If you want to see an example of weather chaos in action, look at pictures of Mars from last October. A small dust storm grew into a planet-wide dust storm, causing real global warming due to the dust in the atmosphere.
Anyone who tells you that they understand women or the weather is lying or very misguided.
We do not have, and probably never will, have enough weather and other atmospheric data to predict reliable trends in the weather. There are so many variables involved and so much chaos in the system that a simple curve fit of (man's activity vs. average temp somewhere) over 100 years doesn't mean squat! Reminds me of a couple friends who saw "trends" in the stock market right before losing their shirts.
Mentioning the symphony reminds me of the day I started hating the record companies. That day occured at least 15 years ago when I bought a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" for +$35 (2 CDs) and a copy of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for $3. If someone was making money off of the $3 CDs, they were making a KILLING off of the full-priced ones. I suspected even then that musicians weren't seeing much of that money, but I had no choice at the time other than paying whatever they wanted.
Considering your situation, I would gladly pay to see one of your performances or to buy a $10 CD directly from your organization, but if given the choice between buying it for $17 through middlemen or downloading it, I'm going to download it.
The Hubble telescope was myopic because of a 1.3 millimeter error on a piece of test equipment used to make the primary mirror. The construction of the mirror was flawless, but it just happened to be the wrong shape. I've never heard about it being based on a recon design from the 70s, that's sounds pretty iffy.
The legendary axlotl "tanks" were actually created using the female Bene Tleilaxu. Anyone with the strength of will to read all of the Dune novels learns of this.
Overall, I'd say we're de-evolving as we move away from the physical struggle to survive, but hopefully we'll get a few more geniuses in the process. Now that smart people can make a better living and score more often by being intelligent than their caveman counterparts, their numbers should start going up. Unfortunately, for every new Ramanujan that we generate, there will be dozens of "Jerry's kids" to offset him.
I've been thinking about this for years also. The concept of the adsorption heat pump is very sound and has been around for decades. One reason you don't see them nowadays is because compressor-driven heat pumps are more efficient overall. Of course, if you are utilizing waste heat, the driving force for the process is free. The ammonia-water system is the most prevalant, and I've even seen a patent on connecting one to a vehicle's internal combustion engine (look it up). Another widely used system is the lithium bromide-water system. This are found in nuclear submarines, solar-powered ice plants (3rd world), industrial plant water chillers, and other places where you don't want ammonia floating around. I plan to experiment on integrating one of these with the coolant system of a vehicle some day to supply cooling for air conditioning or refrigerated trucks.
If you want a real experiment, measure the speed of light using Jupiter's moons. This was how the first accurate measurement was made. At least they'll be playing outside.
...but lets you test the software holding it together.
Pretty darn useful, if you ask me. I just started playing around with VMware last week, and I doubt I'll get a full night's sleep until I get some kind of Beowulf cluster up and running. I've made several attempts in the past with real hardware, but it took too long to dedicate and set up "N" different types of machines. With VMware, I can play with several configurations using several distros, and when I like what I've got, clone a few VMs and test some more. When I finally know what I'm doing and can justify the expense, I'll move on to setting up a real cluster. Until then, I'm just happy to be on the learning curve.
I once worked for a company (circa 1990) that was being sued by a competitor for stealing their source code. They did a line-by-line comparison of the codes involved and found what they determined to be a "significant" number of matching lines. Of course these lines (in FORTRAN) were 99% the typical comments, declarations, DO statements, CONTINUE, FORMAT, RETURN, etc... that occured in most programs anyway, or they were in routines commonly derived from the NETLIB or HARWELL source libraries. They figured a judge and jury wouldn't understand the issues involved, so the burden of proof (or clarification) fell on the accused.
Borland hosts numerous newsgroups at [forums.inprise.com] for their products. I think a few well-worded posts in each of the appropriate newsgroups would get their attention and many of their customers' attention. Keep in mind that they probably moderate these groups.
Until we see it moving around that other star in an ellipse, it's just some bright pixels next to some other bright pixels. Hopefully, in a few months, we'll get to see some relative motion from it.
There's a Dutch auction over at eBay with 100 of these little babies at $10 a piece. Just search for "Intel 4004". The date code on the picture shows that they were made in 1975, so they're not the ceramic and gold ones. Auction ends Thursday evening. Don't outbid me, or I'll mod you down.
I predict that terrorists will start contaminating junk mail next. It is delivered indiscriminately and widely, and people always tear it into a million pieces and stomp on it before throwing it away, thus ensuring thorough contact. Stop junk mail before it stops you!
In Feist Publication v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 111 S. Ct. 1282, 113 L. Ed. 2d 358 (1991), for example, the Supreme Court held that the arrangement of names and numbers in the white pages of a telephone book was not copyrightable as simply listing the names in alphabetical order was not even remotely creative.
"Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler remains free
to use the facts contained in another's publication to aid in preparing
a competing work, so long as the competing work does not feature the
same selection and arrangement."
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Will there be a Japanese version also? As cool as the Japanese trailer?
When can we see "Robot Bastard" ! ! ! ?
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When is Robot Bastard coming to the movies, TV, SciFi channel, or anywhere? I heard that it was going to be shown (it's only 13 min. long) after the end of Zoolander. Of course, I don't want to suffer that much to see it...
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If you want to see an example of weather chaos in action, look at pictures of Mars from last October. A small dust storm grew into a planet-wide dust storm, causing real global warming due to the dust in the atmosphere.
Anyone who tells you that they understand women or the weather is lying or very misguided.
We do not have, and probably never will, have enough weather and other atmospheric data to predict reliable trends in the weather. There are so many variables involved and so much chaos in the system that a simple curve fit of (man's activity vs. average temp somewhere) over 100 years doesn't mean squat! Reminds me of a couple friends who saw "trends" in the stock market right before losing their shirts.
