You are mistaken. 1 degree is approximately the width of a little finger at arm's length, so at less than 1/2 that it will hardly stand out, and you definitely won't be able to read anything on it. Can you read the insignia on a 747 at 35,000 feet from below ?
Just to chime in on the coal argument. Or to be more specific, fossil fuels.
The only reason mankind as a whole has experienced explosive population growth and massive rises in standards of living, is that we discovered and exploited fossil fuels. We have taken out a massive "loan" from the earth and whether it runs out or not is irrelevant. We are basing our future survival on energy that was previously stored over billions of years. Patently, there is no point expecting coal or oil to renew themselves naturally in a useful timescale, and our population is still expanding.
We must find sources of energy that do not rely on previously stored resources. Once those resources are gone, we are pretty much bankrupt, energy-wise. So get with the program, and finally accept that coal or oil in any guise, are only stop-gap solutions to keep us going until we can totally replace them. Spending time and effort on "clean" coal is wasting time and energy on something we will have to do without, more likely sooner than later. And I'm not even going to mention the specific environmental issues, or the myriad chemical/biological uses that fossil fuels could be put to instead of being burnt.
Of course, nuclear fuels are a naturally stored resource too, but they are more efficient, cleaner, and hold possibilities that mere fire can never approach. Solar is the only energy source that is truly long term viable, simply because it is not produced or stored on earth. It comes from outside the system. Is it ready now ? Of course not, but it is the only answer in the universe. (Unless we can somehow harness dark energy/matter).
I found the article about the magnetic spin battery concept interesting. Currently, all nuclear plants use nuclear material in place of fire, to produce heat and then steam to drive turbines. What if a nuclear reaction could be relied upon to directly induce a specific magnetic spin in a "wire" and thus supply the grid ? That has to be more efficient than converting heat > steam > kinetic energy > electricity. Imagine a small cylinder (0.5 " diameter) that you clamp to the power cable of a device and directly induces current to feed that device. Dreaming I know, but this is why that discovery has greater potential than many posters realise.
Not to mention ffserver, which in conjunction with ffmpeg and curl can take a live stream of images from a crappy webcam and turn them into swf (or whatever) on the fly. I used it to get around the proprietary "max 10 simultaneous clients" limit on my IP cam. I only used 1 stream from the IP cam but ffserver allowed (virtually) unlimited simultaneous viewers.
So if you want to work out how much turf you need to cover a circular patch of lawn, NOT knowing a reasonable approximation of Pi is OK ? You have to go find out what Pi is, how to apply it to the problem etc. Facts are only facts because they have been scientifically proven. Millionaire is trivia not calculation. Any fact you already have shortens the time needed to perform any calculation. You know that % means fractions of a hundred. If you didn't and were asked to put 40% of something somewhere, then how much should be left over ? Facts are useful, period. Witness the idiot selling laptops on TV stating that "it has a 500 gigabit hard drive" - ignorant, and proud to be that way.
The simple fact is, the more you know, the more you can know. If you see the word paediatrics on a sign in a hospital, you have a good idea that it means something to do with children, that is if you already know about paedophiles, or paediatricians. You can extrapolate from what you know to discover what you don't (science). If you choose not to know basic things, you are choosing complete ignorance, so expect to be treated that way.
Factoid is a stupid term, used by stupid people.
I have been trying to get a good friend of mine to try out linux. He doesn't know much about computers, but does a lot of selling on ebay etc. His main and first question was "how big is it ?" WTF ? What does that mean ? How big is the install disk, or how much disk space does it take up or what ? It turns out that Vista takes a few gig of disk space, so when I said that you can get a reasonably useful linux install in less than 50 MB he was astounded. But where the hell did his original question come from ? What kind of metric is that ? It has nothing to do with the merits of an operating system AFAIK.
I for one have followed that strategy my whole life. I have made it my aim to never stay in a job longer than it takes to get bored. If I'm not learning, I get bored and drift away. OK, that means I never progress politically within a field, but I would rather have the knowledge than the power. That's probably why I use linux.
Only tonight I watched a show about technology in future weapons. The "scientist" being questioned said that they had created radiation detectors for check points but they kept being set off by trucks full of kitty litter, which, he stressed, is not nuclear radiation.
Well what the fuck is it then ?
