I tried to hold out on buying dvds until holographic storage became available - for the last 5 years.
Gave up and decided to live one technology behind the current thing - cheap, fast enough, reliable and supported.
Photonic chips and holographic storage should work really well together - in 5 or 10 years or whenever its decided to reopen the wounds on the bleeding edge.
I am on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216 Firebird/0.7+. If you have the page bookmarked, right click on the bookmark select properties, select the schedule tab. How often do you want the page checked? The next tab in the properties is to notify you when it does change. Is this a good solution for you?
"36 All documents sufficient to show IBM's organizational and personnel structure, including but not limited to organizational charts, flow charts and personnel directories.... 40 All documents concerning IBM's use of Intel processors prior to January 1, 1998.
41 All documents concerning IBM's use of Intel processors after January 1, 1998. "
If 36 isn't enough paperwork to kill the rest of the trees on the planet (no timeframes), 40 & 41 should do it.
was your firewall would you rather have it rooted and used by one person/group or your box down and either:
internal network exposed, or
your business of the air
that this will be ignored as soon as someone starts making money from ex-Earth resources.
That it will be defended with lives if deemed strategically important.
Ever looked up a list of what countries have ignored, abrogated or simply broken treaties. Or flouted UN resolutions?
Or governments ignored it's own laws/courts?
If you are US based look up Andrew Jackson and what he did when native Americans won a court case.
I am not saying this is right, or that some or all UN treaties are good or bad, but it is unrealistic to expect greed for money and power to not surface.
Primarily - how will you stop claiming and enforcing their ownership in the great beyond?
All posts already get a lameness filter why not add a bayesian filter.
Eg all posts modded troll (after meta-mod - I got some GNAA's to meta-mod today:-) ) get used to train the filter, and an auto troll mod gets applied to any posts that fail.
Would really screw the GNAA and fp'ers. As well as "BSD is dying" and "Soviet Russia". Over time even the auto-troll site would become useless.
Who knows you may even see some original content?
The work load may even be lowered - the less crap people load may even outweigh the filetring overhead.
However read some of the above stuff & links about the type of number.
Possible practical application: In the fields of cyrptography/encryption - it is not beyond the realms of imagination to want to have a number which is known to be factorable, not necessarily having the factors, but very large. 78557*2^<huge number> + 1 would then be very handy. There is also a search on somewhere for more of these numbers.
Less obvious: Symmetries, algebraic topology stuff. While I know almost completely nothing (I don't even know enough to brag about my ignorance), as people dig deeper into the links between calculus and number theory - eg Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem proof is based on his proof of the Taniyama's Conjecture, what is slowing evolving is some understanding that will hopefully become more accessible of the links between number theory and calculus. What type of symmetries can 78557*2^<>+1 have and does it tell us anything about the algebraic topology stuff related to its construction which may then feed down into calculus (& even possibly physics).
What has me interested is why is 78557 the smallest number with this property? Why is it so special? Hopefully there may be answer before I die.
Even though equations (6) and (7) give an amplification of between 10^4 (at radio) and 10^10 (visible) "Since for the Sun the frequency can have values between...(radio waves) and...(visible light)...a gravitational lens can enlarge the brightness of a star by the same remarkable factor."
Solar atmospheric conditions: "The main effects are to limit the observable wavelength to those well above about 100 GHz and to increase the effective optical length of the SGT"
Still I vote for more probes to outer solar system, and at least seeing what can be done. And I would argue that useful astronomy can be done at >100GHz.
What else can you do with a big highly powered probe like this?
Mmmmm - Pluto? Kuiper Belt? Oort Cloud?
My favorite: A 500 AU Mission - using the Sun as a (gravitional) lens to look closely at other systems directly. Something 500 to 600 AUs is the Sun's focal length for the visible part of teh spectrum. High bandwidth real time images of other solar systems - any takers?
Short answer - yes. With lots of qualifications. I think it worth investigating.
Google for M2P2 (mini-magnetic plsma propulsion) - researcher name is Winglee. His goal appears to be making a propulsion system - which we really really want to work. But would it protect the internals to some degree.
However a lot of the particles that they are worried about would have energy above what a magnetospheric shield could deflect. But if a shield like this could deflect a lot of the lower energy ionized radiation, it may lead to an overall cheaper (read less massive) radition solution - because you only have to design against the high energy/nasty stuff to the degree required rather than all of it.
The theory is if Indonesia removed enough of its army from internal "policing" duties to invade Australia, by the time they mounted the invasion the internal revolts would have shattered Indonesia's war fighting abilities.
