Indeed, correct. Just to put a tangible front on that very valid theoretical answer, light, RF, etc. (the propagation of electromagnetic radiation) does not need a medium to wiggle around in. This is why it can traverse space so efficiently. Instead of a medium, the electic and magnetic fields wiggle each other.
Furthermore, EM emission of "stuff" is a bit weird. I assume you speak of a "photon" as stuff, however a photon can be simply thought of as a packet of energy. But a photon is simply a wave and vice versa. This is certainly an easily confused subject in which this link provides a bit of insight
Anyone try gOffice? It doesn't seem to be related to google or open office, but it seems to be similar to what the announcement is. It is registered to Kevin Warnock. Any thoughts?
Proprietary? Yes. I suspect, however, that it just mounts as a mass storage device, and therefore compatible with other operating systems. It seems straight forward to me, and I don't have to install any third party software*.
[*] Again, I acknowledge that Windows Explorer may not be in your operating system's repertoire. I am assuming this is compatible (though not supported) with any operating system that is usb mass storage aware. I also acknowledge that iTunes may be a good program with added functionality (beyond what a file manager is capable of) that I am not familiar with (I've never run it myself).
I'm sorry. The trademark on "UnAmerican" is already held by unamerican.com. Our lawyers will contact you and slashdot for unauthorized reproduction of our trademark. Whitey will pay.
The parent is absolutely right, WebObjects is not "free" in any sence of the word. It is not free as in freedom (i.e. not open), is not free as in no money. I haven't checked the license, but I guess it probably will not be free as in "free to do what you want with it."
However it is "free" as in you paid for a developers' tool kit and we are including this in with it. A better suited term would be "included at no extra charge" but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? Mind you, I have no problem with them charging for the package, or at least charging for the tool kit, just with the refering to it as "free."
This is done several times a year in the Air force. After it is done, they report the results (how many people clicked on the malicious link, etc.) People may privately feel silly, and then life goes on. In short, it doesn't seem to do the trick.
You americans are so quick to think every country is like yours, with people affording expensive software. Hellooooo we're talking about DEVELOPING countries here!
Helloooo, then DEVELOP some software! I think the parent of your post is saying that if they can not afford Windows, then use something cheaper or free. Or maybe get rid of computers all together? 50 years ago I think indonesia was trucking along quite well without computers.
In fact, why don't you create the software they need to avoid paying MS. They are a developing country, so they can't/won't pay you, but go ahead and do it anyway, you know, because they are developing.
This tribune story only reports on the Orlando Sentinel story found here which has some more details. The text of it is as follows (emph. mine):
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SANFORD -- In the past five months, Seminole County judges have thrown out hundreds of breath-alcohol tests that show drivers were legally drunk.
The reason: The state won't disclose how the test machines work -- not because it doesn't want to, but because it doesn't have the information, and the manufacturer won't give it up.
Seminole judges have tossed out more than 500 breath tests. As a consequence, prosecutors say, drunken drivers are getting off.
One is Pieter Johannes Wesselius, 32, of Altamonte Springs. He was acquitted May 17 by a Seminole County jury that did not know his breath-alcohol measured 0.20, or 21/2 times the legal limit.
Wesselius was driving a black Harley-Davidson on State Road 436 in Altamonte Springs on Sept. 18 when he was pulled over, according to a police report. He told officers he'd had six beers.
Two years earlier, he had pleaded no contest to drunken driving in Seminole, according to court records.
Wesselius, who is in jail after pleading no contest to driving a motorcycle without a license, could not be reached for comment.
What's going on in Seminole is unusual. Nowhere else are judges throwing out virtually every breath test that comes before them.
That's because all four Seminole County criminal judges now use the same standard: If a DUI defendant asks for a key piece of information about how the machine works -- its software source code -- and the state can't provide it, the breath test is rejected.
