See, that would be funny, except the address bar shows the URL of the "trusted" site. Even looking at the source of an exploited web page does not reveal that anything is wrong.
If you have a "trusted" site open in one window, clicking on a malicious link in another window, can cause any frame in the "trusted" website to be replaced with a spoofed page. There are no clues in the address bar and it's not in the HTML source. The best I could do is, in FireFox, look at the page info box (Tools -> Page info) and inspect the information there... which worked for the example but may not be effective for a genuine and earnest spoofing attempt.
You can project on both sides of the disk, though. Since one spot gets sweeped by two edges per revolution, that's effectively 30 refreshes per second.
That's like asking how does the "clock" in your computer get set to the right time. (Not the system clock, the crystal that generates the clock frequency the electronics operate off of).
Atomic clocks just "tick", not display an actual time. They provide an extremely reliable and high frequency tick which makes them so valuable. =Smidge=
I sure hope they do a better job than Cadillac had when they did that in the early 80's. Wasn't the most popular of features and didn't really help with fuel economy.
You would have to be EXCEPTIONALLY poor to not afford a $20 refundable deposit. And you can always sit in the library and read/listen/watch (at least in most places) and pay nothing.
If $20 makes the difference between whether you get a book or food for a few days, you probably have bigger problems to tackle and not terribly interested in libraries. I just can't see anyone with even the most menial below-minimum-wage job and a place to sleep that doesn't have "SEARS" on the side not being able to scrape up $20 for a few days. =Smidge=
Does anyone have any information about if it's possible to dial into a remote setup with a cell phone modem installed? Being able to construct a remote station somewhere and access it wirelessly through the cell network would come in handy.
Actually, It reminds me more of a scene from Ghost in the Shell when they're tracking the vehicles through a 3D wireframe of the city....which, combining this with the Ride Finder, would be pretty much the exact same thing if they updated in real time! =Smidge=
Which is why you couldn't have a fan that small doing that kind of flow! A larger fan would not require as much power.
Of course, you can get >50,000 CFM with a 1400W motor... you'ld just need a big ass fan to do it. (24' Diameter fan, 42 RPM, rated for 347,774 CFM!) =Smidge=
...so you made a post without RingTFA first? Gasp! What is this place coming to these days?!
And it's a hoax anyway. It claims to move 25 cubic meters of air per second - or about 52,980 CFM. There's no way you'ld find a fan that does that smaller than your desk, let alone a computer case... and you'll be lucky if it uses only five times that much power!
Actually, you'ld find the best places to get arrested in a sting operation. More documented occurances of prostitution means more cops in the area looking to bust prostitutes and solicitors alike.
Last I heard, and that was from the Wired article I linked to, Apollo is nto interested in the jewelry business. They are developing diamons for the semiconductor business. (Hence, no sales.)
I guess my firest question would be: Why do you have three windows open when you have tabs?
Second question would be: Are you aware of the CTRL-Tab/CTRL-Shift-Tab shortcuts?
Not to say a dropdown list with the title of each tab wouldn't be nice (perhaps there's a Firefox extension for that I'm not aware of?), but it's already piss easy to navigate even a hundred tabs with CTRL-Tab. =Smidge=
They call them "Cultured Diamonds". Available in pink, yellow and blue. There was a story about these guys not that long ago.
But if you want a truly "perfect" gemstone, CVD is the way to go. The article linked above talks about a company called "Apollo Diamond":
Back at the Diamond High Council, I open the film canister and shake the Apollo stones onto the table. Van Royen tentatively picks one up with a pair of elongated tweezers and takes it to a microscope. "Unbelievable," he says slowly as he peers through the lens. "May I study it?" I agree to let him keep the gems overnight. When we meet the next morning in the lobby of the High Council, Van Royen looks tired. He admits to staying up almost all night scrutinizing the stones. "I think I can identify it," he says hopefully. "It's too perfect to be natural. Things in nature, they have flaws. The growth structure of this diamond is flawless."
I think the point was that in ten years that the laptop would be antiquated enough that you would probably do well to upgrade *anyway*, for better specs if not for ten years worth of regular wear-and-tear.
The "interesting" part being that the battery, which is typically the component most worried about, will become something you'll never have to think about. =Smidge=
Well that in particular is for Building Systems 2006. I have no idea what "plain ol' 2D CAD" goes for, if Autodesk even sells anything like that anymore.
Actually, his first argument wouldn't apply to "multi-disk" installs since the entire set becomes worthless if you lose one, as with your floppy disk example (Boy, I've been there...). Instead, I propose that they were released on CD because CD drives are much more common, having been around longer. A person with a DVD drive can still read a CD, but a person with just a CD drive can't read a DVD. Maximize your potential market by making your product accessible.
