This system sounds as if it is harvesting waste energy. (the running that the soldier is already doing) The running is not waste energy - the energy used for running is spent up doing just that - running. Granted, the muscles will produce heat, which can be used - but the article seems to suggest that it is not heat which will charge the batteries, but rather the actual motion.
The first law of thermodynamics states: "The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added by heating the system, minus the amount lost as a result of the work done by the system on its surroundings".
This means that while it is perfectly possible in theory for soldiers to charge batteries by running around, they will have to exert that extra energy themselves. I doubt that any soldiers (already heavily laden with weapons, body-armour and other gear) will want to wear suit that requires more energy from you for movements than normal suits.
This, if something, will convince people that Microsoft's competing standard is better for them. Dropping support for the very format that they've been pushing for so hard, so recently?
That will have agencies and large corporations running away from ODF - and any successors - right into the welcoming arms of Microsoft.
I almost hoped that it was April, 1st - but when I checked, it was still October. Damn.
I think you are right... I keep forgetting that the Metric unit is 10^3 grams, not 1 gram! So all the powers operations must be done on 10^3, not on 1.
The standard metric unit for weight isn't 1000 grams - it is 1 gram. Of course, the 'k' in kg stands for 10^3. Unfortunately, I believe the scientists made a mistake when deciding on the weight of 1 g - IMHO, the standard unit of measure should have been what 1 kg is now as it is a more convenient weight for what we handle in day-to-day life. It was a regrettable mistake with the effect that we mostly speak of "kilos" instead of grams. However, at least I believe that they got the meter and the litre right.
I love the SI system. Everything becomes so much easier:) Try calculating how many square inches there is in one square mile, and you'll get my point..
I think it perfectly possible that it's a military operation. Perhaps not very likely - there are more cyber criminals out there than there are governments interested in this sort of stuff - but not impossible. A government having control over this sort of network could cause immense destruction of the infrastructure of an enemy country. And if it was a military operation, of course they would like it to look like a private thing - until they unleash it in full scale against whatever target they choose. It doesn't even need to have been constructed in anticipation of such an operation - it might just have been created for the having the capabilities if need would arise.
"It is actually not a functional language, but a logical one."
Why not a functional language? I took an erlang course, and one of the speakers was one of the guys developing it at Ericsson. He specifically spoke of its qualities as a functional language.
It is true that the same people were the main creators of Kazaa and Skype. However, those creators had nothing to do with the introduction of spyware into Kazaa. They are not to blame for what others did. The introduction of the spyware was included in Kazaa first after the program was sold from the creators.
And just recently, about 1.6 million data records were stolen from the job application site monster.com - including among other things name, email, telephone numbers, address and which area a user would like to work in. Quite the wet dream of any spammer.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/20/Monster. com-identity-attack_1.html
Again, if you take out a car from the street, it doesn't put in a car - it puts in a bit of street. That is the whole point that the authors of the paper want to make - you can cut ut "irritating" parts in a picture and have them replaced by data that fits in better. Have a picture of the sea, but with an ugly boat disturbing the scene? Cut out the boat, run the software, and you will have a picture of the same part of the sea, but without the boat (note that the part of the sea which was obstructed by the boat may, of course, be from any other sea now - as long as it has similar colors).
Of course, you could cut out all of the car except, for instance, the wheels. The software would then try to find a match for that - and would have to search only among other cars with similar wheels.
As can be seen in their published paper, the data that are filled into those holes sometimes vary quite a lot with what was cut out (which was partly the point).
If you have a picture of a street with a car, cut out the car and you get a picture which shows only the street, seemingly correct (although the part of the street which was inserted most probably is from a completely other street).
This means that yes, you could use for image compression in the sense that the "decompressed" pictures would look fairly correct. However, the actual contents of the picture might change dramatically.
As stated in the summary, details of the protocol is available for those who ask for it. It has not been closed completely. I would also imagine that any changes to the protocol would be communicated to the developer teams of the other main clients.
The real question is: how much of the maintenance can be done remotely? Being a Linux distro, I have to imagine that most, if not all, of it can.
Of course you can configure and maintain the system remotely, as long as you have the necessary software (basically an ssh server and a text editor..)
It is based on Debian, of course, which really shows when you work with it from the console. I've been running ubuntu for some time now on a server of mine (I'm relatively new to linux) but have never had to install some sort of gui environment. What I do, I do by simply connecting to it by ssh.
