No, I'm really serious. The fact that the US is so willing to go in an kick some Iraqi butts is significant. If SH really had WMDs that he could use effectively, do you think the US military would be so enthusiastic? Moreover if SH was cornered, what would be his incentive not to use them?
> Because someone took a picture of Rumsfeld and > Hussein in 1998, we should now and for all time > look the other way when third-world countries, > particularly those with ties to al-Qaida, develop > chemical and biological weapons (which are banned > by the Geneva Convention)?
In 1988 (not 98), SH already had WMDs, he already had used them on his own people, using delivery helicopters helpfully supplied by the good ole US of A. At that time Rumsfeld was already a top adviser to right-wing hero Ronald Reagan. SH was America's best friend thanks to his stance on Iran.
The liberal solution I have in mind is not to let presidents of any side give WMD to any dictator in the first place, no matter what use they make of them (in that case, proxy fighting for America against Iran). Only help democracies.
BTW it is a widely known fact that the US has developed NBC weapons, also banned by the Geneva convention. The recent Anthrax attacks in the US were on all accounts an inside job. So please don't take a `hollier than thou' attitude in this matter.
In fact the US doesn't care a damn that SH is a dictator and that he tortures, starves and kills his own people. Many other regimes do that around the planet with the explicit consent and approval of the US, look no further than Saudi Arabia.
Finally yes SH lost the war against the US-led allied coallition in 1991, and yes SH is very likely in violation of international law at the moment and this is what the weapons inspectors are trying to prove right now.
Few people dispute the fact that SH should be removed, even France if you read what their representative in the UN actually said. However if the US goes to war against Iraq without the UN backing it will find itself in violation of international laws. The consequenses might be trivial in the short term but devastating in the long term. Essentially the UN is flawed but this is the best system we have.
The liberal solution to this problem is to work through the UN. The inspections have supposedly failed in the last 12 years but they are making progress now. The US through the UN should not relent, it will get what it wants, hopefully without a war. A war by itself is not guaranteed to topple SH (remember 1991, the US won, sure, but was there any regime change?) and will almost certainly create a huge human disaster.
You can read between the lines by reading the transcript of Osama Bin Laden most recent tape released to Aljezeera (sp?), the Qatar-based TV station. He is in *favor* of the war! Why? because he hates SH (who is not a muslim fundamentalist), he thinks many Americans *and* Israelis will die in the war, and he thinks that after the war Iraq will be in such shambles that it will be a breeding ground for terrorists.
So there you have it. These days it's not a simple matter of going it and killing all the bad guys.
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Some people think consciousness requires quantum effects (read R. Penrose `the emperor's new mind') and that though processes are essentially non-computable phenomena.
If this is true you'll have to wait until the advent of the quantum computer to envisage this transfer as a possibility. This is still a very distant proposition.
No it was an oligarchy. You could participate if you were a citizen, i.e: not a slave, not a foreigner (from another city from about 50 miles away), not a woman, etc. The citizens were numbered in the small thousands, which made it possible for everybody to almost know everyone.
France won WWII together with the other allies. De Gaulle never surrendered and that was his army which liberated Paris.
When was the last time the US won a war? I don't mean a little peace keeping expedition, I mean a war that congress has actually declared. That last point is important, indeed otherwise the last major conflict the US got involved with was a huge defeat (Vietnam).
The foreign legion is actually made up of Frenchmen since one becomes French by joining it. Besides this stupid point, there are a lot of French-born people in the legion. All of the officers have to be, for example.
Anyway, I can't belive I'm defending this outdated institution, but your points are just offensive.
> Sun X? It just works. Turn on the computer > and go.
Right. I used to work on a Ultra sparc 10 with 100% Sun environment. X used to die every other week or so. More exactly it froze and had to be restarted remotely.
If you think that's not often, that's extremely frequently when compared to my XFree86 setting (4.2) that basically never dies.
