Hi,
I also live in Canada, SK., and my main vehicle
is an 1983 V65 Honda motorcycle. Care to guess
what tags cost for this beast? (and yes, I have
been driving for over 25 years without a single
accident, and have the 7% discount).
$800 CAD per year, which is more than the bike
is worth. Saskatchewan Government Insurance
changed the rules a few years ago for motorbike
insurance, which is now based entirely on the
engine size. So, tags for a 1100 cc, 20 year
Honda now cost the same as those for a tricked-
out 2004 Harley with the same engine size.
Is life fair?
I am not an expert in reentry either, but AFAIK
it's the friction between the (leading) surfaces
of the vehicle and the atmosphere which creates
the heat -- not the temperature of the surrounding
plasma.
So, if you can reduce the speed of the vehicle
before it reaches the lower (dense) atmosphere,
the thermal load is reduced as well.
After reading the whole thread, I'm still not
sure who is right or wrong in this case -- the whistle-blower or the 10 percent guy.
But, as an independant software developer for several corporations/governments, I have a slight clue -- the managers should know what is going on,
and be held responsible for their actions and decisions. Enron anyone?
Nonsense.
The Fourier transform of a series (1d) or image
(2d) depends on the original signal -- there is
no such thing as a charactertistic power spectrum
in natural images.
Take a picture of 1) a black and white tiled
floor, and 2) a dog. The power spectrum of the
FFTs of these two "natural" images will look
somewhat different;-)
The Popescu/Farid paper simply shows there is a
difference (in the FFTS) between original and
resampled images.
Ignatus
Your remark:
> Don't you mean "run win98 during 4 years for
> very short periods of time" ?:)
was right on.
The only time I fire win98 up is to play a game of Pinball with a very good friend. It takes ~two hours each week, and it hurts my uptime, but what can you do?.
The rest of the time, Slackware is in charge;-)
I concur, most salads are not electronic.
But many battery powered devices aren't electronic either. Think flashlights, tube radios, analog computers... they are *electrical*
Geeze, kids these days;-)
How many tonnes of manmade debris are now in orbit around earth, since we started launching in 1959?
I'd guess 165 x 10^4 kilos. And as the original article and core plexus pointed out, it's not the radioactivity of the NaK that poses the hazard, its the pollution of low/mid-earth-orbit space by our previous and current missions that we should be worried about.
Millions of dollars per minute of downtime add
up pretty quick. Two hours @ 2 Mbucks/Minute
equals 240 Mbucks.
Ouch!
It took years for microsoft to get that far in
Europe.
I just had to comment on your sig... the first
computers I worked on (as a 3'rd year physics
student in 1977) was a Data General minicomputer
and a 8502-based SBC. Thanks for the memories!
What really needs revamping is the
"transport lawyer protocol"
The version of lawyer I'm currently
running (on Slackware 9.1.. kernel
2.4.25) wants me to give it $699 US
every time I login. **CANCEL**
Absolutely is correct
It only takes one (or two...) blockbusters for
a studio to pay the expenses for the losing ones.
It's called risk.
Movies are no different than music, or software
(MS comes to mind), or any other business in this
respect.
It depend on the timing. If Lois fell off a fifty story building (on earth) and hit the pavement, splat. If Superman caught her when she passed
the 40'th level (with a pillow), no worries.
It's not A(celleration) that hurts, it's V(elocity)
According to my calculations, google is way
off. The volume of this rock is ~1/33 that
of the earth, so unless it's composed of
neutronium carbon, how could it weigh 330,000
times more?
(Ask a stupid question...)
Time travel, nanotech/chemistry, genomes, space,
nuclear batteries... , there are many edges of
technology.
Having perused the comments posted so far, I'm
surprised no-one has mentioned near-instantaneous
education via hitech methods (such as implants,
pills, induction helmets,...) which IMHO, would
be the ultimate use of technology. Education.
Doesn't anyone read classic scifi (say, P.K. Dick)
anymore?
See Verity Stobs article -- Cold Comfort Server
Farm -- in the August/2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal, for the sad truth about Googles' server
farm.
Sniff;-(
Sorry, but the ice is, to start, on land. When
it melts, and flows into the ocean, water levels
rise. It is happening in the Antartic (a large continent buried under a mile of ice), and now
in the north polar regions. Hey, a few hundreds
of centuries ago, the spot I now live in (the middle of Canada) was a kilometer under ice.
It still feels that way, now, in the winter, but
summers are nice
I spoke with (via email) Robert X several times
since his last column was published. My main
beef was his statement that "It just takes as
many nerds to support 100 Linux boxes as 100 Windows boxes..."
I pointed out that 1) competent Unix/Linux admins can take care of ~3(?) times the number of boxes an equivalent Winxx/NT person can, and 2) you can
run more services (web/email/printing) on a single
U/L, than a Win box.
Roberts reply, in brief, was that if IT migrates
thier software from Winxx to U/L, the geeks in IT
will spend their time improving the system, and playing around with it. Winxx admins hope everything is cool, so they can get back to their
cheeseburgers. Overall, the cost to the company
is the same, in the short term
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Hi, I also live in Canada, SK., and my main vehicle is an 1983 V65 Honda motorcycle. Care to guess what tags cost for this beast? (and yes, I have been driving for over 25 years without a single accident, and have the 7% discount). $800 CAD per year, which is more than the bike is worth. Saskatchewan Government Insurance changed the rules a few years ago for motorbike insurance, which is now based entirely on the engine size. So, tags for a 1100 cc, 20 year Honda now cost the same as those for a tricked- out 2004 Harley with the same engine size. Is life fair?
