The idea that a such a civilization exists is ridiculous. A civilization that has the technology for interstellar travel of that sort of scale would have no need to look for tiny little planets like Earth for our puny resources. They would find many orders of magnitude more resources in their own back yard.
With overwhelming probability, any planet that evolved life would exist in a solar system not unlike ours. I'm not sure that a singleton planet is even possible. So, they would find enough hydrogen in a single gas giant to power themselves for eternity. Enough minerals in other rocky planets, moons, Kuiper-belt objects, and asteroids to build anything they could ever want. Do you know just how much iron is in our core? And if they do progress to become a civilization so vast, so immense as to actually use up all of that, they certainly wouldn't need to come hunting for the relatively slim pickings on our planet. They could simply go to whatever solar system is closest and get stuff from there. No Independence Day-like scenarios required. No civilization is going to scrape the tiny fraction of minerals that exist on the surface of their world, and then exhausting that just leave to go hunting for more resources on another habitable planet.
But it is. At least, it's no closer because of this research. This is nothing different from a home pregnancy test, or a glucometer. It's still reagent-based testing. Expensive single-use cartridges with complex enzymes, nanoparticles, or other chemicals. It's really just another way to lock people into using some sort of proprietary consumable. Here's a prediction: the little portable computers that "read" the tests will be sold dirt cheap, or given away, and they will all come with a single "sample" test cartridge.
When these "labs on a chip" can perform tests without consumable reagents, then I'll believe we're close to a tricorder. Until then, I'd rather see people go to labs to get tests done the old way.
Many private companies and municipalities have. However many municipalities haven't, and also many highways don't really fall under any particular municipality's jurisdiction. Should it be legal to distract yourself texting because you're in the middle of the Nevada desert, or because Backwardsville hasn't gotten around to banning it?
What I took from the article was that the author wasn't particularly advocating that NoSQL should die, but that the hype surrounding should die. Or, rather, that the hype surrounding it was inflated with respect to its actual usefulness.
People choose solutions based on their individual merits.
Unfortunately, this just isn't the case. People choose solutions for a multitude of reasons, that, in some cases intersect with the actual appropriateness of that solution to the problem at hand.
In short, people should just shut up about other people's choices and get on with their own.
If everyone shut up and essentially "minded their own business", then a lot of software solutions wouldn't exist. A lot of them exist because someone had a problem and thought "I bet a solution to this would help a lot of other people with the same problem". Are you using Firefox right now? Chrome? Good thing that the developers of those browsers foresaw the issues with IE that existed then and would exist in the future, wrote a solution for their and other peoples' problems, and then advocated those solutions. Advocation for or against a how a particular solution fits a set of problems is needed and healthy.
In my experience, IT works on a generational system just like many other things, just that the generations are much much shorter. As short as a year or two. And each new crop of fresh-faced idealistic young developers and engineers has their own particular "bool beans" technology. It's the same anywhere, just it happens faster in IT. This article is much like any other generational lament, citing how the "young folk" with their "new fangled" ideas have it all wrong and how they should listen to the Voice of Experience(TM). In reality, like almost every other case, I expect the appropriate path will probably be somewhere in the middle of the new and the old.
Have you never seen the hype around the technology-du-jour cause people to choose it over an other, perhaps more appropriate technology? In that sense, the author of the article is absolutely right. Sooner or later we'll stop seeing back-to-back Slashdotarticles that make it seem there is a mass exodus of large enterprise from SQL. We'll start to hear instead stories instead of how Company B got burned because some inexperienced, fresh-faced IT guru advocated NoSQL inappropriately due to its coolness factor. The next generation will be out with it's technology-du-jour, and that will leave everyone more free to choose SQL or NoSQL solutions, as you say, based their merit rather than on their hype.
Maybe this article will help everyone to get over the hype more quickly.
Holy cow, how did this not get binspammed off of the submissions? Someone actually managed to get an advertisement as a story into Slashdot. Actually, it's sort of an impressive accomplishment. Off to the submissions I go to try and make some money!
