Well, I am sure that there are people who think otherwise. Perhaps they are making this to cater to people who are hard-core researchers. It is really a good thing if you want multiple different types of information from one source.
It's essentially just a search aggregate anyway, and its definitely convenient.
You don't have to worry about this closed loop system. Why not just rely on some kind of messaging service instead of 'dmail'. The whole thing sounds kind of stupid considering the purpose of an email address is not to be "out of contact".
Besides, all a company has to do is close off their email gateway and they can accomplish the same thing this new 'innovation' provides.
Yeah, I guess that the areodynamics of the whole thing are a little different when the shuttle is on the ground, and the forces aren't at the whim of its designed intent.
I think the point is that Cape Canaveral has never been hit directly with such a strong hurricane.
I am sure that the area has has its share of 100+ MPH winds before, but the article stresses how the area isn't really prepared for the shelling that Frances(is) will give it.
Of course, this can all be speculative bullshit and the hurricane can end up going south and then into the gulf, thereby leaving the Kennedy Center high and dry (figuratively speaking).
The single engineer is probably being brought in to work on an existing proof of concept. I am sure that this first engineer is just a pebble in the pond. Soon enough they'll get together a whole team
On a side note.. I think that the next iPod should have some kind of celluar integration. It would be nice to talk about with a 60 GB hard drive that does more than play music and solitare. It would also be nice to walk about with a picture phone that does more than ring when I am needed.
They're no longer together so its not really that big of a deal anymore. At the time there was no precedent for companies like Verisign and Net Sol, so they just went with the flow.
If it wasn't for that other company stepping in and purchasing net sol, they'd probably still be together.
Hell, verisign still owns a minority interest in net sol and its subsidiaries.
If you get a domain wrong, the god damn browser should take you to google or whatever search engine you specified under some settings within your browser.
Its not like it would be that hard to do.
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Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking.
From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest
physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010.
For two weeks, British-based bookmaker Ladbrokes is opening a book
on five separate discoveries: life on Titan, gravitational waves, the
Higgs boson, cosmic ray origins and nuclear fusion.
"We've taken bets on life on Mars before," says Warren Lush,
Ladbrokes' novelty bets expert, "and we wanted to provide something
completely different." The initiative follows an approach from New Scientist, and the full 10-page feature, Monsters of the Universe appears in the print edition of the magazine.
Bookies' odds are not straightforward probabilities. They also take
into account how much the company can afford to lose in case they have
to pay out. For example, Ladbrokes reckon the odds of finding the Loch
Ness monster alive and well are 66-1, so anyone betting $1 would win
$66 if it turned up.
But these apparently low odds reflect the fact that thousands of
people have placed bets on Nessie, rather than the likelihood of the
monster's existence. To work out the odds on the physics experiments,
Lush consulted physicists and astronomers. He expects "the odds will
spark debates".
Cosmic rays
Ladbrokes say the most likely conundrum to be cracked is the origin
of cosmic rays - high-energy particles from outer space which
continuously bombard Earth. No one is certain where they come from or
what gives them energies 10 million times greater than the most
powerful man-made particle accelerator.
Working on the problem are physicists at the Pierre Auger experiment
in Mendoza, Argentina. Utilising 1600 detectors spread over 3000 square
kilometres, it has been running since January 2004. Ladbrokes are
offering 4-1 that the mystery will be solved by 2010.
They are also giving good odds on a successful hunt for the missing
Higgs boson which, particle physicists believe, is responsible for
giving everything in the subatomic world its mass. And it is one of the
key reasons for building the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN
laboratory near Geneva, the world's most powerful particle accelerator.
The LHC should be complete by 2007 and Ladbrokes put the odds of
finding the Higgs before 2010 at 6-1.
"I'd be tempted to take a bet on the Higgs at 6-1," says Brian
Foster who heads the particle physics group at the University of Oxford
in the UK. "I've been quite instrumental in betting the taxpayers'
money on us finding it, so I'd better put my money where my mouth is."
Power bet
Ladbrokes are more bullish about the chances of nuclear fusion
becoming a commercial reality than most physicists. The bookie reckons
the odds of a fusion power station turning on by 2010 are 100-1.
Meanwhile, physicists are still wrangling over where to build ITER, the
first fusion reaction designed to churn out 10 times more power than it
guzzles.
Serious betters might want to take a 500-1 punt on the LIGO
detectors finding gravitational waves - tiny ripples in the fabric of
space-time caused by colliding black holes and massive imploding stars.
"I will certainly have a flutter," says Jim Hough at the University
of Glasgow in the UK and a member of the LIGO team. He is confident
that LIGO will catch a gravitational wave before 2010. "I would have
put the odds between 2-1 and 10-1."
