Remember when Intel was claiming that you couldn't run an i740 on anything other than an Intel chipset, due to "incompatibilities"? Didn't stop me from using it with a K6, and since Intel did provide documents for that chip, it ran in Linux, too.
Anyone care to post whether there is any "beneficial" or adverse effect of long-term radiation exposure on marijuana, 'shrooms, or banana peels? After all, once space travel is in common use, there will, eventually, be ethyl alcohol (none of that synthehol crap, either) and other recreational substances along for the ride.
Maybe that's what the "hemp movement" needs: to show that in addition to rope, clothes, etc. that the plant is a good terraformer for some environment.
In the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest denomination of Protestants in the USofA, despite some ecumenical rhetoric, there is an active effort to convert Catholics to "Christianity". Missions are sponsored in Latin America specifically for this purpose. Catholics are considered "Papists", not "Christians". A "Christian" has a direct, personal relationship with God, and no priest or hierarchy is needed for "salvation". The whole "saints" thing of asking them to intercede with God on one's behalf, or to provide some form of direct support, is considered a cross between paganism and idolatry.
I endured too many years of those people not to have heard the GPs statement supported in churches from the South to California.
I have a couple pair of Mephisto, one bought more than ten years ago and one bought more recently (6 years ago?) and I paid ~USD$300 for the second pair. Both pair are regularly used as cubicle wear, and have even seen the underside of my motorcycles' shifter. Absolutely top rate, comfortable, and long-wearing shoes.
It took me a few years to get my wife out of the habit of buying cute, cheap shoes that she only wore for a few hours since they hurt or broke. Now she spends a lot more money on a pair, but she can wear them for a lot longer and her feet don't hurt afterward.
There are plenty of people with money who would buy moon rocks, if they could get enough provenance to brag about it, 'specially to their friends with stolen art works.
Assuming that you hardly ever need a car (grocery shopping, parent-teacher conferences,...), so that you do not own one, that you have been fortunate to be able to work close enough to home or live close enough to work, that you live in some place where drivers actually see cyclists as something other than targets (if they see them at all), where there's a place to secure a bike wherever you need to go on one, and that either the commute times are similar to driving or the extra time on the bicycle doesn't cut into having a life, then you may well have a point that riding is the best choice for you. Very few of us are in those circumstances.
Further, what's the cost of two showers per day (one to be tolerable at work and one to be tolerable at home), 'specially in the Southwestern US which is in the umpteenth year of drought?
If it is threads, then the common parts are sharing literally the same memory, although you do pay for some locks.
If processes, which would be more robust, then the common parts should be in.so/.dll to share the code (common data could be in library-allocated memory, but cleanup is tricky on M$-Windows), and per-instance data is part of the process, which, when a window (tab, too, I suppose, but I don't use them) is closed, would free the memory. Reducing the amount of common storage to simplify its management and having each instance's data in its own space would actually help in Firefox' case, since they currently don't do that very well.
While porting nethack, 'way back when, we wanted to be sure that all of the levels worked, so we added a terminator-like character for the test players. Immune to poisons, more robust,... Then one died down about level 23, and, of course, came back as a ghost. Made the game much tougher to win when playing as a tourist or whatever.
No, we didn't purge it from the system. That would be cheating.
remove the income tax and replace it with a combination of flat rate property and sales taxes, eliminating ALL tax credits.
sales tax on every purchase of goods or services, including stocks, food and congress critters, within the jurisdiction of the USofA.
all property, anywhere, owned by a citizen of the USofA or resident alien, is taxed, as is ALL (churches, too) property within the jurisdiction of the USofA, regardless of owner. the exemption is only up to the point where the cost of collecting the money is less than the revenue. penalty for underreporting is loss of all unreported wealth, plus 50%, plus enforcement costs.
essentially everyone contributes to the maintenance of the state, either when you spend money, or when you have enough of it to be worth collecting from.
balance the revenue so that neither sales nor property taxes are collecting more than 2/3 of the total.
simpler to compute than deciding what is a legitimate "expense", policy-neutral regarding the source and disposition of income.
if we want to subsidize some activities, such as raising children, switching energy bases, or whatever, then specific grants would have to be passed to do that.
Maybe them, too, but the Sahara keeps expanding southward, in part, because of the goat-herding by people on its southern edge.
Anyone remember the name/author of a short story in which someone decided to eliminate the problem by eliminating goats through an engineered virus ("White Plague" for goats)?
