Hmmm, interesting. The links seem to say that Tesla invented (and patented) wireless transmission before Marconi, but that Tesla was concerned with transmitting power and Marconi was concerned with telegraphy (i.e. transmitting Morse code).
I think we agree on the chronology and the intended purpose of the ideas, and the pissing match is basically concerned with whether wireless transmission of electricity also encompasses wireless telegraphy / radio, and whether Tesla had thought of this application before Marconi. In my opinion Marconi's work was sufficiently novel to make him the inventor of radio / wireless telegraphy, but I happily concede that he built upon Tesla's ideas of wireless power transmission.
Nice talking to you, and sorry if I was a rude bastard earlier. Cheers.
"Since Marconi's invention of wireless telegraphy in 1897,"...which shows that they don't know that the telegraph was invented by Morse (in 1835) and that precedence for the "wireless" goes to Tesla--not Marconi.
Not sure if this is a very odd troll or not. Anyway, for the benefit of the public... Morse invented the wired telegraph, so he's got no claim on wireless telegraphy and is irrelevant to the issue. Marconi was transmitting Morse code in 1895, whereas Tesla started transmitting voltage in 1893. So yes, Tesla was transmitting wirelessly first, but it was in 100,000 volt discharges of electricity -- hardly the sort of transmission you'd like to receive in your headphones! And plainly not intended to be a telegraph.
Tesla was a cool guy and invented lots of interesting stuff, but people have a tendency to get all cultish about him and ascribe all sorts of miracles to him. Rather than claiming Marconi's work as his, you'd do his memory a better service by honouring him for his own achievements (like AC power).
Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of the television... )
The inventor of television is not necessarily Farnsworth -- there are several scientists with good claims on the title (including John Logie Baird, after whom the Logie television awards are named).
If you want to avoid the racist connotations of the chap you quoted, you might want to check out the ACLU website, or google for ACLU and prison rape. They've campaigned a lot about prison conditions.
If someone didn't have an XBOX Live account, why the HELL would they have an ethernet cable jacked into their box with a connection to the outside world?
Uh, Mozilla? This is the Xbox Linux Project we're talking about, right?
And some more alarming privacy issues are listed on http://www.google-watch.org/.
For anyone who might be about to take Google-Watch seriously, please have a look at Google-Watch-Watch before you make up your mind.
if I go into a store and buy a linux distribution that doesn't make me sign a license before using it, I do own the bits. So why should I not use it in a manner that it's authors didn't intend me to, and -for instance- incorporate bits of open source software into my closed source product?
As long as you don't distribute the resulting code, you're within your rights to combine the two for personal use. Neat, eh? This is analogous to you console hacking for personal use rather than game piracy.
I buy a gun and ammunition, remove the safety and file holes into the bulletpoints. Your reaction might be to say that now I am in clear violation of the law - but that's just what the DCMA is, too.
That just says to me that American gun laws are inconsistent. If the government is that concerned about safety, perhaps they shouldn't let arms companies flood the country with handguns. At any rate, not all laws should be regarded equally. Ideally the public will support laws they perceive as just, and undermine / ignore unjust laws. Most people jaywalk or share mp3s without a second thought, but would never dream of commiting murder.
Further to that, check out this article in the Philly Inquirer about Bush's latest environmental concessions to the companies that backed him. CO2 is not a pollutant any more, pump out as much as you like unfiltered...
(Cue the 'global warming is a shadowy conspiracy of the evil scientific community against innocent oil companies' trolls...)
Slashdot runs MySQL db on a couple of boxes. Check the FAQ and the IRC interview log. According to the FAQ, Slashdot is / was financially contributing to replication in MySQL.
Yeah, it varies from school to school. Ireland is very good for CS and IT stuff, the English ones are good but perhaps a bit Microsoft centric (although arguably the industry is Microsoft centric in England). And, as I was saying to a poster above you, there's plenty of excellent computer folk who have come out of US universities. At any rate, I think most employers aren't too bothered by the origin of a computer science degree, providing the candidate has relevant experience.
I guess I'm going to have to step in on this 'buy a place' comment. I'll try not to flame, but I'm pretty angry. In this country, the vast majority of candidates for a given university are admitted based on SAT/ACT standardised tests, secondary schol transcripts, essays, and for better/smaller schools, interviews. I would argue that this is a merit based system.
