I was a member briefly a few years ago. Two different tests were administered, and you only had to pass *one* to get in. I failed one, but still got in on the results of the other.
Reading the national publication (this was in Canada), a major concern seemed to be low membership.
It seemed to me that the 98th percentile and above thing was something of an impediment to increasing membership. Consequently increasing precision of testing may not be in their interest. Perhaps they'll come up with a more subjective test where the marker can say things like "close enough" or "not really, but part marks".
"Congratulations, you're in. Please pay us your membership fee. Thanks, here is a shiny gold colored pin."
Because all those watches, cellphones, computers are connected to pipes that they control. Its very possible. They have been doing it since the revolution.
Yup. Certainly there are technical counter measures such as proxies and encryption and strategies to get past government filters, but employment of such comes with a risk.
But I wonder how much of a risk, given that these admins refused to implement the policies. What does 'dismissed' mean in actuality with regard to their story? What did they risk?
One could imagine a time in the future when the first thing done on a crime scene would be to deploy the room imager, a portable grid covering the ceiling (or as high up as you wanted imaging) from which would descend threads at the end of which would be little stereo cameras rotating in 360 degrees, recording as they descend, in a variety of spectrums, including xray.
Following that, some detail work could be done to capture areas that might have been missed (for example, the interior of a lead lined safe).
The amount of data collected to be processed would be huge, probably not practical today. But for anyone in the future doing a prior art search for a patent on such a system, there was a posting on/. describing such a system on March 13th, 2005.
Seconded. I've spent a lot trying for a silent pc using a standard case with air cooling and am coming to the conclusion that it isn't possible.
That said, anyone with a noisy PC will likely be pleased with the reduction in noise simply by getting a serious sized heat sink with a slow fan, and speed regulation on fans to get them to the lowest speed possible for what is judged to be acceptable temperatures.
Beyond that, further obsessing on the pursuit of silence is just money spent for very little improvement. And watch out for things like accoustic padding and fanless power supplies. It's really pointless if the modification leads to heat increases leads to having to up the case fan speed! (Duh, yes, I am stupid enough to have had to learn that from experience).
With regard to Zundel, there appears to be an element of extradition. I don't know how formal it was, but Germany was happy to get him back so they could charge him under their laws for content he had on his non-German web site.
First they came for the holocaust deniers, but I was not a holocaust denier, so I said nothing. (apologies to Niemöller)
There is a law against suicide,
If you kill yourself, you will be tried.
If you hung yourself you'll be sentenced then
At a future date to hang again.
But wait, there's hope, and that would be
To get off on a technicality.
"You can't kill my client", the lawyer said,
"For you see, your honour, he's already dead."
I had a friend who'd never heard of firefox or where it came from. I said "Firefox, son of Mozilla, son of Netscape" and I could see the light of recognition in his eyes. Which went out when I added, "son of NCSA Mosaic".
The best implication I saw was being able to use it in conjunction with an oven that could refrigerate as well as cook, that way you could put whatever in it before you left for work, and then start it remotely from work so it'd be ready when you arrived home.
It seems to me there's some sort of technological push on to replace what was once called the wife. With the feminist revolution and families where both parents work, now even wives would like to have the wife. There's definitely commercial potential here, provided it can be packaged so that it is appealing and easy to use.
I feel the more important point is that no amount of television or 'nanny robots' can protect a child
The US military are working on a project that has sufficient weaponry to protect a child. Perhaps a joint project with them would produce a nannybot with sufficient fire power.
(Not that I think Google is going to make an OS; that would make no sense at all to me.)
It wouldn't surprise me if they had an inhouse linux distro project, just for exploring their own options. At the moment I think they're using an inhouse tweaked Red Hat distro in production, but I would be surprised if a brilliant, creative, linux based company with lots of resources wasn't at least exploring it.
If they did release a google linux distro I don't know that it would compete against MS any more effectively than the rest of the distros out there. I suppose a lot would depend on how and to what extent they promoted it.
I had a similar experience to your boss, but as a user of the Mosaic web browser. I was certain that with its next version it would eclipse that upstart Netscape browser. Go Mosaic! Then it went.
