No, that's the point. The energy can build up and cause a bond to break. For example, a stochastic process could could heat a small area that could then transfer a significant amount of energy to a single molecule. Alternately, a molecule could absorb many quanta of low energy radiation (taking the energy on in rotational and states, transfering it to higher energy vibrational states along the way).
You are correct though that chemistry is simplest to understand when all the energy comes from one quanta of radiation. But it may not be the only bond breaking mechansim. Papers have been written, as I mentioned, on this new frontier.
You know, this isn't all that easy. He wants to get this thing running under windows, so he first has to get WINE up and running and then figure out how to get perl installed...
This isn't a new thing. In fact, it's explained in my physical chemistry text book. Basically, you activate nearby molecules to sligtly excited states and they can build up energy in a small region and ionize something (perhaps DNA).
I remember reading a (peer reviewed--as in not online) paper where the author was trying to show the rediculousness of this theory in their iontrap MS and appeared to show that bonds can be broken with soft radiation.
No, he has a point. If this is causing cancer than there should be an inverse square increase in cancer probability. This would show that it was the radio and not environmental factors.
All Apple does is design their motherboards and cases
This is slasdot, so I understand that you didn't read the article, but not reading the title? Hi, this is about an OS and Apple (this may be news to you, so sit down) has it's own OS. They designed it...
Do you know what concentrations would be necessary to make it pratical to see the line? I'm just curious as to if this would take about 1 quadrillion tons or if a modest amount would do. i'm betting the latter, but I could be wrong (since it is just the sun's 'atmosphere' that has to contain the stuff).
I guess my point is that if you know how to compare, why not to select the lowest bid. If you do know, write it into the bid requirement so that all biders are on level ground.
Yeah, so if you know how to write a contract, the lowest bidder is always the best choice. Think of terms like this: contract price is $700,000 if the following conditions are meet: (a,b,c) by date x and $600,000 if meet by date y. System must be free of manufacturer defects until date z. Manufacturer defects are defined with high specificity here...
But in any case, if you tell the companys what to bid to, they will all bid to that. Then you can pick the company that you think is going to give you the best product and the least hastle. None the less, terms should be specific about date of delivery (a good company won't really care about this so it doesn't affect their bid).
Normally, misuse is defined to include games. It is a misuse of government property because it appears that the computer is benifiting one person and not the citizens of the state at all. I.e. it is an abuse of ther persons office.
He was performing a task that was within his job description. He will win his law suit.
Every government makes it very clear that your computer can and will be monitored (even though the sys-admins are usualy not up to the task of actually figuring out how to effectively monitor it). i.e. the sys-admin had every right to do this and was acting according to what someone way way higher up would say was good practices to the cammeras.
that said, I've been around the block enough time that there are four possible real issue here that got him fired.
His documentaition clearly shows that his boss is not needed. Which is to say, if they fired him, they wouldn't even need to replace him (since his job only took 10% of a week). Now, if you did that, then his bosses boss would have one less subordinate, and may not be needed...
His documentation clearly shows that his boss was not doing a good job. This calls into question the ability of his bosses boss to do his job. Implying that he should be fired...
His bosses boss has simmilar computer usage and doesn't want his 'activities' recorded...
His bosses boss is afraid of trying to talk to his boss about why he firred him, because of the appearance of the three above and it all just much cleaner to make this guy a bad seed and get rid of him--removing all questions.
Actually, on win2k and later, because solitare is part of the base install, you can't delete it (it regenerates).
This is part of that windows thing that doesn't allow you to delete system essential files (idiot proffing windows). I know this because i tried to delete solitare from my new win2k computer (just to keep out temptation) and it wouldn't go away. It was like the terminator.
Yeah, so with coal it is the mining that causes a lot of the deaths. Tens per year die mining coal in the U.S. (compare to zero per year die from U.S. nuclear power). look at the numbers.
this doesn't even include those that get black lung disease and are incapable of moving around without oxygen tanks as early as their 30s.
The question isn't if nuclear power or coal are totally safe, the question is which is safer per power production. The answer is nuclear, hand down
You are the one twisting facts here. His movie stands as is, if you have a specific fact to chalenge, go ahead. Until then, your failing to judge this movie on its merits.
idiot, the article you link to casts serious doubt on that claim. It is contradicted by even Clarke's own sworn testamony. Nice troll though (since most people will only read the headline and perhas the first two pargraphs).
Warning, this point contains what some might consider spoilers (if you can spoil a documentary).
This article uses one of the logical fallicies (read: the right's play book) of building up a straw man to tear it down. He does not summarise the movie well. You'll have to go see it your self to know what it says.
Some points he missed:
Ashcroft told the FBI not to talk to him about terrorism anymore in the summer of 2001, despite significant intellegence.
Bush sat on his ass for seven minutes after he had been told our nation was under attack.
The U.S. is killing innocent civilians in Iraq.
The U.S. is arresting people in Iraq in a martial law type fashon.
The U.S. armed forces prefferentially recruit in low income neighborhoods, where the armed forces may be the only way for a kid to go to college.Really, the only other option to a life of poverty.
