That's exactly what I had in mind, so I don't see what you're getting at? If you check Wikepedia on this it will tell you that "If the transmission line is uniform along its length, then its behaviour is largely described by a single parameter called the characteristic impedance" And no, the impedance of an earplug cable is not suited to guide a GHz RF wave into your ear without significant loss.
Some phones put so much RF into the hands free kit that radiation exposure is worse on hands free
Riiight... If you can make the GHz RF radiation travel into the wire of your earpiece, then you should patent it quickly, because then you've managed to do something that no radio engineer deemed possible... There's something called matching impedance you might want to investigate.
According to TFA: The colours are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times
This would mean that they are computer generated images, probably combining radar and visual data. I would like to see some kind of symbol imprinted on (one corner of ) such pictures, to make it clear they are computer generated. It's getting harder and harder to distinguish them from real pictures. I know that the so-called NASA/ESA pictures of black holes and such are just artist impressions, but the media call them pictures, and ordinary folks don't know better. (Sorry for the rant, had to get that off my chest)
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Indeed. A few years back, I lost my hard drive (and pretty much everything else in my computer) due to a failing power supply. If I had been using RAID, I would have had two smoking hard drives instead of one. Backing up on a removable medium is a better solution imho.
Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point, the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of Sauron.
Actually, the black pupil isn't really there, it's just the Hubble's coronagraph (see TFA). So, while the picture indeed resembles the Eye of Sauron, the system doesn't really look like this seen from Earth.
I've tried a number of free and non-free virtual desktop utilities, but the one I've settled with is VirtuaWin. It's small and open source. Just changed the settings a bit, and downloaded some nice tray icons (blue 3x3). You can configure it to switch with WIN+(number key), move windows from one desktop to another with CTRL+(drag).
I'm not saying there are no quantum effects happening in the brain, just that the brain doesn't work as a quantum computer. The current understanding is that signaling between neurons is electro-chemical. Artificial neural nets were modelled after this, and although far from perfect, seem capable of doing things real brains can do (like recognizing faces). Neural networks don't work the same way quantum computers do. Their power comes from over 10^11 neurons working in parallel, each having maybe 1000 connections to other neurons. In a quantum computer, you don't need this massive parallel computing. The quantum bits there are in a superimposed state of both 0 and 1. This cause quantum operations performed on them to take in account all possible combinations, creating the same effect as performing all these calculations in parallel.
My bad. That code was playing tricks with my eyes. I didn't notice that the statement after the if isn't there (and thus the ; is the empty statement). So basically it is just an extra negation of the condition of the if().
The similarity between brains and a quantum computer comes from the fact that the neurons in the brain also process the data in parallel. There is no quantum computing going on inside the brain. There recently was an article about an autistic savant explaining his calculation skills. Numbers are just shapes to him, and multiplying them means he just merges them in his head and reads back the emerged shape. Probably his visual cortex is doing the parallel operations on the shapes here (maybe similar to using the shader engines on your graphics card for doing calculations).
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For Windows, try VirtuaWin. It's GPL and gives you up to nine virtual desktops.
It doesn't persist in the soil like 2,4-D and many other broad-spectrum herbicides do
That's what Monsanto wants you to believe, but the truth is that they had to stop calling their product biodegradable because it is persistent. It's also very toxic for plants and animals. Just google for "roundup biodegradable" and see for yourself.
Running software under Cygwin on Windows is in the same league as running software under Wine on Linux. It is nice and useful, but not the same as a native port. Thanks anyway for the link.
Since the Linux version is GPL'ed, what stops people from porting that to Windows and releasing it under the GPL? Sure, it would be a lot of work, but it could be done if enough people committed themselves to it. I wonder if Trolltech would try to stop it.
You have two options: 1) use the corporate version of XP, which doesn't require activation at all (you should have known to do this in the first plcae based on your anticipated odd usage patterns); or 2) once you've hit your 6th activation and XP is complaining (which under the conditions stated above takes half a year) call into the *anonymous*, *toll-free* hotline where they will *with no questions asked* reenable your activation code.
The third and easiest option is to backup the wpa.dbl file (contains activation data) and just copy it back after reinstallation.
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That's exactly what I had in mind, so I don't see what you're getting at? If you check Wikepedia on this it will tell you that "If the transmission line is uniform along its length, then its behaviour is largely described by a single parameter called the characteristic impedance"
And no, the impedance of an earplug cable is not suited to guide a GHz RF wave into your ear without significant loss.
