That was a result of mis-translation. The team is in constant communication but there were no official news releases.
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Nope. The lake had almost been reached in 1998 but drilling was stopped to ensure that there would be no contamination. Several years were spent to devise a good solution for the problem of contamination. So the drilling has been resumed only in 2005 when the international community decided that it's safe enough.
They're using a well filled with kerosene and freon to keep bacterial contamination away. Also, they're using sterilized parts without grease to minimize places where bacteria could hide.
The authors of the paper inserted an irrelevant factoid first. It makes absolutely no difference that CO2 is odorless and colorless when we're talking about its global warming potential.
For example, ozone is a poisonous gas with unpleasant 'electric' smell and it is a known carcinogen. Yet it's irrelevant when we're talking about the ozone layer in the atmosphere.
Yes, I've been thinking about it. I think I've found what is the problem with your solution.
Suppose that you have a pipe of length L, with brine density D1 and fresh water density D. So the pressure differential at the bottom of the pipe would be L*(D1-D) - it can be arbitrarily big, certainly big enough to overcome the osmotic pressure. Right?
That bit probably is wrong. Osmotic pressure is not constant, it rises with the pressure on the 'freshwater' side of the membrane. So you can not create enough pressure differential just by submerging a pipe with semi-permeable membrane.
You do, of course. Otherwise you'll be able to create a perpetum mobile by using this membrane to filter out pure water and then using pure water to dilute brine (it produces energy) on the other side of the membrane.
What I'd really want is for schools to teach the basics of computer science. So that everybody at least knew what the word 'encoding' means when applied to information, what digital data is and why it's different from analog signals, etc.
It'd definitely cut down the number of people sending screenshots in JPG and bying Monster HDMI cables.
"So, why exactly does the government pay intrest for that money?"
To discourage extra spending.
"And what does the intrest is spent by the FED?"
That's an awkward bit - it turns its profits to the US Treasury. Does that make sense to you? Me neither.
FED is a bit of arcane entity - it's a public institution that uses private banks as its components. A lot of other countries simply have a specialized central bank, but the US has this distributed system.
US is the biggest market for Google by far. And killing off some content even if it might piss someone in Slovakia or Turkey? Google could probably care less.
Yeah. Guess what would Google do if a US government comes and says something like this: "That's a nice search engine you got here. It'd be shame if it was unavailable in the US. Oh, and by the way, we're transferring your domain name to Bing". I bet Google would remove offending content faster than you can say "subsidiary company".
I really really like Russian extradition law. It's VERY simple:
"Russian citizens can not be extradited for any offences"
If a Russian citizen commits a crime in a foreign jurisdiction then it will be prosecuted in Russia. With some special provisions for evidence and witness testimonials.
Particulate dark matter just never gets too cold to be held by its own gravity. Purely gravitational interactions resulting in ejection of fast-moving particles would eventually let it cool down enough to form planet-sized objects but it'll probably take longer than the lifetime of baryonic matter.
"I'm sorry; but in that case their own criteria were unrealistic."
Yes they were and that's what made OLPC a visionary project. Had they achieved these criteria they could have literally done a revolution in education. As it is, they are a footnote.
They had a real problem - the Sugar software was (and still is, really) unpolished and slow, excruciatingly slow. They needed (and still do) a lot of good developers to fix it. Had they began to sell OLPC notebooks and used profit to fund more development maybe they could have hired enough people to actually make it work.
"They are the most successful wide scale open source based educational computer systems supplier."
No they aren't. Alt Linux in Russia distributed more than 2 million copies of their "Linux for Schools" distribution (granted, they are not distributing hardware).
2 million is nothing. They planned to be at least one or even two orders of magnitude larger. So they're failing by their own criteria. Kickstarting the netbook market (now dead) was not their goal, but a nice side-effect. And $50 devices are just a logical continuation of the trend of cheap tablets/notebooks.
