A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. The postscript version
is online at the lanl preprint archive here.
Also it has to be pointed out that the diamond is INSIDE the planet, so getting it out would require us to blow through 30 miles of
very hard rock.
DRM is not kernel related
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Linux and DRM?
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if DRM will ever live, it'll be on application level. Can you imagine running a server with DRM enabled? I sure can't and that's why it'll never get into the mainstream kernel. Sure, there might be patches, but what's the point of having DRM on a few machines if the others can just access the data without restrictions?
I hope I will also be able to read Mobipocket documents -- DRM-protected documents stuck to a specific handheld. When you install Mobipocket, it gives you a unique code, which seems to be based on the device's serial number. You then have to enter that code on your mobipocket.com profile before you can download your ebooks. With subscription-based documents such as the French Vidal, you'd better not have to purchase another PDA, because you will not be able to read the documents until you enter the proper new code in the download form.
there was a local root exploit in 2.0.39 and it took the maintainer 3 years to fix? why the hell couldn't he just assign it someone else if he didn't have the time (I read the interview a while back).
I wonder if he feels guilty for all those boxes that got owned in the 3 years.
Though, I suppose, not many people run 2.0.x these days.
I wrote a review..
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The Golden Ratio
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for my english class. hope you enjoy it.
"Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887.
This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as the "Golden Ratio," was defined by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of places - from mollusk shells, sunflower florets, and the crystals of some materials, to the shapes of galaxies containing billions of stars. Psychological studies have investigated whether the Golden Ratio is the most aesthetically pleasing proportion extant, and it has been asserted that the creators of the Pyramids and the Parthenon employed it.
It is believed to feature in works of art from Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to Salvador Dali's The Sacrament of the Last Supper, and poets and composers have used it in their works. It has even been suggested that it is connected to the behavior of the stock market!" The Golden Ratio is a journey through art and architecture, botany and biology, physics and mathematics. It tells the human story of numerous phi-fixated individuals, including the followers of Pythagoras, who believed that this proportion revealed the hand of God; astronomer Johannes Kepler, who saw phi as one of the greatest treasures of geometry; such medieval thinkers as mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa; and such masters of the modern world as Debussy, Le Corbusier, Bartok, and physicist Roger Penrose. Wherever his quest for the meaning of phi takes him, Mario Livio reveals the world as a place where order, beauty, and eternal mystery will always coexist.
53k for a computer engineering degree and 32k for a psychology degree? if only it were true! I think they got those numbers wrong somehow, my sister who just got a mba in psychology earns twice my salary even though i've been working at IBM as a senior system administrator for 6 years.
seriously, 50k? where were you when i was looking for a job?
we did some tests on this two years ago and the 1ghz ppc came up on top, about 30% behind the fastest x86. this is probably because the ppc has a larger l1 cache and a better fpu (java uses exclusively floats, even when you declare type integer).
However that was 2 years ago and these days a x86 machine is probably faster (and cheaper if this is a concern.)
Now you're just being silly. LaTeX is standard, it is used to typeset a large precentage of books and most scientific articles. It's advantage is that it is plain text and can be edited in any editor and it's superior rendering of mathematical equations/symbols. Trying to do those things in PDF means a slow and painful death.
Didnt Valve announce that they were going to release HL2 in february instead of december because of the source code leak? So what happened to change the release date to 'somewhere in the summer'?
Or was the leak just a nice excuse for the clueless managers who wanted game shipped around the Christmas shopping spree?
lets just hope the gear can handle that kind of bandwidth, my netgear access point says 54mbit/s, but i only get 10mbit/s sustained bandwidth. quite frankly i think they're cheating their customers putting a bandwidth label on the box when it doesnt even reach one third of it. The D-Link AP we got later wasn't much better either, only 10mbit again.
I have doubts if we will see that kind of bandwidth.
make sure you don't write exactly the same letters. I, as the owner of a medium sized webhost often compare them to those of others in the same business and it is not considered good practice to simply copy it over and over again. At least adapt a few words.
third world markets have very limited economies and are more open to alternative (read: kazaa)
solutions, I can't see Microsoft ever making any significant profit there. If anything, they'll loose money faster than they'll gain it.
Modern telecommunications satellites are designed for a useful on-orbit life of 10-15 years. This limit is set by the total fuel load they can carry at launch - a constraint that stems from the maximum liftoff mass of today's launch vehicles. The costs associated with a telecommunications satellite's procurement, launch, insurance and operation can exceed $250 million - while such spacecraft typically generate revenues of more than $50 million per year.
At the end of these satellites' useful lifetimes - which is determined by the depletion of their on-board propellant - the spacecraft are boosted into a disposal orbit and junked. In the majority of these cases, the satellites' payloads (relay transponders and associated electronics) continue to function nominally at the time of their forced retirement.