Also, on another show, the narrator described astronomers as "policing the skies" with regard to super novae. What they gonna do, arrest those nasty gamma rays before they hit earth?
Why is the GPL involved at all ? As far as I can tell, there is no source code available for TomTom devices anywhere, so how can they be using GPL'd software if the user has no access.
If you've got published, then the contract is part of your estate, which your family will inherit. That has no bearing on whether your family should be able to hold copyright for the next 100 years on a book they did not create.
If it's written down (as it must be, no-one can hold the entire schematics of a cpu in their head) then don't show it to anybody and it's safe. It's not intellectual property, it's a trade secret. Once you build the thing, anybody who can take it to bits and learn how it's constructed, is not stealing your intellectual property, they would be breaking either patent or copyright law, whichever it was protected under to begin with. Intellectual property is the possession of anybody with an intellect, you can't legislate against knowledge, only specific and truly unique and un-obvious implementation (see the software patent debacle).
Insightful, if you're an idiot. How about we look at Vietnam or Korea or many Arab nations or maybe even the cold war and now the war on terror. The US doesn't prevent war anywhere except ON ITS OWN SOIL. The rest of us actually went to war to defend other nations, we didn't start the wars in the first place. The US on the other hand likes to wave a big stick at the whole world even though they have never been really threatened at home. The US actually encourages local insurgencies just to further its own political aims. Then when those insurgencies turn against them, they wade in and devastate whole countries. People like to point at the pointless "war" the UK had with Argentina over a few small islands in the south atlantic. Hello ? Small islands in the pacific anybody ? Until then it wasn't a world war, just another regional conflict, which has been going on since time immemorial.
This is something someone has created in hopes that others will enjoy it and at the artists discretion would like to be compensated for that enjoyment.
Assuming the artist is 25 years old, and lives until they're 80, that means they will be compensated for 125 years at current copyright levels. Is that enough compensation or should they have more ?
Yeah somebody's stealing, but it ain't us from them !
Most people don't buy ounces, they buy an 1/8th or a 1/4, and I've never seen any hash going for less than £10 per 1/8th. If you're getting Ozs for less than £50, it's either shit or mixed with wax, or you are buying 9 bars.
And that prohibition led to surreal situations where they had to keep two of every piece of equipment, one for federally funded work, and one for private - right down to electricity bills. (as demonstrated in the BBC TV Horizon program A War on Science).
Life is contained in cells. Certain combinations of cells go on to produce other combinations. So arbitrarily choosing conception as the point is silly. Is every sperm sacred ? It moves under its own volition, it has a purpose, so is it alive ? Should wanking be ranked along-side abortion ? If a woman menstruates is she guilty of a crime against the unborn child because she didn't get pregnant and use that precious ovum ?
By artificially fertilising eggs we are in no way creating a life, because unless you put them into the womb, they will die anyway - unless you really can get test tube babies grown completely in test tubes. It has no more significance to life (viz abortion) than combining penicillin and hostile bacteria in a petri dish. The word you need to research is viable. Do you look at a ploughed field and mourn the fact that you're not looking at a bustling city ? Potential is not the same as inevitable.
Gary McKinnon isn't really a hacker. Most of his transgressions are accounted for by pinging certain US govt IPs looking for open RDP ports, and he got in because they weren't passworded. Apparently this accounts for in excess of $800,000 in damage to their systems. He also related how he used to regularly "bump into" other "hackers" while cruising those systems. He only got caught because he was using a system one day, and the real user saw his mouse moving. McKinnon pretended to be doing a security audit and left quickly. That $800,000 is to cover red faces more than anything. Shame on the UK for turning him over. Up to 70 years in jail for that ? "The US military alleges that Mr McKinnon caused $800,000 of damage and left 300 computers at a US Navy weapons station unusable immediately after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks." I mean, puhlease. Can you make that any more emotionally convicting ?
And we wonder why people are being sued for url traversal. (if you leave it accessible, don't bitch when people access it)
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You are mistaken. 1 degree is approximately the width of a little finger at arm's length, so at less than 1/2 that it will hardly stand out, and you definitely won't be able to read anything on it. Can you read the insignia on a 747 at 35,000 feet from below ?
Just to chime in on the coal argument. Or to be more specific, fossil fuels.
