The great physicist Richard Feynman once said that he didn't see any theoretical reason why cold fusion would not work.
Then again, there is no theoretical reason why every subatomic particle in your body could not simultaneously jump one foot to the left.
Researchers were stunned on Saturday as they discovered that the key component of the new fusion bottle has gone missing. A late-night janitor reported hearing someone say "Mmmmmmm...levitating superconductive plasma donut" shortly before the crucial torus disappeared.
Yeah...I mean, this is ridiculous. So I have to spend about $600 a year for car insurance. Actually, I don't even HAVE to because my state lets you drive without insurance up to your first accident. But I want to have it just to be safe. Anyway, saving $50 a year on car insurance is NOT going to affect my lifestyle in the slightest. Not even saving $300 would. Even the doubled gas prices haven't changed my lifestyle much.
But then we have the people who will drive across town to save 50 cents on something. Or they Buy Two, Get One Free! even though they'd normally never buy one. What's going to happen is that my rates will go up to $650 per year, and in order to get back down to $600 I'd have to install one of these tracking devices. Why not implant it into my forehead while they're at it?
Now that's a good example of something that could really happen. Also if people leave these things public, there could be firmware exploits such as have been found in cable and DSL modem/routers. I imagine that a few synchronized on-off pulses would take down the power grid pretty quick.
Except that the seller put a broken TV back in a box and gave it to the customer, in fact HOPING that time would pass and they could pull off a "you broke it" argument.
Textbook example of a lamprey poster. Lamprey posters parasitically latch onto early 5's for an easy ride to Modville, regardless of whether the post has anything remotely to do with the parent.;-)
I don't have anything incriminating in my email, though as private conversations they include a lot of idle comments that could be misconstrued. While my data is impossible to replace, what I consider MORE valuable is my ability to control that data.
It is true that for every email I have stored, another copy possibly exists elsewhere with the person I sent the email to, or the person who sent me the email. However, my storage is what links all of those emails together. It is much more difficult to track down hundreds of individuals and gain access to their email. Of course, if everyone used Gmail, finding all archived emails from and to me could be as simple as typing my name in a search form. That's the scary part; it is now no longer safe to believe that email is a private medium. Massive email correlation is only protected by a few lines of code and a few lines of law, instead of physically having to track down everything.
I now take special care to word my emails carefully and refrain from writing things that could be misconstrued. An axiom of journalism from many years ago is to "never write down anything you wouldn't want the whole world to see." That is probably the best way to protect yourself.
Can anyone explain to me what the point is of moving all your personal email into someone else's free service?
I could have gotten a Gmail account by now, but I don't need it. Domain names are cheap, web hosting+email is cheap, hard disk space is cheap, my email archives are irreplacable. I have my own email domain, and I can store hundreds of gigs of email if I really have to. If I need to get to my archives from somewhere else, I can always SSH into my network.
Maybe Google lets you search easily, but all you really need is a better indexer for your local email archives. I just don't understand why someone would move 12 years of their life into the data warehouse of someone you don't control. Their handling of their stock offering certainly doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe Google really messes up and they get shut down tomorrow. You never know.
Yes, in the Windows GUI you can start a render at your final settings and then stop it. Then you can click on the image and select a rectangle which can then be rendered by itself. However on files like the Seraphim one, even a little 50x100 sliver can take several minutes.
I usually use very small sizes to check how atmospherics and reflections look overall at the final quality settings, I use low-detail rendering at full or half-size to place objects, and I render selected areas at full resolution to check on things like texture and atmospheric graininess.
Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.
For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.
I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.
None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.
I don't know which program did it, but I recently had to fix a spyware-laden computer. I started off the same way you did, but then I hit the ol' CTRL-ALT-DEL to see what processes were running.
WHOA!!! WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
Some program had actually modified the Task Manager resources so that NO tabs or menu items were visible. All you could see was the main "application" list. That threw me off for a second, but I managed to blindly switch to the process tab via keyboard shortcuts. It would completely stump anyone else who didn't know much about computers, but was trying to follow your directions above.
Because I was an engineering student with a lot of projects due the day before and averaging less than 20 hours of sleep a week, and had no reason to suspect it wouldn't work, and assumed most people would be using at least a modern version of a browser....
