Sorry to follow up to my own posting. But Rachel's lightsaber is not authentic. Hers require a cap at the tip to close it down. What does she think it is? Some broken BP oil well? To contain it with some kind of cap? For a weapon to be elegant in a civilized age, it needs a button at the base which turns the beam on or off. So much for her nerdiness.
"When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rocky Heckman.
And when asked what Microsoft does with these code snippets, Mr Heckman said, "We promptly use it everywhere we could. Otherwise Vista would have been delayed even more. We include all these viruses as BHOs [Browser Helper Objects] in our default distribution. Why should the user endure the trouble and torture of visiting a malware site to acquire the user experience of getting buggy crashing software? We provide it first hand from within Windows itself. We take pride in being backward compatible with every vulnerability, bug and malware that was developed on/for the previous windows platform."
I wish they would spend more time on improving the dynamic range than to just play the megapixel count wars.
Instead of total pixel count, get one set of pixels to shoot at the equivalent of 100 speed, and the adjacent set of pixels to shoot at 200 speed etc etc. Then process the pixels to get details in dark regions and to scale the brightness. I would like a dynamic range (brightness ratio of the brightest to dimmest pixel) to be a million or more, not the present 1000. Human eye has a dynamic range of about 1 million (only in the fovea, not in the peripheral vision).
But your senator who rails against the stoopid federal government running stoopid railroad would not let a single empty train through his state to be stopped, would not let a single station to be closed, would not let a single post office to be closed, not a single mail delivery route to be stopped. Then he will continue to rail against the waste and hold it up as a prime example of how the government can do anything right.
The alternative is to drive in the same cramped cars and vans for hours on end. Trains move a two ton car over 200 miles using 1 gallon of fuel. Driving the same car/van would take, say 10 gallons. Savings of 9 gallons or 27$. Figure in tolls, people would gladly pay 40 to 50$ to get their cars with them sitting in the cars hauled for 200 miles. Say from I-76 @ I-79 (Pittsburgh) to I-76 @ I-81 (Harrisburg).
If we use this market to break even on costs, then food concessions, value added services like WiFi, regular seats/beds, etc would be pure profits. Once the service is well developed you could take the market away from the motels for night stops and that is 100$ per 400 miles.
There is this huge market for low-speed, car hauling service connecting highway intersections instead of downtown stations. Distances of 300 miles to 700 miles where one can compete with the airlines on door-to-door times.
I am a believer of Last Thursdayism you insensitive clod.
There is nothing contradict the theory that the entire universe was created Last Thursday. With all the people with memories of events happening before Last Thursday, with memories of ancestors, the heirlooms, etc etc, every thing was created Last Thursday. With stars billions of light years away too, with light stretching all the way back to these stars from Earth, with fossils already buried in strata of rock, and with radio active elements already decayed.
Remember if the Theory of Evolution in invalidated, Creationism does not automatically win. It has to duke it out with Last Thursdayism, The Celestial Teapot, The invisible pink unicorn theory and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Himself.
How did we end up in this stupid scenario that anyone who has facts about me, like my SSN, my date of birth etc can open credit lines, borrow money and skip town and our credit is ruined?
Clearly it is the lenders fault they lent money without proper verification. Unless the lenders can prove that they lent money to the correct party they should not be able to post "outstanding credit" on my name. The lenders lobby to make sure that I can't even freeze my own credit lines. Only if I am a victim of id theft I get to freeze my own credit lines. Or they charge fees to "monitor" my credit lines. It is all screwed up. We should change the laws so that victims of id-theft can sue the lender who posted/reported wrong information about the victim for damages. We should be able to sue these lax lenders. Then they will spend more time in verifying the identity of the borrowers.
Knowing facts about me should never be enough to harm me.
There is no summary anywhere except for an enticing lure. Must watch an 18 minute video clip. They all expect you to make an irrational decision to watch the video and the ads it looks like.
Sure, but humans haven't had to worry about natural predators for something like 10,000 years or more.
More like 6 million years. The life expectancy of Homo sapiens in the hunter gatherer groups was 28 years including infant mortality and around 50 after infancy. Such long life expectancy is not the norm for prey animals. They get killed and eaten for no fault of their own and selection prefers fast mature-reproduce cycle. Even the predator animals following an accident prone life style of chase and hunt have lower life spans.
