NASA really struck a cord with this one. Hopefully this success will relaunch (no pun intended) interest in the space program.
NASA used the newer type of AeroGel to capture the dust particles. For those who don't know, AeroGel is an ultra-low density solid. The NASA AeroGel is an Alumina gel comprised of 99.8% air. The type that NASA used was Nickel-alumina, and they laced it with gadolinium and terbium so that space particles would cause the impact sight to glow under the correct conditions. (Some great photos of the foggy stuft at: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/aerogel.html)
Apparently, NASA is considering allowing civilians to search for space particulates through the web, scowering over hundreds of thousands of enlarged photographs. Its expected that NASA will announce plans for the program soon.
In pure hardware, you have two decisions: yes or no. The same might be said for the underlying neural biology of humans.
Software incorporates decisions. However, in a mechanical sense, these are specified by conditional statements. There's no true recursive decision making or calling upon the past except of what is explicitely defined by the programmer. In humans, we are not stopped by that limit. We have the ability to make sense of our environment, filter the information, and decide dynamically based on past experience and current condition.
I believe that, while computers are a long way from it, artificial intelligence will eventually be able to properly attribute and understand symbols and symbolism.
Part of it comes from an animal's and a human's instinct of matrixing, or interpreting input to formulate the situation. If there is a shake in the bushes, an animal will watch and try to decipher the form of a friend or of a foe. The same goes for symbolism in society. We attribute meanings to symbols because its in our nature to do so. It allows us to understand them. The real question is whether or not computers will ever gain the ability to matrix information.
In a sort of unrelated note, one of the past SD articles (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/ 01/20/0611209) spoke about human's mind filters, which filter down outside information to what we need for survival. The same goes for human matrixing. We see what we need to see and make sense of it.
As I said, later versions of the OS brought it up to 100%.
Mac OS X makes use of the 64-bit architecture in the only way they can, this is still a 32-bit world. Very few mainstream companies have yet to port their software because the 64-bit core is still fairly untested in mainstream computing.
I'm really not surprised. The LJ engine has been extremely vulnerable and these 0days are just more proof that corporate entities don't pay attention to security the way they should. The engine is written in PERL and needs a base of extensive javascript.
Its a good thing that only a few sites run the LJ engine. They tend to be rather short-lived because of LJ's vulnerability. One of the others running the LS Engine is DeadEngine, a journal for gothic, emo kids (http://www.deadjournal.com/).
Nooo! Poor Emos! I can just see them shivering in a cold, dank corner, cutting themselves because their journal was hi-jacked. What is becoming of this world?!
Mac OS is based on Darwin, which is a specific flavor of Unix. Apple has finely tweaked their operating system for their hardware and this is why you get the great performance on the PowerPC architecture, even though support for x86 is more mainstream.
Linux and Unix flavors are bred for universal comptibility. You have to give up some power to gain some portability.
I can't help but think if this is going to be a waste. Sure, 802.11n may have a theoretical data-transfer rate of 502 mb/s, but I doubt that consumer lines are going to increase that much in bandwidth. The current standard supports up to 54 mb/s, which should be plenty for years to come.
I'm wondering if they are only talking about ID fraud, or the culmination of hacking, viruses, and adware. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a blanket term.
There was a tale not too long back of a one Jeremy Hammond (case pending), so was persecuted for breaking into a rival company's server and stealing over $3.5 million dollard worth of credit card numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond). Who knows how many Jeremy Hammonds there are in the world, who perpetrate similiar crime every year.
Reading this makes me rethink some privacy laws. I'm a privacy addvocate, but if the hackers are costing me more money in my yearly tax I say go after them. Its only hindering the US economy.
Of course performance is behind. Mac's PowerPC hrdware was optimized for their code and their hardware. Apple must have time to make these tweaks on the new PC architecture. The G5's were also 64-bit running (at first) around 95% software emulation. Later versions of the OS brought this up to 100%. You see, its not all instant. They are developing on a new platform and need time to perfect their code.
