I seems irresponsible when people calculate the value of a life in terms of litigation. But the alternative is not too great: it would be possible to reduce the number of deaths due to cars, fires, earthquakes, etc, but would take an incredible amount of money. Money that could be used, for example, for training doctors, researching sicknesses, etc.
Sun Microsystems took a couple of big steps forward to benefit the open source community Wednesday by announcing full-service support [...] for OpenOffice.org software and a free, trial-preview version of the its latest developers' package, now dubbed Java Studio Creator.
...so that you can compare them. Or am I being overly cynical?
If that experience was anything to go buy, i sudder to think
You have earned yourself a visit from the speling police. You are charged with first degree bad spelling. However, the judge has forgiven your misspelling "by" as "buy", on appeal from SCO and Micro$oft.
A 100 watt light turns all 100 watts into radiation (albeit much is infrarred). The bulbs disperse light widely, but so would a laser from orbit. Sunlight can be 1000 watts per square meter, so the laser would have to stay in an area of 0.2 m^2 -- 200 W/0.2 m^2 == 1000 W/m^2 -- to be as powerful as sunlight. Maybe being all one frequency would make a difference, but I doubt it.
Ummm, the very defnition of a laser is that the light does not spread.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Laser light is monochromatic and in phase and polorized, but there is no reason why it should not spread. In fact, I have put a lens in front of my laser and it spreads quite nicely.
PS: did you know that air of different temperatures or pressure has a different diffractive index and could be used as a lens?)
That is what the radar is for. I'm not sure if it is a conventional radar, or if they send a beam of weaker light surrounding the beam and turn it off if something reflects the light back.
Because dust particles or water droplets can reflect it; furthermore, the atmosphere will disperse it. FYI, the sky appears bright because it disperses light (it disperses blue the most and red the least. This is why the sky appears blue during the day and red/orange/yellow/gold/your-favorite-sunset-color when the sun is low in the sky).
In summary, you would see a bright enough beam in the atmosphere even if there were no dust in the air.
From what I heard, the 747-mounted laser was a miserable failure. It seems the atmosphere disperses light so that the laser's power density would become wimpy at a few hundred miles (or something).
But I cannot tell, as I have not heard of the project for a year or two. I am not sure if that means it's a failure or that I am lost.
It is not as easy to use biometrics as a pin. You could disconnect the camera and plug it into your recording, or (possibly, I'm not sure) put a printed copy in front of the camera. But all this increases the difficulty and the chances of getting caught.
These days, we can't trust anyone. I will set up my own ATM machine, and use only that one. I will also allow any Slashdot user on my "friends" list to use it. Or any stranger.
You see credit card fraud hyped up in the media all the time, but with almost every credit card you're liable for no more than $50, whereas ATM card fraud is always mentioned as a footnote when it can really screw up peoples' finances!
It is percisely because you pay for debit card fraud that it is not put on a prominant spot on the news. Wereas because the credit card fraud is payed by some bigass company that it is hyped. Gotta hate Corporate America.
From the FA: Some exchange officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had little sympathy for traders who bought stock at the low prices, and then lost money when they sold the stock before learning that the earlier trade was being canceled. "They should have known that was too good to be true," one said.
Damn! Gotta check my Linux box for back doors, addware, or some other bug. I should have known it was too good to be true!
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Since when is more college education the same as higher level skill?
I seems irresponsible when people calculate the value of a life in terms of litigation. But the alternative is not too great: it would be possible to reduce the number of deaths due to cars, fires, earthquakes, etc, but would take an incredible amount of money. Money that could be used, for example, for training doctors, researching sicknesses, etc.
My bad. Sorry.
Also, after I read the rest of the FA, I found
Sun donated the source code for StarOffice.com in July 2000 to OpenOffice.org
Me a bad boy.
Re:Just by star then?
In Corporate America, they teach you how to spell "buy". Misspelling "buy" is an unforgivable crime. Buy, buy, buy. Buy from us. From U.S.