According to Ladbrokes, the rank outsider is the Cassini spacecraft,
currently orbiting Saturn. On Christmas Day, Cassini will release the
wok-shaped Huygens probe on a 20-day journey towards Titan, Saturn's
largest moon. Ladbrokes has set the odds of finding intelligent life on
Titan by 2010 at 10,00
Definitely a good idea there. Incubating children in a technology rich environment does much more than increase their learning potential. It shows them that there is a world out there that isn't like the one they live in and there is a strong chance that they will do more to better themselves and in turn better their country as a whole.
You can preach that all you want to the slashdot crowd and it won't make a difference.
The bread and butter of the music industry are acts like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. There is no way you can convince a 13 year old girl to stay away from a record store. You can't force her to download the music. 13 year old girls are social whores, and if they don't have the latest album (the actual album, not a 25 cent blank cd), they'll whine and bitch. As long as they aren't spending their own money, they'll continue to purchase the legit label bullshit pop music.
As long as that money comes pouring in, the RIAA will continue to "fight the good fight" (as they see it).
If you want to legitimatize p2p and bittorrent you need to find another argument. You need to take different action. Work toward the greater good and support things like the red hat torrents. Stay away from sites like suprnova. Let microsoft see how the distributed bandwidth will help them spread their patchs and SP's out to the general public faster and more efficiently.
That falls under the same as this:
The advertisements may be annoying, they may be obtrusive, but they provide the developers and publishers the ability to boost the budget of a game so it can be of a higher quality.
Once they start recouping costs before even delivering a product, they can do bigger and better things. The original investment as a whole already starts to pay off before any kind of delivery takes place. Will this be good or bad for games in the future? Maybe or maybe not.
Has been throwing in outside advertisers for some time. From what I can remember, the music that used in the latest version of their wonderful madden games was provided in a fashion similar to "payola" or pay for play...
To be honest, this doesn't actually bother me because the advertisements within the game take place while the action is still going on. Whether is the "Nokia Sugar Bowl" within NCAA 2005 or the "Gillette Half Time Report" in various other games.
Its completely unobtrusive and works well with the game. I'd go ahead and say that it provides a kind of realism to the whole experience.
I live in an area with multiple area codes overlapping eachother. I have friends in quite a few exchanges, so I have to remember all 10 digits.
You make a great point, and what you are saying is completely understandable. I live in the DC Metro area and I have deal with at least 6 area codes on a daily basis. But, my point is still valid in that the numbers still have some kind of structure to them, as they are not only all 10 digit numbers, but they follow a set method of creation. They all have to be within an predetermined area code, and beyond that they all have to fall into a set prefix.
Phones are in a way a different beast. Phone #'s rely on area codes and assigned prefixes. If I was calling my best friend who lived down the block, I only had to know the last 4 digits of his #, since the majority of prefixes in the area were 342, 343, 344, 346, etc..
ICQ #'s were assigned to you based upon you creation time. They are definitly a bit more confusing than the well structured phone, IP or zip code systems.
I messed up and hit submit before I linked..
Dead Baby is trainspotting
Pickle Shots and Handjobs is from the movie velvet goldmine...
and the period at the end is supposed to say "Hayden Christensen"...
Lesson learned.. don't try to tab to preview when you're on the phone.
Yes, McGregor was an unkown for most people who stayed away from movies dealing with dead babies wakling on ceiling and the horrible pickle shots and hand jobs of velvet goldmine (way to much of an inside joke)...
I was actually refering to the wonderful Jake Lloyd and the marvelous.
There were set pieces that acted circles around them.
No matter how bad he makes the prequels they are still doing well financially. He's releasing the original trilogy on DVD and thats gonna make a good buck. It was only a matter of time before he made the full 9 films he originally promised.
If we are lucky he'll go with the formula of the original trilogy and let others direct.
If we are really lucky he'll go out and get someone who actually knows how to write a good script.
It would be nice to actually see if they can get some no name actors that actually know how to act.
no, I even mentioned bit torrent in the post. I said that it makes it easier, but it doesn't increase your bandwidth. If you are a seeder, you still have to worry about getting the full load out before someone else can come in and share the load.
This is how that low up speed hinders your progress. I guess I should have explained that a bit further, but I figured that since I mentioned distributed bandwidth I had it all covered.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I am sure that there are people who think otherwise. Perhaps they are making this to cater to people who are hard-core researchers. It is really a good thing if you want multiple different types of information from one source.
It's essentially just a search aggregate anyway, and its definitely convenient.
You don't have to worry about this closed loop system. Why not just rely on some kind of messaging service instead of 'dmail'. The whole thing sounds kind of stupid considering the purpose of an email address is not to be "out of contact".
Besides, all a company has to do is close off their email gateway and they can accomplish the same thing this new 'innovation' provides.
