How the hell is it possible to put something in an orbit where it isn't visible from the southern hemisphere? Or is it like everything else in Australia - we get it 6 months after the rest of the world.
Oh well, at least we've still got the Magellenic Clouds.
I don't think you need to worry about being infected by a DNA computer virus. Virii generally aren't contagious across species, let alone across a loose collection of self-organizing molecules and us.
Greens and yellows occupy the middle range of the visual spectrum, this could explain why we can distinguish more shaded of greens than we can reds and blues which occupy the extreme ranges. I'd be interested to know if colour blindness was connected with someone's visual range being shifted along the EM spectrum, or shortened.
If they open sourced those drivers, somebody else would probably do it for them.
Sadly my experience so far with my TNT chipset has been a week of locked screens saying 'Horizontal Sync out of Range', but I'll keep checking for the new drivers.
Infering the position and orientation of the lightsaber from a 2-D image is done like this. From the webcam the ends of the lightsaber can be picked out, giving the difference between their respective (x,y) coordinates as Dx and Dy. Next he needs to find appropriate z coordinates for depth which can be calculated from (Dx)^2 + (Dy)^2 + (Dz)^2 = L^2, L is the length of the lightsaber. This gives (Dz) up to a sign, and then one only of the tip or hilt z-coordinates will completely specify the position of the saber. How does he manage to get, say, the tip's z position? And then how does he manage to pick the appropriate sign of (Dz). Anybody?
This article isn't describing evanescent waves. What it seems to be saying is that cesium atoms exited with an initial pulse of radiation can be stimulated into emitting a copy of that pulse when provided with the 'tail' of a second pulse. This obviously wouldn't help in transmitting information faster than light because it requires that the target already has a copy of it.
Most pulses of light have an amplitude function (like a Gaussian) that can be completely recreated from looking at their tails. It seems nature is quite adept at these calculations too.
Well, the future I like to imagine. A band or individual scrapes enough money together to be able to record their work in a high quality digital format. This isn't a lot nowadays. The work is made available for download with some genius' solution to balancing consumer rights and protecting artists income bundled into the format. Purchase price around $5, which goes straight to the artists and is more than they make off a CD sale. See Steve Albini's The Problem with Music
If the music is any good, the internet will ensure everybody knows about it and wants it. If it isn't then it will most likely be forgotten. This is what happens in the great ferment of works and ideas, Mr Bronfman. For evidence that this doesn't happen right now look no further than the Back Street Boys.
What I like about this is that the review system ensures that Record Industry $$$ can't buy album sales with promotional campaigns, and the ugly humans in suits are cut right out of the picture. This is ultimately what they're scared of. They know they're almost past their use-by dates. I don't believe you or anyone else in your industry is dedicated to delivering entertainment to consumers everywhere. Thanks anyway, but I've already got some.
Richard Feynmann remarked that, outside of their particular area of expertise, scientists were just as dumb as the next person. Sure he may enjoy a "level-headed reputation" the web industry, but in philosophical discussions about vindictive technology.
I don't quite see where Bill is qualified to be an authority on this, what stood out most for me in the article is his claimed affinity with (a) Einstein and (b) Theodore Kaczynski.
Well, we don't have a real clear view to the center of our own galaxy. There are lots of dust clouds and other stars and general Milky Way stuff in the way.
Laser Cooling basically works like this. You take a bunch of atoms, and cool them down to about 4K by pouring liquid helium over them. At this temperature they don't move around very much - temperature is a measure of the atoms' motion - and can be trapped into a small area by magnetic fields where they oscillate back and forth along a single axis.
While they're in this small area a laser can be shone at them along this axis. If it is at the right frequency, the atoms will only absorb a photon when they are moving towards the laser source. With the absorbtion of momentum the atoms motion is slowed down still further. (it will reradiate the photon, but in a random direction and the recoil will be absorbed by the magnetic field of the trap.) After absorbing a few photons the atoms' motion along the trap axis has been slowed down to a point where their temperature is getting close to 0K.
However this probably won't gain anyone infamy at overclockers.com, I doubt the old Celeron 300A likes being put in strong magnetic fields.