Autodesk has an interesting system... they'll sell you a DVD version by default, but you can request a CD version even after receiving the DVD, and they'll send it to you at no extra cost. Availablility on mulitple formats isn't as common as it should be, IMHO. Guess if you're paying $3k and up for te software, they can accomodate you a bit! =Smidge=
I think Sociology would apply here, and Anthropology as a more practical lesson.
History shows that groups where everyone helps eachother and cooperate for the benefit of the group tend to flourish, while groups that are sharply divided and fight amung themselves tend to whither. The lesson is there, but few bother to learn it. (Just like Religion, because you can't honestly say that everyone who has religion actually lives up to the teachings!)
Will the next economic theory show once and for all, that there is so much more to be gained if every child went to bed without hunger? That great things could happen if we ignored greed and lived lives unblinded by mindless pursuit of wealth?
You're assuming those things are given to be true. "So much more" of what to be gained? And I can probably cite plenty of examples where greed and persuit of wealth lead to MANY great things (as well as many BAD things, but that's obvious). =Smidge=
I think a good part of this is exactly that: You can't examine the object first-hand.
Another part may be, as hinted at in TFA, easier price comparisons. I know I visit several websites looking at prices before I even put serious thought into buying it. ("Do I really need it?", etc)
There also might be a reluctance to buy things online in general, either because they are concerned about hassles of returning items, damage during shipping, or sending their credit card info into cyberspace.
What I would like to see is how many people do shopping on the internet, then try visiting local stores looking for the same product or comparable, and how many buy from a local store versus how many come back to the website to buy. =Smidge=
"Everyone knows the Earth revolves around the Sun" is not a theory, it's a statement. A statement that indicates the speaker knows what everyone else thinks, which would require some very weighty proof.
We can assert that the earth (and other planets) revolve around the sun based on observation. More exactly, observation that supports the statement and NO observation that refutes it.
See, you toss around the term "falsifiable", but I don't think you really understand what it means. It means, in essence, that you can come up with a test of some sort (even if only a hypothetical test) that will either support or refute the claim. If the claim is true, then the result of the test will support it. However, this does NOT guarantee that the claim is 100% true! It has simply been reinforced with evidence and withstood a test. It is very difficult to absolutely prove something is 100% true. Such things are called "theorems".
If you have an idea, that is a hypothesis. When the hypothesis has been tested and demonstrated to be true at least in context of the test, then it is a theory. A theory that has survived many tests just becomes a stronger theory.
Then there's particle physics, do electrons exist as point particles?
According to one theory, yes. And there have been many tests to support it. It is a good model that can be used to predict, correctly, the behavior of the natural world... it is not a belief because there is proof, and not just some crackpot "well this is why" proof but actual, verifiable, testable proof.
I am not familiar enough with "brane theory" to make any kind of comment on it, but if the rest of your post is any indication... neither are you. =Smidge=
Perhaps I can phrase your ideas a little more succinctly?
"Science starts with a question and seeks evidence to try and come up with an answer."
How close is that?
Creationism starts with the answer and tries to explain away the evidence that doesn't fit.
"Intelligent Design" is an extension of Creationism that tries to do this by saying: "Well God MEANT to do it like that!" This kind of reasoning is at best a non sequitur, and cannot be tested or used to try and predict the outcome of a hypothetical test; which means it is not a theory. =Smidge=
Using PoE doesn't "magically" reduce the power usage to 12 watts. PoE can only provide 12 watts. You can't do a whole lot with 12 watts.
CD/DVD burners are right out, especially rewritable media. Even for a laptop style device you're going to use close to 15 watts, and that leaves no room for anything else. You'll also be stuck with low power flash memory for data storage, which is slow and expensive.
And unless you plan to provide seperate power, you're stuck with a roughly 6.5" TFT touch screen and nothing else. If you're providing power for a proper monitor, might as well provide real power for a real PC while you're at it.
This thing is perfectly fine for the semi-embedded, temporary and versitile installation envoronment it was intended for. It is NOT a suitable replacement for a full PC. Might make a nice Carputer, though... at 7/8" thick you could conceivably fit it into a "fat" sun visor with the touchscreen being your input. Unfortunately I can't find any detailed specs (data storage capacity, system RAM, etc) other than it has two USB ports and WinXP embedded preinstalled. =Smidge=
...so if you were infected with a bug that was protected under the GPL, would anything you create (perhaps considered a derivative work of YOU) have to be released under the GPL also?
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See, that would be funny, except the address bar shows the URL of the "trusted" site. Even looking at the source of an exploited web page does not reveal that anything is wrong.