Yes and no. I am not trying to flame US students. Plenty of excellent folks have come out of the US system, including a huge number of great engineers, physicists, and computer science people. I am just saying that the system that led to the coinage of the term 'college fund' neccessarily excludes a number of poor but academically brilliant students in favour of a number of slightly less brilliant students with money. It sounds like your uni was one of the better ones, but the fee-hungry ones are bringing down the tone for the whole country.
The upshot of this is parents of kids who took US high school getting very upset at me when I tell them our university has harsher academic entrance requirements for undergraduate nursing than Harvard has for medicine. (I don't set the policy, BTW). The fees are relatively small, maybe three or four grand in Australian playmoney, payable in installments via the tax system when (if!) the graduate gets a job earning $25k or better.
To all the folks saying "but JPEGs are already compressed" -- they aren't always compressed enough. I've seen many pages with 500k JPEGs plastered all over them because they 'load fast enough' on the designer's machine (i.e. from their hard disk or browser cache). Another related crime is people leaving the image DPI at say 200 (default for some digital cameras) rather setting the DPI to 72 (appropriate for monitors).
Quake had a good one -- you'd tell 'em to type "gamma gun" for a super l33t secret weapon. Of course it just set the monitor's gamma (brightness) level to 0, which is what the quake CLI handily interprets the value 'gun' as. Black monitors for all!
Quick question: how are Canadian universities seen? Canadian education system is sometimes similar but, at the same time, remarkably different from the American counterpart...
[Gets big 'C' book from shelf...]
Canada is seen as high quality, on par with UK / Australia, and ahead of the US by a year or so. The high school diplomas / matriculation certificates are highly regarded also. Further, the French and English institutions are considered on par with each other. Canada would be a good choice for postgraduate study.
I assess international qualifications for an Australian university, and we consider US qualifications to be about a year behind Aussie and western European quals (UK etc). The US education system is about on par with Hungary and Pakistan in the view of our assessors, but we consider UK and many Indian quals to be on par with our own.
The main factor in deciding the quality of a particular country's qualifications is not the curriculum, facilities, or anything along those lines. It's the quality of the students, determined mostly by whether students gain their place at university through academic merit, or by buying a place. In the US you mostly buy a place, so consequently the value of degrees from the US suffers.
I would advise anyone trying to choose between the US and Europe for a degree of any kind to go to an English university. They don't hand out testamurs from Oxford to any sub-literate with a fat wallet.
It's interesting to see that the same collateral damage problems occuring with this government porn blocklist that were affecting spam blocklists like SPEWS. Like spammers, porn site operators presumably changed accounts enough that the list operators had to block whole ISPs to guarantee filtering them.
Of course, unlike receiving spam, surfing a porn site is a personal choice (excepting porn viruses etc).
For those who are interested, the Cooper's website, complete with dubiosu flash intro.
I'm pretty sure you can get Cooper's outside Australia, as a friend of mine in Canada drinks it.
If you have a choice, I recommend the Cooper's premium (which tastes like apricots and seawater) and the Cooper's vintage (which is cellared like wine and released in small limited edition runs every few years). Yum.
It's supposed to be very noisy, so if your cat is anything like mine I imagine it will flee from the terrifying Roomba and curl up in a different room.
anyone remember the Sony Yazoo (or whatever it was called) for the PSX - a home development system
It was called Net Yaroze, and it wasn't a true homebrew system, because only other people with a Net Yaroze devkit could play the games you made. I think one or two pro PSX developers honed their skills on Yaroze, tho', so while you couldn't release the software, you could at least use it for demos in a job interview.
Check out the Mars Direct site. There are lots of good papers on suitable rockets there. The Energia would do nicely, or a revived Saturn with 7 engines instead of 5 (a Saturn VII).
We can go to Mars with the tech we have now. The real issue is politcal will / funding.
I thought Netscape killed it off because they were buying AOL.
From memory what happened is that AOL laid off the Netscape developers who were working on Moz. A non-profit foundation was set up to fund continued development and AOL made the first donation ($1 million). Red Hat, Sun etc have also donated to the foundation, but they still need a lot more $ from users if the pace of development is to be maintained.
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Hmmm, interesting. The links seem to say that Tesla invented (and patented) wireless transmission before Marconi, but that Tesla was concerned with transmitting power and Marconi was concerned with telegraphy (i.e. transmitting Morse code).
