I wonder how many aquarium designs they went through before they finally made one that held its contents properly... Silly as it seems, there are several documented cases where octupus would leave their aquarium at night for a snack in the neighbouring basins, only to return before morning. Leaving only baffled keepers. Until someone sets up a camera. And then some thin mesh wire.
Don't assume that animals are dumb because they live in water:)
I call shennanigans. Recovery after thermite? Not a chance.
Any ferrous material brought above the Curie Point is no longer magnetic, and looses any magnetism it had prior to heating. In that spirit I have long wondered if merely heating disks in an oven wasn't enough to wipe them. A household oven will go up to around 550 or maybe 600 K. That's probably too low though.
Of course it's not a very good method if you're in a hurry (maybe in a microwave oven ?).:)
The day someone can recover data from media I've killed with thermite, then we'll talk. Maybe some day an extherminator will be able to cure your drive of its thermite problem...
The problem is while it may have "all the stuff that Windows has" it doesn't have it by default. For instance, drivers for wireless devices... *sigh* Take a working laptop with a working Linux system and a standard XP SP2 install CD and enjoy. You'll soon find that you'll be in driver hell way deeper than if you had been installing Linux on a working Windows machine.
It's always easier when the machine is completely preconfigured.
And regarding "shadow copy", use a versioned file system if you feel you need it. Firefox prints fine everywhere I've tested it FWIW.
At a guess, Wikileaks is SSL-protected to make it harder for evil governments and corporations to know that you're visiting it. Maybe to know *why* you're visiting it. Won't stop anyone looking seeing that you've been visiting it though.
Sony has had ultra-thin Vaio laptops for years now. They used to be quite expensive, but from just checking now, they seem to be quite competitively priced to the MacBook Air. Quiet you fool ! don't you know whet they do to your kind around here ?
I think the working theory is that as soon as they take away our rights to own guns that it becomes much, much easier to remove the remaining rights. Yes, especially since because of those guns it was already so hard to remove all the rights that already have been.
At any rate, if the people get angry enough to turn against the government, the government officials, even if they manage to evade being immediately killed will not live much of a life--if they poke their heads out even a little, they'll get wiped out... This supposes, among other things, that the people give a damn. Which they don't.
You currently more or less have those "well regulated militias" (whatever that means) and you also have a lunatic government that daily trashes your holy constitution. Does anyone care ? Isn't this exactly the time when all those militia people are supposed to do something ? Oddly enough nothing happens.
At what point does your preposterous logic supposedly apply ? Nothing will happen. And if it does, the culprit will be labelled as a terrorist and the people will be more than happy to stone him themselves.
Your guns are so you can have fantasies while touting them around and to maim the wildlife and the occasional hiker. They have no political purpose whatsoever. Wake up.
(warning, completely out of my league here so probably talking out of my ass)
From the little I gathered of Windows, up to XP you could define whatever shell (which is what the Windows explorer is in the MS world) you liked. It probably requires changing a key in the registry. I've absolutely no idea if it can still be done in Vista but it's likely that it still can be.
(note : the last version of Windows I actually used and understood was 3.11, use the above at your own risk, Google is your friend, yadda yadda.)
You apparently haven't looked too hard. He did say "anywhere near as nice as the one in KDE". But yes there are ways (several, even, I think) to get multiple desktops in Windows.
So they're giving you for free what you paid for.:) They could make you pay again for what you already paid for or just not give you anything. It's been done before. At least the players get an evolving game.
(Never played any MMRPG though since the few glimpses I got always made they seem horribly tedious to me, but to each his own)
QuickTime is a media playing framework. It's equivalent to DirectShow and such on Windows. As such one would indeed expect it to hold a significant bit of locking code...
I only see QuickTime through its container format whenever I stumble upon a ".mov" file (which are fairly rare in Lunux) and had forgotten the details, thanks for refreshing my memory.
