many people have demonised GE as screwing with the enviroment and 'playing god', however the good that will come out of this may offset the actions of thoes who lacked the forsight to realise that mines kill people long after the war has finished.
there are at least two methods that I know off that can be used to detect the sign of gravity waves:
The first is to photograph the upper atmosphere with an incredibly sensitive camera during night time, the reason is that gravity waves (that have a period of a few hours) cause the upper atmosphere to strech and compress causing the atoms that cause air glow to seporate into layers. this shows up on the image as bands. these gravity waves are emitted from the center of the earth.
the second is to use an incredibly precise receiver tuned to a reliable transmitter in the HF bands, to a frequency that gets reflected by the ionosphere. since gravity waves will cause the ionosphere to expand and contract the change in velocity will cause the HF signal to be doppler shifted, meaning the gravity wave will be shown up in a slight variation of the incomming frequency.
the second option can be done by ham radio operators (if they really know there stuff), the first option is for universities since only they have the budget to buy the expensive equipment.
will you pay the hundreds or thousands of dollars to go the Microsoft route, or the $0 to go with Linux?
either you can download linux for free and it will cost you $$$$ for the time it takes you to tweak it to work, or you can pay real $$$$ and get a linux distrubution that has os automation software that dosent overload/overwhelm you with
technical details that you really shouldnt have to know (i say this as a physics postgrad student who is trying to comprehend VHDL and windows programming and digital electronics as part of my thesis).
i have to say as a hybricrate since i do use open source software alot (blender, apache, php, open office, octave, et al), but to say that linux is free [as in time is money and free as in free beer] is false. it has to be polished for people to use it. that requires cash.
when ever anybody sends me a nigerian scam email, i scan through it and forward the email addresses to their ISPs to get there accounts terminated.
although it dosent stop them completely, it squeeze them slightly, telling them that there are people out there that dont put up with this kind of evil.
maybe average OEM hardware will be advanced enough by then to run it without being dog slow.
if current trends keep up windows longhorn with have just the same startup/link times as my windows98 box (except longhorn will look prettier) on a pentium 166Mhz with 48MB of RAM.
i imagine that the number tech jobs will double in 7 years time but most of the growth will be in overseas IT sectors and not only in the US.
The reason being that a growing list US companies have been sending their IT contracts over seas to get their work done cheaper.
That overseas experience will not dissapate by the time 2010 comes about, so i can imaging that a proportion of the future boom will be drawn to other countries
Just like I said it,
most of the stuff posted at slashdot needs go through some kind of guideline/rule/cannon/etc...
Sure the things they do post do generate alot of conversation, however the result of getting bad topics is that you have to set the filter to +3 or above.
For people who dont want to spend $$$ on R&D and who dont mind exporting their 'invention' to the US I highly reccomend browsing the USPTO as a supply of ideas.
They have inventions that will never ever be patented in countries outside the US since other countries have much more conservative guidelines.
also there actually is some cool stuff there (not all of it is rubbish), however most US companied dont seem to patent thier inventions in much more favourible areas.
where individuals can get whatever information they want, share ideas, and basically be themselves.
but the internet isnt real life, it is just a communications medium, and not a 'place',
i think that it is sad where the only place where people can be themselves is infront of a monitor, with out ever experiencing face2face contact/communication with their friends - which can give rise to isolation and lonelyness.
however I dont agree with you on the big brother idea: people are being policed on the net just like they are being policed in the real world, the main aim of doing this is that nobody gets away with doing something that they shouldnt (this may be different in your country though).
like i said
mind you i would like to see it up close and smell the 'burned' steel smell that comes from metals explosed to space, not to mention any pits/craters caused by impacts with space debrie.
since quite a number or programmers who do OSS do it for admiration from thier peers and personal satification it will come (abet slowly) that having a UI that is compatable with the GNOME HIG will be just as important as clean, clear code.
so after a while the same peer pressure that forces people to write clean, clear code will also force people to have a decent UI.
this attitude is comming through in the GNOME footnotes site (at the discussion under the product release pages). as i have seen several comment on the UI being incompatible with the HIG or inline with it
i dont think that the *.geek.nz will be good news for geeks in NZ (it will hide the real reasons why people want to use it).
perhaps a better extension maybe:
*.x.nz
(for experimental - just like for experimental aircraft)
i think if this gets well known then others will also like to register other pop-culture 2nd level domains. making NZ's TLD a bit of a joke.
i have been interested on opensource for a while now and have found it easy to jump right in and code before planning.
i think that papers like this are good news since it gives you alot of insight about how you can improve your own projects as well as welcoming others into the OSS scene.