This should drive home the point that connections should flow over encrypted tunnels whenever possible, to reduce the ease of performing man in the middle attacks. If this session flowed over an SSL style connection, the man in the middle would first need to figure out how to get into that session. That strategy seriously reduces the places where malicious code can exist "in the middle". Don't throw the baby (rich client interaction with services in the cloud) out with the bathwater. However, that comes at a computational cost. CPU time will have to be spent on encryption/decryption, both on the client and on the servers in Google's data centers. I am not saying that it wouldn't be a good idea, but a safe version which does not rely on encrypted tunnels might be more efficient.
Only if you vaporize/burn each and every tiny bit of the dead plant. In all other cases, some of the carbon will remain in solid form.
They decompose, and the carbon is released into the air again (as carbon dioxide). You are right that a very small part is contained - but it is, really, a very small part.
Guess what coal is. Carbon, collected by plants. Yes, over millions of years.
How much coal do you think will be produced that way during our lifetime?
Exactly as you noted, the concentration of oxygen is many times larger than the concentration of carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide concentrations is measured in ppm - parts per million
Oxygen concentration is measured in % - part per hundred
Naturally, there is a certain limit below which we don't want to take the carbon dioxide, even if we could. (after all, it would be kinda sad if all the plants started dying on us.)
The oxygen which would be removed in this operation would be negligible.
3. How does this compare with refrigeration or plants as a means to reduce CO2 concentration?
Plants die eventually. And when they do, they release the carbon dioxide again - that is why plants and bio-fuel are said to be carbon-neutral
Being able to extract carbon dioxide from the air and store it - for instance, in crevices deep in the ground (just like the oil we are so merrily pumping up!), will actually reduce the levels, though.
However, it would be more efficient and more interesting to apply this technique to power plants. Coal is really cheap, everybody knows that (besides which, there are huge amounts of coal lying around). What if we could actually use this coal in power plants without the environmental cost that carbon dioxide introduces? Simply imagine one of these carbon-dioxide sequestering gadgets at the top of the chimney of the power plant, and you have that. (Well, there would of course not be a need for any chimney. But you get my point, I think.)
That is the future. (or will hopefully be, anyway - the IPCC recommendations for how to survive global warming relies heavily on carbon sequestering later on.)
(Granted, as people have pointed out, this requires that you solve ways of doing this storage - for instance underground - securely. Having the gas leak back out again wouldn't be such a big hit once you have some thousands of these facilities.)
Good explanation of the scheduler, and what significance it has that it is O(1). (as opposed to some other complexity, where the scheduler would take longer and longer to execute the more processes there are in the queue).
Would have modded up myself if I had the points to do it.
Give me some real, unbiased facts, and I'll maybe make a decision The UN international panel on climate change: http://www.ipcc.ch/
It's a panel compromised of thousands of scientists. You can read about their findings, and if you are not convinced, then read about the methdology to get a picture of whether you believe the research has been carried out in a sound scientific manner.
I recommend you to make your decision soon, though - we are running out of time. Fast.
The F-22 was built to shoot down anything in the sky for the next 20 years - period. It's the most maneuverable machine known to man and can do maneuvers that were physically impossible before it was built and tested. Its vectored thrust is ridiculous - the thing can fly at something like 25 degrees from vertical without stalling. Its stealth beats the B-2 and F-117A by a generational advance. Its avionics and radar can pinpoint targets outside the range of most missiles. You don't need to put more in the sky. A squadron of Raptors would scare the crap out of any air force in the world, if they even had the chance to tell they were up there.
Except when they are suffering major system breakdowns due to crossing a date/latitude line, yes?
that's just the thing - 100 Mib connections are getting standard here now. As long as I download within sweden, I can reach those speeds (or at least 4-5 MiB/s).
For those cases that there are no 100 Mib's out there, one can always simply gather together a couple of 10 Mib's and go at them simultaneously. the ones that haven't upgraded to 100 normally have 10.
more like 2048 seconds. (should have made that 25 GiB perhaps, to clarify. thought it was clear enough however.)
Anyways, I've been on this line now for 2½ years, and haven't made that cap yet. I download what I want - and do it quickly enough for my needs. I don't worry about the data cap.
I guess I would if I put up a major ftp server, but it's not something I'm interested in.