It continues to dismay me how many really don't get it. The impact, or impact+major vulcanism (BTW, what order were those in, and could the impact have pinged the earth hard enough to initiate a major volcanic event at whatever the interval?), didn't kill the dinosaurs by direct effect. They didn't all die in a week or a month, or, even a few decades, centuries, or millennia, most likely.
What happened was a significant enough change in climate in nearly all habitats, over a short enough period of time, that the vast majority of major fauna, particularly dinosaurs, and a lot of the flora simply could not adapt to the new conditions, nor migrate to a location that suited them (nor build bubble cities in which to weather the change). If the birth/death ratio slips below 1 long enough the species is extinct. If it is only slightly less than 1 because the available nutrition is not quite good enough, or there's enough hard dust around to reduce lung efficiency, or the temperatures don't allow eggs to brood quite as well, or some such, then it can take a VERY long time to kill off populations in the tens of millions. Small regions of "better", if not quite "good enough", might easily sustain a very slowly declining ecosystem for hundreds of millennia.
Bottom line, though, is that there are a LOT of dinosaur fossils below the iridium-enriched layer and VERY few, and those not for very long, above it.
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Some of us remember when M$ was just producing crappy CP/M-80 compilers and assemblers. How crappy? It took me years to get out of the habit of writing "&array_name[0]", instead of "array_name", since C80 didn't use the latter correctly. (I understand that about version 6 of the M$-Windows "C" compiler they finally got it working; 5 didn't handle "if ((do_input) && inb())" correctly, since it would do the inb() first, at least in some circumstances).
After IBM was stupidly (as it turned out) snubbed by Digital Research, Mary Gates happened to meet an IBM exec at the club, and when he mentioned that they were looking for an operating system for little computers, she made the connection between him and Bill.
We all have her to "thank", first for bearing him, then for putting him into position to bully us.
As a planet passes between us and the star some (very) small amount of light from the star passes through its atmosphere, including incident grazing of the surface. If/when the detectors on a space telescope are sensitive enough, then, during transit they may detect a change in the distribution of polarization. This may also be easier when the transit is either just beginning or just ending, since the main source of light will be mostly "to the side" of the planet.
As the sensor density increases, we should also be able to look at the small number of the atmospherically-affected nodes and ignore the surrounding unobstructed stellar light nodes.
From the paper, it looks like this is enough stronger than a hypothesis, to justify the appellation "theory". There's enough information to build detectors that can discriminate the rate of tunneling (if any, of course) between this virtual particle mode, the conversion mode, and "classical" (uncertainty) tunneling.
Time for the experimentalists to take their shot at confirming/denying this one.
One question, though, about the conversion mode: where's a reference for a description of the impetus for the conversion? Is it a sort of uncertainty where the "current" mode of the particle is one of the allowed states of its energy, an oscillation like neutrinos, or does the string (if you go there) pick up energy from an extra-dimensional impact (changing its "tune") then release it in another impact or emission to return to the previous state?
Picture the replies to the EIR that claims this is "safe" when the patent discusses weather alteration.
This is dead, at least in California, before they even start the EIR.
Plus, I have no idea how a actuary would begin to quantify the liability for something like the satellite aiming point being relocated due to collision, software/hardware failure (collusion?),...
Since we've cluttered the US legal system with corporate slander laws, how 'bout Sun or IBM sue M$ for slandering their OSs as less secure than Vista SP2?
I still don't understand why people cannot deal with the possibility of information loss in black holes. No, it doesn't fit with the DESIRE for a "tidy" Universe, but it also doesn't prevent the Universe from functioning (just some of our current assumptions).
We currently work with the idea of a "quantum foam", and some experiments on the Casimir Effect support the idea. We do NOT know the position or momentum of a virtual photon, yet it appears to interact with the macroscopic universe. Thus, the Universe has had a state change (however small), so some additional information. If information can be created from "nothing", then there's no reason why it cannot go to "nothing". Similarly, any particle interacting with a virtual particle has had it's "information" (momentum) scrambled, and, therefore, lost.
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Remember when Intel was claiming that you couldn't run an i740 on anything other than an Intel chipset, due to "incompatibilities"? Didn't stop me from using it with a K6, and since Intel did provide documents for that chip, it ran in Linux, too.
Anyone care to post whether there is any "beneficial" or adverse effect of long-term radiation exposure on marijuana, 'shrooms, or banana peels? After all, once space travel is in common use, there will, eventually, be ethyl alcohol (none of that synthehol crap, either) and other recreational substances along for the ride.
