I used to do cosmic ray research, specifically ultra high energy cosmic ray research. We observed particles 7-8 factors of 10 times more energetic than the LHC will *ever* produce. Those particles however are quite rare. Here's a plot showing the general population of cosmic rays. Those ones on the bottom right are those that only hit every few months or less within our few hundreds of cubic kilometers of detectable atmosphere. I don't know how well this distribution of equivalent CR's in the CERN range can help to compare against their nebulous 'coalesce' argument. It almost sounds like they want the LHC to destroy the world.:-)
Ironic that the anti open source astroturf likes to associate Ayn Rand ideals when here is an excellent example of how the open society subscribes directly to one of Rand's principles, namely that perfect capitalism cannot happen without idealism and openness. Capitalism is not about the money, it's about the joy of doing something.
Extra dimensions are the epicycles of Modern Physics
Why?
As an undergraduate physics major I've selected string theory as my field of speciality because it seems to offer a lot of surprises and sophisticated elegance in how it maps natural phenomena to complex permutations of its model(s). Perhaps the sophistication involved it grotesque and wrong on the side of complexity. To be a little explicit in extending the ramifications of your implied syllogism, physics is needing a spark of original thinking and inspiration much like Copernicus' thinking outside the epicycle translated and simplified the model of the solar system.
I understand what you mean by saying so, but by what knowledge have you chosen this conclusion?
What I've done (at least I've done for a trial 50 CDs) is replace the jewel case with archival photo polypropylene plastic. The jewel case is an awkward size and yet I wanted to keep the back paper because it contains useful track information that I can refer to easily. So far I've been very happy with the solution although I'm thinking now that thicker plastic may be better.
In order to get the plastic sleeves to the correct size I bought a food bag sealer and 25 binder sheets of 5"x7" photograph plastic pages which I cut in half. Next I made a jig for the bag sealer to trim the 3rd side down to just large enough to fit the jewel case back paper (about 153 mm) which can be done by quickly tearing off the plastic from the front of the sealer while the seal is still hot. At first I wasn't sure how this system would work but the sealer when the plastic is torn off makes a very clean edge, so much so that I sealed the other two sides as well leaving the top open. Finally, I put each CD in its own envelope between the front booklet and the back paper.
For my next batch I'm thinking of buying a box of these.
For the first 50 jewel cases that I've replaced with these photograph sleeves I've saved nearly a meter of shelf space even though more than a third of those jewel cases were single width but double hinged, therefore containing two CDs. Although the side tabs on the end papers are not as easy to glance across as with jewel cases when on the shelf they are still moderately visible and it's definitely a tradeoff worth the space saved.
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Even better, I think, would be to start a rating system simmilar to how online retailers are rated. Put the work of the collective web browsing, shared host-using public. In the same way that Wikipedia gathers the world's collective encyclopaedic knowledge, the stock market gathers the world's collective financial knowledge, science gathers the world's scientific knowledge, and open source software gathers collective software innovation, why not use the same principle here for gathering collective knowledge on the services of hosting providers?
You also have to remember that this conclusion is reached by assuming a whole lot of properties about the near galactic neighborhood, or rather the data is being explained by relying on these suppositions. It may not be what is actually going on, but if it does fit the data and explain all the phenomena and there's nothing better to say about it, then that becomes the working hypothesis. Scientists don't suppose themselves to be always irrefutably correct. Thus is science.
Remindes me painfully of this:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512 .0/0972.html
The only breakthrough here is for hardware companies who don't want to publish specs for their hardware. Whoever at Novell designed this driver deal doesn't truly understand what Free Software is all about (or Open Source for that matter) and why it's important to have documented hardware.
Every time this issue comes up I wonder why we don't use pen and paper and count by hand. Make the office a duty incumbent upon the citizens. With a couple dozen counters per precinct I don't see how it could take longer than a few hours.
Not necessarily. See IPP, Intermountain Power (Project?) in Delta, UT, USA. There are energy losses from AC from the constant acceleration of electric charges.
I'm a mormon and I think the seperation of church and state is not a luxurious privilege, but a crucial freedom. The architects of the Bill of Rights were fortutiously wise and sincere enough to enumerate many such freedoms to protect us from the awesome power of wanton or malicious government. I hope I'm as wary of that government as the next man.
Their policy of having publishers request to not have their books scanned would be similar to the government forcing one to request not to have their phone tapped.
Since when did copyright become a right equal in weight to a Bill of Rights provision? Copyright is explicitly granted by law.
Some fundamental rights should not be assumed to be given up until they actually are, and intellectual property is one of them.
Intellectual property has nothing to do with copyright. Copyright doesn't give you ownership, it only gives you a temporary monopoly.
