I used to live in the same apartment complex as her in Pentagon City. The owner built a small park in her honor, but the memorial plaque does not mention COBOL or bugs. I suppose out heroes cannot be perfect.
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Sony insisted on using a proprietary format for flash memory modules: the "Memory Stick." My Vaio has a port for them. Those memory sticks are the reason I bought a Canon SLR camera instead of anything made by Sony.
Having experienced the agony of a failed flash memory module while far from home, I would gladly pay more for a module with a better track record, but the lack of interoperability is fatal, especially for flash modules. My USB memory card reader will accept half a dozen formats, but not Sony's. I do not understand why they insist on proprietary formats when they clearly affect primary hardware sales.
Having experienced the misery of losing part of a DVD archive I was thinking of implementing a more holographic way of creating redundancy on archival storage, but instead of trying to invent a new operating system it might work to simply save some space for par2 files. I have used them a lot for transmitting binaries as email attachments but does anyone have any experience using them as archive protection?
It is appropriate that you mention Creation Science as that is another field where their is a loud claim of scientific bias against an oppressed minority of researchers. Most Creation "scientists" claim there is an institutional bias against their research, or, to put it bluntly, a conspiracy.
Actually there is a bias. It is that mainstream scientists demand that you use the scientific method to demonstrate your conclusions, rather than resorting to divine revelation. Some consider that an unfair restriction, while others have gone as far as to claim that the scientific community must be under the influence of the devil. These people want to teach your kids science.
It has been long known that the internal and external blocks of the pyramids were different. It seems that an internal scaffolding of blocks was lain, on which a long pole with a target at the end could be mounted so that the edges could be kept straight and aligned as the external blocks were added. The outer blocks were long thought to be a more attractive grade of limestone, highly polished. They were also highly desirable for building materials and were often stolen by later Egyptians. Since they were more easily stolen from the bottom we have a possible explanation for why the blocks on top seem to be different from the blocks on the bottom, that being that the top blocks are simply exterior blocks which were too difficult to steal.
The brief article seems to imply that the authors of the study could not be certain of the top/bottom relationship because of their lack of material for study. This is unfortunate as I suspect with more material this hypothesis of their might be completely demolished. I have two major problems with it. First, they are materials scientists, not geologists, so they have no acknowledged expertise in the art of geology. Second, even if they were geologists, they are still arguing from ignorance, claiming that nature could not be responsible for the form of these limestone blocks. Well, nature is often a mystery to those who have not bothered looking at it, and it is easy to claim that something could not happen in nature if you are unfamiliar with it. Just ask the anti-Darwinists.
In effect you were maintaining a one-time pad. Well, almost. A true one-time pad would be used to encrypt the entire transaction and would ideally have a key as large as the entire message, but if the point is to defeat a keylogger it is practically undefeatable.
A man-in-the-middle attack would defeat it, though, if someone could pull it off.
The title had me confused as well. The use if the term "Indian" to describe the aboriginal peoples of the Americas is a practice that should have died out 400 years ago with Columbus. It managed to persist for so long because it was rarely confusing, but given that India is the most populous democracy in the world and has a dynamic, growing economy then I am beginning to consider recommending corporal punishment for repeat "India" offenders. I don't think there are even any aboriginal Americans who like being called "Indians," so it is insensitive as well as ignorant.
It's called an "occipital bun" and is a typical neandertal trait. It has nothing whatsoever to do with human intelligence, at least among Homo sapiens. Likewise, last I checked European and African humans had brains that were the same size. Also, studies of H. neandertal genetics indicates a low probability of crossbreeding, and the most significant piece of evidence against sapien/neandertal crossbreeding is that although some strains of human body lice were apparently picked up from H. habilis, none were ever retained from H. neandertal.
The only argument in favor of the claim that the microcephalin gene mutation came from H. neandertal is that it appeared at approximately the right place and time. It could simply be a coincidence. Whatever the gene does (and it seems it must do something, it has experienced a very strong strong selection pressure) it didn't seem to help the neandertals, assuming we got it from them.
Not exactly a scientific survey, but my memory of reading every copy of Science for the last couple of years would be about one peer-reviewed article in support of human-mediated global warming every month. I have never seen any studies opposed to it. Anthopological global warming is pretty much an accepted fact, now, and the arguments center on when it started, how much there will be and what can be done to halt it. It has been suggested that we started warming the planet with the earliest agriculture, and had we not done so there would already be glaciers in Newfoundland.
