I happen to know from experience that less than a minute often is enough to get infected if your (Windoze)system is not patched. I used to work for a computer repairshop and the standard preload on our test-hdd was Windows XP (No servicepacks at all). When we had to test modems we connected to the internet and more often then not in about 10 seconds(!) it started it 30 seconds countdown because it was infected with (IIRC) Blaster. Not so much a problem because we now knew the modem worked and had the tools to remove Blaster (or whatever showed up), but I think 26 minutes before getting infected is a rather conservative value. IMHO you have been extremely lucky, but of course the various servicepacks add protection too. Just my 0.02 Euro.
I was wondering myself also when I first saw it. According to the article (2nd link in parent) it's a WWAN antenna (Wireless Wide Area Network). Another mystery solved!
You can block unwanted popups. That means nothing will pop up on any site that you didn't 'ask for' by clicking a link. Links that are supposed to open popups do though. Works perfectly, it's been a loooooong time ago that I've seen anything unwanted pop up on me. I don't know what it means to make a site trusted, but if it has to do with accepting cookies you can do that with server-manager. I think that if you take a little time you'll find out that these things are just as easy or even easier to do in Opera as they are in Firefox.
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You can create a second window that is hard linked to a first window, though why you would do that is beyond me.
I use that feature often on sites that have a menu-structure over many pages, i.e. Main menu with links to sub-menus on other pages which have menus linked to other pages.... Just open the main page and you have the main menu. Then create a linked page,open a link on the main menu page and the chosen second level menu comes up in the linked page.Repeat procedure with linked page (create a page linked to the previously linked page) and voila: third level menu ready.Repeat again, and the desired page can be admired on the last page. Now set every page up as a column on the screen that just fits the menu's and a broad column for the pages you want to see, and you can go everywhere you want on the site without endless going back to previous level menu's in just a few clicks. It is a really useful feature and I for one just love it!
If astrology would work, she should have seen it coming, wouldn't she? So either she is worthless as an astrologist, what makes her claim even more unrealistic, or astrology does not work, what makes her claim totally nonsensical.
...represented the right to know, or decide, whats good and bad. By eating of it, Adam demonstrated that *he* wanted to be the one to make that decision....
But since he had no way of knowing this would be bad (he hadn't eaten the apple yet, remember?), he just did it. In my eyes you are innocent if you don't know that what you are doing is bad. God may have told him, but even then...
But who can seriously believe these fairytales, jeez!
If you RTFA, you might find out it's a 10-finger typing system. Most of the keys are on the underside of the thing. Apparently the positioning of the wrists, arms and fingers are a lot more ergonomical than when using a normal keyboard.
and 'our' (Dutch) minister of agriculture.He thinks he's God and voted in favour of sw-patents despite the Dutch parliament told him to vote against. For some reason the parliament has not punished him for that, probably because he is a member of a small party that gives 'our' ruling coalition it's majority. But that's all local politics, so I won't bother you with that...
IIRC MS had patented their fileformats. So, no matter what, if you want to make use of them, you will have to cough up their fees. And if MS decides not to licence FOSS-developers, it will just cut FOSS marketshare. I'm not sure if I like it....
I think it won't be a problem. It's the same with static discharge: You have a big potential difference but just a very small amount of charge (electrons). After a very short high current all charge is moved and the difference in potential is neutralized. The current might be high, but the total energy involved is too small to matter. It's like switching on a 10kW lamp for 0,0001 second. The lamp won't even get warm.
I followed the links and found out the stolen site has a forum. It seemed a good idea to post a message containing the now official URL of Toni Arts's site and the fact the site was stolen. I doubt if my post will stay on the forum for a long time, but a little/.-ing might be fit....
Same here. I have never been in a class at school of which I knew all names/faces even at the end of the year. If I meet people I work with every day at other places then at work, chances are big I won't recognise them. Sometimes even at work I have to think for a minute until I remember a collegue's name. If someone unmasked would rob me by clear daylight I would literally not be able to pick that person from a line-up even five minutes later if my life depended on it. It is no fun, but I'm glad to see here that I am not the only one suffering from this.
I happen to work at an IBM repair shop (IANAIBM-er though) and I can tell you in all honesty that the T42 is still as good as the other IBM laptops were/are. So you will take more of a risk getting a Gateway then you would take with an IBM. Of course I can't tell you what will happen to the quality level in three years. (If I could, I'd have a better paying job:-) ).
While it is true the waterlevel will not be affected when the ice is melting, I think trouble might start when the extra water reaches a temparature over 4 degrees centigrade, wich is the temperature where water has it's highest density (and thus smallest volume). Above and below that water will expand, and at a certain point will take more volume then it displaced as ice. Don't ask me at wich temperature that would be, but I'm not at all sure it won't be reached.
