In August 1997, I sealed a 20L glass carboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboy) with desinfected soil and watertrumpet plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocoryne). The water is only 40 mm deep just covering to root system. It just thrives!
There are seasonal deaths of individual leaves and various succesions of fungus growths, in white, yellow and brown. The "ecosystem" has not crashed yet on me.
However, I have not yet tested low gravity. That would be an effort beyond my budget...
'In fact, TFA doesn't even use the words "Linux" or "Windows."'
Yup. There may be a reason for that too.
The initial SMP support was added to Linux 1.3.42 on 15 Nov 1995. Linux is clearly well adapted to multicore CPUs. That is one of the reasons why Linux dominates over Windows on www.top500.org. The other argument is cost.
The smallest, MOA-2007-BLG-192L, has just 3.3 times Earth's mass!
That is good new for us twinks! I don't have the muscle mass to suddenly weigh 260 kg. My 78 kg combined with my height makes me a twink)
It may take two or three generations to get used to that, i.e. you need to have been born by a mother who herself had been born there. My underlying idea is how one's body growth increases if you are born by a well fed mother. This is readily exemplified in western Europe with the introduction of the potato. The average height increased by more than 100 mm in 150 years.
That is not an example of evolution, however. It just shows how important nutrition is.
Probably not the Torah (i.e. the Old Testament of the Christian Bible), as that was written about 1100 BCE. It has to be old, really old. Think more like the Egyptian texts or Gilgamesh as you mention.
At several places they claim that photons are weightless as they are not affected by the Higgs field. But, but Photons ARE slowed down, in many circumstances. What am I missing here? Apart from Physics 101 and beyond...
From the article: "US computer scientists have found that random networks â" the mathematical description for networks we experience everyday in forms such as the internet and global flight connections â" have the potential for extreme behaviour never seen before. Their findings might lead to improved understanding of how to control such networks â" for example, to halt the spread of epidemics or improve the efficiency of delivery networks."
I've read Slashdot for years. Where are the backbones?
A few days ago, I bought the cheapest pair of computer speakers with subwoofers I could find in the neighborhood, $USD 15.
They were Chinese made. With a sticker - "QC PASS" [i.e. Quality Control pass]
LOL, the damn connectors right next to it didn't work properly and I had "bend" the connector ever so little to make it work again.
Yes, these were probably assembled by hand too. But, not in a factory originally named with coolest name I have heard in years "Laboratium Wennebostel".
"Stone-throwing baboons in Saudi Arabia waited three days on the side of a mountain road to take revenge on a driver who had killed one of their group.
Al-Riyadh reported on Saturday that the primates laid in wait and ambushed the driver on the same mountain road in southwest Saudi Arabia from Mecca to Taif where the baboon had been run down earlier in the week.
After spotting the car responsible for the death, one of the apes screamed out a signal to the rest to attack, provoking the frenzied stone throwing. Although the driver was able to escape, the apes broke out the windshield of his car.
"In Saudi Arabia, a man learned a lesson in baboon gang warfare. Apparently, earlier in the week the man was driving through a mountainous road where he ran over a baboon. Thinking nothing of it, the driver got back in his car and resumed his life... Finally, the grieving baboons implemented their revenge. They lay hiding on the side of the exact mountainous road where their beloved pal had been killed and waited for the driver. When the car was spotted, one of the baboons screamed out a signal and the others began to bombard the car with rocks and stones. The driver escaped, sporting newly soiled underwear and a broken windshield."
"Stone-throwing baboons waited three days for revenge on the side of a mountain road in Saudi Arabia to take revenge on a motorist who had killed one of their group. After finally spotting the car responsible for the death, one of the apes screamed out a signal for the rest to attack, provoking a frenzied bout of stone throwing. The baboons then ripped out the windscreen of the car. The driver managed to escape the attack, which took place on the same stretch of road, between Mecca and Taif, where the baboon had been run down."
"Stone-throwing baboons in Saudi Arabia waited three days on the side of a mountain road to take revenge on a driver who had killed one of their group. Al-Riyadh reported on Saturday that the primates laid in wait and ambushed the driver on the same mountain road in southwest Saudi Arabia from Mecca to Taif where the baboon had been run down earlier in the week. After spotting the car responsible for the death, one of the apes screamed out a signal to the rest to attack, provoking the frenzied stone throwing. Although the driver was able to escape, the apes broke out the windshield of his car. At least 350,000 baboons live in the Gulf state. Who says animals have no emotions? If you can plot revenge, you must be able to feel anger."
