It's the amateurs that tend to be the first to discover unknown stuff like comets and stuff. The professionals are in general engaged in directed research and do not have the time to be poking around random areas of the sky to see if anything interesting is going on there. As someone mentioned, David Levy is himself an amateur.
Look for Artificial Girl 3. Some folks out there have gone to the trouble of uncensoring it and translating it from the original Japanese so you should have no trouble with it.:)
But you are converting mass into energy and energy into mass even in this case, although the amounts are ridiculously small in the case of chemical reactions, which is why conservation of mass is a more than reasonable approximation in chemistry. The mass is stored in the molecular binding energy of the battery's chemicals, and converted into the energy used when the battery discharges. For example, if you weighed very very carefully a bunch of hydrogen gas, a bunch of oxygen gas, and the water you got after combining the two (in a fuel cell reaction, which we can think of as the simplest sort of battery from a chemistry point of view), the water would weigh ever slightly less than the hydrogen and the oxygen, though the difference would be extremely small, since the binding energy difference of a water molecule versus that of hydrogen and oxygen molecules is only a few tens of electron volts, about 10^-35 kg or thereabouts, which amounts to a difference of about a quadrillionth of a gram for one mole of water. For nuclear reactions though, the binding energies we deal with are millions of times greater, and E=mc^2 is much more obvious. For instance, in the nuclear fusion of the two helium-3 nuclei to produce one helium-4 and two free protons, the helium-4 and the two protons weigh less than the original helium-3 nuclei by about 12.86 MeV/c^2, or about 6 milligrams less than if we started with a mole of helium-3 at the beginning of the fusion reaction.
So I'd venture the hypothesis that these are all thoroughly and pervasively informed by Paul's theology too. So I'm curious: what is left once you remove the Pauline shell?
Most likely, hard-line orthodox Judaism of the sort that the Essenes practiced. The biblical depiction of John the Baptist seems to describe him quite clearly as an Essene, from the way Josephus and other contemporary historians have described the sect and its practices. There has been much scholarly debate on the possibility that Jesus was a member himself as well, or at the very least served a stint as one for a time, and that Christianity as it existed before Paul of Tarsus was an outgrowth of Essene religious teaching.
You say you've got a bit of education of a graduate level under your belt? Well, starting a startup might be a good idea, that is if you're the sort that doesn't have a family to support, a mortgage to pay, or some other long-term obligations that require a stable, reliable income. Don't be too worried about the economy. Sure, it's a difficult job too, founding a startup, but it's difficulty on your terms, and for many people that makes all the difference in the world.
I can't seem to find a parts list, but well, I wonder if he used a 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit and 74182 carry lookahead generator. That would provide quite a few of the arithmetic and logical instructions that one might expect in 8-bit CPUs common in the 1980s in just three packages (the 74181 ALU is a 4-bit ALU, but it can be cascaded, and the 74182 can be used to provide carry lookahead for up to four 74181s). However, you'll also need an instruction decoder, and that, unless you use a programmable logic device of some sort (in which case you're actually doing microprogramming), will need quite a few logic gates...
The Japanese. I think they're the only one left, but with the kind of demographic beating they're taking, it's doubtful that they'll remain so for much longer.
If Dell could do that, then Microsoft will really have lost their clout with the OEMs. Jean-Louis Gassée tried to do essentially what you're describing with BeOS ten years ago and opened up a whole can of worms. Basically, he found that if an OEM sold multi-boot PCs with Windows and some other operating system, Microsoft would remove the OEM discount on Windows sales to that OEM as part of the contracts they have with these OEMs, so their sales of Windows-based PCs would become significantly higher than their competitors. Hence, all OEMs but Hitachi backed down from Gassée's offer, and Hitachi made the option of booting BeOS practically impossible for anyone to find. I wonder if that's still true today.
The entitlement goes both ways. They have seen fit to use legislation to lock up the culture of the world to suit their own ends, since they feel entitled to their now fading but once hugely profitable business model. It's the new world, Michael Lynton. Adapt or die. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it..."
