Did anyone else go "What the F***?!" when they read the instructions? That was the crappiest most pain-in-the-ass 'captcha' I've ever seen. Geometric Center of any image you can figure out? Annotate the image? not exactly simple or unobtrusive, is it?
I got it right away, maybe it'd be ok if someone can write layman-legible instructions.
I just guessed at when the heck they were asking for...but it wasn't immediately obvious.
Anyone care to enlightned me as to what's so wrong with the current (10 or 20 different types) of Captchas? I don't see them being broken/spammed all over the place, so it's boviously not too bad...
it's surprising how many cables are needed, it looks kind of ridiculous. I guess they need a lot just for redundancy as well. It must be bloody expensive to build one of those long routes!
I assume the OADM (the branching points on this new cable) are OEO, in that they must convert light to Electricity, do all their routing, and then power transmitting lasers to continue down the appropriate output fiber. They didn't really mention how their OADM works, but if it's OEO it would require tons of power continuously, and I wonder how easy it is to run power along with the fiber bundles...
(hopefully it's really some sort of Calient-style mirror array, but who knows.)
how long has it been so obvious to you that the acoustic waves' resonance was created by circulation around the combustion chamber? you shoulda told someone!
i wonder if they can simply change the shape or add some fins into the chamber to dampen these circulating waves.
Do you know how Sony makes their blue LED/Lasers? That would be a useful thing to find out before saying that Prof. Rothschild's patent has nothing to do with LED fabrication, much less Sony. Perhaps Sony uses Zinc/Cadmium/Selenide etc., as shown here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v074j46847410755/ [a paper by Sony on green-LEDs made with such a material]
I would guess increasing the conductivity of these Zinc-based semiconductors is the big deal...
Not quite right, you can't really whine about someone using it unless you patented it! In which case, you likely held back a good amount of your results from publication.
Just because it's published doesn't mean anyone can use it, i mean, putting in a paper with the USPTO could technically reveal all your secrets as well.
(just to be an anal retentive geek, photons often overlap/"touch" since they are bosons. Remember, these are wave/particles aka. "wavefucntions" so photons Definitely touch, electrons less so but they "touch" too. there's definitely piles of 'empty space' between the electrons and the nucleus, though.)
Honestly, Apple is stupid for even pretending that a single-button trackpad/mouse is ok. Every time someone I know buys an Apple, I have to SHOW them that they can (and Definitely SHOULD) plug in their old multi-button, scroll-wheeling USB mouse.
However, I can understand that a lot of computer newbies may love 1 button and the inherent simplicity.
And for a non-programmer who programs anyway, it's simply amazing.
i love shell scriting combined with Fink combined with Applescript etc. It's awesome have a UserFriendly alternative to Linux. I use the reminal when i WANT to, not because I HAVE to, important distiction for me, personally.
when you say "The Study" you make it sound like there was a study actually looking for the carcinogenic effects of the RFID tags. The article mentions that these tumors were accidentally found while routinely using the RFID chips in lab animals, there has yet to be a study JUST looking for the reason/occurence of cancer due to the RFID tags.
IF someone does that sort of targeted study, maybe they'll find that it's the container, or the RF, or the external "electromagnetic" transmitter/detector, or the RFID's reaction to sunlight... etc. etc.
ah, the article even says: "When prompted by an electromagnetic scanner, the chip transmits a unique code." so that is how it works. The electromagnetic scanner must activate it with an RF code too.
I thought that they used the received RF power to power the logic (which would check for the appropriate activation signal) which in turn then powers the broadcast antenna.
Thus, they only respond to some particular frequency but will in fact re-broadcast from teh RFID chip itself. Of course, it can only broadcast at less power than was recieved. This still means that the cells immediately around the RFID chip are exposed to (somewhere around) twice as much of the signal than the on-RFID cells, which only experience the originating signal once.
Perhaps the difference is that the cells around the RFID chip experience the initial and re-transmitted (not exactly reflected, if I understand correctly) signals in rapid succession repeatedly, so the combination of interfering signals and beat frequencies and all serve to increase the probability that a carcinogenic mutation could occur.
just my guesses. I'm an EE, but still who knows.