Mentioning the symphony reminds me of the day I started hating the record companies. That day occured at least 15 years ago when I bought a copy of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" for +$35 (2 CDs) and a copy of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for $3. If someone was making money off of the $3 CDs, they were making a KILLING off of the full-priced ones. I suspected even then that musicians weren't seeing much of that money, but I had no choice at the time other than paying whatever they wanted.
Considering your situation, I would gladly pay to see one of your performances or to buy a $10 CD directly from your organization, but if given the choice between buying it for $17 through middlemen or downloading it, I'm going to download it.
"Mr. President, we must not allow a mutation gap!"
Sorry, anything concerning the cold war makes me think of Dr. Strangelove!
The Hubble telescope was myopic because of a 1.3 millimeter error on a piece of test equipment used to make the primary mirror. The construction of the mirror was flawless, but it just happened to be the wrong shape. I've never heard about it being based on a recon design from the 70s, that's sounds pretty iffy.
Here's a short summary: Why The Hubble Space Telescope Went Wrong
The legendary axlotl "tanks" were actually created using the female Bene Tleilaxu. Anyone with the strength of will to read all of the Dune novels learns of this.
Overall, I'd say we're de-evolving as we move away from the physical struggle to survive, but hopefully we'll get a few more geniuses in the process. Now that smart people can make a better living and score more often by being intelligent than their caveman counterparts, their numbers should start going up. Unfortunately, for every new Ramanujan that we generate, there will be dozens of "Jerry's kids" to offset him.
I've been thinking about this for years also. The concept of the adsorption heat pump is very sound and has been around for decades. One reason you don't see them nowadays is because compressor-driven heat pumps are more efficient overall. Of course, if you are utilizing waste heat, the driving force for the process is free. The ammonia-water system is the most prevalant, and I've even seen a patent on connecting one to a vehicle's internal combustion engine (look it up). Another widely used system is the lithium bromide-water system. This are found in nuclear submarines, solar-powered ice plants (3rd world), industrial plant water chillers, and other places where you don't want ammonia floating around. I plan to experiment on integrating one of these with the coolant system of a vehicle some day to supply cooling for air conditioning or refrigerated trucks.
If you want a real experiment, measure the speed of light using Jupiter's moons. This was how the first accurate measurement was made. At least they'll be playing outside.
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Pretty darn useful, if you ask me. I just started playing around with VMware last week, and I doubt I'll get a full night's sleep until I get some kind of Beowulf cluster up and running. I've made several attempts in the past with real hardware, but it took too long to dedicate and set up "N" different types of machines. With VMware, I can play with several configurations using several distros, and when I like what I've got, clone a few VMs and test some more. When I finally know what I'm doing and can justify the expense, I'll move on to setting up a real cluster. Until then, I'm just happy to be on the learning curve.
I once worked for a company (circa 1990) that was being sued by a competitor for stealing their source code. They did a line-by-line comparison of the codes involved and found what they determined to be a "significant" number of matching lines. Of course these lines (in FORTRAN) were 99% the typical comments, declarations, DO statements, CONTINUE, FORMAT, RETURN, etc... that occured in most programs anyway, or they were in routines commonly derived from the NETLIB or HARWELL source libraries. They figured a judge and jury wouldn't understand the issues involved, so the burden of proof (or clarification) fell on the accused.
Borland hosts numerous newsgroups at [forums.inprise.com] for their products. I think a few well-worded posts in each of the appropriate newsgroups would get their attention and many of their customers' attention. Keep in mind that they probably moderate these groups.
To eliminate the need for throwing a second switch, have a relay circuit start the second power supply when the first one is turned on.
Running Windows under a VM is probably the best way for Micro$oft to ensure that Windows will get slower as hardware gets faster.
Until we see it moving around that other star in an ellipse, it's just some bright pixels next to some other bright pixels. Hopefully, in a few months, we'll get to see some relative motion from it.
If a satellite where placed at the L4 or L5 LaGrange point, it would be appear stationary to the lunar base.
Man, I went through all 78000 pictures, and I still can't find that damn face!
There's a Dutch auction over at eBay with 100 of these little babies at $10 a piece. Just search for "Intel 4004". The date code on the picture shows that they were made in 1975, so they're not the ceramic and gold ones. Auction ends Thursday evening. Don't outbid me, or I'll mod you down.
Yeah, we should shut NASA down and give the money we save to welfare recipients...NOT
I predict that terrorists will start contaminating junk mail next. It is delivered indiscriminately and widely, and people always tear it into a million pieces and stomp on it before throwing it away, thus ensuring thorough contact. Stop junk mail before it stops you!
Anyone remember this one? Kinda made that $600 Hayes 9600 modem earn its keep.
In Feist Publication v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 111 S. Ct. 1282, 113 L. Ed. 2d 358 (1991), for example, the Supreme Court held that the arrangement of names and numbers in the white pages of a telephone book was not copyrightable as simply listing the names in alphabetical order was not even remotely creative.
"Notwithstanding a valid copyright, a subsequent compiler remains free
to use the facts contained in another's publication to aid in preparing
a competing work, so long as the competing work does not feature the
same selection and arrangement."
Will there be a Japanese version also? As cool as the Japanese trailer?
When is Robot Bastard coming to the movies, TV, SciFi channel, or anywhere? I heard that it was going to be shown (it's only 13 min. long) after the end of Zoolander. Of course, I don't want to suffer that much to see it...
My apologies for not mentioning that the utility was Windoze only.
Here are the URLs for some useful aurora data.
NOAA POES satellite
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html
GOES8 Proton Flux
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html
Space Weather Now
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
For images of recent auroras, go to Space Weather
http://www.spaceweather.com