Is it? I didn't know you could detect the type of a gun by the noise of a bullet. Not that I know much on the subject anyhow, or indeed anything at all.
I shouldn't think they could filter them, that would represent two non linearly seperable sets of 'noises'. That's a Multi-Objective problem with the best result being a Pereto optimal front of solutions which would certainly include some false positives/negatives in each potential solution found. Friendly fire heaven, as it were.
Given that they say 'sniper' it sounds like it can't handle overlapping sounds anyway.
I frequently include all values after the decimal place up to the first zero. That seems to help precision. If you cut the number down and remove non zero values, it can really hurt accuracy.
It definatelly helps when it comes to Phobos and Deimos, they are a pain to get right.
so using Sol as Origin [0,0,0], with distance in km and km/s velocity measures: XYZ position and velocity in Km and Km/sec V prefix = velocity,
Jupiter A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-3.523007925524937E+08 Y =-7.203651223053448E+08 Z = 1.087397270750013E+07
VX= 1.158611696091788E+01 VY=-5.127849980674650E+00 VZ=-2.378734986696975E-01
Earth
A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-7.005151113800500E+07 Y = 1.294518808525130E+08 Z =-1.647040773451328E+03
VX=-2.669513206382950E+01 VY=-1.429493892074527E+01 VZ=-5.052885705412180E-04
And the Horizons probe itself is here: A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-3.141011231236297E+08 Y =-6.673772181265557E+08 Z = 9.200702373118341E+06
VX= 1.154291925552546E-01 VY=-1.978644188955009E+01 VZ= 1.493924692614632E-01
However it's too early to work out the times taken for signals to travel based on these positions. I need more coffee.
the 'we will bury you was rhetoric', did they not teach you about rhetoric? It means you are making a point, but not being literal all the time. He did in fact try very hard to reverse the nuclear standoff.
What I said was not that the USSR were doing there share of stupid things, but that when they did try and get round the table on a number of occasions, such as over Afganistan, they were turned away. And look what a wonderful thing happened to Afganistan, oh the stability....
Neither America nor China can afford a cold war. The cold war was born of a different political climate, post world war two, such a situation is unlikely to recurr. For one thing China has no Stalin. Contrary to what american politions were claiming, every soviet leader after Stalin tried to bring the cold war to and end, it was America's refusal to take part that messed each event, and it only ended when the USSR collapsed, which as it turns out was the worst way for it to possibly end, bar a war. The most they were able to do was agree not to blow up the entire world.
In light of the stated goal of the US to dominate space militarily, this is not something the can bitch about. China can legitimatelly argue, as the US would, that they are merely improving their ability to defend themselves.
Microsoft, being a legal entity can be charged with something, but you cannot jail a corporate entity. The veil of incorporation means that it is unlikely that individuals will be charged either.
Fines seem the most likely course of action, and microsoft can either argue about those till it becomes meaningless, or pay up.
Or the Judge could order severe sanctions, like splitting the company into smaller portions so such mistakes are easier to prevent in the future. IBM did this themselves when they got into loads of trouble, and the result was a vast improvement for them in terms of productivity and public image.
possibly its a knee jerk reaction to the ever increasing attempts at censoring real scientific debate by the Bush administration, which has even extended to the big bang and black holes, quite apart from global warming.
Plus this whole intelligent design vs evolution thing. It's a genuine concern that america might fall behind in scientific and technological advances if too many of it's population beleive a fantasy creation myth instead of reality just because the reality has not yet been fully understood.
I'm not for censoring, mostly because I want to be able to call any creationist I meet a fool if I feel like it, or ignore their writings if I want to. I'm happy for them to write stuff and talk among themselves, that's what free speech is about, but it of neccesity includes my right to say how stupid it sounds if they try to convince me.
PC? Probably not, but I have never claimed to be such.
The problem with Crusade was that is was basically 'The Galan Show'. He was, intended or not, the main character, the one pulling all the strings, and by far the most interesting. Unfortunatelly that wasn't really meant to be the focus of the show, which resulted in a confused mess.
Was it a Fantasy show or Scifi? Well it had ships, but far too much 'lord of the rings' stuff going on to be the sci-fi successor to the masterpeice that was Babylon 5.
ps. You mentioned Legends of the Rangers, Go wash your mouth out with soap, you disgust me....
I'm glad they're stopping with season 10. I love stargate, but they have run it for too long now, and it's not quite as good as it once was.
Better for there to be movies in the main franchise, so we can continue enjoying it without seeing it turn like X-files, with no end in sight and ever weakening storylines.
This new spin off series thing might be entertaining, so long as they don't 'enterprise' it and make everyone hate it, just like Crusade did to Babylon 5, what a horror that was.