I've bought two OLPCs during the original G1G1 program. I was even ready to start contributing to the project - it really needed help at that time. The software was not really usable, it was slow and laggy and not very easy to use.
But instead of trying to use the wider community to actually make OLPC worthwhile, Negroponte decided to befriend Microsoft. We all remember how it ended. And now it repeats yet again, I can't wait to hear that OLPC tablets are going to run Win Phone OS.
"Any economist? Keynesian economists, perhaps, would argue the POV you are espousing right now. Many who follow the Keynesian school of thought are in prominent positions in government power including the current chairman of the Federal Reserve as well as the President of the United States... and several treasury ministers in other countries too. And how they've been handing the economic situation over the past five years or so is supposed to give us confidence that they are doing the right thing and their philosophy is sound?"
Actually, Keynesian policies ARE NOT, I repeat ARE NOT being tried.
Paul Krugman practically SCREAMS about it - governments are mostly doing the exact opposite of Keynesian policy recommendations. ESPECIALLY in Europe.
You are totally wrong. ME had not replaced DOS with an emulator, DOS mode had just been removed from the startup menu (and could be returned with a simple tweak).
It was impossible for 9x-era OSes to be much more advanced than ME, mostly because of limitations of the underlying 16-bit kernel code. For example, no SMP, primitive USB drivers, rudimentary memory protection and non-reentarble code (DirectX apps could hang the whole OS by forgetting to release a surface), etc.
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That was a result of mis-translation. The team is in constant communication but there were no official news releases.
Nope. The lake had almost been reached in 1998 but drilling was stopped to ensure that there would be no contamination. Several years were spent to devise a good solution for the problem of contamination. So the drilling has been resumed only in 2005 when the international community decided that it's safe enough.
They're using a well filled with kerosene and freon to keep bacterial contamination away. Also, they're using sterilized parts without grease to minimize places where bacteria could hide.
So they've discovered polymorphic viruses? You know, like in good old days of DOS where viruses were real viruses and not simple worms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code
So?
The authors of the paper inserted an irrelevant factoid first. It makes absolutely no difference that CO2 is odorless and colorless when we're talking about its global warming potential.
For example, ozone is a poisonous gas with unpleasant 'electric' smell and it is a known carcinogen. Yet it's irrelevant when we're talking about the ozone layer in the atmosphere.
Yes, I've been thinking about it. I think I've found what is the problem with your solution.
Suppose that you have a pipe of length L, with brine density D1 and fresh water density D. So the pressure differential at the bottom of the pipe would be L*(D1-D) - it can be arbitrarily big, certainly big enough to overcome the osmotic pressure. Right?
That bit probably is wrong. Osmotic pressure is not constant, it rises with the pressure on the 'freshwater' side of the membrane. So you can not create enough pressure differential just by submerging a pipe with semi-permeable membrane.
Pure CO2 has a distinctive odor (sharp, almost metallic), it's caused by carbonic acid forming on mucous membranes.
Here it's described as 'acidic': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Physical_properties
It's not really a problem for MSDS datasheets, because at these CO2 concentrations you're going to faint in a few seconds.
In PNG, mostly.
You do, of course. Otherwise you'll be able to create a perpetum mobile by using this membrane to filter out pure water and then using pure water to dilute brine (it produces energy) on the other side of the membrane.
What I'd really want is for schools to teach the basics of computer science. So that everybody at least knew what the word 'encoding' means when applied to information, what digital data is and why it's different from analog signals, etc.
It'd definitely cut down the number of people sending screenshots in JPG and bying Monster HDMI cables.
"So, why exactly does the government pay intrest for that money?"
To discourage extra spending.
"And what does the intrest is spent by the FED?"
That's an awkward bit - it turns its profits to the US Treasury. Does that make sense to you? Me neither.
FED is a bit of arcane entity - it's a public institution that uses private banks as its components. A lot of other countries simply have a specialized central bank, but the US has this distributed system.
It's a brand new wonder drug that you might find enticing!