Although I mostly use Opera (works just a bit better then FF for me, although FF is pretty close now), whenever I come at a page that does not render properly in Opera or FF I always look for a 'contact'-possibillity on the site and use it to inform the webmaster. I give a description of the problems, tell them wich browser(s) I use (and that I use IE only at gunpoint:-) ) and ask them to do something about it. Many times I get an answer that this problem was unknown and will be looked at. It's been a long time ago that I got an answer in the sense of "Well, maybe YOU have a problem, but all the rest of our clients/visitors use IE and it works for them so we won't change a thing". (But no answer is still not uncommon, alas). So if you experience (sp?) problems with a site, tell the webmaster. (S)He will find out that IE is NOT the only browser in this world and many times pay attention to the problems.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but here in Europe software patents threaten to become law here too. Although the European people were against them and the European Parliament (sp?) had them watered down in a way it would hardly effect the industry here, the European Commission (most probably bought by M$ and the likes) has decided to propose an even worse variation of the original proposal for law here. Most times if the EC proposes a law, it has become a hammer-piece. As a European (Dutch) i keep asking myself what part of the EU government is supposed to be democratic.
Oooookaay....Let's start with the fact that i'm NOT a 'knowing participant' etc. So I'll leave the 20 meter tall objects for what they are, okay? As far as I could see the pages you link to belong to the uranium industrials (would not be my favorite source of independent information) and only mention the handling of the uranium after concentrating and transport to the enrichment plants. I might be wrong (I'm human), but I don't see any mention of the energy used for mining, concentration of the uranium, transport etc.
The information I have comes mostly from several books I read, mostly from the anti-nuclear power side, I admit. But I think that, with the amount of money going on in the nuclear energy business, A LOT of information is kept hidden by the (nuclear) powers-that-be (pun intended). So, if even half of everything I have read would be true, I still would not go for nuclear. You won't ever hear me say other powersources are without any drawbacks, several of which are mentioned in this thread, but I think there is no way you can responsively use nuclear power.
I may be wrong, I almost/even hope I am, but that is my vision. I gave my reasons in my earlier posts and have not seen any information yet that proves me wrong. Remember, you have to take into account the WHOLE process, from ore-in-the-ground to thousands of years lifethreatening waste. The useful phase where energy is generated is practically zero in that perspective. (I used to be very pro nuke in the past, until I started reading some stuff about the other side of the story that you won't find in the common media. Try some of it too!)
BTW, interesting link in your sig! I can recommend following THAT one to everyone:-)
Okay, I RTFA you linked to. Did it occur to you that it ONLY talks about the energy-generating phase (the relative clean part of the cycle) and not a word about the mining, enrichment, waste etc.? BTW, the amount of energy used to produce uranium fuel takes about 90% of a reactor's lifetime to win back, so effective energy gain is not really big. And CO2? Same story: in the pre-energy-generating phase is at least as much CO2 released as a coal plant would have for the same amount of energy. The argument used in the article about the energy-content of the waste of a coal plant being greater than that of the coal itself is false. I could use the same argument for natural gas: One of the products released by combustion of gas is water. Water contains hydrogen, and in a fusion-reactor you can get a lot more energy from that than the gas it came from contained.
Indeed, burning coal does release *small* amounts of radio-active material, can't deny that one. Problem with uranium is that it's percentage in the mined ore is very low (IIRC ca. 1%). The rest of the ore exists for a much higher percentage (IIRC ca.10%) of material that is at least as radioactive as uranium, has about the same or longer halftime (some are much more radioactive but have a shorter halftime), but is unusable for reactors. ALL this material is brought up, the uranium is severed from it and the rest is dumped, in most cases above ground, free to be blown everywhere, leak into your groundwater and do other funny things no-one in the nuclear industry wants you to know about. POOF! There goes another argument!
Sorry to disappoint you, but nuclear power also uses steam, generated by nuclear fission. I won't go into the environmental risks of nuke power, cause I will be modded troll for it (happened in earlier posts), but in the total cycle uranium and plutonium go through from mining (just uranium) to waste product, the only stage that is 'clean' is when it's used for generating electricity. Everything before and after is heavily polluting and does not even outweigh coal. Of course the nuclear industry only shows you the energy-production stage, that, indeed, is rather clean.
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His link points to a site that effectively debunks all 'hoax-believers' arguments. Where are modpoints when you need them?