It also depends on what the parody song is about. Is it parodying the song itself, as Weird Al does,
But that isn't exclusively, or even the majority of what Weird Al's parody work seems to be doing. Granted, he does precisely that from time to time, however it doesn't seem like most of his other works are of that nature. Just from a single album of his, 1992's Off The Deep End, we have only one track that parodies the original song as you say ("Smells Like Nirvana"), and four other parody tracks that are not direct parodies of their original songs. M.C. Hammer's "Can't Touch This" became "I Can't Watch This" which was about television. NKOTB's "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" became "The White Stuff" which is about the fillings in an Oreo. Gerardo's "Rico Suave" becomes "Taco Grande" which is about a visit to a fictional Mexican restaurant. "The Plumbing Song" is a mixture of Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain" and "Baby Don't Forget My Number". A brief look at his other albums seems to show more of the same.
From the looks of things, C.A.R. Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (yes, the same guy who invented Quicksort). Well, Professor Hoare presently works at Microsoft Research, so I guess he may have more than passing involvement in the project. It's the basis for many other concurrent programming languages such as Occam, Erlang, and Limbo to name a few.
Well, close enough. It was a Toshiba Libretto 30, which my mother bought for me in Korea in 1996. It was a pretty neat little gadget, a full-blown PC that was good enough (jumping through some hoops that involved use of a Zip drive IIRC, but heck I was in college back then and had loads of free time) for me to install Red Hat Linux 5.0 and do much of my college work on (primarily LaTeX documents, as a host system for MC68HC11 embedded system development, and a bit of Netscape 2.0). It was not much larger than a typical VHS cassette, and as such was very convenient. It had slightly lower specs than the 70CT mentioned in the article (66 MHz Pentium and only 8 megs of RAM IIRC), but that was plenty of power for what I used to do back then. The remarkable thing was that it was only a little less powerful than the desktop I had back then, and the only reason why I didn't ditch my desktop for it was the tiny keyboard and the display which was limited to 640x480x32. It was also very expensive, way beyond the price points of full-sized laptops with comparable specs.
I used it to crack Ultima III of all things. I used it to trace into the copy protection code until I found logic that was obviously part of the copy protection, and did a binary patch to make it always jump to the right position. I also used it to remove MBR viruses, by tracing through int 13h, until I found what was clearly the BIOS entry point in system ROM (code segment F000h). Patched the interrupt vector table and then used FDISK to overwrite the virus code in the boot sector. Reboot and the virus was gone for good. I even did the same thing over the phone to guide my father... Good times. Shame that life is no longer so simple.
The doctrines of the Catholic Church have a rather complicated relationship to the Bible. Unlike some Protestant sects that subscribe to Sola Scriptura (the belief that the Bible is the sole infallible authority for Christian faith), the Catholic Church considers the Bible merely the first and most important source of divine revelation, and hence doctrine (i.e. Prima Scriptura). Yes, you are absolutely correct that they tried to hide the Bible behind Latin, but certainly they never tried to keep their own pet interpretation of the Bible secret from anyone, nor any of the other doctrines based on the Church's sacred traditions.
Sure, they're secretive, but they have made no secret of their doctrines or teachings. You don't need to be initiated to know all of the teachings of the Church. You don't even need to be a Catholic yourself to know them.
What do the contents of the Vatican Archives have to do with Church doctrine or teachings? Absolutely nothing. The point I was trying to make is that the Catholic Church has never made any secret of its doctrine or teachings. Ask about matters of doctrine from any priest or bishop and you will never be told that such a thing is secret or forbidden and kept only for the initiated. True, the Church keeps tons of other secrets. Libraries worth. They may have the last extant copies of heretical works they censored through the ages. They probably have details on the many rather shameful deeds their members were involved in as they from time to time meddled in secular affairs, and other documents that might paint the Church in a very unflattering light. However, these secrets they keep have nothing to do with the core elements of the faith. And that is the main difference between a religion and a cult, as the original poster explained, and why the Catholic Church, in spite of its secrecy in other matters, is firmly one of the the former rather than of the latter.
I wonder how this got modded up, as it's demonstrably false. There are no secret books of the Bible, or secret doctrines relating to the Catholic faith. There are, however, many writings throughout the centuries that the Catholic Church has deemed heretical and censored. Big difference between the two. Anyone caught practicing or even reading of those heretical beliefs that were censored in the Church's heyday would have been burned at the stake or worse. Everything, however, relating to orthodox Catholic doctrine has always been openly and freely exchanged to anyone who wanted to practice the religion at least ever since the Roman persecutions ended in 311 AD. There is nothing of the hierarchical initiations you see in Freemasonry or Scientology for instance, where secret mysteries are revealed as you ascend.