I'm not saying this is why I hated 4.7, but it certainly rose from what I thought was its grave and gave me one last swift kick. I didn't like 4.7 because of all the cruft they crammed into every crevice. I don't like 4.7 now because it drove so many people to Internet Explorer, which due to its OS-integrated nature is now responsible for 99% of the worm, virus, and spyware problems I see.
I seriously wish Netscape 4.7 would die already, it once even cost me a good grade on part of an senior engineering project because the web page didn't work in the professor's Netscape 4.7 browser. I had tested the page in several different versions of IE, Mozilla, Firefox, even Konqueror and Opera.
I've seen a 98SE machine on dialup which was automatically infected by a worm with no interaction from the user. On top of that, the worm *itself* was infected by another virus. Never mind the hundreds of exploits for Internet Explorer and Outlook. You're probably infecting hundreds of other computers and sending spam as we speak.
The FPGAs and support systems required to simulate anything remotely close to a modern processor would cost more than your house. And it would still be a lot slower.
This is misleading. You also have to look at the three-dimensional pattern of radiation; for simplicity's sake let's assume it's spherical. Since the cell phone antenna is much closer, the radiation is spreading out at a wide angle when it hits your head. The power density falloff is massive; calculations I did a few months ago showed that the power fell off so quickly, a detectable signal would penetrate half a centimeter into your skull in an area a couple inches in diameter.
When a high-power signal from a long range impacts your head, the angle of divergence across your head is slight. This means that the same amount of power is hitting the entire surface of your head and body. Also, only attenuation due to your flesh will significantly drop the power, since the signal is not spreading out so fast.
A good analogy would be standing in bright summer sunlight, then sitting in the dark holding your hand near a candle so that the skin temperature from the candle is equal to that caused by the sun. The candle's radiation spreads out much faster and does not penetrate as deeply because the source is very close to you.
I'm seeing some pretty flawed logic there. First you tell us that you're getting a chemical engineering degree and saving up a modest wad of cash for later, obviously working while getting an engineering degree. And then you complain about your own car compared to the shiny rims and big speakers in the cars across the street.
Do you think anyone there is going to college? Do you think anyone there is working hard AND taking tough engineering classes AND managing to save money? You're smart but you need to learn to think.
Those people live in the present. They are willing to accept a moderate amount of pleasure in exchange for throwing away their future. Believe me, loud stereos and shiny rims don't cost all that much. Certainly not as much as you pay for books in a year. If you wanted to, you could have dropped out of high school, got a factory job, and started blowing your whole paycheck every week. It's how many people live. But you weren't satisfied with that; you're aiming higher. For that, you're willing to give up a few things.
I've been in your situation. It's not easy. But you have only yourself to blame for your current situation. It is the calculated sacrifice that any person in this country has the opportunity to make, if they want to rise above the average.
So a French author advocates not doing the task in front of you; merely give that so-expressive French shrug with the palms upward. I guess this explains all the French military victories. Merely look like you're fighting a war, don't overdo it!
Also:
"Given the difficulty of firing employees, she says, frustrated superiors are more likely to move such subversive workers up than out."
Let me just say right here that France has got to be quite different from America in this aspect. The firing process in America is a smooth, well-oiled and often-used machine.
Yet another good sign of quackery, or at least incompetence: almost all of the images on the site are resized in HTML rather than being displayed in their actual sizes. Most of the graphics appear to be copied from other websites and perhaps scanned from textbooks as well.
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Tomatoes are roughly the size of a human heart.
Maybe they were onto something?
Crack.
The great physicist Richard Feynman once said that he didn't see any theoretical reason why cold fusion would not work. Then again, there is no theoretical reason why every subatomic particle in your body could not simultaneously jump one foot to the left.
Researchers were stunned on Saturday as they discovered that the key component of the new fusion bottle has gone missing. A late-night janitor reported hearing someone say "Mmmmmmm...levitating superconductive plasma donut" shortly before the crucial torus disappeared.
