I'd say $50k would cover a hard drive, some miscellaneous equipment not worth enumerating, and some printouts.
Perhaps. But has it never occurred to you that _time_ has value too? Does it cover the lost business revenue for 4 months due to those machines (and especially the game/book) not being there and usable - which almost drove the company bankrupt as stated on that very same page?
The problem is not so much the white noise or nice almost pleasant bass hum of low-speed hi cfm fans, but high-pitched whine smaller and highspeed ones tend to make. Hard drives too, sometime.
The fact that Red Hat intentionally makes installing new packages and updates difficult (without up2date) has always turned me off.
How, exactly do they make it difficult? By providing ftp and http downloads? Huge amount of mirrors? Email announcements too? Plenty of yum and apt repositories out there, as well. Those must be it...
Yeah, damn bastards, trying to hide all those new patches and prevent anyone from downloading them.
f you don't care about the package management system on X distro, you can compile and install whatever you want regardless of the base system's distributor. It's not really even that much work to look at the.spec file for an RPM-based system to see what flags their software wascompiled with (I imagine there's an analogue for.deb).
Most of the time new (at least minor) versions will build into RPM's with that old spec without any big modifications just fine as well, no need to abandon the package management system.
Of course you can not only listen to mp3 while copying files, and browsing web, but easily encode few while at it. And compile code. And watch divx. Or whatever you wish.
But there's no sense in ruining a good troll with facts so let's not tell anyone.
Biological materials are chemically reactive and structurally weak compared to inert pieces of metal. We started out with "bio armor," remember? It was called wood and leather. We then moved to steel because it was better.... and then we moved from steel to organic fibers such as nylon and kevlar because they were better. And could be conceivably created by a living organism. There has been plenty of research into spider silk as an armor as well.
The cells making up biological materials must be permeable by definition in order to function properly.
The cells themselves maybe, but there is no such requirement for any materials they may create.
Except the fact that those things and glofishes have nothing in common, with the exception that both are fish. If you try to find some negatives, try to at least get ones that are even SOMEHOW relevant.
That might be bit hard, though, there probably aren't any.
but what about solar, wind, veggie diesel, hydrogen, etc.?
Solar and wind take lot of space, but more importantly are not predictable and need constant backup from other energy sources that are. We can't just stop the world at night or when it's calm.
Veggie diesel? Do you have even the slightest beginning of how much surface area it would take to cultivate enough "veggies" to power everyone 24/7? Wasting 90% of Earth's surface area for power generation sure as hell would be classified as "environmental damage"
Hydrogen? Sure, where do you propose we get it without resorting to one of those other sources? It doesn't materialize from nothing, you know.
We need to face the truth, and it is that fission energy is closest to clean we are going to get before large scale fusion power becomes viable.
And what I said was true not because of "we've kept nuclear development at bay" but because nuclear waste doesn't grow wings and fly into your lungs when you turn your back on it. It sits there. It still sits there million years later if nothing has disturbed it - and if something disturbs bedrock that has been sitting there for last million years without a change, we've got helluva lot bigger problems than few tons of nuclear waste buried in there. Of course it's not any more radioactive at that point than the original uranium ore was, either.
AdBlock is even better. You can't live without it.
It supports blocking based on pattern, not merely a server like the built-in ones, and it blocks not only images, or flash but almost everything.
All crap included using <OBJECT> or <EMBED> tags (including but not limited to flash)? You bet. IFrames? Yup... Scripts? Got it. Applets? Used to, but disabled in current builds due to a bug, probably will again after it's fixed.
It also prevents them from even being downloaded so not only your eyes are saved but bandwidth too. Works on both SeaMonkey and Firebird.
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I don't know where I want to be saving my downloads a week after I've started Mozilla.
And I shouldn't need to. They've got UI for that, you get a file selector and tell it where to save the damn file. Save it there, why, oh why, does it need to go trough TMP?
If there is one goddamned stupid feature they should NOT have lifted from IE, this is it.
Not only does it take over the context menu, but it also pops up on middle button!
It doesn't work for me either, it did on fresh mozilla installation but this one seems to bug, or then it doesn't like to play along with tabbrowser extensions, adblock or some other extension I've got installed.
Yes, nuclear reaction is mass to energy conversion - and so is every reaction that produces energy.
But it converts only a very small part the reaction mass, so it's not like you can just put total mass into E=MC^2 and get the energy like grandparent seems to suggest.
