Yes, exactly like that. In the eyes of the KKK, they are civil rights activitsts. In the eyes of Nazis, they were applied medical researchers. In the eyes of whoever that last one is, they were in their own eyes whatever they wished to be.
In the eyes of the Britich empire, the freedom fighters of America were terrorists.
History is always written by those who 'won' the war. (And now war; no history, generalized.)
Looks like ocropus has a while to go before it can slay the Jabberwock instead of thejabbexfwpck.
Alpha Release (Q3 2007)
1.0 Release (Q3 2008)
There has been no training, optimization, or parameter tuning yet (beyond what has been done on Tesseract), and no code for document cleanup or deskewing is included.
- Goo'
Half a year to alpha and a year more to beta, to be more precise. This software isn't even Alpha yet, so it seems silly to me to expect that much. I guess your effort could be considered a proof-of-concept, but you really shouldn't see it as an indicaton of future performance. =/
A blogger, considered journalist or not, is still posting stuff on the internet. True that if the site I'm posting on is one of recognition and esteem, then my words might carry the slightest bit more credibility but if I'm posting on a blog just anywhere then it might be yet another episode of Bigot vs. Bigot.
If my words make sense, convey logic or beauty or are simply pleasurable to read, then the stuff I post on the 'net is worthwhile. This is however a property of the content of my post, and no Blogger Badge or such will magically endow my words with worthwhile content.
There already exists a 'code of cunduct' called 'civility' which is in scarce supply on the net, much thanks to anonymity but moreso thanks to poor upbringing. Another reason for lack of civility online is this blessed ease at which I post. Since with little investment of effort I can make my words reach people my words in themselves represent little effort. If flaming people online required me to write by hand, go to the post office and pay for stamps, I'd likely not flame a whole lot of people. The ease at which we communicate is however not something many of us are willing to give up on, so we are left with the variables of anonymity and upbringing. Only the former is up to me, and evidently it's not something I'm very willing to give up. Until I post something I feel is important enough to sign with my real name I'm just another Anonymous lolling on teh intarwebs.
Why not let this be our badge? When we post humously instead of anonymously, pseudonyms notwithstanding, then we mean serious business. Don't append your name to anything you don't want to be held accounted for, and accept that the words of an AC will not be taken seriously.
Might be that the Coanda effect direct the air-stream directly downwards, but yes, the design seems rather inefficient. It appears that the only reason it is stable is because the plastic skirt-thing simply weights enough to keep the whole thing aligned.
Could be the whole point of the article is the humane angle; that an old guy built it in his shed. However, taking into account that the guy has been doing this professionally for what appears to be quite a while, it doesn't seem special at all.
I'd like a Beowulf cluster in my basement. That, however, requires I first acquire a basement.
The cluster would be running low-power/performance parts so that I wouldn't have to worry about cooling and power bills too much. It would use solid-state solutions for storage, such as a bank of CF cards mapped into one huge drive. In general, it would require next to no maintenance. The rest of the house would have microphones, high-def steerable video cameras, screens and speakers in every room, all fed to the cluster.
The software running on the machine would be much more complicated, featuring for example voice control for simple commands and object-recognition of the video-feeds. I'd be able to hold up a piece of paper in-view of a cam, say "OCR this" and have the text written on it turn up on the screen closest to me. More complex commands might be possible through some logically structured command language. Much would not be required.
Based on my research either your hypothesis is incorrect or French women do not have breasts the images of which are uploaded to Google Images.
Since p -> (q V r), p being images of French breasts on Google Images, q being the accuracy of your statement and r being the French breasts themselves, we can conclude that the statement might be true or might be false.
The breakdown doesn't have to occur simultaneously. When the alpha particle radiates, two electrons will be freed. A single electric field could direct the differently charged particles in opposite directions, then down to the awaiting ion engines.
With a radioactive source emitting alpha and beta radiation it might be possible to use two ion drives; one ejecting the positively charged alpha particles and the other ejecting the negatively charged beta particles. That way you won't build up a total charge in the craft. Plus, there won't be any charged cloud tracing the craft since the sum total charge of the ejecta is zero.
Though apparently, the NASA people WANT to build up a charge... Meh.
Oh, right! I didn't think about a positive charge. - Though that would limit the greatest possible charge to the number of electrons you can do without. I'm not sure how that works out into real numbers...
...in vacuum it won't discharge like it would in the air, where those spheres have to be smooth.
