I'm not exactly sure what weaponry would be able to hit a target at 20,000 feet but it's a big, slow-moving target.
An honest-to-god SAM can probably hit one, but they don't have a lot of those in Afghanistan. Shoulder-mounted missiles won't go that high.
It will be approximately the same size in the sky as an airliner at cruising altitude. If there were no contrail and no sound, would you be able to see a 747 crusing above you? Paint it the colour of the sky as seen from the ground -- would you even know this thing was a few miles above you?
It may be slow-moving, but that also means no heat signature for an IR-seeker to lock on to. It's a large plastic bag, so it wouldn't be too hard to give the ship a very small radar cross-section. Best of all, it can be unmanned, so even if by some lucky chance the bad guys manage to shoot one down, big deal.
Bah! I mean to write '... companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as their execs also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get.'
"Cheaper" is just another word for exploitation. I think you're the one displaying hatred -- why do you think that workers in other countries don't deserve the rights, benefits and salaries that you get? I got mine, fuck the rest!
How's this: companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as they also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get.
We as a society need to remember that corporations exist at the pleasure of society, and must not be allowed to destroy society to make a buck.
Some back-of-the-envelope calculations: normal human speech is about 60dB. We know dB = 10 log(I/I0)
where I0 is 10^-12 W/m^2. So 60dB works out to about 10^-6
W/m^2 -- that's a microwatt per square meter. With 100% efficiency
and a mike of 1 cm^2 collecting area, that's around 10^-10 W
-- 0.1 nano-watts.
What does it mean to "truly" understand something? (I would claim that we "truly" understand nothing -- we don't even understand ourselves.)
That's not how science works. You observe reality, you come up with a mathematical model (a hypothesis or theory) that fits the observations, and you test your hypothesis by making predictions and seeing if your hypothesis still looks good. Individual people may say things about what they feel they understand, but not being them, you don't know what their experience of "understanding" is.
GR and QM have been fantastically accurate models, much better than anything else we've ever come up with. Consequences of QM and GR once thought to be outlandish and obviously wrong have been shown to be fact -- repeatedly. That your mind can't admit these concepts means nothing.
Perhaps English is not your first language, but "I have little sympathy for fools and Republicans"
means that I have no sympathy for them. "I have a little money" means I do have some money, just not a lot.
(Incidentally, there's plenty of evidence for dark matter.)
No, but they are trying (on the basis of divine knowledge) to suppress science and reason. Surely you've heard of evolution, global warming, abortion rights and birth control, stem cell research,...
This government knows what God would do if only He knew all the facts of the case.
To be totally accurate, it's more like the first sale doctrine that libraries operate under. (The copy machines in libraries are for fair-use by library members.) At any rate no license is required.
First, tell me what you think is such "poor grammar" in the message the chap sent that you would instantly toss it out:
Hello!
I know from the following two articles that the Hammer Myshare is running linux on a arm926ej-s CPU. http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7270490723.html http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30056/75/
I searched on your page but i was not able to find the GPL-sources that you need to provide for the box.
Please make them available somehow....or tell me how to get it.
Greetings!
mindbender
Seems completely on par with the other business email I've received. Keep in mind that most people in the world are not native english speakers.
Second, what does his name have to do with anything?
As a person you are free to dismiss whoever you want for any reason you wish, but if you're a company you can't afford to.
Unfortunately, they all are designed with different voltages in mind. Designing them to all run on the same voltage and amperage would probably add to the cost of each device.
This might have been true a few years ago, but today voltage regulators are so cheap (around $2) that it makes no sense not to use just one voltage for everything -- say 5V, and optionally 12V for high-power devices. With standard DC in the home, manufacturers will not have to include wall-warts with everything so it won't even cost them more money.
Personally I think that we should wire houses for 120 VAC as well as 5 VDC and 12 VDC. If I ever build a house every wall outlet will have plugs of those three kinds. (And there will be at least 6 outlets for every 10 feet of wall.)
I have an old one (the first version, I think) and it charges fine using any 5V source, including one I hacked up myself (two AA cells and a Maxim buck/boost regulator to raise it to 5V).
RJ-45 is the plastic connector (cf. the little plastic connector that phone cords have is an RJ-11).
The ethernet cable we know and love is 4-pair UTP Cat 5.
No one is saying that a cable cannot make a difference for an analog signal; obviously it does. But this Denon-Link is a digital signal.
Of course if you're not running a production server, you can install OpenSolaris on a PC and get ZFS root today. If your hardware is supported, OpenSolaris is much nicer than S10.
In the scientific method, "facts" are observations about the real world, as in "object falls downward". A "theory" is a model that fits the facts, as in "objects are attracted to each other by force whose magnitude is the product..." -- Newton's Theory of Gravitation. A theory allows you make predictions about the behaviour of the natural world. The newtonian theory allows you to make very accurate calculations of orbital mechanics, i.e. "rocket science".