I don't think anyone who likes Apple would fight you on the argument that DRM is bad. Furthermore, that DRM is the cause of breaking legitimate programs is a pretty serious problem that only the most ignorant of Apple fanboys can dismiss. But wasn't every Mac user in the dTrace story saying that there wasn't an ounce of DRM in Mac OS except for iTunes ? Is Quicktime part of iTunes nowaday ? (I don't use either)
It's fairly easy to build up a fanbase like that. The Swedish Band Machinae Supremacy, which plays something they call SID Metal, offer most of the songs that don't make it on their albums as free downloads on their site. They offer some of the songs that do make it on their albums there, as well. For example, their last album was released in two versions - one from their website, one via retail*. Someone who has bought one version can go to their site and download the tracks he didn't buy.
This has gotten them my attention. I mean, free music! What's not to like about that? The fact that it's Metal ? But the idea certainly has merit and we'll hopefully see more of this. Although in this case they appear to be working with a record company that was enlightened enough to let them do this. I doubt many artists have contracts that allow for this kind of thing.
The other problem is that this so far mostly seems to work for people who already have a bit of presence on the market (usually established with the help of a conventional record company). If I were to start a band tomorrow with my neighbours and create a website with free music, nothing much would happen (regardless of the quality of the music). There just would be no reason for someone to stumble upon that particular site. Some kind of active promotion would have to take place in the background. However that takes both time and money which newcomers don't have. So that part would theoretically be the job of a record company. Most of which aren't really keen on that "free music" idea. Unless you're already an established player in the market and can push your weight around.
So there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there unless some sort of major restructuration of that industry eventually takes place (which will presumably happen some day, amidst much screaming and kicking).
On an OT note, I think business ethics is something that's going to be seeing new light in the close years to come. Right, ethics in business is now so low that it should soon pop out on the other side of the planet into some new bright light (weather permitting). Yay ! Any time now.
Windows 7 - because Vista sucked And yet everyone will be "I don't want this crappy bloated new Windows 7, I'll stick with Vista, it worked well enough for me so far"...
No, Vista is awesome. How can it be awesome when it hasn't even got a Fun Pack ? Every MS system had its Fun Pack with great games such as Tetris or Pong and fabulous screensavers like, uh, stuff in colours.
I hate to tell you this but a pint is equal to about 47cl... so those damn mainlanders are actually gettin more beer then you. Ah, ah can tell that you are from thah colonies my dear lad ! A pint is (roughly) 570ml in the UK and Ireland. Maybe you ought to move;) In the rest of Europe it's 500ml (or 50cl, or 1/2l), anyway you're being cheated of your well earned money my good fellow. Come back to the old country ! Where beer flows (well, at least trickles a bit more abundantly) and where you can still breathe with a woman on top of you ! (although that's probably a nice way to go)
Anyway if you come visit, let us know and we'll pay you a glass (which is a half pint btw, cause there's actually some alcohol in beer over here;) ) !
(This was all in jest of course, come to Paris and if you want a visit of the old city drop me a mail --see top of post--, I'll find time for a true geek)
If it wasn't for Americans asking which meaning is intended I doubt anyone here would even know of the "million million" sense. Listening to the US people talk about Europe is presumably like listening to Earthlings talking about TauCeti...
I remember when (I live in Paris) I went to get my (then) girlfriend's US penpal at the airport and she (the penpal) confided to me that she had brought her hair-drier because she knew we wouldn't have any, although she really wasn't sure we had electricity yet(*). This was in the 80s though. And to put the US people at rest, yes, all of western Europe did have ample electric power at the time. And we still do. The plugs are different though. Bring adaptors.
I also remember when I went to some pub (we have an astounding number of "Irish" pubs in Paris, with Irish people in them and everything, some of them are even kind of old) where I met this US guy with his UK guide. The US guy had been promoted and was just flabbergasted because, as he put it, "I've just been touring Europe for the last week, and you'll never guess (actually I never would have), people don't really care about the US !".(**)
I really feel that when people from the US dive into Europe, it's as much of a culture shock to them as it would be if they went to Japan. Maybe more because on the surface it looked a bit similar.