Slashdot Mirror
- The first is to photograph the upper atmosphere with an incredibly sensitive camera during night time, the reason is that gravity waves (that have a period of a few hours) cause the upper atmosphere to strech and compress causing the atoms that cause air glow to seporate into layers. this shows up on the image as bands. these gravity waves are emitted from the center of the earth.
- the second is to use an incredibly precise receiver tuned to a reliable transmitter in the HF bands, to a frequency that gets reflected by the ionosphere. since gravity waves will cause the ionosphere to expand and contract the change in velocity will cause the HF signal to be doppler shifted, meaning the gravity wave will be shown up in a slight variation of the incomming frequency.
the second option can be done by ham radio operators (if they really know there stuff), the first option is for universities since only they have the budget to buy the expensive equipment.simon
will you pay the hundreds or thousands of dollars to go the Microsoft route, or the $0 to go with Linux?
either you can download linux for free and it will cost you $$$$ for the time it takes you to tweak it to work, or you can pay real $$$$ and get a linux distrubution that has os automation software that dosent overload/overwhelm you with technical details that you really shouldnt have to know (i say this as a physics postgrad student who is trying to comprehend VHDL and windows programming and digital electronics as part of my thesis).
i have to say as a hybricrate since i do use open source software alot (blender, apache, php, open office, octave, et al), but to say that linux is free [as in time is money and free as in free beer] is false. it has to be polished for people to use it. that requires cash.
although it dosent stop them completely, it squeeze them slightly, telling them that there are people out there that dont put up with this kind of evil.
just wait longer
if current trends keep up windows longhorn with have just the same startup/link times as my windows98 box (except longhorn will look prettier) on a pentium 166Mhz with 48MB of RAM.
i imagine that the number tech jobs will double in 7 years time but most of the growth will be in overseas IT sectors and not only in the US.
The reason being that a growing list US companies have been sending their IT contracts over seas to get their work done cheaper.
That overseas experience will not dissapate by the time 2010 comes about, so i can imaging that a proportion of the future boom will be drawn to other countries
Just like I said it,
most of the stuff posted at slashdot needs go through some kind of guideline/rule/cannon/etc...
Sure the things they do post do generate alot of conversation, however the result of getting bad topics is that you have to set the filter to +3 or above.
For people who dont want to spend $$$ on R&D and who dont mind exporting their 'invention' to the US I highly reccomend browsing the USPTO as a supply of ideas.
They have inventions that will never ever be patented in countries outside the US since other countries have much more conservative guidelines.
also there actually is some cool stuff there (not all of it is rubbish), however most US companied dont seem to patent thier inventions in much more favourible areas.
I hope that helps
like i said - where are yall?
i think that it is sad where the only place where people can be themselves is infront of a monitor, with out ever experiencing face2face contact/communication with their friends - which can give rise to isolation and lonelyness.
however I dont agree with you on the big brother idea: people are being policed on the net just like they are being policed in the real world, the main aim of doing this is that nobody gets away with doing something that they shouldnt (this may be different in your country though).
like i said /craters caused by impacts with space debrie.
:)
mind you i would like to see it up close and smell the 'burned' steel smell that comes from metals explosed to space, not to mention any pits
but then so would other people
hence eBay
since quite a number or programmers who do OSS do it for admiration from thier peers and personal satification it will come (abet slowly) that having a UI that is compatable with the GNOME HIG will be just as important as clean, clear code.
so after a while the same peer pressure that forces people to write clean, clear code will also force people to have a decent UI.
this attitude is comming through in the GNOME footnotes site (at the discussion under the product release pages). as i have seen several comment on the UI being incompatible with the HIG or inline with it
how unusial! as a foreigner i as partially jealous and envious at the oppotunities that americans
have that kiwis (dont laugh...) dont have.
has he ever thought of making H2O2 himself?
Once again this comes as a bit of a shock...
i dont think that the *.geek.nz will be good news for geeks in NZ (it will hide the real reasons why people want to use it).
perhaps a better extension maybe:
*.x.nz (for experimental - just like for experimental aircraft)
i think if this gets well known then others will also like to register other pop-culture 2nd level domains. making NZ's TLD a bit of a joke.
i have been interested on opensource for a while now and have found it easy to jump right in and code before planning.
i think that papers like this are good news since it gives you alot of insight about how you can improve your own projects as well as welcoming others into the OSS scene.