I've read about quite a few of these colored rain falls and most of them have an obvious terrestrial source. They usually are volcanic or caused by birds or insects. It's one thing for trace amounts of organic matter to survive reentry but large amounts are highly unlikely. Organic material would mostly be incinerated. A comet fragment would have a better chance with the ice protecting the organic matter. I doubt the paper will survive peer review.
Actually the industry is littered with dead formats. The first was probably glass cylinders then wire recordings had brief appearance. One of my favorites was a system for printing films on vynl records, can't remember the name. That one died because the movies degraded after a few playings. sadly Laser Disk was one of the latest to succumb and it was still superior to current DVDs. It also had the longest service life of any of the prerecorded movie formats. It actually dates back to the mid seventies. Since each format is similar the real point is making players that handle the older DVD format and one or hopefully both of the new ones. Making a player that only handled say Blu-Ray and couldn't play CD, DVD or even these days MP3 would be a disaster. People have gotten used to a DVD player being able to handle all their disk media. Releasing a dedicated player would annoy customers and hurt sales. Media clutter is a serious problem. It's not that unusual already to have a DVD player, VHS player and several game counsels. Now people need to add possibly two new players to the mix? Multiformat is going to be the only way to go since most already have libraries of content and they don't want to start from scratch every five to ten years. Dividing the industry will only turn people against the providers and cause a backlash. I won't buy already until one format dies or they release dual players. Most will do the same.
How times have changed. Pranks that would have gotten you a session with the principal are now felonies. Children of all ages do dumb things. It's why records are normally expunged at 18 so they don't carry the stimga of a childhood prank throughout their lives. Schools now have a zero tolerance to any misbehavior and expulsion seems to be the least of a kids worries. The stunt was a modern version of getting everyone to flush all the toliets at once. Fine, suspend him for a week to make a point but a felony? When I was growing up back in the 60s and 70s even in a small midwestern town there was several bomb threats called in. It was a dumb thing to do and would have gotten them expelled but in today's climate they would have been convicted of a felony and jailed for multiple years with the record possibly carrying over into their perminate record and ruining their lives. Is it really making us safer or is the intolerance ripping society apart? After the Columbine shootings it was found social outcasts that had been targeted by bullies were at fault. Who got targeted? The bullies that abused outcasts? No the outcast victims became targets in every school further victimizing them and possibly leading to school shootings that have occured in the years since. The iron fist approach tends to make things worst not better. Prison tends to make criminals. Is it serving society better to throw a kid in prison for a dumb prank and turn him into a career criminal or punish him for the prank by suspending him for a time then giving him a chance to redeem himself and his life?
I may have missed something in all my reading but I don't recall any relationship between magetism and gravity. The messner effect has nothing to do with gravity it's a simple function of super conductive magnets. There have been some insanely large magnets made so if such an effect existed I'd think some sign of it would have been seen already. Gravity relates to mass not magnetism. They have been thought to be related effects but I've never heard of one influencing the other.
The problem was rejection and posible bad reactions to being exposed to the animal proteins. The human proteins aren't likely to cause the same rejection issues. The real problem now is Bush is demanding that they stick with the small number of existing lines, most of which are already contaminated. They can still experiment in this country but they can't recieve government funds if they use new lines because it upsets the radical base. I think there will be a lot of opposition to treatments being approved because of the same ignorant stance. They are terrified some of the hundreds of thousands of unused embryos might be used to treat the sick. It's about control and they don't care if the donors approve or not. It's a religious issue like many facing the government today. So long as the current administration is in power religion will always trump common sense.
It's interesting because it's an effect they haven't seen before. An atmosphere actually helping to cool a planet is something new and pretty amazing. It seems to act like a giant evaporative cooler. The more that's understood about the physics of known planets the more accurate the information will be that can be gleaned from distant planets. Ten degrees may not seem like much but it's an important piece of the overall puzzle. It also means that Pluto is a lot more active and more interesting than people have thought.
Is it really then a good water mark? Windows seems to suffer far more attacks. Mac seems one of the safest in practice and Linux seems to suffer few attacks. IS the real reason numbers, as in there are more users so more attacks? Or is it the type of flaws? Or are the attackers more inclined to attack Windows for personal reasons? There's abviously a reason and simple numbers aren't proving to be a accurate measure. Does anyone in the know go with Windows for security?
