I see that his contraption just sits on the bottom of the case. What happens if he accidently kicks his case and the aluminum housing ends up hitting the motherboard a shorting it out? Do I smell smoke?:)
These new systems are only a couple years away from roll out for uses such as small airport radar coverage but wild possibilities abound including using cell phone networks to track speeders, terrorists or even individuals walking on city streets.
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How would you like to know that six months from now something is going to come out that makes the product you're selling obsolete?
That's true, but that's not the point of the article. The article is saying that NDA's are unnecessary for people who have no formal connection with the startup (i.e. the venture capitalists the startup is trying to sell the idea to). Also, in the case of the startup, you don't have any current product you're selling that will be made obselete. However, once your company is established and functioning well, NDAs can become a useful tool.
... and that definitely contributes to more pollution being in the air which will definitely have an effect on temperatures.. I don't know what's being "discovered" here..
This may seem obvious to many of us, although there are some people out there that absolutely refuse to believe that humans can have any noticeable effect on the environment. To see this, just read any of the literature out there claiming that global warming does not exist. (Note: I am not saying that this study shows that global warming is definitively caused by humans, although this does provide evidence that humans can have some effect on the environment.)
I don't know about the veracity of JetBlue's claims, but the CEO of JetBlue issued a letter to its customers saying:
The sole set of data in Torch's possession has been destroyed; no government agency ever had access to it. With Torch's help, we are continuing to make every effort to have the Torch presentation with the one customer's information removed from the Internet.
A copy of the letter can be found here, and the NY Times article about it is here
The parent post may be modded as "Funny" but this actually is a pretty serious cross-site scripting bug introduced by Verisign. This and the hard-coded SMTP replies bug show how little thought Verisign put into the ramafications of their changes. Seriously... if you're gonna hijack the Internet, at least do it right!!
Actually, 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border. You can argue that the population density of that region (the region most likely to have broadband anyway) is rather high.
There's a really good book about everything you ever needed to know about garbage collection. Although most of the book deals with garbage collection techniques in general, it has two complete chapters devoted to implementing and using garbage collectors in C and C++ and which ones you should use depending on your application needs.
Mars's surface temperature goes down pretty low at night to some -100 degree Celcius, at which nitrogen (roughly our air) is liquid as well (at earth ground pressures).
Um... the temperature at which nitrogen turns liquid is -195.8 degrees Celcius. With Mars' lower air pressure, I'm sure it's even less.
Meanwhile, even at the poles, Mars does not go below -150 degrees, so there is no place on Mars at which nitrogen will turn into a liquid.
Didn't you hear about the radiation belt? The new theory is no life on Europa
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss the possiblity of life on Europa. The fact is that there are types of organisms on Earth that thrive in a radiation-filled environment. On Earth, wherever there is liquid water, there is life, even under the most extreme circumstances. Underneath Europa's thick layer of ice, most evidence points to there being an ocean of liquid water, so I wouldn't be surprised if life is found there.
I am very interested in seeing how the brain would adapt to this. Would the brain always remember things or, in the case of trauma, learn to halt impulses before they reach the implanted area so that they are "forgotten"?
While the hippocampus is critical in forming memories, it doesn't pass every single experience you have into memory. This device is the same... it merely mimics the hippocampus' behavior. The researchers even admitted that they didn't know how the hippocampus works. Rather they just reproduced the behavior that a working hippocampus would produce.
While I commend the idealism of the gesture, it is not particularly practical. The OSS community is all about choice, but here, the donator is explicitly removing a choice that the college has. There are some cases where Microsoft products may be preferred over others (*gasps from the Slashdot audience*), and explicitly disallowing them would be shooting yourself in the foot.
If cost is really the only thing that's preventing the school from switching to other platform, then a more reasonable offer would be that the donation would go to support only non-Microsoft products, but the school should still be free to buy Microsoft products with the rest of its money if it deems appropriate.
Having media player isn't bad, but making it so quicktime and realplayer don't work correct is.
Where in the article does it say that? Quicktime and Realplayer work fine with Windows, and Microsoft isn't doing anything to prevent them from not working. If Microsoft were found to actually be doing that, then there would be hell to pay, but the real issue being addressed is whether or not they should be allowed include Media Player.
Actually, its more like telling the Microsoft Motor Corporation that hey are not allowed to sell cars designed to only work with the Microsoft Oil brand gasoline when there is no reason why it shouldn't also work with the competitor's gasoline.
How is it that way? If I use your analogy, I would be unable to use Quicktime or RealPlayer gasoline right now in a Microsoft car, but that's not the case since I'm clearly able to install Quicktime or RealPlayer. What the EU is actually saying is that Microsoft has to sell the car with an empty tank.
