That's doubtful. Here's why: a half decent system is set up based on what the common questions have been up to the point when they installed the system. This means that the bulk of the answers they have to give out will be in the system. Those who need to be hit with a cluebat are in this category.
Those of us who need a very specific thing are not as common as the bulk of the masses. In that I agree that those of us who only need a specific question answered should have a bypass code. I usually hit '0' a few times... seems to work.
Of course you can use Grubb's catalyst without solvents!
Hell, if you've seen his talks where he makes bulletproof plastics, you'd know that with a catalyst loading of a million to one, using the carbene ligand, you can make this stuff in a bucket with no solvent and pour it in a mold.
The most likely reason they're not using a reverse osmosis membrane is that it would get clogged in a matter of minutes.
The rate at which they want to produce water is much faster than what a small RO membrane can handle. The ones they use to do their 600 gallons a day are fu*king huge, definitely not portable Humvee size.
Somehow, this doesn't seem very revolutionary. Sufficiently advanced technology breeds several layers of people: the people who use it, the people who sell it, and those who make it.
Consider planes. Do you expect a pilot to understand the inner workings of some part of the electrical system? A pilot needs to know how a plane behaves and how to control it, but at some point, there's electromagnetism that goes over their head.
Considering the discussion that was generated about Windows Rootkits, does anyone see a direct application for this Red Hat Secure Linux?
Heck, it would work well for their business model.
You mean like RSS feeds for tracker sites? Those have been done..
Or rather, you can achieve the same with RSS technology (still have to write a script to activate the links, tho')
Therapists are now suggesting blogs as a replacement for the classic journal, since they can be searched far easier and could be shared, like discussion groups.
Would GrokLaw count as a blog about law?
Offtopic: what about patenting the use of blogs in mental patients?
As has already been pointed out, this is the case where you have to be correct and quick about it. It's sad to see people deride the efforts of those who competed.
All in all, it shouldn't be a surprise that Marek won, since the Polish universities have been doing quite well in the TopCoder competitions. It's likely that their professors actively encourage them to compete in TopCoder (especially considering the money), but the fact that they're able to consistently do it effectively is something to note.
After all, these are the people who cracked Enigma during the Second World War.
Wow... that was brave. 2, 3 and 5 megpixel images.
Burning Man? Burning Server... smouldering... it probably deserves it, though. Nothing short of an exorcism would take out the images of dirty hippies.
Well, if the bad algorithms are banned, are they goign to ban all bugs, too?
Maybe some of the archaic methods of device detection? Protocol negotiation?
Legacy support is aging, too... will they ban that?
These pellets, from what I've read, keep the hydrogen stored in the form of ammonia. Ammonia is manufactured on a vast, large scale (think of your p0rn collection) via the Haber process, developed back in WW1 (yes, one, not two).
Now, the process still requires nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. While nitrogen gas is cheap (buying liquid N2 is cheaper than water by the truckload, ask any university), the hydrogen will still be an issue.
Hopefully, the newest and best developments in the world of chemistry and physics (I'm thinking the new solar panels with no lead sulfide, and the high surface area graphite electrodes) will allow us to do the electrolysis of water without incurring as much difficulty as in the past.
(anyone got any idea on the lifetime of solar panels?)
For those of us in the sciences (biology, chemistry), there is still a lack of complete office suites that run well under linux.
Some run.
Some are office suites.
In the olden days, even CambridgeSoft had a linux version of ChemOffice (around version 3 or so... they've just sent me beta 10).
For those of us who work in fields that are specialized, we still need linux apps to make the switch. Wine doesn't do a good enough job (in my case, ChemOffice has been installing Microsoft.NET and Microsoft SQL server since version 9, try getting all of THAT working correctly).
I'll agree that I can get MOST of my work done, but there's some things that I just can't do in linux (revising a presentation, and having the luxury of just double clicking a scheme on a slide to change the substituents on a carbon...).
For the record, I have Debian Sarge on one of my home machines, in hopes of one day making it all work.