Those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it. In the 1800's a British company called South Sea Mining or something was formed to make vast fortunes by extracting gold from seawater. They offered to lend the British government a large some of money for empire concerns and soon rumours began to spread, their share prices skyrocketed and everybody wanted a piece of it. Despite the fact that the company had never extracted an ounce of gold from seawater and wouldn't have had a clue how to.
Naturally everbody lost lots of money, I think it was one of the first instances of finance markets asserting themselves as independent entities and not tolerating mass stupidity. ( I can kind of see how academics become interested.)
Tech companies like Sun, Intel and to a lessor extent RedHat that actually have some substance behind their shares won't be so badly affected, but some of the 'Dot Com' companies... There's one floating on the Australian share market today (good luck) called bigshop.com.au that doesn't actually have a website yet, Alchemy INC would probably *be* a better investment.
Anyway, as a wannabe Marxist, I hate the stock market too.
I demand that this jingoism and its implicit assumption that America is unique in guaranteeing the right to free speech be removed immediately from this webserver.
I often wonder about policies like this, do the people who draft them realise they're excluding everyone who's not using MS of Macs? Or is it just some "majority market" rubbish. The @Home network in Australia is only provifing access to "Windows or Macintosh Users". Anyways, if you want to let these particular people know, email them at egainfeedback@corp.talkcity.com and let them know you exist.
Most athletes train regularly to stay fit, those of us that don't are suitably impressed at their achievements. Having said that some respond better to training than others and are just naturally faster / stronger / whatever. I don't think intellectual activity is much different, at the beginning of each semester I can be pretty slow...
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How the hell is it possible to put something in an orbit where it isn't visible from the southern hemisphere? Or is it like everything else in Australia - we get it 6 months after the rest of the world.
Oh well, at least we've still got the Magellenic Clouds.
You might want to take a look at balsaw ww.newton.cx/balsa/main.html</a>.
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It's pretty. (but if you're having problems retrieving your mail I don't know how much help it will be.)
There are always 'rather more accurate' articles in the Guardian. The crosswords are better too.
No I'm not. And in any case I'm already in a relationship so wouldn't be available.
I was wondering if anyone knew if players like Winamp and XMMS support Ogg Vorbis. And if so, what can I use to make .ogg files.
I don't think you need to worry about being infected by a DNA computer virus. Virii generally aren't contagious across species, let alone across a loose collection of self-organizing molecules and us.
Greens and yellows occupy the middle range of the visual spectrum, this could explain why we can distinguish more shaded of greens than we can reds and blues which occupy the extreme ranges. I'd be interested to know if colour blindness was connected with someone's visual range being shifted along the EM spectrum, or shortened.
"I keep hearing Microsoft-employee-misfortune stories so powerful that they tug not only at the human heart, but at the journalist's, too."
Does this mean journalists aren't human? Things are much clearer for me now.
ask your neighbours across the atlantic
If they open sourced those drivers, somebody else would probably do it for them.
Sadly my experience so far with my TNT chipset has been a week of locked screens saying 'Horizontal Sync out of Range', but I'll keep checking for the new drivers.
Micros~1. I love it :)
Cheesier way out? "Light saber blades don't have mass, harrumph!"
Yeah they do, E/c^2.
Infering the position and orientation of the lightsaber from a 2-D image is done like this. From the webcam the ends of the lightsaber can be picked out, giving the difference between their respective (x,y) coordinates as Dx and Dy. Next he needs to find appropriate z coordinates for depth which can be calculated from (Dx)^2 + (Dy)^2 + (Dz)^2 = L^2, L is the length of the lightsaber.
This gives (Dz) up to a sign, and then one only of the tip or hilt z-coordinates will completely specify the position of the saber. How does he manage to get, say, the tip's z position? And then how does he manage to pick the appropriate sign of (Dz). Anybody?
This article isn't describing evanescent waves. What it seems to be saying is that cesium atoms exited with an initial pulse of radiation can be stimulated into emitting a copy of that pulse when provided with the 'tail' of a second pulse. This obviously wouldn't help in transmitting information faster than light because it requires that the target already has a copy of it.
Most pulses of light have an amplitude function (like a Gaussian) that can be completely recreated from looking at their tails. It seems nature is quite adept at these calculations too.
