Exactly. If I remember correctly, eons ago when Antarctica was part of the super-continent Pangaea there was a mild climate there. I would expect the same for the continental shelf region of the North Pole. There is also a possibility that OP is not trolling either. Discovery had a special a while back about the history of our planet. There was an interesting piece about ocean currents before North and South America connected. Scientists believe that before this occurred, warm water currents made their way up to the North Pole (as opposed to being directed towards western Europe as it is now). So it may very well have been devoid of all ice at some point in the past.
So basically all you have to do is qualify any theory with the word "quantum" and you can justify anything. Two channels that don't exist can all of the sudden transmit information. All of the sudden 0 + 0 = something more than 0. If this quantum stuff ever takes off then we are all in trouble. We'll have human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Does anybody else find it ironic that we are looking for intelligent extra-terrestrial communications on the very same frequency that we (an intelligent species) are prohibited from transmitting on? The 1.420 gigahertz frequency was chose (I believe) because of the hydrogen line. It would seem to me that a more effective methodology would be to do a spectrum sweeping search. The odds of any intelligent species transmitting on just one frequency are unlikely enough. Combine that with the fact that we are only listening on one frequency. Now we can compare finding a needle in a haystack as trivial in comparison.
If you've ever worked with/for a government agency, it is absolutely absurd to think that a single government agency (let alone multiple government agencies) could pull of this kind of deception. People who buy into this shit are certifiable. IANAD, but it sounds like Dr Edgar Mitchell might be suffering from some form of dementia. Very sad indeed.
If this is true, does that mean that if/when the Earth's magentic field reverses polarity, we're boned? There has been evidence that the Earth has had the magnetic field reverse in the distant past (unsure of the rough estimate of when).
This is true. I was also disappointed that the author blamed Windows for the memory leaks rather then the userland applications. Windows might be an insecure OS but the only memory leaks I have ever seen are from poorly written code, not the OS itself. The fact that Windows has so many poorly written applications is just an artifact of Windows being the most popular OS these days.
Agreed. Windows should have no place running medical equipment. There should be embedded, thoroughly tested solutions that use some sort of real-time kernel, and it should be the law. How the hell could they think of using Windows on a piece of equipment that needs to be running to save people's lives? It's asinine and scary as hell! The timings on many of these medical devices need to be guaranteed. Running a full OS on these devices is overkill, and it opens the device up to any problems of said OS... and we all know the laundry list of problems Windows has. Let's get some VxWorks or Linux RT up in here!
Maybe people put up with it because they don't care what the hate mongering morons of the world have to say. The only reason to object to this would be that it sets a precedent that is a dangerous and slippery slope. If we get everyone to block this, then it will be that much easier to get everyone to block that... then that... then that... you get the idea. It paves the road for all out censorship, which blows big time. I for one am not upset that they want to block hatred, horribly offensive, and illegal things from their citizens. However, I am upset with the dangerous precedent it sets.
Nobody mentioned the Detroit Red Wings. There wear the most red out of all these teams, and they won the Stanley Cup this year. I think they help prove the author's point on this. Red team wins.
OSS with DRM would be hilarious. You could actually break it in real time with each new release. Just look at the code... I can't believe these companies continue to embrace DRM. It hurts their customers, it is against fair use, and it is a pain in the ass to implement, and an inconvenience for us to have to work around it. It's not a deterrent to pirates at all, and it's a flawed model. You can't give someone the lock and the key and say "don't break in." This has all been said before ad-nausea. It boggles my mind to think that DRM is still being embraced by these nitwits. Then they have the gall to ask us to provide DRM. Forget these profiteering assholes.
TFA says that censorship is taking place in the US, with the DoD blocking or restricting access to social networking sites such as MySpace and YouTube that are bandwidth intensive and presented operational risks. This seems perfectly reasonable to me. This is NOT censorship. There are other ways of communicating with friends that take up less bandwidth and are operationally secure, such as email. Plenty of work places filter their internet access to employees, and that is not censorship either. There is a big difference between the filtering of relevant information and content that China is doing (blocking news sites and Wikipedia) and what the DoD is doing (blocking MySpace from soldiers). Let's get real here people. China is oppressing it's citizens, and the US is conserving bandwidth. (No information is being blocked from the US soldiers that is preventing them from doing their job). Contrary to the journalists in China who have to deal with the Great Firewall.
I have to strongly disagree with this. I have had the complete opposite experience with O2K7, it's been nothing short of outstanding. The ribbon interface was tough to get the hang of at first, but after a week of heavy use it's been a blessing, the user interface is far more intuitive than the cluttered drop down menus we grew up with. If someone was learning for the first time it would be a breeze, the reason it took me a week was I had to unlearn everything I've been used to.
I've never once not been able to open my files with O2K7/8 or have had any problem sharing files.
Not a single corrupted file in many hours of use. The recovery system works fine in the event of a power outage or reboot without saving. I don't know where you're getting your data, but given my experience I'd say one of us is in the minority here. Given some of the other responses to your post I'm thinking it's you.
Ideally I would like to use uTorrent, but since there is no Linux version, you can either use wine to run uTorrent, or use Azureus with its RSS import plugin. There is a promising new client and server application that essentially does what we are looking for http://swarmtv.nl/ but it's still in alpha. There is a good engadget article that shows you how to set Azureus up to download these torrents http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/23/how-to-broadcatching-using-rss-bittorrent-to-automatically/ After that you just need the cron job and maybe a shell script to serve up your completed mp4 files to uShare.