I had a few several years ago, but I hated the quality and replaced them with dvds. Now I prefer to browse the bargain bins and very occasionally buy new releases if I like them enough.
The big problem is previewing movies. I've bought a few real dogs in my time that I never would have got if I'd seen them beforehand. A single legal 'watch once' download would be my ideal solution, because I don't like owning a film I wouldn't watch more than once.
It was a while back. They were independant bands releasing mp3 versions of their music online. The RIAA did a blanket search for web sites with mp3's on them and served takedown notices to their hosting services.
It all got very embarassing for them, but they did it first, then backed down, rather then thinking about it.
it's definatelly a statement, rather than just a normal movie rip.
Lets face it, with a file that large you could earn the money to buy it, go down to the store, and be back and watching it before the download had finished.
Ripped movies don't really interest me anyway, I like my dvd collection.
They used to have fits about tapes and vinyl copying too. It's always happened. Their main problem is that selling media in any form will always be a business which experiences lots of unauthorised copying of its products if you use their traditional distribution method (being monolithic companies selling media at high price through a limited number of channels)
The problem they have is that faced with this undeniable fact they have decided to focus on an unrealistic solution, being drm. The plain fact is that drm will only cause problems for legitimate users, not unauthorised copiers. Circumvention being illegal is no problem. There will always be someone, somewhere who figures it out, and finding that person in time to stop dissemination of their solution is a game that will be lost before they start, every time.
DRM then is so they can continue to attract investors. It gives them something to say in pitches. 'We have solution x to this problem that will ensure a return on your investment' and so on. The fact that historically such solutions have a 100% faliure rate isn't something they can even think about, so they're trapped.
Looking at this from an evolutionary standpoint, they're screwed, and heading to extinction. Simply demanding that the world be other than it is can only have that result. What system will emerge in its place I don't know, but I strongly suspect that the current crop of p2p companies/products will form the basis of a new media empire.
The current media industries are trying to get into this feild, but for years all they've been doing is trying to stop it, whilst the p2p producers have been innovating like crazy. That means the p2p guys are already ahead in the next wave of media production/distribution, and very likely to stay there.
Given that some bands have already had their websites closed down in the past because they had mp3s up for download, I'd say it was quite possible they would try.
Succeeding though, now that's another matter entirely.
Shit, they can't even stop the rampant worldwide use of bittorrent to share content, and they want to control podcasts?
Not quite. I don't have the exact facts to hand, but in the case of the TCP/IP stack, the BSD Bods were asked to develop it on their own so as to ensure internal consistancy, then everyone else was to use what they produced. The tcp/ip stack in windows came from that effort, as did the stack in many other OSs.
Much therefore of Unix stuff in windows has a perfect right to be there. I was told by someone who enjoyed poking around deep in windows that some original BSD text can still be seen in the windows stuff, although I have not a clue how to find it myself.
If anyone else does know more about this, then feel free to make my poor amount of information seem even more insignificant...
Yes, but lets be honest here, just how many office users are going to look for things to make their documents easily compatible, or even realise that such a need exists? Not a big number I would think.
Most people I know who use microsoft office and other microsoft products use them exclusively. I've made some inroads into converting people towards open source, but it's often too much work.
I had to change away from using openoffice and Latex for my documents during my phd because my supervisor insisted everything must be in microsoft formats, as did the department I was in. That was everything from papers to lecture materials. As this was a computer science dept I was somewhat amazed. I was at one point the *only* person there actively encouraging use of open source tools.
This wasn't a place I was happy be to be at, hence why I am no longer there.
it was, according to him, a very hot day, not a storm in sight. He didn't see where it came from, but he said it seemed to be moving towards him till he got out of the water. Not being too conversant with electromagnetism I couldn't say whether this was because he represented an electrical 'hot spot' on the water or just that he was so freaked he thought it was following him.
It was, so far as he could tell, about a foot across.
A friend of mine was swimming in a lake in the eighties and some ball lightening appeared. It bounced along the surface of the lake near him, scaring him and others on the lake beach somewhat as he raced to the shore.
It dissipated shortly after he got out, and he went straight to the lakeside bar to get a drink, touched the proffered glass, and it exploded. Other than that and a healthy dose of 'holy fuck', he had no ill effects.
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Is it? I didn't know you could detect the type of a gun by the noise of a bullet. Not that I know much on the subject anyhow, or indeed anything at all.
I shouldn't think they could filter them, that would represent two non linearly seperable sets of 'noises'. That's a Multi-Objective problem with the best result being a Pereto optimal front of solutions which would certainly include some false positives/negatives in each potential solution found. Friendly fire heaven, as it were.