Do you mean whether I could use this bandwidth to download off some server in the US? Yes, I could. There is a limit on the bandwidth usage, though, so that my building don't overextend the fiber that we have. It's at 25 gb/day or something like that, though. (mostly for stopping people from putting up anonymous ftp servers and handing the details around however they want)
why start my own isp? nobody would be interested in it. (besides which, the terms of the internet service states that I may not share it with anybody - they always want to know who's sitting on what IP, since a potential infected computer could do a lot of damage with a 100 Mb connection)
I live in Sweden, and I have 100 Mb / 100 Mb for $15 a month, including a free number of non-dynamic (don't know the correct english term) ip addresses. (got five addresses - one for the internet phone, one for the server, and three for different computer clients.)
It's not just that higher muzzle velocity gives more damages. It can actually be the other way around, as well.
While I did military service (in little Sweden), for instance, we quickly learnt that the reason that a 7.62 machine-gun bullet did less damage than a 5.56 assault rifle bullet was that the 7.62 bullet passed cleanly through the tissue. (in the case that it didn't hit anything major, of course.) Having higher weight but about the same speed means that it doesn't slow down as quickly, so it "just" goes in, and then out again leaving a small outgoing wound. While, on the other hand, a 5.56 bullet would start to tumble around inside whatever it hit, leaving a _much_ bigger outgoing wound.
This is already quite common in Sweden. While they haven't gotten around to photographing very many buildings, at least most of the normal-sized cities are covered.
It is not used primarily for insurance reasons, but as a complement to online maps (i.e. google maps) where you can 'walk' a street by viewing a building, and how it looks looking left or right from that building. Then being able to change viewpoint from one building to another, following the street, can be very useful.
If I'm going somewhere new where I've not been before I normally check out what the building looks like, and how it looks around.
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This means that while it is perfectly possible in theory for soldiers to charge batteries by running around, they will have to exert that extra energy themselves. I doubt that any soldiers (already heavily laden with weapons, body-armour and other gear) will want to wear suit that requires more energy from you for movements than normal suits.
That will have agencies and large corporations running away from ODF - and any successors - right into the welcoming arms of Microsoft.
I almost hoped that it was April, 1st - but when I checked, it was still October. Damn.
The standard metric unit for weight isn't 1000 grams - it is 1 gram. Of course, the 'k' in kg stands for 10^3. Unfortunately, I believe the scientists made a mistake when deciding on the weight of 1 g - IMHO, the standard unit of measure should have been what 1 kg is now as it is a more convenient weight for what we handle in day-to-day life. It was a regrettable mistake with the effect that we mostly speak of "kilos" instead of grams. However, at least I believe that they got the meter and the litre right.
I love the SI system. Everything becomes so much easier :) Try calculating how many square inches there is in one square mile, and you'll get my point..
I think it perfectly possible that it's a military operation. Perhaps not very likely - there are more cyber criminals out there than there are governments interested in this sort of stuff - but not impossible. A government having control over this sort of network could cause immense destruction of the infrastructure of an enemy country. And if it was a military operation, of course they would like it to look like a private thing - until they unleash it in full scale against whatever target they choose. It doesn't even need to have been constructed in anticipation of such an operation - it might just have been created for the having the capabilities if need would arise.
Why not a functional language? I took an erlang course, and one of the speakers was one of the guys developing it at Ericsson. He specifically spoke of its qualities as a functional language.
It is true that the same people were the main creators of Kazaa and Skype. However, those creators had nothing to do with the introduction of spyware into Kazaa. They are not to blame for what others did. The introduction of the spyware was included in Kazaa first after the program was sold from the creators.
And just recently, about 1.6 million data records were stolen from the job application site monster.com - including among other things name, email, telephone numbers, address and which area a user would like to work in. Quite the wet dream of any spammer. http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/20/Monster. com-identity-attack_1.html
Of course, you could cut out all of the car except, for instance, the wheels. The software would then try to find a match for that - and would have to search only among other cars with similar wheels.
This means that yes, you could use for image compression in the sense that the "decompressed" pictures would look fairly correct. However, the actual contents of the picture might change dramatically.
As stated in the summary, details of the protocol is available for those who ask for it. It has not been closed completely. I would also imagine that any changes to the protocol would be communicated to the developer teams of the other main clients.
Of course you can configure and maintain the system remotely, as long as you have the necessary software (basically an ssh server and a text editor..)
It is based on Debian, of course, which really shows when you work with it from the console. I've been running ubuntu for some time now on a server of mine (I'm relatively new to linux) but have never had to install some sort of gui environment. What I do, I do by simply connecting to it by ssh.
They decompose, and the carbon is released into the air again (as carbon dioxide). You are right that a very small part is contained - but it is, really, a very small part.