Pepper spray manufacturers have long been extracting pure capsaicinoids to put in their products. It doesn't matter how hot the supplying pepper is, once the capsaicinoid is extracted and purified it has a rating of from 8m-16m scoville heat units (depending on which capsaicinoid they're extracting). OC sprays and grenades dilute that down to about 5m when they use it. So whether the capsiacinoid comes from the "legendary ghost pepper" or a pimento, it doesn't really matter. There is nothing new here.
The animation is interesting, but it's not really ASCII art. Not as I define it. ASCII art in my books is using the particular characteristics (shape & density) of many different alphanumeric characters and symbols together to make an image. This is just the same character repeated over and over. Whether or not the animation of the outline was "rotoscoped" from a real cat, the ASCII part was certainly "rotoscoped" from a conventional animation and simply filled in with a letter. It could have been done with a pencil outline on a sheet of paper put into a typewriter.
This is a lot of work, certainly, but it's not at all technically or even really artistically challenging, even by 1968 standards.
Some of the higher end injet printers have ink cartridges that are separate from the print head. For printers like these, there are often high capacity, refillable aftermarket cartridges available. For an example, search for "hp 88" cartridges on eBay. On my printer, these cartridges stick out the front a little, but they are refillable and have a chip in them that lets them run forever.
I have also had continuous flow ink systems in the past. While these too can be very good, I found the hose rigging from the external bottles to the cartridges was an imperfect delivery system, prone to problems with air pressure differences. I much prefer a printer already designed to have the ink separate from the print head.
They focused light of equivalent power of a city power plant down to 1/20 the width of a hair in a pulse a femtosecond long and they are surprised the light went through their target. I'd be transparent too at that light level.
I love these folks that think that if they sell some power to the "grid" and then use the "grid" power later that somehow they are using 100% renewable resources. No, sorry, you are using wind power when you are drawing from the wind, and grid power (using whatever technology the grid there uses to generate) when you are drawing from the grid. The "grid" isn't some sort of battery. Come talk to me when you're storing your excess wind power yourself and drawing off of that when the wind dies.
I'd be very much interested in knowing what other viruses or pathogens cause aids. There are other immunodeficiency diseases, but to my knowledge, the sole cause of AIDS is infection by HIV.
The only promoters of other causes of AIDS that I have seen have been those in the HIV denial crowd.
Are you trying to promote that they are the same thing?
Of course not. No more than the common cold is the same thing as the enterovirus that causes it.
There has always been a differentiation between illnesses and the viruses that cause them. Partially because sometimes there is more than one virus that causes a given named set of symptoms, but mostly because of the simple fact that knowledge of illness predated knowledge of viruses. Because people think of HIV in terms of the illness it causes, we are going to hear about this vaccine that way - as an AIDS vaccine, rather than an HIV vaccine. Just like the smallpox vaccine was just that, and not the variola vaccine.
The vaccine in question does as any viral vaccine does, which is to help prevent an exposure to a virus from turning into an infection. In this case, it is intended to help prevent exposure to HIV from becoming AIDS. Once exposure has progressed into an infection, vaccines have little, if any, efficacy.
First of all, most LEDs are manufactured with lenses on them to focus the light. Take away the lense and the light is more diffuse. Secondly, your post shows intelligence but that you lack experience. You seem to be thinking in two dimensions. Instead of mounting LEDs on a flat board, mount them on a hemisphere. You could fit a hundred or more surface-mount lenseless LEDs on a hemisphere small enough to fit inside a traditional light bulb. Any remaining issues can be solved by coating the glass with the same light-diffusing powder bulbs incandescent bulbs use.
Samba is a transition tool that allows businesses to move away from Microsoft. It's the leverage that a company's IT professionals (who are, more often than not, Linux-friendly) can use to transition away from Microsoft tools. When a company's Microsoft boxes are all talking to shares on Linux servers anyway, and saving scads of money doing it, it's more compelling to say let's begin to transition other things away from Microsoft.
Linux isn't going to displace Microsoft by ignoring it. Linux will displace Microsoft by offering reasonable alternatives at a more reasonable price, and by making the transition as easy as possible. To that end, Samba is one of the best things that has ever happened to Linux.
Is the OP serious about Ubuntu's port to ARM causing Intel to worry and Microsoft to follow suit? As much as it is a popular Linux distro, and as much as I personally like Ubuntu and wish this were true, I really don't think Intel is going to lose sleep over Ubuntu on ARM.