Maybe that's what the "hemp movement" needs: to show that in addition to rope, clothes, etc. that the plant is a good terraformer for some environment.
In the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest denomination of Protestants in the USofA, despite some ecumenical rhetoric, there is an active effort to convert Catholics to "Christianity". Missions are sponsored in Latin America specifically for this purpose. Catholics are considered "Papists", not "Christians". A "Christian" has a direct, personal relationship with God, and no priest or hierarchy is needed for "salvation". The whole "saints" thing of asking them to intercede with God on one's behalf, or to provide some form of direct support, is considered a cross between paganism and idolatry.
I endured too many years of those people not to have heard the GPs statement supported in churches from the South to California.
I have a couple pair of Mephisto, one bought more than ten years ago and one bought more recently (6 years ago?) and I paid ~USD$300 for the second pair. Both pair are regularly used as cubicle wear, and have even seen the underside of my motorcycles' shifter. Absolutely top rate, comfortable, and long-wearing shoes.
It took me a few years to get my wife out of the habit of buying cute, cheap shoes that she only wore for a few hours since they hurt or broke. Now she spends a lot more money on a pair, but she can wear them for a lot longer and her feet don't hurt afterward.
There are plenty of people with money who would buy moon rocks, if they could get enough provenance to brag about it, 'specially to their friends with stolen art works.
Assuming that you hardly ever need a car (grocery shopping, parent-teacher conferences, ...), so that you do not own one, that you have been fortunate to be able to work close enough to home or live close enough to work, that you live in some place where drivers actually see cyclists as something other than targets (if they see them at all), where there's a place to secure a bike wherever you need to go on one, and that either the commute times are similar to driving or the extra time on the bicycle doesn't cut into having a life, then you may well have a point that riding is the best choice for you. Very few of us are in those circumstances.
Further, what's the cost of two showers per day (one to be tolerable at work and one to be tolerable at home), 'specially in the Southwestern US which is in the umpteenth year of drought?
If it is threads, then the common parts are sharing literally the same memory, although you do pay for some locks.
If processes, which would be more robust, then the common parts should be in .so/.dll to share the code (common data could be in library-allocated memory, but cleanup is tricky on M$-Windows), and per-instance data is part of the process, which, when a window (tab, too, I suppose, but I don't use them) is closed, would free the memory. Reducing the amount of common storage to simplify its management and having each instance's data in its own space would actually help in Firefox' case, since they currently don't do that very well.
While porting nethack, 'way back when, we wanted to be sure that all of the levels worked, so we added a terminator-like character for the test players. Immune to poisons, more robust, ... Then one died down about level 23, and, of course, came back as a ghost. Made the game much tougher to win when playing as a tourist or whatever.
No, we didn't purge it from the system. That would be cheating.
The Amiga version is very good, and in every sense that I know "modern", although you can't have one of mine to run it.
Short form:
remove the income tax and replace it with a combination of flat rate property and sales taxes, eliminating ALL tax credits.
sales tax on every purchase of goods or services, including stocks, food and congress critters, within the jurisdiction of the USofA.
all property, anywhere, owned by a citizen of the USofA or resident alien, is taxed, as is ALL (churches, too) property within the jurisdiction of the USofA, regardless of owner. the exemption is only up to the point where the cost of collecting the money is less than the revenue. penalty for underreporting is loss of all unreported wealth, plus 50%, plus enforcement costs.
essentially everyone contributes to the maintenance of the state, either when you spend money, or when you have enough of it to be worth collecting from.
balance the revenue so that neither sales nor property taxes are collecting more than 2/3 of the total.
simpler to compute than deciding what is a legitimate "expense", policy-neutral regarding the source and disposition of income.
if we want to subsidize some activities, such as raising children, switching energy bases, or whatever, then specific grants would have to be passed to do that.
Maybe them, too, but the Sahara keeps expanding southward, in part, because of the goat-herding by people on its southern edge.
Anyone remember the name/author of a short story in which someone decided to eliminate the problem by eliminating goats through an engineered virus ("White Plague" for goats)?
Like "Waterworld"!?
If the Fassett paper holds up to peer review, then those fossils will post-date the iridium layer.
Since the paper has not yet been widely circulated and accepted/rejected, I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
There have been a few other reports, although not published papers, AFAIK, of post-K-T boundary dinosaur fossils.
