I flew to Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow 2 weeks ago. There was a separate queue for "e-Passports" so I lined up.
They still put my passport through the scanner - which left me wondering why they bothered to have the special queue at all.
PS. When I flew out the next day the lady at passport control was very friendly and smiling - made me almost forget where I was!
if you are in the *nix world. in windows not so.
has nothing to do with a new computer.
Turkey is largely a HP + Microsoft world in government and large business.
you have to support Turkish!
where simple things like ... path="C:\Program Files" ... path=path.toUpper
will cause PathDoesNotExistException.
You need to go through the whole code base and remove any case-changes that happen with the letter "i" or letter "I".
Because Turkish is the ONLY alphabet where the uppercase version of 7bit "i" has 8 bits!
Undotted i
Last year i wanted to kill a chicken and eat it so I could experience the whole process. All my life I have eaten chicken and never even SEEN the animal - I felt detached from being a meat-eater.
So i visited farm friends - they said they were having chicken for dinner. I killed it (with an axe on a tree-stump), gutted, plucked it and we all ate it for dinner.
I don't have nightmares, have not become an axe murderer and am not planning my next kill.
Friends and family thought I was mad, insensitive and cruel.
I told a Chinese friend and he just said, "Yeah, did that all the time as a kid".
In second year university physics in the late 80's I had to do an experiment observing positron annihilation by counting gamma ray energies around 511 keV. We used some tiny radioactive source which emitted positrons (which one it was I can't remember positron emitters, but Wolfram Alpha is cool). The source was stored in a lead-lined safe and we were given radioactive tabs to watch our dosage.
The workbench was surrounded on 3 sides by lead-walls so we were safe in the lab. Just behind the bench was a concrete brick wall and behind that a major staircase in the physics department. So out I went with the Geiger Counter and found the highest readings were naturally outside on the stairs.
When I came into the lab the next day, my gamma-ray counter was gone. I found it in a chem lab watching a bucket of water with hydrogen bubbling through it. Fleischmann and Ponns had just made their famous announcement.
I had to write enterprise code 2 months ago in a vb6 dialect with no external objects and needed a sort routine - I had to implement quicksort myself. And make my own data structures.
So I think a lot of these things are still going to stay with us.
And I needed to implement SOAP in LotusNotes6 two years ago to call web-services.
"ON ERROR GOTO" is still alive and well if you don't have try-catch
Google only shows you where to find the torrent files - and doesn't know who is downloading the files.
TPB also has the torrent files and knows EXACTLY who is downloading the files NOW, and categorizes everything nicely for you.
If you think about it - EVERY file over 50Mb in the TV category is probably illegal - so their argument about not being able to know is nonsense.
Fantasy is where the author creates his OWN world and laws and cosmology in which his story unfolds.
Science Fiction is about THIS world and laws and cosmology - just maybe "bent" a bit - or looking over the horizon.
Now tell me what "long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away" and "the force be with you" mean and you understand what fantasy is.
I went to Tashkent in Uzbekistan in 1993. The street map available everywhere for the city was so wrong - straight roads were crooked, corners were straightened, intersections were moved. Either very bad mapmaking or deliberate intent.
Does "Earthlike" (9.8m/s2, 20degC, H20) really mean inhabitable?
You also want (80% N2, 18% O2, 200ppm CO2), and isn't the consensus that you only get that 18% O2 from organisms and lots of time. so it seems to me that "habitable"="inhabited", otherwise you're only gonna find a sandy desert/ocean with a NxOy/COx atmosphere at best.
Many people think that "Speech recognition software" = "dictation software" - as is clear from many comments here. That is not simply the case. Dictation is just one application of speech recognition - and a personal application at that - which is the only thing most people come across.
Other applications are media transcription (closed captioning), media mining "What did Obama say about the prime mortgage market this week?", telephone call center controlling (Are our staff using naughty words? Is the customer using aggressive language?), telephone call mining ("bomb", "anthrax",...), indexing vast audio archives of news broadcasts (keyword/topic tagging), aligning audio to human transcription (documentaries, DVD subtitles, witness testimonies, court or parliament proceedings - think of any event that is transcribed like UN conferences), etc.
Don't you think CNN, BBC or any national film archive would be interested in searching through there millions of hours of recorded footage?
Now you tell me - do you think that the holy grail of speech recognition is "HAL - please close the hatch", "Dear Mom, we are having a lovely time here..." or hearing any TV show in any language you want, or calling anyone in the world and being able to talk to them in your own language?
Dictation Software is about the only speech-reco application that can be sold to the masses - all the rest is still fairly much below the horizon...
Collisions on a solar level simply don't happen.
