Colors used in STM or AFM images are added simply to help "understand" an image better. Unlike optical microscopes, which can zoom onto a tiny surface, STM and AFM don't use light. STM technology works by measuring a very tiny electrical current that jumps between a surface and the metal tip of the microscope when it's close enough (a few nm). AFM works by measuring the bending of a cantilever when its tiny tip is being scrapped from side to side on a surface.
Very simply put, you either get a voltage or a deflection. So, instead of putting a bunch of numbers on a two-dimensional grid, you replace identical values by an identical color. The resulting is more esthetically pleasing and gets published more easily.;-)
A little quick to judge, but then again, most people are...;)
Oh, I understand you have to make your users change habits...
I'm just stating the fact that you can make the best technical setup in the world, but if your users don't adhere to it, it's mostly useless. Yes, the best remedy is teaching users best practices, but try teaching your grand-mother that no, the email didn't really come from uncle John...
So many, like you (the majority BTW) are apathetic to changing it.
You assume to much here my friend. I wasn't describing my situation (we're only 3 where I work and we get about 3 spams a week). I was just colorfully illustrating the point that spam will not be solved by mere technical prowess... unless it accompagnied by a huge global coercion to stop spammers. But any individual country is powerless to irradicate it, as the USA brillantly demonstrated with their CAN-SPAM act.
I thought it was the way to go until I thought about ISPs who block port 25 and insist on users using their own SMTP server...
Lets say I own domain abc.com and use 123.com as an ISP, I'd have to add 123.com to my SPF entry. Simple! BUT, I have 2500 users owning laptops working from home and travelling around a lot. So, I'd have to add just about every I can think of to my SPF entry... I'm sure I'll miss one or two and then get complaints about why someone's email wasn't received or flagged as SPAM when they sent it from Japan while on a business trip last week. I'll try explain that it's because of the SPF entry, that the server they used to send the email wasn't autorized and that they should have used the webmail instead. They won't understand what the hell I'm talking about because they're sales reps or managers. In the end, I'll have to go back to the way it was before. I'll still get complaints but at least, valid emails will get through...
The spam problem is not a technical problem, it's mostly a human problem. And, as in every human problems, designing a solution may be easy, implementing it is nearly impossible!
Well, for what its worth, the NY magazine in its Urban Etiquette Handbook considers it ethical to use an unprotected WiFi.
From the article:
Is it okay to use wireless if your neighbors don't password-protect it?
Yes--free wireless is a karmic gift bestowed by the rental gods to make up for all the times you've experienced your neighbors' sexual encounters, arguments, and guitar practice in startling sonic clarity, gotten roaches because you live in the same building as a restaurant, and sampled the tapestry of malodorousness that is the ethnic-food/cigarette-smoke/pet-by-product-scented apartment hallway. Your only obligation as a wireless sharer is to avoid massive bandwidth-hogging downloads.
Since reading this, whatever guilt I felt from borrowing my new neighbours WiFi for three months just went away...
DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go are good for laptop owners... I work with a laptop that I carry home after work. I find it's much more convenient then just emailing me my files, but the smaller screen and keyboard is killing me. I usually plug it in a 19" CRT and a USB keyboard to be more comfortable. With these "gadgets", I'll be able to use two or three 19" CRTs with the single VGA output my laptop has! Having tasted two monitors before, I tell you that it's an instant productivity gain!
Three monitors does seem like a lot though. But I sure I'll find some good use for it.
I agree, stories about Han Solo would be much more interesting, but I doubt Lucas would go for it. Remember that he now wants to portray Han as a good guy instead of a ruffian that he is...
Greedo DID NOT shoot first! Han killed him! Final.
Until Lucas decides to apologize for this fiasco, I don't think that anything about Han would win the heart of the fans.
I'd say that owning a web server that crashes after 900 hits, and letting it be known, is endeavouring to incite mischief and crime. It could be argued that the kid is the victim here...
If you can get a fine for leaving for car door unlocked, why wouldn't leaving a server badly protected not qualify?
According to this article in business week, Java is losing momentum.
I teach Object Oriented Programming to engineering students in a university here and our class is still taught using C++. What was said in a former post about learning any OO language will enable you to easily cross over to other languages is true. But, from my experience as a teacher, students will actually only go from hard languages to easier languages. The C++ syntax is such a bitch sometimes that I can't really picture any student going from Java or C# to C++. But, then again, I don't believe any of my students read./
So my advice to you is this: read the article, then choose either one, and get a good book for the other.
- Hey man, what you in here for ?
- I found my ex in bed with another guy, I stabbed them both... How 'bout you?