Sun was never any help. We were running the latest version of everything and still no improvement. I can't describe the feeling of going to a PC running Linux. Suddently everything was above board and JUST WORKED.
Unlike the horrible proprietary Sun stuff which we had no handle on.
How about the following: the UN has worked and SH is effectively disarmed? Why don't we lift the sanction then? because the US and the UK don't want to, even though the weapon's inspectors can find nothing.
> Thirdly, I wonder if their lead phyiscist > (I can't spell his name, heis something),
Werner Heisenberg. See the play `Copenhagen'. According to the latest historical evidence, Heisenberg was doing his best for the Nazis but thought it was impossible to build a nuclear bomb, and so he didn't try as hard as he could have had the errors in this calculations been shown to him.
At the end of the war, as he was taken into custody in England, he reportedly was flabbergasted when he heared about Hiroshima. Then he re-did his calculations and found his errors.
After the war Heisenberg tried to spin his story to pretend he was only doing a half-hearted job for Hitler, but he was still ostracised from the physics world for the rest of his life. In the play `Copenhagen' Niels Borh sees right through him.
One problem with non-liberals is they only see war as a solution.
If anything SH is far less dangerous now than when he was a friend of the US at the end of the 80s. I have a photo of SH shaking Mr Rumfeld's hand warmly dated about 1988. Then SH really had WMD and was using them.
Now SH is effectively disarmed and under close scrutiny of every government in the world. A single misstep will drive the combined might of th e UN to his door.
Why can't the warmonger be a little bit patient? because it's not about war to bring about peace(!) and security, it's about manipulating the US opinion into thinking that they are under threat RIGHT NOW. And if you let the opinion sit still for too long they will see through that game.
> If you really think the U.S. will take the oil > from Iraq,
The Iraq campain may only be partly about oil, but one thing GWB's administration will do after they bump off SH, is to put up a puppet goverment friendly to the US in Iraq. After all Iraq's field are only the 2nd largest in the world and the US is only the single largest oil consumer in the world. It's not as if the US really needs that oil, right?
> I remember hearing stories about how IBM printed > up the BIOS code in one of it's documentation > books.
They did, I still have the book at home (18,000km from here). It exposed the whole electronics design as well and all sort of nifty things. I used that book to design an AT bus expansion card (a counter that controlled an impulse IR laser to burn letters and numbers into glass, a bit like a daisy wheel printer). That was a student project.
The BIOS code was beautifully commented. I loved that book.
Not to be pedant or anything, but you're just in vacuum and you are still Earth-bound. Of course a vastly less interesting and more lethal Earth, but not quite what you wanted.
- H/W manufacturers and MS are in cahoot and agree to put together hardware that:
* Only boots certain O/Ses (Windows)
* Only allows certain kind of files to play
* Only allows certain applications to run
* all of the above controlled by very few companies with very conservative agendas.
Isn't it relatively obvious that this isn't going to fly? Isn't that plan a brilliant blueprint to get rid of Intel, Microsoft, AMD, HPQ and whatnot in one fell swoop?
I for one will just not buy a piece of hardware that limits me in my choices. I am absolutely not at all a pirate, a terrorist or a virus writer, all my files are rightfully owned and within the bounds of fair use. I do not appreciate the `guilty until proven innocent' connotations of these new `technologies'.
Clearly I'd rather pay more to continue to enjoy my freedom (Apple anyone?). Other less enlightened manufacturers and software vendors can shoot themselves in the foot if they want.
Somehow the recent debacles concerning for example
- Software copy protection mechanisms that prevent normal play (NWN anyone?)
- Rightfully purchased CD that won't play so that people return to them to store.
- Unhackable games console that don't sell
give me grounds for cautious optimism. We shall see.
Currently the process to make PV cells is expensive and definitely not environmentally friendly (lots of nasty chemicals). Even if one wanted to cover all the unused roofs in CA the cost and environmental impact would be prohibitive.