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Exactly. If I remember correctly, eons ago when Antarctica was part of the super-continent Pangaea there was a mild climate there. I would expect the same for the continental shelf region of the North Pole. There is also a possibility that OP is not trolling either. Discovery had a special a while back about the history of our planet. There was an interesting piece about ocean currents before North and South America connected. Scientists believe that before this occurred, warm water currents made their way up to the North Pole (as opposed to being directed towards western Europe as it is now). So it may very well have been devoid of all ice at some point in the past.
So basically all you have to do is qualify any theory with the word "quantum" and you can justify anything. Two channels that don't exist can all of the sudden transmit information. All of the sudden 0 + 0 = something more than 0. If this quantum stuff ever takes off then we are all in trouble. We'll have human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Hey if they're not pulling me over for speeding because they're busy pulling Mr. X over for lack of insurance then I'm all for it.
Does anybody else find it ironic that we are looking for intelligent extra-terrestrial communications on the very same frequency that we (an intelligent species) are prohibited from transmitting on? The 1.420 gigahertz frequency was chose (I believe) because of the hydrogen line. It would seem to me that a more effective methodology would be to do a spectrum sweeping search. The odds of any intelligent species transmitting on just one frequency are unlikely enough. Combine that with the fact that we are only listening on one frequency. Now we can compare finding a needle in a haystack as trivial in comparison.
If you've ever worked with/for a government agency, it is absolutely absurd to think that a single government agency (let alone multiple government agencies) could pull of this kind of deception. People who buy into this shit are certifiable. IANAD, but it sounds like Dr Edgar Mitchell might be suffering from some form of dementia. Very sad indeed.
Did anyone else read that as the Curly Howard correspondence? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curly_Howard nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!
If this is true, does that mean that if/when the Earth's magentic field reverses polarity, we're boned? There has been evidence that the Earth has had the magnetic field reverse in the distant past (unsure of the rough estimate of when).
I would mod this funny if I had some mod points left.
DAMMIT Emacs!
This is true. I was also disappointed that the author blamed Windows for the memory leaks rather then the userland applications. Windows might be an insecure OS but the only memory leaks I have ever seen are from poorly written code, not the OS itself. The fact that Windows has so many poorly written applications is just an artifact of Windows being the most popular OS these days.
TFA made it sound like these things were running vanilla Windows 2000 and BSODing all over the place. Maybe I bought into the hype.
Agreed. Windows should have no place running medical equipment. There should be embedded, thoroughly tested solutions that use some sort of real-time kernel, and it should be the law. How the hell could they think of using Windows on a piece of equipment that needs to be running to save people's lives? It's asinine and scary as hell! The timings on many of these medical devices need to be guaranteed. Running a full OS on these devices is overkill, and it opens the device up to any problems of said OS... and we all know the laundry list of problems Windows has. Let's get some VxWorks or Linux RT up in here!
Good Lord, we should all be so lucky to have a cap that high.
Damn you capitalism!
I will support any open framework. - Zombiebot signing off
Maybe people put up with it because they don't care what the hate mongering morons of the world have to say. The only reason to object to this would be that it sets a precedent that is a dangerous and slippery slope. If we get everyone to block this, then it will be that much easier to get everyone to block that... then that... then that... you get the idea. It paves the road for all out censorship, which blows big time. I for one am not upset that they want to block hatred, horribly offensive, and illegal things from their citizens. However, I am upset with the dangerous precedent it sets.
But isn't the TCP timeout for a connection far less than 1 byte/minute? If you were being sarcastic, I lost it in your presentation.
I support this epic attempt to spread FUD. It made me laugh. How dare you be so modest!! You conceited bastard!!
Nobody mentioned the Detroit Red Wings. There wear the most red out of all these teams, and they won the Stanley Cup this year. I think they help prove the author's point on this. Red team wins.
OSS with DRM would be hilarious. You could actually break it in real time with each new release. Just look at the code... I can't believe these companies continue to embrace DRM. It hurts their customers, it is against fair use, and it is a pain in the ass to implement, and an inconvenience for us to have to work around it. It's not a deterrent to pirates at all, and it's a flawed model. You can't give someone the lock and the key and say "don't break in." This has all been said before ad-nausea. It boggles my mind to think that DRM is still being embraced by these nitwits. Then they have the gall to ask us to provide DRM. Forget these profiteering assholes.
TFA says that censorship is taking place in the US, with the DoD blocking or restricting access to social networking sites such as MySpace and YouTube that are bandwidth intensive and presented operational risks. This seems perfectly reasonable to me. This is NOT censorship. There are other ways of communicating with friends that take up less bandwidth and are operationally secure, such as email. Plenty of work places filter their internet access to employees, and that is not censorship either. There is a big difference between the filtering of relevant information and content that China is doing (blocking news sites and Wikipedia) and what the DoD is doing (blocking MySpace from soldiers). Let's get real here people. China is oppressing it's citizens, and the US is conserving bandwidth. (No information is being blocked from the US soldiers that is preventing them from doing their job). Contrary to the journalists in China who have to deal with the Great Firewall.
He's not your guy, buddy!
I've never once not been able to open my files with O2K7/8 or have had any problem sharing files.
Not a single corrupted file in many hours of use. The recovery system works fine in the event of a power outage or reboot without saving. I don't know where you're getting your data, but given my experience I'd say one of us is in the minority here. Given some of the other responses to your post I'm thinking it's you.
Ideally I would like to use uTorrent, but since there is no Linux version, you can either use wine to run uTorrent, or use Azureus with its RSS import plugin. There is a promising new client and server application that essentially does what we are looking for http://swarmtv.nl/ but it's still in alpha. There is a good engadget article that shows you how to set Azureus up to download these torrents http://www.engadget.com/2004/11/23/how-to-broadcatching-using-rss-bittorrent-to-automatically/ After that you just need the cron job and maybe a shell script to serve up your completed mp4 files to uShare.
I posted the link to the first person that asked. Good luck with it.