"Saudi Arabia is particularly baboon prone these days, with tales of baboons raiding farms, houses, and even schools. But probably the strangest report was where a troop deliberately wait in ambush. According to newspaper accounts,
In another scientific article researchers link filthy carpets in the living room to asthma, but for some reason that article never made the headlines...
Technically they are correct, in practice I have my doubts. It is hard to get all the variables in a breeding programme to act in line. Ask any dog breeder.
I once was asked by someone from J. Witnesses if I could transform a human into a crocodile. Sure I said, just give me some 300 million years and I might succeed. And, give give me another 300 million years and I may even get it back to a human.
I think it is important to know that culturally specific items such religious items which are supposedly scary are not universal. Things like the Devil, angels, and demons are only scary in a particular setting. Very few people outside that world even understand WHY it would be scary.
Why is a pentagram scary? I have no idea. They are nice to look at, but why they are used all over id Software games makes no sense to me.
"VNBusinessNews - Researchers from Viet Nam have cracked facial recognition scanners on laptops to bypass security. They will be demonstrating how to hack facial recognition biometrics at the Black Hat security convention in Washington DC this week."
In other news, ESA (http://www.esa.int) choose CryEngine2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryENGINE2) in an attempt to outbid the graphic splendor war recently ignited by NASA.
"We feel it is safe to rely on The Old World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_world), when you want to depict The Unknown World".
Some time later, the Russian Space Agency informed the world that they have had talks with the old friends in Ukraine about deploying the Xray Engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.#X-ray_graphics_engine).
"We don't want to be left behind. This may be something big, a Russian informant said"
There are still no official signs of a Chinese countermeasure to this stepping up, even if both Wii and PS3 developers who requested anonymity have told reporters about regular talks with Chinese investors "about a major future project".
India, Sweden, Belize, Uganda, and the UK have all denied any projects or research in this field.
Here is a paper describing what appears to be essentially the same problem: "Interpolation of bathymetry data from the Sea of Galilee: A noise attenuation problem"
The paper contains several images similar to the Google bathymetry map, with rectangluar noise. However, thanks to software cleaning they managed to remove most of that noise.
The purpose? Ironically, "The ultimate goal is to produce a good map of the depth to bottom and images useful for identifying archaeological, geological, and geophysical details of the sea bottom. In particular, we hope to identify some ancient shorelines around the lake and meaningful geological features inside the lake. The ancient shorelines could unravel early settlements of archeological interest or old fishing ports".
I give these guys a better chance of finding something relevant, as they analyzed 10-meter scale data, rather than playing around with,Google Earth...:)
Slashdot Mirror
From the article you get the impression that KDE use radical changes whereas Gnome strive in little steps...
How in accurate. Both evolve in little steps and both occasionally make radical changes.
Gnome had a major remake for 2.0 which reduced the older clotted layout.
KDE had a major remake for 4.0 which vectorized most of the gui.
Otherwise, changes are small. For both.
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In August 1997, I sealed a 20L glass carboy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboy) with desinfected soil and watertrumpet plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocoryne). The water is only 40 mm deep just covering to root system. It just thrives!
There are seasonal deaths of individual leaves and various succesions of fungus growths, in white, yellow and brown. The "ecosystem" has not crashed yet on me.
However, I have not yet tested low gravity. That would be an effort beyond my budget...
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Skip Cold Fusion for Cold Cave Diving. The topic may not be as hot, but it is as cool!
"And I don't understand why we need to beat the drum for more efficient use of multicore."
Huh? It is really simple. Because the industry wish to perpetuate a need for new products, whether we need them for the moment or not.
In the meantime, maybe some dude may discover the next killer-application which could actually harness the power at hand.
Very few pc programs can make the latest quad cores crawl. They typically handle anything you throw at them. Even most 3D games are swallowed.
So, accept it. The progress is there. If not for the need, so at least because of marketing and market shares.
Who in their right mind would by an inferior product, e.g. a CPU, if the competitor was cheaper and faster and consumed less power?
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'In fact, TFA doesn't even use the words "Linux" or "Windows."'
Yup. There may be a reason for that too.