Taking this up to a galatic level - if 2 galaxies collide, they will pass through each other without any star hitting any other star.
The centre of our galaxy has an insane high density of stars, but their are only collisions between stars on the order of 10's or 100's of millions of years.
Not only is Aluminium "solid electricity" requiring 3 electrons per atom, and it's the 5th lightest metal, it is a horrible pollutor.
The carbon rods used as anodes burn spectacularly producing vast amounts of C02, and the cryolite that the Aluminium Oxide is melted in releases flourine(!) gas.
You can forget Aluminium totally as a way to get to your 'green' car.
My blackberries do not rule my life. They grow wild behind my house and are only pickable in August-September, which means 10 months of the year I don't have to concern myself with them at all.
I also only pick when I am at home and the weather is nice and my kids pester me for them. I never pick at night because I don't want to lose an eye or perforate myself if I fall off my "picking-plank".
My productivity has however now decreased also in May - June because I planted a strawberry bed with 8 different varieties. The blueberries will take 3 to 4 years before they yield fruit.
Some other things it can do that firefox can't
-doesn't need installing ie
-can run off a USB stick
-can be installed without admin permissions
-start in less that 20 seconds (Have you ever seen firefox do that?)
-not require 80M of RAM after half an hour
-print a page without chopping of the last words on the right side
There are a lot of people in Europe talking about canola as a way of producing biofuel.
But I have seen no one talking about the environmental and biodiversity devastation coming from using x% of europe's or china's or brazil's agricultural land for sugar or canola production.
I don't see how biofuels are a solution - they will just lead to faster deforestation/erosion/water pollution etc.
(I am no advocate of oil, I just want to hear about the dangers of large monocultures)
alpha particles are not harmless, they just don't travel very far. You probably remember being told in highschool physics that a tissue paper could stop them, but you need lots of lead to stop gamma rays. What's important is how much energy they have, and what stopped the energy - the piece of tissue paper or lead atoms or your skin cells, and what byproducts there might be.
All you need to do is mix LOTS of flour with water. it is then a thick paste. Hit it with a hammer at it cracks like a solid under the shock before it instantly reliquifies
Slashdot Mirror
I am in Orlando next week and am sincerely hoping everyday they delay until late July - this would be my only chance in life to see a shuttle launch.
I flew to Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow 2 weeks ago. There was a separate queue for "e-Passports" so I lined up. They still put my passport through the scanner - which left me wondering why they bothered to have the special queue at all. PS. When I flew out the next day the lady at passport control was very friendly and smiling - made me almost forget where I was!
if you are in the *nix world. in windows not so. has nothing to do with a new computer. Turkey is largely a HP + Microsoft world in government and large business.
you have to support Turkish! where simple things like
... path="C:\Program Files"
... path=path.toUpper
will cause PathDoesNotExistException.
You need to go through the whole code base and remove any case-changes that happen with the letter "i" or letter "I".
Because Turkish is the ONLY alphabet where the uppercase version of 7bit "i" has 8 bits! Undotted i
Last year i wanted to kill a chicken and eat it so I could experience the whole process. All my life I have eaten chicken and never even SEEN the animal - I felt detached from being a meat-eater. So i visited farm friends - they said they were having chicken for dinner. I killed it (with an axe on a tree-stump), gutted, plucked it and we all ate it for dinner. I don't have nightmares, have not become an axe murderer and am not planning my next kill. Friends and family thought I was mad, insensitive and cruel. I told a Chinese friend and he just said, "Yeah, did that all the time as a kid".
and I got this error message many hours before slashdot ran the story. So it was slashdotted long before being slashdotted
Can't GPS + accelerometer = compass ?
In second year university physics in the late 80's I had to do an experiment observing positron annihilation by counting gamma ray energies around 511 keV. We used some tiny radioactive source which emitted positrons (which one it was I can't remember positron emitters, but Wolfram Alpha is cool). The source was stored in a lead-lined safe and we were given radioactive tabs to watch our dosage. The workbench was surrounded on 3 sides by lead-walls so we were safe in the lab. Just behind the bench was a concrete brick wall and behind that a major staircase in the physics department. So out I went with the Geiger Counter and found the highest readings were naturally outside on the stairs. When I came into the lab the next day, my gamma-ray counter was gone. I found it in a chem lab watching a bucket of water with hydrogen bubbling through it. Fleischmann and Ponns had just made their famous announcement.