Is there any 'propriety information' they've got that we want and that hasn't already been reverse engineered by someone@somewhere?
Whether or not they know about this proprietary information, it does matter. In some cases, you can be sued if you use code that you did not obtain legally, so many other companies won't take the chance. Having a government body say that it is okay to use this information would encourage its use.
I've been a firm believer that computer science for computer sciences sake is a limited enterprise, and that corporations (or small businesses) would be much more interested in someone who has expertise in another field and just happens to know how to program.
I would have to disagree with you there. People in other fields may know how to "program," but their understanding of proper software design principles are severely limited compared to formally educated computer science majors. This is not to say that all of them are this way, but I have seen my share of spaghetti code from people who thought they knew how to program.
For companies looking for developers, an actual computer science/engineering degree is extremely helpful. Of course, those who persue other degrees in addition to CS become even more valuable.
That definition fails if the moon's size gets close to the planet's. Where is the line between a planet and a moon on one hand and a binary planet on the other hand? And can there be such a thing as a binary planet, which is actually two objects not revolving around the sun but around a common centre?
Well, as it stands, even in a moon-planet system, the moon does not revolve around the planet but rather around a common center which just happens to be very close to the center of the planet. In Earth's case, it's about 4670 km from the center of the Earth. Perhaps two bodies can be considered binary when this center of mass ends up outside the surface of the larger body? (Yes, I'm making my own definition of a binary planet, but this is just to illustrate that you can differentiate borderline cases.)
The question is, what if it's eventually determined that Charon (presently considered Pluto's satellite) is as large or larger than Pluto? Can we have a binary planet?
Umm... Charon is already known to be smaller than Pluto. It's about half the size, though some people like to consider them a binary planet anyway since their sizes are similar.
And there are a few moons larger than Pluto... would they become planets, even though they orbit a planet? (Or, converseley, does a planet have to orbit a star? Can it orbit other things?)
No, the definition of planet says that the body must revolve around a star, not another planet. Bodies that revolve around a planet are moons.
Now this raises another interesting question... what is the definition of a moon? Many moons we know of are round like our moon, but there are a few that are too small to become round (i.e. Mars' moons, Deimos and Phobos) yet we still consider them to be moons. But if even non-round satellites are considered moons, where do you cut the line? You wouldn't consider all the rocks in Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune's rings to be moons, would you?
(Question - Does anyone know if, when that happens [the Moon rises to a high enough orbit to be "geosynchronous" and the same faces are towards each other always] will the two bodies orbit around a neutral point, which may or may not be above the surface of the earth, or will the Moon still completely orbit the Earth?)
That can't happen... geosynchronous orbit is lower than the moon's current orbit. It would have to fall towards the earth in order to be in geosynchronous orbit, and that won't happen since the moon is slowly inching away from the earth.
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I see that his contraption just sits on the bottom of the case. What happens if he accidently kicks his case and the aluminum housing ends up hitting the motherboard a shorting it out? Do I smell smoke? :)
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention the applicability in detecting stealth aircraft. The idea of using cell tower transmissions to do this has been floating around for some time now: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/e20010 619stealths.htm
Actually, 90% of Canada's population lives within 100 miles of the U.S. border. You can argue that the population density of that region (the region most likely to have broadband anyway) is rather high.
There's a really good book about everything you ever needed to know about garbage collection. Although most of the book deals with garbage collection techniques in general, it has two complete chapters devoted to implementing and using garbage collectors in C and C++ and which ones you should use depending on your application needs.
Meanwhile, even at the poles, Mars does not go below -150 degrees, so there is no place on Mars at which nitrogen will turn into a liquid.
Hippopotamus's plural can be either hippopotami or hippopotamuses.
If cost is really the only thing that's preventing the school from switching to other platform, then a more reasonable offer would be that the donation would go to support only non-Microsoft products, but the school should still be free to buy Microsoft products with the rest of its money if it deems appropriate.
Ah, but it wasn't a smoke-free, cigar-free zone back in those days.
For companies looking for developers, an actual computer science/engineering degree is extremely helpful. Of course, those who persue other degrees in addition to CS become even more valuable.
Now this raises another interesting question... what is the definition of a moon? Many moons we know of are round like our moon, but there are a few that are too small to become round (i.e. Mars' moons, Deimos and Phobos) yet we still consider them to be moons. But if even non-round satellites are considered moons, where do you cut the line? You wouldn't consider all the rocks in Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune's rings to be moons, would you?