I haven't seen any problems with the Yahoo Mail Beta, which seems to be a Java client. Is the problem due to Firefox or because Yahoo used a non-portable CSS technique? If the latter then it may be irrelevant; Yahoo is no longer developing the old mail interface.
As for CSS browser nuisances, it is instructive to consider IE7, which still barely support CSS if at all. Every time a friend upgrades to IE7 I hear "Hey, the colors/formatting/text/website disappeared." I usually get angry and tell them to stop dithering and get an html reader. Like Opera.
I never tried it until I was 35 and fell in love with it. So it looks like I am going to have to smuggle it in now. I'll make better use of it than I did those Cuban cigars. I don't smoke, after all.
Anyway, Ultima IX would have a special spot on a "Most Dissapointing Games" list, perhaps occupying slot number one right above John Romero's Daikatana.
If there is some minimum bar, or aggravating factor for getting position on lists such as this then I would include such things as "hype" and number of sales. Since Since John Romero's Daikatana didn't make the list I have to assume that hype was left out, but the fact that E.T. came out number one on his list suggests that sales figured in his calculations. E.T. was actually investigated by a television news team for being so terribly awful. Its creator was interviewed and shrugged it off on camera, saying that he was just a hired contractor who was required to meet a deadline. I even recalled Mad magazine making fun of this bomb of a game, which listed for something like $50 when it was released.
Curiously, Custer's Revenge also made the TV news, though for different reasons (native protests played a small part). Amusingly, the broadcaster decided to blank out the offending part of Custer's anatomy, making the roughly pixelated penis look larger, and black.
Dana Plato certainly made some poor choices in her life. Perhaps this game was one of them, but as a fan of hers I prefer to think of her as a "pioneer." Lots of has-been and would-be actors would be discovered or buried in these video game roles in the years to come.
WoW is excellently designed to be addictive. I offer the example of resource gathering. One can learn where to look for resources, but the appearance is random. In psychology this is known to reinforce a behavior (looking for resources) that will last for a long time before extinguishing even if the stimulus (the appearance of resources) is removed.
I understand that slot machines operate on similar principles. I have often thought that video games might serve as an effective way to transfer gambling addicts away from truly destructive habits and into such relatively harmless activities as video game addiction. After all, even the most addicted gamer can be charged with little more than having wasted his time.
North America is not a synonym for the USA. While he probably meant to exclude Mexico, Canadians speak adequate English and share time zones with the US. Considering its population, Canada seems to provide more than its fair share of my fellow on-line players.
In the on-line world Canada is often thought of as another state in the North American Union, and as a home is about as interesting a piece of personal information as is being from Michigan or Ohio.
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I would assume that "clearing" does not include objects in resonance, which are actually held in position by the body in question. Pluto and Neptune are in resonance, as are any rocks that occupy Lagrange points. This rule seems to be directed against Ceres, which has so far failed to clear its orbit of a lot of other rocks (typically called asteroids).
If you read some of the other replies you will see that the "untraining" argument is not a very sound one. It is merely wild speculation in an attempt to explain a strange occurence. The most likely explanation by far is stupidity.
The 2nd most likely explanation is that someone is testing his spam software.
That would make it akin to a perpetual motion machine.
If you consider that the thermal efficiency of a heat engine is limited by the difference in temperatures of the heat source and the heat sink, this device running at near zero K has a very high negative efficiency. The most efficient way to run it would be to have the output temperature as low as possible (but still above the sink temperature of the river or cooling tower, of course) leaving no extra heat for power generation.
Every degree K rise in the output temperature would increase the utility of running an external generator, but the resulting loss in efficiency of the internal refrigerator would consume all the energy gains and then some.
Real nuclear power generators run at temperatures far above room temperature, not below it.
No. The point here is to reduce the temperature to near zero K. That would give you a thermal efficiency of near zero, meaning no useful work can be done by it. So no power production, sorry.
NAVSTAR encryption serves two purposes, reduction of precision for outsiders and anti-jamming. Bill Clinton removed the precision constraints, but the anti-spoofing/jamming codes are changed very often.
Two caveats: the anti-jam/spoof feature can improve reception in areas of high interference caused by physical geometry (reflective surfaces, for example), and the US gov. can always cripple precision in local areas if it wishes (e.g., Baghdad).
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She invented computer bugs, too. http://www.waterholes.com/~dennette/1996/hopper/bu g.htm
I used to live in the same apartment complex as her in Pentagon City. The owner built a small park in her honor, but the memorial plaque does not mention COBOL or bugs. I suppose out heroes cannot be perfect.
