And if someone does steal the phone (or just the card), you can always (at least in here) inform your operator and they put it on a black list, so nobody can use that card anymore.
Yes folks, I'm talking about stealing fissionable materials
Which, if you'd bother to utilize your two brain cells, are not the same kind of fissionable materials one is able to build bomb from. After all, why bother with facts when you can FUD.
why do you think the Japanese want to test this outside of Japan!
Because they have shitload of BIG nuclear plants in there already and population density that doesn't really have place for facilities this small.
And that crazy little asshole dictator of north Korea won't have to reprocess old fuel rods anymore, just raid rural Alaska!
So... you're seriously suggesting that raiding alaska for... err... you got it, old fuel rods for reprocessing! is a viable way for every backyard dictator to get thei hands on nu-cu-lar weapons of mass DESCTRUCTION.
Go back to your basement and hatch bit better conspiracy theory, one that is at least amusing instead of downright PATHETIC. Please?
Yup, everyone yelling about nuclear waste should make a trip into ash pile of coal plant with a geiger counter and be prepared to a surprise...
It's just so insane that there are people who actively advocate something that is constantly releasing radioactive material into atmosphere along with all those nasty chemical pollutants, yet madly oppose a form where that waste can be concentrated and contained safely.
You don't do that with your car, so why do that with your computer?
You don't? VAST majority of car-owners absolutely DO NOT know the basics of its operation or how they should maintain it. Only how to (barely) use it when it works. If it breaks, they take it to someone who knows how to repair it, nothing different from computers here.
Probably it would cost quite a bit more with quality camera (not only the resolution but optics and all, flash probably should be there as well). And it already costs so damn much I'm surprised anyone is buying these.
And they're designed to be puny, for sending those stupid picture messages etc, it's not like cameraphones are supposed to compete with digital cameras.
If we can turn Iraq into a friend (and I hope we do)
So, you generally make friends by burning a persons house, blasting his mother to a smithereens and THEN ask "hey, let's be friends, ok?". Very good tactic, no?
No, I don't mean we take it. We buy it from Iraq at a fair price.
You already take it, asshole. They are paying YOUR (two) war(s) and their own buildup from stone age (caused by one US) with it.
They need the money.
They sure need. Wonder why... oh, yeah. How about you let them decide how to get that money and who to choose for reconstruction?
Not very efficient. But anyone hasn't figured out a better way, yet.
Would it be more efficient to pressurise these new water cells with the heat instead of generating steam, or at the very least, without needing to turn a turbine?
Right now, with the figures mentioned in the article, no, but if they manage to evolve it enough, who knows, maybe.
For that matter, if you could make it compact enough, would the system have applications in nuclear submarine boilers? Modern diesel subs still have an advantage noise-wise over nuclear subs because while diesel subs run off battery power, nuclear subs still use steam turbines.
Couldn't submarine use something akin to a jet engine, directly heating seawater that, due to thermal expansion, is then ejected out of the chamber generating propulsion. No idea what kind of noise that would make...
Well, unless it's glued to a couch or something you probably end up moving it rather a lot, and it could have a small battery or capasitor that would be charged whenever that happens.
Not unlike the kinetic watches, etc. Though the traditional generation techniques in them are (for now at least) probably quite a bit more effective than this water filtering.
P800 is clearly evolved from a phone line towards PDA than from PDA towards phone so it's is a device usually referred as a "Smartphone", and yes, it has a touch screen.
I'm sure it's not the only one either, just one that came to mind first.
Smartphones tend to have good code hooks, certainly enough to support sending/receiving encrypted SMS's.
Even some simple Java phones have SMS sending/receiving functions built in, but I don't know how hard or feasible it would be to implement encryption algorithms in small memory and rather limited j2me.
Some of the problems, like carrying a non-waterproof device, could be fixed by reengineering.
There are water and shockproof phones. But obviously they end up being bulkier and more expensive due to being a minority product AND requiring more engineering and materials.
Some of the convenience and spam issues are apparently handled much better in the UK than the US, this is true.
I'd say not only in UK but whole Europe. I don't remember last time I had spam SMS or someone calling and trying to sell something, maybe that there has been a few, but that's really FEW, maybe one or two times in a five years or so.
I'm still uncomfortable on the privacy front -- the worst issues aren't handled.