I must say I Hate it when an article says "A 1997 study in Germany says...blah" with no obvious mention of who, what group or how I would find this study... idiots.
it may give you some correctly configured config files that you can then just copy over to all the client computers. Since it just uses an absolute path, you should be able to set up a Windoze shared folder that's the same path on every computer. I use this to share a non-home-folder folder, with it's own user/pw.
just try and correct things you find are incorrect... all too often someone comes along and changes it BACK to what it was before.
At this point, rather than try to correct incorrectly stated engineering articles, I just correct gramar if I'm bored. It's way too annoying that some people have an ego over their particular paragraph of an article, and aren't often happy with anyone trying to make it easier to read or more factually correct...
still my best source for random things I need to know ballpark figures/ideas for quickly.
you may take notice that the 3 (yes only three) regions of interest they suggest the finding may have some merit within, are not exactly the "cures cancer!" type of hyped-up fields. If they'd said "it will make quantum computing possible and proves string theory" then I could see what you're saying...
it certainly does have implications in photonics. a member of my research group will find this very interesting as she's dealing with surface plasmons and their interactions with 1550 nm light, and this shows a method with which to actually measure the plasmons themselves, as opposed to performing a whole lot of inference.
Laser light *may* be polarized in some certain direction, if the laser is designed to do that. But more importantly, there is circularly polarized (electric field oscillation direction rotates with time) and linearly (it does not rotate with time) polarized light. Elliptical pol. is somewhere between these two extremes.
Circular pol. corresponds to a spin-flip (1/2 x integer spin change) when absorbed by a bound electron, and linearly pol. corresponds to an integer spin change (if i remember correctly). I would guess this is how they managed to correlate light's polarization to magnetic orientation. Or perhaps they simply use counter-clockwise circularly pol. to flip the magnetic bit one way, and clockwise circular to flip it the other way.
short answer: yes, there are 'degrees' of the polarization of light.
This is like being pissed that some people like a souped up Honda over a BMW. Who gives a crap? It's a bloody computer, and that's all. use what you like and leave everyone else alone.
I loved the way windoze people, back in highschool, would take it upon themsleves to rag on someone who used + liked Macs, as soon as the word slipped that you used one. It really boggled me that, without any provocation of my own, someone would start telling me all about why one computer is better... I'm sorry, I don't care what type of computer you use. Maybe those were just the geeks in my highschool, but I found that really stupid.
since you asked for reasons: Personally, I like a computer on which you can actually fix the problems that occur. I know too many computer folk that simply got used to reformatting AND reinstalling an entire computer system/accompanying software. I think that's a crappy big problem if that's considered "fixing". I've never done that, not even back with Mac's system 7.0. And I didn't have to decode any cryptic hex crap from hidden "registry's". It just makes sense. That' really my only reason. I know how to use both, and have done similar stuff with both, and find that one is much more sensical and intuitive.
They DID make the world's first Comp-u-Table! pre-installed with the same GUI as Apple's iPhone! now all they need is to let you sit on it so it can scan your butt and it'll be perfect for home use.
They DID make the worl'd first Comp-u-Table! pre-installed with the same GUI as Apple's iPhone! now all they need is to let you sit on it so it can scan your butt and it'll be perfect for home use.
I wonder if this 'deception' of Apple's is the same as it was in 1998 or whenever I first saw that "millions" of colors option? If that's the case, then I really wonder how much merit the case has.
Did they have to go to extremes to even notice that each pixel did not have it's own millions of colors? Did they put the monitor under a 200x microscope to find out it was dithering? Can't say I've heard this complaint before, and it's (theoretically) been like this for 9 years on every video card and monitor I've had from Apple.
Do Windoze displays NOT dither? Do they give you a "256 (dithered)" option just to be more honest (and confusing)?
I guess this is what happens when you get famous and rich. I can't imagine someone caring at all back in 2000, back before it was decided by Windoze users that Apple may be an actual competitor to M$. Go get your American dream, sue somebody!
Guess who gets all the funding in physics these days? "String theory" does pretty damn well. the more headlines you get, the more funding you get, the more research you get to do.
Same in engineering. You gotta senstionalize it and get your funders excited about what you're doing. Then you get to do more and bring it to completion, hopefully making it usefull.
