Well, it's not like there's anything else to do there.
Silly person, of course there's something to do in Adelaide. It's called "not drinking the water". There are pleasant ways to accomplish that in the vicinity, many of which involve nice cheese platters and pleasant verandas.
Fail at the game, however, and you will remember the taste of butyl and burnt hair for the rest of your life.
That would be Steganographic content -- hiding information in otherwise normal images, like the DRM in dots you find on some old copiers and laser printers. Stenographic content is "Miss Parsons, please take a letter".
For one thing, World of Warcraft (a passion for our entire family) depends on P2P for the distribution of updates.
And where I have absolutely no problem with suppressing child pornography, I believe that in the long term censorship by filtration is not the answer. It's never the answer, in a free society -- no offence, mate, but you're the government and I don't entirely trust you. Once you start filtering content for good reasons, you'll soon be filtering content for bad ones.
The answer is to find the perpetrators and take them out. I believe your efforts should be directed toward finding the source of the trash and taking it down, not slowing down the pipes for the rest of us.
Subj: Please do not block all peer-to-peer traffic
For one thing, World of Warcraft (a passion for our entire family) depends on P2P for the distribution of updates.
And where I have absolutely no problem with suppressing child pornography, I believe that in the long term censorship by filtration is not the answer. It's never the answer, in a free society -- no offence, mate, but you're the government and I don't entirely trust you. Once you start filtering content for good reasons, you'll soon be filtering content for bad ones.
The answer is to find the perpetrators and take them out. I believe your efforts should be directed toward finding the source of the trash and taking it down, not slowing down the pipes for the rest of us.
(name + address)
IT consultant since 1969
Husband and devoted father of two
A feathere, from ye leftmost winge of a plump female goose...
Goode poynte.
I find the best oak galls to use for ynk are mid way up the tree, neither too low lest the kine eat them nor too high so as not to break limbs in their acquisition. Keep your brewing gum arabic downwind, lest your mate seek another abed. A pen knife must have a long enough handle, too, that it be easy to use as a rest in the sinister hand to keep the parchment down, as well as providing the means for scraping away mistakes and sharpening your quills. Keep the parchment on a board at a suitable angle that your neck does not suffer. When you make errors between paragraphs of smudge or mark, try to work them into a design and make it look like you intended to do so. Remember that although Insular Magiscule may be your hand of preference, many copyists are equally glad if you use a more modern one such as Carolingian Miniscule, which is quicker to render. And do not touch parchment with finger or hand, lest the parch be rendered unable to retain the ynk.
I'd like to know why you think the newer versions, esp. 2007, is a stinking pile. I'm not going to give a spiel why I think it's not, I'd just like to know why you detest it.
I rather like it myself, enough to make a living with it.
But it could be that certain "features" have caused some to stumble, where others wouldn't encounter them. Thus a positive experience for some, negative for others.
Case in point -- I do remember you could mightily confuse Word by adding certain small images into header and footer sections (such as logos -- can't remember if they were.PNG or.GIF). You could trash a document with only a few pages that way. OTOH I've written docs with hundreds of pages in Word with zero, read zero, trouble.
Yes, OneNote is a very, very good notes organiser. I use it to keep track of the tech marketing collateral I write, which needs a variety of templates, images, scraps of ideas and raw text in dozens of different topics. Once the raw text gets to be of any size, it goes into Word, with the final product rendered in Acrobat (CutePDF being a bit limiting for what I needed). I bought my own copy of OneNote because the folks responsible for our SOE said "Huh?" and my notes were getting out of hand. It's the ultimate three-ring binder rendered in software IMO.
I remember that approximately a fourth of students learning a foreign language in high school were learning German, and out of those that I asked why, I never got a good explanation
I chose German because I thought I could better understand the WWII jokes my father brought home. It didn't help, they weren't funny in their native language either. This was before I understood the concept of a "Dad joke".
There was no rational reason for choosing it, in other words. However, three benefits accrued from my five years of study.
1) I can better understand SAP documentation;
2) I am by Yoda speech ever perplexed not;
3) I was able to embarrass a rapid-fire German speaking mother and daughter once in Torrance, California by waiting for the right moment and asking the price of something in German. "Oh! Swei dollar neunzig! spoken by one rapidly-reddening lady. I couldn't follow them, but that wasn't the point. Priceless.
Everything since then has been purely, undeniably, capitalistic. Richard Branson isn't paying to develop a fleet for the sake of some subsidy, somewhere.