I don't understand. What's wrong with the solution several already suggested: buy a GSM phone (with cash, if you want to be REALLY sure nobody connects an IMEI number with a person) and prepaid SIM cards (with cash as well). You can't get much more anonymous than that.
There is a book with a story very similar to what you describe, Tau Zero by Poul Anderson.
It tells us a tale of a ship speeding so very close to the speed of light time has basically stopped for them, and due to some accident, unable to decelarate...
Current mass calculations, AFAIK, seem to doom the universe to eternal expansion and inevitable thermal death instead of "the Big Crunch", though.
Suppose you go ahead and copy your brain state, and transfer the state to a functionally identical set of hardware. Now, the hardware is turned on, and identifies itself as you. But you are still here, running the original wetware. Now you have an issue. Who here is really you?
Both. But only for an instant the "twins" only shared one set of memories. However, from that point both of them would begin cumulating new, perhaps different memories and gradually their personalities would change (like it does when you age), and could end up being totally different.
Here it gets even more interesting. Suppose you are then killed. Would that be murder? Technically you (the new you) are still alive. Who are you killing?
Yes, due to aforementioned it would be a murder since you and you are already different at the time it happens.
You are scanned, deconstructed (or killed) and finally reconstructed (perhaps in a new location). Is this still murder?
No. Because a) the old you voluntarily steps into the disintegrator well knowing what it does and b) the old you and new you don't exist simultaneously the differing doesn't happen.
For a really hairy case: let's pretend that our teleporter hardware is malfunctioning and does reconstruct the clone, but original is not disintegrated. Now both of them are real persons, even though the other was never intended to exist...
It isn't happy, but neither is it unhappy or in any other emotional state. It's dead, nada, zilch, nothing but a pile of rotting cells. It doesn't think.
The perfect replica that we (or it) can't tell from it however will be very happy about not being dead with it's base form.
Note: of course, when you go from analog to digital, you lose some noise and some precision, but if our brain can handle losing millions of neurons per second, it can handle the analog-digital conversion.
Except that it's entirely possible or even probable that all that analog noisiness and lousy precision are exactly what makes human brains tick. Free will, intuition, adaptivity and the general "fuzziness" of humans that derive from randomness of some sort are after all what separates us from being just damn fast calculators like digital computers.
Yes, you're right of course. They're not playing nice, and one could certainly describe that kind of stronghand tactics as revenge.
I was kind of talking in the context of original message, which seemed to be: you shouldn't build big buildings because those Evil(tm) terrorists are lurking under every bed and WTC happens every day.
Perhaps you've heard of the Beijing government that periodically threatens to invade Taiwan (for instance if they elect a president the MAinland doesn't like)? The one armed with nuclear weapons? (That's real ones, H-bombs and ICBMs, not pretend "WMDs".)
Indeed I have, and you're right, they have nuclear weapons. Not only that but they also have over billion people there, you can get quite a nice amount of troops from that...
So now ask yourself, are the Chinese going to:
a) start flying planes into walls of the high buildings (buildings they undoubtedly would want for themselves in usable condition after the invasion) just for the fun of it
or perhaps b) mobilize their huge army that would be capable of invading hundreds of Taiwans in a heartbeat if they wish so, and threaten with those nukes?
Of course the towers could be damaged or fall in a war as well, but they will probably not be deliberately targeted with some kind of terrorist attacks.
The taiwanese have not been trying to play "world police" and stick their nose into the busines that absolutely DO NOT belong to them all the time.
You know what? Nobody is going to revenge them for what they didn't do.
Indeed you HAVEN'T learned anything from WTC if you believe they were just randomly picked because they were tall. They were picked because US is a nation of arrogant bastards that think they can screw everybody else without consequences.
Civilians in those towers certainly didn't deserve it, but your foreign policy begged it. Still does, the magnificently stupid "war on terrorism" only makes things worse.
PANTHER does. It's not even out yet if you haven't noticed. But why bother with the facts?
I never claimed it wasn't 64-bit machine, but right now, today, it does not have even partially 64-bit OS. Trash and yell all you can but that doesn't change. That nor stupid "it's not ready" -denials don't manage to get 64-bit Linux to vanish in puff of logic from this Earth either.
