Perhaps the gravitational effects could be explained by the existence of an orbiting brown dwarf as hypothesized by the Binary Research Institute. It would be interesting to see if the strength of the gravitational pull fits the parameters of the companion star deduced from the meteor shower periodicity and the angular momentum and lunar cycle.
The graphics are superb, you can even do different tilesets. FreeCIV is the best of all the CIV clones imo. It would be nice to have keyboard only input.
The article means 5.7 teraflops peak performance for a customer. Perhaps they are throttling the cpu per customer to 5.7 max? You know; 5.7 should be enough for everybody!
Minister Brinkhorst clarified what he said during the time the microphone was turned off:
"The outcome of a questioning of Minister Brinkhorst in out from the Dutch Parliament (Tweedekamer) und Tuesday, 8th March 2005 (the day after the Council meeting) was that he told that in his statement he explained that the Nethernlands would support Denmark if they ask for B-Item.
He was obliged to do so by a parliamentary motion from the Tweedekamer by MP Gerkens."
Dutch minister of economic affairs, Brinkhorst was caught lying here. He had the official assignment of parliament to support the Danish to make the subject a B-item, but he didn't! (he supports the patent directive).
There also were odd problems with the sound: "Someone doesn't want me to speak and switches me off!"
: Radiats Biol Radioecol. 2003 Sep-Oct;43(5):541-3.
Biological effects of mobile phone electromagnetic field on chick embryo (risk assessment using the mortality rate)
[Article in Russian]
Grigor'ev IuG. State Research Center-Institute of Biophysics, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Moscow, 123182 Rissua. yugrigor@rol.ru
Chicken embryos were exposed to EMF from GSM mobile phone during the embryonic development (21 days). As a result the embryo mortality rate in the incubation period increased to 75% (versus 16% in control group).
PMID: 14658287 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
my thoughts too, perhaps IBM should make such an open source jpeg coding tool themselves... would be immensly popular in no time as one would create significantly smaller jpegs.
The JPEG standard specifies 2 entropy coding methods; Huffman coding and arithmic coding.
As arithmic coding is patented it is not in use.
The patents for this arithmic coding called Q-coding http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/426/mitchel l.html are in hands of IBM.
Perhaps they will allow OSS to use this patent along with the 500 other patents recently allowed?
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpa tents.pdf
The particular variant of arithmetic coding specified by the JPEG standard is called Q-coding. This variant has the advantage of not requiring any multiplications in the inner loop. Q-coding was invented a few years ago at IBM, and IBM has obtained patents on the algorithm. Thus, in order to use the JPEG arithmetic coding process, you must obtain a license from IBM. It appears that AT&T and Mitsubishi may also hold relevant patents.
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Perhaps the gravitational effects could be explained by the existence of an orbiting brown dwarf as hypothesized by the Binary Research Institute. It would be interesting to see if the strength of the gravitational pull fits the parameters of the companion star deduced from the meteor shower periodicity and the angular momentum and lunar cycle.
The graphics are superb, you can even do different tilesets. FreeCIV is the best of all the CIV clones imo. It would be nice to have keyboard only input.
What's wrong with using FTPS (ftp over ssl) for encrypted FTP sessions?
The article means 5.7 teraflops peak performance for a customer. Perhaps they are throttling the cpu per customer to 5.7 max? You know; 5.7 should be enough for everybody!
Minister Brinkhorst clarified what he said during the time the microphone was turned off:
"The outcome of a questioning of Minister Brinkhorst in out from the Dutch Parliament (Tweedekamer) und Tuesday, 8th March 2005 (the day after the Council meeting) was that he told that in his statement he explained that the Nethernlands would support Denmark if they ask for B-Item.
He was obliged to do so by a parliamentary motion from the Tweedekamer by MP Gerkens."
http://wiki.ffii.org/ConsTrans050307En
There also were odd problems with the sound: "Someone doesn't want me to speak and switches me off!"
Council050307 recordings
: Radiats Biol Radioecol. 2003 Sep-Oct;43(5):541-3. Biological effects of mobile phone electromagnetic field on chick embryo (risk assessment using the mortality rate) [Article in Russian] Grigor'ev IuG. State Research Center-Institute of Biophysics, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, Moscow, 123182 Rissua. yugrigor@rol.ru Chicken embryos were exposed to EMF from GSM mobile phone during the embryonic development (21 days). As a result the embryo mortality rate in the incubation period increased to 75% (versus 16% in control group). PMID: 14658287 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE
my thoughts too, perhaps IBM should make such an open source jpeg coding tool themselves... would be immensly popular in no time as one would create significantly smaller jpegs.
The JPEG standard specifies 2 entropy coding methods; Huffman coding and arithmic coding. As arithmic coding is patented it is not in use. The patents for this arithmic coding called Q-coding http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/426/mitchel l.html are in hands of IBM.
Perhaps they will allow OSS to use this patent along with the 500 other patents recently allowed?
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/patents/pledgedpa tents.pdf
The particular variant of arithmetic coding specified by the JPEG standard is called Q-coding. This variant has the advantage of not requiring any multiplications in the inner loop. Q-coding was invented a few years ago at IBM, and IBM has obtained patents on the algorithm. Thus, in order to use the JPEG arithmetic coding process, you must obtain a license from IBM. It appears that AT&T and Mitsubishi may also hold relevant patents.