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Could pass, isn't good enough. If they do pass such a bill, Iceland might offer a useful data center for boardline data (which types?), but I doubt that alone would make it worthwhile offer a transnational data center. For most companies, all they need, is good response to service the equipment they Co-locate they, and easy-access. Iceland is so remote that access would almost be only by the internet, and not physical. I think Iceland will have to grow they're own local internet companies to get they data center used. But perphaps I'm wrong.

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Could pass, isn't good enough. If they do pass such a bill, Iceland might offer a useful data center for boardline data (which types?), but I doubt that alone would make it worthwhile offer a transnational data center. For most companies, all they need, is good response to service the equipment they Co-locate they, and easy-access. Iceland is so remote that access would almost be only by the internet, and not physical. I think Iceland will have to grow they're own local internet companies to get they data center used. But perphaps I'm wrong.

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Shes probably sensible to play something other than the game soundtrack, the game soundtrack is likely threatening, and written for boys. WoW doesn't have a very good soundtrack anyway, i also find it distracting, and its also much to repeative.

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Shes probably sensible to play something other than the game soundtrack, the game soundtrack is likely threatening, and written for boys. WoW doesn't have a very good soundtrack anyway, i also find it distracting, and its also much to repeative.

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Spirit's already run much longer than we thought it would. If this is the end of it, then we've had our value out of it. Looking at its design though its clear, NASA have never watched robot wars. Spirit was built more for science than for robustness, lacking self right mechanism or any special moves to get it out of being stuck.

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Spirit's already run much longer than we thought it would. If this is the end of it, then we've had our value out of it. Looking at its design though its clear, NASA have never watched robot wars. Spirit was built more for science than for robustness, lacking self right mechanism or any special moves to get it out of being stuck.

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that ending a project that took over 15 years and over a hundred shuttle launches, less than 5 years after we finished building it, would be a stupid waste of money. Now the ISS is up there and complete, (couple more launches to go), we should milk it for every use we can get out of it, it cost enough, its unique, and new space station isn't going to happen soon.

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that ending a project that took over 15 years and over a hundred shuttle launches, less than 5 years after we finished building it, would be a stupid waste of money. Now the ISS is up there and complete, (couple more launches to go), we should milk it for every use we can get out of it, it cost enough, its unique, and new space station isn't going to happen soon.

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Tides and Currents will pull the gun out of position. Leaks and Salt water corrosion will damage the steel barrel. The projectile starts that much lower, so needs that much more energy to make it into space. The easiest way to build a gun or gas or electromagnetic launch system that needs a barrel, would be to have the high end on a small mountain near the equator, and the low end on the ground.

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Tides and Currents will pull the gun out of position. Leaks and Salt water corrosion will damage the steel barrel. The projectile starts that much lower, so needs that much more energy to make it into space. The easiest way to build a gun or gas or electromagnetic launch system that needs a barrel, would be to have the high end on a small mountain near the equator, and the low end on the ground.

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Getting the whole of an office to play games after hours, adding mindless repeativitive (but enjoyable) gaming, on top of mindless repeative work. Offers managers the chance of reducing independent thought, having employees in the office for longer, and giving them a escapism in place of any more expensive bonuses (like pay rises), sounds like a management win to me.

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Getting the whole of an office to play games after hours, adding mindless repeativitive (but enjoyable) gaming, on top of mindless repeative work. Offers managers the chance of reducing independent thought, having employees in the office for longer, and giving them a escapism in place of any more expensive bonuses (like pay rises), sounds like a management win to me.

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There's been no big clamour for new top level domains most of us have lived with the available ones for years. But licensing a load more TLD gives domain registories a chance to sell a lot more domains, many of them just extra names for existing sites. So registories make a lot of cash.

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There's been no big clamour for new top level domains most of us have lived with the available ones for years. But licensing a load more TLD gives domain registories a chance to sell a lot more domains, many of them just extra names for existing sites. So registories make a lot of cash.

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Thats on ubuntu, might not be elsewhere. No its isn't fixed on the current ubuntu. So don't use ext4 on ubuntu servers. Your .cpio or whatever other giga plus files might disappear.

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Thats on ubuntu, might not be elsewhere. No its isn't fixed on the current ubuntu. So don't use ext4 on ubuntu servers. Your .cpio or whatever other giga plus files might disappear.

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Ugh, I would have guessed that shift would be top precendence like exponention. Glad you posted that, it will stop some future bugs from me. I would make the excuse that i'm program java more than C. But precendece ordering is the same in Java.

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Ugh, I would have guessed that shift would be top precendence like exponention. Glad you posted that, it will stop some future bugs from me. I would make the excuse that i'm program java more than C. But precendece ordering is the same in Java.