Currently, there are no viable means of prolonging the useful life of telecommunications satellites, resulting in the wasteful loss of valuable assets every year.
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yes well the star has 300000 times bigger mass than earth, the gravitational pull would compress the gas and plasma into solid rock-like material.
A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. The postscript version is online at the lanl preprint archive here.
Also it has to be pointed out that the diamond is INSIDE the planet, so getting it out would require us to blow through 30 miles of very hard rock.
ROR
if DRM will ever live, it'll be on application level. Can you imagine running a server with DRM enabled? I sure can't and that's why it'll never get into the mainstream kernel. Sure, there might be patches, but what's the point of having DRM on a few machines if the others can just access the data without restrictions?
Sometimes I want to play for like 10 hours, sometimes I don't want to play at all. I like to have the choice to decide what I do and when I do it.
Also this would just totally make the publishers rip us off by delaying the end until the game got its intended revenue.
I hope I will also be able to read Mobipocket documents -- DRM-protected documents stuck to a specific handheld. When you install Mobipocket, it gives you a unique code, which seems to be based on the device's serial number. You then have to enter that code on your mobipocket.com profile before you can download your ebooks. With subscription-based documents such as the French Vidal, you'd better not have to purchase another PDA, because you will not be able to read the documents until you enter the proper new code in the download form.
there was a local root exploit in 2.0.39 and it took the maintainer 3 years to fix? why the hell couldn't he just assign it someone else if he didn't have the time (I read the interview a while back).
I wonder if he feels guilty for all those boxes that got owned in the 3 years.
Though, I suppose, not many people run 2.0.x these days.
so people in space are what? Homo-tronaughts?
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53k for a computer engineering degree and 32k for a psychology degree? if only it were true! I think they got those numbers wrong somehow, my sister who just got a mba in psychology earns twice my salary even though i've been working at IBM as a senior system administrator for 6 years.
seriously, 50k? where were you when i was looking for a job?
this is just a publicity stunt.
remember, the USA is the country where your discontent will be sold back to you.
we did some tests on this two years ago and the 1ghz ppc came up on top, about 30% behind the fastest x86. this is probably because the ppc has a larger l1 cache and a better fpu (java uses exclusively floats, even when you declare type integer).
However that was 2 years ago and these days a x86 machine is probably faster (and cheaper if this is a concern.)
Now you're just being silly. LaTeX is standard, it is used to typeset a large precentage of books and most scientific articles. It's advantage is that it is plain text and can be edited in any editor and it's superior rendering of mathematical equations/symbols. Trying to do those things in PDF means a slow and painful death.
lots of standard formats, but no LaTeX source. how about providing that as well so I can print it easily?
Didnt Valve announce that they were going to release HL2 in february instead of december because of the source code leak? So what happened to change the release date to 'somewhere in the summer'?
Or was the leak just a nice excuse for the clueless managers who wanted
game shipped around the Christmas shopping spree?
Analysts estimate, however, that Google's annual revenue is between $500 million and $1 billion, with profits between $150 million and $300 million.
Wow, where do they get that kind of money? Surely not the ads..
lets just hope the gear can handle that kind of bandwidth, my netgear access point says 54mbit/s, but i only get 10mbit/s sustained bandwidth. quite frankly i think they're cheating their customers putting a bandwidth label on the box when it doesnt even reach one third of it. The D-Link AP we got later wasn't much better either, only 10mbit again. I have doubts if we will see that kind of bandwidth.
make sure you don't write exactly the same letters. I, as the owner of a medium sized webhost often compare them to those of others in the same business and it is not considered good practice to simply copy it over and over again. At least adapt a few words.
Someone should patent patents and make this madness stop!
Given that it's illegal to run Linux on an XBOX, what does the Gamecube eula say? Does it allow you to run an alternative OS?
Linux is dying.
GO FREEBSD!
third world markets have very limited economies and are more open to alternative (read: kazaa) solutions, I can't see Microsoft ever making any significant profit there. If anything, they'll loose money faster than they'll gain it.
Europe can be proud of this mission: Mars Express is an enormous success for the European Space Programme.
Modern telecommunications satellites are designed for a useful on-orbit life of 10-15 years. This limit is set by the total fuel load they can carry at launch - a constraint that stems from the maximum liftoff mass of today's launch vehicles. The costs associated with a telecommunications satellite's procurement, launch, insurance and operation can exceed $250 million - while such spacecraft typically generate revenues of more than $50 million per year.
At the end of these satellites' useful lifetimes - which is determined by the depletion of their on-board propellant - the spacecraft are boosted into a disposal orbit and junked. In the majority of these cases, the satellites' payloads (relay transponders and associated electronics) continue to function nominally at the time of their forced retirement.
Currently, there are no viable means of prolonging the useful life of telecommunications satellites, resulting in the wasteful loss of valuable assets every year.