Is it just me, or did these "zero day exploits" suddenly come out of nowhere?
We used to hear about all kinds of interesting security vulnerabilities, flaws, buffer overruns, etc. Did someone reclassify everything as a "zero day exploit"?
Like worms, but real time. When playing with 3 or more people in the same room or house, the screaming will wake the dead. Much worse if some alcohol is involved.
Exactly 0 degrees Celsius at standard temperature and pressure.
Until 1954, the Celsius scale was calibrated to the freezing and boiling points of water. Now they use a fancy calibration method involving absolute zero and the triple point (temperature and pressure where gas, liquid and solid phases are stable) of a special type of water.
I don't know if you realize this, but the idea that dinosaurs were an incapable species is a myth?
The dinosaur metaphor can still work!
The big-ass meteor is a new technology that eliminates the need for data centres. Data centres will go extinct, like the dinosaurs.
Following the meteor strike, mammal species thrive to the present day -- a newer and different technology that is better suited for the post-meteor global climate.
We don't need Venus for that, we can already see very old rock samples from the very beginnings of the solar system. They are called chondritic asteroids.
Basically, chondrites are rocks that have been floating around in space since before the solar system was formed. From this we can deduce the bulk chemical composition of the Earth, among other things, because the solar system formed when the planets and the Sun accreted out of a cloud of chondritic dust particles. Many asteroids in the solar system (including the Oort cloud) are thought to be left overs from the formation of the solar system, that never became part of a planet or the Sun.
In geochemistry, rocks are often studied by comparing their chemical composition to that of chondrites. This lets you see in which elements the Earth rocks are enriched or depleted, compared to chondrites. This in turn can help you figure out the geological processes that may have acted on the rock, to bring it to its current state.
Dual booting is okay for games, but how about when you want to play music in the background?
Looks like it's time to stop whining, and make a decision about how you're going to solve this problem.
Here's an idea. Prepare in advance. Burn an audio CD (or MP3 CD if your audio system can play those) with the play list you want to hear during your gaming. Burn multiple discs if you have a multiple CD changer. Then pop 'em all in, boot into Windows, and game away. An advantage is that you can change tracks on your CD player without having to switch to your media player.
Or just keep all your music on an NTFS partition. (Yes, just do it and get over it. Once you manage to cross this psychological barrier, you will enjoy increased self-confidence as a bonus.)
Or just have a second computer where you keep all your music, shared over your LAN. Connect this computer to your audio system. You can get an older Pentium perfect for this purpose, for less than $200.
Either way, I don't believe that you absolutely need to have your 20 gigabyte music collection playing on random while you play games.
The people who have been saying that electrons travel at some significant fraction of the speed of light, therefore the information travels down the wire at that speed, bla bla bla, are WRONG.
Electrons in a conductor (that has not been cooled to absolute zero) move around very quickly in random directions, on the order of 10e6 m/s. When a potential difference (voltage) is applied, the electrons still move around in random directions, but now they have a net direction of movement; that is they "drift", being "pushed" by the applied electric potential. In every day situations, the drift speed is typically on the order of 3.6 to 36 cm PER HOUR (10e-5 to 10e-4 m/s). This is the velocity at which the electric current "moves" through the wire.
Signals travel through the wire as disturbances in the electric field among the electrons (i.e. waves). This speed is either very close to, or exactly, c.
Think of ripples on a pond -- the ripples travel much farther and faster than the water molecules themselves.
Reference: Fundamentals of Physics (6th ed) Vol.2, 2001, by Halliday, Resnick and Walker
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...to send some tube steak to my (female) friends (with benefits) when I'm not there in person!
So does your mom.
Is it just me, or did these "zero day exploits" suddenly come out of nowhere?
We used to hear about all kinds of interesting security vulnerabilities, flaws, buffer overruns, etc. Did someone reclassify everything as a "zero day exploit"?
Like worms, but real time. When playing with 3 or more people in the same room or house, the screaming will wake the dead. Much worse if some alcohol is involved.
http://lieroxtreme.thegaminguniverse.com/
Exactly 0 degrees Celsius at standard temperature and pressure.
Until 1954, the Celsius scale was calibrated to the freezing and boiling points of water. Now they use a fancy calibration method involving absolute zero and the triple point (temperature and pressure where gas, liquid and solid phases are stable) of a special type of water.
The dinosaur metaphor can still work!
The big-ass meteor is a new technology that eliminates the need for data centres. Data centres will go extinct, like the dinosaurs.
Following the meteor strike, mammal species thrive to the present day -- a newer and different technology that is better suited for the post-meteor global climate.
:-)
We don't need Venus for that, we can already see very old rock samples from the very beginnings of the solar system. They are called chondritic asteroids.
Basically, chondrites are rocks that have been floating around in space since before the solar system was formed. From this we can deduce the bulk chemical composition of the Earth, among other things, because the solar system formed when the planets and the Sun accreted out of a cloud of chondritic dust particles. Many asteroids in the solar system (including the Oort cloud) are thought to be left overs from the formation of the solar system, that never became part of a planet or the Sun.
In geochemistry, rocks are often studied by comparing their chemical composition to that of chondrites. This lets you see in which elements the Earth rocks are enriched or depleted, compared to chondrites. This in turn can help you figure out the geological processes that may have acted on the rock, to bring it to its current state.
Looks like it's time to stop whining, and make a decision about how you're going to solve this problem.
Here's an idea. Prepare in advance. Burn an audio CD (or MP3 CD if your audio system can play those) with the play list you want to hear during your gaming. Burn multiple discs if you have a multiple CD changer. Then pop 'em all in, boot into Windows, and game away. An advantage is that you can change tracks on your CD player without having to switch to your media player.
Or just keep all your music on an NTFS partition. (Yes, just do it and get over it. Once you manage to cross this psychological barrier, you will enjoy increased self-confidence as a bonus.)
Or just have a second computer where you keep all your music, shared over your LAN. Connect this computer to your audio system. You can get an older Pentium perfect for this purpose, for less than $200.
Either way, I don't believe that you absolutely need to have your 20 gigabyte music collection playing on random while you play games.
The people who have been saying that electrons travel at some significant fraction of the speed of light, therefore the information travels down the wire at that speed, bla bla bla, are WRONG.
Electrons in a conductor (that has not been cooled to absolute zero) move around very quickly in random directions, on the order of 10e6 m/s. When a potential difference (voltage) is applied, the electrons still move around in random directions, but now they have a net direction of movement; that is they "drift", being "pushed" by the applied electric potential. In every day situations, the drift speed is typically on the order of 3.6 to 36 cm PER HOUR (10e-5 to 10e-4 m/s). This is the velocity at which the electric current "moves" through the wire.
Signals travel through the wire as disturbances in the electric field among the electrons (i.e. waves). This speed is either very close to, or exactly, c.
Think of ripples on a pond -- the ripples travel much farther and faster than the water molecules themselves.
Reference: Fundamentals of Physics (6th ed) Vol.2, 2001, by Halliday, Resnick and Walker
From TFA:
"...though it would at first be limited to treating simple, accidental injuries."
As opposed to complicated, intentional injuries?