Sony insisted on using a proprietary format for flash memory modules: the "Memory Stick." My Vaio has a port for them. Those memory sticks are the reason I bought a Canon SLR camera instead of anything made by Sony.
Having experienced the agony of a failed flash memory module while far from home, I would gladly pay more for a module with a better track record, but the lack of interoperability is fatal, especially for flash modules. My USB memory card reader will accept half a dozen formats, but not Sony's. I do not understand why they insist on proprietary formats when they clearly affect primary hardware sales.
Having experienced the misery of losing part of a DVD archive I was thinking of implementing a more holographic way of creating redundancy on archival storage, but instead of trying to invent a new operating system it might work to simply save some space for par2 files. I have used them a lot for transmitting binaries as email attachments but does anyone have any experience using them as archive protection?
It is appropriate that you mention Creation Science as that is another field where their is a loud claim of scientific bias against an oppressed minority of researchers. Most Creation "scientists" claim there is an institutional bias against their research, or, to put it bluntly, a conspiracy.
Actually there is a bias. It is that mainstream scientists demand that you use the scientific method to demonstrate your conclusions, rather than resorting to divine revelation. Some consider that an unfair restriction, while others have gone as far as to claim that the scientific community must be under the influence of the devil. These people want to teach your kids science.
On the hidden surfaces? They didn't even dress the stones very well on many of the surfaces that [i]can[/i] be seen.
I', still wondering why it's okay to slide a stone 90% of the way up to the top but not 100%.
It has been long known that the internal and external blocks of the pyramids were different. It seems that an internal scaffolding of blocks was lain, on which a long pole with a target at the end could be mounted so that the edges could be kept straight and aligned as the external blocks were added. The outer blocks were long thought to be a more attractive grade of limestone, highly polished. They were also highly desirable for building materials and were often stolen by later Egyptians. Since they were more easily stolen from the bottom we have a possible explanation for why the blocks on top seem to be different from the blocks on the bottom, that being that the top blocks are simply exterior blocks which were too difficult to steal.
The brief article seems to imply that the authors of the study could not be certain of the top/bottom relationship because of their lack of material for study. This is unfortunate as I suspect with more material this hypothesis of their might be completely demolished. I have two major problems with it. First, they are materials scientists, not geologists, so they have no acknowledged expertise in the art of geology. Second, even if they were geologists, they are still arguing from ignorance, claiming that nature could not be responsible for the form of these limestone blocks. Well, nature is often a mystery to those who have not bothered looking at it, and it is easy to claim that something could not happen in nature if you are unfamiliar with it. Just ask the anti-Darwinists.
In effect you were maintaining a one-time pad. Well, almost. A true one-time pad would be used to encrypt the entire transaction and would ideally have a key as large as the entire message, but if the point is to defeat a keylogger it is practically undefeatable.
A man-in-the-middle attack would defeat it, though, if someone could pull it off.
The verb "to burgle" is a back formation from "burglar." It is less valid a construction than "burglarize" and could be consider ignorant.
The title had me confused as well. The use if the term "Indian" to describe the aboriginal peoples of the Americas is a practice that should have died out 400 years ago with Columbus. It managed to persist for so long because it was rarely confusing, but given that India is the most populous democracy in the world and has a dynamic, growing economy then I am beginning to consider recommending corporal punishment for repeat "India" offenders. I don't think there are even any aboriginal Americans who like being called "Indians," so it is insensitive as well as ignorant.
It's called an "occipital bun" and is a typical neandertal trait. It has nothing whatsoever to do with human intelligence, at least among Homo sapiens. Likewise, last I checked European and African humans had brains that were the same size. Also, studies of H. neandertal genetics indicates a low probability of crossbreeding, and the most significant piece of evidence against sapien/neandertal crossbreeding is that although some strains of human body lice were apparently picked up from H. habilis, none were ever retained from H. neandertal.
The only argument in favor of the claim that the microcephalin gene mutation came from H. neandertal is that it appeared at approximately the right place and time. It could simply be a coincidence. Whatever the gene does (and it seems it must do something, it has experienced a very strong strong selection pressure) it didn't seem to help the neandertals, assuming we got it from them.
This is like, so 1999. I know dupes are par for the course on /. but six years is pushing the envelope a bit much.
Not exactly a scientific survey, but my memory of reading every copy of Science for the last couple of years would be about one peer-reviewed article in support of human-mediated global warming every month. I have never seen any studies opposed to it. Anthopological global warming is pretty much an accepted fact, now, and the arguments center on when it started, how much there will be and what can be done to halt it. It has been suggested that we started warming the planet with the earliest agriculture, and had we not done so there would already be glaciers in Newfoundland.