That's what happens when the government funding dries up and you have to cater to the private sector for funding. Even the public funding agents now act more like corporations, requiring milestones and resuslts and presentations and reports every few months (as opposed to saying "Do your thing, get it working within 3 years"). So the need for headlines is a natural result, we basically have to advertise like companies fighting for contracts. relax boy, no need to get your undies in a twist. Undergrad or no, being a jerk makes you sound much less intelligent.
there appears to be little doubt at this point that the traditional landline will be joining rotary dials and party lines as a relic...
As a 25 year old with a 27 year old wife, who have a rotary telephone hooked up to our landline, I wonder what this says about us...
I myself have a cell phone, but when I'm at home I'd rather use the land-line. Clarity of voice is one important aspect, additionally I sit down and only use the phone. Otherwise you're barely paying attention to the conversation you're having. I hate talk on the cell phone while, say, taking the bus, or (heaven-forbid) driving a car. Too much going on at one time.
As someone else mentioned, I do enough multi-tasking between 7am and 4pm. I don't need that kind of stuff at home.
Also, there's this little known study: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4113989.stm
-- As much as the study reported that the risk was low, they did have to conclude this: They found that, after being exposed to electromagnetic fields, the cells showed a significant increase in DNA damage which could not always be repaired by the cell.
and that, as far as I'm concerned, is a stone's throw from mutation. Forget our own health; I don't want my wife having a cell phone anywhere near her ovaries.
I remember first getting a cell phone years ago. It was useful for many reasons, and fairly addictive, but was incredibly irritating in that the annoying constant ringing of the house phone now follows me around everywhere I go!
I love the idea of coming home to a house with no bluetooth, no wireless internet and no cellphones, it's too bad I find these things so useful!
fyi, I'm an engineer who deals with Photonics, and electromegnetics is my favourite subject, so I understand this stuff.
but I'm sure we're the exception: I can't believe how people go all bug-eyed when they see our record collection and 2 record players!
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at worst you put the hard drive in question into another computer as a second drive, and proceed to decrypt/crack it.
Did anyone else go "What the F***?!" when they read the instructions? That was the crappiest most pain-in-the-ass 'captcha' I've ever seen. Geometric Center of any image you can figure out? Annotate the image? not exactly simple or unobtrusive, is it? I got it right away, maybe it'd be ok if someone can write layman-legible instructions. I just guessed at when the heck they were asking for...but it wasn't immediately obvious. Anyone care to enlightned me as to what's so wrong with the current (10 or 20 different types) of Captchas? I don't see them being broken/spammed all over the place, so it's boviously not too bad...
thanks for those pics, very cool.
it's surprising how many cables are needed, it looks kind of ridiculous. I guess they need a lot just for redundancy as well. It must be bloody expensive to build one of those long routes!
I assume the OADM (the branching points on this new cable) are OEO, in that they must convert light to Electricity, do all their routing, and then power transmitting lasers to continue down the appropriate output fiber. They didn't really mention how their OADM works, but if it's OEO it would require tons of power continuously, and I wonder how easy it is to run power along with the fiber bundles...
(hopefully it's really some sort of Calient-style mirror array, but who knows.)
how long has it been so obvious to you that the acoustic waves' resonance was created by circulation around the combustion chamber? you shoulda told someone!
i wonder if they can simply change the shape or add some fins into the chamber to dampen these circulating waves.
Do you know how Sony makes their blue LED/Lasers? That would be a useful thing to find out before saying that Prof. Rothschild's patent has nothing to do with LED fabrication, much less Sony.
Perhaps Sony uses Zinc/Cadmium/Selenide etc., as shown here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v074j46847410755/ [a paper by Sony on green-LEDs made with such a material]
I would guess increasing the conductivity of these Zinc-based semiconductors is the big deal...
Wikipedia doesn't mention her because I just deleted her from it's entire database. I was bored.
Not quite right, you can't really whine about someone using it unless you patented it! In which case, you likely held back a good amount of your results from publication.
Just because it's published doesn't mean anyone can use it, i mean, putting in a paper with the USPTO could technically reveal all your secrets as well.