I happen to know from experience that less than a minute often is enough to get infected if your (Windoze)system is not patched. I used to work for a computer repairshop and the standard preload on our test-hdd was Windows XP (No servicepacks at all). When we had to test modems we connected to the internet and more often then not in about 10 seconds(!) it started it 30 seconds countdown because it was infected with (IIRC) Blaster. Not so much a problem because we now knew the modem worked and had the tools to remove Blaster (or whatever showed up), but I think 26 minutes before getting infected is a rather conservative value. IMHO you have been extremely lucky, but of course the various servicepacks add protection too. Just my 0.02 Euro.
I was wondering myself also when I first saw it. According to the article (2nd link in parent) it's a WWAN antenna (Wireless Wide Area Network). Another mystery solved!
You can block unwanted popups. That means nothing will pop up on any site that you didn't 'ask for' by clicking a link. Links that are supposed to open popups do though. Works perfectly, it's been a loooooong time ago that I've seen anything unwanted pop up on me.
I don't know what it means to make a site trusted, but if it has to do with accepting cookies you can do that with server-manager.
I think that if you take a little time you'll find out that these things are just as easy or even easier to do in Opera as they are in Firefox.
You can create a second window that is hard linked to a first window, though why you would do that is beyond me.
I use that feature often on sites that have a menu-structure over many pages, i.e. Main menu with links to sub-menus on other pages which have menus linked to other pages....
Just open the main page and you have the main menu. Then create a linked page,open a link on the main menu page and the chosen second level menu comes up in the linked page.Repeat procedure with linked page (create a page linked to the previously linked page) and voila: third level menu ready.Repeat again, and the desired page can be admired on the last page.
Now set every page up as a column on the screen that just fits the menu's and a broad column for the pages you want to see, and you can go everywhere you want on the site without endless going back to previous level menu's in just a few clicks. It is a really useful feature and I for one just love it!
If astrology would work, she should have seen it coming, wouldn't she? So either she is worthless as an astrologist, what makes her claim even more unrealistic, or astrology does not work, what makes her claim totally nonsensical.
...represented the right to know, or decide, whats good and bad. By eating of it, Adam demonstrated that *he* wanted to be the one to make that decision....
But since he had no way of knowing this would be bad (he hadn't eaten the apple yet, remember?), he just did it. In my eyes you are innocent if you don't know that what you are doing is bad. God may have told him, but even then...
But who can seriously believe these fairytales, jeez!
Popups??? What popups????
If you RTFA, you might find out it's a 10-finger typing system. Most of the keys are on the underside of the thing. Apparently the positioning of the wrists, arms and fingers are a lot more ergonomical than when using a normal keyboard.
Wow, am I wrong here! :-(
But Brinkhorst DID vote for sw-pats, didn't he? Or am I wrong in that aspect too?
I allways confuse persons and functions
and 'our' (Dutch) minister of agriculture.He thinks he's God and voted in favour of sw-patents despite the Dutch parliament told him to vote against. For some reason the parliament has not punished him for that, probably because he is a member of a small party that gives 'our' ruling coalition it's majority. But that's all local politics, so I won't bother you with that...
IIRC MS had patented their fileformats. So, no matter what, if you want to make use of them, you will have to cough up their fees. And if MS decides not to licence FOSS-developers, it will just cut FOSS marketshare. I'm not sure if I like it....
I think it won't be a problem. It's the same with static discharge: You have a big potential difference but just a very small amount of charge (electrons). After a very short high current all charge is moved and the difference in potential is neutralized. The current might be high, but the total energy involved is too small to matter. It's like switching on a 10kW lamp for 0,0001 second. The lamp won't even get warm.
I followed the links and found out the stolen site has a forum. It seemed a good idea to post a message containing the now official URL of Toni Arts's site and the fact the site was stolen. /.-ing might be fit....
I doubt if my post will stay on the forum for a long time, but a little
Same here. I have never been in a class at school of which I knew all names/faces even at the end of the year. If I meet people I work with every day at other places then at work, chances are big I won't recognise them. Sometimes even at work I have to think for a minute until I remember a collegue's name. If someone unmasked would rob me by clear daylight I would literally not be able to pick that person from a line-up even five minutes later if my life depended on it.
It is no fun, but I'm glad to see here that I am not the only one suffering from this.
I happen to work at an IBM repair shop (IANAIBM-er though) and I can tell you in all honesty that the T42 is still as good as the other IBM laptops were/are. So you will take more of a risk getting a Gateway then you would take with an IBM. Of course I can't tell you what will happen to the quality level in three years. (If I could, I'd have a better paying job :-) ).
While it is true the waterlevel will not be affected when the ice is melting, I think trouble might start when the extra water reaches a temparature over 4 degrees centigrade, wich is the temperature where water has it's highest density (and thus smallest volume). Above and below that water will expand, and at a certain point will take more volume then it displaced as ice. Don't ask me at wich temperature that would be, but I'm not at all sure it won't be reached.