The only reason mankind as a whole has experienced explosive population growth and massive rises in standards of living, is that we discovered and exploited fossil fuels. We have taken out a massive "loan" from the earth and whether it runs out or not is irrelevant. We are basing our future survival on energy that was previously stored over billions of years. Patently, there is no point expecting coal or oil to renew themselves naturally in a useful timescale, and our population is still expanding.
We must find sources of energy that do not rely on previously stored resources. Once those resources are gone, we are pretty much bankrupt, energy-wise. So get with the program, and finally accept that coal or oil in any guise, are only stop-gap solutions to keep us going until we can totally replace them. Spending time and effort on "clean" coal is wasting time and energy on something we will have to do without, more likely sooner than later. And I'm not even going to mention the specific environmental issues, or the myriad chemical/biological uses that fossil fuels could be put to instead of being burnt.
Of course, nuclear fuels are a naturally stored resource too, but they are more efficient, cleaner, and hold possibilities that mere fire can never approach. Solar is the only energy source that is truly long term viable, simply because it is not produced or stored on earth. It comes from outside the system. Is it ready now ? Of course not, but it is the only answer in the universe. (Unless we can somehow harness dark energy/matter).
I found the article about the magnetic spin battery concept interesting. Currently, all nuclear plants use nuclear material in place of fire, to produce heat and then steam to drive turbines. What if a nuclear reaction could be relied upon to directly induce a specific magnetic spin in a "wire" and thus supply the grid ? That has to be more efficient than converting heat > steam > kinetic energy > electricity. Imagine a small cylinder (0.5 " diameter) that you clamp to the power cable of a device and directly induces current to feed that device. Dreaming I know, but this is why that discovery has greater potential than many posters realise.
Not to mention ffserver, which in conjunction with ffmpeg and curl can take a live stream of images from a crappy webcam and turn them into swf (or whatever) on the fly. I used it to get around the proprietary "max 10 simultaneous clients" limit on my IP cam. I only used 1 stream from the IP cam but ffserver allowed (virtually) unlimited simultaneous viewers.
Example.
So if you want to work out how much turf you need to cover a circular patch of lawn, NOT knowing a reasonable approximation of Pi is OK ? You have to go find out what Pi is, how to apply it to the problem etc. Facts are only facts because they have been scientifically proven. Millionaire is trivia not calculation. Any fact you already have shortens the time needed to perform any calculation. You know that % means fractions of a hundred. If you didn't and were asked to put 40% of something somewhere, then how much should be left over ? Facts are useful, period. Witness the idiot selling laptops on TV stating that "it has a 500 gigabit hard drive" - ignorant, and proud to be that way.
The simple fact is, the more you know, the more you can know. If you see the word paediatrics on a sign in a hospital, you have a good idea that it means something to do with children, that is if you already know about paedophiles, or paediatricians. You can extrapolate from what you know to discover what you don't (science). If you choose not to know basic things, you are choosing complete ignorance, so expect to be treated that way.
Factoid is a stupid term, used by stupid people.
I have been trying to get a good friend of mine to try out linux. He doesn't know much about computers, but does a lot of selling on ebay etc. His main and first question was "how big is it ?" WTF ? What does that mean ? How big is the install disk, or how much disk space does it take up or what ? It turns out that Vista takes a few gig of disk space, so when I said that you can get a reasonably useful linux install in less than 50 MB he was astounded. But where the hell did his original question come from ? What kind of metric is that ? It has nothing to do with the merits of an operating system AFAIK.
Hear hear.
I for one have followed that strategy my whole life. I have made it my aim to never stay in a job longer than it takes to get bored. If I'm not learning, I get bored and drift away. OK, that means I never progress politically within a field, but I would rather have the knowledge than the power. That's probably why I use linux.
I blame the discovery channel.
Only tonight I watched a show about technology in future weapons. The "scientist" being questioned said that they had created radiation detectors for check points but they kept being set off by trucks full of kitty litter, which, he stressed, is not nuclear radiation.
Well what the fuck is it then ?
Also, on another show, the narrator described astronomers as "policing the skies" with regard to super novae. What they gonna do, arrest those nasty gamma rays before they hit earth?
Ludicrous.
As in Linux, you have servers whose job it is to provide services. This can be internally or externally. X server, mail server, print server etc.
