules of salts and such to keep you from bonking from losing electrolytes through sweat or diluting them too much by drinking alot of water.
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Or from right here on slashdot.... Ive seen the pages come across, usually has something like HELLO WOLRD on the first couple of lines, then a series of numbers/characters obviously formatted in a pattern, then ends with another obvious terminator. It looks so blatently like a crypted message I reported it to Taco/other maintainers, but they just closed the ticket with "security related stuff should go through email, not tickets"...bleh
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Sheesh...ptm
You left out the part that mentions WHY only Cisco, Sun Netras and very little else is NEBS compliant: it costs $$$$$$ to get certified, there are few people that actually buy/use it and those that do generally already use Sun and Cisco gear (or other Telecom based stuff like Adtran, etc), and designing stuff to meet NEBS requires alot of extra homework. This all adds up to a very large price difference between your generic AC powered server and a DC powered one, cause if its DC powered, its probably NEBS (at least I havent seen any non-NEBS DC systems). If they were to come out with a DC system that cut out the NEBS tax, the whole DC movement would catch on alot faster.
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Forgot Shitton (crapton in metric), and fuckload....
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Software has been around for a long time that makes use of the computer's ability to solve things quickly and recursively and allows much faster solutions with much smaller elements. I used the IDEAS package back in '98 at GaTech (IIAME), and I know we had had it for a few years prior to that, and Pro-E does similar stuff and had been out for a while as well. MatLab even has some stuff to do simple solutions, tho its not a 3d modeling engine like IDEAS and Pro-E are. The only advantage hinted at with this one is that it apparently does not need to re-calculate the entire structure based on a change to a few polygons. Not sure how advantageous that is, unless its a minor change that doesnt really affect the overall structure, where the model is large enough that re-calculating it would take forever...
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Not to mention, yeh, the images are also several years older than the ones on google.
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Well... once they get their new engines under control, which from the last update looks like it should be soon, they should be able to do this already: they've already done the vertical liftoff/hover/landing, and they have done countless controlled hovers while driving it around with a joystick. Piloting it up, over, and down shouldn't be much more difficult.
btw, the movie of the liftoff/hover/landing (well, the landing was botched from a single foot landing first with a high cross wind and the engines still on and trying to re-level the ship...but anyway):
armadilloaerospace.com
armadilloaerospace.com
And of course, go to the main page and read more news on what they are doing.
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Not to mention bringing the ghostbuster's proton pack/particle beams to reality! Back in the 80s they had to walk around with a cyclotron strapped on their back, now they can have a portable Fusion reactor!
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Back to the days of Active Desktop are we? Ahhh.. the memories, how many computers I "fixed" simply by turning it off and watching response time go from seconds to instant....
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Welcome to the internet, where anyone's traffic is routed to anyone else via different networks. Seriously, do you think these "other networks" get nothing for transmitting traffic? What kind of buisness would that be? If it did not net them a profit, they would not be doing it at all. Sure, top level backbone providers generally peer with each other for free (see Level3 vs Cogent a few months ago...), but anyone smaller than that usually has to pay for bandwidth to peer based on consumption. No one is going to run a network for free. We as end users pay for our connection to the ISP. Part of that pays for the ISP's upstream connection to their provider. If that provider has another upstream provider, a part of the fees go to that as well, up until you get to the free peering agreements. If Verizon is complaining about the traffic Google is creating eating up their bandwidth, they should re-evaluate their pricing with the peers generating the traffic, not try to charge Google. The best analogy from this thread is a few replies up "If Google were in the Pie baking buisness, and used Verizon (or other carrier) to supply them with gas to cook the pies, is Verizon entitled to charge Google more than other pie bakers (or anyone else) because their pies are better than anyone else's and they happen to make a ton of money off of them?" No, they charge a set rate for what is consumed. If they arent making enough, they raise their rates. If they cant raise rates and remain competitive, tough, thats capitalism and competition.
