Exactly right. The hurdle for teleportation is the conversion of data and energy into matter. In theory, a Star Trek starship could beam crew members over 250 years time using 802.11g. (assuming, of course that a average human being contains exactly 55.8 petabytes worth of data).
I couldn't be bothered to read TFA... what's this about?
No, but the way we deal with it will change
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Spam is one thing, piles of legitimate e-mail is another. Some people have hundreds of issues a day, and if e-mail is abandoned, some other form of communication will take its place. The busiest people with large amounts of work-related e-mail have a secretary to filter and re-direct messages.
nah, it's all appropriate. The angular momentum is on the magnetic moment produced at the electron from an applied magnetic field, due mainly to the Zeeman interaction. The spin itself is the magnetic moment of the electron. Changes in the magnetic field (non parallel) apply a torque on the moment and change its orientation. The motions are described by the quantum angular momentum equations.. i.e. commutation relations. These commutation relations are the quantum analog to the classical angular momentum equations.
This is an innocent question. If the OSS community is ready to debunk these patents, do we really need Microsoft to reveal which of the 235 patents/infringements they're talking about? Couldn't we start a site/database that organizes all of Microsoft's patents and start documenting prior art and such for each. The patents themselves aren't hidden:
Fair enough. However, when people know that you have a cellphone and you don't return their call within a reasonable amount of time (a day?), they know you're ignoring them. I intentionally tell friends/work that I don't have a cell phone, and I sometimes check my home voicemail. I return calls on my time, and people don't feel snubbed by my inaccessibility. Granted, I'm an academic and not many people can do this -- but many of my colleagues with cellphones envy me.
Selectivity is most important. It's great that this gel can 'capture' virus proteins, but does it bind them more tightly than other proteins? This could be very problematic if it removes native proteins in the human serum. Many proteins look alike structurally at low resolution -- nm resolutions. If this system doesn't discriminate based on other factors like electrostatics, then this couldn't possibly be an effective filter.
The next problem is accessibility. I'm assuming that this gel only traps proteins outside of cells. I'm not a virologist (I'm structural biologist & biophysical chemist), but it seems to me that if a virus has integrated itself into your genome or populated most of your cells, you're screwed.
I'd agree with you regarding PhDs that continue down the academic route (and some industrial people too). However, the PhD can be an advanced technical degree too. Most of my colleagues will go into industry and process known samples for the rest of their lives. They'll never produce new knowledge, but the expertise of the PhD is required (this is true for NMR and mass spec, for example).
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
agreed. At least in the physical sciences, the PhD (1) gives you the time to master a particular subject, (2) gives you the resources to master that subject with funding, (3) gives you the opportunity to exchange with experts in the field. More importantly, I believe the PhD teaches autonomous thinking. From my experience, bachelor's degrees are mostly textbook knowledge and PhDs are not. While there are many PhDs that really aren't experts in their fields, I have yet to encounter a non-PhD with the skills and knowledge of a competent PhD in the physical sciences. They just don't have the time, resources or access to the experts.
For example, my PhD is in biophysical chemistry and chemical physics -- solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance applied to proteins. It literally takes at least 5 years to become an expert in this field, and longer for many of my colleages. Learning NMR statistical quantum mechanics takes years of graduate classes, reading many papers and dozens of books. You need to devote yourself for years full-time to learn this stuff.
Dick Feynman's position, for example, is that you can't learn modern physics without the math. Analogies can only go so far, and there's a reason a person requires a PhD to understand some subjects.
Is wikipedia really only source for the lay person? I never thought so.
I think you're right. The picture itself isn't offensive in any way, and the under-age drinking clearly has nothing to do with with her specifically -- she was 25 at the time. I speculate that it had something to do with the kids she was going to teach and possibly giving them booze. There's more than meets the eye.