Hurricane David was a Catagory 2 hurricane with sustained winds between 96-110 mph. Thats around the range that the area was built to withstand.
Frances is a Catagory 4 hurricane and is currently throwing around winds in the 145-155 mph range. Can you see the concern now?
Yeah, I guess that the areodynamics of the whole thing are a little different when the shuttle is on the ground, and the forces aren't at the whim of its designed intent.
The shuttles themselves shouldn't really receive that much damage since they are meant to withstand:
- Extreme speeds while still within the earth's atmosphere (between 3,000 - 10,000 MPH).
- Extreme stresses from friction while breaking the earth's atmosphere
- Extreme gravitational pull from earth based acceleration
I would think that those three things combined would ensure that the shuttles can survive on there own.Of course, those three things don't take into account the possibility of the structure housing them collapsing on them.
I think the point is that Cape Canaveral has never been hit directly with such a strong hurricane.
I am sure that the area has has its share of 100+ MPH winds before, but the article stresses how the area isn't really prepared for the shelling that Frances(is) will give it.
Of course, this can all be speculative bullshit and the hurricane can end up going south and then into the gulf, thereby leaving the Kennedy Center high and dry (figuratively speaking).
The single engineer is probably being brought in to work on an existing proof of concept. I am sure that this first engineer is just a pebble in the pond. Soon enough they'll get together a whole team
On a side note.. I think that the next iPod should have some kind of celluar integration. It would be nice to talk about with a 60 GB hard drive that does more than play music and solitare. It would also be nice to walk about with a picture phone that does more than ring when I am needed.
Think of the space in my pockets man. please
no no.. the internet explorer thing sends you to MS's own search.. I am saying that the search engine would be user specified.
They're no longer together so its not really that big of a deal anymore. At the time there was no precedent for companies like Verisign and Net Sol, so they just went with the flow.
If it wasn't for that other company stepping in and purchasing net sol, they'd probably still be together.
Hell, verisign still owns a minority interest in net sol and its subsidiaries.
If you get a domain wrong, the god damn browser should take you to google or whatever search engine you specified under some settings within your browser.
Its not like it would be that hard to do.
Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking. From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010.
For two weeks, British-based bookmaker Ladbrokes is opening a book on five separate discoveries: life on Titan, gravitational waves, the Higgs boson, cosmic ray origins and nuclear fusion.
"We've taken bets on life on Mars before," says Warren Lush, Ladbrokes' novelty bets expert, "and we wanted to provide something completely different." The initiative follows an approach from New Scientist, and the full 10-page feature, Monsters of the Universe appears in the print edition of the magazine.
Bookies' odds are not straightforward probabilities. They also take into account how much the company can afford to lose in case they have to pay out. For example, Ladbrokes reckon the odds of finding the Loch Ness monster alive and well are 66-1, so anyone betting $1 would win $66 if it turned up.
But these apparently low odds reflect the fact that thousands of people have placed bets on Nessie, rather than the likelihood of the monster's existence. To work out the odds on the physics experiments, Lush consulted physicists and astronomers. He expects "the odds will spark debates".
Cosmic rays
Ladbrokes say the most likely conundrum to be cracked is the origin of cosmic rays - high-energy particles from outer space which continuously bombard Earth. No one is certain where they come from or what gives them energies 10 million times greater than the most powerful man-made particle accelerator.
Working on the problem are physicists at the Pierre Auger experiment in Mendoza, Argentina. Utilising 1600 detectors spread over 3000 square kilometres, it has been running since January 2004. Ladbrokes are offering 4-1 that the mystery will be solved by 2010.
They are also giving good odds on a successful hunt for the missing Higgs boson which, particle physicists believe, is responsible for giving everything in the subatomic world its mass. And it is one of the key reasons for building the Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC should be complete by 2007 and Ladbrokes put the odds of finding the Higgs before 2010 at 6-1.
"I'd be tempted to take a bet on the Higgs at 6-1," says Brian Foster who heads the particle physics group at the University of Oxford in the UK. "I've been quite instrumental in betting the taxpayers' money on us finding it, so I'd better put my money where my mouth is."
Power bet
Ladbrokes are more bullish about the chances of nuclear fusion becoming a commercial reality than most physicists. The bookie reckons the odds of a fusion power station turning on by 2010 are 100-1. Meanwhile, physicists are still wrangling over where to build ITER, the first fusion reaction designed to churn out 10 times more power than it guzzles.
Serious betters might want to take a 500-1 punt on the LIGO detectors finding gravitational waves - tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by colliding black holes and massive imploding stars.
"I will certainly have a flutter," says Jim Hough at the University of Glasgow in the UK and a member of the LIGO team. He is confident that LIGO will catch a gravitational wave before 2010. "I would have put the odds between 2-1 and 10-1."
