Gary lets us know about research out of the Netherlands that has succeeded in reading and writing a hard disk using polarized laser light.
To those modders who like installing plexiglass/perspex windows on their hard drives to see inside them while they are operating, might I suggest they keep their Dremels away from these models?
I know you're doing this tongue-in-cheek, but just imagine if they were able to take the ambulance/firetruck aspect of GTA:3 but incorporate it with a real world map of a city. Drivers could train going really fast in their own city without ever having to enter into their vehicles, and get a good idea of directions etc.
"Hey, Bob! I just found out that if we take a shortcut through the playground of the school for the deaf and disabled kids, we can cut two minutes from our response time to half of our coverage area!"
"That's great Mark! And to get to the other half, we can take the hill on Maple Street fast enough to jump the pumper truck onto the elevated train platform and cut even more time bypassing all the traffic, especially now that Jimmy destroyed the el. train trying it last week!"
And maybe not even the wiring in his house but the feed to his house.
I'd not only consider a power conditioner, but also hooking up a power monitor to track and record the power condition throughout the use of the device up through and including any failures.
When I used to run a dial-up BBS, or call other dial-up BBSes, late at night about the same time every night (between 1 and 3 am) there'd be a burst of line noise as the generators that feed my area were switched, affecting both power and phone lines (different circuits but each sourced their power from the same provider).
Otherwise, it may be akin to the Pauli Effect, named after Wolfgang Pauli, a 20th century physicist whose mere presence in the lab would, according to folklore, ruin experiments, and make equipment malfunction or even blow up. Though I hesitate to call this the "J. Lowe Effect".
In the same way Major League Baseball sues Slingbox for allowing its users to watch games in blacked-out areas. Or how ReplayTV got sued over their automatic commercial skip into settling (after selling to a holding company).
You don't piss off a company that can bankrupt you in litigation.
The OS was not what sold me on the Mac Pro. I already had Tiger on two other Macs. I bought the new hardware because it could run the then-latest Final Cut Studio better than my existing machines and because, like the 68k platform before it, I know the PPC software market will eventually dry up.
That's not to say I won't be buying Leopard. I just won't be buying a 5-seat-license version if it can't run on PPC Macs (last I read it will).
I've done similar things on another platform to get Final Cut Pro to run on a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a G4 processor. The installer refused to install on a system that had no AGP slots, and if the application got installed anyway, it also refused to run by the same condition. A little patch here and a plist edit there and it ran fine. The occasional software update also required reapplication of the plist edit.
Oh, I had another system that could run it, but I needed more internal disk storage than that platform was capable of providing.
I now have a Mac Pro and wonder if this means Halo 2 will run on my Mac under Parallels running XP. (Yeah, I know Parallels can run Vista.)
But people only buy that hardware because of Apple's software. So, while I'm sure they are making money from the hardware, it's the software that is the real money maker.
But lately it hasn't been sales of the operating system that's been the real money maker. Their software income is coming from applications like Final Cut Studio, not Mac OS X.
Apple hasn't sold hardware that runs their separately packaged operating system software for a long time now. The box versions of Tiger are PPC only. The only way to get the Intel version of Tiger is to buy hardware. Leopard will be the first Intel-based Mac OS X available independently of hardware.
Obviously, there is nothing technical preventing a person from using any version of Vista in virtualization
Well, other than the people making the virtualization software recognize the versions of Vista that have license terms against virtualization and blocking them from running so as not to get sued by Microsoft for enabling others to violate Microsoft's license agreement.
Last I checked, Parallels didn't support virtualizing all versions of Vista.
Some carriers define "unlimited data" as some arbitrary level, which once you break you either lose service, or are charged a hefty fee. Just something to keep in mind.
Yeaaah, so does anyone have any hard data on what Cingular's track record was on unlimited use of their unlimited data plan was so as to be a predictor of how The New AT&T will define abuse of their unlimited data plan?
I have changed my finger position from the standard "asd fjkl;" line up to "cdsa nkl;" my fingers make the "ergonomic" shape.
Interesting. Why C and N for the index fingers? I'd expect C and M, or V and N, to follow symmetry.
I wish split ergonomic keyboards would have redundant Y and B keys, one for each hand.
Anyway, I don't find palms facing each other as a restful position. Something has to support them otherwise I'm having to exert force to keep them that way. Relaxed with my arms in front of me, I'm palms-down, fingers slightly curled. When eating I don't rest an unused hand on my beverage.