Counter anecdotal evidence. I've never had any serious trouble with bluetooth dongles on Linux. My current machine (a HP Pavilion dv6810us laptop) actually has bluetooth built in (appearing as a USB device) and I've never had any trouble using it. In fact, I was surprised to see it just work. For a some time I was actually unaware that my laptop even had a Bluetooth module, and bought a dongle because I often have to tether my laptop to my cellphone to connect to the Internet in strange places. Until one day, I tried to connect having forgotten to plug in the dongle, and was surprised to get a link to my cellphone anyway. Later, a look at lsusb revealed 'Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard' which turned out to be a Bluetooth module built into the laptop itself... Before this current laptop I bought several Bluetooth dongles over the years, and never once ran into one that gave me particular trouble under Linux. Well, admittedly I've never tried to use a Bluetooth headset with my machine, but for sending files to and from my cellphone and PDA, and for getting a 3G wireless link over my phone, I've never ever had any serious trouble with Linux Bluetooth, with any of the half dozen or so dongles I bought over the past four years.
I've seen these all over the place, I've had some USB thumb drives I own turned into them by using them on a virus infected PC, such as those you might see in an Internet cafe. The virus would copy themselves into the thumb drive which becomes an autorun. They're just like the boot sector viruses of the 1980s.
The folks at Bell Labs who invented Unix and Plan 9 have been doing all that and more since the mid-1990s with Inferno. The core kernel is pure C, which has a bytecode interpreter for the Dis virtual machine, which almost all userspace code runs as, allowing it to run code safely even on CPUs that don't have hardware memory protection. Add to that a neat C-like programming language called Limbo that natively supports primitives inspired by C.A.R. Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes, full support for distributed processing technology first developed for Plan 9, and you've got a really interesting open source embedded distributed OS that is working today.
Well, when you have several kiloamperes of current flowing in a circuit of several kilovolts (several megawatts of power), typical in a power grid, a resistor the size of a washing machine is actually rather small. Think of the sizes of the transformers that you see in power stations. I'm sure you know what they look like, and how big they are. The resistors most people think of are designed to deal with milliamperes of current over about 5 volts or so, milliwatts or at best watts of power. The washing-machine resistor has to deal with power levels a million to a billion times greater than that, and must have a size to match.
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It's the amateurs that tend to be the first to discover unknown stuff like comets and stuff. The professionals are in general engaged in directed research and do not have the time to be poking around random areas of the sky to see if anything interesting is going on there. As someone mentioned, David Levy is himself an amateur.
Look for Artificial Girl 3. Some folks out there have gone to the trouble of uncensoring it and translating it from the original Japanese so you should have no trouble with it. :)
Well, as it is an exothermic reaction, combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water usually produces an explosion...
But you are converting mass into energy and energy into mass even in this case, although the amounts are ridiculously small in the case of chemical reactions, which is why conservation of mass is a more than reasonable approximation in chemistry. The mass is stored in the molecular binding energy of the battery's chemicals, and converted into the energy used when the battery discharges. For example, if you weighed very very carefully a bunch of hydrogen gas, a bunch of oxygen gas, and the water you got after combining the two (in a fuel cell reaction, which we can think of as the simplest sort of battery from a chemistry point of view), the water would weigh ever slightly less than the hydrogen and the oxygen, though the difference would be extremely small, since the binding energy difference of a water molecule versus that of hydrogen and oxygen molecules is only a few tens of electron volts, about 10^-35 kg or thereabouts, which amounts to a difference of about a quadrillionth of a gram for one mole of water. For nuclear reactions though, the binding energies we deal with are millions of times greater, and E=mc^2 is much more obvious. For instance, in the nuclear fusion of the two helium-3 nuclei to produce one helium-4 and two free protons, the helium-4 and the two protons weigh less than the original helium-3 nuclei by about 12.86 MeV/c^2, or about 6 milligrams less than if we started with a mole of helium-3 at the beginning of the fusion reaction.