Coal plants release more radioactive isotopes into atmosphere (and that's the only place they do any damage, like cause cancer) every day than every nuclear accident on the planet combined.
I remember watching those protests on TV and laughing out loud at the sheer lunatic ignorance being displayed...and most of the news media didn't help much, either. Morons.
Cassini was bad enough, but there has never been anyone as lunatic as the people who seriously though Galileo's RTG's were going go boom in a fission bomb style and ignite Jupiter into a star.
This would give us enough time and money to address real issues like global overpopulation, ecological deterioation, climate change
Those of us that did grew up know that those issues will never be resolved. Believing they can without changing humans to something non-human in the process is amazingly naive.
and omicide technology (technologies that can destroy all human life on earth if released. Stuff like genetically engineered smallpox or the near-syncronous detonation of thousands of thermonuclear warheads from an all-out nuclear war, and other stuff that I shouldn't mention in a public forum).
And those won't go away either. Whatever comes after nukes (anti-matter bombs?) will be even more destructive, and bioengineering is going to become simpler and simpler over the time giving anyone the ability to create and release that boosted smallpox. Of course there's always the risk from natural phenomena like asteroid/comet strikes and supervolcanos that can never be eliminated.
Which is exactly why we need to get away from this ball of rock, the sooner the better - never keep all your eggs in the same basket.
TIMING of such an even would indeed need to be rather remarkable.
You're after all trying to accidentally hit something very small (base) on rather small (moon) with another very small (counterweight) one and half million kilometers away.
Guess the moon base people are going to be pretty pissed when it happens tenth billionth time and finally hits.
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Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements and still be able to watch Strong Bad answering his e-mail.
AdBlock
It blocks pretty much everything, and not only from specific servers but regexp too.
No, it's an extension.
Nothing in development mozillas, you can grab it here.
I'd say $50k would cover a hard drive, some miscellaneous equipment not worth enumerating, and some printouts.
Perhaps. But has it never occurred to you that _time_ has value too? Does it cover the lost business revenue for 4 months due to those machines (and especially the game/book) not being there and usable - which almost drove the company bankrupt as stated on that very same page?
The problem is not so much the white noise or nice almost pleasant bass hum of low-speed hi cfm fans, but high-pitched whine smaller and highspeed ones tend to make. Hard drives too, sometime.
The fact that Red Hat intentionally makes installing new packages and updates difficult (without up2date) has always turned me off.
How, exactly do they make it difficult? By providing ftp and http downloads? Huge amount of mirrors? Email announcements too? Plenty of yum and apt repositories out there, as well. Those must be it...
Yeah, damn bastards, trying to hide all those new patches and prevent anyone from downloading them.
f you don't care about the package management system on X distro, you can compile and install whatever you want regardless of the base system's distributor. It's not really even that much work to look at the .spec file for an RPM-based system to see what flags their software wascompiled with (I imagine there's an analogue for .deb).
Most of the time new (at least minor) versions will build into RPM's with that old spec without any big modifications just fine as well, no need to abandon the package management system.
The orbiter was biggest (well, only) part of the mission right from the beginning, and would be even if the lander had survived.
Beagle was a late add-on that was tacked in at the last minute because someone noticed there was enough capacity for a (very small) hitchhiker.
Of course you can not only listen to mp3 while copying files, and browsing web, but easily encode few while at it. And compile code. And watch divx. Or whatever you wish.
But there's no sense in ruining a good troll with facts so let's not tell anyone.
Biological materials are chemically reactive and structurally weak compared to inert pieces of metal. We started out with "bio armor," remember? It was called wood and leather. We then moved to steel because it was better. ... and then we moved from steel to organic fibers such as nylon and kevlar because they were better. And could be conceivably created by a living organism. There has been plenty of research into spider silk as an armor as well.
The cells making up biological materials must be permeable by definition in order to function properly.
The cells themselves maybe, but there is no such requirement for any materials they may create.
Of course it is.
They just happen to be kind of calculations for which you don't get the results as numbers but actions.
Well, this is slashdot after all. Plenty of people are bound to be scifi nuts, and especially those reading a star wars article.
Except the fact that those things and glofishes have nothing in common, with the exception that both are fish. If you try to find some negatives, try to at least get ones that are even SOMEHOW relevant.
That might be bit hard, though, there probably aren't any.
but what about solar, wind, veggie diesel, hydrogen, etc.?