Never mind, it was a "beware of the leopard" ordeal. http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl
Why is the GPL involved at all ? As far as I can tell, there is no source code available for TomTom devices anywhere, so how can they be using GPL'd software if the user has no access.
64 bit drivers from nVidia
The first real definitive sign of intelligence arises in another species, and the first thing the humans do is make sure he can never breed. Nice.
Are you girlintrainings' sock puppet ?
OR Crusher and Troi working out in front of a mirror ...
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Seven of Tits
Hah, LOL !
The same as "podcast". They want to own all popular terms to drive their market. Only "Steve" freaks follow the herd.
If you've got published, then the contract is part of your estate, which your family will inherit. That has no bearing on whether your family should be able to hold copyright for the next 100 years on a book they did not create.
If it's written down (as it must be, no-one can hold the entire schematics of a cpu in their head) then don't show it to anybody and it's safe. It's not intellectual property, it's a trade secret. Once you build the thing, anybody who can take it to bits and learn how it's constructed, is not stealing your intellectual property, they would be breaking either patent or copyright law, whichever it was protected under to begin with. Intellectual property is the possession of anybody with an intellect, you can't legislate against knowledge, only specific and truly unique and un-obvious implementation (see the software patent debacle).
Rich, anywhere. If you are not rich then the UK is better than the US.
So you mean they were accurate ?
Idiot.
Insightful, if you're an idiot. How about we look at Vietnam or Korea or many Arab nations or maybe even the cold war and now the war on terror.
The US doesn't prevent war anywhere except ON ITS OWN SOIL. The rest of us actually went to war to defend other nations, we didn't start the wars in the first place. The US on the other hand likes to wave a big stick at the whole world even though they have never been really threatened at home. The US actually encourages local insurgencies just to further its own political aims. Then when those insurgencies turn against them, they wade in and devastate whole countries. People like to point at the pointless "war" the UK had with Argentina over a few small islands in the south atlantic. Hello ? Small islands in the pacific anybody ? Until then it wasn't a world war, just another regional conflict, which has been going on since time immemorial.
Assuming the artist is 25 years old, and lives until they're 80, that means they will be compensated for 125 years at current copyright levels. Is that enough compensation or should they have more ?
Yeah somebody's stealing, but it ain't us from them !
Most people don't buy ounces, they buy an 1/8th or a 1/4, and I've never seen any hash going for less than £10 per 1/8th.
If you're getting Ozs for less than £50, it's either shit or mixed with wax, or you are buying 9 bars.
And that prohibition led to surreal situations where they had to keep two of every piece of equipment, one for federally funded work, and one for private - right down to electricity bills. (as demonstrated in the BBC TV Horizon program A War on Science).
Life is contained in cells. Certain combinations of cells go on to produce other combinations. So arbitrarily choosing conception as the point is silly. Is every sperm sacred ? It moves under its own volition, it has a purpose, so is it alive ? Should wanking be ranked along-side abortion ? If a woman menstruates is she guilty of a crime against the unborn child because she didn't get pregnant and use that precious ovum ?
By artificially fertilising eggs we are in no way creating a life, because unless you put them into the womb, they will die anyway - unless you really can get test tube babies grown completely in test tubes. It has no more significance to life (viz abortion) than combining penicillin and hostile bacteria in a petri dish. The word you need to research is viable. Do you look at a ploughed field and mourn the fact that you're not looking at a bustling city ? Potential is not the same as inevitable.
Gary McKinnon isn't really a hacker. Most of his transgressions are accounted for by pinging certain US govt IPs looking for open RDP ports, and he got in because they weren't passworded. Apparently this accounts for in excess of $800,000 in damage to their systems. He also related how he used to regularly "bump into" other "hackers" while cruising those systems. He only got caught because he was using a system one day, and the real user saw his mouse moving. McKinnon pretended to be doing a security audit and left quickly. That $800,000 is to cover red faces more than anything. Shame on the UK for turning him over. Up to 70 years in jail for that ? "The US military alleges that Mr McKinnon caused $800,000 of damage and left 300 computers at a US Navy weapons station unusable immediately after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks." I mean, puhlease. Can you make that any more emotionally convicting ?
And we wonder why people are being sued for url traversal. (if you leave it accessible, don't bitch when people access it)