As you know the Doppler effect has nothing to do with strength, but with frequency.
Imagine that you are moving fast towards a single static, heavy black hole. You will notice an inverse square law and you can deduce the mass of the black hole. If you are moving away with the same speed, nothing changes (except the strength of the pull from the black hole diminishes instead of increasing), you will compute the same mass.
Now imagine that you are moving towards a *pair* of black holes in elliptical orbit around each other. Then you will notice the gravity field changing at the same rate as the period of the orbit. If you are going away from the same pair it will seem to you that the period is less than if you are going towards.
What you are measuring is the frequency of the gravity waves generated by the pair of black holes. What you are observing (the change of frequency) is the Doppler effect that you are mentionning.
This might be influenced by time dilation effects if you move fast, but as relatively slow speed the above should be correct.
Photons have energy which translate directly to impulsion. Also energy density and mass are equivalent in the general relativity equations.
So yes, mass affects the paths of photons. There is no known limit to the energy of photons so a single photon could concievably have a huge impulsion.
Your superlarge pulse laser would generate a large travelling high energy density region which would bend space, generate gravity waves, etc.
You should see the actual photographic plates of the apollo missions, magnified poster-size. Also the films, not the videos.
To me they are 100% impossible to fake. I've never seen anything so sharp in my life.
Not just the US was involved in the Apollo missions. Here in Australia we had 1/3 of the deep space network relaying the communication signals. AFAIK the CSIRO scientists who were manning the big dishes near Canberra and Parkes were pointing them at the Moon in 1969, not some cinema studio.
I work at CSIRO myself and I've met some of them. Why would they lie?
As for your last point, the Apollo missions have proved conclusively that there is little point to go to the Moon except for the glory. It's been done, it's too expensive for anyone to get there now, and there is no tangible return.
Conferences take your papers basically unchanged, but most journals will re-set your paper. Some even re-type it by hand, most will make use of an electronic submission. The cost of that alone is not trivial.
Then there is redistribution. Most scientific journals have a tiny audience, but still need to be set, printed, cut, bundled, inventoried, shipped and whatnot.
Some of this is irrelevant in the internet age (most of my subscriptions are electronic now), and paper reprints really are not good enough anymore. Authors want to be able to redistribution their work electronically (put their papers on their web page), this is *ALL* that the PLoS is about, after a given period of time.
It makes the publishing business generate less revenue but they should recoup it with fewer expenses too. Everybody should win.
You are missing the point of the STL. Well implemented it is incredibly efficient, versatile *and* standard. The STL is the very best part of C++.
You will be forced to re-implement your 15-line class in every new project that you deal with because it won't do something that you hadn't foreseen before. You will introduce bugs.
How many times have you re-implemented the classic linked list? a stack?
At some point having written some software you will notice that it would run better with a list rather than an array: your project description has changed and now you need to be able to insert elements in the middle of your data.
With your 15 line array implementation you are completely screwed. With an STL vector you just change to list and you recompile. Problem solved.
If this has never happened to you you are not working in the real IT world of constantly changing requirements.
That's not a really bad thing. RH has made a commitment to only ship open-source software in its core distribution. This obviously precludes the nvidia binary-only driver.
The open source `nv' driver doesn't work with GF4 but that's a XFree86 issue, not a RH issue. This is fixed in XF-4.3, currently in beta. The nv driver doesn't have 3D acceleration and probably never will due to Nvidia not releasing specs to anybody (even under NDA, and even to other commercial entities). Hardly anybody's fault but Nvidia, I would have thought.
If you don't like this policy you can always choose another distribution or roll your own.
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No, I'm really serious. The fact that the US is so willing to go in an kick some Iraqi butts is significant. If SH really had WMDs that he could use effectively, do you think the US military would be so enthusiastic? Moreover if SH was cornered, what would be his incentive not to use them?