I think we agree on the chronology and the intended purpose of the ideas, and the pissing match is basically concerned with whether wireless transmission of electricity also encompasses wireless telegraphy / radio, and whether Tesla had thought of this application before Marconi. In my opinion Marconi's work was sufficiently novel to make him the inventor of radio / wireless telegraphy, but I happily concede that he built upon Tesla's ideas of wireless power transmission.
Nice talking to you, and sorry if I was a rude bastard earlier. Cheers.
It is not I who abscribe Marconi's work to others--check the patents and you'll understand who has precedence.
I'm happy to do so. Got some credible links for me?
"Since Marconi's invention of wireless telegraphy in 1897," ...which shows that they don't know that the telegraph was invented by Morse (in 1835) and that precedence for the "wireless" goes to Tesla--not Marconi.
Not sure if this is a very odd troll or not. Anyway, for the benefit of the public... Morse invented the wired telegraph, so he's got no claim on wireless telegraphy and is irrelevant to the issue. Marconi was transmitting Morse code in 1895, whereas Tesla started transmitting voltage in 1893. So yes, Tesla was transmitting wirelessly first, but it was in 100,000 volt discharges of electricity -- hardly the sort of transmission you'd like to receive in your headphones! And plainly not intended to be a telegraph.
Tesla was a cool guy and invented lots of interesting stuff, but people have a tendency to get all cultish about him and ascribe all sorts of miracles to him. Rather than claiming Marconi's work as his, you'd do his memory a better service by honouring him for his own achievements (like AC power).
Philo T. Farnsworth (the inventor of the television... )
The inventor of television is not necessarily Farnsworth -- there are several scientists with good claims on the title (including John Logie Baird, after whom the Logie television awards are named).
If you want to avoid the racist connotations of the chap you quoted, you might want to check out the ACLU website, or google for ACLU and prison rape. They've campaigned a lot about prison conditions.
If someone didn't have an XBOX Live account, why the HELL would they have an ethernet cable jacked into their box with a connection to the outside world?
Uh, Mozilla? This is the Xbox Linux Project we're talking about, right?
And some more alarming privacy issues are listed on http://www.google-watch.org/.
For anyone who might be about to take Google-Watch seriously, please have a look at Google-Watch-Watch before you make up your mind.
if I go into a store and buy a linux distribution that doesn't make me sign a license before using it, I do own the bits. So why should I not use it in a manner that it's authors didn't intend me to, and -for instance- incorporate bits of open source software into my closed source product?
As long as you don't distribute the resulting code, you're within your rights to combine the two for personal use. Neat, eh? This is analogous to you console hacking for personal use rather than game piracy.
I buy a gun and ammunition, remove the safety and file holes into the bulletpoints. Your reaction might be to say that now I am in clear violation of the law - but that's just what the DCMA is, too.
That just says to me that American gun laws are inconsistent. If the government is that concerned about safety, perhaps they shouldn't let arms companies flood the country with handguns. At any rate, not all laws should be regarded equally. Ideally the public will support laws they perceive as just, and undermine / ignore unjust laws. Most people jaywalk or share mp3s without a second thought, but would never dream of commiting murder.
If it were critical of Windows, I doubt you'd have even posted that.
Does that in any way invalidate the linked article?
Further to that, check out this article in the Philly Inquirer about Bush's latest environmental concessions to the companies that backed him. CO2 is not a pollutant any more, pump out as much as you like unfiltered...
(Cue the 'global warming is a shadowy conspiracy of the evil scientific community against innocent oil companies' trolls...)
Slashdot runs MySQL db on a couple of boxes. Check the FAQ and the IRC interview log. According to the FAQ, Slashdot is / was financially contributing to replication in MySQL.
Yeah, it varies from school to school. Ireland is very good for CS and IT stuff, the English ones are good but perhaps a bit Microsoft centric (although arguably the industry is Microsoft centric in England). And, as I was saying to a poster above you, there's plenty of excellent computer folk who have come out of US universities. At any rate, I think most employers aren't too bothered by the origin of a computer science degree, providing the candidate has relevant experience.
I guess I'm going to have to step in on this 'buy a place' comment. I'll try not to flame, but I'm pretty angry. In this country, the vast majority of candidates for a given university are admitted based on SAT/ACT standardised tests, secondary schol transcripts, essays, and for better/smaller schools, interviews. I would argue that this is a merit based system.