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So the paper are now complaining that tax payers where ripped off because governments brought enough vacine/anti-virials for the worst case. But thats exactly what government should do, and of course the public wants to be safe from what could have been a world wide pandemic. The money isn't entirely wasted, the medinces where general to many flu types, and for as long as the stock pile stays in could condition we'll be safe from newer pandemics. The best viriogist, the WHO and made there prediction, and for once we where prepared. We where lucky the flu wasn't more virilant, and we also showed that we could prepare for a pandemic given six to nine months warning.

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So the paper are now complaining that tax payers where ripped off because governments brought enough vacine/anti-virials for the worst case. But thats exactly what government should do, and of course the public wants to be safe from what could have been a world wide pandemic. The money isn't entirely wasted, the medinces where general to many flu types, and for as long as the stock pile stays in could condition we'll be safe from newer pandemics. The best viriogist, the WHO and made there prediction, and for once we where prepared. We where lucky the flu wasn't more virilant, and we also showed that we could prepare for a pandemic given six to nine months warning.

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I do blame IT at least partially, a business IT center, might well see the wisdom of data encryption everywhere, but competing against this is, how easy it is to recover lost data (damaged disk, lost passwords or encyrption keys), plus the add complexity of managing the system. If it was built into windows i'm sure many more companies would us it. It is built into linux, but not exactly visable, or well known. Better support in OS would i'm sure make encryption much more commonly used.

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I do blame IT at least partially, a business IT center, might well see the wisdom of data encryption everywhere, but competing against this is, how easy it is to recover lost data (damaged disk, lost passwords or encyrption keys), plus the add complexity of managing the system. If it was built into windows i'm sure many more companies would us it. It is built into linux, but not exactly visable, or well known. Better support in OS would i'm sure make encryption much more commonly used.

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I don't quite understand where the high art aspect of this comes from but the pictures on the site, are very blocky coloured cubes, and don't look very artistic at all, to a philestein like me.

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I don't quite understand where the high art aspect of this comes from but the pictures on the site, are very blocky coloured cubes, and don't look very artistic at all, to a philestein like me.

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40 Miles on a charge seems fine to me. I'm willing to bet though that a lot of lazy drivers will choose to power the car on gasoline, whenever they have to go out of there way to get a electric charge up. The article didn't say what mileage the Volt gets per gallon, hope it better than regular gasoline cars.

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40 Miles on a charge seems fine to me. I'm willing to bet though that a lot of lazy drivers will choose to power the car on gasoline, whenever they have to go out of there way to get a electric charge up. The article didn't say what mileage the Volt gets per gallon, hope it better than regular gasoline cars.

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Half of why movies are so expensive is actors and scriptwriters unions and the hollywood monopoly, so far games have much more indepence. But i am suprised at the the cost of these Major games, i'm old enough to rembember when one teenager could write a game on his home computer with a budget of zero. But yes a modern computer game needs a room full of visual design artists and a enough room full of programmers, and lets not forget game play design and testing.

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Half of why movies are so expensive is actors and scriptwriters unions and the hollywood monopoly, so far games have much more indepence. But i am suprised at the the cost of these Major games, i'm old enough to rembember when one teenager could write a game on his home computer with a budget of zero. But yes a modern computer game needs a room full of visual design artists and a enough room full of programmers, and lets not forget game play design and testing.

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Rubbish, weepy love story movies limit birthrate, not porn. Its been many a year since men had much choice in weather to have children. Not tonight darling, i'm sticking to porn until you go back on the pill.

What i'm paranoid about is american multinational ignore the wishes of worldwide consumers and helping enforce local censorship policies at the expense of freedom. This has already happenned with china, where of course is political content rather than sexual content which is suppressed.

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Rubbish, weepy love story movies limit birthrate, not porn. Its been many a year since men had much choice in weather to have children. Not tonight darling, i'm sticking to porn until you go back on the pill.

What i'm paranoid about is american multinational ignore the wishes of worldwide consumers and helping enforce local censorship policies at the expense of freedom. This has already happenned with china, where of course is political content rather than sexual content which is suppressed.

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Bonguerno Signero, Votre entre une wordo per lingua translateation, une letter per tempo.,

--> Aardvark

Errata wordo non lingua franka

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Bonguerno Signero, Votre entre une wordo per lingua translateation, une letter per tempo.,

--> Aardvark

Errata wordo non lingua franka

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That’s very roughly the combined mass of every single car on the United States, squeezed down into the size of a sugar cube.

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That’s very roughly the combined mass of every single car on the United States, squeezed down into the size of a sugar cube.

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Lithographically etching silicon is something we have lot of experience with but build molecules to order to build a chip is something we don't have any infrastructure to do. Eric Dexler famously imagined nanotechnological robots to be build at the molecular scale. And once we have such robot we can use them to build molecular chips or more robots, but without such scifi-esce technology its not obvious how we could build molecular computer chips.