Further by the time the hunter-gatherers were studied scientifically all the prime productive fecund lands have been taken by the sedentary agriculturalists. So before the domestication of plants (aka invention of agriculture) they would have had even longer life spans. So clearly there are/were predators that could kill us easily, but we were not part of their normal diet for several million years. chimps, gorillas, organgutans all have long life spans and are not hunted routinely by predators.
Dogs have been bred for every damn function and form, but we have not been able to breed them for longer life spans. The fundamental metabolism of an animal is very difficult to change. The mere fact that we can live for 80, 90 or even 100 years shows we have not been food for millions of years.
Deep sleep would have become a selection advantage after the domestication of dogs. Estimated to have taken place between 25,000 years ago and 15,000 years ago in central Asia.
I have been very very careful about my identity on the internet. My user name is a random collection of letters and gives no hint of the hostels and room numbers I had in my college years.
Just to be sure, have the sent the digits to the SETI program looking for patterns? There is some talk that beyond some 2 or 3 billion digits there is a message that apparently begins, "O Brhama, I have created Thee to build the universe, You shall create the universe in accordance to these Laws called Vedas...."
I am going order a space tug for myself and going to name it the Millennium Falcon, as soon as I can borrow some cash fro Jabba the Hut. Should start looking for a co-pilot soon.
I mean, someone finding the original download of some book in a forgotten corner of the hard disk of some e-book reader and selling it for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
As Apple very well knows from the early desktop days, once a competitor has a solid lead in the market share it is very, very difficult to get the market back.
Really? Ask Wordstar, Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBaseIII, Netscape, and countless other companies what fat lot of good the early lead did for them?
In Microsoft's vision, slates will run a derivative of Windows 7.
Apple just put out something that is so well integrated and Microsoft decides to start with a derivative? OMG! Calculus MS101 fighting Calculus MS102! Is it normal or am I talking at a tangent here?
I work in the field of Computation Electromagnetics and my code is an integral part of the leading high frequency electromagnetic analysis. So far none of my staff who report to me have revolted about their pay. The same goes for my fellow managers. So I was very happy to see the headline. It must be our competitor who is having such problems and employee morale. I was just about to call our HR to launch a poaching operation to peel off the last couple of good programmers they still have (I am still after you Sanjay and X'iang). Then I see it is an entirely different meaning of the word "High Frequency Programmers".
If I sue some company or a city or someone, and I know they are using google apps service, can I subpoena google to produce all the relevant documents it has in its possession as part of discovery? Can I ask for a search using keywords and wildcards in all the documents stored as part of the service to the sued company?
If I use google apps service and someone sues me, can I get google to certify that I have not deleted or destroyed any document? Would I be able to argue "in this case absence of evidence is evidence of absence because we have this certificate from google saying we did not destroy anything".
Someone please quickly patent the tracking of the eye balls of the users, using one or more cameras, determine the part of the screen the user is looking at and throw even more targeted ad at them.
and not *way* out of line compared to other power sources like coal plants, but it's not aggressively cheap either.
First the whole idea of melting salt and storing it is to provide a steady energy capacity. The 5MW is steady output 24/7. Not the 10 hours you assumed. The article does not say so explicitly. But the peak solar output is slightly over 1 kW/m^2. The peak production capacity would be 30 MW for an hour or so at around noon. Accounting for the angle of incidence, cloud cover, nights, storage losses etc averages the output to 5 MW steady. So the revenue is $12000 a day at 0.1 $/kWh. or 4.4 m$ a year. works out to 5% return on investment (at 1.3 euro/USD). Cost of maintenance, salaries etc would reduce the return to may be 3%.
On a coal plant the initial investments are lower and the return would be much higher. But it has a large running cost. Price of coal. Sunlight is free. Coal plant economics is, smaller initial investment, and a larger revolving credit to buy coal, make electricity, collect payments and pay off the coal company, rinse and repeat.
Anyway, it is incredible that this technology that is just born is already competitive with a technology that has been fine tuned and developed for nearly a century. Its costs can fall steeply in the coming years. Coal tech, is nearly as low cost as we can humanly get, and no further reduction is coming without compromising safety.
You are well within your rights to say that. You should be able to state your ad acceptance policy as, "no ads accepted. under any circumstances".
