The question would rather be, can you run anything but Vista on it. =)
Soon, XP will have the modern hardware support enjoyed by 2K and 98, and bleeding edge hardware usually haven't had drivers developed for Linux yet either... =(
Simply eating less meat, while making sure that the food you eat is produced as locally as possible, is something that everyone can do, even "normal" people.
I don't spend much time researching where things come from, I simply look at the labels while in the store. Meat from Brazil? WTF? No way I am eating meat that's been produced on the other side of the Atlantic! That's idiocy. I choose the locally produced meat, even though it is a few percent more expensive. Milk from Germany? WTF! I'll choose the milk produced in the neighboring city, thank you. Tomatoes produced 40km away or 2500km away? Easy choice. I've even seen meat labeled as produced locally here in Sweden, but packaged in Poland. Ok, so they take the animal, ship it to Poland, slaughter it, package it and then ship the meat back to a store here? Eh, no thanks. I'll choose some other meat.
The most important thing is to have accurate labeling, which should be law, but isn't everywhere. If things are labeled with its origin, you're simply lazy if you buy food produced in the other end of the world.
Wouldn't call them safer. =) As long as they where large, all you had to do was fly around them. It was the myriad of fragments that killed you in the end.
Personally, I preferred the Vectrex version over the C64 one though. =)
That's the kind of things that the scientific world revolves around. If you make a discovery that render the the laws of thermodynamics entirely invalid, it would almost be a crime not to give you the Nobel price. =)
Punishing people who overthrows your perception of reality is reserved for religions, politics and small minded people. There are, of course but unfortunately, lot's of small minded people in the scientific community too.
Why? Ok, it was useless and overpriced but, as far as I understood, it wasn't harmful in any way. Useless and overpriced describe most commercial software on mobile devices anyway...
Part of the problems arise from the asymmetric |/ position you get when working with a mouse or trackball. That's why devices like mousetrapper is used by many who has problems. It is used kind of like a trackpad found on laptops, but instead of a non-tactile piece of plastic (or glass), it's a rubberized fabric that you move around. Personally, I'd prefer one of these keyboards from IBM, though. With those, the position for using the mouse and the keyboard is exactly the same, since the pointing-device sits between g, h and b. =)
And given that the Americans have given their economy AND military the royal shaft over these past few years, they'd be hard pressed to come to ANYONE's aid at this point.
When the world runs out of resources, the US might not be coming to your aid. They need resources too. Especially if they where to have an economic crisis. There's nothing more dangerous to a resource rich country than a needy neighbor with a ridiculously huge military.
Exacly. If they want a piece of the Arctic, they have to invade Russia. If China where to expand through Siberia all the way to the northern coast, they would have a claim on Siberian Arctic territory.
The Russians would probably have issues with this, though, and fight back. =)
One could take a bunch of, say, 10x10 pixel sensors and put them next to each other to make a curved sensor. The interconnects would be a pain though...
But one has to take into account that cutting down a forest to create a dessert will create massive amounts of biodegradable "waste" that will give off methane too. =) Not to mention the emissions from the machines needed to cut down and remove of the forest.
But many systems don't release their DHCP-lease when shutting down, and you might simply yank the power. So if the address is leased out to you, but your computer is off, another computer might be able to use that same address statically until the lease expired in the DHCP server.
The only somewhat secure way of being sure that the connecting computer is actually used by a certain user, is via 802.1x authentication. If you don't authenticate yourself, you can't even get past the ethernet port you're connected to.
From now on, all network equipment and IP-stacks must include the "Trusted Network Platform"-technology. Unfortunately, this can't be implemented in Open Source due to licensing, patents and secret NSA/DHS backdoors.
If you have equipment that don't include TNP, you might be funding terrorism! *gasp* You're not a terrorist, are you?
As long as it is possible to fake your MAC-address, having a MAC / IP / Date / Crime relation documented means nothing.