Prosecutors say they don't know how many drunken drivers have been acquitted as a result. But Gino Feliciani, the misdemeanor division chief in Seminole's State Attorney's Office, said the conviction rate has dropped to 50 percent or less.
Seminole judges are all following the lead of Seminole County Judge Donald Marblestone, who in January ruled, though the information may be a trade secret and controlled by a private contractor, defendants are entitled to it.
"Florida cannot contract away the statutory rights of its citizens," the judge wrote. Marblestone would not discuss his decision, citing pending cases.
Judges in other counties have said the opposite. The state can't turn over something it does not possess, and the manufacturer shouldn't have to turn over trade secrets, they've said.
Three weeks ago, all eight of Brevard's county judges signed an opinion saying defendants were not entitled to the machine's source code. Three weeks before that, judges in Volusia and Bay counties also sided with the state.
The demand for the machine's source code has popped up in Orange County but with less-dramatic results. Some judges have ordered the state to turn it over, but others have not, said Michael Saunders, the county court bureau chief for State Attorney Lawson Lamar.
In Orange, defense attorneys also are demanding access to another Intoxilyzer trade secret: the machine's memory system.
The machine at the center of all this is the Intoxilyzer 5000, the only breath-alcohol machine used by Florida law-enforcement agencies.
When a drunken-driving suspect is hauled into a police station or jail, he must blow into it or lose his drivers license.
The machine determines how much alcohol is in his blood by measuring the amount of alcohol he exhales. It does that by shining an infrared light through a puff of his air.
The $5,000 machine is made by CMI Inc. of Owensboro, Ky. Company officials would not comment.
The Intoxilyzer 5000 is perfectly reliable if properly maintained and operated, said Laura Barfield, manager of alcohol testing for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the agency that oversees all breath-alcohol testing in Florida.
But FDLE's word is not good enough for defense attorneys.
I (think) have you beat. I bought a desktop from tigerdirect and they never sent a mouse. Customer service was in Canada*, and had no 800 number. So I had to make an out-of-country call, wait on hold for 45 minutes, to get someone to take my number and call me back in the next 48 hours!
Not only was the computer not near any phone, but the rate they called back was somewhat dissapointing. The computer had these new PS2 mouse jacks and I finally convinced someone to send me a new mouse (conversations usually included them saying "but aren't they pretty inexpensive" and me saying "yes they are. I bought one from you and you should send it to me."). The new mouse was serial (while this would have worked, I wanted what was promised with the system). After spending several weeks working on contacting them again, they sent me an adapter. However the adapter would allow you to plug a ps2 mouse into a serial port. After receiving the phone bill, I finally gave up. My unsatisfied principals has cost me nominally $75 in phone charges, so I have up. What a waste of a company. But I have done everything I can to talk people out of buying from them.
In hindsight, I guess you were out more money then I was, but at the time, I was very pissed
*Within a year after that, I read somewhere their customer support finally got an 800 number.
Actually, I believe weight scales as the square of the wire cross-section:
weight = mass*gravity
mass = density*volume density is simply a material parameter, so assume we are comparing two wires of the same material
volume = length*pi*radius^2
However you can not treat CNT with the same simple analysis of something such as copper. CNT are sort of like hoses (empty on the inside, having a matrix of carbon on the outside). I assume that it is not 10* better than traditional copper cables, but rather 10* better than copper when you compare material conductivity (see here
for a description of the inverse of conductivity, resistivity).
Our greatest PR coup was a two-part one. We estimated, based on some fairly informal math, that there were about 5000 stores on the Web. We got one paper to print this number, which seemed neutral enough. But once this "fact" was out there in print, we could quote it to other publications, and claim that with 1000 users we had 20% of the online store market.
(emph. mine)
I think this quote is not only underhanded and misleading, it is simply wrong. The quote assumes that even if there were 5000 online stores, and even if his online store had 1000 users, there is no percentage that can be drawn from that.
We can change the argument and say my company makes cogs; one of two companies that does so. If we have five customers, does that mean we have 250% of the market?