Frankly, I couldn't care less about who was first, everyone knows BOTH Apple and AMD are latecomers to 64-bit desktop/workstation market. I only responded to this because the guy was belittling AMD for being in "fantasy land" while it's perfectly usable for running 32-bit code in real world (and faster than existing x86 processors at that) and has had real 64-bit OS for a long time whether or not Mac zealots acknowledge that OS as "ready".
Both are good machines, and both are still somewhere between fantasy land and here, and will be for a while. That's it, nothing is going to change it, now let the stupid flames STOP
Umm, have you actually _USED_ Windows on AMD64 and seen it crashing (any more than it does on 32 bit x86, which is not much at all with 2k and XP), or just generally guessing something you don't actually have slightest idea about?
I'm first to admit I haven't used it, but I've seen no indication in any of bazillion Opteron or Athlon64 reviews that it would be crashy. Feel free to point me to reliable sources claiming contrary.
After all, those processors were designed from scratch to run all existing ia32 code perfectly, that's the whole REASON they exist and AMD instead didn't go with something totally incompatible, and they would NOT have been released until they can do that.
Well, sure there are some things that work, but not nearly anything.
Good luck, for example toggling shuffle (impossible as far as I can tell, unless there are undocumented shortcuts) or getting to/from search bar without extensive tabbing.
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And if someone does steal the phone (or just the card), you can always (at least in here) inform your operator and they put it on a black list, so nobody can use that card anymore.
Obviously it's too hard for an imbred moron to understand that uranium is neither REALLY dangerous, nor valuable or hard to come by.
Weapons grade uranium and plutonium are extremely valuable and hard to come by, but you CLEARLY weren't talking about those.
Yes folks, I'm talking about stealing fissionable materials
... err... you got it, old fuel rods for reprocessing! is a viable way for every backyard dictator to get thei hands on nu-cu-lar weapons of mass DESCTRUCTION.
Which, if you'd bother to utilize your two brain cells, are not the same kind of fissionable materials one is able to build bomb from. After all, why bother with facts when you can FUD.
why do you think the Japanese want to test this outside of Japan!
Because they have shitload of BIG nuclear plants in there already and population density that doesn't really have place for facilities this small.
And that crazy little asshole dictator of north Korea won't have to reprocess old fuel rods anymore, just raid rural Alaska!
So... you're seriously suggesting that raiding alaska for
Go back to your basement and hatch bit better conspiracy theory, one that is at least amusing instead of downright PATHETIC. Please?
Yup, everyone yelling about nuclear waste should make a trip into ash pile of coal plant with a geiger counter and be prepared to a surprise...
It's just so insane that there are people who actively advocate something that is constantly releasing radioactive material into atmosphere along with all those nasty chemical pollutants, yet madly oppose a form where that waste can be concentrated and contained safely.
You don't do that with your car, so why do that with your computer?
You don't? VAST majority of car-owners absolutely DO NOT know the basics of its operation or how they should maintain it. Only how to (barely) use it when it works. If it breaks, they take it to someone who knows how to repair it, nothing different from computers here.
Probably it would cost quite a bit more with quality camera (not only the resolution but optics and all, flash probably should be there as well). And it already costs so damn much I'm surprised anyone is buying these.
And they're designed to be puny, for sending those stupid picture messages etc, it's not like cameraphones are supposed to compete with digital cameras.
Am I so out of touch that with how sexist the mainstream media has become that that image is acceptable?
Mainstream media? Since when is relatively unknown website (I've never even heard of my-symbian.com before) mainstream media?
If we can turn Iraq into a friend (and I hope we do)
So, you generally make friends by burning a persons house, blasting his mother to a smithereens and THEN ask "hey, let's be friends, ok?". Very good tactic, no?
No, I don't mean we take it. We buy it from Iraq at a fair price.
You already take it, asshole. They are paying YOUR (two) war(s) and their own buildup from stone age (caused by one US) with it.
They need the money.
They sure need. Wonder why... oh, yeah. How about you let them decide how to get that money and who to choose for reconstruction?
First, it should be noted that I'm using a Windows version.
However, ctrl-alt-f seems to do the same, thanks. Can I get back into the list to select from results somehow?
Also, this wasn't documented anywhere, there is a bunch of shortcut keys mentioned in help file but ctrl-alt-f was not one of them.
But how efficient is water component?
Not very efficient. But anyone hasn't figured out a better way, yet.