There it is folks, actual, original, genuine "Mark of The Beast": "DCLXVI".
DCLXVI.com is self-reportedly for sale for $666.00. Visiting the site also sets a cookie in your browser.
Now if only it could be assigned the IP address 6.100.60.6.
I wonder why "M" was left out? Perhaps because it spoils the melody and rhythm of repeating "six...".
Because of the syllable "teen" ("sixteen hundred sixty-six")? That has a nice rhythm to me. Or did they not have an equivalent for that construction in Latin or Aramaic?
But maybe the OS/2 system did break down once and there was no way to repair such an old machine (maybe the heat sink on the CPU came loose one day and it fried itself and they don't make chips for that socket anymore), so they had to bring a new machine in, and it was more trouble to make the old software run on it than upgrade to new software. And maybe the old system had an exploit in its old and discontinued code base that wasn't going to be patched.
If you can't fix it, break it and send for a warranty replacement. The replacement may break more often on its own, but you can get parts to fix it when it does.
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Probably a bit redundant to call it an 'automated machine'.
Nah, sets it apart from the manually operated machines of the past, where you had to keep turning a crank to make it work.
Yeah, why wait until we've actually surveyed it for an existing ecosystem or other signs of life, when we can ensure there is life on Mars, if that's all we care about?
Does it have to be completely lifeless? Maybe it's something we can transplant.
Actually, they aren't because the FBI is looking for patterns of behaviour that may indicate someone is an espionage agent; any one is not really that odd or troubling but a set of them, over time, *may* warrant further investigation.
Actually, when all behaviors (first, last, or somewhere in the middle of getting off a plane) are suspicious, everyone is suspect, and anyone can be pulled aside and one of those reasons given as retroactive justification.
Now if you don't mind, I have to get an APB out on a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who is impotent. Let's go.
(An off-topic aside, but the deplaning suspicions reminded me of a children's story with ducklings getting on a boat where the last one to get on board would get a snap of a whip on his backside to encourage him to be faster getting aboard next time, leading the one that was always last running away to avoid the whip. I've been wanting to pick up a copy, but I just can't remember the name of the story. It would have come out before 1980. Terrible ending: after being left alone (for a day?), on the next visit of the boat he returned, was last aboard, and got whipped again, but was happy to be back aboard regardless.)
Even then, the observation of other objects reacting to an event cannot occur until we have an opportunity to observe the event. Anticipation is not a reaction causually speaking. What we have is anticipation of an event due to recognition of other events that typically (or rather predictably) precede a nova event. For us to observe phenomena that occur after a nova before the nova itself, that phenomena by definition would have to be FTL.
The funky stuff happens in the quantum state where phenomena don't happen unless they are observed. Events that occur and affect us without observation only arise from quantum events that manage to be observed in a manner that cannot be ignored.
What we are discovering is that we can cause events that will not occur unless they are observed. Perhaps then the next definition of magic is the ability to observe the right quantum effects which occur all the time unobserved to cause a non-ignorable phenomena to manifest itself.
Of course when astronomers say it's "about to explode," they really mean it probably exploded 6,500 to 7,500 years ago and we're awaiting the news.
could you clear up that 'sun rise' and 'sun set' thing for me as well?
How about this: even though this expected supernova happened thousands of years ago, for all causal purposes, it won't have any effect upon us until we can see it. After all, the speed of light is really just the speed of causality.
So, in a local causal sense, it hasn't happened yet. The distance just means that if we thought to have any influence on it before it happens here, we'd have to have done something thousands of years ago or longer to exert a causal influence.
This is like a while back President Bush said he had the Beatles on his iPod, when there was no legal way to get them on there. Sure, It's funny, but thats this isn't gonna change anyone's minds and there is no way the RIAA is gonna after him.
And, if the RIAA didn't go after him. then it would be up to Sony and Michael Jackson to do it (who have 50-50 ownership of the Beatles back catalog since ATV merged with Sony).
Then there's that pesky immunity while in office. Maybe after he's out.
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"Rich algorithmic theory" probably means "you cannae afford it".
"That's great Mark! And to get to the other half, we can take the hill on Maple Street fast enough to jump the pumper truck onto the elevated train platform and cut even more time bypassing all the traffic, especially now that Jimmy destroyed the el. train trying it last week!"
And maybe not even the wiring in his house but the feed to his house.
I'd not only consider a power conditioner, but also hooking up a power monitor to track and record the power condition throughout the use of the device up through and including any failures.