Imagine if you could pose under a fake DNA for a couple of hours via techniques accessible to anyone with a few hours to spare, access to google and somewhat advanced knowledge in bio-medicine. Maybe this would be possible for 1% of all college/university bio-med students and 50 to 60% of all professionals in the bio-med industry. Would DNA spoofing be common knowledge or common skill? Nope, most people would probably not even know this was possible. Would DNA-samples at a crime-scene be viable in court anymore? Not a chance.
There's also the possibility that someone stole an IP temporarily. Checked what IP a certain computer had received and then setting that manually on another computer, unplugging the first one and plugging in the second one.
If you use smart edge-switches and implement IEEE 802.1x and have personal logins for every user, you can start trusting you logs.
It wasn't gymnastics in itself that was insulted, it was all athletics where the winner is decided by a judge or by several judges. If not being considered a "real sport" is thought of as an insult anyway. =/
Also insulted was anyone who likes to watch athletics with judges, anyone who think athletics with judges is sports, anyone who don't like "real" sports and anyone who is a woman.
If something is a sport or not is irrelevant when it comes to the Olympics anyway... The Olympics is a competition in athletic events, not in sports.
That's why sports where machines or animals do most of the work shouldn't be included, while things that might not be considered a sport by some, but is athletic in nature, certainly belong in the Olympics.
I've had some success with a kind of oil that you smear across the cd-surface and then dry off, leaving a very thin film. It was sold as something that would "enhance the audio quality" and "make the sound crystal clear" and such extravagant claims. This is, of course, pure bullshit but I bought it to see if it could save my old scratched cd's, and it does make them more playable. It's not permanent and not perfect, but it got them through EAC with a lot less errors.
I wouldn't agree. With the Patriot-act, and especially since the FISA amendment, the US is in a clear lead.
If we take a few scores:
The FRA-law lets the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment intercept electronic communication crossing the border. The US also allow their national defense this "right".
Score: 1-1
The FRA-law does not allow the border customs to confiscate you laptops, ipods, books, notepads or anything else. The US, on the other hand, give themselves this power.
Score: 2-1 to the US
The US is still ahead of us Swedes, even if the FRA-law is an abomination. The biggest difference is that we've cried havoc about this law, to the point of having created splits within the parties that supported the law and uniting most political youth organizations against their mother parties.
To be honest, I don't really follow the US news closely, but mayor events in the US tend to reach our news too. Have there been any mass demonstrations, or mayor mainstream media outcry against FISA in the US? Over here, FISA barely made a whisper in the news, probably since we're so busy shouting about the FRA-law.
We're close to having the FRA-law torn up. How close are they to having FISA and the Patriot-act torn up?
Ok, most people won't get hit by this. 99% of those who don't, won't care one bit that they might have had to leave some of their possessions with the border police.
Those who do get hit, but only have to let the officers rummage through their personal files or maybe give them a copy, will most probably get annoyed or angry at the privacy invasion and inconvenience, but will probably not cry murder over it.
Of the small percentage that actually have their gadgets confiscated, 100% will probably get royally pissed.
"Having nothing to hide and not caring about privacy" is not the same as "Not caring about property rights". Most people have issues with having their property seized without reason.
or have the luxury of enough time for such infinitesimal accelerations to do the job.
The article said that they'd use one probe to crash into the asteroid to make it miss the Earth, then use a second one to use gravitation over a very long period of time to make sure that the new orbit won't cross Earth orbit later.
One possible reason why they wouldn't want to land it and then push it in order to fine tune the new orbit, which would take the exact same amount of fuel, is that they might have to change the thrust vector at a later date. This is hard to do with something standing in a certain place on the asteroid. Something keeping position a bit to the side is easier to move to a new position. And if the asteroid is spinning, which is not entirely unlikely, anything situated on it would have a hard time exerting a force at an exact vector relative to the orbit.
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The question would rather be, can you run anything but Vista on it. =)
Soon, XP will have the modern hardware support enjoyed by 2K and 98, and bleeding edge hardware usually haven't had drivers developed for Linux yet either... =(
Didn't know about that one. =-D
Thanks!
Simply eating less meat, while making sure that the food you eat is produced as locally as possible, is something that everyone can do, even "normal" people.