Even though it is not legitamate, he would have to say there are 5000 online store users on the web, and they have 1000 users in their online store. Then he could say they have a 20% market share (though this assumes his 1000 users buy the same amount as the other stores' users, and that each user is only a user at one store, etc)
"Three-dimensional volume holographic data storage is used in photopolymer media to potentially achieve storage densities of 1 Tb/in^2 with transfer rates greater than 200 MB/s. Such densities are enabled by a novel two photopolymer chemistry approach, in addition to special techniques for making exceptionally flat (lambda/10) surfaces that provide high storage densities in cubic pho6tololymer media with volumes of tens of mm^3."
"...
That seems a little hard to believe at first, since a green laser pointer's power is only something in the milliwatts..."
However when you do a Google search for "Banach laser green", the first Google add is for Wicked Lasers. For the low, low price of $500, you too can have a 95 mW laser (frequency doubled InGaAs(?) laser, of unknown wavelength). This qualifies as a class IIIB laser, where "These lasers will produce an eye hazard if viewed directly. This includes intrabeam viewing or specular reflections."
as another DoD defense employee, I would say that this is a mechanism for trying to get back some of the lag in patches. There is nominally a month delay in patches getting pushed to our user computers due to testing, somesuch... This brings the USAF up to the same point as the rest of the civilian world! Gov't bureaucracy at work
You are absolutely correct on all of your points, but misinformed on the thread. First, the offer was to make a php script that allowed users to vote on them, and... well in her own words:
"What about if I write a php engine that lists the 50 or 100 more wanted feature requests as found in Bugzilla (should take me 1-2 days to go through most of them), and then have people vote for them up to three options? This way we would have a poll that's more detailed than current poll engines could handle, and it would draw its options from bugzilla so they are not just irrelevant random stuff. The poll would be open for 1-2 weeks, and then devs could take a look."
Not skewed results from the broken bugzilla voting. Not the mish-mash of random flip desires of rebel users. Three, highly desired features of Gnome.
As for the parenthesized statement, this was not speculation from GP, nor was it speculation from Thom Holwerda nor Eugenia, but rather came out in thread itself.
Actually, according to this, Hubble does routinely look at earth. It mentions that it observes no details, most likely because it is essentially focusing at infinity. I suspect it looks at large, uniform areas such as white sands, NM for calibration purposes.
The telescope is for all intents and purposes, Hubble is farsighted, designed and aberration-corrected to look at things far away. The earth is pretty close. I think Hubble would need the large equivalent of reading glasses to accommodate this. This focusing ability may be wrong, because it would be difficult to explain the good images of the moon (see this post).
It all comes down to ease of manufacturing. Self assembly is just that... if you prepare the mixtures in the right order, the thing creates itself (yes this is a bit dumbed down).
However if one has to lithographically construct dots, you will run into all the problems that people are runnning into now with lithography, and the most important... throughput! If one can make 8 of these at one time in one chamber, or alternatively have people define them a piece of a wafer at a time by machine, which would you prefer?
On the other hand, if one lithographically defines QDs, then there one has more control over the dots (geometry, orientation, etc).
It is not a solution meant to change the content on a website (that would be tantamount to censorship). It only changes how the search engines handle the links (note: the supporters/developers of such a standard are search engine companies).
The best question raised in this post is if such a tag is standards acceptable.
3M has been doing this for years, and I would hardly say 3M is a small business. They will fund this work (within reason) and give about 6 months of "free time" before you have to pitch this independent project to someone. Not a bad deal...
No... you have it right. THis address is a UPS store, and the "suite" is simply his PO box (or UPS equivalent). Drive there all you like. The guy behind the counter would love it if you buy a box...
In our division (of the air force), about a quarter of the users do use OS X, several use linux (quite a minority) and the remaining use windows. Linux is primarily used on the CAD computers, though we have some running computations (non-networked). AFAIK, the servers are all windows (as this is what the computer people are most familiar with).