Probably not, no. What Branson may be doing is underwriting a future where commercial carriers can make the hop from New York to Sydney in an hour or two, and he isn't waiting for Boeing to come up with the answer. He does run an airline, remember, and is known for being a bit of a visionary. It's an investment in an SST that doesn't go boom.
Electronics can keep idle current to a minimum. Where's the problem?
The minimum is zero. Electronics cannot make a magnetic field that consumes zero power, either in a transformer or some other inductor. You are flat wrong here.
Ok, will re-phrase. Electronics can keep the use of idle current to a minimum. Use a different sensor to determine when to load the coil. This can be done by various means, including optical. Different circuit. Switch the charger (the supply side coil) on when you need it, off when you don't. The problem we're trying to solve is important enough that a it's worth a little bit of complexity to solve it.
(scene FILLS with people, 200-300, all dressed in various profession/regional/ethnic attire): *in unison* We, are Ubuntu.
Sorry, professional marketing flack here. You scare people away with a mob.
Much more useful to meme building would be a single person to focus in on.
So let's make it a trio, and move the drama away from the first two.
"Hi, I'm a Mac" + "Hi, I'm a PC" doing the basic Mac vs. PC posturing. Third guy at a desk, says nothing, just rapidly working through paperwork. Simple name plate on desk "Linux", stuffed Tux in the corner for brand identification. After a bit of meaningless byplay on the part of Mac & PC, they show their annoyance at Linux. "Hey!" says the nearest, tapping the desk of Linux. "You're not playing the game!" Linux smiles at them, then goes back to work without a word. Cap it with a tag line "Linux. Some people just want it to work."
Please explain to me how my pencil can do the read part of r/w memory.
Well, if it's that hard and sharp, you could electrify the end and read the charge differences as you move in a raster pattern, moving across atoms and atom-free zones on a substrate layer. Try it by writing "IBM" on silicon in individual atoms, then using the same method to scan the area. Would probably be a destructive read, but you could probably do it. You could keep the excess atoms in a bit bucket.
In solid state there is no such thing... it's all address based access.;)
For current stuff perhaps, but as a general statement there are exceptions. Remember magnetic bubble memory? Intel had a 1MB prototype once. Little magnetic domains moving around in a maze. Very serial.
Would an ionised air channel produced by ultraviolet radiation work as a single conductor to bridge the air gap between two separated flux core sections? That might raise efficiencies by turning two separated core segments together into a virtual core. Such contact could be directional and aimed at a (say) painted target. Tesla seemed to think it you could get air to conduct that way (although this could be electric field only, not sure about magnetic flux, might have to switch it via low frequency RF). Come to think of it, a number of ship borne particle beam weapons tested by the Russians used that method to pave the way for their little firecrackers, iirc. Might be fun, too. Have a little CFB light up when contact is made. I wouldn't want to get it too close to the petrol tank filler though.
Isn't this "wireless power" stuff just a terrible waste of energy?
Transformers (not the Hasbro sort) are basically two adjacent coils, with the difference in the number of windings on each side determining the voltage step-up or step-down.
Here you have what is basically a transformer, just with the coils moved further away from each other. A 1:1 step ratio in a transformer is pretty efficient.
You're not wasting electricity spraying electrons in the air like a water sprinkler, there has to be a circuit before potential can be moved from one coil to the other. Electronics can keep idle current to a minimum. Where's the problem?
What would that $50 M net you over the long term if you invested in, say, Virgin Galactic?
Imagine what the STS would look like if Burt Rutan had designed it. First stage might have been fancloth and diamond straws, rather than Lego and fireworks. Hard to say what a fresh mind like that could do with a budget like NASA's.
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Well, it's not like there's anything else to do there.
Silly person, of course there's something to do in Adelaide. It's called "not drinking the water". There are pleasant ways to accomplish that in the vicinity, many of which involve nice cheese platters and pleasant verandas.
Fail at the game, however, and you will remember the taste of butyl and burnt hair for the rest of your life.
Any march or protest can be effective if the media are well represented.
Oh, wait...
...that mosquito could have come from almost anywhere...
Considering the medium, it could have come from a tax official.
cryptographic and stenographic content.
That would be Steganographic content -- hiding information in otherwise normal images, like the DRM in dots you find on some old copiers and laser printers. Stenographic content is "Miss Parsons, please take a letter".
Contacts page for Stephen Conroy is here
Here's the text of the letter I sent him:
Subj: Please do not block all peer-to-peer
For one thing, World of Warcraft (a passion for our entire family) depends on P2P for the distribution of updates.