Solar and wind take lot of space, but more importantly are not predictable and need constant backup from other energy sources that are. We can't just stop the world at night or when it's calm.
Veggie diesel? Do you have even the slightest beginning of how much surface area it would take to cultivate enough "veggies" to power everyone 24/7? Wasting 90% of Earth's surface area for power generation sure as hell would be classified as "environmental damage"
Hydrogen? Sure, where do you propose we get it without resorting to one of those other sources? It doesn't materialize from nothing, you know.
We need to face the truth, and it is that fission energy is closest to clean we are going to get before large scale fusion power becomes viable.
And what I said was true not because of "we've kept nuclear development at bay" but because nuclear waste doesn't grow wings and fly into your lungs when you turn your back on it. It sits there. It still sits there million years later if nothing has disturbed it - and if something disturbs bedrock that has been sitting there for last million years without a change, we've got helluva lot bigger problems than few tons of nuclear waste buried in there. Of course it's not any more radioactive at that point than the original uranium ore was, either.
AdBlock is even better. You can't live without it.
It supports blocking based on pattern, not merely a server like the built-in ones, and it blocks not only images, or flash but almost everything.
All crap included using <OBJECT> or <EMBED> tags (including but not limited to flash)? You bet.
IFrames? Yup...
Scripts? Got it.
Applets? Used to, but disabled in current builds due to a bug, probably will again after it's fixed.
It also prevents them from even being downloaded so not only your eyes are saved but bandwidth too. Works on both SeaMonkey and Firebird.
I don't know where I want to be saving my downloads a week after I've started Mozilla.
And I shouldn't need to. They've got UI for that, you get a file selector and tell it where to save the damn file. Save it there, why, oh why, does it need to go trough TMP?
If there is one goddamned stupid feature they should NOT have lifted from IE, this is it.
Not only does it take over the context menu, but it also pops up on middle button!
It doesn't work for me either, it did on fresh mozilla installation but this one seems to bug, or then it doesn't like to play along with tabbrowser extensions, adblock or some other extension I've got installed.
Extensions fscking rule.
What makes you think extensions are Firebird-only?
There have been extensions for Mozilla long before any of the developers even dreamed about Phoenix. Good ones work in both browsers.
AMD chips are no hotter than Intels and deal with it just fine.
Go troll somewhere else.
For a someone who whines about usability you really should take some writing lessons.
I just might read that if it was actually readable, ever heard about paragraphs and the like?
It probably is RAID internally, the older 500GB lacie drives had two 250GB disks in them, so maybe this biggie has four.
In which case the interface really is a bottleneck.
Yes, nuclear reaction is mass to energy conversion - and so is every reaction that produces energy.
But it converts only a very small part the reaction mass, so it's not like you can just put total mass into E=MC^2 and get the energy like grandparent seems to suggest.
Yeah, right.
Coal plants release more radioactive isotopes into atmosphere (and that's the only place they do any damage, like cause cancer) every day than every nuclear accident on the planet combined.
I remember watching those protests on TV and laughing out loud at the sheer lunatic ignorance being displayed...and most of the news media didn't help much, either. Morons.
Cassini was bad enough, but there has never been anyone as lunatic as the people who seriously though Galileo's RTG's were going go boom in a fission bomb style and ignite Jupiter into a star.
This would give us enough time and money to address real issues like global overpopulation, ecological deterioation, climate change
Those of us that did grew up know that those issues will never be resolved. Believing they can without changing humans to something non-human in the process is amazingly naive.
and omicide technology (technologies that can destroy all human life on earth if released. Stuff like genetically engineered smallpox or the near-syncronous detonation of thousands of thermonuclear warheads from an all-out nuclear war, and other stuff that I shouldn't mention in a public forum).
And those won't go away either. Whatever comes after nukes (anti-matter bombs?) will be even more destructive, and bioengineering is going to become simpler and simpler over the time giving anyone the ability to create and release that boosted smallpox. Of course there's always the risk from natural phenomena like asteroid/comet strikes and supervolcanos that can never be eliminated.
Which is exactly why we need to get away from this ball of rock, the sooner the better - never keep all your eggs in the same basket.
TIMING of such an even would indeed need to be rather remarkable.
You're after all trying to accidentally hit something very small (base) on rather small (moon) with another very small (counterweight) one and half million kilometers away.
Guess the moon base people are going to be pretty pissed when it happens tenth billionth time and finally hits.