Not really, I want to "move furniture, haul wood and go offroad" only about 1 in 10,000 miles I drive. So the car does 99.99 % of what I want to do. Also, I can rent a car that does other things, and they tend to be concentrated into small time periods. Whereas computer stuff that falls in to the 486 can't do it category would come up every day and I couldn't rent a computer for a reasonable price that could do it.
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You are correct though that chemistry is simplest to understand when all the energy comes from one quanta of radiation. But it may not be the only bond breaking mechansim. Papers have been written, as I mentioned, on this new frontier.
You know, this isn't all that easy. He wants to get this thing running under windows, so he first has to get WINE up and running and then figure out how to get perl installed...
I remember reading a (peer reviewed--as in not online) paper where the author was trying to show the rediculousness of this theory in their iontrap MS and appeared to show that bonds can be broken with soft radiation.
No, he has a point. If this is causing cancer than there should be an inverse square increase in cancer probability. This would show that it was the radio and not environmental factors.
okay, now how much is produced per megawatt?
This is slasdot, so I understand that you didn't read the article, but not reading the title? Hi, this is about an OS and Apple (this may be news to you, so sit down) has it's own OS. They designed it...
Do you know what concentrations would be necessary to make it pratical to see the line? I'm just curious as to if this would take about 1 quadrillion tons or if a modest amount would do. i'm betting the latter, but I could be wrong (since it is just the sun's 'atmosphere' that has to contain the stuff).
I guess my point is that if you know how to compare, why not to select the lowest bid. If you do know, write it into the bid requirement so that all biders are on level ground.
Uh... this dude doesn't know how to operate his pant's fly. give him a break
Yeah, so if you know how to write a contract, the lowest bidder is always the best choice. Think of terms like this: contract price is $700,000 if the following conditions are meet: (a,b,c) by date x and $600,000 if meet by date y. System must be free of manufacturer defects until date z. Manufacturer defects are defined with high specificity here...
But in any case, if you tell the companys what to bid to, they will all bid to that. Then you can pick the company that you think is going to give you the best product and the least hastle. None the less, terms should be specific about date of delivery (a good company won't really care about this so it doesn't affect their bid).
Normally, misuse is defined to include games. It is a misuse of government property because it appears that the computer is benifiting one person and not the citizens of the state at all. I.e. it is an abuse of ther persons office.
it's a nitpick, and it matters.
That said, in his shoes, I would have written up a procedure for monitoring and filed it through all the usual channels for filing procedures...
Every government makes it very clear that your computer can and will be monitored (even though the sys-admins are usualy not up to the task of actually figuring out how to effectively monitor it). i.e. the sys-admin had every right to do this and was acting according to what someone way way higher up would say was good practices to the cammeras.
that said, I've been around the block enough time that there are four possible real issue here that got him fired.
This is part of that windows thing that doesn't allow you to delete system essential files (idiot proffing windows). I know this because i tried to delete solitare from my new win2k computer (just to keep out temptation) and it wouldn't go away. It was like the terminator.
this doesn't even include those that get black lung disease and are incapable of moving around without oxygen tanks as early as their 30s.
The question isn't if nuclear power or coal are totally safe, the question is which is safer per power production. The answer is nuclear, hand down
A lot of this movie is just footage. How can you distort with extended clips of raw news footage?
You are the one twisting facts here. His movie stands as is, if you have a specific fact to chalenge, go ahead. Until then, your failing to judge this movie on its merits.
idiot, the article you link to casts serious doubt on that claim. It is contradicted by even Clarke's own sworn testamony. Nice troll though (since most people will only read the headline and perhas the first two pargraphs).
This article uses one of the logical fallicies (read: the right's play book) of building up a straw man to tear it down. He does not summarise the movie well. You'll have to go see it your self to know what it says.
Some points he missed:
- Ashcroft told the FBI not to talk to him about terrorism anymore in the summer of 2001, despite significant intellegence.
- Bush sat on his ass for seven minutes after he had been told our nation was under attack.
- The U.S. is killing innocent civilians in Iraq.
- The U.S. is arresting people in Iraq in a martial law type fashon.
- The U.S. armed forces prefferentially recruit in low income neighborhoods, where the armed forces may be the only way for a kid to go to college.Really, the only other option to a life of poverty.
- George Bush is pushing for reductions and more reductions in veterans benifits.
Sorry, but I don't have all day.The russians don't have the money to put together a toaster.
Not really, I want to "move furniture, haul wood and go offroad" only about 1 in 10,000 miles I drive. So the car does 99.99 % of what I want to do. Also, I can rent a car that does other things, and they tend to be concentrated into small time periods. Whereas computer stuff that falls in to the 486 can't do it category would come up every day and I couldn't rent a computer for a reasonable price that could do it.
yeah, but now he has it posted on his website. Not exactly the best way of keeping a secret.
Some publications do that, most don't.
Yeah, but if the journal is the copyright owner, than all this is illegal in most cases--it depends on the journal.