If you have a "trusted" site open in one window, clicking on a malicious link in another window, can cause any frame in the "trusted" website to be replaced with a spoofed page. There are no clues in the address bar and it's not in the HTML source. The best I could do is, in FireFox, look at the page info box (Tools -> Page info) and inspect the information there... which worked for the example but may not be effective for a genuine and earnest spoofing attempt.
So yeah, hahaha.
=Smidge=
You can project on both sides of the disk, though. Since one spot gets sweeped by two edges per revolution, that's effectively 30 refreshes per second.
Better than a normal television.
=Smidge=
That's like asking how does the "clock" in your computer get set to the right time. (Not the system clock, the crystal that generates the clock frequency the electronics operate off of).
Atomic clocks just "tick", not display an actual time. They provide an extremely reliable and high frequency tick which makes them so valuable.
=Smidge=
I sure hope they do a better job than Cadillac had when they did that in the early 80's. Wasn't the most popular of features and didn't really help with fuel economy.
=Smidge=
You would have to be EXCEPTIONALLY poor to not afford a $20 refundable deposit. And you can always sit in the library and read/listen/watch (at least in most places) and pay nothing.
If $20 makes the difference between whether you get a book or food for a few days, you probably have bigger problems to tackle and not terribly interested in libraries. I just can't see anyone with even the most menial below-minimum-wage job and a place to sleep that doesn't have "SEARS" on the side not being able to scrape up $20 for a few days.
=Smidge=
Not to threadjack, but it's sort of on-topic...
Does anyone have any information about if it's possible to dial into a remote setup with a cell phone modem installed? Being able to construct a remote station somewhere and access it wirelessly through the cell network would come in handy.
=Smidge=
Actually, It reminds me more of a scene from Ghost in the Shell when they're tracking the vehicles through a 3D wireframe of the city. ...which, combining this with the Ride Finder, would be pretty much the exact same thing if they updated in real time!
=Smidge=
Which is why you couldn't have a fan that small doing that kind of flow! A larger fan would not require as much power.
Of course, you can get >50,000 CFM with a 1400W motor... you'ld just need a big ass fan to do it. (24' Diameter fan, 42 RPM, rated for 347,774 CFM!)
=Smidge=
...so you made a post without RingTFA first? Gasp! What is this place coming to these days?!
And it's a hoax anyway. It claims to move 25 cubic meters of air per second - or about 52,980 CFM. There's no way you'ld find a fan that does that smaller than your desk, let alone a computer case... and you'll be lucky if it uses only five times that much power!
=Smidge=
Actually, you'ld find the best places to get arrested in a sting operation. More documented occurances of prostitution means more cops in the area looking to bust prostitutes and solicitors alike.
=Smidge=
What is the trusted source for those simple rules now that the situation is so out of hand?
How about http://www.microsoft.com/ instead of your e-mail's inbox?
=Smidge=
Yes, "Gem quality" (as opposed to "Industrial Quality")... but not for use as jewelry :)
=Smidge=
Last I heard, and that was from the Wired article I linked to, Apollo is nto interested in the jewelry business. They are developing diamons for the semiconductor business. (Hence, no sales.)
=Smidge=
I guess my firest question would be: Why do you have three windows open when you have tabs?
Second question would be: Are you aware of the CTRL-Tab/CTRL-Shift-Tab shortcuts?
Not to say a dropdown list with the title of each tab wouldn't be nice (perhaps there's a Firefox extension for that I'm not aware of?), but it's already piss easy to navigate even a hundred tabs with CTRL-Tab.
=Smidge=
They call them "Cultured Diamonds". Available in pink, yellow and blue. There was a story about these guys not that long ago.
But if you want a truly "perfect" gemstone, CVD is the way to go. The article linked above talks about a company called "Apollo Diamond":
=Smidge=
I think the point was that in ten years that the laptop would be antiquated enough that you would probably do well to upgrade *anyway*, for better specs if not for ten years worth of regular wear-and-tear.
The "interesting" part being that the battery, which is typically the component most worried about, will become something you'll never have to think about.
=Smidge=
Well that in particular is for Building Systems 2006. I have no idea what "plain ol' 2D CAD" goes for, if Autodesk even sells anything like that anymore.
=Smidge=
Actually, his first argument wouldn't apply to "multi-disk" installs since the entire set becomes worthless if you lose one, as with your floppy disk example (Boy, I've been there...). Instead, I propose that they were released on CD because CD drives are much more common, having been around longer. A person with a DVD drive can still read a CD, but a person with just a CD drive can't read a DVD. Maximize your potential market by making your product accessible.