Perhaps I'm misreading the tone of the summary. I honestly can't tell if it's is tongue-in-cheek or serious. The absurdity of it makes me think it's poking a little fun, but it reads to me like the guy was serious.
If you read the article referenced in the synopsis, you'll find that it is hardly a critical article. It spends about 80% of its length simply recapping the case, a few lines of saying the decision should have gone the other way, then the last 20% bemoaning the fact that because of the decision, the fair use is more muddy. In a critical article, I was hoping for more meat. Why should the decision have been different? What errors of law were there?
Basically the guy wrote a paper that said "oh I wish it were different", the defendant happened to then appeal, and the writer is cashing in on that by saying "hey, I criticized the decision and now it's being appealed". Like he had something to do with that.
WINDOWS-E to bring up explorer and navigate to: Vista: Users//AppData/Roaming/Macromedia/Flash Player XP: Documents and Settings//Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player Once there, delete everything.
I'm not sure about A - if it's even meaningful to speculate about before the big bang. But the other two possibilities are both exciting. What we know is that something is causing a large cluster of galaxies to accelerate towards a common area, and that nothing known in the observable universe could cause this. So either it is an FTL effect from beyond the horizon, or some completely new phenomena from within our universe. Exciting stuff, kids.
Ok, here's a question for you. The "observable universe" isn't just the observable universe for us, it is that for the whole universe. Nowhere in the universe that is observable to us can you go and observe beyond 13.7 billion light years. We're all in the same boat. However, in the area of the universe that is being affected by this phenomena, they must be able to observe what is causing it. Elsewise, it couldn't be affecting them. There is nothing that can affect me that is unobservable. You can't be so far away that you are beyond my observation range and yet still affect me, unless you are exerting FTL influence on me. So, if this is truly an influence from beyond the visible universe, then that would seem to me to imply FTL.
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This would be all well and good, if not for the problem that in another month it will cost an American twice as much to buy Canadian.
The idea that a such a civilization exists is ridiculous. A civilization that has the technology for interstellar travel of that sort of scale would have no need to look for tiny little planets like Earth for our puny resources. They would find many orders of magnitude more resources in their own back yard.
With overwhelming probability, any planet that evolved life would exist in a solar system not unlike ours. I'm not sure that a singleton planet is even possible. So, they would find enough hydrogen in a single gas giant to power themselves for eternity. Enough minerals in other rocky planets, moons, Kuiper-belt objects, and asteroids to build anything they could ever want. Do you know just how much iron is in our core? And if they do progress to become a civilization so vast, so immense as to actually use up all of that, they certainly wouldn't need to come hunting for the relatively slim pickings on our planet. They could simply go to whatever solar system is closest and get stuff from there. No Independence Day-like scenarios required. No civilization is going to scrape the tiny fraction of minerals that exist on the surface of their world, and then exhausting that just leave to go hunting for more resources on another habitable planet.
But it is. At least, it's no closer because of this research. This is nothing different from a home pregnancy test, or a glucometer. It's still reagent-based testing. Expensive single-use cartridges with complex enzymes, nanoparticles, or other chemicals. It's really just another way to lock people into using some sort of proprietary consumable. Here's a prediction: the little portable computers that "read" the tests will be sold dirt cheap, or given away, and they will all come with a single "sample" test cartridge.
When these "labs on a chip" can perform tests without consumable reagents, then I'll believe we're close to a tricorder. Until then, I'd rather see people go to labs to get tests done the old way.
Many private companies and municipalities have. However many municipalities haven't, and also many highways don't really fall under any particular municipality's jurisdiction. Should it be legal to distract yourself texting because you're in the middle of the Nevada desert, or because Backwardsville hasn't gotten around to banning it?
What I took from the article was that the author wasn't particularly advocating that NoSQL should die, but that the hype surrounding should die. Or, rather, that the hype surrounding it was inflated with respect to its actual usefulness.
Unfortunately, this just isn't the case. People choose solutions for a multitude of reasons, that, in some cases intersect with the actual appropriateness of that solution to the problem at hand.