I don't spend much time researching where things come from, I simply look at the labels while in the store.
Meat from Brazil? WTF? No way I am eating meat that's been produced on the other side of the Atlantic! That's idiocy.
I choose the locally produced meat, even though it is a few percent more expensive.
Milk from Germany? WTF! I'll choose the milk produced in the neighboring city, thank you.
Tomatoes produced 40km away or 2500km away? Easy choice.
I've even seen meat labeled as produced locally here in Sweden, but packaged in Poland.
Ok, so they take the animal, ship it to Poland, slaughter it, package it and then ship the meat back to a store here? Eh, no thanks. I'll choose some other meat.
The most important thing is to have accurate labeling, which should be law, but isn't everywhere.
If things are labeled with its origin, you're simply lazy if you buy food produced in the other end of the world.
Agh! We need a game where you can play as Trogdor, the burninator!
"Trogdor was a man
I mean, he was a dragon man
Or maybe he was just a dragon
But he was still TROGDOR!
Burninating the countryside,
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!
And theTrogdor comes in the NIIIGHT..."
Wouldn't call them safer. =)
As long as they where large, all you had to do was fly around them.
It was the myriad of fragments that killed you in the end.
Personally, I preferred the Vectrex version over the C64 one though. =)
That's the kind of things that the scientific world revolves around.
If you make a discovery that render the the laws of thermodynamics entirely invalid, it would almost be a crime not to give you the Nobel price. =)
Punishing people who overthrows your perception of reality is reserved for religions, politics and small minded people.
There are, of course but unfortunately, lot's of small minded people in the scientific community too.
but you have to agree with apple for yanking it..
Why?
Ok, it was useless and overpriced but, as far as I understood, it wasn't harmful in any way.
Useless and overpriced describe most commercial software on mobile devices anyway...
Part of the problems arise from the asymmetric |/ position you get when working with a mouse or trackball.
That's why devices like mousetrapper is used by many who has problems. It is used kind of like a trackpad found on laptops, but instead of a non-tactile piece of plastic (or glass), it's a rubberized fabric that you move around.
Personally, I'd prefer one of these keyboards from IBM, though.
With those, the position for using the mouse and the keyboard is exactly the same, since the pointing-device sits between g, h and b. =)
Tectonic plate movements have a tendency to move things around.
And given that the Americans have given their economy AND military the royal shaft over these past few years, they'd be hard pressed to come to ANYONE's aid at this point.
When the world runs out of resources, the US might not be coming to your aid.
They need resources too.
Especially if they where to have an economic crisis.
There's nothing more dangerous to a resource rich country than a needy neighbor with a ridiculously huge military.
China has no stake in the Arctic at *all*
Exacly. If they want a piece of the Arctic, they have to invade Russia.
If China where to expand through Siberia all the way to the northern coast, they would have a claim on Siberian Arctic territory.
The Russians would probably have issues with this, though, and fight back. =)
One could take a bunch of, say, 10x10 pixel sensors and put them next to each other to make a curved sensor.
The interconnects would be a pain though...
But one has to take into account that cutting down a forest to create a dessert will create massive amounts of biodegradable "waste" that will give off methane too. =)
Not to mention the emissions from the machines needed to cut down and remove of the forest.
But many systems don't release their DHCP-lease when shutting down, and you might simply yank the power.
So if the address is leased out to you, but your computer is off, another computer might be able to use that same address statically until the lease expired in the DHCP server.
The only somewhat secure way of being sure that the connecting computer is actually used by a certain user, is via 802.1x authentication.
If you don't authenticate yourself, you can't even get past the ethernet port you're connected to.
From now on, all network equipment and IP-stacks must include the "Trusted Network Platform"-technology.
Unfortunately, this can't be implemented in Open Source due to licensing, patents and secret NSA/DHS backdoors.
If you have equipment that don't include TNP, you might be funding terrorism! *gasp*
You're not a terrorist, are you?
As long as it is possible to fake your MAC-address, having a MAC / IP / Date / Crime relation documented means nothing.