It continues to dismay me how many really don't get it. The impact, or impact+major vulcanism (BTW, what order were those in, and could the impact have pinged the earth hard enough to initiate a major volcanic event at whatever the interval?), didn't kill the dinosaurs by direct effect. They didn't all die in a week or a month, or, even a few decades, centuries, or millennia, most likely.
What happened was a significant enough change in climate in nearly all habitats, over a short enough period of time, that the vast majority of major fauna, particularly dinosaurs, and a lot of the flora simply could not adapt to the new conditions, nor migrate to a location that suited them (nor build bubble cities in which to weather the change). If the birth/death ratio slips below 1 long enough the species is extinct. If it is only slightly less than 1 because the available nutrition is not quite good enough, or there's enough hard dust around to reduce lung efficiency, or the temperatures don't allow eggs to brood quite as well, or some such, then it can take a VERY long time to kill off populations in the tens of millions. Small regions of "better", if not quite "good enough", might easily sustain a very slowly declining ecosystem for hundreds of millennia.
Bottom line, though, is that there are a LOT of dinosaur fossils below the iridium-enriched layer and VERY few, and those not for very long, above it.
Some of us remember when M$ was just producing crappy CP/M-80 compilers and assemblers. How crappy? It took me years to get out of the habit of writing "&array_name[0]", instead of "array_name", since C80 didn't use the latter correctly. (I understand that about version 6 of the M$-Windows "C" compiler they finally got it working; 5 didn't handle "if ((do_input) && inb())" correctly, since it would do the inb() first, at least in some circumstances).
After IBM was stupidly (as it turned out) snubbed by Digital Research, Mary Gates happened to meet an IBM exec at the club, and when he mentioned that they were looking for an operating system for little computers, she made the connection between him and Bill.
We all have her to "thank", first for bearing him, then for putting him into position to bully us.
Transit.
As a planet passes between us and the star some (very) small amount of light from the star passes through its atmosphere, including incident grazing of the surface. If/when the detectors on a space telescope are sensitive enough, then, during transit they may detect a change in the distribution of polarization. This may also be easier when the transit is either just beginning or just ending, since the main source of light will be mostly "to the side" of the planet.
As the sensor density increases, we should also be able to look at the small number of the atmospherically-affected nodes and ignore the surrounding unobstructed stellar light nodes.
From the paper, it looks like this is enough stronger than a hypothesis, to justify the appellation "theory". There's enough information to build detectors that can discriminate the rate of tunneling (if any, of course) between this virtual particle mode, the conversion mode, and "classical" (uncertainty) tunneling.
Time for the experimentalists to take their shot at confirming/denying this one.
One question, though, about the conversion mode: where's a reference for a description of the impetus for the conversion? Is it a sort of uncertainty where the "current" mode of the particle is one of the allowed states of its energy, an oscillation like neutrinos, or does the string (if you go there) pick up energy from an extra-dimensional impact (changing its "tune") then release it in another impact or emission to return to the previous state?
Picture the replies to the EIR that claims this is "safe" when the patent discusses weather alteration.
This is dead, at least in California, before they even start the EIR.
Plus, I have no idea how a actuary would begin to quantify the liability for something like the satellite aiming point being relocated due to collision, software/hardware failure (collusion?), ...
Since we've cluttered the US legal system with corporate slander laws, how 'bout Sun or IBM sue M$ for slandering their OSs as less secure than Vista SP2?
Only 8 days late? For M$, that's better than their normal delivery.
It is a remote extension of the operator, not running it's own program.
Change your /. prefs. Other than the sometimes lame colors they use, I don't see any of that silliness, once I'm logged in.
In the US, the local Real Estate agents try to have you silenced before you cause a drop in sales, as back in the 1980s at Mammoth Lakes, California.
According to the chart, my Fedora/Seamonkey (with javascript disabled and no Flash installed) is possibly infected with Conflicker C?
I still don't understand why people cannot deal with the possibility of information loss in black holes. No, it doesn't fit with the DESIRE for a "tidy" Universe, but it also doesn't prevent the Universe from functioning (just some of our current assumptions).
We currently work with the idea of a "quantum foam", and some experiments on the Casimir Effect support the idea. We do NOT know the position or momentum of a virtual photon, yet it appears to interact with the macroscopic universe. Thus, the Universe has had a state change (however small), so some additional information. If information can be created from "nothing", then there's no reason why it cannot go to "nothing". Similarly, any particle interacting with a virtual particle has had it's "information" (momentum) scrambled, and, therefore, lost.