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> Because someone took a picture of Rumsfeld and
> Hussein in 1998, we should now and for all time
> look the other way when third-world countries,
> particularly those with ties to al-Qaida, develop
> chemical and biological weapons (which are banned
> by the Geneva Convention)?
In 1988 (not 98), SH already had WMDs, he already had used them on his own people, using delivery helicopters helpfully supplied by the good ole US of A. At that time Rumsfeld was already a top adviser to right-wing hero Ronald Reagan. SH was America's best friend thanks to his stance on Iran.
The liberal solution I have in mind is not to let presidents of any side give WMD to any dictator in the first place, no matter what use they make of them (in that case, proxy fighting for America against Iran). Only help democracies.
BTW it is a widely known fact that the US has developed NBC weapons, also banned by the Geneva convention. The recent Anthrax attacks in the US were on all accounts an inside job. So please don't take a `hollier than thou' attitude in this matter.
In fact the US doesn't care a damn that SH is a dictator and that he tortures, starves and kills his own people. Many other regimes do that around the planet with the explicit consent and approval of the US, look no further than Saudi Arabia.
Finally yes SH lost the war against the US-led allied coallition in 1991, and yes SH is very likely in violation of international law at the moment and this is what the weapons inspectors are trying to prove right now.
Few people dispute the fact that SH should be removed, even France if you read what their representative in the UN actually said. However if the US goes to war against Iraq without the UN backing it will find itself in violation of international laws. The consequenses might be trivial in the short term but devastating in the long term. Essentially the UN is flawed but this is the best system we have.
The liberal solution to this problem is to work through the UN. The inspections have supposedly failed in the last 12 years but they are making progress now. The US through the UN should not relent, it will get what it wants, hopefully without a war. A war by itself is not guaranteed to topple SH (remember 1991, the US won, sure, but was there any regime change?) and will almost certainly create a huge human disaster.
You can read between the lines by reading the transcript of Osama Bin Laden most recent tape released to Aljezeera (sp?), the Qatar-based TV station. He is in *favor* of the war! Why? because he hates SH (who is not a muslim fundamentalist), he thinks many Americans *and* Israelis will die in the war, and he thinks that after the war Iraq will be in such shambles that it will be a breeding ground for terrorists.
So there you have it. These days it's not a simple matter of going it and killing all the bad guys.
Thanks for reading.
Some people think consciousness requires quantum effects (read R. Penrose `the emperor's new mind') and that though processes are essentially non-computable phenomena.
If this is true you'll have to wait until the advent of the quantum computer to envisage this transfer as a possibility. This is still a very distant proposition.
> Athens was the first and only true democracy.
No it was an oligarchy. You could participate if you were a citizen, i.e: not a slave, not a foreigner (from another city from about 50 miles away), not a woman, etc. The citizens were numbered in the small thousands, which made it possible for everybody to almost know everyone.
France won WWII together with the other allies. De Gaulle never surrendered and that was his army which liberated Paris.
When was the last time the US won a war? I don't mean a little peace keeping expedition, I mean a war that congress has actually declared. That last point is important, indeed otherwise the last major conflict the US got involved with was a huge defeat (Vietnam).
The foreign legion is actually made up of Frenchmen since one becomes French by joining it. Besides this stupid point, there are a lot of French-born people in the legion. All of the officers have to be, for example.
Anyway, I can't belive I'm defending this outdated institution, but your points are just offensive.
> Sun X? It just works. Turn on the computer
> and go.
Right. I used to work on a Ultra sparc 10 with 100% Sun environment. X used to die every other week or so. More exactly it froze and had to be restarted remotely.
If you think that's not often, that's extremely frequently when compared to my XFree86 setting (4.2) that basically never dies.
Sun was never any help. We were running the latest version of everything and still no improvement. I can't describe the feeling of going to a PC running Linux. Suddently everything was above board and JUST WORKED.
Unlike the horrible proprietary Sun stuff which we had no handle on.