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Lithographically etching silicon is something we have lot of experience with but build molecules to order to build a chip is something we don't have any infrastructure to do. Eric Dexler famously imagined nanotechnological robots to be build at the molecular scale. And once we have such robot we can use them to build molecular chips or more robots, but without such scifi-esce technology its not obvious how we could build molecular computer chips.

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While most of the bacteria are harmless and some help us by using up all the resource a more virulent bacteria might use. I wonder if there are any useful bacteria, maybe even some essential ones. I except soon enough will be drinking genetically engineered probiotics containing bacteria specially designed for specific medical tasks. Its far safer and easier to engineer a bacteria than it is to change the human DNA, and if these bacteria can safely do there job in our skin or guts, why risk modifying human DNA.

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While most of the bacteria are harmless and some help us by using up all the resource a more virulent bacteria might use. I wonder if there are any useful bacteria, maybe even some essential ones. I except soon enough will be drinking genetically engineered probiotics containing bacteria specially designed for specific medical tasks. Its far safer and easier to engineer a bacteria than it is to change the human DNA, and if these bacteria can safely do there job in our skin or guts, why risk modifying human DNA.

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Average lifespan topped up to 35 in England between 1500 and 1700, on those good years, where there wasn't much plague around, infant and childhood mortality rates where horrifically high there.

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Average lifespan topped up to 35 in England between 1500 and 1700, on those good years, where there wasn't much plague around, infant and childhood mortality rates where horrifically high there.

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and not once have the hosting company asked for a password or tried to access the machine. You might want to change providers. While its easy to set up remote access to a machine. Blocking off access from the main keyboard and screen, might not be a good idea, and you're regret it if there's a problem with the networking system.

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and not once have the hosting company asked for a password or tried to access the machine. You might want to change providers. While its easy to set up remote access to a machine. Blocking off access from the main keyboard and screen, might not be a good idea, and you're regret it if there's a problem with the networking system.

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The politics of the world is such that if a drug that mimics alcohol except for all its bad point was produced, it wouldn't be legalised, it would just be lumped in with all the illegal recreation drugs, governments don't have a set safety limit for recreational drug, they are normally against them on principle, however safe they are.

But its also a concern that if synthehol was produced, how would we know if it was safe of not, it would take usage by milliions over they adult lifetime, before we genuinely know weather the chemical was safe.

But good luck to Prof, Knut, who will probably have some very wild parties testing outs his candiate benzodiazepines.

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The politics of the world is such that if a drug that mimics alcohol except for all its bad point was produced, it wouldn't be legalised, it would just be lumped in with all the illegal recreation drugs, governments don't have a set safety limit for recreational drug, they are normally against them on principle, however safe they are.

But its also a concern that if synthehol was produced, how would we know if it was safe of not, it would take usage by milliions over they adult lifetime, before we genuinely know weather the chemical was safe.

But good luck to Prof, Knut, who will probably have some very wild parties testing outs his candiate benzodiazepines.

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If you read the paper, they get between 7 and 30 microwatts per square centimeter of body, thats a tiny ammount, thats not going to power your laptop, and it isn't going to get much better. The human body is only slightly hotter than the room its in, say 38 Celius versus 20. That leads to a tiny Carnot efficenty which is the best physics allows, then you need to factor in that thermocouples and thermoelectric generators are only a few percent efficient, so you end up with a tiny ammount of power generated, it might run a very efficient wrist watch but nothing more.

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If you read the paper, they get between 7 and 30 microwatts per square centimeter of body, thats a tiny ammount, thats not going to power your laptop, and it isn't going to get much better. The human body is only slightly hotter than the room its in, say 38 Celius versus 20. That leads to a tiny Carnot efficenty which is the best physics allows, then you need to factor in that thermocouples and thermoelectric generators are only a few percent efficient, so you end up with a tiny ammount of power generated, it might run a very efficient wrist watch but nothing more.

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I finally upgrade to a blackberry compatible phone, and network goes down, to welcome me.

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I finally upgrade to a blackberry compatible phone, and network goes down, to welcome me.

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8 characters per second, and thats once the user are trained and adjusted to the equipment. It this point it might just be useful for the totally disabled, e.g. Stephen Hawking, but for everybody else these no point. Having demostrated that its possible to interact with a computer via brainwaves, i wonder how much more it will take to produce a userable high speed connection, perphaps it can only be down with new-borns or the very young if the brain need to grow into the interface.

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8 characters per second, and thats once the user are trained and adjusted to the equipment. It this point it might just be useful for the totally disabled, e.g. Stephen Hawking, but for everybody else these no point. Having demostrated that its possible to interact with a computer via brainwaves, i wonder how much more it will take to produce a userable high speed connection, perphaps it can only be down with new-borns or the very young if the brain need to grow into the interface.

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