I've been reading about this since the 70s. It's a great idea and I can't understand why no one has built a prototype yet. Most of the systems I read about proposed using something like amonia since it was dealing with a temperature difference rather than high temperatures. Some chemicals like amonia boil at very low temperatures. They don't produce the power steam does but it's a stable source. Deep ocean temperatures are near freezing where as surface temperatures can be 40 to 50 degrees higher in the same area. Some have complained about cooling surface water. The ocean is a mighty big heat sink and it's doubtful plants that are spread out would have much affect. In truth it might help offset some of the surface warming caused by global warming. I'm not sure enough plants could be built that would drop ocean surface temperature one degree. Temperatures have already raised that much in the last 100 years.
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by raffe (28595) * Alter Relationship on Wednesday January 04, @05:45AM (#14391566)
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be the first to say:
THIS JUST ROCKS!
Now I can:
# Carry my web browser with all my favorite bookmarks
# Carry my calendar with all my appointments
# Carry my email client with all my contacts and settings
# Carry my instant messenger and my buddy list
# Carry my whole office suite along with my documents and presentations
# Carry my antivirus program and other computer utilities
# Carry all my important passwords and account information securely
We call them laptops.
That said I've been complaining to software companies since the first 1 gig usb drives hit the market that their software should come loaded on a USB drive. I'll happily pay an extra hundred for the freedom and convinence. With most higher end software node locked these days it's getting tough on the little guy. I'm starting to seriously miss dongles, scary thought. The current system is inflexsible and doesn't recognise little nasties like hard drive failure, I literally had to swap out three drives on one machine in a single month. Seems like an obvious evolution either providing a version of the software that can be loaded onto a USB drive or shipping the software on a USB drive. Since it'll add to cost some users won't want to do it but those of us currently forced to buy mulitple copies for multiple machines just so we can keep working when a machine is tied up will love it.
Hollywood and the music industry announced they will, be halting all production and put their money into stocks and bonds. Software companies are expected to follow their example.
There ain't no free ride. If no one wants to pay for it the product goes away, it's called capitalism.
Come on, get in the spirit of the madness. For the cost of printing six trillion in hundreds we can be out of debt. If we print a couple of trillion extra we can go on a spending spree. It's the " I can't be broke I got more checks" theory of economics.
There really isn't a downside. Anyone who has traveled much knows you rarely spend much time in the room other than sleeping so large rooms are mostly wasted. If you are staying for more than a few days you pick up a traditional room. They are being put in airports for a reason. People don't stay more than a day or two around an airport and traditionally airport hotels are extremely expense. I'd absolutely go that route if I got stuck with an overnight layover. Beats dropping a couple of hundred for a place to crash.
A major use for the software is determining which paintings are by Abstract Impressionist and those by chimpazees. Thus far experts have been unable to reliably determine which was responsible for many works by unknown artists. A musuem recieved an expensive shock when the software determined a Jackson Pollack was actually a house painter with a leaky bucket and the canvas was actually a tarp. The musuem argued back that it was Jackson Pollack with a leaky bucket but the computer was unconvienced by the argument and stuck by it's first conclusion that the tarp was produced by a 300lb house painter named Sid.
Technically most modern governments fall into this category. Our own government is made up primarily of people from a specific social class and more importantly a social click. The idea of any kid can grow up to be President is largely a myth. Without the backing of the right people, and I don't mean the american people, you simply can't be elected President and in truth hold most offices. The priviledged run this country and so cater to their own social group. Both China and Russia have been run much the same way inspite of the communist title. There's always been wealthy in both countries. What communism really kills is upward mobility.
Must have changed in NZ. I was there five years ago and the big thing was shops selling DVD players with the region selectors reset. It was a kind of wink wink nudge nudge deal. I'm guessing the laws changed there. They looked the other way at muliregion players but they weren't strictly legal. Glad they resolved that since.
I've voice my opposition to free downloads countless times but the region issue is completely different. There's only one reason for the region limitations to exist and that's pricing based on country or in this case region. I find it annoying because I like imports that aren't nessaccarilly availible in the US and may never be. I can't buy and play them because the companies are trying to protect unfair pricing? It's about dumping cheap DVDs in one market while gouging in another market. The practice should be illegal not sanctioned and protected.