Just recognize the right of a web site to respond with a page that says, "We try to serve ads that are in compliance with the ad acceptance policy of the visitors. But we are not a charity, we need to draw a line somewher. So we do not serve pages to visitors that do not any ads. "
We have learnt that subsequent to our requirements that you use horribly complex impossible to remember passwords the users have started writing them down. You are hereby informed that you are prohibited from writing down the passwords. We have also implemented a lock out process that locks you out after two failed log in attempts. We have integrated the locked out database with our time card software Chronos. Now the time you are locked out and trying to get access back by calling IT help will be charged to your vacation days.
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Sorry to follow up to my own posting. But Rachel's lightsaber is not authentic. Hers require a cap at the tip to close it down. What does she think it is? Some broken BP oil well? To contain it with some kind of cap? For a weapon to be elegant in a civilized age, it needs a button at the base which turns the beam on or off. So much for her nerdiness.
Even Rachel Maddow knows how to make a lightsaber. All you need is two highlighters. Look: http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-exists-rachel-maddow-reveals-her-secret-lightsaber/
"When hackers crash Windows in the course of developing malware, they'll often accidentally agree to send the virus code straight to Microsoft, according to senior security architect Rocky Heckman.
And when asked what Microsoft does with these code snippets, Mr Heckman said, "We promptly use it everywhere we could. Otherwise Vista would have been delayed even more. We include all these viruses as BHOs [Browser Helper Objects] in our default distribution. Why should the user endure the trouble and torture of visiting a malware site to acquire the user experience of getting buggy crashing software? We provide it first hand from within Windows itself. We take pride in being backward compatible with every vulnerability, bug and malware that was developed on/for the previous windows platform."
Instead of total pixel count, get one set of pixels to shoot at the equivalent of 100 speed, and the adjacent set of pixels to shoot at 200 speed etc etc. Then process the pixels to get details in dark regions and to scale the brightness. I would like a dynamic range (brightness ratio of the brightest to dimmest pixel) to be a million or more, not the present 1000. Human eye has a dynamic range of about 1 million (only in the fovea, not in the peripheral vision).
But your senator who rails against the stoopid federal government running stoopid railroad would not let a single empty train through his state to be stopped, would not let a single station to be closed, would not let a single post office to be closed, not a single mail delivery route to be stopped. Then he will continue to rail against the waste and hold it up as a prime example of how the government can do anything right.
If we use this market to break even on costs, then food concessions, value added services like WiFi, regular seats/beds, etc would be pure profits. Once the service is well developed you could take the market away from the motels for night stops and that is 100$ per 400 miles.
There is this huge market for low-speed, car hauling service connecting highway intersections instead of downtown stations. Distances of 300 miles to 700 miles where one can compete with the airlines on door-to-door times.
I was not born yesterday.
I am a believer of Last Thursdayism you insensitive clod.
There is nothing contradict the theory that the entire universe was created Last Thursday. With all the people with memories of events happening before Last Thursday, with memories of ancestors, the heirlooms, etc etc, every thing was created Last Thursday. With stars billions of light years away too, with light stretching all the way back to these stars from Earth, with fossils already buried in strata of rock, and with radio active elements already decayed.
Remember if the Theory of Evolution in invalidated, Creationism does not automatically win. It has to duke it out with Last Thursdayism, The Celestial Teapot, The invisible pink unicorn theory and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Himself.
Clearly it is the lenders fault they lent money without proper verification. Unless the lenders can prove that they lent money to the correct party they should not be able to post "outstanding credit" on my name. The lenders lobby to make sure that I can't even freeze my own credit lines. Only if I am a victim of id theft I get to freeze my own credit lines. Or they charge fees to "monitor" my credit lines. It is all screwed up. We should change the laws so that victims of id-theft can sue the lender who posted/reported wrong information about the victim for damages. We should be able to sue these lax lenders. Then they will spend more time in verifying the identity of the borrowers.
Knowing facts about me should never be enough to harm me.
There is no summary anywhere except for an enticing lure. Must watch an 18 minute video clip. They all expect you to make an irrational decision to watch the video and the ads it looks like.
Sure, but humans haven't had to worry about natural predators for something like 10,000 years or more.
More like 6 million years. The life expectancy of Homo sapiens in the hunter gatherer groups was 28 years including infant mortality and around 50 after infancy. Such long life expectancy is not the norm for prey animals. They get killed and eaten for no fault of their own and selection prefers fast mature-reproduce cycle. Even the predator animals following an accident prone life style of chase and hunt have lower life spans.