Some phones put so much RF into the hands free kit that radiation exposure is worse on hands free
Riiight... If you can make the GHz RF radiation travel into the wire of your earpiece, then you should patent it quickly, because then you've managed to do something that no radio engineer deemed possible... There's something called matching impedance you might want to investigate.
...JASC Paintshop Pro...
That's called Corel Paintshop Pro nowadays.
According to TFA: The colours are very close to natural, but the vertical relief is exaggerated three times
This would mean that they are computer generated images, probably combining radar and visual data.
I would like to see some kind of symbol imprinted on (one corner of ) such pictures, to make it clear they are computer generated. It's getting harder and harder to distinguish them from real pictures. I know that the so-called NASA/ESA pictures of black holes and such are just artist impressions, but the media call them pictures, and ordinary folks don't know better. (Sorry for the rant, had to get that off my chest)
Indeed. A few years back, I lost my hard drive (and pretty much everything else in my computer) due to a failing power supply. If I had been using RAID, I would have had two smoking hard drives instead of one. Backing up on a removable medium is a better solution imho.
First you have to persuade the scientist...
You mean like this?
Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point, the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of Sauron.
Actually, the black pupil isn't really there, it's just the Hubble's coronagraph (see TFA). So, while the picture indeed resembles the Eye of Sauron, the system doesn't really look like this seen from Earth.
unlike Perl/Python which are screenscrapers, Monad scripts can pipe out and pipe in objects
I'm sure a Python app can send serialized (pickled) objects to a stdio pipe.
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I've tried a number of free and non-free virtual desktop utilities, but the one I've settled with is VirtuaWin. It's small and open source. Just changed the settings a bit, and downloaded some nice tray icons (blue 3x3). You can configure it to switch with WIN+(number key), move windows from one desktop to another with CTRL+(drag).
Off course once it's released, you'll start waiting for IPv8 (etc)...
I think they might prove usable. Judge for yourself.
It doesn't have to
How did it know to search for red planes? Or did it also find red cars?
I'm not saying there are no quantum effects happening in the brain, just that the brain doesn't work as a quantum computer. The current understanding is that signaling between neurons is electro-chemical. Artificial neural nets were modelled after this, and although far from perfect, seem capable of doing things real brains can do (like recognizing faces). Neural networks don't work the same way quantum computers do. Their power comes from over 10^11 neurons working in parallel, each having maybe 1000 connections to other neurons. In a quantum computer, you don't need this massive parallel computing. The quantum bits there are in a superimposed state of both 0 and 1. This cause quantum operations performed on them to take in account all possible combinations, creating the same effect as performing all these calculations in parallel.
My bad. That code was playing tricks with my eyes. I didn't notice that the statement after the if isn't there (and thus the ; is the empty statement). So basically it is just an extra negation of the condition of the if().
Theres a semi-colon after the if, so the else will be illegal...
The similarity between brains and a quantum computer comes from the fact that the neurons in the brain also process the data in parallel. There is no quantum computing going on inside the brain. There recently was an article about an autistic savant explaining his calculation skills. Numbers are just shapes to him, and multiplying them means he just merges them in his head and reads back the emerged shape. Probably his visual cortex is doing the parallel operations on the shapes here (maybe similar to using the shader engines on your graphics card for doing calculations).
For Windows, try VirtuaWin. It's GPL and gives you up to nine virtual desktops.
It doesn't persist in the soil like 2,4-D and many other broad-spectrum herbicides do
That's what Monsanto wants you to believe, but the truth is that they had to stop calling their product biodegradable because it is persistent. It's also very toxic for plants and animals. Just google for "roundup biodegradable" and see for yourself.
Apologies. I saw some things about KDE and Cygwin and wrongly assumed it was a port to Cygwin only.
Running software under Cygwin on Windows is in the same league as running software under Wine on Linux. It is nice and useful, but not the same as a native port. Thanks anyway for the link.
Since the Linux version is GPL'ed, what stops people from porting that to Windows and releasing it under the GPL? Sure, it would be a lot of work, but it could be done if enough people committed themselves to it. I wonder if Trolltech would try to stop it.
You have two options: 1) use the corporate version of XP, which doesn't require activation at all (you should have known to do this in the first plcae based on your anticipated odd usage patterns); or 2) once you've hit your 6th activation and XP is complaining (which under the conditions stated above takes half a year) call into the *anonymous*, *toll-free* hotline where they will *with no questions asked* reenable your activation code.
The third and easiest option is to backup the wpa.dbl file (contains activation data) and just copy it back after reinstallation.