Indonesia is not likely to be an integrated and cohesive nation for a long time yet.
Strategically Pakistan is a dead end for end India - no energy resources, strategic position/commodities and lots of friends who would get angry (including 100+m people internal to India). And Pakistan can also hit back.
Who has all this stuff that India will want and need and will be dumped by their friends if India grab for it?
Look at a map.
Why has India being building a blue water navy?
Where could they go with it?
Australia. Unless you think India wants to take on another 100+m Muslims by annexing Indonesia.
We won't be a target for India in the next 10 years but by then India's population/resource profile is going to look a lot nastier than it is now.
"Stocks were never meant to be traded as speculation on the share price"
This is wrong. Speculators are amazingly valuable in a market. They add liquidity. This allows medium/long term players to buy and sell without disrupting the market.
Markets without speculators are generally hard to enter and (much worse) hard to leave.
Last (semi-)serious paper I read on travelling along spacelike curves implied that doing so was only possible if consistency was maintained - you can't go back and change something that would affect "when" you were from.
Sorry but I dont have the Arxiv ref for you - or whether it was gr-qc, astro, ????. As always use Arxiv with care unlike/., there is no lameness filter, but on "spacelike" will turn it up I think.
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- With a few exceptions, the offer Microsoft Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. are making to Microsoft employees with under-water stock options is very likely no deal at all -- at least not for the employees.
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I tried to hold out on buying dvds until holographic storage became available - for the last 5 years.
Gave up and decided to live one technology behind the current thing - cheap, fast enough, reliable and supported.
Photonic chips and holographic storage should work really well together - in 5 or 10 years or whenever its decided to reopen the wounds on the bleeding edge.
Load TabBrowserExtensions.
Save current tabextensions.rdf somewhere handy.
When you have your midget tabs open, Ctrl-Shift-T which is save current tab session.
Then Close All Tabs, Recent Closed Tabs, Flush History.
Find and rename file tabextensions.rdf. Restore original.
At pron time, backup tabextensions.rdf, rename midgetporn.rdf to tabextensions.rdf. Reload all tabs.
Note there is a mouse gesture for reloading all tabs, though you hands may to busy for this.
Sorry best advice I can do at short notice.
Which version are you using?
I am on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031216 Firebird/0.7+.
If you have the page bookmarked, right click on the bookmark select properties, select the schedule tab. How often do you want the page checked? The next tab in the properties is to notify you when it does change. Is this a good solution for you?
"36 ...
All documents sufficient to show IBM's organizational and personnel
structure, including but not limited to organizational charts, flow charts and
personnel directories.
40
All documents concerning IBM's use of Intel processors prior to January 1,
1998.
41
All documents concerning IBM's use of Intel processors after January 1,
1998. "
If 36 isn't enough paperwork to kill the rest of the trees on the planet (no timeframes), 40 & 41 should do it.
"54. At this point in time, IBM's UNIX expertise was centered on its own Power PC processor. IBM had little or no expertise on Intel processors."
I find this statement using the truth freely.
was your firewall would you rather have it rooted and used by one person/group or your box down and either:
internal network exposed, or
your business of the air
Seriously,
it is up now (mostly). When NASA gets a new bird what about tugging it higher?
What would it take?
http://web-worthy.com/saab/
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040115 Firebird/0.8.0+
that this will be ignored as soon as someone starts making money from ex-Earth resources.
That it will be defended with lives if deemed strategically important.
Ever looked up a list of what countries have ignored, abrogated or simply broken treaties. Or flouted UN resolutions?
Or governments ignored it's own laws/courts?
If you are US based look up Andrew Jackson and what he did when native Americans won a court case.
I am not saying this is right, or that some or all UN treaties are good or bad, but it is unrealistic to expect greed for money and power to not surface.
Primarily - how will you stop claiming and enforcing their ownership in the great beyond?
If a copy is sourced from the BBC - is it before or after what has been shown?
Unfortunately I am working too late to be able to watch them (>6pm) each night and will not get time to watch the videos.
And this is a bad thing?
:-) ) get used to train the filter, and an auto troll mod gets applied to any posts that fail.
All posts already get a lameness filter why not add a bayesian filter.
Eg all posts modded troll (after meta-mod - I got some GNAA's to meta-mod today
Would really screw the GNAA and fp'ers. As well as "BSD is dying" and "Soviet Russia". Over time even the auto-troll site would become useless.
Who knows you may even see some original content?
The work load may even be lowered - the less crap people load may even outweigh the filetring overhead.