Yeah...I mean, this is ridiculous. So I have to spend about $600 a year for car insurance. Actually, I don't even HAVE to because my state lets you drive without insurance up to your first accident. But I want to have it just to be safe. Anyway, saving $50 a year on car insurance is NOT going to affect my lifestyle in the slightest. Not even saving $300 would. Even the doubled gas prices haven't changed my lifestyle much. But then we have the people who will drive across town to save 50 cents on something. Or they Buy Two, Get One Free! even though they'd normally never buy one. What's going to happen is that my rates will go up to $650 per year, and in order to get back down to $600 I'd have to install one of these tracking devices. Why not implant it into my forehead while they're at it?
Now that's a good example of something that could really happen. Also if people leave these things public, there could be firmware exploits such as have been found in cable and DSL modem/routers. I imagine that a few synchronized on-off pulses would take down the power grid pretty quick.
Except that the seller put a broken TV back in a box and gave it to the customer, in fact HOPING that time would pass and they could pull off a "you broke it" argument.
Textbook example of a lamprey poster. Lamprey posters parasitically latch onto early 5's for an easy ride to Modville, regardless of whether the post has anything remotely to do with the parent. ;-)
It's simple, you just take a nice red Sharpie....
I don't have anything incriminating in my email, though as private conversations they include a lot of idle comments that could be misconstrued. While my data is impossible to replace, what I consider MORE valuable is my ability to control that data.
It is true that for every email I have stored, another copy possibly exists elsewhere with the person I sent the email to, or the person who sent me the email. However, my storage is what links all of those emails together. It is much more difficult to track down hundreds of individuals and gain access to their email. Of course, if everyone used Gmail, finding all archived emails from and to me could be as simple as typing my name in a search form. That's the scary part; it is now no longer safe to believe that email is a private medium. Massive email correlation is only protected by a few lines of code and a few lines of law, instead of physically having to track down everything.
I now take special care to word my emails carefully and refrain from writing things that could be misconstrued. An axiom of journalism from many years ago is to "never write down anything you wouldn't want the whole world to see." That is probably the best way to protect yourself.
Can anyone explain to me what the point is of moving all your personal email into someone else's free service? I could have gotten a Gmail account by now, but I don't need it. Domain names are cheap, web hosting+email is cheap, hard disk space is cheap, my email archives are irreplacable. I have my own email domain, and I can store hundreds of gigs of email if I really have to. If I need to get to my archives from somewhere else, I can always SSH into my network. Maybe Google lets you search easily, but all you really need is a better indexer for your local email archives. I just don't understand why someone would move 12 years of their life into the data warehouse of someone you don't control. Their handling of their stock offering certainly doesn't inspire confidence. Maybe Google really messes up and they get shut down tomorrow. You never know.
Yes, in the Windows GUI you can start a render at your final settings and then stop it. Then you can click on the image and select a rectangle which can then be rendered by itself. However on files like the Seraphim one, even a little 50x100 sliver can take several minutes. I usually use very small sizes to check how atmospherics and reflections look overall at the final quality settings, I use low-detail rendering at full or half-size to place objects, and I render selected areas at full resolution to check on things like texture and atmospheric graininess.
Well, editing a text file is indeed lightweight. But rendering is a different story...and if you have a slow computer, you can't render as many times to tweak everything just right.
For example, this takes quite a while to render on a 1.2GHz machine, even though those are just speckle shells and not individual hairs. This wasn't too bad, I think 10 hours on a 233MHz laptop. Likewise with this one. But this one took a couple days on a 1.2GHz machine due to all the internal reflections and focal blurring. Also, this Megatokyo fanart took a day or so to render. Nothing really complex as far as the actual objects go, just a lot of light and atmospherics.
I also kind of like it for roughing out mechanical parts, though of course it's no AutoCAD. This was part of something I was trying to put together with rollerblade wheels. And here was the furniture set I modeled while planning out a dorm layout one year in college.
None of this stuff involved modelers at all, just typed in, using macros and recursion where possible. You start with a simple sphere statement, and then it gets addictive.
Yeah, that helps, and it's the way I prefer to do it. But many modelers export to POV-Ray, and there are modelers specifically for it like Moray.
Some sort of text-to-speech engine?
