From what I've read, there are lots of humans in NASA that would be willing to sign up for a one way trip to Mars. Maybe we should be considering this option a little more seriously.
I keep all of my passwords in a file that I encrypt using PGP type software (http://www.gnupg.org/). This means all you need to remember is one password. I found an add-on to vim that makes opening this file seamless when I'm in the terminal. This isn't necessary, but I find it useful. If you're more of a mouse type person, there are lots of free tools for encrypting / decrypting text files using the PGP standard. While it isn't the most fancy solution, it's pretty flexible and there is no risk of lock in, OS limitations, etc.
I know that when you upload to youtube, Google keeps the original version, and offers a downsampled version over the web (presumably to reduce bandwidth/resource requirements). I assume that given the amount of money it takes to scan so many books, they would have used a very high resolution scanner - that's not the type of thing you want to have to go back and redo. What we see online probably aren't the high resolution originals.
If you register it here (free), the idea will ALSO be easily accessible to other people. I am the creator of this site, and I think that the author, like me, wants his ideas to be usable by the general public. Basically we are talking about the equivalent of linux for inventions.
It's a free service that inventors can use to "publish" their work so that it is in the public domain. When something is prior art, it cannot be patented.
The database is backed up on a regular basis, and the contents are burned to a CD that I post to myself so that dates can be verified if they ever need to be. It is a wiki style setup, where only the user who created a page can edit it. Images can be included in a page.
The site is searchable, and if it takes off (there hasn't been much interest so far), the plan would be to write a letter to the US Patent Office (and Canadian, where I'm from) explaining that this database should be included in searches when new patents are checked.
I have no intention of ever charging for this service, though eventually I may have to put some ads on the side to pay for hosting if it gets too expensive. A donation system may also be enough.
If there are others that are interested in this, helping with the site, or contributing patents, please get in touch. This is an idea that I came up with trying to avoid studying for my PhD prelim - it would be nice if something came of it.
It's a free service that inventors can use to "publish" their work so that it is in the public domain. When something is prior art, it cannot be patented.
The database is backed up on a regular basis, and the contents are burned to a CD that I post to myself so that dates can be verified if they ever need to be. It is a wiki style setup, where only the user who created a page can edit it. Images can be included in a page.
The site is searchable, and if it takes off (there hasn't been much interest so far), the plan would be to write a letter to the US Patent Office (and Canadian, where I'm from) explaining that this database should be included in searches when new patents are checked.
I have no intention of ever charging for this service, though eventually I may have to put some ads on the side to pay for hosting if it gets too expensive. A donation system may also be enough.
If there are others that are interested in this, helping with the site, or contributing patents, please get in touch. This is an idea that I came up with trying to avoid studying for my PhD prelim - it would be nice if something came of it.
The machines I login to cat the policy at the beginning of every session. I'll just send you my username and password and then you can read it for yourself.
They didn't care if malware got installed on the researchers computers.
Most university owned machines that are publicly accessible (e.g. in the library) get ghosted frequently. It doesn't matter what you do to them - tomorrow they will have a fresh install anyway.
If you have a slow connection or you don't have a burner, you can get a pretty looking CD from Canonical by mail. They don't even charge for shipping.
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
I'm doing computational condensed matter physics for my PhD. If you give me an account, I can keep your cluster at full load while you're not using it.:) The type of stuff I run can span hundreds of processors over (sorry to say it) slow interconnects like GigE.
If you let me use it, I'll acknowledge you in all publications AND I'll make you some pretty pictures (materials under extreme conditions make for cool figures).
I am a PhD student working in computational condensed matter physics. My undergrad did not have a requirement for programming - it should have. As a result, I have had to waste time catching up. The argument "they can learn it on their own" could be said about a lot of skills taught in undergraduate physics. I probably could have learned how to use an oscilloscope on my own, but I didn't have to. It was something we covered in first year lab. As a result, I know how to use this instrument properly, and the learning process was efficient.
Based on what I have seen in graduate school, I think that an undergrad should learn how to use a language like C, C++, or Fortran (I'm talking about f95 mind you), as well as some scripting (bash, perl, whatever) and command line plotting tools (gnuplot for example).
While environments like matlab are nice, they make it more difficult to run your codes on machines you don't own. I do a lot of this.