Given that they say 'sniper' it sounds like it can't handle overlapping sounds anyway.
I frequently include all values after the decimal place up to the first zero. That seems to help precision. If you cut the number down and remove non zero values, it can really hurt accuracy.
It definatelly helps when it comes to Phobos and Deimos, they are a pain to get right.
their exact position today can be found in the JPL Horizons database
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi
so using Sol as Origin [0,0,0], with distance in km and km/s velocity measures:
XYZ position and velocity in Km and Km/sec
V prefix = velocity,
Jupiter
A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-3.523007925524937E+08 Y =-7.203651223053448E+08 Z = 1.087397270750013E+07
VX= 1.158611696091788E+01 VY=-5.127849980674650E+00 VZ=-2.378734986696975E-01
Earth
A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-7.005151113800500E+07 Y = 1.294518808525130E+08 Z =-1.647040773451328E+03
VX=-2.669513206382950E+01 VY=-1.429493892074527E+01 VZ=-5.052885705412180E-04
And the Horizons probe itself is here:
A.D. 2007-Jan-19 00:00:00.0000 (CT)
X =-3.141011231236297E+08 Y =-6.673772181265557E+08 Z = 9.200702373118341E+06
VX= 1.154291925552546E-01 VY=-1.978644188955009E+01 VZ= 1.493924692614632E-01
However it's too early to work out the times taken for signals to travel based on these positions. I need more coffee.
So what if then a sniper in a suberban area were, say, sat way back in a room, shooting out of a window?
The acoustics would alter the sound significantly would they not? More so then if he were sat right in a window.
I'm sure there would be ways to mess with such a device.
the 'we will bury you was rhetoric', did they not teach you about rhetoric? It means you are making a point, but not being literal all the time. He did in fact try very hard to reverse the nuclear standoff.
What I said was not that the USSR were doing there share of stupid things, but that when they did try and get round the table on a number of occasions, such as over Afganistan, they were turned away. And look what a wonderful thing happened to Afganistan, oh the stability....
Me too, not a nice moment.
Neither America nor China can afford a cold war. The cold war was born of a different political climate, post world war two, such a situation is unlikely to recurr. For one thing China has no Stalin. Contrary to what american politions were claiming, every soviet leader after Stalin tried to bring the cold war to and end, it was America's refusal to take part that messed each event, and it only ended when the USSR collapsed, which as it turns out was the worst way for it to possibly end, bar a war. The most they were able to do was agree not to blow up the entire world.
In light of the stated goal of the US to dominate space militarily, this is not something the can bitch about. China can legitimatelly argue, as the US would, that they are merely improving their ability to defend themselves.
Microsoft, being a legal entity can be charged with something, but you cannot jail a corporate entity. The veil of incorporation means that it is unlikely that individuals will be charged either.
Fines seem the most likely course of action, and microsoft can either argue about those till it becomes meaningless, or pay up.
Or the Judge could order severe sanctions, like splitting the company into smaller portions so such mistakes are easier to prevent in the future. IBM did this themselves when they got into loads of trouble, and the result was a vast improvement for them in terms of productivity and public image.
possibly its a knee jerk reaction to the ever increasing attempts at censoring real scientific debate by the Bush administration, which has even extended to the big bang and black holes, quite apart from global warming.
Plus this whole intelligent design vs evolution thing. It's a genuine concern that america might fall behind in scientific and technological advances if too many of it's population beleive a fantasy creation myth instead of reality just because the reality has not yet been fully understood.
I'm not for censoring, mostly because I want to be able to call any creationist I meet a fool if I feel like it, or ignore their writings if I want to. I'm happy for them to write stuff and talk among themselves, that's what free speech is about, but it of neccesity includes my right to say how stupid it sounds if they try to convince me.
PC? Probably not, but I have never claimed to be such.
I can see this being used by people to spy on partners,, especially if they suspect infidelity.
The problem with Crusade was that is was basically 'The Galan Show'. He was, intended or not, the main character, the one pulling all the strings, and by far the most interesting. Unfortunatelly that wasn't really meant to be the focus of the show, which resulted in a confused mess.
Was it a Fantasy show or Scifi? Well it had ships, but far too much 'lord of the rings' stuff going on to be the sci-fi successor to the masterpeice that was Babylon 5.
ps. You mentioned Legends of the Rangers, Go wash your mouth out with soap, you disgust me....
I'm glad they're stopping with season 10. I love stargate, but they have run it for too long now, and it's not quite as good as it once was.
Better for there to be movies in the main franchise, so we can continue enjoying it without seeing it turn like X-files, with no end in sight and ever weakening storylines.