I don't know which program did it, but I recently had to fix a spyware-laden computer. I started off the same way you did, but then I hit the ol' CTRL-ALT-DEL to see what processes were running.
WHOA!!! WHAT HAVE WE HERE?
Some program had actually modified the Task Manager resources so that NO tabs or menu items were visible. All you could see was the main "application" list. That threw me off for a second, but I managed to blindly switch to the process tab via keyboard shortcuts. It would completely stump anyone else who didn't know much about computers, but was trying to follow your directions above.
Because I was an engineering student with a lot of projects due the day before and averaging less than 20 hours of sleep a week, and had no reason to suspect it wouldn't work, and assumed most people would be using at least a modern version of a browser....
I'm not saying this is why I hated 4.7, but it certainly rose from what I thought was its grave and gave me one last swift kick. I didn't like 4.7 because of all the cruft they crammed into every crevice. I don't like 4.7 now because it drove so many people to Internet Explorer, which due to its OS-integrated nature is now responsible for 99% of the worm, virus, and spyware problems I see.
I seriously wish Netscape 4.7 would die already, it once even cost me a good grade on part of an senior engineering project because the web page didn't work in the professor's Netscape 4.7 browser. I had tested the page in several different versions of IE, Mozilla, Firefox, even Konqueror and Opera.
I've seen a 98SE machine on dialup which was automatically infected by a worm with no interaction from the user. On top of that, the worm *itself* was infected by another virus. Never mind the hundreds of exploits for Internet Explorer and Outlook. You're probably infecting hundreds of other computers and sending spam as we speak.
The FPGAs and support systems required to simulate anything remotely close to a modern processor would cost more than your house. And it would still be a lot slower.
This is misleading. You also have to look at the three-dimensional pattern of radiation; for simplicity's sake let's assume it's spherical. Since the cell phone antenna is much closer, the radiation is spreading out at a wide angle when it hits your head. The power density falloff is massive; calculations I did a few months ago showed that the power fell off so quickly, a detectable signal would penetrate half a centimeter into your skull in an area a couple inches in diameter.
When a high-power signal from a long range impacts your head, the angle of divergence across your head is slight. This means that the same amount of power is hitting the entire surface of your head and body. Also, only attenuation due to your flesh will significantly drop the power, since the signal is not spreading out so fast.
A good analogy would be standing in bright summer sunlight, then sitting in the dark holding your hand near a candle so that the skin temperature from the candle is equal to that caused by the sun. The candle's radiation spreads out much faster and does not penetrate as deeply because the source is very close to you.
I'm seeing some pretty flawed logic there. First you tell us that you're getting a chemical engineering degree and saving up a modest wad of cash for later, obviously working while getting an engineering degree. And then you complain about your own car compared to the shiny rims and big speakers in the cars across the street. Do you think anyone there is going to college? Do you think anyone there is working hard AND taking tough engineering classes AND managing to save money? You're smart but you need to learn to think. Those people live in the present. They are willing to accept a moderate amount of pleasure in exchange for throwing away their future. Believe me, loud stereos and shiny rims don't cost all that much. Certainly not as much as you pay for books in a year. If you wanted to, you could have dropped out of high school, got a factory job, and started blowing your whole paycheck every week. It's how many people live. But you weren't satisfied with that; you're aiming higher. For that, you're willing to give up a few things. I've been in your situation. It's not easy. But you have only yourself to blame for your current situation. It is the calculated sacrifice that any person in this country has the opportunity to make, if they want to rise above the average.
So a French author advocates not doing the task in front of you; merely give that so-expressive French shrug with the palms upward. I guess this explains all the French military victories. Merely look like you're fighting a war, don't overdo it! Also: "Given the difficulty of firing employees, she says, frustrated superiors are more likely to move such subversive workers up than out." Let me just say right here that France has got to be quite different from America in this aspect. The firing process in America is a smooth, well-oiled and often-used machine.
Simple, just hold down the 'Alt' key and type '33' on the numeric keypad.
Yet another good sign of quackery, or at least incompetence: almost all of the images on the site are resized in HTML rather than being displayed in their actual sizes. Most of the graphics appear to be copied from other websites and perhaps scanned from textbooks as well.