And where I have absolutely no problem with suppressing child pornography, I believe that in the long term censorship by filtration is not the answer. It's never the answer, in a free society -- no offence, mate, but you're the government and I don't entirely trust you. Once you start filtering content for good reasons, you'll soon be filtering content for bad ones.
The answer is to find the perpetrators and take them out. I believe your efforts should be directed toward finding the source of the trash and taking it down, not slowing down the pipes for the rest of us.
(real name supplied)
Consultant (IT industry since 1969)
Devoted husband and father of two
(real address supplied)
Subj: Please do not block all peer-to-peer traffic
For one thing, World of Warcraft (a passion for our entire family) depends on P2P for the distribution of updates.
And where I have absolutely no problem with suppressing child pornography, I believe that in the long term censorship by filtration is not the answer. It's never the answer, in a free society -- no offence, mate, but you're the government and I don't entirely trust you. Once you start filtering content for good reasons, you'll soon be filtering content for bad ones. The answer is to find the perpetrators and take them out. I believe your efforts should be directed toward finding the source of the trash and taking it down, not slowing down the pipes for the rest of us. (name + address) IT consultant since 1969 Husband and devoted father of two
You're thinking of one of the stereoisomers of Thiotimoline, I believe. One of them is endochronic.
A feathere, from ye leftmost winge of a plump female goose...
Goode poynte.
I find the best oak galls to use for ynk are mid way up the tree, neither too low lest the kine eat them nor too high so as not to break limbs in their acquisition. Keep your brewing gum arabic downwind, lest your mate seek another abed. A pen knife must have a long enough handle, too, that it be easy to use as a rest in the sinister hand to keep the parchment down, as well as providing the means for scraping away mistakes and sharpening your quills. Keep the parchment on a board at a suitable angle that your neck does not suffer. When you make errors between paragraphs of smudge or mark, try to work them into a design and make it look like you intended to do so. Remember that although Insular Magiscule may be your hand of preference, many copyists are equally glad if you use a more modern one such as Carolingian Miniscule, which is quicker to render. And do not touch parchment with finger or hand, lest the parch be rendered unable to retain the ynk.
I'd like to know why you think the newer versions, esp. 2007, is a stinking pile. I'm not going to give a spiel why I think it's not, I'd just like to know why you detest it.
I rather like it myself, enough to make a living with it.
But it could be that certain "features" have caused some to stumble, where others wouldn't encounter them. Thus a positive experience for some, negative for others.
Case in point -- I do remember you could mightily confuse Word by adding certain small images into header and footer sections (such as logos -- can't remember if they were .PNG or .GIF). You could trash a document with only a few pages that way. OTOH I've written docs with hundreds of pages in Word with zero, read zero, trouble.
Yes, OneNote is a very, very good notes organiser. I use it to keep track of the tech marketing collateral I write, which needs a variety of templates, images, scraps of ideas and raw text in dozens of different topics. Once the raw text gets to be of any size, it goes into Word, with the final product rendered in Acrobat (CutePDF being a bit limiting for what I needed). I bought my own copy of OneNote because the folks responsible for our SOE said "Huh?" and my notes were getting out of hand. It's the ultimate three-ring binder rendered in software IMO.
I remember that approximately a fourth of students learning a foreign language in high school were learning German, and out of those that I asked why, I never got a good explanation
I chose German because I thought I could better understand the WWII jokes my father brought home. It didn't help, they weren't funny in their native language either. This was before I understood the concept of a "Dad joke".
There was no rational reason for choosing it, in other words. However, three benefits accrued from my five years of study.
1) I can better understand SAP documentation;
2) I am by Yoda speech ever perplexed not;
3) I was able to embarrass a rapid-fire German speaking mother and daughter once in Torrance, California by waiting for the right moment and asking the price of something in German. "Oh! Swei dollar neunzig! spoken by one rapidly-reddening lady. I couldn't follow them, but that wasn't the point. Priceless.
Everything since then has been purely, undeniably, capitalistic. Richard Branson isn't paying to develop a fleet for the sake of some subsidy, somewhere.
Probably not, no. What Branson may be doing is underwriting a future where commercial carriers can make the hop from New York to Sydney in an hour or two, and he isn't waiting for Boeing to come up with the answer. He does run an airline, remember, and is known for being a bit of a visionary. It's an investment in an SST that doesn't go boom.