I know that each time I go to the US (although it's been a while because I'm not too keen on the new border regulations), I feel like I'm on Mars, which along with the gorgeous scenery makes for much of the thrill.
So, anyway, I could go on for a bit but I was offtopic to begin with and I'm just digging deeper, so just mod me down.
(*) 100% true. She actually kind of expected horse carriages too. Although I only found that out the next week. I never found out where those fantasies came from. Reading Dickens maybe.
(**) As far as I can remember, his exact words. I spent the whole evening chatting with the guy and his UK friend, much to the chagrin of the girl that I had brought there; and yes, I'm a cretin.
Billion in a text in English is 1e9, everywhere. In a text in French or Polish that may be 1e12, but there is no ambiguity because the language tells you what that word means. No it doesn't.
Does the language tell you what "toddick" means (in English that is) ?
Billion Has been deprecated in French (to take one of your examples, and since that's where I am) for a while. It *used* to mean 1E12, milliard being (and still being used for) 1E9.
If very large numbers are required, people just use the SI notations nowadays instead of silly names that changed every dozen kilometres (like feet, yards or miles used to, for which you could find hundreds of definitions throughout Europe -- natural measures my neither regions), and let's not go into currencies weights or volumes, bah, those were even more fickle.
The only thing imperial (aka medieval) measures are good for is measuring beer (pints). Unfortunately pints are shrinking down to metric (50cl) in Europe nowadays (although the UK and Ireland seem to resist so far --Yay). Bit of a shame.;)
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Until someone sets up a camera.
And then some thin mesh wire.
Don't assume that animals are dumb because they live in water
Any ferrous material brought above the Curie Point is no longer magnetic, and looses any magnetism it had prior to heating. In that spirit I have long wondered if merely heating disks in an oven wasn't enough to wipe them. A household oven will go up to around 550 or maybe 600 K. That's probably too low though.
Of course it's not a very good method if you're in a hurry (maybe in a microwave oven ?).
(*ducks and runs*)
Take a working laptop with a working Linux system and a standard XP SP2 install CD and enjoy. You'll soon find that you'll be in driver hell way deeper than if you had been installing Linux on a working Windows machine.
It's always easier when the machine is completely preconfigured.
And regarding "shadow copy", use a versioned file system if you feel you need it. Firefox prints fine everywhere I've tested it FWIW.
So, Uh, have you got a newsletter ?
You currently more or less have those "well regulated militias" (whatever that means) and you also have a lunatic government that daily trashes your holy constitution.
Does anyone care ? Isn't this exactly the time when all those militia people are supposed to do something ?
Oddly enough nothing happens.
At what point does your preposterous logic supposedly apply ? Nothing will happen. And if it does, the culprit will be labelled as a terrorist and the people will be more than happy to stone him themselves.
Your guns are so you can have fantasies while touting them around and to maim the wildlife and the occasional hiker. They have no political purpose whatsoever. Wake up.
(warning, completely out of my league here so probably talking out of my ass)
From the little I gathered of Windows, up to XP you could define whatever shell (which is what the Windows explorer is in the MS world) you liked. It probably requires changing a key in the registry.
I've absolutely no idea if it can still be done in Vista but it's likely that it still can be.
(note : the last version of Windows I actually used and understood was 3.11, use the above at your own risk, Google is your friend, yadda yadda.)
But yes there are ways (several, even, I think) to get multiple desktops in Windows.
So they're giving you for free what you paid for. :)
They could make you pay again for what you already paid for or just not give you anything. It's been done before. At least the players get an evolving game.
(Never played any MMRPG though since the few glimpses I got always made they seem horribly tedious to me, but to each his own)
I only see QuickTime through its container format whenever I stumble upon a ".mov" file (which are fairly rare in Lunux) and had forgotten the details, thanks for refreshing my memory.
I had hoped it would be something like
;)
vi ~/.quicktime/prefs
change
KillVideoEditors = yes
to
KillVideoEditors = no
Restart Quicktime.
Damn Macs, always so complicated.