Further by the time the hunter-gatherers were studied scientifically all the prime productive fecund lands have been taken by the sedentary agriculturalists. So before the domestication of plants (aka invention of agriculture) they would have had even longer life spans. So clearly there are/were predators that could kill us easily, but we were not part of their normal diet for several million years. chimps, gorillas, organgutans all have long life spans and are not hunted routinely by predators.
Dogs have been bred for every damn function and form, but we have not been able to breed them for longer life spans. The fundamental metabolism of an animal is very difficult to change. The mere fact that we can live for 80, 90 or even 100 years shows we have not been food for millions of years.
Deep sleep would have become a selection advantage after the domestication of dogs. Estimated to have taken place between 25,000 years ago and 15,000 years ago in central Asia.
I posted this on Aug 06, 12:03 http://slashdot.org/submission/1301558/Digg-overrunn-with-spammers OK, OK I did not do a good summary. But at least I should be given a technical frist psot or an automatic one.
What the hell is going on. Finally some one develops an Atmospheric Engine, but it is not John Galt? I'll just shrug and walk away.
I have been very very careful about my identity on the internet. My user name is a random collection of letters and gives no hint of the hostels and room numbers I had in my college years.
Just to be sure, have the sent the digits to the SETI program looking for patterns? There is some talk that beyond some 2 or 3 billion digits there is a message that apparently begins, "O Brhama, I have created Thee to build the universe, You shall create the universe in accordance to these Laws called Vedas...."
I am going order a space tug for myself and going to name it the Millennium Falcon, as soon as I can borrow some cash fro Jabba the Hut. Should start looking for a co-pilot soon.
I mean, someone finding the original download of some book in a forgotten corner of the hard disk of some e-book reader and selling it for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
As Apple very well knows from the early desktop days, once a competitor has a solid lead in the market share it is very, very difficult to get the market back.
Really? Ask Wordstar, Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, dBaseIII, Netscape, and countless other companies what fat lot of good the early lead did for them?
In Microsoft's vision, slates will run a derivative of Windows 7.
Apple just put out something that is so well integrated and Microsoft decides to start with a derivative? OMG! Calculus MS101 fighting Calculus MS102! Is it normal or am I talking at a tangent here?
I work in the field of Computation Electromagnetics and my code is an integral part of the leading high frequency electromagnetic analysis. So far none of my staff who report to me have revolted about their pay. The same goes for my fellow managers. So I was very happy to see the headline. It must be our competitor who is having such problems and employee morale. I was just about to call our HR to launch a poaching operation to peel off the last couple of good programmers they still have (I am still after you Sanjay and X'iang). Then I see it is an entirely different meaning of the word "High Frequency Programmers".
If I use google apps service and someone sues me, can I get google to certify that I have not deleted or destroyed any document? Would I be able to argue "in this case absence of evidence is evidence of absence because we have this certificate from google saying we did not destroy anything".
Someone please quickly patent the tracking of the eye balls of the users, using one or more cameras, determine the part of the screen the user is looking at and throw even more targeted ad at them.
and not *way* out of line compared to other power sources like coal plants, but it's not aggressively cheap either.
First the whole idea of melting salt and storing it is to provide a steady energy capacity. The 5MW is steady output 24/7. Not the 10 hours you assumed. The article does not say so explicitly. But the peak solar output is slightly over 1 kW/m^2. The peak production capacity would be 30 MW for an hour or so at around noon. Accounting for the angle of incidence, cloud cover, nights, storage losses etc averages the output to 5 MW steady. So the revenue is $12000 a day at 0.1 $/kWh. or 4.4 m$ a year. works out to 5% return on investment (at 1.3 euro/USD). Cost of maintenance, salaries etc would reduce the return to may be 3%.
On a coal plant the initial investments are lower and the return would be much higher. But it has a large running cost. Price of coal. Sunlight is free. Coal plant economics is, smaller initial investment, and a larger revolving credit to buy coal, make electricity, collect payments and pay off the coal company, rinse and repeat.
Anyway, it is incredible that this technology that is just born is already competitive with a technology that has been fine tuned and developed for nearly a century. Its costs can fall steeply in the coming years. Coal tech, is nearly as low cost as we can humanly get, and no further reduction is coming without compromising safety.
These scientists are quite late to the party. Tamilians had discovered the Biggest Star, The Super Star, Rajnikant way back in 1975.
Just recognize the right of a web site to respond with a page that says, "We try to serve ads that are in compliance with the ad acceptance policy of the visitors. But we are not a charity, we need to draw a line somewher. So we do not serve pages to visitors that do not any ads. "
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