My cannidate for the most pointless site ever. Kind of like a prime time show that is nothing but three second commercials. The guy got lucky and a bunch of stupid people bought web space. Yes they may see some return because it hit the news but it's exactly like the casino buying a ten thousand dollar piece of toast because it looked like the Virgin Mary. The item itself is worthless and only has value because some one was stupid enough to pay good money for it.
Got to say people are getting too casual about cutting government employees slack for invading rights out of ignorance. They are american citizens and should be aware of those basic rights. Planting a 30 year cookie isn't an oops. No matter what is said I'd be more shocked if the information wasn't scanned for hot websites. Remember back in the day you could be labelled a commie for subscribing to Mother Earth News. They should know that the governemnt can't legally monitor US citizens without a court order but the President doesn't seem to know that one. What qualifications does a governemnt official have to have? Breathing? Yes they were building a website but they were working for the bloody NSA which should hold a higher standard. If it was a goof it's the kind that gets people fired. If no one was fired I'd tend to believe it was officially sanctioned. People are starting to think of basic rights as no big deal. Take away those rights and we get police state. Bush has got us half way there and hardly anyone has taken notice which is terrifying. In England cameras are starting to monitor your every move and in Japan the police don't need a warrant to search your house. We take a lot for granted in this country. It's sad to see our basic rights given up without a fight much less being noticed by the average person.
There ARE problems with civil rights in limited circumstances in the US, and these fake stories do nothing but HURT those who really have a legitimate bitch. So, rather than prove your point, it counters it.
Got to differ with you are the rariety of civil rights abuses. They are getting out of control in this country. In some cities people are getting shot for disorderly conduct and other crimes that wouldn't nessaccarily involve jail time. Ignoring an officers orders shouldn't be grounds for execution in this country. Can't happen? Hate to break it to you but it's a daily occurance in this country. Just before I left LA a man was shot for disorderly conduct because both officers were under 130lbs and felt they couldn't handle the man. Since when have we gone to the Judge Dred system? Unless there's a serious risk of life there should be no excuse for beating or executing a suspect. I've seen hand cuffed suspects beaten on video tape that weren't even resisting arrest. We used to call it innocent until proven guilty. Add to that the government constantly ignoring the constitution and we have a serious problem. I just read an article about the NSA using visiting the website an excuse to install a thirty year cookie onto your computer to monitor where you browsed. Do we control the government or are they here to control us? The constitution says one thing but the government seems to feel the opposite is true.
More to the point can it find Osama Bin Laden? It'd be nice if some one would look for the murdering SOB. Unless he makes the mistake of hidding in an oil field I'd say he's pretty safe right now.
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I've read about quite a few of these colored rain falls and most of them have an obvious terrestrial source. They usually are volcanic or caused by birds or insects. It's one thing for trace amounts of organic matter to survive reentry but large amounts are highly unlikely. Organic material would mostly be incinerated. A comet fragment would have a better chance with the ice protecting the organic matter. I doubt the paper will survive peer review.
Actually the industry is littered with dead formats. The first was probably glass cylinders then wire recordings had brief appearance. One of my favorites was a system for printing films on vynl records, can't remember the name. That one died because the movies degraded after a few playings. sadly Laser Disk was one of the latest to succumb and it was still superior to current DVDs. It also had the longest service life of any of the prerecorded movie formats. It actually dates back to the mid seventies. Since each format is similar the real point is making players that handle the older DVD format and one or hopefully both of the new ones. Making a player that only handled say Blu-Ray and couldn't play CD, DVD or even these days MP3 would be a disaster. People have gotten used to a DVD player being able to handle all their disk media. Releasing a dedicated player would annoy customers and hurt sales. Media clutter is a serious problem. It's not that unusual already to have a DVD player, VHS player and several game counsels. Now people need to add possibly two new players to the mix? Multiformat is going to be the only way to go since most already have libraries of content and they don't want to start from scratch every five to ten years. Dividing the industry will only turn people against the providers and cause a backlash. I won't buy already until one format dies or they release dual players. Most will do the same.