No matter what, excel (and variants thereof) should not be promoted as an approach to scientific programming. Physics is not point and click.
http://www.publicpatent.org/ [publicpatent.org] Users create pages that only they can edit. The time and date of all changes are monitored. Backups are made to DVD which are date authenticated for future court challenges. Oh, and it's free.:)
http://www.publicpatent.org/
Users create pages that only they can edit. The time and date of all changes are monitored. Backups are made to DVD which are date authenticated for future court challenges.
Oh, and it's free.:)
This isn't true though, typos aside. She saw a distribution of velocities in galaxies that was not consistent with the visible mass. This means that either there is extra mass in those galaxies, or the laws that govern their motion are not fully understood. She provides no evidence one way or the other. The existence of dark matter is still an open question (though people are leaning towards it).
...which is why part of the DRM scheme calls for certified videocards and monitors. If Sony et. al have their way, they will control the data all the way from the disc to your eyes.
When you're buying quality digital cable, you're paying for impedance matching (among other things). That being said, I wouldn't exactly recommend Sears as a source of said cable.
I've heard people say this before, and it always makes me mad. While it is true that computing power, storage, etc generally marches forward at a fairly predictable rate, there are definitely points along the way when the computer you bought yesterday is much "worse" than the computer that you could have bought today. Take the PowerPC -> Intel switch on the Powerbooks for example. The sucker who bought their machine in December is probably wishing they had waited another month or two. Conversely, the person who buys a MacBook Pro today probably won't be kicking themselves too much a few months from now, when at most Apple will offer a bit more ram/hd, whatever.
Obviously if you REALLY need a computer today, there is nothing you can do about it. But if you're just looking to upgrade, and you can be a bit flexible, it pays to ask questions like "should I wait?".
Slashdot Mirror
From what I've read, there are lots of humans in NASA that would be willing to sign up for a one way trip to Mars. Maybe we should be considering this option a little more seriously.
I keep all of my passwords in a file that I encrypt using PGP type software (http://www.gnupg.org/). This means all you need to remember is one password. I found an add-on to vim that makes opening this file seamless when I'm in the terminal. This isn't necessary, but I find it useful. If you're more of a mouse type person, there are lots of free tools for encrypting / decrypting text files using the PGP standard. While it isn't the most fancy solution, it's pretty flexible and there is no risk of lock in, OS limitations, etc.
I know that when you upload to youtube, Google keeps the original version, and offers a downsampled version over the web (presumably to reduce bandwidth/resource requirements). I assume that given the amount of money it takes to scan so many books, they would have used a very high resolution scanner - that's not the type of thing you want to have to go back and redo. What we see online probably aren't the high resolution originals.
PublicPatent.org
If you register it here (free), the idea will ALSO be easily accessible to other people. I am the creator of this site, and I think that the author, like me, wants his ideas to be usable by the general public. Basically we are talking about the equivalent of linux for inventions.
I actually created a site for this specific purpose about a year ago.
PublicPatent.org
It's a free service that inventors can use to "publish" their work so that it is in the public domain. When something is prior art, it cannot be patented.
The database is backed up on a regular basis, and the contents are burned to a CD that I post to myself so that dates can be verified if they ever need to be. It is a wiki style setup, where only the user who created a page can edit it. Images can be included in a page.
The site is searchable, and if it takes off (there hasn't been much interest so far), the plan would be to write a letter to the US Patent Office (and Canadian, where I'm from) explaining that this database should be included in searches when new patents are checked.
I have no intention of ever charging for this service, though eventually I may have to put some ads on the side to pay for hosting if it gets too expensive. A donation system may also be enough.
If there are others that are interested in this, helping with the site, or contributing patents, please get in touch. This is an idea that I came up with trying to avoid studying for my PhD prelim - it would be nice if something came of it.
PublicPatent.org
Same idea, but free and "open source".
I actually created a site for this specific purpose about a year ago.
PublicPatent.org
It's a free service that inventors can use to "publish" their work so that it is in the public domain. When something is prior art, it cannot be patented.
The database is backed up on a regular basis, and the contents are burned to a CD that I post to myself so that dates can be verified if they ever need to be. It is a wiki style setup, where only the user who created a page can edit it. Images can be included in a page.
The site is searchable, and if it takes off (there hasn't been much interest so far), the plan would be to write a letter to the US Patent Office (and Canadian, where I'm from) explaining that this database should be included in searches when new patents are checked.
I have no intention of ever charging for this service, though eventually I may have to put some ads on the side to pay for hosting if it gets too expensive. A donation system may also be enough.