As for relating to the reserving of bandwidth issue...Verizon can do as they like with their own bandwidth, if their customers dont approve, they can go elsewhere. However, being that there is a psudo monopolistic situation with LECs, certain customers might have no alternative, in which case Telecom regulations step in to protect the customer from price gouging and other unfair monopolistic practices. Given the recent results of the Trianual Review by the FCC, most of these protections are sadly being stripped away, and the LECs are falling back together into another AT&T, this time named SBC it would seem. One of the protections still around though, is also protection for the LEC itself for the content they might carry: "Common Carrier" status. The LEC treats all traffic the same, and as such, cannot be held liable if that traffic happens to be transmitting illeagle content, or be going places it shouldnt. If they start filtering traffic based on where it is going and charging or reducing bandwidth based on the source/destination, they stand a good chance of losing "Common Carrier" as they are now filtering specific traffic: so why couldn't they filter all traffic including Illeagle traffic...
This is specifically why I think content providers should be seperated completely from service providers. Its the same as Microsoft being both an OS company and general software company, if they control one part, they tend to use that to force the other down the customer's throats (Netscape vs IE).
Tm
Its not a matter of denying technology, Im sure the patent holder would allow Microsoft to continue using the patented software for a price. That is the whole reason for the patent system: Invent something, and have a legal way to keep others from selling your invention for their profit. If you create a work of art, is it moral for you to force all museums or Art stores displaying or selling coppies of it with some other artist's name to take those coppies down and/or stop selling them (and attempt to recover the ones sold)?
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My current addiction(s) that were brought back from the dead have to be the re-incarnation of Sub Space (Continuum) and Star Control 2 (Urquon Masters).
I played both back when they were new, was a Sup Space fiend during the early beta testing days up until Virgin started charging for it (and locking guests to one or two type of ships), and completely quit once they killed it off for good. Star Control 2 I picked up from a friend a long time ago and played it for a while until I realized I had started off wrong and would have to start over to have any chance of completing it, and after a few attempts (and computer rebuilds, and College exams and work..) it got forgotten/lost.
A discussion on this very topic (addictive games of the past) had me looking for those two upon which I found they had both been re-built by the fans of the games. I play Sub Space Continuum far more than urquon masters simply because it takes less time, and is generally less involving. Being a Top-view MMPOG shooter, its easy to see why. Jump in, blow up a few ships and get blown up a few times, turn it off... The plot lines involved in Star Control/Urquon Masters makes it harder to leave, especially when you just figure out the next set of clues or get something that you know what to do with. Both are about as addictive as Civ is, to the point where I had to un-install urquon to get any work done.
Tm
ps: Sub Space (Continuum) is up and live at subspace.net
And Star Control 2 (Urqon Masters) is on Source Forge at SC2.sourceforge.net
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And fined $400000 per track they infected, as opposed to the $7.50 per Album Sony is getting away with...
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And in other stories many times before, including the one that combined fluorinert with liquid nitrogen and circulating pumps to see how far they could push the processor: A Celeron 566 ...past 1Ghz
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However, Sony has just proven that. By putting a EULA on its software that was meaningless to both the end user AND their own software, they just proved to the world that the EULA is not serious and should not hold any value what-so-ever. Should someone go to court to sue Sony, they should not try to use the EULA from the standpoint of "I declined the agreement because I did not agree with it", but rather "I clicked decline because it was the first (and probably only) opportunity to halt the installation of software, I was only trying to listen to the music."
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Ack! Now Im in violation myself!
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Yeh, thats about it. Summary was a copy of the first paragraph, and is about as far as you can go and still make sense of it without a med degree...
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$_ =~ s/hurry/BANG/ if($ignition_time > $LOx_introduction_time);
Ever watch the video of the guy pouring LOx over a pile of charcoal that had one piece lit? It left nothing of the grill other than a large burn spot on the ground. Google might find you something more than his site which has only the message about people requesting the "experiment" be removed from the webpage. Another site has a couple images: here
Anyway, he also stated that if he poured first, then lit, each briquet would detonate with about as much power as a stick of dynamite.
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