Same for the pair of Sony MDR-7506 I got. They are durable, have the threaded 1/4" adapter, are collapsible, and have a convient storage bag. When I went to Musician's Friend to get a pair I brought a recording of some Rimsky-Korsakov since it is generally demanding on the playback medium for audio range and fidelity. These were better quality than almost every other pair in the store for response, range, and clarity. They don't leak much even at moderate listening volume since they are over-the-ear rather than on-top-of-the-ear phones but also allow reasonable hearing of external events. A lot of earphones I've used will start to hurt your ears over extended listening from constant pressure on the pina. These are much more comfortable. So, in short, the parent commentor is wise to reccommend earphones designed for people who must wear them professionally everyday.
Songs? If it's WB that's toying with this idea, who cares about their "songs"? I want the cartoons, man! Over 1000 classic Looney Toones episodes. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Cyote, Carl Stalling... That's the stuff of Saturday morning felicity, not to mention all the Animaniacs episodes *still* unavailable on DVD.
If Warner Brothers offered up their copious classical discography on such a service (Bach 2000 anyone?) -- now that would be noteworthy indeed.
That is fascinating. So if only fifty words remain from "early English" what does that say about the lifetime of words? Or have there been more formal studies into the turnover of words?
you mean per se. (-: I can't point to any specific rule, but I've seen it often enough to know that foreign words or phrases are italicized when used in English, and latin is no exception.
The first time I heard the apparition "Linux" was way back in 1996 and all it amounted to was a tantalizing buzzword. "Linux? Must be like UNIX, so probably is really expensive and doesn't run on a PC." In late 2002 I began working at a university doing undergraduate research in particle physics. My first day there the project's head engineer sat me down in front of a black box terminal having a capacious 8 MB of local memory still sporting the surplus sale price tag ($8.00) and monstrosity of a CRT monitor that should have had its life ended 10 years ago. The terminal was running an ancient CTWM off from a RH-6.2 server. He sat me down in front of the terminal and showed me some of the basic commands of the shell, how to open netscape and emacs. Emacs kept coming up with an intriguing message about some Gnu's Manifesto which I eventually read and my mind was opened. Free Software is like scientific collaboration. "Why doesn't everyone see this? Why don't they see that it is absurd to sell something that of itself has no unique value?" In a scientific context the issue of the free sharing of knowledge is a matter of course.
I went from a mildly agnostic MS fanboy to a die hard GNU philosopher. 5 months later my first computer was running RedHat 8.0. In fact wanting to have my own Linux system was the reason I got a computer. Linux sells hardware, at least in my case. (-: Although I did manage to obtain a cracked version of XP and set it up to dual boot with RedHat after a few days I realized how hypocritical I was. As a result I destroyed every CD I owned of non-Free software (not that many, though, mainly cheap stuff that came "free" with textbooks).
"I had to switch to Linux at work and turned out I love it and installed it at home," check.
In a halogen light, the tungsten filament is not enclosed within a vacuum, but rather a capsule of a halogen gas which somehow allows the filament to burn hotter and longer. If replicating sunlight is the goal in artificial lighting, then this is an interesting question. Since the emmission spectrum of blackbody radiation is a function of temperature, then a halogen lamp would be perfect if it could radiate at a temperature of 6000 K, the temperature of the sun's photosphere.
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I used to do cosmic ray research, specifically ultra high energy cosmic ray research. We observed particles 7-8 factors of 10 times more energetic than the LHC will *ever* produce. Those particles however are quite rare. Here's a plot showing the general population of cosmic rays. Those ones on the bottom right are those that only hit every few months or less within our few hundreds of cubic kilometers of detectable atmosphere. I don't know how well this distribution of equivalent CR's in the CERN range can help to compare against their nebulous 'coalesce' argument. It almost sounds like they want the LHC to destroy the world. :-)
Ironic that the anti open source astroturf likes to associate Ayn Rand ideals when here is an excellent example of how the open society subscribes directly to one of Rand's principles, namely that perfect capitalism cannot happen without idealism and openness. Capitalism is not about the money, it's about the joy of doing something.
I guess I should CTFW (Check the fine Wikipedia) before trying to sound authoritative.
Area 51 is in New Mexico, not Nevada. Way to screw it up for the aliens.
Why?
As an undergraduate physics major I've selected string theory as my field of speciality because it seems to offer a lot of surprises and sophisticated elegance in how it maps natural phenomena to complex permutations of its model(s). Perhaps the sophistication involved it grotesque and wrong on the side of complexity. To be a little explicit in extending the ramifications of your implied syllogism, physics is needing a spark of original thinking and inspiration much like Copernicus' thinking outside the epicycle translated and simplified the model of the solar system.
I understand what you mean by saying so, but by what knowledge have you chosen this conclusion?
I think you mean the sun is pretty much not accelerating. Moving has nothing to do with it even in Newtonian physics.