If everyone shut up and essentially "minded their own business", then a lot of software solutions wouldn't exist. A lot of them exist because someone had a problem and thought "I bet a solution to this would help a lot of other people with the same problem". Are you using Firefox right now? Chrome? Good thing that the developers of those browsers foresaw the issues with IE that existed then and would exist in the future, wrote a solution for their and other peoples' problems, and then advocated those solutions. Advocation for or against a how a particular solution fits a set of problems is needed and healthy.
In my experience, IT works on a generational system just like many other things, just that the generations are much much shorter. As short as a year or two. And each new crop of fresh-faced idealistic young developers and engineers has their own particular "bool beans" technology. It's the same anywhere, just it happens faster in IT. This article is much like any other generational lament, citing how the "young folk" with their "new fangled" ideas have it all wrong and how they should listen to the Voice of Experience(TM). In reality, like almost every other case, I expect the appropriate path will probably be somewhere in the middle of the new and the old.
Have you never seen the hype around the technology-du-jour cause people to choose it over an other, perhaps more appropriate technology? In that sense, the author of the article is absolutely right. Sooner or later we'll stop seeing back-to-back Slashdot articles that make it seem there is a mass exodus of large enterprise from SQL. We'll start to hear instead stories instead of how Company B got burned because some inexperienced, fresh-faced IT guru advocated NoSQL inappropriately due to its coolness factor. The next generation will be out with it's technology-du-jour, and that will leave everyone more free to choose SQL or NoSQL solutions, as you say, based their merit rather than on their hype.
Maybe this article will help everyone to get over the hype more quickly.
Holy cow, how did this not get binspammed off of the submissions? Someone actually managed to get an advertisement as a story into Slashdot. Actually, it's sort of an impressive accomplishment. Off to the submissions I go to try and make some money!
Pepper spray manufacturers have long been extracting pure capsaicinoids to put in their products. It doesn't matter how hot the supplying pepper is, once the capsaicinoid is extracted and purified it has a rating of from 8m-16m scoville heat units (depending on which capsaicinoid they're extracting). OC sprays and grenades dilute that down to about 5m when they use it. So whether the capsiacinoid comes from the "legendary ghost pepper" or a pimento, it doesn't really matter. There is nothing new here.
The animation is interesting, but it's not really ASCII art. Not as I define it. ASCII art in my books is using the particular characteristics (shape & density) of many different alphanumeric characters and symbols together to make an image. This is just the same character repeated over and over. Whether or not the animation of the outline was "rotoscoped" from a real cat, the ASCII part was certainly "rotoscoped" from a conventional animation and simply filled in with a letter. It could have been done with a pencil outline on a sheet of paper put into a typewriter.
This is a lot of work, certainly, but it's not at all technically or even really artistically challenging, even by 1968 standards.
Some of the higher end injet printers have ink cartridges that are separate from the print head. For printers like these, there are often high capacity, refillable aftermarket cartridges available. For an example, search for "hp 88" cartridges on eBay. On my printer, these cartridges stick out the front a little, but they are refillable and have a chip in them that lets them run forever.
I have also had continuous flow ink systems in the past. While these too can be very good, I found the hose rigging from the external bottles to the cartridges was an imperfect delivery system, prone to problems with air pressure differences. I much prefer a printer already designed to have the ink separate from the print head.
They focused light of equivalent power of a city power plant down to 1/20 the width of a hair in a pulse a femtosecond long and they are surprised the light went through their target. I'd be transparent too at that light level.
I love these folks that think that if they sell some power to the "grid" and then use the "grid" power later that somehow they are using 100% renewable resources. No, sorry, you are using wind power when you are drawing from the wind, and grid power (using whatever technology the grid there uses to generate) when you are drawing from the grid. The "grid" isn't some sort of battery. Come talk to me when you're storing your excess wind power yourself and drawing off of that when the wind dies.
I'd be very much interested in knowing what other viruses or pathogens cause aids. There are other immunodeficiency diseases, but to my knowledge, the sole cause of AIDS is infection by HIV.
The only promoters of other causes of AIDS that I have seen have been those in the HIV denial crowd.
Of course not. No more than the common cold is the same thing as the enterovirus that causes it.