This new spin off series thing might be entertaining, so long as they don't 'enterprise' it and make everyone hate it, just like Crusade did to Babylon 5, what a horror that was.
I had a few several years ago, but I hated the quality and replaced them with dvds. Now I prefer to browse the bargain bins and very occasionally buy new releases if I like them enough.
The big problem is previewing movies. I've bought a few real dogs in my time that I never would have got if I'd seen them beforehand. A single legal 'watch once' download would be my ideal solution, because I don't like owning a film I wouldn't watch more than once.
It was a while back. They were independant bands releasing mp3 versions of their music online. The RIAA did a blanket search for web sites with mp3's on them and served takedown notices to their hosting services.
It all got very embarassing for them, but they did it first, then backed down, rather then thinking about it.
it's definatelly a statement, rather than just a normal movie rip.
Lets face it, with a file that large you could earn the money to buy it, go down to the store, and be back and watching it before the download had finished.
Ripped movies don't really interest me anyway, I like my dvd collection.
Oh there'll be payment, just nowhere near as much as the media companies charge, and possibly ad based
They used to have fits about tapes and vinyl copying too. It's always happened. Their main problem is that selling media in any form will always be a business which experiences lots of unauthorised copying of its products if you use their traditional distribution method (being monolithic companies selling media at high price through a limited number of channels)
The problem they have is that faced with this undeniable fact they have decided to focus on an unrealistic solution, being drm. The plain fact is that drm will only cause problems for legitimate users, not unauthorised copiers.
Circumvention being illegal is no problem. There will always be someone, somewhere who figures it out, and finding that person in time to stop dissemination of their solution is a game that will be lost before they start, every time.
DRM then is so they can continue to attract investors. It gives them something to say in pitches. 'We have solution x to this problem that will ensure a return on your investment' and so on. The fact that historically such solutions have a 100% faliure rate isn't something they can even think about, so they're trapped.
Looking at this from an evolutionary standpoint, they're screwed, and heading to extinction. Simply demanding that the world be other than it is can only have that result. What system will emerge in its place I don't know, but I strongly suspect that the current crop of p2p companies/products will form the basis of a new media empire.
The current media industries are trying to get into this feild, but for years all they've been doing is trying to stop it, whilst the p2p producers have been innovating like crazy. That means the p2p guys are already ahead in the next wave of media production/distribution, and very likely to stay there.
Given that some bands have already had their websites closed down in the past because they had mp3s up for download, I'd say it was quite possible they would try.
Succeeding though, now that's another matter entirely.
Shit, they can't even stop the rampant worldwide use of bittorrent to share content, and they want to control podcasts?
'This is the Barn Door Calling...'
yup, seems pretty conclusive that was what he was talking about.
Not quite. I don't have the exact facts to hand, but in the case of the TCP/IP stack, the BSD Bods were asked to develop it on their own so as to ensure internal consistancy, then everyone else was to use what they produced. The tcp/ip stack in windows came from that effort, as did the stack in many other OSs.
Much therefore of Unix stuff in windows has a perfect right to be there. I was told by someone who enjoyed poking around deep in windows that some original BSD text can still be seen in the windows stuff, although I have not a clue how to find it myself.
If anyone else does know more about this, then feel free to make my poor amount of information seem even more insignificant...
Yes, but lets be honest here, just how many office users are going to look for things to make their documents easily compatible, or even realise that such a need exists? Not a big number I would think.
Most people I know who use microsoft office and other microsoft products use them exclusively. I've made some inroads into converting people towards open source, but it's often too much work.
I had to change away from using openoffice and Latex for my documents during my phd because my supervisor insisted everything must be in microsoft formats, as did the department I was in. That was everything from papers to lecture materials. As this was a computer science dept I was somewhat amazed. I was at one point the *only* person there actively encouraging use of open source tools.
This wasn't a place I was happy be to be at, hence why I am no longer there.
It's somewhat easier to do well when funding is high. I wonder what the ratio of funding to Nobel Prizes is.
you're not a well man.... :-)
it was, according to him, a very hot day, not a storm in sight. He didn't see where it came from, but he said it seemed to be moving towards him till he got out of the water.
Not being too conversant with electromagnetism I couldn't say whether this was because he represented an electrical 'hot spot' on the water or just that he was so freaked he thought it was following him.
It was, so far as he could tell, about a foot across.
A friend of mine was swimming in a lake in the eighties and some ball lightening appeared. It bounced along the surface of the lake near him, scaring him and others on the lake beach somewhat as he raced to the shore.
It dissipated shortly after he got out, and he went straight to the lakeside bar to get a drink, touched the proffered glass, and it exploded. Other than that and a healthy dose of 'holy fuck', he had no ill effects.