There is indeed a key difference. Here's another perspective:
Rape in real life is motivated by a desire to seek power or vent anger. The user's ability to log-off enpowers "the victim," and not the rapist. Further, chat filters (I'm assuming they exist in SL) can prevent it from being a good medium for venting anger. The fact that the "victim" is empowered makes this a very different situation. (other than the fact that it's in a virtual world)
This is a special situation because she was working for a university. Integrity is the most important value in academia. I consider it unethical that she maintained her post at a university while misrepresenting herself -- it's just like plagiarism. However, the degrees themselves obivously didn't matter. She was highly competent at her job, and if this were in another setting (corporate for example), this likely wouldn't be much of an issue.
I haven't been able to access the article, but I'd have to agree with the summary. I've tried running Beryl on Feisty for a few days, and I've had a few issues. The effects worked quite well for me, but the deal breaker for me was the poor fullscreen support. It's a known issue. I had trouble with both non-OpenGL (mplayer) and OpenGL (mythfrontend) programs, and "undirected fullscreen rendering" didn't work for me. Beryl isn't activated in Feisty (or Edgy) be default for reason.
However, I do think that the work the beryl developers are doing is fantastic, even though it's not yet a stable release. I worry that the enthusiasm in developing great software like this is hampered by negative (non-constructive) feedback... particularly of a non-stable release.
I always find it difficult to get a summary on the new features to help me decide if I should upgrade. These are the results from my searches:
18 month support term
Better installation, includes migration tools for mail and such from Windows and linux partitions.
Improved wireless support with Avahi
Easier third party codec/firmware/driver installation, including Nvidia and ATi proprietary drivers and mp3 codecs.
Two new games : glches and soduko
Compiz/Beryl support for desktop 3D effects (not default)
Beagle (search indexed), Tomboy (note tacking program, sticky notes) and F-Spot (photo management.. alternatively called G-spot, depending on the type of photos).
java
sources : blog 1, blog 2
I already have all of these setup on Edgy, so I won't upgrade.
Run configure with the following command (this solves a compile time known bug in gcc 4)
ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no./configure --enable-application=mail
This article came out a couple of days ago. It's a calendar plugin for Thunderbird 2 that syncs with google calendar. In my opinion, it's not an "Exchange killer," as the title states, but it could be very useful.
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Exactly right. The hurdle for teleportation is the conversion of data and energy into matter. In theory, a Star Trek starship could beam crew members over 250 years time using 802.11g. (assuming, of course that a average human being contains exactly 55.8 petabytes worth of data).
then getting people to ditch their computers completely is like curing cancer and AIDS.
I couldn't be bothered to read TFA... what's this about?
Spam is one thing, piles of legitimate e-mail is another. Some people have hundreds of issues a day, and if e-mail is abandoned, some other form of communication will take its place. The busiest people with large amounts of work-related e-mail have a secretary to filter and re-direct messages.
nah, it's all appropriate. The angular momentum is on the magnetic moment produced at the electron from an applied magnetic field, due mainly to the Zeeman interaction. The spin itself is the magnetic moment of the electron. Changes in the magnetic field (non parallel) apply a torque on the moment and change its orientation. The motions are described by the quantum angular momentum equations .. i.e. commutation relations. These commutation relations are the quantum analog to the classical angular momentum equations.
That's odd. I thought they already did that before Windows 95.
This is an innocent question. If the OSS community is ready to debunk these patents, do we really need Microsoft to reveal which of the 235 patents/infringements they're talking about? Couldn't we start a site/database that organizes all of Microsoft's patents and start documenting prior art and such for each. The patents themselves aren't hidden :
Microsoft's patents (6723 patents)
Microsoft's UI patent (155 patents)
(for example)
Why not start debunking the FUD to prove how spurious their claims are? Is it because this would be too much work? (Admittedly, 6723 >> 235)
Fair enough. However, when people know that you have a cellphone and you don't return their call within a reasonable amount of time (a day?), they know you're ignoring them. I intentionally tell friends/work that I don't have a cell phone, and I sometimes check my home voicemail. I return calls on my time, and people don't feel snubbed by my inaccessibility. Granted, I'm an academic and not many people can do this -- but many of my colleagues with cellphones envy me.