I am not an expert in reentry either, but AFAIK it's the friction between the (leading) surfaces of the vehicle and the atmosphere which creates the heat -- not the temperature of the surrounding plasma. So, if you can reduce the speed of the vehicle before it reaches the lower (dense) atmosphere, the thermal load is reduced as well.
After reading the whole thread, I'm still not sure who is right or wrong in this case -- the whistle-blower or the 10 percent guy. But, as an independant software developer for several corporations/governments, I have a slight clue -- the managers should know what is going on, and be held responsible for their actions and decisions. Enron anyone?
Nonsense. The Fourier transform of a series (1d) or image (2d) depends on the original signal -- there is no such thing as a charactertistic power spectrum in natural images. Take a picture of 1) a black and white tiled floor, and 2) a dog. The power spectrum of the FFTs of these two "natural" images will look somewhat different ;-)
The Popescu/Farid paper simply shows there is a
difference (in the FFTS) between original and
resampled images.
I'm amazed that this article, about converting
inches to metres, gathered so many replies.
Should "News For Nerds" be replaced by "Math For Dummys" ?
Ignatus Your remark: > Don't you mean "run win98 during 4 years for > very short periods of time" ? :)
was right on.
The only time I fire win98 up is to play a game of Pinball with a very good friend. It takes ~two hours each week, and it hurts my uptime, but what can you do?.
The rest of the time, Slackware is in charge ;-)
I can run Win98 for another 4 years on my home machine?
I concur, most salads are not electronic. But many battery powered devices aren't electronic either. Think flashlights, tube radios, analog computers ... they are *electrical*
Geeze, kids these days ;-)
How many tonnes of manmade debris are now in orbit
around earth, since we started launching in 1959?
I'd guess 165 x 10^4 kilos. And as the original
article and core plexus pointed out, it's not the
radioactivity of the NaK that poses the hazard, its the pollution of low/mid-earth-orbit space by our previous and current missions that we should be worried about.
Any smart people out there?
Millions of dollars per minute of downtime add up pretty quick. Two hours @ 2 Mbucks/Minute equals 240 Mbucks. Ouch! It took years for microsoft to get that far in Europe.
I just had to comment on your sig ... the first
computers I worked on (as a 3'rd year physics
student in 1977) was a Data General minicomputer
and a 8502-based SBC. Thanks for the memories!
What really needs revamping is the "transport lawyer protocol" The version of lawyer I'm currently running (on Slackware 9.1 .. kernel
2.4.25) wants me to give it $699 US
every time I login. **CANCEL**
Absolutely is correct It only takes one (or two ...) blockbusters for
a studio to pay the expenses for the losing ones.
It's called risk.
Movies are no different than music, or software
(MS comes to mind), or any other business in this
respect.
It depend on the timing. If Lois fell off a fifty story building (on earth) and hit the pavement, splat. If Superman caught her when she passed the 40'th level (with a pillow), no worries. It's not A(celleration) that hurts, it's V(elocity)
According to my calculations, google is way off. The volume of this rock is ~1/33 that of the earth, so unless it's composed of neutronium carbon, how could it weigh 330,000 times more? (Ask a stupid question ...)
Correct ... leaps years are used to account
for the earths orbital speed (~365.24 days,
or rotations, per year, or orbit)
Time travel, nanotech/chemistry, genomes, space, nuclear batteries ... , there are many edges of
technology.
Having perused the comments posted so far, I'm
surprised no-one has mentioned near-instantaneous
education via hitech methods (such as implants,
pills, induction helmets, ...) which IMHO, would
be the ultimate use of technology. Education.
Doesn't anyone read classic scifi (say, P.K. Dick)
anymore?
I predict that it will cost more to grow a potatoe (soil+land+water ...) than a
silicon chip 10 to 20 years from now.
To aid the memory-impaired readers of slashdot, dupe articles should be clearly labelled. I think this icon would be appropriate:
See Verity Stobs article -- Cold Comfort Server Farm -- in the August/2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal, for the sad truth about Googles' server farm. Sniff ;-(
Sorry, but the ice is, to start, on land. When it melts, and flows into the ocean, water levels rise. It is happening in the Antartic (a large continent buried under a mile of ice), and now in the north polar regions. Hey, a few hundreds of centuries ago, the spot I now live in (the middle of Canada) was a kilometer under ice. It still feels that way, now, in the winter, but summers are nice
There was an article on www.scitechdaily.com last
... the best "solution" depends on the
week on the subject of forest fires -- controlled burns vs thinning vs let it just happen naturally.
Bottom line
forest, its underlying ecosystem, and past history.
Disclaimer: I live on the prairies in the Great
White North, so what do I know about trees?
I spoke with (via email) Robert X several times since his last column was published. My main beef was his statement that "It just takes as many nerds to support 100 Linux boxes as 100 Windows boxes ..."
I pointed out that 1) competent Unix/Linux admins can take care of ~3(?) times the number of boxes an equivalent Winxx/NT person can, and 2) you can
run more services (web/email/printing) on a single
U/L, than a Win box.
Roberts reply, in brief, was that if IT migrates
thier software from Winxx to U/L, the geeks in IT
will spend their time improving the system, and playing around with it. Winxx admins hope everything is cool, so they can get back to their
cheeseburgers. Overall, the cost to the company
is the same, in the short term