I do believe you'd get your ass kicked for having a bumper sticker like that. Maybe or maybe not. There are already bumper stickers that say "My kid beat up your honors student," or "As a matter of fact I DO own the whole damn road," or the ever-popular "Eat my shorts."
You must be joking: people turned off by implants? Several thousand rich plastic surgeons (and rich strip club owners) would disagree. So it matters a lot just what implant and why. FWIW, I'm one of many who finds a stylish pair of eyeglasses can greatly enhance the sexual attractiveness of the wearer. Not strictly an implant, but there you go.
I used to think metric units were superior until I lived in the US for a while, and found myself doing plenty of carpentry and DIY stuff where the most common units are inches and feet. Except that a carpentry inch isn't an inch. Unless "true dimensions" are called out, a 2x4, for example, is 1.5x3.5 inches. Strictly speaking,at least back when I was in Jr High shop, lumber measurements were +0,-0.5 inch to account for shrinkage as the wood dried after being cut. Anyway, the point is that you may think you have the same unit (inches) but you don't -- sort of like troy vs avdp or US vs imperial.
IIRC someone like Dr Bott or Kensington or thelike sells an antenna enhancer kit that fits on or into the tiBook cover. See if you can track one of those down.
Obligatory Apple is Doomed Comment. All the same, what do you think would happen to Apple if Jobs died? The Vision Thing(tm) is a big part of their appeal, so who would carry on in his place?
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Blood will always flow if there's pressure behind it (doh). I'd expect, based more on physics than any experience in cardiology, that a continuous flow at maybe 100mm (well below common systole) would work just fine without overstressing any part of the system. But if future studies were to show that a pulsing system really does something useful, it shouldn't be too hard to put a controller chip that has the impeller spin up and spin down at some reasonable rate. BTW, just because it's different from nature doesn't mean it's harmful. For example, it may have taken 50 years (largely due to politics) but it's now considered medically safe for women to take continuous contraceptives and go without menstrual cycles for all or most of the year.
I don't know any serious atheists who go around painting "God is dead" on things. At the risk of being serious here, let me point out two things. First, atheists don't believe God is dead. We believe there is not and never has/have been mythological beings. Second, the "God is dead" statement, made IIRC by Nietzche, was intended as an observation that religion was no longer useful or functional in the roles under which it came into being.
Note this does not mean vacation time. In fact al vacations are cancelled. It mean everyone stops production work and only performs activities related to safety and security enhancement, inventories and training. Really its a good thing and its happening because the head of Los Alamos is a former admiral who runs a tight ship and does not tolerate anything but teamwork. Well THAT makes me shudder. I've been thru those infamous retraining exercises. "We think maybe possibly one person screwed up and we're going to punish the crap out of all of you AND show how little we trust you." And, man, anyone who "does not tolerate anything but teamwork" is a guaranteed disaster. That kind of person defines "teamwork" as "do it exactly my way or get out. No individual thinking allowed." Just great.
But this isn't the first time AppleInsider have made the prediction (with the implication that they have inside knowledge) of a new iMac that looks like a thicker cinema screen with the motherboard built in it. They made exactly the same claim 2 months before the original LCD iMac was announed, and were completely wrong.
And didn't some other rumor mill dig up a drawing of a semi-headless iMac? Sort of a dome that easily detached from the wireframe stand holding up the LCD screen.
I have always loved space and the notion of other planets and potentially with life. I hope we find one that does have an atmosphere that can support life. Look at it this way: Mankind on Earth: a million years if you are very generous. Dinosaurs on Earth: 250 million years. Amoeba on Earth: what, a couple billion years? So if we find life on another planet, what are the odds it'll be in the "mankind" portion of the local planetary "cycle" ?
Whats more, with the advances made since the Hubble was made, ground based telescopes such as the VLT have nearly the same resolution as the Hubble and is much easier to service, so there is much less of a need for a space telescope A minor correction: VLT and adaptive optic systems allow ground-based systems to do better than Hubble in the visible portion of the spectrum. For IR and UV stuff that never makes it thru the atmosphere, a space-based telescope is the only option.
Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. Americans can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but French Canadians are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (and so on) OK, in the interests of fair play, ya know why the Newfies were in favor of Quebec separatism? If Quebec leaves Canada, it cuts 3 hours off their drive to Toronto. See, you can pick on any province in Canada with minimal effort. Just as can be done w/ any region of the US.
Actually that would be a bad idea. The speckle from very narrow band sources would be a problem.
Not exactly. You're correct that using unfiltered lasers, especially ones w/ long coherence lengths, can lead to speckle. You're not correct that *any* narrowband source will produce speckle. The coherence has to be there. Superfluorescent LEDs, for example, produce lots of light but almost no coherence. Beyond that, there are dephasing/diffusing techniques which reduce speckle from laser sources.
What I find impressive is that people like Huffman are possibly defining new application fields for mathematics, maybe leading to new theories, all from (originally) a hobby.
This reminds me of former mathematicians such as Euler and his Konigsberg bridges...
No fooling? Euler built the K. bridges? did he fold them out of origami paper?
I happily read the article & clicked elsewhere, then found the article couldn't be found on craphound. On the off chance this is permanent:-(, and you want a copy, email me and I'll send you a text copy that I presciently stored on disk. (Non-DRMed, too!)
Not to mention Waking Life has one of the coolest soundtracks ever. Good tunes and creative orchestrations. I mean, string quintet plus accordion:-) . No, really, the music works.
Just wondering, sort of, if I have 3 or 4 nice doggies in the car, all of whom have RFID chips (at least here in the US, it's a nationwide pet recovery ID system) implanted. What are the chances that their 4 numbers will get intermingled with the licence plate ID?
about the only difference between an AB and a BA is Latin, "Ars Baccalaureus [sp]" vs English "Bachelor of Arts." The diff between BS and BA typically is the number of non-tech courses -- a BA has several language, social/econ/history, etc. requirements.
An ABD is "All But Dissertation," for those of us who passed the Qual Exam but bailed before blowing off 2 years of slavery to get the PhD:-)
You can get a BA in Physics from many universities, but its worth is certainly questionable.;) Hey, I've got an AB in Physics you insensitive clod! Seriously: my AB is from Colby; I went on to get an ABD from Brown. While Brown is not in the top 10 for grad physics or anything, those of us w/ AB degrees were as well trained and qualified as those with BS (heh) degrees.
WEP is completly insecure, and can be broken really easily, its really not worth it. I think making sure you are not broadcasting your ID, and setting up MAC address filtering, is the way to go. That would keep war drivers from 1)Finding your network, and 2) Connecting to it. Bingo. I was just about to ask about this. Being more of a physicist than software guru:-), I figured if my router told me it would only accept the wireless MAC addresses I told it to, nobody could get on my net without my knowledge. I sure hope this is true... Meanwhile I don't want to bother w/ WEP because that sounds like work (heh), so- can an outsider still tap into the data flow even if he can't connect? Not that I allow anyone to send secure info over our wireless connections.
Still, the Air Force has a huge "black budget". It's not at all clear what they're hiding from whom. Mostly their massively expensive ignominous failures, in all probability. Hiding them from the federal budget auditors, that is.
>Most of the time, the only reason I use a password is because the site requires it, not because I care that much about protecting my account. NYTimes. Battle.net ZDNet. All those sites get the exact same password. If someone guess it, oh well. So they can read stories under my account.
I do something about that simple too, but on the days when I feel the need for a double-layer AFDB, I can't help wondering what would happen if someone posted a note in my account that said something like "I'm ready to blow up the next plane, Mr. BinLaden." oops, I just posted that myself:-)
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I do believe you'd get your ass kicked for having a bumper sticker like that.
Maybe or maybe not. There are already bumper stickers that say "My kid beat up your honors student," or "As a matter of fact I DO own the whole damn road," or the ever-popular "Eat my shorts."
You must be joking: people turned off by implants? Several thousand rich plastic surgeons (and rich strip club owners) would disagree.