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Indeed, correct. Just to put a tangible front on that very valid theoretical answer, light, RF, etc. (the propagation of electromagnetic radiation) does not need a medium to wiggle around in. This is why it can traverse space so efficiently. Instead of a medium, the electic and magnetic fields wiggle each other.
Furthermore, EM emission of "stuff" is a bit weird. I assume you speak of a "photon" as stuff, however a photon can be simply thought of as a packet of energy. But a photon is simply a wave and vice versa. This is certainly an easily confused subject in which this link provides a bit of insight
Anyone try gOffice? It doesn't seem to be related to google or open office, but it seems to be similar to what the announcement is. It is registered to Kevin Warnock. Any thoughts?
Proprietary? Yes. I suspect, however, that it just mounts as a mass storage device, and therefore compatible with other operating systems. It seems straight forward to me, and I don't have to install any third party software*.
[*] Again, I acknowledge that Windows Explorer may not be in your operating system's repertoire. I am assuming this is compatible (though not supported) with any operating system that is usb mass storage aware. I also acknowledge that iTunes may be a good program with added functionality (beyond what a file manager is capable of) that I am not familiar with (I've never run it myself).I'm sorry. The trademark on "UnAmerican" is already held by unamerican.com. Our lawyers will contact you and slashdot for unauthorized reproduction of our trademark. Whitey will pay.
The parent is absolutely right, WebObjects is not "free" in any sence of the word. It is not free as in freedom (i.e. not open), is not free as in no money. I haven't checked the license, but I guess it probably will not be free as in "free to do what you want with it."
However it is "free" as in you paid for a developers' tool kit and we are including this in with it. A better suited term would be "included at no extra charge" but that doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? Mind you, I have no problem with them charging for the package, or at least charging for the tool kit, just with the refering to it as "free."
This is done several times a year in the Air force. After it is done, they report the results (how many people clicked on the malicious link, etc.) People may privately feel silly, and then life goes on. In short, it doesn't seem to do the trick.
Helloooo, then DEVELOP some software! I think the parent of your post is saying that if they can not afford Windows, then use something cheaper or free. Or maybe get rid of computers all together? 50 years ago I think indonesia was trucking along quite well without computers.
In fact, why don't you create the software they need to avoid paying MS. They are a developing country, so they can't/won't pay you, but go ahead and do it anyway, you know, because they are developing.
This tribune story only reports on the Orlando Sentinel story found here which has some more details. The text of it is as follows (emph. mine):
I (think) have you beat. I bought a desktop from tigerdirect and they never sent a mouse. Customer service was in Canada*, and had no 800 number. So I had to make an out-of-country call, wait on hold for 45 minutes, to get someone to take my number and call me back in the next 48 hours!
Not only was the computer not near any phone, but the rate they called back was somewhat dissapointing. The computer had these new PS2 mouse jacks and I finally convinced someone to send me a new mouse (conversations usually included them saying "but aren't they pretty inexpensive" and me saying "yes they are. I bought one from you and you should send it to me."). The new mouse was serial (while this would have worked, I wanted what was promised with the system). After spending several weeks working on contacting them again, they sent me an adapter. However the adapter would allow you to plug a ps2 mouse into a serial port. After receiving the phone bill, I finally gave up. My unsatisfied principals has cost me nominally $75 in phone charges, so I have up. What a waste of a company. But I have done everything I can to talk people out of buying from them.
In hindsight, I guess you were out more money then I was, but at the time, I was very pissed
*Within a year after that, I read somewhere their customer support finally got an 800 number.weight = mass*gravity
mass = density*volume
density is simply a material parameter, so assume we are comparing two wires of the same material
volume = length*pi*radius^2
However you can not treat CNT with the same simple analysis of something such as copper. CNT are sort of like hoses (empty on the inside, having a matrix of carbon on the outside). I assume that it is not 10* better than traditional copper cables, but rather 10* better than copper when you compare material conductivity (see here for a description of the inverse of conductivity, resistivity).
