Pollution is not absorbed in the "TX active". The organic molecules (which create the pollution) are decomposed at the surface of this product using light energy. That's why it's called photocatalysis.
It may contain titanium dioxide in its anatase phase. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tio2#As_a_photocataly st for details.
Dvorak is predicting that Apple will adopt Windows.
Too bad he wrote his article before knowing about this trojan, otherwise he would have seen the big picture: Microsoft is behind this trojan and is going to use it to install Windows on Intel Macs. That's how Apple will "adopt" Windows.
Wow! I'm french and did not see anything related to Islam in the recent riots.
And because TV cameras prefer to show violence, you'll have a hard time seing non violent Islam these days. This certainly does not mean it does not exist or represents a minor part.
I can't wait for wikipedia to reach the quality of/.
I'm sure wikipedia would no longer list "Slashdot dupe" as "Slashdot subculture" but rather as "Slashdot features".
would that mean you could use kenetic energy (gun powder, etc.) to trigger a LASER pulse?
That's exactly how shockwaves such as the one studied in this work are created.
Concerning the big electrical plug, this hypothetical source of coherent photons is so weak that it would require a light amplifier. This one requires an electrical plug.
Actually, I did nor see any experiment in this paper. It only consists in modelling.
Concerning sonic stimulation, I'm not sure it could work, but I suppose it would be even less intense. My main concern is about lifetime. How many shockwaves can a crystal support? Remember that defects in the crystal structure are going to destroy the coherence of the emitted light.
As far as I understand, MS just made a promise and to date, there is still no released word processor supporting what could someday be an open standard. I fail to understand how this can put MS back in the race.
I've read many times here that having Linux in the top500 supercomputers list was not worth marketing because it is a niche. Now Microsoft is marketing a beta of what they dream might enter someday this list. Go figure...
So, this means that encrypted password are still safe too, right? (not to mention that everybody should be using shadow password by now and that root privileges are required to read/etc/shadow)
Know what? CNN is not mainstream media in France. Maybe just because they can't even place french main cities (including Paris) on a
map.
(By the way, I'm sure Google appreciate being mentionned on this map.)
> you *NEED TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE PLATFORM TO USE IT*.
100% agreed. However, that person has been using Macs for the last 10 years and never touch a PC. She certainly doesn't claim to be a power user, but it still doesn't make her "familiar with the platform". She knows LaTeX, she does some FORTRAN programming and has used computers since 20 years ago, maybe more. The world is full of people not "familiar with the platform". Not me. Probably not you. But so many others.
This person just wanted to use her damned computer. Telling her to use Mac OS X did not solve her problem, sorry. Linux and Windows would maybe have been worst in this case. That's all.
Mac OS X just didn't work this morning. One of my colleague tried for the first time in her life to burn a CD. She just dragged icons on the CD-R icon on the desktop and everything went smoothly. She then asked somebody to try this CD on a PC with Windows XP: didn't work. She gave me the CD: didn't work. So I asked her to show me what she did and later understood that the CD had a HFS+ format. She of course knows nothing about that but it was obvious for her that she wanted to use the CD everywhere, not just on Macs. So, it just didn't work. (FWIW, she lost another empty CD-R trying to use an application named toast with the same result. Now, I've shown here what to do for her next try.)
Conclusions? 1/ Mac OS X is not all that great 2/ Computers are supposed to be able to do very complicated stuff. All the people claiming that you can build an easy to use interface to do all these complicated stuff are liers. You can make simple interfaces to do a set of limited pre-defined tasks. That's not how I use computers. Even basic users have a lot to gain if they have the time and willingness to learn a bit. And in the end, they ALWAYS need to learn something because the file and folders/directories concepts are not obvious for example.
My government pay me for research work.
I write articles (and with LaTeX, presentation is OK. No need to have somebody do it again.)
I refer articles.
My government is already paying so that I can read papers written by colleagues working in the same national entity as me. (That's unbelievable.)
In short, my government is already paying several times editors: they pay me while I'm refering other's papers, when I want to publish in some journals and when I want to read other's papers. Editors provide very little. Now that we can live without paper versions (I already prefer having PDFs) their job is over. It'll take time, but they are going to disappear unless they join with national resarch organizations and provide free access to anybody. It is a configuration where everybody wins: governments pay less, editors survive in a different form where they only care about having the papers refered by the right persons.
... because he has seen the future
Last line reads:"Salt Lake City Airport, Dec 4, 2005"
My linux system still did not divide neither conquer time. But his Windows OS did!
From wikipedia: "used in condensed matter physics and chemistry" does not mean it is a "method for condensed matter". Raman spectra can be recorded for solids (crystals and amorphous materials), liquids and gases. For example, Raman from air can be measured and you can observe the fingerprints due to O2 and N2 molecules vibrations and rotations. (google for more)
Slashdot Mirror
Pollution is not absorbed in the "TX active". The organic molecules (which create the pollution) are decomposed at the surface of this product using light energy. That's why it's called photocatalysis. It may contain titanium dioxide in its anatase phase. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tio2#As_a_photocataly st for details.