So it matters a lot just what implant and why.
FWIW, I'm one of many who finds a stylish pair of eyeglasses can greatly enhance the sexual attractiveness of the wearer. Not strictly an implant, but there you go.
I used to think metric units were superior until I lived in the US for a while, and found myself doing plenty of carpentry and DIY stuff where the most common units are inches and feet.
Except that a carpentry inch isn't an inch.
Unless "true dimensions" are called out, a 2x4, for example, is 1.5x3.5 inches. Strictly speaking,at least back when I was in Jr High shop, lumber measurements were +0,-0.5 inch to account for shrinkage as the wood dried after being cut.
Anyway, the point is that you may think you have the same unit (inches) but you don't -- sort of like troy vs avdp or US vs imperial.
IIRC someone like Dr Bott or Kensington or thelike sells an antenna enhancer kit that fits on or into the tiBook cover. See if you can track one of those down.
Obligatory Apple is Doomed Comment.
All the same, what do you think would happen to Apple if Jobs died? The Vision Thing(tm) is a big part of their appeal, so who would carry on in his place?
Blood will always flow if there's pressure behind it (doh). I'd expect, based more on physics than any experience in cardiology, that a continuous flow at maybe 100mm (well below common systole) would work just fine without overstressing any part of the system.
But if future studies were to show that a pulsing system really does something useful, it shouldn't be too hard to put a controller chip that has the impeller spin up and spin down at some reasonable rate.
BTW, just because it's different from nature doesn't mean it's harmful. For example, it may have taken 50 years (largely due to politics) but it's now considered medically safe for women to take continuous contraceptives and go without menstrual cycles for all or most of the year.
I don't know any serious atheists who go around painting "God is dead" on things.
At the risk of being serious here, let me point out two things.
First, atheists don't believe God is dead. We believe there is not and never has/have been mythological beings.
Second, the "God is dead" statement, made IIRC by Nietzche, was intended as an observation that religion was no longer useful or functional in the roles under which it came into being.
I take it you've never worked at a military installation.
You can take it I'm not telling you where or for which government agencies I've worked.
Note this does not mean vacation time. In fact al vacations are cancelled. It mean everyone stops production work and only performs activities related to safety and security enhancement, inventories and training. Really its a good thing and its happening because the head of Los Alamos is a former admiral who runs a tight ship and does not tolerate anything but teamwork.
Well THAT makes me shudder. I've been thru those infamous retraining exercises. "We think maybe possibly one person screwed up and we're going to punish the crap out of all of you AND show how little we trust you."
And, man, anyone who "does not tolerate anything but teamwork" is a guaranteed disaster. That kind of person defines "teamwork" as "do it exactly my way or get out. No individual thinking allowed." Just great.
But this isn't the first time AppleInsider have made the prediction (with the implication that they have inside knowledge) of a new iMac that looks like a thicker cinema screen with the motherboard built in it. They made exactly the same claim 2 months before the original LCD iMac was announed, and were completely wrong.
And didn't some other rumor mill dig up a drawing of a semi-headless iMac? Sort of a dome that easily detached from the wireframe stand holding up the LCD screen.
Apple is down, but the whole market tanked yesterday and today. Take that overall "drag" off and Apple is down a relatively small amount.
I have always loved space and the notion of other planets and potentially with life. I hope we find one that does have an atmosphere that can support life.
Look at it this way: Mankind on Earth: a million years if you are very generous. Dinosaurs on Earth: 250 million years. Amoeba on Earth: what, a couple billion years?
So if we find life on another planet, what are the odds it'll be in the "mankind" portion of the local planetary "cycle" ?
Whats more, with the advances made since the Hubble was made, ground based telescopes such as the VLT have nearly the same resolution as the Hubble and is much easier to service, so there is much less of a need for a space telescope
A minor correction: VLT and adaptive optic systems allow ground-based systems to do better than Hubble in the visible portion of the spectrum. For IR and UV stuff that never makes it thru the atmosphere, a space-based telescope is the only option.