According to Ladbrokes, the rank outsider is the Cassini spacecraft, currently orbiting Saturn. On Christmas Day, Cassini will release the wok-shaped Huygens probe on a 20-day journey towards Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Ladbrokes has set the odds of finding intelligent life on Titan by 2010 at 10,00
Definitely a good idea there. Incubating children in a technology rich environment does much more than increase their learning potential. It shows them that there is a world out there that isn't like the one they live in and there is a strong chance that they will do more to better themselves and in turn better their country as a whole.
Marvelous
You can preach that all you want to the slashdot crowd and it won't make a difference.
The bread and butter of the music industry are acts like Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. There is no way you can convince a 13 year old girl to stay away from a record store. You can't force her to download the music. 13 year old girls are social whores, and if they don't have the latest album (the actual album, not a 25 cent blank cd), they'll whine and bitch. As long as they aren't spending their own money, they'll continue to purchase the legit label bullshit pop music.
As long as that money comes pouring in, the RIAA will continue to "fight the good fight" (as they see it).
If you want to legitimatize p2p and bittorrent you need to find another argument. You need to take different action. Work toward the greater good and support things like the red hat torrents. Stay away from sites like suprnova. Let microsoft see how the distributed bandwidth will help them spread their patchs and SP's out to the general public faster and more efficiently.
I fail to understand what stops people from installing firefox since it usually doesn't rely on an administrative profile for installation.
perhaps I am wrong, but it matters not because I get to do whatever the hell I want with my work PC.
They do make a valid point about the college kids going back to school with those unsecure boxes and fat pipes.
God I hates sluts and jocks.
double-edged sword.. I like that..
That falls under the same as this:
The advertisements may be annoying, they may be obtrusive, but they provide the developers and publishers the ability to boost the budget of a game so it can be of a higher quality.
Once they start recouping costs before even delivering a product, they can do bigger and better things. The original investment as a whole already starts to pay off before any kind of delivery takes place. Will this be good or bad for games in the future? Maybe or maybe not.
Has been throwing in outside advertisers for some time. From what I can remember, the music that used in the latest version of their wonderful madden games was provided in a fashion similar to "payola" or pay for play...
To be honest, this doesn't actually bother me because the advertisements within the game take place while the action is still going on. Whether is the "Nokia Sugar Bowl" within NCAA 2005 or the "Gillette Half Time Report" in various other games.
Its completely unobtrusive and works well with the game. I'd go ahead and say that it provides a kind of realism to the whole experience.
I live in an area with multiple area codes overlapping eachother. I have friends in quite a few exchanges, so I have to remember all 10 digits.
You make a great point, and what you are saying is completely understandable. I live in the DC Metro area and I have deal with at least 6 area codes on a daily basis. But, my point is still valid in that the numbers still have some kind of structure to them, as they are not only all 10 digit numbers, but they follow a set method of creation. They all have to be within an predetermined area code, and beyond that they all have to fall into a set prefix.
Phones are in a way a different beast. Phone #'s rely on area codes and assigned prefixes. If I was calling my best friend who lived down the block, I only had to know the last 4 digits of his #, since the majority of prefixes in the area were 342, 343, 344, 346, etc..
ICQ #'s were assigned to you based upon you creation time. They are definitly a bit more confusing than the well structured phone, IP or zip code systems.
I messed up and hit submit before I linked..
Dead Baby is trainspotting Pickle Shots and Handjobs is from the movie velvet goldmine...
and the period at the end is supposed to say "Hayden Christensen"...
Lesson learned.. don't try to tab to preview when you're on the phone.
Yes, McGregor was an unkown for most people who stayed away from movies dealing with dead babies wakling on ceiling and the horrible pickle shots and hand jobs of velvet goldmine (way to much of an inside joke)... .
I was actually refering to the wonderful Jake Lloyd and the marvelous
There were set pieces that acted circles around them.
Oh god, I hate to see what their combined powers of alterations could come up with.
Maybe this whole thing is just a "guerrila" marketing campaign to get attention to the next installment.
I wouldn't put it past the bastards of hollywood.
No matter how bad he makes the prequels they are still doing well financially. He's releasing the original trilogy on DVD and thats gonna make a good buck. It was only a matter of time before he made the full 9 films he originally promised.
If we are lucky he'll go with the formula of the original trilogy and let others direct.
If we are really lucky he'll go out and get someone who actually knows how to write a good script.
It would be nice to actually see if they can get some no name actors that actually know how to act.
oh.. and wookies!!!
no, I even mentioned bit torrent in the post. I said that it makes it easier, but it doesn't increase your bandwidth. If you are a seeder, you still have to worry about getting the full load out before someone else can come in and share the load.
This is how that low up speed hinders your progress. I guess I should have explained that a bit further, but I figured that since I mentioned distributed bandwidth I had it all covered.