Purity, and chemical form. Iron ore is oxidized iron, and requires skill and energy to extract the pure metal. Meteoric iron is already the metallic form (usually mixed with nickel). Many museums have a meteorite sawn in half - you can see it's shiny solid metal inside, not a lump of rock. But not all meteorites are iron - some are actually rocky.
You are very confused and not understanding the issue at all. Meteoric iron is elemental iron, already smelted as it were. Mined iron is ore, terrestrial deposits of oxidized iron, not from meteors that worked their way into the eartch.
This ore needs to be mined, then heated very hot (relative to making bronze) to extract the elemental iron from the ore to a usable elemental metal. So this finding explains how humans could have a limited quantity of iron weapons/tools before the discovery/invention of mining and smelting iron ore. The latter is what gave us the Iron Age.
Two very different processes, two very different technologies. Yes, it all ultimately came from the same place. So did every f-ing thing. Why do we bother to talk about anything?
Yes, and it took legal action for that to happen. Just as it will take legal action to take Google and Facebook down a peg. There is no 'market solution'. Monopolies are monopolies, and it takes outside forces to break them up.
In any case, although MS seems somewhat neutered now, it did tremendous damage in those years...
I was a member of CIS from 1981 to 1992, when one of those 'ISP' thingies set up shop in my neighborhood. In that time, I was also active in various BBSes, especially FidoNet (I was a point node).
Some of the forums were just fantastic, and you could find tech support for just about anything. Yes, it was stupid expensive, but as mentioned above you could use a program to swoop in, check your mail, and new msgs on the fora. I used a thing called Recon that worked very well - really kept costs down.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun for a long time, in a very exciting time for microcomputers. I rode it from 300 bps to 14400 bps. Wow.
So, good night CompuServe. I guess this is 70441,2660 signing out...
This kind of thing really pisses me off. 5 minutes ago from when? How often is it updating? Has updating gotten stuck?
I think a lot of dissatisfaction with alleged autorefresh is that nagging feeling that something has stopped updating. For a long time there has been a trend on various blogs and forums to stamp items "updated 5 minutes ago" or whatnot, but no true time/date stamps. How about "updated at 11:59 am (5 minutes ago)". Just lately I've been seeing some forums go back to real time/date stamps.
It's the uncertainty that is often the irritant, at least to me.
It is my opinion that MS is simply technologically incompetent, and have ended up building something so complicated that even they don't understand what the heck is going on. I don't look for it to get any better, and Windows 7 is my last Windows. It's just a big hot ripe mess. The updating retardedness is just one manifestation of this.
But seriously, it seems like everything they do is an order of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be. They should never have tried to make one Windows to rule them all, thereby attempting to turn desktops into smart phones. IMO, that was a fatal mistake - they should have had two separate lines, desktop and phone-tablet-touchy-feely. Now desktop Windows is a Frankenstein monster, with the good win32 desktop bolted onto the Metro (whatever they're calling it this week) nonsense. Sorry, I do NOT want my desktop looking like airport signage.
This is really unbelievably crap behavior by Google. You can have a trillion emails on your gmail account forever, but you phone backup goes away in 2 months? WTF?
If you understood anything about the issue, you would know that with one very simple change to one about:config entry, a user can enable AdNauseam.
I read that thread, and the level of hypersensitive hysteria was depressing. Your posting here is more of the same nonsense. MoonChild didn't tell anyone to 'fuck off'. He explained very clearly why he did what he did, and he clearly described what anyone could do to re-enable it.
".I'm hoping that there's just a ton of drama, things basically get parked for 4 years, and other countries don't see it as an opportunity to get ahead while everyone's distracted."
It's a nice thought, but you know what US administrations do when things get bad for them - they start wars. That's what I'm afraid of. There are a lot of people in govt that want wars here and there, and Trump has already shown that he'll do what he's told.
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This, this, a thousand times this.
Nobody cares about privacy, or really even about security, as long as they get their new fresh modern stuff.
The dream of the web died years ago, and the dream of personal computing is dying right now before our very eyes.
It was inevitable. There is nothing that the corporate shitheads can't co-opt, corrupt, and ruin - the genius of Capitalism at work.
Oh well, it was fun there for a while...
Purity, and chemical form. Iron ore is oxidized iron, and requires skill and energy to extract the pure metal. Meteoric iron is already the metallic form (usually mixed with nickel). Many museums have a meteorite sawn in half - you can see it's shiny solid metal inside, not a lump of rock. But not all meteorites are iron - some are actually rocky.