(just to be an anal retentive geek, photons often overlap/"touch" since they are bosons. Remember, these are wave/particles aka. "wavefucntions" so photons Definitely touch, electrons less so but they "touch" too. there's definitely piles of 'empty space' between the electrons and the nucleus, though.)
Honestly, Apple is stupid for even pretending that a single-button trackpad/mouse is ok.
Every time someone I know buys an Apple, I have to SHOW them that they can (and Definitely SHOULD) plug in their old multi-button, scroll-wheeling USB mouse.
However, I can understand that a lot of computer newbies may love 1 button and the inherent simplicity.
And for a non-programmer who programs anyway, it's simply amazing.
i love shell scriting combined with Fink combined with Applescript etc. It's awesome have a UserFriendly alternative to Linux.
I use the reminal when i WANT to, not because I HAVE to, important distiction for me, personally.
when you say "The Study" you make it sound like there was a study actually looking for the carcinogenic effects of the RFID tags.
The article mentions that these tumors were accidentally found while routinely using the RFID chips in lab animals, there has yet to be a study JUST looking for the reason/occurence of cancer due to the RFID tags.
IF someone does that sort of targeted study, maybe they'll find that it's the container, or the RF, or the external "electromagnetic" transmitter/detector, or the RFID's reaction to sunlight... etc. etc.
Glass == Silica (SiO2) != Silicon (Si) != Silicone (boobs)
ah, the article even says:
"When prompted by an electromagnetic scanner, the chip transmits a unique code."
so that is how it works. The electromagnetic scanner must activate it with an RF code too.
I thought that they used the received RF power to power the logic (which would check for the appropriate activation signal) which in turn then powers the broadcast antenna.
Thus, they only respond to some particular frequency but will in fact re-broadcast from teh RFID chip itself. Of course, it can only broadcast at less power than was recieved. This still means that the cells immediately around the RFID chip are exposed to (somewhere around) twice as much of the signal than the on-RFID cells, which only experience the originating signal once.
Perhaps the difference is that the cells around the RFID chip experience the initial and re-transmitted (not exactly reflected, if I understand correctly) signals in rapid succession repeatedly, so the combination of interfering signals and beat frequencies and all serve to increase the probability that a carcinogenic mutation could occur.
just my guesses. I'm an EE, but still who knows.
I must say I Hate it when an article says "A 1997 study in Germany says...blah" with no obvious mention of who, what group or how I would find this study... idiots.
Perhaps this program would make things easier?i nts
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8658/sharepo
it may give you some correctly configured config files that you can then just copy over to all the client computers.
Since it just uses an absolute path, you should be able to set up a Windoze shared folder that's the same path on every computer. I use this to share a non-home-folder folder, with it's own user/pw.
just try and correct things you find are incorrect... all too often someone comes along and changes it BACK to what it was before.
At this point, rather than try to correct incorrectly stated engineering articles, I just correct gramar if I'm bored. It's way too annoying that some people have an ego over their particular paragraph of an article, and aren't often happy with anyone trying to make it easier to read or more factually correct...
still my best source for random things I need to know ballpark figures/ideas for quickly.
you may take notice that the 3 (yes only three) regions of interest they suggest the finding may have some merit within, are not exactly the "cures cancer!" type of hyped-up fields. If they'd said "it will make quantum computing possible and proves string theory" then I could see what you're saying...
it certainly does have implications in photonics. a member of my research group will find this very interesting as she's dealing with surface plasmons and their interactions with 1550 nm light, and this shows a method with which to actually measure the plasmons themselves, as opposed to performing a whole lot of inference.
So terrible it's brilliant!!!
that was awesome!
Laser light *may* be polarized in some certain direction, if the laser is designed to do that. But more importantly, there is circularly polarized (electric field oscillation direction rotates with time) and linearly (it does not rotate with time) polarized light. Elliptical pol. is somewhere between these two extremes.
Circular pol. corresponds to a spin-flip (1/2 x integer spin change) when absorbed by a bound electron, and linearly pol. corresponds to an integer spin change (if i remember correctly). I would guess this is how they managed to correlate light's polarization to magnetic orientation. Or perhaps they simply use counter-clockwise circularly pol. to flip the magnetic bit one way, and clockwise circular to flip it the other way.
short answer: yes, there are 'degrees' of the polarization of light.