How times have changed. Pranks that would have gotten you a session with the principal are now felonies. Children of all ages do dumb things. It's why records are normally expunged at 18 so they don't carry the stimga of a childhood prank throughout their lives. Schools now have a zero tolerance to any misbehavior and expulsion seems to be the least of a kids worries. The stunt was a modern version of getting everyone to flush all the toliets at once. Fine, suspend him for a week to make a point but a felony? When I was growing up back in the 60s and 70s even in a small midwestern town there was several bomb threats called in. It was a dumb thing to do and would have gotten them expelled but in today's climate they would have been convicted of a felony and jailed for multiple years with the record possibly carrying over into their perminate record and ruining their lives. Is it really making us safer or is the intolerance ripping society apart? After the Columbine shootings it was found social outcasts that had been targeted by bullies were at fault. Who got targeted? The bullies that abused outcasts? No the outcast victims became targets in every school further victimizing them and possibly leading to school shootings that have occured in the years since. The iron fist approach tends to make things worst not better. Prison tends to make criminals. Is it serving society better to throw a kid in prison for a dumb prank and turn him into a career criminal or punish him for the prank by suspending him for a time then giving him a chance to redeem himself and his life?
I may have missed something in all my reading but I don't recall any relationship between magetism and gravity. The messner effect has nothing to do with gravity it's a simple function of super conductive magnets. There have been some insanely large magnets made so if such an effect existed I'd think some sign of it would have been seen already. Gravity relates to mass not magnetism. They have been thought to be related effects but I've never heard of one influencing the other.
The problem was rejection and posible bad reactions to being exposed to the animal proteins. The human proteins aren't likely to cause the same rejection issues. The real problem now is Bush is demanding that they stick with the small number of existing lines, most of which are already contaminated. They can still experiment in this country but they can't recieve government funds if they use new lines because it upsets the radical base. I think there will be a lot of opposition to treatments being approved because of the same ignorant stance. They are terrified some of the hundreds of thousands of unused embryos might be used to treat the sick. It's about control and they don't care if the donors approve or not. It's a religious issue like many facing the government today. So long as the current administration is in power religion will always trump common sense.
It's interesting because it's an effect they haven't seen before. An atmosphere actually helping to cool a planet is something new and pretty amazing. It seems to act like a giant evaporative cooler. The more that's understood about the physics of known planets the more accurate the information will be that can be gleaned from distant planets. Ten degrees may not seem like much but it's an important piece of the overall puzzle. It also means that Pluto is a lot more active and more interesting than people have thought.
Is it really then a good water mark? Windows seems to suffer far more attacks. Mac seems one of the safest in practice and Linux seems to suffer few attacks. IS the real reason numbers, as in there are more users so more attacks? Or is it the type of flaws? Or are the attackers more inclined to attack Windows for personal reasons? There's abviously a reason and simple numbers aren't proving to be a accurate measure. Does anyone in the know go with Windows for security?
I've been reading about this since the 70s. It's a great idea and I can't understand why no one has built a prototype yet. Most of the systems I read about proposed using something like amonia since it was dealing with a temperature difference rather than high temperatures. Some chemicals like amonia boil at very low temperatures. They don't produce the power steam does but it's a stable source. Deep ocean temperatures are near freezing where as surface temperatures can be 40 to 50 degrees higher in the same area. Some have complained about cooling surface water. The ocean is a mighty big heat sink and it's doubtful plants that are spread out would have much affect. In truth it might help offset some of the surface warming caused by global warming. I'm not sure enough plants could be built that would drop ocean surface temperature one degree. Temperatures have already raised that much in the last 100 years.
We call them laptops.
That said I've been complaining to software companies since the first 1 gig usb drives hit the market that their software should come loaded on a USB drive. I'll happily pay an extra hundred for the freedom and convinence. With most higher end software node locked these days it's getting tough on the little guy. I'm starting to seriously miss dongles, scary thought. The current system is inflexsible and doesn't recognise little nasties like hard drive failure, I literally had to swap out three drives on one machine in a single month. Seems like an obvious evolution either providing a version of the software that can be loaded onto a USB drive or shipping the software on a USB drive. Since it'll add to cost some users won't want to do it but those of us currently forced to buy mulitple copies for multiple machines just so we can keep working when a machine is tied up will love it.
Finally there'll be a way to read all the fine print in service contracts!
There ain't no free ride. If no one wants to pay for it the product goes away, it's called capitalism.
If you wrap duct tape around them they won't explode. It always worked for me.
I can see a bigger problem. Contacts are bad enough, an eyebud must hurt like hell. Also must be creepy to see a cord hanging out of some ones eye.
Come on, get in the spirit of the madness. For the cost of printing six trillion in hundreds we can be out of debt. If we print a couple of trillion extra we can go on a spending spree. It's the " I can't be broke I got more checks" theory of economics.
