The stargate surface is not actually the event horizon at all, its just the part of the machine that breaks things up and puts things together, its a Modem to put it simply, the crystal circuits inside the gate interface with an event horizon via a buffer system to send and receive matter.
What I don't understand is that presumably it breaks things up into energy, transmits it, then re-constitutes it at the other end, what about conservation of energy? What is lost in the process? Why doesn't it take MUCH more power at the receiving end to "make matter" than it takes at the sending end to break it apart?
But surely, particles can only travel one way through the gate?
Considering that a "particle" weapon would likely use some form of plasma or other highly excited form of matter for its charge, I would think the same thing stopping air getting through would stop those too.
Guess I am too used to Science fiction that has an emphasis on Science with very little to no fiction (damn you Elizabeth Moon, damn your realistic space battles to hell).
Actually I wasn't trying to, but apparently I did.
So they are one way, they discriminate particles based on excitation level, but are omni-directional for purposes of electromagnetic spectrum?
So the best way to secure the area around where your gate lets out is to scout with a UAV first, then, if hostile, aim a huge magnetron into the gate, since the bad guys on the other end can't possibly come through...
Call me out of touch, but this is actually the first stargate thing I have seen since the original movie.
So it transports matter well, I get that (humans and objects can move through), but what about air? Couldn't they just open the new gate to any planet with a good atmosphere and just top up the ship with breathable air?
The people I was roped into watching this with kept shouting at me to stop picking on it, but I want to know how they are limiting this thing...
"oh yes you can put any matter you want though it so long as it is solid or liquid" but then how do their bodies get through it when all the air is displaced out of their lungs?
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But, someone would still have to die, who would hold the "shakey cam" while it presses the button?
Seriously, bad focus + shakey cam can just fucking die imho.
Yeah, running an old 4l plus myself, I brought it re-conditioned (had all the print path replaced) for $50AU, it had in the order of half a million pages on the clock before it was recoed, so I hope to get a fair bit of life out of it for personal use:)
Dear gods yes, HP LaserJet 4L plus here, and it just works, I tell something to print, it spins up, prints it and winds back down again, no matter if its 2 pages or 200 pages:)
Oh yes, the automated removal tool from symantec that requires you to go to their site, click through the activeX pages to the control that removes all the crap.
Too bad if nortons has fried your IP networking, or your browser...
Imho for the paid ones, TrendMicro and BitDefender are about the only two I would recommend, both have easy to use "get all this AV crap off my system" tools and the latter even ships with a knoppix based virus scanner and rootkit remover. Not perfect tools, but the best of a flawed bunch.
Personally I stick to a well secured browser (no-script + a proxy that filters ads) and a tidy little FreeBSD box routing and firewalling traffic.
Retail managers don't need to know jack about what their staff are selling, primarily because the staff do the selling, the manager keeps the staff doing their thing, the store stocked, the power on, etc.
I work retail/service btw. My manager does happen to know a bit about computers, he can replace PSUs and dust out a PC, fit a new part but thats about it, it isn't his job to know or do even that.
Why? When they can happily poach what apple have already filtered out?
Maybe they just weighed up the cost in their HR departments time vs the extra wages multiplied by the average time these new managers are likely to hang around for.
As for selling, well selling is selling, with a little background info and a few "hip" facts you can sell damn near anything, your customers just need to want to buy and you will sell, and who the fuck would be caught dead in a microsoft store unless they were really fucking desperate for MS products?
In aus the little metal bar they are talking about is called a "pry bar" or a "wrecking bar", A crow bar is a straight piece of hex steel about 8 feet long with a sharp flattened spike one end and a flat head on the other, used for breaking up concrete and beating the living shit out of things (trust me, a shotgun would be preferable to being hit by one of these crowbars).
Actually I remember early ASUS routers had a guarantee that when the draft was finally ratified that if their devices were not compatible with the final standard they would replace or patch existing units.
This was most certainly not an implementation of either of the avian carrier RFCs. For one they are not implementing IP with the pigeon, they are using a custom data packet with a ridiculous MTU.
You end up with just navigation, or just content... or just a big empty page.
You made this too easy.
You state there are three possible outcomes:
1, Just navigation - usually happens when the page is just a nav page anyway
2, Just content - WOO HOO we have the holy grail of the net here
3, Big Empty Page, If you trust the site, start white-listing if you don't, you likely just saved yourself about a minute of absolutely nothing loading to tell you "guess what, all my content is just wind and piss". This is the only instance that takes longer to render than if you had everything on.
Like on one of the virtual machines I use to test sites my customers suspect might be giving them spyware? Uh, yesterday we picked up 3 different infections of "smitfraud" based scareware...
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What happens when subspace runs out of energy in an area then? Is that bad?
Yes, but moving the broken apart stuff from A to B without getting too much signal noise and hopefully no dropped packets should be a concern.
And yes, efficiency at breaking apart and putting back together would be of paramount concern.
Its not a "move" function so much as copy-delete I guess.
Even worse, imagine the MTU ;)
So from the (pretty good) explanation...
The stargate surface is not actually the event horizon at all, its just the part of the machine that breaks things up and puts things together, its a Modem to put it simply, the crystal circuits inside the gate interface with an event horizon via a buffer system to send and receive matter.
What I don't understand is that presumably it breaks things up into energy, transmits it, then re-constitutes it at the other end, what about conservation of energy? What is lost in the process? Why doesn't it take MUCH more power at the receiving end to "make matter" than it takes at the sending end to break it apart?