Is Quicktime part of iTunes nowaday ? (I don't use either)
This has gotten them my attention. I mean, free music! What's not to like about that? The fact that it's Metal ? But the idea certainly has merit and we'll hopefully see more of this. Although in this case they appear to be working with a record company that was enlightened enough to let them do this. I doubt many artists have contracts that allow for this kind of thing.
The other problem is that this so far mostly seems to work for people who already have a bit of presence on the market (usually established with the help of a conventional record company). If I were to start a band tomorrow with my neighbours and create a website with free music, nothing much would happen (regardless of the quality of the music).
There just would be no reason for someone to stumble upon that particular site. Some kind of active promotion would have to take place in the background. However that takes both time and money which newcomers don't have. So that part would theoretically be the job of a record company. Most of which aren't really keen on that "free music" idea. Unless you're already an established player in the market and can push your weight around.
So there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there unless some sort of major restructuration of that industry eventually takes place (which will presumably happen some day, amidst much screaming and kicking).
- Author's life + 70 minutes for everyone who isn't Disney
- Author's life + 70 centuries for Disney Damn, who leaked the memo !
Any time now.
Every MS system had its Fun Pack with great games such as Tetris or Pong and fabulous screensavers like, uh, stuff in colours.
Vista needs a Fun Pack to be awesome.
A pint is (roughly) 570ml in the UK and Ireland. Maybe you ought to move
In the rest of Europe it's 500ml (or 50cl, or 1/2l), anyway you're being cheated of your well earned money my good fellow. Come back to the old country ! Where beer flows (well, at least trickles a bit more abundantly) and where you can still breathe with a woman on top of you ! (although that's probably a nice way to go)
Anyway if you come visit, let us know and we'll pay you a glass (which is a half pint btw, cause there's actually some alcohol in beer over here
(This was all in jest of course, come to Paris and if you want a visit of the old city drop me a mail --see top of post--, I'll find time for a true geek)
I remember when (I live in Paris) I went to get my (then) girlfriend's US penpal at the airport and she (the penpal) confided to me that she had brought her hair-drier because she knew we wouldn't have any, although she really wasn't sure we had electricity yet(*). This was in the 80s though. And to put the US people at rest, yes, all of western Europe did have ample electric power at the time. And we still do. The plugs are different though. Bring adaptors.
I also remember when I went to some pub (we have an astounding number of "Irish" pubs in Paris, with Irish people in them and everything, some of them are even kind of old) where I met this US guy with his UK guide. The US guy had been promoted and was just flabbergasted because, as he put it, "I've just been touring Europe for the last week, and you'll never guess (actually I never would have), people don't really care about the US !".(**)
I really feel that when people from the US dive into Europe, it's as much of a culture shock to them as it would be if they went to Japan. Maybe more because on the surface it looked a bit similar.
I know that each time I go to the US (although it's been a while because I'm not too keen on the new border regulations), I feel like I'm on Mars, which along with the gorgeous scenery makes for much of the thrill.
So, anyway, I could go on for a bit but I was offtopic to begin with and I'm just digging deeper, so just mod me down.
(*) 100% true. She actually kind of expected horse carriages too. Although I only found that out the next week. I never found out where those fantasies came from. Reading Dickens maybe.
(**) As far as I can remember, his exact words. I spent the whole evening chatting with the guy and his UK friend, much to the chagrin of the girl that I had brought there; and yes, I'm a cretin.
Does the language tell you what "toddick" means (in English that is) ?
Billion Has been deprecated in French (to take one of your examples, and since that's where I am) for a while. It *used* to mean 1E12, milliard being (and still being used for) 1E9.
If very large numbers are required, people just use the SI notations nowadays instead of silly names that changed every dozen kilometres (like feet, yards or miles used to, for which you could find hundreds of definitions throughout Europe -- natural measures my neither regions), and let's not go into currencies weights or volumes, bah, those were even more fickle.
The only thing imperial (aka medieval) measures are good for is measuring beer (pints). Unfortunately pints are shrinking down to metric (50cl) in Europe nowadays (although the UK and Ireland seem to resist so far --Yay). Bit of a shame.