I've actually used it as a code maigc ID in a custom network protocol. Just to make the people who are going to support this code to say "WTF?!?".
In the first approximation you should be correct.
US is the biggest market for Google by far. And killing off some content even if it might piss someone in Slovakia or Turkey? Google could probably care less.
Yeah. Guess what would Google do if a US government comes and says something like this: "That's a nice search engine you got here. It'd be shame if it was unavailable in the US. Oh, and by the way, we're transferring your domain name to Bing". I bet Google would remove offending content faster than you can say "subsidiary company".
Would you like your site to be removed from Google Search?
Google is a US-based company, you know.
To nitpick, Russian space vehicles were called "Salyut" (which is Russian for "Salute").
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ifconfig lo down
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Hey, that was easy!
Yes, there's that. However, I still like the lack of extradition treaties.
I really really like Russian extradition law. It's VERY simple:
"Russian citizens can not be extradited for any offences"
If a Russian citizen commits a crime in a foreign jurisdiction then it will be prosecuted in Russia. With some special provisions for evidence and witness testimonials.
Particulate dark matter just never gets too cold to be held by its own gravity. Purely gravitational interactions resulting in ejection of fast-moving particles would eventually let it cool down enough to form planet-sized objects but it'll probably take longer than the lifetime of baryonic matter.
"I'm sorry; but in that case their own criteria were unrealistic."
Yes they were and that's what made OLPC a visionary project. Had they achieved these criteria they could have literally done a revolution in education. As it is, they are a footnote.
They had a real problem - the Sugar software was (and still is, really) unpolished and slow, excruciatingly slow. They needed (and still do) a lot of good developers to fix it. Had they began to sell OLPC notebooks and used profit to fund more development maybe they could have hired enough people to actually make it work.
"They are the most successful wide scale open source based educational computer systems supplier."
No they aren't. Alt Linux in Russia distributed more than 2 million copies of their "Linux for Schools" distribution (granted, they are not distributing hardware).
2 million is nothing. They planned to be at least one or even two orders of magnitude larger. So they're failing by their own criteria. Kickstarting the netbook market (now dead) was not their goal, but a nice side-effect. And $50 devices are just a logical continuation of the trend of cheap tablets/notebooks.
I've bought two OLPCs during the original G1G1 program. I was even ready to start contributing to the project - it really needed help at that time. The software was not really usable, it was slow and laggy and not very easy to use.
But instead of trying to use the wider community to actually make OLPC worthwhile, Negroponte decided to befriend Microsoft. We all remember how it ended. And now it repeats yet again, I can't wait to hear that OLPC tablets are going to run Win Phone OS.
Sure. It's so much better to focus on doing nothing. That way you don't even need to hire much personnel!
Right now OLPC is a massive failure. It completely underdelivered on its promises. What's there to focus on?
"Any economist? Keynesian economists, perhaps, would argue the POV you are espousing right now. Many who follow the Keynesian school of thought are in prominent positions in government power including the current chairman of the Federal Reserve as well as the President of the United States... and several treasury ministers in other countries too. And how they've been handing the economic situation over the past five years or so is supposed to give us confidence that they are doing the right thing and their philosophy is sound?"
Actually, Keynesian policies ARE NOT, I repeat ARE NOT being tried.
Paul Krugman practically SCREAMS about it - governments are mostly doing the exact opposite of Keynesian policy recommendations. ESPECIALLY in Europe.
You can see how well it works.
In Russian it's usually pronounced with unambibous 'n' followed by 'g' as in 'begin'.
However, the author's intention was to make it sound like 'engine-x'.
You are totally wrong. ME had not replaced DOS with an emulator, DOS mode had just been removed from the startup menu (and could be returned with a simple tweak).
It was impossible for 9x-era OSes to be much more advanced than ME, mostly because of limitations of the underlying 16-bit kernel code. For example, no SMP, primitive USB drivers, rudimentary memory protection and non-reentarble code (DirectX apps could hang the whole OS by forgetting to release a surface), etc.