I used to think that Tim Berners-Lee could never have anticipated that the web would become a major porn delivery system. Now I discover he started it.
I had thought it was intended for physicists to use to share data. I suppose that could still be said to be true, and that it is just my assumptions about the nature of the data that were wrong.
1) as far as the OS is concerned, there's not much difference between true SMP and dual-core (and only slight difference between those and HT)
IIRC, XP Home doesn't support dual processor, so if dual-core == SMP then it shouldn't support dual-core. But according to this article, XP Home will support dual-core, so perhaps Microsoft isn't regarding them as essentially the same thing?
Thankfully Windows XP Home and Professional will support dual-core right away, although Home will likely see only two processors even with HyperThreading enabled.
You can count on Linux not to deliberately restrict functionality, but with Microsoft the marketing department has input.
Something that would convert what you type to something else you've specified in a list. It wouldn't be populated by default initially, since the main objection would be that you can't really assume for everyone, but lists would pop up on web sites, and those could be used rather than populating from scratch. Like adblock.
Also like adblock, it would support regular expressions. The first thing I would add to my list is conversion of a final.co to.com . That's a common typo for me. Hasn't resulted in bogus web sites, but would be nice if firefox just 'knew' that for me.co domains are actually.com .
This post constitutes prior art for any potentially patentable ideas expressed. Maybe that should be a standard sig these days.
Firefox hangs up its towel after a long hard battle.
Could be. In the war between the lynx browser and the some say superior links browser, lynx hasn't had a new release since Feb 4 2004, over a year now. Perhaps they've thrown in the towel.
But then, links hasn't released anything new since July 24 2004. Perhaps it's just not a very hot war.
Anyone have any news on the text browser war? It doesn't seem to be very well covered.
I think most of us here understand that, for all intents and purposes, the RIAA is the record labels.
Wish I had mod points to mod this up. The name of the beast is Legion, and the RIAA is its public face. It's a convenient tool for them, and easier for us to focus on than addressing each one of its members individually.
That said, it's good to know who the individual members are, because it's the individual member name that appears on the product. Would be simpler if they just branded all their products with 666 so you could say with confidence "Don't touch it! It's pure evil!", but unfortunately they don't make it that easy.
It is sort of amusing that this technology is being developed by Philips, makers of the Philips DVP-642, probably the most pirate friendly DVD player on the market today.
Makes sense. Make money selling tech to both sides.
They could include a browser that is about the level of Notepad. Nothing fancy, but good enough to download a good browser. That would be in keeping with other stuff they include. They only include really featureful apps when they're gunning for the competition. No one is complaining that they're unfairly competing in the text editor market by including Notepad for free.
Progress in science means shattering accepted theories. If this is what it seems to be, then the possibility of a scientific revolution, at the very least a whole new field of science, seems to be at hand.
I like all the qualifying terms you include in that statement! It's in the spirit of science. Science has no canon law. All claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance. Very different from religion where exceptional claims require exceptional proof, and even then might be rejected.
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Reading the national publication (this was in Canada), a major concern seemed to be low membership.
It seemed to me that the 98th percentile and above thing was something of an impediment to increasing membership. Consequently increasing precision of testing may not be in their interest. Perhaps they'll come up with a more subjective test where the marker can say things like "close enough" or "not really, but part marks".
"Congratulations, you're in. Please pay us your membership fee. Thanks, here is a shiny gold colored pin."
Yup. Certainly there are technical counter measures such as proxies and encryption and strategies to get past government filters, but employment of such comes with a risk.
But I wonder how much of a risk, given that these admins refused to implement the policies. What does 'dismissed' mean in actuality with regard to their story? What did they risk?
Following that, some detail work could be done to capture areas that might have been missed (for example, the interior of a lead lined safe).
The amount of data collected to be processed would be huge, probably not practical today. But for anyone in the future doing a prior art search for a patent on such a system, there was a posting on /. describing such a system on March 13th, 2005.