I think this quote is not only underhanded and misleading, it is simply wrong. The quote assumes that even if there were 5000 online stores, and even if his online store had 1000 users, there is no percentage that can be drawn from that.
We can change the argument and say my company makes cogs; one of two companies that does so. If we have five customers, does that mean we have 250% of the market?
Even though it is not legitamate, he would have to say there are 5000 online store users on the web, and they have 1000 users in their online store. Then he could say they have a 20% market share (though this assumes his 1000 users buy the same amount as the other stores' users, and that each user is only a user at one store, etc)
However when you do a Google search for "Banach laser green", the first Google add is for Wicked Lasers. For the low, low price of $500, you too can have a 95 mW laser (frequency doubled InGaAs(?) laser, of unknown wavelength). This qualifies as a class IIIB laser, where "These lasers will produce an eye hazard if viewed directly. This includes intrabeam viewing or specular reflections."
But they'll be hiding. Their ominous black car will not have government plates on it.
There you go, ruining a perfectly good whine-fest with these tacky "facts."
as another DoD defense employee, I would say that this is a mechanism for trying to get back some of the lag in patches. There is nominally a month delay in patches getting pushed to our user computers due to testing, somesuch... This brings the USAF up to the same point as the rest of the civilian world! Gov't bureaucracy at work
You are absolutely correct on all of your points, but misinformed on the thread. First, the offer was to make a php script that allowed users to vote on them, and... well in her own words:
Not skewed results from the broken bugzilla voting. Not the mish-mash of random flip desires of rebel users. Three, highly desired features of Gnome.As for the parenthesized statement, this was not speculation from GP, nor was it speculation from Thom Holwerda nor Eugenia, but rather came out in thread itself.
Actually, according to this, Hubble does routinely look at earth. It mentions that it observes no details, most likely because it is essentially focusing at infinity. I suspect it looks at large, uniform areas such as white sands, NM for calibration purposes.
The telescope is for all intents and purposes, Hubble is farsighted, designed and aberration-corrected to look at things far away. The earth is pretty close. I think Hubble would need the large equivalent of reading glasses to accommodate this. This focusing ability may be wrong, because it would be difficult to explain the good images of the moon (see this post).
It all comes down to ease of manufacturing. Self assembly is just that... if you prepare the mixtures in the right order, the thing creates itself (yes this is a bit dumbed down).
However if one has to lithographically construct dots, you will run into all the problems that people are runnning into now with lithography, and the most important... throughput! If one can make 8 of these at one time in one chamber, or alternatively have people define them a piece of a wafer at a time by machine, which would you prefer?
On the other hand, if one lithographically defines QDs, then there one has more control over the dots (geometry, orientation, etc).
It will never work if he keeps insisting on giving human beings administrative privileges by default! Can you imagine his gall!
Forgive me... it is early. I have to go renice my sarcasm process.
It is not a solution meant to change the content on a website (that would be tantamount to censorship). It only changes how the search engines handle the links (note: the supporters/developers of such a standard are search engine companies).
The best question raised in this post is if such a tag is standards acceptable.
3M has been doing this for years, and I would hardly say 3M is a small business. They will fund this work (within reason) and give about 6 months of "free time" before you have to pitch this independent project to someone. Not a bad deal...
what I want to know is when are they going to add AC outlets to all of the trees?
No... you have it right. THis address is a UPS store, and the "suite" is simply his PO box (or UPS equivalent). Drive there all you like. The guy behind the counter would love it if you buy a box...
In our division (of the air force), about a quarter of the users do use OS X, several use linux (quite a minority) and the remaining use windows. Linux is primarily used on the CAD computers, though we have some running computations (non-networked). AFAIK, the servers are all windows (as this is what the computer people are most familiar with).