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That's doubtful. Here's why: a half decent system is set up based on what the common questions have been up to the point when they installed the system. This means that the bulk of the answers they have to give out will be in the system. Those who need to be hit with a cluebat are in this category. Those of us who need a very specific thing are not as common as the bulk of the masses. In that I agree that those of us who only need a specific question answered should have a bypass code. I usually hit '0' a few times... seems to work.
"I need a handle. My handle is like my identity." - Hackers
Of course you can use Grubb's catalyst without solvents! Hell, if you've seen his talks where he makes bulletproof plastics, you'd know that with a catalyst loading of a million to one, using the carbene ligand, you can make this stuff in a bucket with no solvent and pour it in a mold.
It should be titled "Gator vs Python" in order to get the references right...
The most likely reason they're not using a reverse osmosis membrane is that it would get clogged in a matter of minutes. The rate at which they want to produce water is much faster than what a small RO membrane can handle. The ones they use to do their 600 gallons a day are fu*king huge, definitely not portable Humvee size.
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Somehow, this doesn't seem very revolutionary. Sufficiently advanced technology breeds several layers of people: the people who use it, the people who sell it, and those who make it. Consider planes. Do you expect a pilot to understand the inner workings of some part of the electrical system? A pilot needs to know how a plane behaves and how to control it, but at some point, there's electromagnetism that goes over their head.
Considering the discussion that was generated about Windows Rootkits, does anyone see a direct application for this Red Hat Secure Linux? Heck, it would work well for their business model.
You mean like RSS feeds for tracker sites? Those have been done.. Or rather, you can achieve the same with RSS technology (still have to write a script to activate the links, tho')
Therapists are now suggesting blogs as a replacement for the classic journal, since they can be searched far easier and could be shared, like discussion groups. Would GrokLaw count as a blog about law? Offtopic: what about patenting the use of blogs in mental patients?
As has already been pointed out, this is the case where you have to be correct and quick about it. It's sad to see people deride the efforts of those who competed. All in all, it shouldn't be a surprise that Marek won, since the Polish universities have been doing quite well in the TopCoder competitions. It's likely that their professors actively encourage them to compete in TopCoder (especially considering the money), but the fact that they're able to consistently do it effectively is something to note. After all, these are the people who cracked Enigma during the Second World War.
not until they can successfully dupe entries.
Wow... that was brave. 2, 3 and 5 megpixel images. Burning Man? Burning Server... smouldering ... it probably deserves it, though. Nothing short of an exorcism would take out the images of dirty hippies.
Well, if the bad algorithms are banned, are they goign to ban all bugs, too? Maybe some of the archaic methods of device detection? Protocol negotiation? Legacy support is aging, too... will they ban that?
These pellets, from what I've read, keep the hydrogen stored in the form of ammonia. Ammonia is manufactured on a vast, large scale (think of your p0rn collection) via the Haber process, developed back in WW1 (yes, one, not two). Now, the process still requires nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. While nitrogen gas is cheap (buying liquid N2 is cheaper than water by the truckload, ask any university), the hydrogen will still be an issue. Hopefully, the newest and best developments in the world of chemistry and physics (I'm thinking the new solar panels with no lead sulfide, and the high surface area graphite electrodes) will allow us to do the electrolysis of water without incurring as much difficulty as in the past. (anyone got any idea on the lifetime of solar panels?)
Anyone else bothered by the fact that we have to read about a NASA development from a Russian news source ?
Does this mean that for the first few versions, the DRM won't work because we won't have the appropriate module dependencies? SW33T !!!
For those of us in the sciences (biology, chemistry), there is still a lack of complete office suites that run well under linux. Some run. Some are office suites. In the olden days, even CambridgeSoft had a linux version of ChemOffice (around version 3 or so... they've just sent me beta 10). For those of us who work in fields that are specialized, we still need linux apps to make the switch. Wine doesn't do a good enough job (in my case, ChemOffice has been installing Microsoft .NET and Microsoft SQL server since version 9, try getting all of THAT working correctly).
I'll agree that I can get MOST of my work done, but there's some things that I just can't do in linux (revising a presentation, and having the luxury of just double clicking a scheme on a slide to change the substituents on a carbon...).
For the record, I have Debian Sarge on one of my home machines, in hopes of one day making it all work.