Why do we think that extraterrestrials wouldn't use spread spectrum method for communication? After all it's a more efficient and noise resistant method.
A spread spectrum signal will appear as noise in fourier space.
I'm afraid that, using your analogy, we are the dog.
The only hope is that other civilizations are more advanced then us and started sending strong radio signals a long time ago. We are just listening to hear the call of our masters...
Why do we think that extraterrestrials wouldn't use spread spectrum method for communication? After all it's a more efficient and noise resistant method.
As I understand, a spread spectrum signal won't appear as a strong peak in fourier space (that's what seti is essentially looking for).
Anyone thought about cloning OSX Cocoa api for linux/freebsd?
Maybe eventually it would be an alternative to x11. Cocoa is a well designed api and already runs on top of a bsd kernel. And would allow to tap into apple software (only recompile would be needed to run on x86).
Sorry to be slightly offtopic, but this seems to be the right discussion to ask this question.
The way I understand it, Apple makes most of the money on iPods. The iTunes business is to make ipods more attractive and brings almost no profit. Why don't they want to let others sells songs for ipod?
I thought that Apple has their online music business mainly to sell the iPods. They barely break even on the iTunes, but earn a healthy margin on the additional iPods they sell.
Is Roxio planning to sell their own players? Otherwise their strategy doesn't make sense to me.
Aren't you tired of hearing how supercomputers "may help solve" all the problems in the world. If anything the impact of that supercomputer on shuttle will be nil. Developing massively parallel software takes years, by then this supercomputer will be obsolete.
Another rant - why use Itanium processors? In order to get good performance from EPIC architechture you need specially optimized compilers, which won't be available for many years (by then this supercomputer will be obsolete). For now ibm's power architechture is a much better bang for the buck.
Almost a decade ago I heard basically the same lecture by Mandelbrot.
He's right saying that current models underpredict the large deviations (if these models were right then stock market crashes would happened once in a million years).
However, I haven't seen any progress in applying his methods to stock market during the past decade. That's not a good sign for a theory.
I'm lucky to have 20/20 vision, so no personal opinion.
However, I was at an optics conference a few month ago and had a chat with a professor of ophtalmology who works on vision correction. Let me put it this way - he still wears glasses. Without going into technical details, if glasses don't bother you too much you may want to wait a few more years.
Article says: "Jaffe and Lerner suggest that judges, not juries, rule in these cases, increasing the likelihood that plaintiffs will get a fair hearing."
INAL but I think that might require an amendment to the US constitution.
BB wants the bar code to get a rebate. They won't accept returns without a bar code (only exchange).
BB should complain about their employees not following their own policies.
Btw, I fired them from being my retailers a long time ago.
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Which one are they going to support?
A spread spectrum signal will appear as noise in fourier space.
The only hope is that other civilizations are more advanced then us and started sending strong radio signals a long time ago. We are just listening to hear the call of our masters...
As I understand, a spread spectrum signal won't appear as a strong peak in fourier space (that's what seti is essentially looking for).
Any thoughts?
I think that episodes I and II are simply dreadful compared to episodes IV-VI. I think it's time to stop...
Well, GNUStep runs on top of x11. I was thinking about a project that would also replace x11 completely with Quartz backend.
Maybe eventually it would be an alternative to x11. Cocoa is a well designed api and already runs on top of a bsd kernel. And would allow to tap into apple software (only recompile would be needed to run on x86).
Sorry to be slightly offtopic, but this seems to be the right discussion to ask this question.
The way I understand it, Apple makes most of the money on iPods. The iTunes business is to make ipods more attractive and brings almost no profit. Why don't they want to let others sells songs for ipod?
Anyone who complains about high price of gasoline is invited to visit US $2.6 billion International Chess City. Just kidding. :)
I thought that Apple has their online music business mainly to sell the iPods. They barely break even on the iTunes, but earn a healthy margin on the additional iPods they sell.
Is Roxio planning to sell their own players? Otherwise their strategy doesn't make sense to me.
Had to look at my watch to make sure it's not April 1st. Or is it at Roxio
Aren't you tired of hearing how supercomputers "may help solve" all the problems in the world. If anything the impact of that supercomputer on shuttle will be nil. Developing massively parallel software takes years, by then this supercomputer will be obsolete.
Another rant - why use Itanium processors? In order to get good performance from EPIC architechture you need specially optimized compilers, which won't be available for many years (by then this supercomputer will be obsolete). For now ibm's power architechture is a much better bang for the buck.
Almost a decade ago I heard basically the same lecture by Mandelbrot. He's right saying that current models underpredict the large deviations (if these models were right then stock market crashes would happened once in a million years). However, I haven't seen any progress in applying his methods to stock market during the past decade. That's not a good sign for a theory.
I'm lucky to have 20/20 vision, so no personal opinion. However, I was at an optics conference a few month ago and had a chat with a professor of ophtalmology who works on vision correction. Let me put it this way - he still wears glasses. Without going into technical details, if glasses don't bother you too much you may want to wait a few more years.
INAL but I think that might require an amendment to the US constitution.
BB wants the bar code to get a rebate. They won't accept returns without a bar code (only exchange). BB should complain about their employees not following their own policies. Btw, I fired them from being my retailers a long time ago.