Most likely, hard-line orthodox Judaism of the sort that the Essenes practiced. The biblical depiction of John the Baptist seems to describe him quite clearly as an Essene, from the way Josephus and other contemporary historians have described the sect and its practices. There has been much scholarly debate on the possibility that Jesus was a member himself as well, or at the very least served a stint as one for a time, and that Christianity as it existed before Paul of Tarsus was an outgrowth of Essene religious teaching.
You say you've got a bit of education of a graduate level under your belt? Well, starting a startup might be a good idea, that is if you're the sort that doesn't have a family to support, a mortgage to pay, or some other long-term obligations that require a stable, reliable income. Don't be too worried about the economy. Sure, it's a difficult job too, founding a startup, but it's difficulty on your terms, and for many people that makes all the difference in the world.
Not a very comforting assessment, given how many of them have been appointed by the Obama administration to positions of authority!
There's a whole series in the Crunchly cartoons by Guy L. Steele, such as this one where he buys a hydraulic computer of sorts...
I can't seem to find a parts list, but well, I wonder if he used a 74181 Arithmetic Logic Unit and 74182 carry lookahead generator. That would provide quite a few of the arithmetic and logical instructions that one might expect in 8-bit CPUs common in the 1980s in just three packages (the 74181 ALU is a 4-bit ALU, but it can be cascaded, and the 74182 can be used to provide carry lookahead for up to four 74181s). However, you'll also need an instruction decoder, and that, unless you use a programmable logic device of some sort (in which case you're actually doing microprogramming), will need quite a few logic gates...
The Japanese. I think they're the only one left, but with the kind of demographic beating they're taking, it's doubtful that they'll remain so for much longer.
So have they managed to find the ghost of John Belushi yet? ;) Or has he been, um, busted?
If Dell could do that, then Microsoft will really have lost their clout with the OEMs. Jean-Louis Gassée tried to do essentially what you're describing with BeOS ten years ago and opened up a whole can of worms. Basically, he found that if an OEM sold multi-boot PCs with Windows and some other operating system, Microsoft would remove the OEM discount on Windows sales to that OEM as part of the contracts they have with these OEMs, so their sales of Windows-based PCs would become significantly higher than their competitors. Hence, all OEMs but Hitachi backed down from Gassée's offer, and Hitachi made the option of booting BeOS practically impossible for anyone to find. I wonder if that's still true today.
The entitlement goes both ways. They have seen fit to use legislation to lock up the culture of the world to suit their own ends, since they feel entitled to their now fading but once hugely profitable business model. It's the new world, Michael Lynton. Adapt or die. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it..."
From the looks of things, C.A.R. Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (yes, the same guy who invented Quicksort). Well, Professor Hoare presently works at Microsoft Research, so I guess he may have more than passing involvement in the project. It's the basis for many other concurrent programming languages such as Occam, Erlang, and Limbo to name a few.
Well, close enough. It was a Toshiba Libretto 30, which my mother bought for me in Korea in 1996. It was a pretty neat little gadget, a full-blown PC that was good enough (jumping through some hoops that involved use of a Zip drive IIRC, but heck I was in college back then and had loads of free time) for me to install Red Hat Linux 5.0 and do much of my college work on (primarily LaTeX documents, as a host system for MC68HC11 embedded system development, and a bit of Netscape 2.0). It was not much larger than a typical VHS cassette, and as such was very convenient. It had slightly lower specs than the 70CT mentioned in the article (66 MHz Pentium and only 8 megs of RAM IIRC), but that was plenty of power for what I used to do back then. The remarkable thing was that it was only a little less powerful than the desktop I had back then, and the only reason why I didn't ditch my desktop for it was the tiny keyboard and the display which was limited to 640x480x32. It was also very expensive, way beyond the price points of full-sized laptops with comparable specs.
I used it to crack Ultima III of all things. I used it to trace into the copy protection code until I found logic that was obviously part of the copy protection, and did a binary patch to make it always jump to the right position. I also used it to remove MBR viruses, by tracing through int 13h, until I found what was clearly the BIOS entry point in system ROM (code segment F000h). Patched the interrupt vector table and then used FDISK to overwrite the virus code in the boot sector. Reboot and the virus was gone for good. I even did the same thing over the phone to guide my father... Good times. Shame that life is no longer so simple.