And even though Mac carried on a subversion PC program for a while, they stopped a while ago. As the OS changed, the code changed, and they had to start all over.
Somehow, I can't help but feel this article is encouraging Microsoft-fanboy flaming.
Apparantly, there was some persecution with the producers of the series because of his orientation. He never officially, and publicly, came out, but to some it was obvious.
He should be applauded for persuing his career in a time when Gay men weren't openly favored in Hollywood. He never came out, but he never let it stop him.
"Now, I asked my friend 'Do you like to watch porno' and he said 'Hell yea, I do'. I said 'Do you only watch lesbian porn?', he said 'No, I like to see a man and a woman making love'. Well, I said 'And do you want that guy to have a small, flaccid penis' and he said 'Hell no! He needs to have a large, throbbing co-... Well, I never knew that about myself...'"
In the Kinsey reports, its written that most males are afraid of homosexuals because they have deep-rooted homosexual tendencies themselves. This is surpressed by their psyche, developed during their childhood which, in the case of the Country, is typically conservative Christian.
George Takei is a role model. He's straight, but gay!
Interestingly enough, my uncle has an asian partner (no gay uncle jokes) over in L.A. Pretty sure its not Takei though.:-P
The great thing about Takei is he's cool with his orientation. I know plenty of gay people who either A) are shy, B) think every straight person is out to get them, or C) outrageously gay.
Takei, he's none of them. He's a down-to-earth guy and that's why people respect him. He's just a cool guy and I think that's why he wants to do New Voyages. Its re-interacting with the community that has loved him for years. For an actor to go back and reprise a role after so many years is awesome.
Yea. Its interesting how, in retrospect, we can look at the influence of past telvision shows in relation to society. The first inter-racial kiss no-doubt made the concept of inter-racial relationships a little bit more acceptable.
I wonder if modern television shows will have that effect. Will future generations look back at Gina Davis' character and say "Yep, that was the start of it". Did South Park make the concept of cursing and the mix of crude and intelligent humor acceptable? Did Will and Grace help the Gay Right's movement?
I look forward to 20 years from now when I'll be able to look back at the television programs of my youth and see the full, historic impact they might have had.
He's great. He also described his (now former according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei#Star_Tre k) loathing for Shatner on Stern.
On Jan. 9th, Stern announced that Takei would be the official announcer for his show.
Even more of a reason to get Sirius.
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NASA used the newer type of AeroGel to capture the dust particles. For those who don't know, AeroGel is an ultra-low density solid. The NASA AeroGel is an Alumina gel comprised of 99.8% air. The type that NASA used was Nickel-alumina, and they laced it with gadolinium and terbium so that space particles would cause the impact sight to glow under the correct conditions. (Some great photos of the foggy stuft at: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/aerogel.html)
Apparently, NASA is considering allowing civilians to search for space particulates through the web, scowering over hundreds of thousands of enlarged photographs. Its expected that NASA will announce plans for the program soon.
Interesting links:= 1019 - Latest NASA Newse dia/jsc2006e00886.html - When The Capsule First Returnedc fm - Podcasts and Videos
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/webcam.html - NASA Webcam
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/multim
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/stardust-multimedia.
Well, at least this one didn't crash, explode, or get contaminated on impact. NASA 1, NATURE 8.
But can Wal-mart's IMS start a nuclear war because its bored? I don't think so.
Software incorporates decisions. However, in a mechanical sense, these are specified by conditional statements. There's no true recursive decision making or calling upon the past except of what is explicitely defined by the programmer. In humans, we are not stopped by that limit. We have the ability to make sense of our environment, filter the information, and decide dynamically based on past experience and current condition.
Part of it comes from an animal's and a human's instinct of matrixing, or interpreting input to formulate the situation. If there is a shake in the bushes, an animal will watch and try to decipher the form of a friend or of a foe. The same goes for symbolism in society. We attribute meanings to symbols because its in our nature to do so. It allows us to understand them. The real question is whether or not computers will ever gain the ability to matrix information.