How about the following: the UN has worked and SH is effectively disarmed? Why don't we lift the sanction then? because the US and the UK don't want to, even though the weapon's inspectors can find nothing.
> Thirdly, I wonder if their lead phyiscist
> (I can't spell his name, heis something),
Werner Heisenberg. See the play `Copenhagen'. According to the latest historical evidence, Heisenberg was doing his best for the Nazis but thought it was impossible to build a nuclear bomb, and so he didn't try as hard as he could have had the errors in this calculations been shown to him.
At the end of the war, as he was taken into custody in England, he reportedly was flabbergasted when he heared about Hiroshima. Then he re-did his calculations and found his errors.
After the war Heisenberg tried to spin his story to pretend he was only doing a half-hearted job for Hitler, but he was still ostracised from the physics world for the rest of his life. In the play `Copenhagen' Niels Borh sees right through him.
One problem with non-liberals is they only see war as a solution.
If anything SH is far less dangerous now than when he was a friend of the US at the end of the 80s. I have a photo of SH shaking Mr Rumfeld's hand warmly dated about 1988. Then SH really had WMD and was using them.
Now SH is effectively disarmed and under close scrutiny of every government in the world. A single misstep will drive the combined might of th e UN to his door.
Why can't the warmonger be a little bit patient? because it's not about war to bring about peace(!) and security, it's about manipulating the US opinion into thinking that they are under threat RIGHT NOW. And if you let the opinion sit still for too long they will see through that game.
Your stance is anti-democratic. Good day to you.
> If you really think the U.S. will take the oil
> from Iraq,
The Iraq campain may only be partly about oil, but one thing GWB's administration will do after they bump off SH, is to put up a puppet goverment friendly to the US in Iraq. After all Iraq's field are only the 2nd largest in the world and the US is only the single largest oil consumer in the world. It's not as if the US really needs that oil, right?
Yes, and why is there such a huge black empty bit to the lower right of the center, does anybody know?
Absolutely correct:
> I remember hearing stories about how IBM printed
> up the BIOS code in one of it's documentation
> books.
They did, I still have the book at home (18,000km
from here). It exposed the whole electronics design as well and all sort of nifty things. I used that book to design an AT bus expansion card (a counter that controlled an impulse IR laser to burn letters and numbers into glass, a bit like a daisy wheel printer). That was a student project.
The BIOS code was beautifully commented. I loved that book.
> 3. Ta-daaaaa, we're in space!
Not to be pedant or anything, but you're just in vacuum and you are still Earth-bound. Of course a vastly less interesting and more lethal Earth, but not quite what you wanted.
Ambitious way to start a post...
OK, so let's for a moment suppose the following:
- H/W manufacturers and MS are in cahoot and agree to put together hardware that:
* Only boots certain O/Ses (Windows)
* Only allows certain kind of files to play
* Only allows certain applications to run
* all of the above controlled by very few companies with very conservative agendas.
Isn't it relatively obvious that this isn't going to fly? Isn't that plan a brilliant blueprint to get rid of Intel, Microsoft, AMD, HPQ and whatnot
in one fell swoop?
I for one will just not buy a piece of hardware that limits me in my choices. I am absolutely not at all a pirate, a terrorist or a virus writer, all my files are rightfully owned and within the bounds of fair use. I do not appreciate the `guilty until proven innocent' connotations of these new `technologies'.
Clearly I'd rather pay more to continue to enjoy my freedom (Apple anyone?). Other less enlightened manufacturers and software vendors can shoot themselves in the foot if they want.
Somehow the recent debacles concerning for example
- Software copy protection mechanisms that prevent normal play (NWN anyone?)
- Rightfully purchased CD that won't play so that people return to them to store.
- Unhackable games console that don't sell
give me grounds for cautious optimism. We shall see.
Currently the process to make PV cells is expensive and definitely not environmentally friendly (lots of nasty chemicals). Even if one wanted to cover all the unused roofs in CA the cost and environmental impact would be prohibitive.