When I used to run a dial-up BBS, or call other dial-up BBSes, late at night about the same time every night (between 1 and 3 am) there'd be a burst of line noise as the generators that feed my area were switched, affecting both power and phone lines (different circuits but each sourced their power from the same provider).
Otherwise, it may be akin to the Pauli Effect, named after Wolfgang Pauli, a 20th century physicist whose mere presence in the lab would, according to folklore, ruin experiments, and make equipment malfunction or even blow up. Though I hesitate to call this the "J. Lowe Effect".
In the same way Major League Baseball sues Slingbox for allowing its users to watch games in blacked-out areas. Or how ReplayTV got sued over their automatic commercial skip into settling (after selling to a holding company).
You don't piss off a company that can bankrupt you in litigation.
The OS was not what sold me on the Mac Pro. I already had Tiger on two other Macs. I bought the new hardware because it could run the then-latest Final Cut Studio better than my existing machines and because, like the 68k platform before it, I know the PPC software market will eventually dry up.
That's not to say I won't be buying Leopard. I just won't be buying a 5-seat-license version if it can't run on PPC Macs (last I read it will).
I've done similar things on another platform to get Final Cut Pro to run on a Blue & White G3 upgraded with a G4 processor. The installer refused to install on a system that had no AGP slots, and if the application got installed anyway, it also refused to run by the same condition. A little patch here and a plist edit there and it ran fine. The occasional software update also required reapplication of the plist edit.
Oh, I had another system that could run it, but I needed more internal disk storage than that platform was capable of providing.
I now have a Mac Pro and wonder if this means Halo 2 will run on my Mac under Parallels running XP. (Yeah, I know Parallels can run Vista.)
Apple hasn't sold hardware that runs their separately packaged operating system software for a long time now. The box versions of Tiger are PPC only. The only way to get the Intel version of Tiger is to buy hardware. Leopard will be the first Intel-based Mac OS X available independently of hardware.
Last I checked, Parallels didn't support virtualizing all versions of Vista.
I wish split ergonomic keyboards would have redundant Y and B keys, one for each hand.
Anyway, I don't find palms facing each other as a restful position. Something has to support them otherwise I'm having to exert force to keep them that way. Relaxed with my arms in front of me, I'm palms-down, fingers slightly curled. When eating I don't rest an unused hand on my beverage.
Now if only it could be assigned the IP address 6.100.60.6. Because of the syllable "teen" ("sixteen hundred sixty-six")? That has a nice rhythm to me. Or did they not have an equivalent for that construction in Latin or Aramaic?
If you can't fix it, break it and send for a warranty replacement. The replacement may break more often on its own, but you can get parts to fix it when it does.
How about this shot? (NSFW)
Now if you don't mind, I have to get an APB out on a white male, 17 to 34, with or without a beard, maybe a tattoo, who is impotent. Let's go.
(An off-topic aside, but the deplaning suspicions reminded me of a children's story with ducklings getting on a boat where the last one to get on board would get a snap of a whip on his backside to encourage him to be faster getting aboard next time, leading the one that was always last running away to avoid the whip. I've been wanting to pick up a copy, but I just can't remember the name of the story. It would have come out before 1980. Terrible ending: after being left alone (for a day?), on the next visit of the boat he returned, was last aboard, and got whipped again, but was happy to be back aboard regardless.)
Even then, the observation of other objects reacting to an event cannot occur until we have an opportunity to observe the event. Anticipation is not a reaction causually speaking. What we have is anticipation of an event due to recognition of other events that typically (or rather predictably) precede a nova event. For us to observe phenomena that occur after a nova before the nova itself, that phenomena by definition would have to be FTL.
The funky stuff happens in the quantum state where phenomena don't happen unless they are observed. Events that occur and affect us without observation only arise from quantum events that manage to be observed in a manner that cannot be ignored.
What we are discovering is that we can cause events that will not occur unless they are observed. Perhaps then the next definition of magic is the ability to observe the right quantum effects which occur all the time unobserved to cause a non-ignorable phenomena to manifest itself.
So, in a local causal sense, it hasn't happened yet. The distance just means that if we thought to have any influence on it before it happens here, we'd have to have done something thousands of years ago or longer to exert a causal influence.
I read rumors, but nothing confirmed. And I think snopes would update their page with that point if true.
Then there's that pesky immunity while in office. Maybe after he's out.
What about audio CDs of previously performed concerts?
Or just non-reedited episodes of "WKRP in Cincinnati" on DVD?