There really isn't a downside. Anyone who has traveled much knows you rarely spend much time in the room other than sleeping so large rooms are mostly wasted. If you are staying for more than a few days you pick up a traditional room. They are being put in airports for a reason. People don't stay more than a day or two around an airport and traditionally airport hotels are extremely expense. I'd absolutely go that route if I got stuck with an overnight layover. Beats dropping a couple of hundred for a place to crash.
A major use for the software is determining which paintings are by Abstract Impressionist and those by chimpazees. Thus far experts have been unable to reliably determine which was responsible for many works by unknown artists. A musuem recieved an expensive shock when the software determined a Jackson Pollack was actually a house painter with a leaky bucket and the canvas was actually a tarp. The musuem argued back that it was Jackson Pollack with a leaky bucket but the computer was unconvienced by the argument and stuck by it's first conclusion that the tarp was produced by a 300lb house painter named Sid.
Technically most modern governments fall into this category. Our own government is made up primarily of people from a specific social class and more importantly a social click. The idea of any kid can grow up to be President is largely a myth. Without the backing of the right people, and I don't mean the american people, you simply can't be elected President and in truth hold most offices. The priviledged run this country and so cater to their own social group. Both China and Russia have been run much the same way inspite of the communist title. There's always been wealthy in both countries. What communism really kills is upward mobility.
I've voice my opposition to free downloads countless times but the region issue is completely different. There's only one reason for the region limitations to exist and that's pricing based on country or in this case region. I find it annoying because I like imports that aren't nessaccarilly availible in the US and may never be. I can't buy and play them because the companies are trying to protect unfair pricing? It's about dumping cheap DVDs in one market while gouging in another market. The practice should be illegal not sanctioned and protected.
The groin kick feature may limit sales.
When you run Linux.
My cannidate for the most pointless site ever. Kind of like a prime time show that is nothing but three second commercials. The guy got lucky and a bunch of stupid people bought web space. Yes they may see some return because it hit the news but it's exactly like the casino buying a ten thousand dollar piece of toast because it looked like the Virgin Mary. The item itself is worthless and only has value because some one was stupid enough to pay good money for it.
Got to say people are getting too casual about cutting government employees slack for invading rights out of ignorance. They are american citizens and should be aware of those basic rights. Planting a 30 year cookie isn't an oops. No matter what is said I'd be more shocked if the information wasn't scanned for hot websites. Remember back in the day you could be labelled a commie for subscribing to Mother Earth News. They should know that the governemnt can't legally monitor US citizens without a court order but the President doesn't seem to know that one. What qualifications does a governemnt official have to have? Breathing? Yes they were building a website but they were working for the bloody NSA which should hold a higher standard. If it was a goof it's the kind that gets people fired. If no one was fired I'd tend to believe it was officially sanctioned. People are starting to think of basic rights as no big deal. Take away those rights and we get police state. Bush has got us half way there and hardly anyone has taken notice which is terrifying. In England cameras are starting to monitor your every move and in Japan the police don't need a warrant to search your house. We take a lot for granted in this country. It's sad to see our basic rights given up without a fight much less being noticed by the average person.
Got to differ with you are the rariety of civil rights abuses. They are getting out of control in this country. In some cities people are getting shot for disorderly conduct and other crimes that wouldn't nessaccarily involve jail time. Ignoring an officers orders shouldn't be grounds for execution in this country. Can't happen? Hate to break it to you but it's a daily occurance in this country. Just before I left LA a man was shot for disorderly conduct because both officers were under 130lbs and felt they couldn't handle the man. Since when have we gone to the Judge Dred system? Unless there's a serious risk of life there should be no excuse for beating or executing a suspect. I've seen hand cuffed suspects beaten on video tape that weren't even resisting arrest. We used to call it innocent until proven guilty. Add to that the government constantly ignoring the constitution and we have a serious problem. I just read an article about the NSA using visiting the website an excuse to install a thirty year cookie onto your computer to monitor where you browsed. Do we control the government or are they here to control us? The constitution says one thing but the government seems to feel the opposite is true.
More to the point can it find Osama Bin Laden? It'd be nice if some one would look for the murdering SOB. Unless he makes the mistake of hidding in an oil field I'd say he's pretty safe right now.
I've been wanting to overclock my 4800 dual core to 19200. This should be a big help. The liquid Helium is a bit hard to work with but worth it.