Yes and no. I am not trying to flame US students. Plenty of excellent folks have come out of the US system, including a huge number of great engineers, physicists, and computer science people. I am just saying that the system that led to the coinage of the term 'college fund' neccessarily excludes a number of poor but academically brilliant students in favour of a number of slightly less brilliant students with money. It sounds like your uni was one of the better ones, but the fee-hungry ones are bringing down the tone for the whole country.
The upshot of this is parents of kids who took US high school getting very upset at me when I tell them our university has harsher academic entrance requirements for undergraduate nursing than Harvard has for medicine. (I don't set the policy, BTW). The fees are relatively small, maybe three or four grand in Australian playmoney, payable in installments via the tax system when (if!) the graduate gets a job earning $25k or better.
To all the folks saying "but JPEGs are already compressed" -- they aren't always compressed enough. I've seen many pages with 500k JPEGs plastered all over them because they 'load fast enough' on the designer's machine (i.e. from their hard disk or browser cache). Another related crime is people leaving the image DPI at say 200 (default for some digital cameras) rather setting the DPI to 72 (appropriate for monitors).
Quake had a good one -- you'd tell 'em to type "gamma gun" for a super l33t secret weapon. Of course it just set the monitor's gamma (brightness) level to 0, which is what the quake CLI handily interprets the value 'gun' as. Black monitors for all!
Check out the first bullet point in this image.
Quick question: how are Canadian universities seen? Canadian education system is sometimes similar but, at the same time, remarkably different from the American counterpart...
[Gets big 'C' book from shelf...]
Canada is seen as high quality, on par with UK / Australia, and ahead of the US by a year or so. The high school diplomas / matriculation certificates are highly regarded also. Further, the French and English institutions are considered on par with each other. Canada would be a good choice for postgraduate study.
I assess international qualifications for an Australian university, and we consider US qualifications to be about a year behind Aussie and western European quals (UK etc). The US education system is about on par with Hungary and Pakistan in the view of our assessors, but we consider UK and many Indian quals to be on par with our own.
The main factor in deciding the quality of a particular country's qualifications is not the curriculum, facilities, or anything along those lines. It's the quality of the students, determined mostly by whether students gain their place at university through academic merit, or by buying a place. In the US you mostly buy a place, so consequently the value of degrees from the US suffers.
I would advise anyone trying to choose between the US and Europe for a degree of any kind to go to an English university. They don't hand out testamurs from Oxford to any sub-literate with a fat wallet.
It's interesting to see that the same collateral damage problems occuring with this government porn blocklist that were affecting spam blocklists like SPEWS. Like spammers, porn site operators presumably changed accounts enough that the list operators had to block whole ISPs to guarantee filtering them.
Of course, unlike receiving spam, surfing a porn site is a personal choice (excepting porn viruses etc).
For those who are interested, the Cooper's website, complete with dubiosu flash intro.
I'm pretty sure you can get Cooper's outside Australia, as a friend of mine in Canada drinks it.
If you have a choice, I recommend the Cooper's premium (which tastes like apricots and seawater) and the Cooper's vintage (which is cellared like wine and released in small limited edition runs every few years). Yum.
It's supposed to be very noisy, so if your cat is anything like mine I imagine it will flee from the terrifying Roomba and curl up in a different room.
anyone remember the Sony Yazoo (or whatever it was called) for the PSX - a home development system
It was called Net Yaroze, and it wasn't a true homebrew system, because only other people with a Net Yaroze devkit could play the games you made. I think one or two pro PSX developers honed their skills on Yaroze, tho', so while you couldn't release the software, you could at least use it for demos in a job interview.
Check out the Mars Direct site. There are lots of good papers on suitable rockets there. The Energia would do nicely, or a revived Saturn with 7 engines instead of 5 (a Saturn VII).
We can go to Mars with the tech we have now. The real issue is politcal will / funding.
Funny? But......But.....I was being serious... :(
I fear the bit where you described sorting partially viewed fan-subbed anime as 'productivity' may have been responsible : )
I thought Netscape killed it off because they were buying AOL.
From memory what happened is that AOL laid off the Netscape developers who were working on Moz. A non-profit foundation was set up to fund continued development and AOL made the first donation ($1 million). Red Hat, Sun etc have also donated to the foundation, but they still need a lot more $ from users if the pace of development is to be maintained.