And of course no-one would ever try and exploit this wonderful tool.
I liked 5 - one Inbox for everything - phone, fax, email, dumb requests from boss
Then I just have one pile to trash!
Maybe not immediately.
However read some of the above stuff & links about the type of number.
Possible practical application:
In the fields of cyrptography/encryption - it is not beyond the realms of imagination to want to have a number which is known to be factorable, not necessarily having the factors, but very large. 78557*2^<huge number> + 1 would then be very handy. There is also a search on somewhere for more of these numbers.
Less obvious:
Symmetries, algebraic topology stuff. While I know almost completely nothing (I don't even know enough to brag about my ignorance), as people dig deeper into the links between calculus and number theory - eg Andrew Wiles and Fermat's Last Theorem proof is based on his proof of the Taniyama's Conjecture, what is slowing evolving is some understanding that will hopefully become more accessible of the links between number theory and calculus. What type of symmetries can 78557*2^<>+1 have and does it tell us anything about the algebraic topology stuff related to its construction which may then feed down into calculus (& even possibly physics).
What has me interested is why is 78557 the smallest number with this property? Why is it so special? Hopefully there may be answer before I die.
but you are still right, it is nasty and hard.
...(radio waves) and ...(visible light) ...a gravitational lens can enlarge the brightness of a star by the same remarkable factor."
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205126
Seems to be a bit of a dampener.
Even though equations (6) and (7) give an amplification of between 10^4 (at radio) and 10^10 (visible)
"Since for the Sun the frequency can have values between
Solar atmospheric conditions:
"The main effects are to limit the observable
wavelength to those well above about 100 GHz and to increase the effective optical length of
the SGT"
Still I vote for more probes to outer solar system, and at least seeing what can be done. And I would argue that useful astronomy can be done at >100GHz.
What else can you do with a big highly powered probe like this?
Mmmmm - Pluto? Kuiper Belt? Oort Cloud?
My favorite:
A 500 AU Mission - using the Sun as a (gravitional) lens to look closely at other systems directly. Something 500 to 600 AUs is the Sun's focal length for the visible part of teh spectrum. High bandwidth real time images of other solar systems - any takers?
Short answer - yes. With lots of qualifications. I think it worth investigating.
Google for M2P2 (mini-magnetic plsma propulsion) - researcher name is Winglee. His goal appears to be making a propulsion system - which we really really want to work. But would it protect the internals to some degree.
However a lot of the particles that they are worried about would have energy above what a magnetospheric shield could deflect. But if a shield like this could deflect a lot of the lower energy ionized radiation, it may lead to an overall cheaper (read less massive) radition solution - because you only have to design against the high energy/nasty stuff to the degree required rather than all of it.
The theory is if Indonesia removed enough of its army from internal "policing" duties to invade Australia, by the time they mounted the invasion the internal revolts would have shattered Indonesia's war fighting abilities.
Indonesia is not likely to be an integrated and cohesive nation for a long time yet.
Strategically Pakistan is a dead end for end India - no energy resources, strategic position/commodities and lots of friends who would get angry (including 100+m people internal to India). And Pakistan can also hit back.
Who has all this stuff that India will want and need and will be dumped by their friends if India grab for it?
Look at a map.
Why has India being building a blue water navy?
Where could they go with it?
Australia. Unless you think India wants to take on another 100+m Muslims by annexing Indonesia.
We won't be a target for India in the next 10 years but by then India's population/resource profile is going to look a lot nastier than it is now.
Remove tinfoil hat
"Stocks were never meant to be traded as speculation on the share price"
This is wrong.
Speculators are amazingly valuable in a market. They add liquidity. This allows medium/long term players to buy and sell without disrupting the market.
Markets without speculators are generally hard to enter and (much worse) hard to leave.
Spell checking advice on /.
Call Satan - check whether he has his ski gear on
Last (semi-)serious paper I read on travelling along spacelike curves implied that doing so was only possible if consistency was maintained - you can't go back and change something that would affect "when" you were from.
/., there is no lameness filter, but on "spacelike" will turn it up I think.
Sorry but I dont have the Arxiv ref for you - or whether it was gr-qc, astro, ????. As always use Arxiv with care unlike
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039& sid=ae5D2IHZD6xQ&refer=columnist_crystal
(beware - popups)
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- With a few exceptions, the offer Microsoft Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. are making to Microsoft employees with under-water stock options is very likely no deal at all -- at least not for the employees.
So all we have to do is find a way around the big L's firewall and hack his tree?