Electronics can keep idle current to a minimum. Where's the problem?
The minimum is zero. Electronics cannot make a magnetic field that consumes zero power, either in a transformer or some other inductor. You are flat wrong here.
Ok, will re-phrase. Electronics can keep the use of idle current to a minimum. Use a different sensor to determine when to load the coil. This can be done by various means, including optical. Different circuit. Switch the charger (the supply side coil) on when you need it, off when you don't. The problem we're trying to solve is important enough that a it's worth a little bit of complexity to solve it.
(scene FILLS with people, 200-300, all dressed in various profession/regional/ethnic attire): *in unison* We, are Ubuntu.
Sorry, professional marketing flack here. You scare people away with a mob.
Much more useful to meme building would be a single person to focus in on.
So let's make it a trio, and move the drama away from the first two.
"Hi, I'm a Mac" + "Hi, I'm a PC" doing the basic Mac vs. PC posturing. Third guy at a desk, says nothing, just rapidly working through paperwork. Simple name plate on desk "Linux", stuffed Tux in the corner for brand identification. After a bit of meaningless byplay on the part of Mac & PC, they show their annoyance at Linux. "Hey!" says the nearest, tapping the desk of Linux. "You're not playing the game!" Linux smiles at them, then goes back to work without a word. Cap it with a tag line "Linux. Some people just want it to work."
Crud. It's 3am, apologies for the broken link. Please copy and paste, I'll just stuff it up again. Goodnight.
Try it by writing "IBM" on silicon in individual atoms, then using the same method to scan the area
"Details of the implementation have been left as an exercise to the reader" isn't a particularly good way to get R&D funding.
(sigh) sorry, this was done long ago by IBM labs using a scanning tunnelling microscope. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20360.wss/ I thought that was fairly well known by now.
For the rest of you, apologies for the explanation.
Please explain to me how my pencil can do the read part of r/w memory.
Well, if it's that hard and sharp, you could electrify the end and read the charge differences as you move in a raster pattern, moving across atoms and atom-free zones on a substrate layer. Try it by writing "IBM" on silicon in individual atoms, then using the same method to scan the area. Would probably be a destructive read, but you could probably do it. You could keep the excess atoms in a bit bucket.
NERD = Nerd Emulating Recursive Datum
Vale, Majel. You were sexy, you were smart. And you kept the good man inspired. We owe you, take it out of the karma bank.
In solid state there is no such thing... it's all address based access. ;)
For current stuff perhaps, but as a general statement there are exceptions. Remember magnetic bubble memory? Intel had a 1MB prototype once. Little magnetic domains moving around in a maze. Very serial.
Would an ionised air channel produced by ultraviolet radiation work as a single conductor to bridge the air gap between two separated flux core sections? That might raise efficiencies by turning two separated core segments together into a virtual core. Such contact could be directional and aimed at a (say) painted target. Tesla seemed to think it you could get air to conduct that way (although this could be electric field only, not sure about magnetic flux, might have to switch it via low frequency RF). Come to think of it, a number of ship borne particle beam weapons tested by the Russians used that method to pave the way for their little firecrackers, iirc. Might be fun, too. Have a little CFB light up when contact is made. I wouldn't want to get it too close to the petrol tank filler though.
Note that it's distinct from the charge-your-laptop-across-the-room style of wireless power, which IS very inefficient.
Anything topical or substantial available from old notes on Wardenclyffe? I mean the Tesla notes, not the liner notes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower/
Isn't this "wireless power" stuff just a terrible waste of energy?
Transformers (not the Hasbro sort) are basically two adjacent coils, with the difference in the number of windings on each side determining the voltage step-up or step-down.
Here you have what is basically a transformer, just with the coils moved further away from each other. A 1:1 step ratio in a transformer is pretty efficient.
You're not wasting electricity spraying electrons in the air like a water sprinkler, there has to be a circuit before potential can be moved from one coil to the other. Electronics can keep idle current to a minimum. Where's the problem?
Another factor - drag - shouldn't be discounted either. While the drag at ISS altitude is very tiny, it does exist.
Are you implying the Shuttle is less streamlined than, say, a solar panel?
What would that $50 M net you over the long term if you invested in, say, Virgin Galactic?
Imagine what the STS would look like if Burt Rutan had designed it. First stage might have been fancloth and diamond straws, rather than Lego and fireworks. Hard to say what a fresh mind like that could do with a budget like NASA's.
"And did you exchange / a walk on part in a war / for a leading role in a cage?"