Sun Microsystems took a couple of big steps forward to benefit the open source community Wednesday by announcing full-service support [...] for OpenOffice.org software and a free, trial-preview version of the its latest developers' package, now dubbed Java Studio Creator.
...so that you can compare them. Or am I being overly cynical?
You're missing one very importan one:
Those that cannot manage: sue.
If that experience was anything to go buy, i sudder to think
You have earned yourself a visit from the speling police. You are charged with first degree bad spelling. However, the judge has forgiven your misspelling "by" as "buy", on appeal from SCO and Micro$oft.
Outsourcing managers is a big no-no. Suddenly, the company is not American anymore.
A 100 watt light turns all 100 watts into radiation (albeit much is infrarred). The bulbs disperse light widely, but so would a laser from orbit. Sunlight can be 1000 watts per square meter, so the laser would have to stay in an area of 0.2 m^2 -- 200 W/0.2 m^2 == 1000 W/m^2 -- to be as powerful as sunlight. Maybe being all one frequency would make a difference, but I doubt it.
Ummm, the very defnition of a laser is that the light does not spread.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Laser light is monochromatic and in phase and polorized, but there is no reason why it should not spread. In fact, I have put a lens in front of my laser and it spreads quite nicely.
PS: did you know that air of different temperatures or pressure has a different diffractive index and could be used as a lens?)
Ozone is created by ionizing radiation from the sun, IIRC. I doubt that the laser will harm it.
if ( new(technology) )
printf("%s", enviromental_concern(enviromentalist, technology));
A poster calulated the whole laser to be 200 Watts. For some reason, the equivalent of two 100watt lights doesn't scare me.
That is what the radar is for. I'm not sure if it is a conventional radar, or if they send a beam of weaker light surrounding the beam and turn it off if something reflects the light back.
Because dust particles or water droplets can reflect it; furthermore, the atmosphere will disperse it. FYI, the sky appears bright because it disperses light (it disperses blue the most and red the least. This is why the sky appears blue during the day and red/orange/yellow/gold/your-favorite-sunset-color when the sun is low in the sky).
In summary, you would see a bright enough beam in the atmosphere even if there were no dust in the air.
From what I heard, the 747-mounted laser was a miserable failure. It seems the atmosphere disperses light so that the laser's power density would become wimpy at a few hundred miles (or something).
But I cannot tell, as I have not heard of the project for a year or two. I am not sure if that means it's a failure or that I am lost.
I suddenly see a future for plastic surgery...
Here's some linux quotes. Few of them are Linus's quotes on SCO, but SCO is mentioned quite often.
Um, no thanks. I seriously doubt that India would want to nuke someone so close to them. Ever hear of nuclear fallout?
It is not as easy to use biometrics as a pin. You could disconnect the camera and plug it into your recording, or (possibly, I'm not sure) put a printed copy in front of the camera. But all this increases the difficulty and the chances of getting caught.
These days, we can't trust anyone. I will set up my own ATM machine, and use only that one. I will also allow any Slashdot user on my "friends" list to use it. Or any stranger.
You see credit card fraud hyped up in the media all the time, but with almost every credit card you're liable for no more than $50, whereas ATM card fraud is always mentioned as a footnote when it can really screw up peoples' finances!
It is percisely because you pay for debit card fraud that it is not put on a prominant spot on the news. Wereas because the credit card fraud is payed by some bigass company that it is hyped. Gotta hate Corporate America.
Goes to show that united geeks carry weight.
Just name 2.6.* something like 2.4.(*+26). Then they continue working on 2.4 Or maybe just tell the idiots to get lost.
People learn do overs when there like 5 years old.
But they forget it during business training (unless it is to their advantage)
From the FA:
Some exchange officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had little sympathy for traders who bought stock at the low prices, and then lost money when they sold the stock before learning that the earlier trade was being canceled. "They should have known that was too good to be true," one said.
Damn! Gotta check my Linux box for back doors, addware, or some other bug. I should have known it was too good to be true!