The doctrines of the Catholic Church have a rather complicated relationship to the Bible. Unlike some Protestant sects that subscribe to Sola Scriptura (the belief that the Bible is the sole infallible authority for Christian faith), the Catholic Church considers the Bible merely the first and most important source of divine revelation, and hence doctrine (i.e. Prima Scriptura). Yes, you are absolutely correct that they tried to hide the Bible behind Latin, but certainly they never tried to keep their own pet interpretation of the Bible secret from anyone, nor any of the other doctrines based on the Church's sacred traditions.
Sure, they're secretive, but they have made no secret of their doctrines or teachings. You don't need to be initiated to know all of the teachings of the Church. You don't even need to be a Catholic yourself to know them.
What do the contents of the Vatican Archives have to do with Church doctrine or teachings? Absolutely nothing. The point I was trying to make is that the Catholic Church has never made any secret of its doctrine or teachings. Ask about matters of doctrine from any priest or bishop and you will never be told that such a thing is secret or forbidden and kept only for the initiated. True, the Church keeps tons of other secrets. Libraries worth. They may have the last extant copies of heretical works they censored through the ages. They probably have details on the many rather shameful deeds their members were involved in as they from time to time meddled in secular affairs, and other documents that might paint the Church in a very unflattering light. However, these secrets they keep have nothing to do with the core elements of the faith. And that is the main difference between a religion and a cult, as the original poster explained, and why the Catholic Church, in spite of its secrecy in other matters, is firmly one of the the former rather than of the latter.
I wonder how this got modded up, as it's demonstrably false. There are no secret books of the Bible, or secret doctrines relating to the Catholic faith. There are, however, many writings throughout the centuries that the Catholic Church has deemed heretical and censored. Big difference between the two. Anyone caught practicing or even reading of those heretical beliefs that were censored in the Church's heyday would have been burned at the stake or worse. Everything, however, relating to orthodox Catholic doctrine has always been openly and freely exchanged to anyone who wanted to practice the religion at least ever since the Roman persecutions ended in 311 AD. There is nothing of the hierarchical initiations you see in Freemasonry or Scientology for instance, where secret mysteries are revealed as you ascend.
Counter anecdotal evidence. I've never had any serious trouble with bluetooth dongles on Linux. My current machine (a HP Pavilion dv6810us laptop) actually has bluetooth built in (appearing as a USB device) and I've never had any trouble using it. In fact, I was surprised to see it just work. For a some time I was actually unaware that my laptop even had a Bluetooth module, and bought a dongle because I often have to tether my laptop to my cellphone to connect to the Internet in strange places. Until one day, I tried to connect having forgotten to plug in the dongle, and was surprised to get a link to my cellphone anyway. Later, a look at lsusb revealed 'Bus 004 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard' which turned out to be a Bluetooth module built into the laptop itself... Before this current laptop I bought several Bluetooth dongles over the years, and never once ran into one that gave me particular trouble under Linux. Well, admittedly I've never tried to use a Bluetooth headset with my machine, but for sending files to and from my cellphone and PDA, and for getting a 3G wireless link over my phone, I've never ever had any serious trouble with Linux Bluetooth, with any of the half dozen or so dongles I bought over the past four years.
I've seen these all over the place, I've had some USB thumb drives I own turned into them by using them on a virus infected PC, such as those you might see in an Internet cafe. The virus would copy themselves into the thumb drive which becomes an autorun. They're just like the boot sector viruses of the 1980s.
The folks at Bell Labs who invented Unix and Plan 9 have been doing all that and more since the mid-1990s with Inferno. The core kernel is pure C, which has a bytecode interpreter for the Dis virtual machine, which almost all userspace code runs as, allowing it to run code safely even on CPUs that don't have hardware memory protection. Add to that a neat C-like programming language called Limbo that natively supports primitives inspired by C.A.R. Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes, full support for distributed processing technology first developed for Plan 9, and you've got a really interesting open source embedded distributed OS that is working today.
Well, when you have several kiloamperes of current flowing in a circuit of several kilovolts (several megawatts of power), typical in a power grid, a resistor the size of a washing machine is actually rather small. Think of the sizes of the transformers that you see in power stations. I'm sure you know what they look like, and how big they are. The resistors most people think of are designed to deal with milliamperes of current over about 5 volts or so, milliwatts or at best watts of power. The washing-machine resistor has to deal with power levels a million to a billion times greater than that, and must have a size to match.