That said, anyone with a noisy PC will likely be pleased with the reduction in noise simply by getting a serious sized heat sink with a slow fan, and speed regulation on fans to get them to the lowest speed possible for what is judged to be acceptable temperatures.
Beyond that, further obsessing on the pursuit of silence is just money spent for very little improvement. And watch out for things like accoustic padding and fanless power supplies. It's really pointless if the modification leads to heat increases leads to having to up the case fan speed! (Duh, yes, I am stupid enough to have had to learn that from experience).
First they came for the holocaust deniers, but I was not a holocaust denier, so I said nothing. (apologies to Niemöller)
If you kill yourself, you will be tried.
If you hung yourself you'll be sentenced then
At a future date to hang again.
But wait, there's hope, and that would be
To get off on a technicality.
"You can't kill my client", the lawyer said, "For you see, your honour, he's already dead."
I had a friend who'd never heard of firefox or where it came from. I said "Firefox, son of Mozilla, son of Netscape" and I could see the light of recognition in his eyes. Which went out when I added, "son of NCSA Mosaic".
It seems to me there's some sort of technological push on to replace what was once called the wife. With the feminist revolution and families where both parents work, now even wives would like to have the wife. There's definitely commercial potential here, provided it can be packaged so that it is appealing and easy to use.
The US military are working on a project that has sufficient weaponry to protect a child. Perhaps a joint project with them would produce a nannybot with sufficient fire power.
It wouldn't surprise me if they had an inhouse linux distro project, just for exploring their own options. At the moment I think they're using an inhouse tweaked Red Hat distro in production, but I would be surprised if a brilliant, creative, linux based company with lots of resources wasn't at least exploring it.
If they did release a google linux distro I don't know that it would compete against MS any more effectively than the rest of the distros out there. I suppose a lot would depend on how and to what extent they promoted it.
Great. Now instead of first contact being with the Vulcans, it will be with the Ferengi.
I had a similar experience to your boss, but as a user of the Mosaic web browser. I was certain that with its next version it would eclipse that upstart Netscape browser. Go Mosaic! Then it went.
I had thought it was intended for physicists to use to share data. I suppose that could still be said to be true, and that it is just my assumptions about the nature of the data that were wrong.
IIRC, XP Home doesn't support dual processor, so if dual-core == SMP then it shouldn't support dual-core. But according to this article, XP Home will support dual-core, so perhaps Microsoft isn't regarding them as essentially the same thing?
You can count on Linux not to deliberately restrict functionality, but with Microsoft the marketing department has input.Also like adblock, it would support regular expressions. The first thing I would add to my list is conversion of a final .co to .com . That's a common typo for me. Hasn't resulted in bogus web sites, but would be nice if firefox just 'knew' that for me .co domains are actually .com .
This post constitutes prior art for any potentially patentable ideas expressed. Maybe that should be a standard sig these days.
Could be. In the war between the lynx browser and the some say superior links browser, lynx hasn't had a new release since Feb 4 2004, over a year now. Perhaps they've thrown in the towel.
But then, links hasn't released anything new since July 24 2004. Perhaps it's just not a very hot war.
Anyone have any news on the text browser war? It doesn't seem to be very well covered.
Fork.
Wish I had mod points to mod this up. The name of the beast is Legion, and the RIAA is its public face. It's a convenient tool for them, and easier for us to focus on than addressing each one of its members individually.
That said, it's good to know who the individual members are, because it's the individual member name that appears on the product. Would be simpler if they just branded all their products with 666 so you could say with confidence "Don't touch it! It's pure evil!", but unfortunately they don't make it that easy.
Makes sense. Make money selling tech to both sides.
They could include a browser that is about the level of Notepad. Nothing fancy, but good enough to download a good browser. That would be in keeping with other stuff they include. They only include really featureful apps when they're gunning for the competition. No one is complaining that they're unfairly competing in the text editor market by including Notepad for free.
I like all the qualifying terms you include in that statement! It's in the spirit of science. Science has no canon law. All claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance. Very different from religion where exceptional claims require exceptional proof, and even then might be rejected.
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