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I haven't seen any problems with the Yahoo Mail Beta, which seems to be a Java client. Is the problem due to Firefox or because Yahoo used a non-portable CSS technique? If the latter then it may be irrelevant; Yahoo is no longer developing the old mail interface.
As for CSS browser nuisances, it is instructive to consider IE7, which still barely support CSS if at all. Every time a friend upgrades to IE7 I hear "Hey, the colors/formatting/text/website disappeared." I usually get angry and tell them to stop dithering and get an html reader. Like Opera.
I never tried it until I was 35 and fell in love with it. So it looks like I am going to have to smuggle it in now. I'll make better use of it than I did those Cuban cigars. I don't smoke, after all.
Does it even qualify as news if it's that old?
You must be new here.
Anyway, Ultima IX would have a special spot on a "Most Dissapointing Games" list, perhaps occupying slot number one right above John Romero's Daikatana.
If there is some minimum bar, or aggravating factor for getting position on lists such as this then I would include such things as "hype" and number of sales. Since Since John Romero's Daikatana didn't make the list I have to assume that hype was left out, but the fact that E.T. came out number one on his list suggests that sales figured in his calculations. E.T. was actually investigated by a television news team for being so terribly awful. Its creator was interviewed and shrugged it off on camera, saying that he was just a hired contractor who was required to meet a deadline. I even recalled Mad magazine making fun of this bomb of a game, which listed for something like $50 when it was released.
Curiously, Custer's Revenge also made the TV news, though for different reasons (native protests played a small part). Amusingly, the broadcaster decided to blank out the offending part of Custer's anatomy, making the roughly pixelated penis look larger, and black.
Dana Plato certainly made some poor choices in her life. Perhaps this game was one of them, but as a fan of hers I prefer to think of her as a "pioneer." Lots of has-been and would-be actors would be discovered or buried in these video game roles in the years to come.
WoW is excellently designed to be addictive. I offer the example of resource gathering. One can learn where to look for resources, but the appearance is random. In psychology this is known to reinforce a behavior (looking for resources) that will last for a long time before extinguishing even if the stimulus (the appearance of resources) is removed.
I understand that slot machines operate on similar principles. I have often thought that video games might serve as an effective way to transfer gambling addicts away from truly destructive habits and into such relatively harmless activities as video game addiction. After all, even the most addicted gamer can be charged with little more than having wasted his time.
North America is not a synonym for the USA. While he probably meant to exclude Mexico, Canadians speak adequate English and share time zones with the US. Considering its population, Canada seems to provide more than its fair share of my fellow on-line players.
In the on-line world Canada is often thought of as another state in the North American Union, and as a home is about as interesting a piece of personal information as is being from Michigan or Ohio.
I still have not met anyone from Mexico, however.
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Both test cases give me a confirmation dialog offering to add the target site to a trusted list.
Curiously, both XP and Firefox updated over the last two days.
I would assume that "clearing" does not include objects in resonance, which are actually held in position by the body in question. Pluto and Neptune are in resonance, as are any rocks that occupy Lagrange points. This rule seems to be directed against Ceres, which has so far failed to clear its orbit of a lot of other rocks (typically called asteroids).
If you read some of the other replies you will see that the "untraining" argument is not a very sound one. It is merely wild speculation in an attempt to explain a strange occurence. The most likely explanation by far is stupidity.
The 2nd most likely explanation is that someone is testing his spam software.
That would make it akin to a perpetual motion machine.
If you consider that the thermal efficiency of a heat engine is limited by the difference in temperatures of the heat source and the heat sink, this device running at near zero K has a very high negative efficiency. The most efficient way to run it would be to have the output temperature as low as possible (but still above the sink temperature of the river or cooling tower, of course) leaving no extra heat for power generation.
Every degree K rise in the output temperature would increase the utility of running an external generator, but the resulting loss in efficiency of the internal refrigerator would consume all the energy gains and then some.
Real nuclear power generators run at temperatures far above room temperature, not below it.
No. The point here is to reduce the temperature to near zero K. That would give you a thermal efficiency of near zero, meaning no useful work can be done by it. So no power production, sorry.
NAVSTAR encryption serves two purposes, reduction of precision for outsiders and anti-jamming. Bill Clinton removed the precision constraints, but the anti-spoofing/jamming codes are changed very often.
Two caveats: the anti-jam/spoof feature can improve reception in areas of high interference caused by physical geometry (reflective surfaces, for example), and the US gov. can always cripple precision in local areas if it wishes (e.g., Baghdad).