Although I mostly use Opera (works just a bit better then FF for me, although FF is pretty close now), whenever I come at a page that does not render properly in Opera or FF I always look for a 'contact'-possibillity on the site and use it to inform the webmaster. :-) ) and ask them to do something about it. Many times I get an answer that this problem was unknown and will be looked at. It's been a long time ago that I got an answer in the sense of "Well, maybe YOU have a problem, but all the rest of our clients/visitors use IE and it works for them so we won't change a thing". (But no answer is still not uncommon, alas).
I give a description of the problems, tell them wich browser(s) I use (and that I use IE only at gunpoint
So if you experience (sp?) problems with a site, tell the webmaster. (S)He will find out that IE is NOT the only browser in this world and many times pay attention to the problems.
...a Mg spread out over a field of grass is all but inconsequential...
Uhhh....a ton Pu inconsequential? I think the surviving grass would glow on the dark enough to read a newspaper by. Maybe you meant a mg?
(Yeah, I know I'm nitpicking here, but I just felt like it!)
Sorry to rain on your parade, but here in Europe software patents threaten to become law here too. Although the European people were against them and the European Parliament (sp?) had them watered down in a way it would hardly effect the industry here, the European Commission (most probably bought by M$ and the likes) has decided to propose an even worse variation of the original proposal for law here. Most times if the EC proposes a law, it has become a hammer-piece. .
As a European (Dutch) i keep asking myself what part of the EU government is supposed to be democratic
Oooookaay....Let's start with the fact that i'm NOT a 'knowing participant' etc. So I'll leave the 20 meter tall objects for what they are, okay?
:-)
As far as I could see the pages you link to belong to the uranium industrials (would not be my favorite source of independent information) and only mention the handling of the uranium after concentrating and transport to the enrichment plants. I might be wrong (I'm human), but I don't see any mention of the energy used for mining, concentration of the uranium, transport etc.
The information I have comes mostly from several books I read, mostly from the anti-nuclear power side, I admit. But I think that, with the amount of money going on in the nuclear energy business, A LOT of information is kept hidden by the (nuclear) powers-that-be (pun intended). So, if even half of everything I have read would be true, I still would not go for nuclear. You won't ever hear me say other powersources are without any drawbacks, several of which are mentioned in this thread, but I think there is no way you can responsively use nuclear power.
I may be wrong, I almost/even hope I am, but that is my vision. I gave my reasons in my earlier posts and have not seen any information yet that proves me wrong. Remember, you have to take into account the WHOLE process, from ore-in-the-ground to thousands of years lifethreatening waste. The useful phase where energy is generated is practically zero in that perspective.
(I used to be very pro nuke in the past, until I started reading some stuff about the other side of the story that you won't find in the common media. Try some of it too!)
BTW, interesting link in your sig! I can recommend following THAT one to everyone
Okay, I RTFA you linked to. Did it occur to you that it ONLY talks about the energy-generating phase (the relative clean part of the cycle) and not a word about the mining, enrichment, waste etc.?
BTW, the amount of energy used to produce uranium fuel takes about 90% of a reactor's lifetime to win back, so effective energy gain is not really big. And CO2? Same story: in the pre-energy-generating phase is at least as much CO2 released as a coal plant would have for the same amount of energy.
The argument used in the article about the energy-content of the waste of a coal plant being greater than that of the coal itself is false. I could use the same argument for natural gas: One of the products released by combustion of gas is water. Water contains hydrogen, and in a fusion-reactor you can get a lot more energy from that than the gas it came from contained.
Indeed, burning coal does release *small* amounts of radio-active material, can't deny that one. Problem with uranium is that it's percentage in the mined ore is very low (IIRC ca. 1%). The rest of the ore exists for a much higher percentage (IIRC ca.10%) of material that is at least as radioactive as uranium, has about the same or longer halftime (some are much more radioactive but have a shorter halftime), but is unusable for reactors. ALL this material is brought up, the uranium is severed from it and the rest is dumped, in most cases above ground, free to be blown everywhere, leak into your groundwater and do other funny things no-one in the nuclear industry wants you to know about.
POOF! There goes another argument!
Sorry to disappoint you, but nuclear power also uses steam, generated by nuclear fission. I won't go into the environmental risks of nuke power, cause I will be modded troll for it (happened in earlier posts), but in the total cycle uranium and plutonium go through from mining (just uranium) to waste product, the only stage that is 'clean' is when it's used for generating electricity. Everything before and after is heavily polluting and does not even outweigh coal. Of course the nuclear industry only shows you the energy-production stage, that, indeed, is rather clean.
Did you see that small, headless, white pianoplayer too? Must be the one typing in the display-input and owner of the smallest phone ever!