Guess what coal is. Carbon, collected by plants. Yes, over millions of years.How much coal do you think will be produced that way during our lifetime?
Carbon dioxide concentrations is measured in ppm - parts per million Oxygen concentration is measured in % - part per hundred
Naturally, there is a certain limit below which we don't want to take the carbon dioxide, even if we could. (after all, it would be kinda sad if all the plants started dying on us.)
The oxygen which would be removed in this operation would be negligible.
Plants die eventually. And when they do, they release the carbon dioxide again - that is why plants and bio-fuel are said to be carbon-neutral
Being able to extract carbon dioxide from the air and store it - for instance, in crevices deep in the ground (just like the oil we are so merrily pumping up!), will actually reduce the levels, though.
However, it would be more efficient and more interesting to apply this technique to power plants. Coal is really cheap, everybody knows that (besides which, there are huge amounts of coal lying around). What if we could actually use this coal in power plants without the environmental cost that carbon dioxide introduces? Simply imagine one of these carbon-dioxide sequestering gadgets at the top of the chimney of the power plant, and you have that. (Well, there would of course not be a need for any chimney. But you get my point, I think.)
That is the future. (or will hopefully be, anyway - the IPCC recommendations for how to survive global warming relies heavily on carbon sequestering later on.)
(Granted, as people have pointed out, this requires that you solve ways of doing this storage - for instance underground - securely. Having the gas leak back out again wouldn't be such a big hit once you have some thousands of these facilities.)
Would have modded up myself if I had the points to do it.
It's a panel compromised of thousands of scientists. You can read about their findings, and if you are not convinced, then read about the methdology to get a picture of whether you believe the research has been carried out in a sound scientific manner.
I recommend you to make your decision soon, though - we are running out of time. Fast.
that's just the thing - 100 Mib connections are getting standard here now. As long as I download within sweden, I can reach those speeds (or at least 4-5 MiB/s).
For those cases that there are no 100 Mib's out there, one can always simply gather together a couple of 10 Mib's and go at them simultaneously. the ones that haven't upgraded to 100 normally have 10.
Anyways, I've been on this line now for 2½ years, and haven't made that cap yet. I download what I want - and do it quickly enough for my needs. I don't worry about the data cap.
I guess I would if I put up a major ftp server, but it's not something I'm interested in.
Do you mean whether I could use this bandwidth to download off some server in the US? Yes, I could. There is a limit on the bandwidth usage, though, so that my building don't overextend the fiber that we have. It's at 25 gb/day or something like that, though. (mostly for stopping people from putting up anonymous ftp servers and handing the details around however they want) why start my own isp? nobody would be interested in it. (besides which, the terms of the internet service states that I may not share it with anybody - they always want to know who's sitting on what IP, since a potential infected computer could do a lot of damage with a 100 Mb connection)
I live in Sweden, and I have 100 Mb / 100 Mb for $15 a month, including a free number of non-dynamic (don't know the correct english term) ip addresses. (got five addresses - one for the internet phone, one for the server, and three for different computer clients.)
While I did military service (in little Sweden), for instance, we quickly learnt that the reason that a 7.62 machine-gun bullet did less damage than a 5.56 assault rifle bullet was that the 7.62 bullet passed cleanly through the tissue. (in the case that it didn't hit anything major, of course.) Having higher weight but about the same speed means that it doesn't slow down as quickly, so it "just" goes in, and then out again leaving a small outgoing wound. While, on the other hand, a 5.56 bullet would start to tumble around inside whatever it hit, leaving a _much_ bigger outgoing wound.
This is already quite common in Sweden. While they haven't gotten around to photographing very many buildings, at least most of the normal-sized cities are covered.
& UCSB%3AWflWhite=1a1b&UCSB%3AWflPink=4a&UCSB%3AText BoxWho=&UCSB%3ATextBoxWhere=gibraltargatan+80%2C+g %25u00f6teborg#contactlinks
(clicking 'fler bilder' close to the building picture will give you the view to the left and right, as well. Then click the little left and right arrows to navigate around the street.)
It is not used primarily for insurance reasons, but as a complement to online maps (i.e. google maps) where you can 'walk' a street by viewing a building, and how it looks looking left or right from that building. Then being able to change viewpoint from one building to another, following the street, can be very useful.
If I'm going somewhere new where I've not been before I normally check out what the building looks like, and how it looks around.
An example (of 'my' building): http://www.hitta.se/SearchCombi.aspx?SearchType=4