I had to write enterprise code 2 months ago in a vb6 dialect with no external objects and needed a sort routine - I had to implement quicksort myself. And make my own data structures. So I think a lot of these things are still going to stay with us. And I needed to implement SOAP in LotusNotes6 two years ago to call web-services. "ON ERROR GOTO" is still alive and well if you don't have try-catch
Google only shows you where to find the torrent files - and doesn't know who is downloading the files. TPB also has the torrent files and knows EXACTLY who is downloading the files NOW, and categorizes everything nicely for you. If you think about it - EVERY file over 50Mb in the TV category is probably illegal - so their argument about not being able to know is nonsense.
Do you have SafeSearch Filtering on or off on Google Images?
just remember Bruce can handle just about anything
Fantasy is where the author creates his OWN world and laws and cosmology in which his story unfolds. Science Fiction is about THIS world and laws and cosmology - just maybe "bent" a bit - or looking over the horizon. Now tell me what "long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away" and "the force be with you" mean and you understand what fantasy is.
I went to Tashkent in Uzbekistan in 1993. The street map available everywhere for the city was so wrong - straight roads were crooked, corners were straightened, intersections were moved. Either very bad mapmaking or deliberate intent.
Danger Will Robinson! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger,_Will_Robinson
Does "Earthlike" (9.8m/s2, 20degC, H20) really mean inhabitable? You also want (80% N2, 18% O2, 200ppm CO2), and isn't the consensus that you only get that 18% O2 from organisms and lots of time. so it seems to me that "habitable"="inhabited", otherwise you're only gonna find a sandy desert/ocean with a NxOy/COx atmosphere at best.
Many people think that "Speech recognition software" = "dictation software" - as is clear from many comments here. That is not simply the case. Dictation is just one application of speech recognition - and a personal application at that - which is the only thing most people come across. Other applications are media transcription (closed captioning), media mining "What did Obama say about the prime mortgage market this week?", telephone call center controlling (Are our staff using naughty words? Is the customer using aggressive language?), telephone call mining ("bomb", "anthrax", ...), indexing vast audio archives of news broadcasts (keyword/topic tagging), aligning audio to human transcription (documentaries, DVD subtitles, witness testimonies, court or parliament proceedings - think of any event that is transcribed like UN conferences), etc.
Don't you think CNN, BBC or any national film archive would be interested in searching through there millions of hours of recorded footage?
Now you tell me - do you think that the holy grail of speech recognition is "HAL - please close the hatch", "Dear Mom, we are having a lovely time here..." or hearing any TV show in any language you want, or calling anyone in the world and being able to talk to them in your own language?
Dictation Software is about the only speech-reco application that can be sold to the masses - all the rest is still fairly much below the horizon...
Collisions on a solar level simply don't happen. Taking this up to a galatic level - if 2 galaxies collide, they will pass through each other without any star hitting any other star. The centre of our galaxy has an insane high density of stars, but their are only collisions between stars on the order of 10's or 100's of millions of years.
Not only is Aluminium "solid electricity" requiring 3 electrons per atom, and it's the 5th lightest metal, it is a horrible pollutor. The carbon rods used as anodes burn spectacularly producing vast amounts of C02, and the cryolite that the Aluminium Oxide is melted in releases flourine(!) gas. You can forget Aluminium totally as a way to get to your 'green' car.
My blackberries do not rule my life. They grow wild behind my house and are only pickable in August-September, which means 10 months of the year I don't have to concern myself with them at all. I also only pick when I am at home and the weather is nice and my kids pester me for them. I never pick at night because I don't want to lose an eye or perforate myself if I fall off my "picking-plank". My productivity has however now decreased also in May - June because I planted a strawberry bed with 8 different varieties. The blueberries will take 3 to 4 years before they yield fruit.
now try it again with browzer
Some other things it can do that firefox can't -doesn't need installing ie -can run off a USB stick -can be installed without admin permissions -start in less that 20 seconds (Have you ever seen firefox do that?) -not require 80M of RAM after half an hour -print a page without chopping of the last words on the right side
There are a lot of people in Europe talking about canola as a way of producing biofuel. But I have seen no one talking about the environmental and biodiversity devastation coming from using x% of europe's or china's or brazil's agricultural land for sugar or canola production. I don't see how biofuels are a solution - they will just lead to faster deforestation/erosion/water pollution etc. (I am no advocate of oil, I just want to hear about the dangers of large monocultures)
alpha particles are not harmless, they just don't travel very far. You probably remember being told in highschool physics that a tissue paper could stop them, but you need lots of lead to stop gamma rays. What's important is how much energy they have, and what stopped the energy - the piece of tissue paper or lead atoms or your skin cells, and what byproducts there might be.
All you need to do is mix LOTS of flour with water. it is then a thick paste. Hit it with a hammer at it cracks like a solid under the shock before it instantly reliquifies