The initial SMP support was added to Linux 1.3.42 on 15 Nov 1995. Linux is clearly well adapted to multicore CPUs. That is one of the reasons why Linux dominates over Windows on www.top500.org. The other argument is cost.
LOL! ****, you're right. I didn't... I looked it up. I had thought it was for skinny persons in general... Oh my! ****!
The smallest, MOA-2007-BLG-192L, has just 3.3 times Earth's mass!
That is good new for us twinks! I don't have the muscle mass to suddenly weigh 260 kg. My 78 kg combined with my height makes me a twink)
It may take two or three generations to get used to that, i.e. you need to have been born by a mother who herself had been born there. My underlying idea is how one's body growth increases if you are born by a well fed mother. This is readily exemplified in western Europe with the introduction of the potato. The average height increased by more than 100 mm in 150 years.
That is not an example of evolution, however. It just shows how important nutrition is.
Probably not the Torah (i.e. the Old Testament of the Christian Bible), as that was written about 1100 BCE. It has to be old, really old. Think more like the Egyptian texts or Gilgamesh as you mention.
Yes, I did skim through the articles.
At several places they claim that photons are weightless as they are not affected by the Higgs field. But, but Photons ARE slowed down, in many circumstances. What am I missing here? Apart from Physics 101 and beyond...
Get rid of the pollution, with a Fibonacci chimney no less! How geeky is that?! Almost on par with robot fish. :)
http://hyperstring.blogspot.com/2006/09/fibonacci-chimney.html#links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esrange
The launch list is pretty impressive and begins with 18 November 1966.
Society networks are prone to 'explosive' changes. They automagically form a network, with a backbone! At least that is what an article in NewScientist claim at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16752-societys-vital-networks-prone-to-explosive-changes.html
From the article: "US computer scientists have found that random networks â" the mathematical description for networks we experience everyday in forms such as the internet and global flight connections â" have the potential for extreme behaviour never seen before. Their findings might lead to improved understanding of how to control such networks â" for example, to halt the spread of epidemics or improve the efficiency of delivery networks."
I've read Slashdot for years. Where are the backbones?
A few days ago, I bought the cheapest pair of computer speakers with subwoofers I could find in the neighborhood, $USD 15.
They were Chinese made. With a sticker - "QC PASS" [i.e. Quality Control pass]
LOL, the damn connectors right next to it didn't work properly and I had "bend" the connector ever so little to make it work again.
Yes, these were probably assembled by hand too. But, not in a factory originally named with coolest name I have heard in years "Laboratium Wennebostel".
I wonder if that was hand made too, the name.
Yes, but what they forgot to say is that IE is faster than Chrome and Firefox, combined!
This is not news. Baboons do this too.
From: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=482576
The Austin Chronicle
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-07-27/cols_smartypants.html
"Stone-throwing baboons in Saudi Arabia waited three days on the side
of a mountain road to take revenge on a driver who had killed one of
their group.
Al-Riyadh reported on Saturday that the primates laid in wait and
ambushed the driver on the same mountain road in southwest Saudi
Arabia from Mecca to Taif where the baboon had been run down earlier
in the week.
After spotting the car responsible for the death, one of the apes
screamed out a signal to the rest to attack, provoking the frenzied
stone throwing. Although the driver was able to escape, the apes broke
out the windshield of his car.
At least 350,000 baboons live in the Gulf state."
LUSENET: STONE-THROWING BABOONS TAKE REVENGE ON DRIVER
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=004CxB
"In Saudi Arabia, a man learned a lesson in baboon gang warfare.
Apparently, earlier in the week the man was driving through a
mountainous road where he ran over a baboon. Thinking nothing of it,
the driver got back in his car and resumed his life... Finally, the
grieving baboons implemented their revenge. They lay hiding on the
side of the exact mountainous road where their beloved pal had been
killed and waited for the driver. When the car was spotted, one of the
baboons screamed out a signal and the others began to bombard the car
with rocks and stones. The driver escaped, sporting newly soiled
underwear and a broken windshield."
Tablet Newspaper: Monkey Love
http://www.tabletnewspaper.com/vol2iss_21/features/monkeylove.htm
"Stone-throwing baboons waited three days for revenge on the side of a
mountain road in Saudi Arabia to take revenge on a motorist who had
killed one of their group. After finally spotting the car responsible
for the death, one of the apes screamed out a signal for the rest to
attack, provoking a frenzied bout of stone throwing. The baboons then
ripped out the windscreen of the car. The driver managed to escape the
attack, which took place on the same stretch of road, between Mecca
and Taif, where the baboon had been run down."