The BBC Microcomputer ... mine was probably in constant use for 3 years when I played 'Elite', possibly the coolest game ever to require 16k of RAM.
Well, the future I like to imagine. A band or individual scrapes enough money together to be able to record their work in a high quality digital format. This isn't a lot nowadays. The work is made available for download with some genius' solution to balancing consumer rights and protecting artists income bundled into the format. Purchase price around $5, which goes straight to the artists and is more than they make off a CD sale. See Steve Albini's The Problem with Music
If the music is any good, the internet will ensure everybody knows about it and wants it. If it isn't then it will most likely be forgotten. This is what happens in the great ferment of works and ideas, Mr Bronfman. For evidence that this doesn't happen right now look no further than the Back Street Boys.
What I like about this is that the review system ensures that Record Industry $$$ can't buy album sales with promotional campaigns, and the ugly humans in suits are cut right out of the picture. This is ultimately what they're scared of. They know they're almost past their use-by dates. I don't believe you or anyone else in your industry is dedicated to delivering entertainment to consumers everywhere. Thanks anyway, but I've already got some.
Richard Feynmann remarked that, outside of their particular area of expertise, scientists were just as dumb as the next person. Sure he may enjoy a "level-headed reputation" the web industry, but in philosophical discussions about vindictive technology.
I don't quite see where Bill is qualified to be an authority on this, what stood out most for me in the article is his claimed affinity with (a) Einstein and (b) Theodore Kaczynski.
Well, we don't have a real clear view to the center of our own galaxy. There are lots of dust clouds and other stars and general Milky Way stuff in the way.
Does this mean the RIAA can agree to the licence agreement, encrypt it using CSS, and sell it on DVDs?
Laser Cooling basically works like this. You take a bunch of atoms, and cool them down to about 4K by pouring liquid helium over them. At this temperature they don't move around very much - temperature is a measure of the atoms' motion - and can be trapped into a small area by magnetic fields where they oscillate back and forth along a single axis.
While they're in this small area a laser can be shone at them along this axis. If it is at the right frequency, the atoms will only absorb a photon when they are moving towards the laser source. With the absorbtion of momentum the atoms motion is slowed down still further. (it will reradiate the photon, but in a random direction and the recoil will be absorbed by the magnetic field of the trap.) After absorbing a few photons the atoms' motion along the trap axis has been slowed down to a point where their temperature is getting close to 0K.
However this probably won't gain anyone infamy at overclockers.com, I doubt the old Celeron 300A likes being put in strong magnetic fields.
Those who don't know their history are destined to repeat it. In the 1800's a British company called South Sea Mining or something was formed to make vast fortunes by extracting gold from seawater. They offered to lend the British government a large some of money for empire concerns and soon rumours began to spread, their share prices skyrocketed and everybody wanted a piece of it. Despite the fact that the company had never extracted an ounce of gold from seawater and wouldn't have had a clue how to.
... There's one floating on the Australian share market today (good luck) called bigshop.com.au that doesn't actually have a website yet, Alchemy INC would probably *be* a better investment.
Naturally everbody lost lots of money, I think it was one of the first instances of finance markets asserting themselves as independent entities and not tolerating mass stupidity. ( I can kind of see how academics become interested.)
Tech companies like Sun, Intel and to a lessor extent RedHat that actually have some substance behind their shares won't be so badly affected, but some of the 'Dot Com' companies
Anyway, as a wannabe Marxist, I hate the stock market too.
I demand that this jingoism and its implicit assumption that America is unique in guaranteeing the right to free speech be removed immediately from this webserver.
I often wonder about policies like this, do the people who draft them realise they're excluding everyone who's not using MS of Macs? Or is it just some "majority market" rubbish. The @Home network in Australia is only provifing access to "Windows or Macintosh Users". Anyways, if you want to let these particular people know, email them at egainfeedback@corp.talkcity.com and let them know you exist.
Most athletes train regularly to stay fit, those of us that don't are suitably impressed at their achievements. Having said that some respond better to training than others and are just naturally faster / stronger / whatever. I don't think intellectual activity is much different, at the beginning of each semester I can be pretty slow ...
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