Imagine if you could pose under a fake DNA for a couple of hours via techniques accessible to anyone with a few hours to spare, access to google and somewhat advanced knowledge in bio-medicine.
Maybe this would be possible for 1% of all college/university bio-med students and 50 to 60% of all professionals in the bio-med industry.
Would DNA spoofing be common knowledge or common skill? Nope, most people would probably not even know this was possible.
Would DNA-samples at a crime-scene be viable in court anymore? Not a chance.
There's also the possibility that someone stole an IP temporarily.
Checked what IP a certain computer had received and then setting that manually on another computer, unplugging the first one and plugging in the second one.
If you use smart edge-switches and implement IEEE 802.1x and have personal logins for every user, you can start trusting you logs.
Hehe... Think of the karma-whoring that would ensue if there actually where a "total mod-points" leaderboard. =-D
a 16.5 might win gold on one event, but not even medal on another.
Just like in every other competition then..
It wasn't gymnastics in itself that was insulted, it was all athletics where the winner is decided by a judge or by several judges.
If not being considered a "real sport" is thought of as an insult anyway. =/
Also insulted was anyone who likes to watch athletics with judges, anyone who think athletics with judges is sports, anyone who don't like "real" sports and anyone who is a woman.
If something is a sport or not is irrelevant when it comes to the Olympics anyway...
The Olympics is a competition in athletic events, not in sports.
That's why sports where machines or animals do most of the work shouldn't be included, while things that might not be considered a sport by some, but is athletic in nature, certainly belong in the Olympics.
I've had some success with a kind of oil that you smear across the cd-surface and then dry off, leaving a very thin film.
It was sold as something that would "enhance the audio quality" and "make the sound crystal clear" and such extravagant claims.
This is, of course, pure bullshit but I bought it to see if it could save my old scratched cd's, and it does make them more playable.
It's not permanent and not perfect, but it got them through EAC with a lot less errors.
I wouldn't agree. With the Patriot-act, and especially since the FISA amendment, the US is in a clear lead.
If we take a few scores:
The FRA-law lets the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment intercept electronic communication crossing the border.
The US also allow their national defense this "right".
Score: 1-1
The FRA-law does not allow the border customs to confiscate you laptops, ipods, books, notepads or anything else.
The US, on the other hand, give themselves this power.
Score: 2-1 to the US
The US is still ahead of us Swedes, even if the FRA-law is an abomination.
The biggest difference is that we've cried havoc about this law, to the point of having created splits within the parties that supported the law and uniting most political youth organizations against their mother parties.
To be honest, I don't really follow the US news closely, but mayor events in the US tend to reach our news too.
Have there been any mass demonstrations, or mayor mainstream media outcry against FISA in the US?
Over here, FISA barely made a whisper in the news, probably since we're so busy shouting about the FRA-law.
We're close to having the FRA-law torn up.
How close are they to having FISA and the Patriot-act torn up?
Ok, most people won't get hit by this. 99% of those who don't, won't care one bit that they might have had to leave some of their possessions with the border police.
Those who do get hit, but only have to let the officers rummage through their personal files or maybe give them a copy, will most probably get annoyed or angry at the privacy invasion and inconvenience, but will probably not cry murder over it.
Of the small percentage that actually have their gadgets confiscated, 100% will probably get royally pissed.
"Having nothing to hide and not caring about privacy" is not the same as "Not caring about property rights".
Most people have issues with having their property seized without reason.
or have the luxury of enough time for such infinitesimal accelerations to do the job.
The article said that they'd use one probe to crash into the asteroid to make it miss the Earth, then use a second one to use gravitation over a very long period of time to make sure that the new orbit won't cross Earth orbit later.
One possible reason why they wouldn't want to land it and then push it in order to fine tune the new orbit, which would take the exact same amount of fuel, is that they might have to change the thrust vector at a later date.
This is hard to do with something standing in a certain place on the asteroid.
Something keeping position a bit to the side is easier to move to a new position.
And if the asteroid is spinning, which is not entirely unlikely, anything situated on it would have a hard time exerting a force at an exact vector relative to the orbit.