If there are others that are interested in this, helping with the site, or contributing patents, please get in touch. This is an idea that I came up with trying to avoid studying for my PhD prelim - it would be nice if something came of it.
This would be useful:
> firefox map cleveland street london
a window appears with the result - no need for the mouse at all.
The machines I login to cat the policy at the beginning of every session. I'll just send you my username and password and then you can read it for yourself.
They didn't care if malware got installed on the researchers computers. Most university owned machines that are publicly accessible (e.g. in the library) get ghosted frequently. It doesn't matter what you do to them - tomorrow they will have a fresh install anyway.
If you have a slow connection or you don't have a burner, you can get a pretty looking CD from Canonical by mail. They don't even charge for shipping. https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
I'm doing computational condensed matter physics for my PhD. If you give me an account, I can keep your cluster at full load while you're not using it. :) The type of stuff I run can span hundreds of processors over (sorry to say it) slow interconnects like GigE.
If you let me use it, I'll acknowledge you in all publications AND I'll make you some pretty pictures (materials under extreme conditions make for cool figures).
I am a PhD student working in computational condensed matter physics. My undergrad did not have a requirement for programming - it should have. As a result, I have had to waste time catching up. The argument "they can learn it on their own" could be said about a lot of skills taught in undergraduate physics. I probably could have learned how to use an oscilloscope on my own, but I didn't have to. It was something we covered in first year lab. As a result, I know how to use this instrument properly, and the learning process was efficient. Based on what I have seen in graduate school, I think that an undergrad should learn how to use a language like C, C++, or Fortran (I'm talking about f95 mind you), as well as some scripting (bash, perl, whatever) and command line plotting tools (gnuplot for example). While environments like matlab are nice, they make it more difficult to run your codes on machines you don't own. I do a lot of this. No matter what, excel (and variants thereof) should not be promoted as an approach to scientific programming. Physics is not point and click.
I used to have this machine and used it for exactly what you describe. http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10381_div/10381_div.HTML
http://www.publicpatent.org/
http://www.publicpatent.org/ [publicpatent.org] Users create pages that only they can edit. The time and date of all changes are monitored. Backups are made to DVD which are date authenticated for future court challenges. Oh, and it's free. :)
http://www.publicpatent.org/ Users create pages that only they can edit. The time and date of all changes are monitored. Backups are made to DVD which are date authenticated for future court challenges. Oh, and it's free. :)
Yes
This isn't true though, typos aside. She saw a distribution of velocities in galaxies that was not consistent with the visible mass. This means that either there is extra mass in those galaxies, or the laws that govern their motion are not fully understood. She provides no evidence one way or the other. The existence of dark matter is still an open question (though people are leaning towards it).
Cisco, for leading them on, only to demand something crazy at the last minute: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_010907b.h tml
Or Apple, for going ahead with the name anyway, hoping to win it in court: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2007/corp_011007.ht ml?sid=BAC-RelatedNews
...which is why part of the DRM scheme calls for certified videocards and monitors. If Sony et. al have their way, they will control the data all the way from the disc to your eyes.
(2) there is significant data suggesting "global warming" of similar order of magnitude on Mars and other planets.
...and Mars and "other planets" continue to be welcoming spots for humans.
When you're buying quality digital cable, you're paying for impedance matching (among other things). That being said, I wouldn't exactly recommend Sears as a source of said cable.
I've heard people say this before, and it always makes me mad. While it is true that computing power, storage, etc generally marches forward at a fairly predictable rate, there are definitely points along the way when the computer you bought yesterday is much "worse" than the computer that you could have bought today. Take the PowerPC -> Intel switch on the Powerbooks for example. The sucker who bought their machine in December is probably wishing they had waited another month or two. Conversely, the person who buys a MacBook Pro today probably won't be kicking themselves too much a few months from now, when at most Apple will offer a bit more ram/hd, whatever. Obviously if you REALLY need a computer today, there is nothing you can do about it. But if you're just looking to upgrade, and you can be a bit flexible, it pays to ask questions like "should I wait?".
http://scitation.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VeritySer vlet?KEY=JAPIAU&ONLINE=YES&smode=strresults&sort=c hron&maxdisp=25&threshold=0&possible1=mills&possib le1zone=author&OUTLOG=NO&viewabs=JAPIAU&key=DISPLA Y&docID=1&page=1&chapter=0
It's called google