Making fun of a minority for humor is just about the most base form of comedy there is, congratulations. Americans can go on their stupid as hell (Parisian) French bashing crusade all they want, but French Canadians are extremely nice people who are extremely progressive (and so on)
OK, in the interests of fair play, ya know why the Newfies were in favor of Quebec separatism? If Quebec leaves Canada, it cuts 3 hours off their drive to Toronto.
See, you can pick on any province in Canada with minimal effort. Just as can be done w/ any region of the US.
Actually that would be a bad idea. The speckle from very narrow band sources would be a problem.
Not exactly. You're correct that using unfiltered lasers, especially ones w/ long coherence lengths, can lead to speckle. You're not correct that *any* narrowband source will produce speckle. The coherence has to be there. Superfluorescent LEDs, for example, produce lots of light but almost no coherence.
Beyond that, there are dephasing/diffusing techniques which reduce speckle from laser sources.
What I find impressive is that people like Huffman are possibly defining new application fields for mathematics, maybe leading to new theories, all from (originally) a hobby.
This reminds me of former mathematicians such as Euler and his Konigsberg bridges...
No fooling? Euler built the K. bridges? did he fold them out of origami paper?
I happily read the article & clicked elsewhere, then found the article couldn't be found on craphound. On the off chance this is permanent :-(, and you want a copy, email me and I'll send you a text copy that I presciently stored on disk. (Non-DRMed, too!)
Not to mention Waking Life has one of the coolest soundtracks ever. Good tunes and creative orchestrations. I mean, string quintet plus accordion :-) . No, really, the music works.
Just wondering, sort of, if I have 3 or 4 nice doggies in the car, all of whom have RFID chips (at least here in the US, it's a nationwide pet recovery ID system) implanted. What are the chances that their 4 numbers will get intermingled with the licence plate ID?
about the only difference between an AB and a BA is Latin, "Ars Baccalaureus [sp]" vs English "Bachelor of Arts." The diff between BS and BA typically is the number of non-tech courses -- a BA has several language, social/econ/history, etc. requirements.
:-)
An ABD is "All But Dissertation," for those of us who passed the Qual Exam but bailed before blowing off 2 years of slavery to get the PhD
You can get a BA in Physics from many universities, but its worth is certainly questionable. ;)
Hey, I've got an AB in Physics you insensitive clod!
Seriously: my AB is from Colby; I went on to get an ABD from Brown. While Brown is not in the top 10 for grad physics or anything, those of us w/ AB degrees were as well trained and qualified as those with BS (heh) degrees.
WEP is completly insecure, and can be broken really easily, its really not worth it. I think making sure you are not broadcasting your ID, and setting up MAC address filtering, is the way to go. That would keep war drivers from 1)Finding your network, and 2) Connecting to it. :-), I figured if my router told me it would only accept the wireless MAC addresses I told it to, nobody could get on my net without my knowledge. I sure hope this is true...
Bingo. I was just about to ask about this. Being more of a physicist than software guru
Meanwhile I don't want to bother w/ WEP because that sounds like work (heh), so- can an outsider still tap into the data flow even if he can't connect? Not that I allow anyone to send secure info over our wireless connections.
>>"Make sure you "rough up" the bag a bit ahead of time (just throw it around against some rocks or something, or the pavement)."
>Remember to remove the laptop first.
Ok, someone explain to me: this is "insightful"?
Whatever happened to "sardonic humor" ?
Still, the Air Force has a huge "black budget". It's not at all clear what they're hiding from whom.
Mostly their massively expensive ignominous failures, in all probability. Hiding them from the federal budget auditors, that is.
>Most of the time, the only reason I use a password is because the site requires it, not because I care that much about protecting my account. NYTimes. Battle.net ZDNet. All those sites get the exact same password. If someone guess it, oh well. So they can read stories under my account.
:-)
I do something about that simple too, but on the days when I feel the need for a double-layer AFDB, I can't help wondering what would happen if someone posted a note in my account that said something like "I'm ready to blow up the next plane, Mr. BinLaden." oops, I just posted that myself