Autodesk has an interesting system... they'll sell you a DVD version by default, but you can request a CD version even after receiving the DVD, and they'll send it to you at no extra cost. Availablility on mulitple formats isn't as common as it should be, IMHO. Guess if you're paying $3k and up for te software, they can accomodate you a bit!
=Smidge=
I think Sociology would apply here, and Anthropology as a more practical lesson.
History shows that groups where everyone helps eachother and cooperate for the benefit of the group tend to flourish, while groups that are sharply divided and fight amung themselves tend to whither. The lesson is there, but few bother to learn it. (Just like Religion, because you can't honestly say that everyone who has religion actually lives up to the teachings!)
Will the next economic theory show once and for all, that there is so much more to be gained if every child went to bed without hunger? That great things could happen if we ignored greed and lived lives unblinded by mindless pursuit of wealth?
You're assuming those things are given to be true. "So much more" of what to be gained? And I can probably cite plenty of examples where greed and persuit of wealth lead to MANY great things (as well as many BAD things, but that's obvious).
=Smidge=
I think a good part of this is exactly that: You can't examine the object first-hand.
Another part may be, as hinted at in TFA, easier price comparisons. I know I visit several websites looking at prices before I even put serious thought into buying it. ("Do I really need it?", etc)
There also might be a reluctance to buy things online in general, either because they are concerned about hassles of returning items, damage during shipping, or sending their credit card info into cyberspace.
What I would like to see is how many people do shopping on the internet, then try visiting local stores looking for the same product or comparable, and how many buy from a local store versus how many come back to the website to buy.
=Smidge=
"Everyone knows the Earth revolves around the Sun" is not a theory, it's a statement. A statement that indicates the speaker knows what everyone else thinks, which would require some very weighty proof.
We can assert that the earth (and other planets) revolve around the sun based on observation. More exactly, observation that supports the statement and NO observation that refutes it.
See, you toss around the term "falsifiable", but I don't think you really understand what it means. It means, in essence, that you can come up with a test of some sort (even if only a hypothetical test) that will either support or refute the claim. If the claim is true, then the result of the test will support it. However, this does NOT guarantee that the claim is 100% true! It has simply been reinforced with evidence and withstood a test. It is very difficult to absolutely prove something is 100% true. Such things are called "theorems".
If you have an idea, that is a hypothesis. When the hypothesis has been tested and demonstrated to be true at least in context of the test, then it is a theory. A theory that has survived many tests just becomes a stronger theory.
Then there's particle physics, do electrons exist as point particles?
According to one theory, yes. And there have been many tests to support it. It is a good model that can be used to predict, correctly, the behavior of the natural world... it is not a belief because there is proof, and not just some crackpot "well this is why" proof but actual, verifiable, testable proof.
I am not familiar enough with "brane theory" to make any kind of comment on it, but if the rest of your post is any indication... neither are you.
=Smidge=
Perhaps I can phrase your ideas a little more succinctly?
"Science starts with a question and seeks evidence to try and come up with an answer."
How close is that?
Creationism starts with the answer and tries to explain away the evidence that doesn't fit.
"Intelligent Design" is an extension of Creationism that tries to do this by saying: "Well God MEANT to do it like that!" This kind of reasoning is at best a non sequitur, and cannot be tested or used to try and predict the outcome of a hypothetical test; which means it is not a theory.
=Smidge=
Using PoE doesn't "magically" reduce the power usage to 12 watts. PoE can only provide 12 watts. You can't do a whole lot with 12 watts.
CD/DVD burners are right out, especially rewritable media. Even for a laptop style device you're going to use close to 15 watts, and that leaves no room for anything else. You'll also be stuck with low power flash memory for data storage, which is slow and expensive.
And unless you plan to provide seperate power, you're stuck with a roughly 6.5" TFT touch screen and nothing else. If you're providing power for a proper monitor, might as well provide real power for a real PC while you're at it.
This thing is perfectly fine for the semi-embedded, temporary and versitile installation envoronment it was intended for. It is NOT a suitable replacement for a full PC. Might make a nice Carputer, though... at 7/8" thick you could conceivably fit it into a "fat" sun visor with the touchscreen being your input. Unfortunately I can't find any detailed specs (data storage capacity, system RAM, etc) other than it has two USB ports and WinXP embedded preinstalled.
=Smidge=
In Soviet Russia, the Beowulf cluster of welcomed Biological Computing Overlords make Linux run on YOU!
=Smidge=
...so if you were infected with a bug that was protected under the GPL, would anything you create (perhaps considered a derivative work of YOU) have to be released under the GPL also?
Oh no... viral GPL... (ugh)
=Smidge=