It would discharge in vacuum aswell, but the body is capable of holding on to a lot more charge without doing so. Lots more.
The geometry of the body still matters too, since equal charges push each other away. A corner would have a lot more electrons pushed into it, eventually causing them to "squirt" off the sharp edge or corner. This is called "corona discharge", and is what makes Tesla coils look pretty.
Seems to me that when you said "in the strictest sense of the word" you put the word of the law above the math of the law. Since we're talking about a change in EM propagating through space we're dealing with AC rather than DC, and when dealing with AC we're dealing with the EM fields and not the charged particles mediating the fields. The EM fields of course move at c, and since the signals propagating through the nerves move a lot slower than that, we probably should conclude that AC isn't the mediator of the signals.
The EM fields are much, much stronger close to the charged particles in the neurons, and it is a chain-reaction caused by one charged particle in very close proximity to the next that propagates the signal. One could say that every link in the chain-reaction in the nerves is an amplifier that ensures that the signal is just as strong when it reaches its destination as it was when it was emitted. Were we talking about EM fields, the field strength and therefore the recoverable signal, would diminish at an extremely fast rate since water (which we're mostly composed of) is a very poor conductor of the magnetic field, and an isolator when completely pure. Even if the neurons did communicate with EM fields, we'd be rendered inoperable thanks to the very strong background radiation we're constantly exposed to.
In conclusion; neurons do not communicate with electrical currents, but with chemical reactions.
It is typical (though not universal) for the publishers also to take the copyright of the papers they publish.
Copyright is an inalianable human right. You could not give it up if you wanted to, but you can give someone else copyright too. For a publisher to say that an author is not allowed to make copies and distribute them in parallel to the publisher's own distributions is a violation of human rights by the publisher.
Further, copyright is a HUMAN right. Companies are legal entities, but they are not human. How a company then can own a copyright confuses me.
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Yes, exactly like that. In the eyes of the KKK, they are civil rights activitsts. In the eyes of Nazis, they were applied medical researchers. In the eyes of whoever that last one is, they were in their own eyes whatever they wished to be.
In the eyes of the Britich empire, the freedom fighters of America were terrorists.
History is always written by those who 'won' the war. (And now war; no history, generalized.)
- Goo'
Half a year to alpha and a year more to beta, to be more precise. This software isn't even Alpha yet, so it seems silly to me to expect that much.
I guess your effort could be considered a proof-of-concept, but you really shouldn't see it as an indicaton of future performance. =/
If my words make sense, convey logic or beauty or are simply pleasurable to read, then the stuff I post on the 'net is worthwhile. This is however a property of the content of my post, and no Blogger Badge or such will magically endow my words with worthwhile content.
There already exists a 'code of cunduct' called 'civility' which is in scarce supply on the net, much thanks to anonymity but moreso thanks to poor upbringing. Another reason for lack of civility online is this blessed ease at which I post. Since with little investment of effort I can make my words reach people my words in themselves represent little effort. If flaming people online required me to write by hand, go to the post office and pay for stamps, I'd likely not flame a whole lot of people.
The ease at which we communicate is however not something many of us are willing to give up on, so we are left with the variables of anonymity and upbringing. Only the former is up to me, and evidently it's not something I'm very willing to give up. Until I post something I feel is important enough to sign with my real name I'm just another Anonymous lolling on teh intarwebs.
Why not let this be our badge? When we post humously instead of anonymously, pseudonyms notwithstanding, then we mean serious business. Don't append your name to anything you don't want to be held accounted for, and accept that the words of an AC will not be taken seriously.
Might be that the Coanda effect direct the air-stream directly downwards, but yes, the design seems rather inefficient. It appears that the only reason it is stable is because the plastic skirt-thing simply weights enough to keep the whole thing aligned.
e s/cypher-pic2.jpg ...is beyond me.
What makes it better, or more news-worthy, than for example this design;
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/imag
Could be the whole point of the article is the humane angle; that an old guy built it in his shed. However, taking into account that the guy has been doing this professionally for what appears to be quite a while, it doesn't seem special at all.
I know of Ogre, which is very, very pretty;
:)
http://www.ogre3d.org/
And Crystal Space, which is very pretty, and also includes a game engine;
http://www.crystalspace3d.org/
If someone however knows of an OSS physics engine for games which does a bit of aerodynamics, please let me know.
Ah, thank you. Clearly your google-fu is superior to mine. ;)
Does anyone have more information on this 'Scribe' system? Google fails me.
And this means I can't get modded troll for no reason also. ...NO wai-!