There has always been a differentiation between illnesses and the viruses that cause them. Partially because sometimes there is more than one virus that causes a given named set of symptoms, but mostly because of the simple fact that knowledge of illness predated knowledge of viruses. Because people think of HIV in terms of the illness it causes, we are going to hear about this vaccine that way - as an AIDS vaccine, rather than an HIV vaccine. Just like the smallpox vaccine was just that, and not the variola vaccine.
Are you trying to promote the HIV doesn't necessarily cause aids point of view?
The vaccine in question does as any viral vaccine does, which is to help prevent an exposure to a virus from turning into an infection. In this case, it is intended to help prevent exposure to HIV from becoming AIDS. Once exposure has progressed into an infection, vaccines have little, if any, efficacy.
First of all, most LEDs are manufactured with lenses on them to focus the light. Take away the lense and the light is more diffuse. Secondly, your post shows intelligence but that you lack experience. You seem to be thinking in two dimensions. Instead of mounting LEDs on a flat board, mount them on a hemisphere. You could fit a hundred or more surface-mount lenseless LEDs on a hemisphere small enough to fit inside a traditional light bulb. Any remaining issues can be solved by coating the glass with the same light-diffusing powder bulbs incandescent bulbs use.
Samba is a transition tool that allows businesses to move away from Microsoft. It's the leverage that a company's IT professionals (who are, more often than not, Linux-friendly) can use to transition away from Microsoft tools. When a company's Microsoft boxes are all talking to shares on Linux servers anyway, and saving scads of money doing it, it's more compelling to say let's begin to transition other things away from Microsoft.
Linux isn't going to displace Microsoft by ignoring it. Linux will displace Microsoft by offering reasonable alternatives at a more reasonable price, and by making the transition as easy as possible. To that end,
Samba is one of the best things that has ever happened to Linux.
The test wasn't that hard. I scored 94%, but then again I'm Canadian so I would know more about American civics.
More variables indeed. Like "is the game worth actually spending money on?" is one variable that leaps to mind.
Is the OP serious about Ubuntu's port to ARM causing Intel to worry and Microsoft to follow suit? As much as it is a popular Linux distro, and as much as I personally like Ubuntu and wish this were true, I really don't think Intel is going to lose sleep over Ubuntu on ARM.
Perhaps I'm misreading the tone of the summary. I honestly can't tell if it's is tongue-in-cheek or serious. The absurdity of it makes me think it's poking a little fun, but it reads to me like the guy was serious.
If you read the article referenced in the synopsis, you'll find that it is hardly a critical article. It spends about 80% of its length simply recapping the case, a few lines of saying the decision should have gone the other way, then the last 20% bemoaning the fact that because of the decision, the fair use is more muddy. In a critical article, I was hoping for more meat. Why should the decision have been different? What errors of law were there?
Basically the guy wrote a paper that said "oh I wish it were different", the defendant happened to then appeal, and the writer is cashing in on that by saying "hey, I criticized the decision and now it's being appealed". Like he had something to do with that.
http://www.truecrypt.org/ Good luck with that.
WINDOWS-E to bring up explorer and navigate to:
Vista: Users//AppData/Roaming/Macromedia/Flash Player
XP: Documents and Settings//Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player
Once there, delete everything.
The whole OS is a GUI. Learn how to use it.
Sure, all research is good, but really - who as a kid thinks "I want to cure baldness"? Really, aren't there more pressing areas for research money?
I'm not sure about A - if it's even meaningful to speculate about before the big bang. But the other two possibilities are both exciting. What we know is that something is causing a large cluster of galaxies to accelerate towards a common area, and that nothing known in the observable universe could cause this. So either it is an FTL effect from beyond the horizon, or some completely new phenomena from within our universe. Exciting stuff, kids.
Ok, here's a question for you. The "observable universe" isn't just the observable universe for us, it is that for the whole universe. Nowhere in the universe that is observable to us can you go and observe beyond 13.7 billion light years. We're all in the same boat. However, in the area of the universe that is being affected by this phenomena, they must be able to observe what is causing it. Elsewise, it couldn't be affecting them. There is nothing that can affect me that is unobservable. You can't be so far away that you are beyond my observation range and yet still affect me, unless you are exerting FTL influence on me. So, if this is truly an influence from beyond the visible universe, then that would seem to me to imply FTL.