The point of science is to come up with better models (theories) for the observed world. The Einsteinian theory of gravity (aka General Relativity) fits the observed behaviour of the universe better than the Newtonian theory. A theory is neither true nor false; it merely describes natural phenomena to a lesser or greater extent.
So evolution (organisms and their populations change over time) is a fact, easily observed. The Darwinian theory of evolution is that Natural and Sexual Selection cause the change, and it is a model that fits (very well!) what we observe in the real world. (A competing theory of evolution is Ghod Did I -- which is not exactly useful.)
In contrast to the scientific meaning, the vernacular use of "theory" is as a pejorative, as in "I have a theory that reducing taxes on the rich actually helps the poor."
This is not about using brute-force solvers. Given some problem space, there are many interesting things to think about: optimal algorithms -- in time, and in memory -- of course; but also exploring the structure of the space itself. Interesting symmetries, upper and lower bounds on path and cycle lengths,... . The possibilities are boundless.
And no one would consider using a brute-force solver, but writing one would be interesting. Give it a try.
Not quite -- read up on PRIs. The CallerID field is filled in by the caller's equipment. I know, because I once had a job implementing a PBX-like system and used to call friends with bogus CLID (I was younger then and easier to amuse). (However if you have an 8xx number, you also get ANI, which is a different SS7 field from CLID. ANI cannot be easily spoofed.)
In any case, fax machines do not print CLID on the page, but the identifier that the remote fax machine puts in. In all the fax machines I've encountered you only get to see the CLID if you happen to be standing there when the call arrives.
... harder than an e-mails From header anyways.
If you go back to my original message I specifically mentioned Received-by and not the From header. Go read up on SMTP and envelope headers. To spoof Received-by you will have to spoof IP, which is far from trivial.
Cryptography to the rescue. There are several crypto methods so a voter can verify that his/her vote was counted accurately, but a third party cannot figure out how you voted. (Googling left as an exercise to the reader.)
By "electronics would get them killed" do you mean in combat?
My brother is a MiG-29 (and Su-27) pilot. (He has also flown F-16s on a USAF detachment.) On a landing approach in the MiG-29, he hit a truck that was parked a little too close to the runway. They had to replace the wheels and tires but otherwise the aircraft was fine. The truck was totalled.
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I'm not exactly sure what weaponry would be able to hit a target at 20,000 feet but it's a big, slow-moving target.
An honest-to-god SAM can probably hit one, but they don't have a lot of those in Afghanistan. Shoulder-mounted missiles won't go that high.
It will be approximately the same size in the sky as an airliner at cruising altitude. If there were no contrail and no sound, would you be able to see a 747 crusing above you? Paint it the colour of the sky as seen from the ground -- would you even know this thing was a few miles above you?
It may be slow-moving, but that also means no heat signature for an IR-seeker to lock on to. It's a large plastic bag, so it wouldn't be too hard to give the ship a very small radar cross-section. Best of all, it can be unmanned, so even if by some lucky chance the bad guys manage to shoot one down, big deal.
Damn right, citizen! But when I say my taxes are excessive they throw me in jail as a tax evader. Don't they undeerstand I'm a patriot?
Until we can throw corporations in jail when they commit crimes, or execute them for murder, bullshit like this is just empty rhetoric.
Copyright is not a civil right. It's not even property.
Bah! I mean to write '... companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as their execs also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get.'
"Cheaper" is just another word for exploitation. I think you're the one displaying hatred -- why do you think that workers in other countries don't deserve the rights, benefits and salaries that you get? I got mine, fuck the rest!
How's this: companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as they also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get.
We as a society need to remember that corporations exist at the pleasure of society, and must not be allowed to destroy society to make a buck.
Some back-of-the-envelope calculations: normal human speech is about 60dB. We know dB = 10 log(I/I0) where I0 is 10^-12 W/m^2. So 60dB works out to about 10^-6 W/m^2 -- that's a microwatt per square meter. With 100% efficiency and a mike of 1 cm^2 collecting area, that's around 10^-10 W -- 0.1 nano-watts.
Color me skeptical.
What does it mean to "truly" understand something? (I would claim that we "truly" understand nothing -- we don't even understand ourselves.)
That's not how science works. You observe reality, you come up with a mathematical model (a hypothesis or theory) that fits the observations, and you test your hypothesis by making predictions and seeing if your hypothesis still looks good. Individual people may say things about what they feel they understand, but not being them, you don't know what their experience of "understanding" is.
GR and QM have been fantastically accurate models, much better than anything else we've ever come up with. Consequences of QM and GR once thought to be outlandish and obviously wrong have been shown to be fact -- repeatedly. That your mind can't admit these concepts means nothing.
Perhaps English is not your first language, but "I have little sympathy for fools and Republicans" means that I have no sympathy for them. "I have a little money" means I do have some money, just not a lot.