You are very confused and not understanding the issue at all. Meteoric iron is elemental iron, already smelted as it were. Mined iron is ore, terrestrial deposits of oxidized iron, not from meteors that worked their way into the eartch.
This ore needs to be mined, then heated very hot (relative to making bronze) to extract the elemental iron from the ore to a usable elemental metal. So this finding explains how humans could have a limited quantity of iron weapons/tools before the discovery/invention of mining and smelting iron ore. The latter is what gave us the Iron Age.
Two very different processes, two very different technologies. Yes, it all ultimately came from the same place. So did every f-ing thing. Why do we bother to talk about anything?
Probably spent $10.29 in electricity doing it, too.
"The NiceHash team is urging users to change their online passwords as a result of the breach and theft." ... quick! Close the barn door.
Sheesh.
But do his thrusters work after 37 years?
Every automation is an amputation. Never forget that.
Yes, and it took legal action for that to happen. Just as it will take legal action to take Google and Facebook down a peg. There is no 'market solution'. Monopolies are monopolies, and it takes outside forces to break them up.
In any case, although MS seems somewhat neutered now, it did tremendous damage in those years...
It was revealed that Elon Musk actually invented baseball. Also apple pie.
... we're screwed.
I was a member of CIS from 1981 to 1992, when one of those 'ISP' thingies set up shop in my neighborhood. In that time, I was also active in various BBSes, especially FidoNet (I was a point node).
Some of the forums were just fantastic, and you could find tech support for just about anything. Yes, it was stupid expensive, but as mentioned above you could use a program to swoop in, check your mail, and new msgs on the fora. I used a thing called Recon that worked very well - really kept costs down.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun for a long time, in a very exciting time for microcomputers. I rode it from 300 bps to 14400 bps. Wow.
So, good night CompuServe. I guess this is 70441,2660 signing out...
I studied German in high school in the 1970's, and I understood your Germish perfectly! :-)
Yes, and when you get older, your memory is the first thing to go. I can't remember the second thing...
This kind of thing really pisses me off. 5 minutes ago from when? How often is it updating? Has updating gotten stuck?
I think a lot of dissatisfaction with alleged autorefresh is that nagging feeling that something has stopped updating. For a long time there has been a trend on various blogs and forums to stamp items "updated 5 minutes ago" or whatnot, but no true time/date stamps. How about "updated at 11:59 am (5 minutes ago)". Just lately I've been seeing some forums go back to real time/date stamps.
It's the uncertainty that is often the irritant, at least to me.
Three?
It is my opinion that MS is simply technologically incompetent, and have ended up building something so complicated that even they don't understand what the heck is going on. I don't look for it to get any better, and Windows 7 is my last Windows. It's just a big hot ripe mess. The updating retardedness is just one manifestation of this.
But seriously, it seems like everything they do is an order of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be. They should never have tried to make one Windows to rule them all, thereby attempting to turn desktops into smart phones. IMO, that was a fatal mistake - they should have had two separate lines, desktop and phone-tablet-touchy-feely. Now desktop Windows is a Frankenstein monster, with the good win32 desktop bolted onto the Metro (whatever they're calling it this week) nonsense. Sorry, I do NOT want my desktop looking like airport signage.
Yes.
This is really unbelievably crap behavior by Google. You can have a trillion emails on your gmail account forever, but you phone backup goes away in 2 months? WTF?
You forgot the rough corn cob...
I'll believe that corporations are people when I see one executed. As the saying goes.
... horse escapes from wide-open barn! Farmer encouraged to shut the f-ing door!
Bright godz, what a mess...
If you understood anything about the issue, you would know that with one very simple change to one about:config entry, a user can enable AdNauseam.
I read that thread, and the level of hypersensitive hysteria was depressing. Your posting here is more of the same nonsense. MoonChild didn't tell anyone to 'fuck off'. He explained very clearly why he did what he did, and he clearly described what anyone could do to re-enable it.
That would be D. AdaMs - my eyes are getting tired.
Space is big,
Space is dark,
It's hard to find
a place to park.
(D, Adans)
".I'm hoping that there's just a ton of drama, things basically get parked for 4 years, and other countries don't see it as an opportunity to get ahead while everyone's distracted."
It's a nice thought, but you know what US administrations do when things get bad for them - they start wars. That's what I'm afraid of. There are a lot of people in govt that want wars here and there, and Trump has already shown that he'll do what he's told.