Ananova: Revenge attack by stone-throwing baboons
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/16741-s05/www/baboons09122000.pdf
"Stone-throwing baboons in Saudi Arabia waited three days on the side
of a mountain road to take revenge on a driver who had killed one of
their group. Al-Riyadh reported on Saturday that the primates laid in
wait and ambushed the driver on the same mountain road in southwest
Saudi Arabia from Mecca to Taif where the baboon had been run down
earlier in the week. After spotting the car responsible for the death,
one of the apes screamed out a signal to the rest to attack, provoking
the frenzied stone throwing. Although the driver was able to escape,
the apes broke out the windshield of his car. At least 350,000 baboons
live in the Gulf state. Who says animals have no emotions? If you can
plot revenge, you must be able to feel anger."
The Jekyl Archives
http://www.jekyl.com/jekyl/arc_2000.htm
"Saudi Arabia is particularly baboon prone these days, with tales of
baboons raiding farms, houses, and even schools. But probably the
strangest report was where a troop deliberately wait in ambush.
According to newspaper accounts,
So, how come you read Groklaw?
In another scientific article researchers link filthy carpets in the living room to asthma, but for some reason that article never made the headlines...
Technically they are correct, in practice I have my doubts. It is hard to get all the variables in a breeding programme to act in line. Ask any dog breeder.
I once was asked by someone from J. Witnesses if I could transform a human into a crocodile. Sure I said, just give me some 300 million years and I might succeed. And, give give me another 300 million years and I may even get it back to a human.
Me, the magician!
Wise choice.
I never understood why they would choose YouTube over other Internet "channels". It is not exactly a "neutral choice".
If the president would like to speak to the American people, why not choose something not affiliated with any company.
But, as a non-American, what do I know.
I think it is important to know that culturally specific items such religious items which are supposedly scary are not universal. Things like the Devil, angels, and demons are only scary in a particular setting. Very few people outside that world even understand WHY it would be scary.
Why is a pentagram scary? I have no idea. They are nice to look at, but why they are used all over id Software games makes no sense to me.
Skip the pentagrams for more universal items.
From http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2236775/researchers-hack-facial
"VNBusinessNews - Researchers from Viet Nam have cracked facial recognition scanners on laptops to bypass security. They will be demonstrating how to hack facial recognition biometrics at the Black Hat security convention in Washington DC this week."
From Feb 20, 2009
The problem are the other two thirds. What are they made up of? XP and Vista or what?!
In other news, ESA (http://www.esa.int) choose CryEngine2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryENGINE2) in an attempt to outbid the graphic splendor war recently ignited by NASA.
"We feel it is safe to rely on The Old World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_world), when you want to depict The Unknown World".
Some time later, the Russian Space Agency informed the world that they have had talks with the old friends in Ukraine about deploying the Xray Engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.#X-ray_graphics_engine).
"We don't want to be left behind. This may be something big, a Russian informant said"
There are still no official signs of a Chinese countermeasure to this stepping up, even if both Wii and PS3 developers who requested anonymity have told reporters about regular talks with Chinese investors "about a major future project".
India, Sweden, Belize, Uganda, and the UK have all denied any projects or research in this field.
If there is ice there is water http://wever.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/its-official-water-ice-on-mars/
But the droplets now seen are cooler... err, they're warmer (pun originally not intended)
Here is a paper describing what appears to be essentially the same problem: "Interpolation of bathymetry data from the Sea of Galilee: A noise attenuation problem"
It can be downloaded from http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/antoine/Research/GEO/GuittonClaerbout.pdf
The paper contains several images similar to the Google bathymetry map, with rectangluar noise. However, thanks to software cleaning they managed to remove most of that noise.
The purpose? Ironically, "The ultimate goal is to produce a good map of the depth to bottom and images useful for identifying archaeological, geological, and geophysical details of the sea bottom. In particular, we hope to identify some ancient shorelines around the lake and meaningful geological features inside the lake. The ancient shorelines could unravel early settlements of archeological interest or old
fishing ports".
I give these guys a better chance of finding something relevant, as they analyzed 10-meter scale data, rather than playing around with,Google Earth... :)