Matter can exist in four phases (or states), solid, liquid, gas, and plasma plus a few other extreme phases, like critical fluids and degenerate gases.
Or...
Matter can exist in the following states/phases: crispy, extra crispy, deep fried extra crispy, regular, soggy, liquid, burnt to a crisp, fumes, and ozone. Degenerate gases need not apply, at least not here.
In order to achieve 50 nanokelvin, you have to use "laser and evaporative cooling techniques". The article failed to explain how that worked, so here it goes...
Darn, and I was hoping it would be someone standing next to a giant laser on a tripod, holding a bellows to cool a tray of liquid nitrogen icecubes...
one of my fav physics tools because it uses lasers and magnets! it's just so science-fictiony!
Ah, but you should have seen the new device they're using to mix micromolar quantities of ligands that I just saw - it's got three input dispensers on a head at angles, a top mixing chamber, and then a long thin tube which is heated by microwaves.
It actually looks like the Romulan Cloaking Device after installation... kind of tech.
of course, the high temp they mention is what most of us would call dang cold...
So you're still going to have problems using this to homebrew your next superconductive massively parallel home computer network - unless you live inside a really cold freezer (the ones here are only -80 C, which is way warmer than that, and you need a parka for that).
I wish companies would just drop DRM - it only hurts their legitimate customers. The warez pirates crack the protection within hours or days and then the pirates don't have to mess around with finding the CD when they want to play a game, etc. Sure DRM stops casual piracy but still there should be some limitations like what Id software does: CD protection at first but then remove it in some later patch to the game. This stops casual piracy for the immediate term while later on removing the annoyances for customers.
Same thing happened with the whole copy-protection nightmare a lot of software manufacturers used to use back in the 80's - people just got so fed up that they stopped buying legit software - why bother, since it had all that copy protection cruft?
then those 10 percent of websites would be forced to switch, as the number would shift from 8 percent of all web browsers to 15 percent of all web browsers in the UK.
We think they already have nukes. We know they have nuclear production capabilities because they have nuclear power plants. We're pretty sure they have nukes, which makes attacking even harder because ideally if we attacked them we'd want to take out their nukes.
But we don't know enough about their nukes to try anything. Besides, would you trust American intelligence these days?
I'm not relying on US intel, but on other foreign news sources and inferred intel.
The only explanation for our behavior - or lack thereof - is that they do have nukes and that's why we won't be invading Iran.
That hope has been dashed for a long time. Unless we resort to heavy weapons (the A in ABC), it will be a difficult (aka impossible) to win this. Let's just leave them be and pull out.
No, it's an end to easy money for DoubleClick. Now they'll have to reinvest some of their annoyingly-gotten gain into producing ads that people don't go to lengths to block. Like ads for products people want to know about, without destroying their multimedia experience. Otherwise, DoubleClick will just keep reinvesting in whining about losing their right to annoy you.
I agree.
Advertisers who insist on trying to display movies without consent, with music and sound, that grab my browser, already have a black mark in my mental Consumer notebook. The firms (and doubleclick knows who they are) who support gigo like this deserve to waste away.
It's called Consumer choice - part of capitalism. If you don't like it, take the rest of your red commie Bushbots and move to Russia.
since MSFT is trying to expand into there and hasn't yet been able to get China to even crack down on IP enforcement on their own government ministries, let alone the military factories.
Actually, Jimmy Carter signed SALT II. [wikipedia.org]
SALT III, SALT II - who cares, it still is why the rockets (ICBMs) were available to be bought cheap - they have to destroy them if they don't use them.
If they want to get credited with accurate usage, their product needs to stop identifying itself as IE
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one.
First, Opera should DEFAULT to identify itself as NOT being IE. It should be an OPTION to have it identify itself as IE, but the default should probably be... wait for it... Firefox... or Netscape.
every time I buy a new computer, they record it as a Windows sale, except for the Mac, and then if I replace it as Linux it's usually not recorded as a sale, since it's easy to burn the CDs.
Every Windows machine has IE on it, so it counts, and IE prefetches a lot of gunk you didn't ask for - especially if you don't have SpyBot or AdAware to find the cruft on your system.
But when I use Opera I frequently tell it to pretend it's IE when I surf a site so that it won't give me garbage. I only turn on scripts and popups when I need them on a site, to be safe. But that does count as an IE hit, when it's really an Opera hit.
Firefox I just let be Firefox, since enough sites know how to handle it.
So, it's not so much that Firefox is overreported, as it is that Opera is underreported, and IE is overreported even when I'm NOT USING IT!
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Don't worry, most of the IBM employees in India speak excellent English. Besides "Indian" isn't a language.
It's about 600 languages, actually.
that's where the shareholders see all the profit being drained off to - and that's why this is happening.
Not the owners (shareholders) - the execs (elitists).
before MSFT patents all the "Extending" and happens to patent the core concepts.
Matter can exist in four phases (or states), solid, liquid, gas, and plasma plus a few other extreme phases, like critical fluids and degenerate gases.
...
Or
Matter can exist in the following states/phases:
crispy, extra crispy, deep fried extra crispy, regular, soggy, liquid, burnt to a crisp, fumes, and ozone. Degenerate gases need not apply, at least not here.