I just finished installing a passive heatsink... and apparently I used about 10 - 15 times as much paste as I would have needed. Thanks for the link!
Well duh. If we have explosive barrels everywhere we'll surely need all those medkits too! ;)
I'd like a Beowulf cluster in my basement. That, however, requires I first acquire a basement.
The cluster would be running low-power/performance parts so that I wouldn't have to worry about cooling and power bills too much. It would use solid-state solutions for storage, such as a bank of CF cards mapped into one huge drive. In general, it would require next to no maintenance.
The rest of the house would have microphones, high-def steerable video cameras, screens and speakers in every room, all fed to the cluster.
The software running on the machine would be much more complicated, featuring for example voice control for simple commands and object-recognition of the video-feeds. I'd be able to hold up a piece of paper in-view of a cam, say "OCR this" and have the text written on it turn up on the screen closest to me. More complex commands might be possible through some logically structured command language. Much would not be required.
Based on my research either your hypothesis is incorrect or French women do not have breasts the images of which are uploaded to Google Images.
Since p -> (q V r), p being images of French breasts on Google Images, q being the accuracy of your statement and r being the French breasts themselves, we can conclude that the statement might be true or might be false.
Why, oh why, do we assume the universe is a logical place?
The breakdown doesn't have to occur simultaneously. When the alpha particle radiates, two electrons will be freed. A single electric field could direct the differently charged particles in opposite directions, then down to the awaiting ion engines.
With a radioactive source emitting alpha and beta radiation it might be possible to use two ion drives; one ejecting the positively charged alpha particles and the other ejecting the negatively charged beta particles. That way you won't build up a total charge in the craft. Plus, there won't be any charged cloud tracing the craft since the sum total charge of the ejecta is zero.
Though apparently, the NASA people WANT to build up a charge... Meh.
Oh, right! I didn't think about a positive charge. - Though that would limit the greatest possible charge to the number of electrons you can do without. I'm not sure how that works out into real numbers...
It would discharge in vacuum aswell, but the body is capable of holding on to a lot more charge without doing so. Lots more.
The geometry of the body still matters too, since equal charges push each other away. A corner would have a lot more electrons pushed into it, eventually causing them to "squirt" off the sharp edge or corner. This is called "corona discharge", and is what makes Tesla coils look pretty.
In a transmission line stray electrons mediate the EM force through their displacement. In a neuron, entire atoms move.
I think this means a neuron isn't a transmission line.
c is some 1.5 million times faster than the speed at which neural signal propagate.
I believe this fact is sufficient for determining if I'm correct or not.
IANAPhy, but I study EM fiercely.
Seems to me that when you said "in the strictest sense of the word" you put the word of the law above the math of the law. Since we're talking about a change in EM propagating through space we're dealing with AC rather than DC, and when dealing with AC we're dealing with the EM fields and not the charged particles mediating the fields. The EM fields of course move at c, and since the signals propagating through the nerves move a lot slower than that, we probably should conclude that AC isn't the mediator of the signals.
The EM fields are much, much stronger close to the charged particles in the neurons, and it is a chain-reaction caused by one charged particle in very close proximity to the next that propagates the signal. One could say that every link in the chain-reaction in the nerves is an amplifier that ensures that the signal is just as strong when it reaches its destination as it was when it was emitted. Were we talking about EM fields, the field strength and therefore the recoverable signal, would diminish at an extremely fast rate since water (which we're mostly composed of) is a very poor conductor of the magnetic field, and an isolator when completely pure. Even if the neurons did communicate with EM fields, we'd be rendered inoperable thanks to the very strong background radiation we're constantly exposed to.
In conclusion; neurons do not communicate with electrical currents, but with chemical reactions.
Has the issue ever run its full course, human rights battling the law?
Copyright is an inalianable human right. You could not give it up if you wanted to, but you can give someone else copyright too. For a publisher to say that an author is not allowed to make copies and distribute them in parallel to the publisher's own distributions is a violation of human rights by the publisher.
Further, copyright is a HUMAN right. Companies are legal entities, but they are not human. How a company then can own a copyright confuses me.
So Slashdot has now cluster-handedly disproven the "wisdom of the crowd"?
I think that qualifies as "broken by design".
Can't break what's already broken though...
So if it ain't broke, don't- Uh, gimme a moment here... I think- Oh, oww! My head...
Ah, so this one is just a decoy for the other one for when it falls on our flanks. Tricky bastards, those aliens.