But surely, particles can only travel one way through the gate?
Considering that a "particle" weapon would likely use some form of plasma or other highly excited form of matter for its charge, I would think the same thing stopping air getting through would stop those too.
Guess I am too used to Science fiction that has an emphasis on Science with very little to no fiction (damn you Elizabeth Moon, damn your realistic space battles to hell).
Actually I wasn't trying to, but apparently I did.
So they are one way, they discriminate particles based on excitation level, but are omni-directional for purposes of electromagnetic spectrum?
So the best way to secure the area around where your gate lets out is to scout with a UAV first, then, if hostile, aim a huge magnetron into the gate, since the bad guys on the other end can't possibly come through...
Call me out of touch, but this is actually the first stargate thing I have seen since the original movie.
So it transports matter well, I get that (humans and objects can move through), but what about air? Couldn't they just open the new gate to any planet with a good atmosphere and just top up the ship with breathable air?
The people I was roped into watching this with kept shouting at me to stop picking on it, but I want to know how they are limiting this thing...
"oh yes you can put any matter you want though it so long as it is solid or liquid" but then how do their bodies get through it when all the air is displaced out of their lungs?
But, someone would still have to die, who would hold the "shakey cam" while it presses the button?
Seriously, bad focus + shakey cam can just fucking die imho.
Yeah, running an old 4l plus myself, I brought it re-conditioned (had all the print path replaced) for $50AU, it had in the order of half a million pages on the clock before it was recoed, so I hope to get a fair bit of life out of it for personal use :)
Dear gods yes, HP LaserJet 4L plus here, and it just works, I tell something to print, it spins up, prints it and winds back down again, no matter if its 2 pages or 200 pages :)
Oh yes, the automated removal tool from symantec that requires you to go to their site, click through the activeX pages to the control that removes all the crap.
Too bad if nortons has fried your IP networking, or your browser...
Imho for the paid ones, TrendMicro and BitDefender are about the only two I would recommend, both have easy to use "get all this AV crap off my system" tools and the latter even ships with a knoppix based virus scanner and rootkit remover. Not perfect tools, but the best of a flawed bunch.
Personally I stick to a well secured browser (no-script + a proxy that filters ads) and a tidy little FreeBSD box routing and firewalling traffic.
"You can take our freedom, but you can never take, OUR LIVES!"
Err, wait...
I will have to content myself with Internode then, I know how much I am paying, what exactly I am getting AND I get a shit-ton of free stuff :)
Retail managers don't need to know jack about what their staff are selling, primarily because the staff do the selling, the manager keeps the staff doing their thing, the store stocked, the power on, etc.
I work retail/service btw. My manager does happen to know a bit about computers, he can replace PSUs and dust out a PC, fit a new part but thats about it, it isn't his job to know or do even that.
Why? When they can happily poach what apple have already filtered out?
Maybe they just weighed up the cost in their HR departments time vs the extra wages multiplied by the average time these new managers are likely to hang around for.
As for selling, well selling is selling, with a little background info and a few "hip" facts you can sell damn near anything, your customers just need to want to buy and you will sell, and who the fuck would be caught dead in a microsoft store unless they were really fucking desperate for MS products?
Also depends on definitions.
In aus the little metal bar they are talking about is called a "pry bar" or a "wrecking bar", A crow bar is a straight piece of hex steel about 8 feet long with a sharp flattened spike one end and a flat head on the other, used for breaking up concrete and beating the living shit out of things (trust me, a shotgun would be preferable to being hit by one of these crowbars).
/me loads his shotgun and squints
Just walk away kid, real slow, and keep your hands where I can see em
You, sir, just won the whole thread.
Very well pointed out and executed, great capitalization and the end, the ellipses, GENIUS.
But yeah, very good point.
Whoa slow down tiger, we are still working on getting 720KB disks certified and then we plan to begin on the absolute final ratification of RS-232C
Actually I remember early ASUS routers had a guarantee that when the draft was finally ratified that if their devices were not compatible with the final standard they would replace or patch existing units.
Not sure what their current stand is however.
Not to mention having a "person" take them from point B to point A, then return is silly, thats what a large fedex box with some air holes is for.
This was most certainly not an implementation of either of the avian carrier RFCs. For one they are not implementing IP with the pigeon, they are using a custom data packet with a ridiculous MTU.
A good implementation of the original idea would be to use that new DTN setup planned for space ( http://kingofgng.com/eng/2008/11/27/hello-world-for-the-interplanetary-internet/ ).
Yes but this was just ONE packet, I am sure you can fit more than one pigeon into the air ;)
You made this too easy.
You state there are three possible outcomes:
1, Just navigation - usually happens when the page is just a nav page anyway
2, Just content - WOO HOO we have the holy grail of the net here
3, Big Empty Page, If you trust the site, start white-listing if you don't, you likely just saved yourself about a minute of absolutely nothing loading to tell you "guess what, all my content is just wind and piss". This is the only instance that takes longer to render than if you had everything on.
So they compare the current, stable release of firefox against dev builds of other browsers?
And as others are saying, the fastest way to render a page that has a ton of scripting is of course firefox + noscript.
Like on one of the virtual machines I use to test sites my customers suspect might be giving them spyware? Uh, yesterday we picked up 3 different infections of "smitfraud" based scareware...