This is like being pissed that some people like a souped up Honda over a BMW. Who gives a crap? It's a bloody computer, and that's all. use what you like and leave everyone else alone.
I loved the way windoze people, back in highschool, would take it upon themsleves to rag on someone who used + liked Macs, as soon as the word slipped that you used one. It really boggled me that, without any provocation of my own, someone would start telling me all about why one computer is better... I'm sorry, I don't care what type of computer you use. Maybe those were just the geeks in my highschool, but I found that really stupid.
since you asked for reasons:
Personally, I like a computer on which you can actually fix the problems that occur. I know too many computer folk that simply got used to reformatting AND reinstalling an entire computer system/accompanying software. I think that's a crappy big problem if that's considered "fixing". I've never done that, not even back with Mac's system 7.0. And I didn't have to decode any cryptic hex crap from hidden "registry's". It just makes sense. That' really my only reason.
I know how to use both, and have done similar stuff with both, and find that one is much more sensical and intuitive.
They DID make the world's first Comp-u-Table! pre-installed with the same GUI as Apple's iPhone! now all they need is to let you sit on it so it can scan your butt and it'll be perfect for home use.
They DID make the worl'd first Comp-u-Table! pre-installed with the same GUI as Apple's iPhone! now all they need is to let you sit on it so it can scan your butt and it'll be perfect for home use.
I wonder if this 'deception' of Apple's is the same as it was in 1998 or whenever I first saw that "millions" of colors option?
If that's the case, then I really wonder how much merit the case has.
Did they have to go to extremes to even notice that each pixel did not have it's own millions of colors? Did they put the monitor under a 200x microscope to find out it was dithering?
Can't say I've heard this complaint before, and it's (theoretically) been like this for 9 years on every video card and monitor I've had from Apple.
Do Windoze displays NOT dither? Do they give you a "256 (dithered)" option just to be more honest (and confusing)?
I guess this is what happens when you get famous and rich. I can't imagine someone caring at all back in 2000, back before it was decided by Windoze users that Apple may be an actual competitor to M$. Go get your American dream, sue somebody!
Guess who gets all the funding in physics these days? "String theory" does pretty damn well. the more headlines you get, the more funding you get, the more research you get to do.
Same in engineering. You gotta senstionalize it and get your funders excited about what you're doing. Then you get to do more and bring it to completion, hopefully making it usefull.
That's what happens when the government funding dries up and you have to cater to the private sector for funding. Even the public funding agents now act more like corporations, requiring milestones and resuslts and presentations and reports every few months (as opposed to saying "Do your thing, get it working within 3 years"). So the need for headlines is a natural result, we basically have to advertise like companies fighting for contracts.
relax boy, no need to get your undies in a twist. Undergrad or no, being a jerk makes you sound much less intelligent.
As a 25 year old with a 27 year old wife, who have a rotary telephone hooked up to our landline, I wonder what this says about us...
I myself have a cell phone, but when I'm at home I'd rather use the land-line. Clarity of voice is one important aspect, additionally I sit down and only use the phone. Otherwise you're barely paying attention to the conversation you're having. I hate talk on the cell phone while, say, taking the bus, or (heaven-forbid) driving a car. Too much going on at one time.
As someone else mentioned, I do enough multi-tasking between 7am and 4pm. I don't need that kind of stuff at home.
Also, there's this little known study:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4113989.stm
-- As much as the study reported that the risk was low, they did have to conclude this:
They found that, after being exposed to electromagnetic fields, the cells showed a significant increase in DNA damage which could not always be repaired by the cell.
and that, as far as I'm concerned, is a stone's throw from mutation. Forget our own health; I don't want my wife having a cell phone anywhere near her ovaries.
I remember first getting a cell phone years ago. It was useful for many reasons, and fairly addictive, but was incredibly irritating in that the annoying constant ringing of the house phone now follows me around everywhere I go!
I love the idea of coming home to a house with no bluetooth, no wireless internet and no cellphones, it's too bad I find these things so useful!
fyi, I'm an engineer who deals with Photonics, and electromegnetics is my favourite subject, so I understand this stuff.
but I'm sure we're the exception: I can't believe how people go all bug-eyed when they see our record collection and 2 record players!