In order to achieve 50 nanokelvin, you have to use "laser and evaporative cooling techniques". The article failed to explain how that worked, so here it goes...
...
Darn, and I was hoping it would be someone standing next to a giant laser on a tripod, holding a bellows to cool a tray of liquid nitrogen icecubes
A "Magneto-optical trap".
m ot.html [npl.co.uk]
... kind of tech.
http://www.npl.co.uk/quantum/projects/project1-1/
one of my fav physics tools because it uses lasers and magnets! it's just so science-fictiony!
Ah, but you should have seen the new device they're using to mix micromolar quantities of ligands that I just saw - it's got three input dispensers on a head at angles, a top mixing chamber, and then a long thin tube which is heated by microwaves.
It actually looks like the Romulan Cloaking Device after installation
of course, the high temp they mention is what most of us would call dang cold ...
So you're still going to have problems using this to homebrew your next superconductive massively parallel home computer network - unless you live inside a really cold freezer (the ones here are only -80 C, which is way warmer than that, and you need a parka for that).
and if so, will the Second Language channel carry the byte codes of the virus defs themselves?
no, sadly I don't anymore.
what do you think - can we rebuild him? More in touch with his feelings, able to feel around in the dark, ...
I wish companies would just drop DRM - it only hurts their legitimate customers. The warez pirates crack the protection within hours or days and then the pirates don't have to mess around with finding the CD when they want to play a game, etc. Sure DRM stops casual piracy but still there should be some limitations like what Id software does: CD protection at first but then remove it in some later patch to the game. This stops casual piracy for the immediate term while later on removing the annoyances for customers.
Same thing happened with the whole copy-protection nightmare a lot of software manufacturers used to use back in the 80's - people just got so fed up that they stopped buying legit software - why bother, since it had all that copy protection cruft?
won't this cause people to desert Windows in even greater numbers?
...
I mean, think of all those MSFT coders
[grin]
then those 10 percent of websites would be forced to switch, as the number would shift from 8 percent of all web browsers to 15 percent of all web browsers in the UK.
We think they already have nukes. We know they have nuclear production capabilities because they have nuclear power plants. We're pretty sure they have nukes, which makes attacking even harder because ideally if we attacked them we'd want to take out their nukes.
But we don't know enough about their nukes to try anything. Besides, would you trust American intelligence these days?
I'm not relying on US intel, but on other foreign news sources and inferred intel.
The only explanation for our behavior - or lack thereof - is that they do have nukes and that's why we won't be invading Iran.
I think the next Five Year Plan is for Iceland.
No, in Soviet America, Our Glorious Leader's Five Year Plan is to Win The War in Five Years.
...
Ignore the fact that it's the same plan that Our Glorious Leader had Five Years ago
That hope has been dashed for a long time. Unless we resort to heavy weapons (the A in ABC), it will be a difficult (aka impossible) to win this. Let's just leave them be and pull out.
...
From your fingers to God's eyes
No, it's an end to easy money for DoubleClick. Now they'll have to reinvest some of their annoyingly-gotten gain into producing ads that people don't go to lengths to block. Like ads for products people want to know about, without destroying their multimedia experience. Otherwise, DoubleClick will just keep reinvesting in whining about losing their right to annoy you.
I agree.
Advertisers who insist on trying to display movies without consent, with music and sound, that grab my browser, already have a black mark in my mental Consumer notebook. The firms (and doubleclick knows who they are) who support gigo like this deserve to waste away.
It's called Consumer choice - part of capitalism. If you don't like it, take the rest of your red commie Bushbots and move to Russia.
Noone I know uses that.
So it sounds to me like just an idle threat.
A draft will be needed for the upcoming invasion of Iran, which Scott Ritter (former UN weapons inspector in Iraq) says has already covertly started.
They already have nukes, so it won't happen.
So, do you still believe the Easter Bunny about how we're winning?
If you do - and most of us ex-military don't - you're going to love paying for it.
since MSFT is trying to expand into there and hasn't yet been able to get China to even crack down on IP enforcement on their own government ministries, let alone the military factories.
Actually, Jimmy Carter signed SALT II. [wikipedia.org]
SALT III, SALT II - who cares, it still is why the rockets (ICBMs) were available to be bought cheap - they have to destroy them if they don't use them.
If they want to get credited with accurate usage, their product needs to stop identifying itself as IE
... wait for it ... Firefox ... or Netscape.
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one.
First, Opera should DEFAULT to identify itself as NOT being IE. It should be an OPTION to have it identify itself as IE, but the default should probably be
every time I buy a new computer, they record it as a Windows sale, except for the Mac, and then if I replace it as Linux it's usually not recorded as a sale, since it's easy to burn the CDs.
So, yes, all market shares are hyped.
Every Windows machine has IE on it, so it counts, and IE prefetches a lot of gunk you didn't ask for - especially if you don't have SpyBot or AdAware to find the cruft on your system.
But when I use Opera I frequently tell it to pretend it's IE when I surf a site so that it won't give me garbage. I only turn on scripts and popups when I need them on a site, to be safe. But that does count as an IE hit, when it's really an Opera hit.
Firefox I just let be Firefox, since enough sites know how to handle it.
So, it's not so much that Firefox is overreported, as it is that Opera is underreported, and IE is overreported even when I'm NOT USING IT!