No. It's just that incompatible licenses are incompatible. CDDL (and MPL) are GPL incompatible.
Dupe (Score:2, Redundant)
Wow! I'm french and did not see anything related to Islam in the recent riots.
And because TV cameras prefer to show violence, you'll have a hard time seing non violent Islam these days. This certainly does not mean it does not exist or represents a minor part.
I can't wait for wikipedia to reach the quality of /.
I'm sure wikipedia would no longer list "Slashdot dupe" as "Slashdot subculture" but rather as "Slashdot features".
... did they patent this new class of patents?
... he'll never notice slashdot dupes.
Actually, I did nor see any experiment in this paper. It only consists in modelling.
Concerning sonic stimulation, I'm not sure it could work, but I suppose it would be even less intense. My main concern is about lifetime. How many shockwaves can a crystal support? Remember that defects in the crystal structure are going to destroy the coherence of the emitted light.
I was ready to use it but then I saw that slashdot is referenced in Categories -> Science & Tech at live.com. Maybe MS likes dupes.
As far as I understand, MS just made a promise and to date, there is still no released word processor supporting what could someday be an open standard. I fail to understand how this can put MS back in the race.
I've read many times here that having Linux in the top500 supercomputers list was not worth marketing because it is a niche. Now Microsoft is marketing a beta of what they dream might enter someday this list. Go figure ...
So, this means that encrypted password are still safe too, right? (not to mention that everybody should be using shadow password by now and that root privileges are required to read /etc/shadow)
they may even patent it as a business practice
I'm afraid there is a good amount of prior art.
Is Project Looking Glass required?
wonder if it might still be able to land on a few chairs thrown from Redmond some days ago.
"caught up"? How many linux distributions try to provide a really cross-platform installer? Have a look here to see what I mean by cross-platform.
Know what? CNN is not mainstream media in France. Maybe just because they can't even place french main cities (including Paris) on a map. (By the way, I'm sure Google appreciate being mentionned on this map.)
> you *NEED TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE PLATFORM TO USE IT*. 100% agreed. However, that person has been using Macs for the last 10 years and never touch a PC. She certainly doesn't claim to be a power user, but it still doesn't make her "familiar with the platform". She knows LaTeX, she does some FORTRAN programming and has used computers since 20 years ago, maybe more. The world is full of people not "familiar with the platform". Not me. Probably not you. But so many others. This person just wanted to use her damned computer. Telling her to use Mac OS X did not solve her problem, sorry. Linux and Windows would maybe have been worst in this case. That's all.
Mac OS X just didn't work this morning. One of my colleague tried for the first time in her life to burn a CD. She just dragged icons on the CD-R icon on the desktop and everything went smoothly. She then asked somebody to try this CD on a PC with Windows XP: didn't work. She gave me the CD: didn't work. So I asked her to show me what she did and later understood that the CD had a HFS+ format. She of course knows nothing about that but it was obvious for her that she wanted to use the CD everywhere, not just on Macs. So, it just didn't work. (FWIW, she lost another empty CD-R trying to use an application named toast with the same result. Now, I've shown here what to do for her next try.)
Conclusions?
1/ Mac OS X is not all that great
2/ Computers are supposed to be able to do very complicated stuff. All the people claiming that you can build an easy to use interface to do all these complicated stuff are liers. You can make simple interfaces to do a set of limited pre-defined tasks. That's not how I use computers. Even basic users have a lot to gain if they have the time and willingness to learn a bit. And in the end, they ALWAYS need to learn something because the file and folders/directories concepts are not obvious for example.
My government pay me for research work. I write articles (and with LaTeX, presentation is OK. No need to have somebody do it again.) I refer articles. My government is already paying so that I can read papers written by colleagues working in the same national entity as me. (That's unbelievable.)
In short, my government is already paying several times editors: they pay me while I'm refering other's papers, when I want to publish in some journals and when I want to read other's papers. Editors provide very little. Now that we can live without paper versions (I already prefer having PDFs) their job is over. It'll take time, but they are going to disappear unless they join with national resarch organizations and provide free access to anybody. It is a configuration where everybody wins: governments pay less, editors survive in a different form where they only care about having the papers refered by the right persons.
... because he has seen the future
Last line reads:"Salt Lake City Airport, Dec 4, 2005"
My linux system still did not divide neither conquer time. But his Windows OS did!
From wikipedia: "used in condensed matter physics and chemistry" does not mean it is a "method for condensed matter". Raman spectra can be recorded for solids (crystals and amorphous materials), liquids and gases. For example, Raman from air can be measured and you can observe the fingerprints due to O2 and N2 molecules vibrations and rotations. (google for more)