In a sort of unrelated note, one of the past SD articles (http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/ 01/20/0611209) spoke about human's mind filters, which filter down outside information to what we need for survival. The same goes for human matrixing. We see what we need to see and make sense of it.
What?! Does this mean no Sky-Net?!
Mac OS X makes use of the 64-bit architecture in the only way they can, this is still a 32-bit world. Very few mainstream companies have yet to port their software because the 64-bit core is still fairly untested in mainstream computing.
Its a good thing that only a few sites run the LJ engine. They tend to be rather short-lived because of LJ's vulnerability. One of the others running the LS Engine is DeadEngine, a journal for gothic, emo kids (http://www.deadjournal.com/).
Nooo! Poor Emos! I can just see them shivering in a cold, dank corner, cutting themselves because their journal was hi-jacked. What is becoming of this world?!
Linux and Unix flavors are bred for universal comptibility. You have to give up some power to gain some portability.
Some extra reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n#802.11n -- 802.11n Standard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMax -- The New, utra-wide range, wifi standard
There was a tale not too long back of a one Jeremy Hammond (case pending), so was persecuted for breaking into a rival company's server and stealing over $3.5 million dollard worth of credit card numbers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond). Who knows how many Jeremy Hammonds there are in the world, who perpetrate similiar crime every year.
Reading this makes me rethink some privacy laws. I'm a privacy addvocate, but if the hackers are costing me more money in my yearly tax I say go after them. Its only hindering the US economy.
We get rid of a piece of inane childrens program. And Oscar the Grouch will be in heaven (though we can't say about the other cast members).
And even though Mac carried on a subversion PC program for a while, they stopped a while ago. As the OS changed, the code changed, and they had to start all over.
Somehow, I can't help but feel this article is encouraging Microsoft-fanboy flaming.
Paramount provided the original blueprints of TOS' sets.
In return, Paramount has borrowed a number of props from NY, including the Helmsman's pop-up console.
All in all, I think it could be profitable for Paramount.
He should be applauded for persuing his career in a time when Gay men weren't openly favored in Hollywood. He never came out, but he never let it stop him.
"Now, I asked my friend 'Do you like to watch porno' and he said 'Hell yea, I do'. I said 'Do you only watch lesbian porn?', he said 'No, I like to see a man and a woman making love'. Well, I said 'And do you want that guy to have a small, flaccid penis' and he said 'Hell no! He needs to have a large, throbbing co-... Well, I never knew that about myself...'"
In the Kinsey reports, its written that most males are afraid of homosexuals because they have deep-rooted homosexual tendencies themselves. This is surpressed by their psyche, developed during their childhood which, in the case of the Country, is typically conservative Christian.
George Takei is a role model. He's straight, but gay!
The great thing about Takei is he's cool with his orientation. I know plenty of gay people who either A) are shy, B) think every straight person is out to get them, or C) outrageously gay.
Takei, he's none of them. He's a down-to-earth guy and that's why people respect him. He's just a cool guy and I think that's why he wants to do New Voyages. Its re-interacting with the community that has loved him for years. For an actor to go back and reprise a role after so many years is awesome.
Besides, NY will get some real acting talent...
I wonder if modern television shows will have that effect. Will future generations look back at Gina Davis' character and say "Yep, that was the start of it". Did South Park make the concept of cursing and the mix of crude and intelligent humor acceptable? Did Will and Grace help the Gay Right's movement?
I look forward to 20 years from now when I'll be able to look back at the television programs of my youth and see the full, historic impact they might have had.
He's great. He also described his (now former according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei#Star_Tre k) loathing for Shatner on Stern.
On Jan. 9th, Stern announced that Takei would be the official announcer for his show.
Even more of a reason to get Sirius.
A) It keeps the community alive and series continuity going
B) Its just a good feeling that the older actors are willing to go back after all this time. Its a warm, fuzzy feeling.
I sense some tribble trouble.
Its... the. same. thing. over... and... over...
Kind of like a futuristic Dr. Strangelove?
Who knew that the blokes at /. were comedic geniuses?
Now are they doomed to die of lung cancer?