What I've done (at least I've done for a trial 50 CDs) is replace the jewel case with archival photo polypropylene plastic. The jewel case is an awkward size and yet I wanted to keep the back paper because it contains useful track information that I can refer to easily. So far I've been very happy with the solution although I'm thinking now that thicker plastic may be better.
In order to get the plastic sleeves to the correct size I bought a food bag sealer and 25 binder sheets of 5"x7" photograph plastic pages which I cut in half. Next I made a jig for the bag sealer to trim the 3rd side down to just large enough to fit the jewel case back paper (about 153 mm) which can be done by quickly tearing off the plastic from the front of the sealer while the seal is still hot. At first I wasn't sure how this system would work but the sealer when the plastic is torn off makes a very clean edge, so much so that I sealed the other two sides as well leaving the top open. Finally, I put each CD in its own envelope between the front booklet and the back paper.
For my next batch I'm thinking of buying a box of these.
For the first 50 jewel cases that I've replaced with these photograph sleeves I've saved nearly a meter of shelf space even though more than a third of those jewel cases were single width but double hinged, therefore containing two CDs. Although the side tabs on the end papers are not as easy to glance across as with jewel cases when on the shelf they are still moderately visible and it's definitely a tradeoff worth the space saved.
I usually do this:
Even better, I think, would be to start a rating system simmilar to how online retailers are rated. Put the work of the collective web browsing, shared host-using public. In the same way that Wikipedia gathers the world's collective encyclopaedic knowledge, the stock market gathers the world's collective financial knowledge, science gathers the world's scientific knowledge, and open source software gathers collective software innovation, why not use the same principle here for gathering collective knowledge on the services of hosting providers?
You also have to remember that this conclusion is reached by assuming a whole lot of properties about the near galactic neighborhood, or rather the data is being explained by relying on these suppositions. It may not be what is actually going on, but if it does fit the data and explain all the phenomena and there's nothing better to say about it, then that becomes the working hypothesis. Scientists don't suppose themselves to be always irrefutably correct. Thus is science.
Remindes me painfully of this: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0512 .0/0972.html
The only breakthrough here is for hardware companies who don't want to publish specs for their hardware. Whoever at Novell designed this driver deal doesn't truly understand what Free Software is all about (or Open Source for that matter) and why it's important to have documented hardware.
Every time this issue comes up I wonder why we don't use pen and paper and count by hand. Make the office a duty incumbent upon the citizens. With a couple dozen counters per precinct I don't see how it could take longer than a few hours.
Not necessarily. See IPP, Intermountain Power (Project?) in Delta, UT, USA. There are energy losses from AC from the constant acceleration of electric charges.
I'm a mormon and I think the seperation of church and state is not a luxurious privilege, but a crucial freedom. The architects of the Bill of Rights were fortutiously wise and sincere enough to enumerate many such freedoms to protect us from the awesome power of wanton or malicious government. I hope I'm as wary of that government as the next man.
You forgot LDS Business College.
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Since when did copyright become a right equal in weight to a Bill of Rights provision? Copyright is explicitly granted by law.
Intellectual property has nothing to do with copyright. Copyright doesn't give you ownership, it only gives you a temporary monopoly.
Same for the pair of Sony MDR-7506 I got. They are durable, have the threaded 1/4" adapter, are collapsible, and have a convient storage bag. When I went to Musician's Friend to get a pair I brought a recording of some Rimsky-Korsakov since it is generally demanding on the playback medium for audio range and fidelity. These were better quality than almost every other pair in the store for response, range, and clarity. They don't leak much even at moderate listening volume since they are over-the-ear rather than on-top-of-the-ear phones but also allow reasonable hearing of external events. A lot of earphones I've used will start to hurt your ears over extended listening from constant pressure on the pina. These are much more comfortable. So, in short, the parent commentor is wise to reccommend earphones designed for people who must wear them professionally everyday.
Songs? If it's WB that's toying with this idea, who cares about their "songs"? I want the cartoons, man! Over 1000 classic Looney Toones episodes. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Cyote, Carl Stalling... That's the stuff of Saturday morning felicity, not to mention all the Animaniacs episodes *still* unavailable on DVD.
If Warner Brothers offered up their copious classical discography on such a service (Bach 2000 anyone?) -- now that would be noteworthy indeed.
That is fascinating. So if only fifty words remain from "early English" what does that say about the lifetime of words? Or have there been more formal studies into the turnover of words?
you mean per se. (-: I can't point to any specific rule, but I've seen it often enough to know that foreign words or phrases are italicized when used in English, and latin is no exception.
That's two of us.
In a halogen light, the tungsten filament is not enclosed within a vacuum, but rather a capsule of a halogen gas which somehow allows the filament to burn hotter and longer. If replicating sunlight is the goal in artificial lighting, then this is an interesting question. Since the emmission spectrum of blackbody radiation is a function of temperature, then a halogen lamp would be perfect if it could radiate at a temperature of 6000 K, the temperature of the sun's photosphere.