So it's not a simple solution.
As you know the Doppler effect has nothing to do with strength, but with frequency.
Imagine that you are moving fast towards a single static, heavy black hole. You will notice an inverse square law and you can deduce the mass of the black hole. If you are moving away with the same speed, nothing changes (except the strength of the pull from the black hole diminishes instead of increasing), you will compute the same mass.
Now imagine that you are moving towards a *pair* of black holes in elliptical orbit around each other. Then you will notice the gravity field changing at the same rate as the period of the orbit. If you are going away from the same pair it will seem to you that the period is less than if you are going towards.
What you are measuring is the frequency of the gravity waves generated by the pair of black holes. What you are observing (the change of frequency) is the Doppler effect that you are mentionning.
This might be influenced by time dilation effects if you move fast, but as relatively slow speed the above should be correct.
Photons have energy which translate directly to impulsion. Also energy density and mass are equivalent in the general relativity equations.
So yes, mass affects the paths of photons. There is no known limit to the energy of photons so a single photon could concievably have a huge impulsion.
Your superlarge pulse laser would generate a large travelling high energy density region which would bend space, generate gravity waves, etc.
You should see the actual photographic plates of the apollo missions, magnified poster-size. Also the films, not the videos.
To me they are 100% impossible to fake. I've never seen anything so sharp in my life.
Not just the US was involved in the Apollo missions. Here in Australia we had 1/3 of the deep space network relaying the communication signals. AFAIK the CSIRO scientists who were manning the big dishes near Canberra and Parkes were pointing them at the Moon in 1969, not some cinema studio.
I work at CSIRO myself and I've met some of them. Why would they lie?
As for your last point, the Apollo missions have proved conclusively that there is little point to go to the Moon except for the glory. It's been done, it's too expensive for anyone to get there now, and there is no tangible return.
Yeah, who would have thought? How perceptive of you.
> our atmosphere doesn't protect us in any
> substantial way from cosmic rays
But the earth's magnetic field does.
Conferences take your papers basically unchanged, but most journals will re-set your paper. Some even re-type it by hand, most will make use of an electronic submission. The cost of that alone is not trivial.
Then there is redistribution. Most scientific journals have a tiny audience, but still need to be set, printed, cut, bundled, inventoried, shipped and whatnot.
Some of this is irrelevant in the internet age (most of my subscriptions are electronic now), and paper reprints really are not good enough anymore.
Authors want to be able to redistribution their work electronically (put their papers on their web page), this is *ALL* that the PLoS is about, after a given period of time.
It makes the publishing business generate less revenue but they should recoup it with fewer expenses too. Everybody should win.
The subject says it all.
Sorry I'm dumb. It could not produce Natrium because it's really Sodium? am I missing something?
Thanks.
You are missing the point of the STL. Well implemented it is incredibly efficient, versatile *and* standard. The STL is the very best part of C++.
You will be forced to re-implement your 15-line class in every new project that you deal with because it won't do something that you hadn't foreseen before. You will introduce bugs.
How many times have you re-implemented the classic linked list? a stack?
At some point having written some software you will notice that it would run better with a list rather than an array: your project description has changed and now you need to be able to insert elements in the middle of your data.
With your 15 line array implementation you are completely screwed. With an STL vector you just change to list and you recompile. Problem solved.
If this has never happened to you you are not working in the real IT world of constantly changing requirements.
That's not a really bad thing. RH has made a commitment to only ship open-source software in its core distribution. This obviously precludes the nvidia binary-only driver.
The open source `nv' driver doesn't work with GF4 but that's a XFree86 issue, not a RH issue. This is fixed in XF-4.3, currently in beta. The nv driver doesn't have 3D acceleration and probably never will due to Nvidia not releasing specs to anybody (even under NDA, and even to other commercial entities). Hardly anybody's fault but Nvidia, I would have thought.
If you don't like this policy you can always choose another distribution or roll your own.