Selectivity is most important. It's great that this gel can 'capture' virus proteins, but does it bind them more tightly than other proteins? This could be very problematic if it removes native proteins in the human serum. Many proteins look alike structurally at low resolution -- nm resolutions. If this system doesn't discriminate based on other factors like electrostatics, then this couldn't possibly be an effective filter.
The next problem is accessibility. I'm assuming that this gel only traps proteins outside of cells. I'm not a virologist (I'm structural biologist & biophysical chemist), but it seems to me that if a virus has integrated itself into your genome or populated most of your cells, you're screwed.
I'd agree with you regarding PhDs that continue down the academic route (and some industrial people too). However, the PhD can be an advanced technical degree too. Most of my colleagues will go into industry and process known samples for the rest of their lives. They'll never produce new knowledge, but the expertise of the PhD is required (this is true for NMR and mass spec, for example).
agreed. At least in the physical sciences, the PhD (1) gives you the time to master a particular subject, (2) gives you the resources to master that subject with funding, (3) gives you the opportunity to exchange with experts in the field. More importantly, I believe the PhD teaches autonomous thinking. From my experience, bachelor's degrees are mostly textbook knowledge and PhDs are not. While there are many PhDs that really aren't experts in their fields, I have yet to encounter a non-PhD with the skills and knowledge of a competent PhD in the physical sciences. They just don't have the time, resources or access to the experts.
For example, my PhD is in biophysical chemistry and chemical physics -- solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance applied to proteins. It literally takes at least 5 years to become an expert in this field, and longer for many of my colleages. Learning NMR statistical quantum mechanics takes years of graduate classes, reading many papers and dozens of books. You need to devote yourself for years full-time to learn this stuff.
Dick Feynman's position, for example, is that you can't learn modern physics without the math. Analogies can only go so far, and there's a reason a person requires a PhD to understand some subjects.
Is wikipedia really only source for the lay person? I never thought so.
In some areas, the closed linux binary driver maintains feature parity with the Windows counterpart.
I think you're right. The picture itself isn't offensive in any way, and the under-age drinking clearly has nothing to do with with her specifically -- she was 25 at the time. I speculate that it had something to do with the kids she was going to teach and possibly giving them booze. There's more than meets the eye.
There is indeed a key difference. Here's another perspective :
Rape in real life is motivated by a desire to seek power or vent anger. The user's ability to log-off enpowers "the victim," and not the rapist. Further, chat filters (I'm assuming they exist in SL) can prevent it from being a good medium for venting anger. The fact that the "victim" is empowered makes this a very different situation. (other than the fact that it's in a virtual world)
Clearly, computer security is overrat
Hopefully it'll be good enough to offset the extra energy from all the holographic girlfriends.
(I know.. I know.. sixth day was a crap movie).
This is a special situation because she was working for a university. Integrity is the most important value in academia. I consider it unethical that she maintained her post at a university while misrepresenting herself -- it's just like plagiarism. However, the degrees themselves obivously didn't matter. She was highly competent at her job, and if this were in another setting (corporate for example), this likely wouldn't be much of an issue.
I think you missed a factor of pi in your calculation.
I haven't been able to access the article, but I'd have to agree with the summary. I've tried running Beryl on Feisty for a few days, and I've had a few issues. The effects worked quite well for me, but the deal breaker for me was the poor fullscreen support. It's a known issue. I had trouble with both non-OpenGL (mplayer) and OpenGL (mythfrontend) programs, and "undirected fullscreen rendering" didn't work for me. Beryl isn't activated in Feisty (or Edgy) be default for reason.
However, I do think that the work the beryl developers are doing is fantastic, even though it's not yet a stable release. I worry that the enthusiasm in developing great software like this is hampered by negative (non-constructive) feedback... particularly of a non-stable release.
sources : blog 1, blog 2
I already have all of these setup on Edgy, so I won't upgrade.
ac_cv_visibility_pragma=no
This article came out a couple of days ago. It's a calendar plugin for Thunderbird 2 that syncs with google calendar. In my opinion, it's not an "Exchange killer," as the title states, but it could be very useful.