(Incidentally, there's plenty of evidence for dark matter.)
No, but they are trying (on the basis of divine knowledge) to suppress science and reason. Surely you've heard of evolution, global warming, abortion rights and birth control, stem cell research, ...
This government knows what God would do if only He knew all the facts of the case.
Yes, the "first sale doctrine" covers it; see the Wikipedia article for details and links.
To be totally accurate, it's more like the first sale doctrine that libraries operate under. (The copy machines in libraries are for fair-use by library members.) At any rate no license is required.
First, tell me what you think is such "poor grammar" in the message the chap sent that you would instantly toss it out:
Seems completely on par with the other business email I've received. Keep in mind that most people in the world are not native english speakers.
Second, what does his name have to do with anything?
As a person you are free to dismiss whoever you want for any reason you wish, but if you're a company you can't afford to.
The speed of sound depends on temperature -- the hotter the faster. So in the hot gas....
This might have been true a few years ago, but today voltage regulators are so cheap (around $2) that it makes no sense not to use just one voltage for everything -- say 5V, and optionally 12V for high-power devices. With standard DC in the home, manufacturers will not have to include wall-warts with everything so it won't even cost them more money.
Personally I think that we should wire houses for 120 VAC as well as 5 VDC and 12 VDC. If I ever build a house every wall outlet will have plugs of those three kinds. (And there will be at least 6 outlets for every 10 feet of wall.)
Genius! (I hope you're not in marketing.)
Is it the new RAZR?
I have an old one (the first version, I think) and it charges fine using any 5V source, including one I hacked up myself (two AA cells and a Maxim buck/boost regulator to raise it to 5V).
RJ-45 is the plastic connector (cf. the little plastic connector that phone cords have is an RJ-11). The ethernet cable we know and love is 4-pair UTP Cat 5.
No one is saying that a cable cannot make a difference for an analog signal; obviously it does. But this Denon-Link is a digital signal.
Of course if you're not running a production server, you can install OpenSolaris on a PC and get ZFS root today. If your hardware is supported, OpenSolaris is much nicer than S10.
In the scientific method, "facts" are observations about the real world, as in "object falls downward". A "theory" is a model that fits the facts, as in "objects are attracted to each other by force whose magnitude is the product ..." -- Newton's Theory of Gravitation. A theory allows you make predictions about the behaviour of the natural world. The newtonian theory allows you to make very accurate calculations of orbital mechanics, i.e. "rocket science".
The point of science is to come up with better models (theories) for the observed world. The Einsteinian theory of gravity (aka General Relativity) fits the observed behaviour of the universe better than the Newtonian theory. A theory is neither true nor false; it merely describes natural phenomena to a lesser or greater extent.
So evolution (organisms and their populations change over time) is a fact, easily observed. The Darwinian theory of evolution is that Natural and Sexual Selection cause the change, and it is a model that fits (very well!) what we observe in the real world. (A competing theory of evolution is Ghod Did I -- which is not exactly useful.)
In contrast to the scientific meaning, the vernacular use of "theory" is as a pejorative, as in "I have a theory that reducing taxes on the rich actually helps the poor."
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder....
This is not about using brute-force solvers. Given some problem space, there are many interesting things to think about: optimal algorithms -- in time, and in memory -- of course; but also exploring the structure of the space itself. Interesting symmetries, upper and lower bounds on path and cycle lengths, ... . The possibilities are boundless.
And no one would consider using a brute-force solver, but writing one would be interesting. Give it a try.
Not quite -- read up on PRIs. The CallerID field is filled in by the caller's equipment. I know, because I once had a job implementing a PBX-like system and used to call friends with bogus CLID (I was younger then and easier to amuse). (However if you have an 8xx number, you also get ANI, which is a different SS7 field from CLID. ANI cannot be easily spoofed.)
In any case, fax machines do not print CLID on the page, but the identifier that the remote fax machine puts in. In all the fax machines I've encountered you only get to see the CLID if you happen to be standing there when the call arrives.
If you go back to my original message I specifically mentioned Received-by and not the From header. Go read up on SMTP and envelope headers. To spoof Received-by you will have to spoof IP, which is far from trivial.
Surely you jest. It's trivially easy to change that "source phone number" in a fax. It is a little harder to forge the Received-by headers in email.
If it rotates 465 times a second, the period of its rotation is 2.15 milliseconds. I think 2.15 is closer to 1 than to 10... at least in some states!
Cryptography to the rescue. There are several crypto methods so a voter can verify that his/her vote was counted accurately, but a third party cannot figure out how you voted. (Googling left as an exercise to the reader.)
By "electronics would get them killed" do you mean in combat?
My brother is a MiG-29 (and Su-27) pilot. (He has also flown F-16s on a USAF detachment.) On a landing approach in the MiG-29, he hit a truck that was parked a little too close to the runway. They had to replace the wheels and tires but otherwise the aircraft was fine. The truck was totalled.