- I downloaded the lyrics for "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston off the Internet.
-... Whoa! You crazy? You're really screwed now!
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Obviously, the server's down. But I got through by going around to http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Direct link that work for me : http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US
Colors used in STM or AFM images are added simply to help "understand" an image better. Unlike optical microscopes, which can zoom onto a tiny surface, STM and AFM don't use light. STM technology works by measuring a very tiny electrical current that jumps between a surface and the metal tip of the microscope when it's close enough (a few nm). AFM works by measuring the bending of a cantilever when its tiny tip is being scrapped from side to side on a surface.
Very simply put, you either get a voltage or a deflection. So, instead of putting a bunch of numbers on a two-dimensional grid, you replace identical values by an identical color. The resulting is more esthetically pleasing and gets published more easily. ;-)
The colors are fake, but the image is not.
A little quick to judge, but then again, most people are... ;)
Oh, I understand you have to make your users change habits...I'm just stating the fact that you can make the best technical setup in the world, but if your users don't adhere to it, it's mostly useless. Yes, the best remedy is teaching users best practices, but try teaching your grand-mother that no, the email didn't really come from uncle John...
So many, like you (the majority BTW) are apathetic to changing it.You assume to much here my friend. I wasn't describing my situation (we're only 3 where I work and we get about 3 spams a week). I was just colorfully illustrating the point that spam will not be solved by mere technical prowess... unless it accompagnied by a huge global coercion to stop spammers. But any individual country is powerless to irradicate it, as the USA brillantly demonstrated with their CAN-SPAM act.
It's good in theory, but very hard in practice.
I thought it was the way to go until I thought about ISPs who block port 25 and insist on users using their own SMTP server...
Lets say I own domain abc.com and use 123.com as an ISP, I'd have to add 123.com to my SPF entry. Simple! BUT, I have 2500 users owning laptops working from home and travelling around a lot. So, I'd have to add just about every I can think of to my SPF entry... I'm sure I'll miss one or two and then get complaints about why someone's email wasn't received or flagged as SPAM when they sent it from Japan while on a business trip last week. I'll try explain that it's because of the SPF entry, that the server they used to send the email wasn't autorized and that they should have used the webmail instead. They won't understand what the hell I'm talking about because they're sales reps or managers. In the end, I'll have to go back to the way it was before. I'll still get complaints but at least, valid emails will get through...
The spam problem is not a technical problem, it's mostly a human problem. And, as in every human problems, designing a solution may be easy, implementing it is nearly impossible!
Well, for what its worth, the NY magazine in its Urban Etiquette Handbook considers it ethical to use an unprotected WiFi.
From the article:
Since reading this, whatever guilt I felt from borrowing my new neighbours WiFi for three months just went away...You're not married, are you?
DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go are good for laptop owners... I work with a laptop that I carry home after work. I find it's much more convenient then just emailing me my files, but the smaller screen and keyboard is killing me. I usually plug it in a 19" CRT and a USB keyboard to be more comfortable. With these "gadgets", I'll be able to use two or three 19" CRTs with the single VGA output my laptop has! Having tasted two monitors before, I tell you that it's an instant productivity gain!
Three monitors does seem like a lot though. But I sure I'll find some good use for it.
Greedo DID NOT shoot first! Han killed him! Final.
Until Lucas decides to apologize for this fiasco, I don't think that anything about Han would win the heart of the fans.
Isn't it illegal to incite mischief and crime?
I'd say that owning a web server that crashes after 900 hits, and letting it be known, is endeavouring to incite mischief and crime. It could be argued that the kid is the victim here...
If you can get a fine for leaving for car door unlocked, why wouldn't leaving a server badly protected not qualify?
According to this article in business week, Java is losing momentum.
I teach Object Oriented Programming to engineering students in a university here and our class is still taught using C++. What was said in a former post about learning any OO language will enable you to easily cross over to other languages is true. But, from my experience as a teacher, students will actually only go from hard languages to easier languages. The C++ syntax is such a bitch sometimes that I can't really picture any student going from Java or C# to C++. But, then again, I don't believe any of my students read ./
So my advice to you is this: read the article, then choose either one, and get a good book for the other.
Exactly, it's going to be the largest database of dead links ever!
I can just picture this at the local county jail :
- Hey man, what you in here for ?- I found my ex in bed with another guy, I stabbed them both... How 'bout you?
- I downloaded the lyrics for "I will always love you" by Whitney Houston off the Internet.
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Speaking of "China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia, the UK and US with Nukes." This seems mandotary :
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/end.php
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/endofworld.html
The only sad thing is that he might very well be right. We are "definitely going to blow ourself up!"