Would it be more efficient to pressurise these new water cells with the heat instead of generating steam, or at the very least, without needing to turn a turbine?
Right now, with the figures mentioned in the article, no, but if they manage to evolve it enough, who knows, maybe.
For that matter, if you could make it compact enough, would the system have applications in nuclear submarine boilers? Modern diesel subs still have an advantage noise-wise over nuclear subs because while diesel subs run off battery power, nuclear subs still use steam turbines.
Couldn't submarine use something akin to a jet engine, directly heating seawater that, due to thermal expansion, is then ejected out of the chamber generating propulsion. No idea what kind of noise that would make...
Well, unless it's glued to a couch or something you probably end up moving it rather a lot, and it could have a small battery or capasitor that would be charged whenever that happens.
Not unlike the kinetic watches, etc. Though the traditional generation techniques in them are (for now at least) probably quite a bit more effective than this water filtering.
P800 is clearly evolved from a phone line towards PDA than from PDA towards phone so it's is a device usually referred as a "Smartphone", and yes, it has a touch screen.
I'm sure it's not the only one either, just one that came to mind first.
Smartphones tend to have good code hooks, certainly enough to support sending/receiving encrypted SMS's.
Even some simple Java phones have SMS sending/receiving functions built in, but I don't know how hard or feasible it would be to implement encryption algorithms in small memory and rather limited j2me.
Some of the problems, like carrying a non-waterproof device, could be fixed by reengineering.
There are water and shockproof phones. But obviously they end up being bulkier and more expensive due to being a minority product AND requiring more engineering and materials.
Some of the convenience and spam issues are apparently handled much better in the UK than the US, this is true.
I'd say not only in UK but whole Europe. I don't remember last time I had spam SMS or someone calling and trying to sell something, maybe that there has been a few, but that's really FEW, maybe one or two times in a five years or so.
I'm still uncomfortable on the privacy front -- the worst issues aren't handled.
I don't understand. What's wrong with the solution several already suggested: buy a GSM phone (with cash, if you want to be REALLY sure nobody connects an IMEI number with a person) and prepaid SIM cards (with cash as well). You can't get much more anonymous than that.
There is a book with a story very similar to what you describe, Tau Zero by Poul Anderson.
It tells us a tale of a ship speeding so very close to the speed of light time has basically stopped for them, and due to some accident, unable to decelarate...
Current mass calculations, AFAIK, seem to doom the universe to eternal expansion and inevitable thermal death instead of "the Big Crunch", though.
Suppose you go ahead and copy your brain state, and transfer the state to a functionally identical set of hardware. Now, the hardware is turned on, and identifies itself as you. But you are still here, running the original wetware. Now you have an issue. Who here is really you?
Both. But only for an instant the "twins" only shared one set of memories. However, from that point both of them would begin cumulating new, perhaps different memories and gradually their personalities would change (like it does when you age), and could end up being totally different.
Here it gets even more interesting. Suppose you are then killed. Would that be murder? Technically you (the new you) are still alive. Who are you killing?
Yes, due to aforementioned it would be a murder since you and you are already different at the time it happens.
You are scanned, deconstructed (or killed) and finally reconstructed (perhaps in a new location). Is this still murder?
No. Because a) the old you voluntarily steps into the disintegrator well knowing what it does and b) the old you and new you don't exist simultaneously the differing doesn't happen.
For a really hairy case: let's pretend that our teleporter hardware is malfunctioning and does reconstruct the clone, but original is not disintegrated. Now both of them are real persons, even though the other was never intended to exist...
It isn't happy, but neither is it unhappy or in any other emotional state. It's dead, nada, zilch, nothing but a pile of rotting cells. It doesn't think.
The perfect replica that we (or it) can't tell from it however will be very happy about not being dead with it's base form.
Note: of course, when you go from analog to digital, you lose some noise and some precision, but if our brain can handle losing millions of neurons per second, it can handle the analog-digital conversion.
Except that it's entirely possible or even probable that all that analog noisiness and lousy precision are exactly what makes human brains tick. Free will, intuition, adaptivity and the general "fuzziness" of humans that derive from randomness of some sort are after all what separates us from being just damn fast calculators like digital computers.
Yes, you're right of course. They're not playing nice, and one could certainly describe that kind of stronghand tactics as revenge.
I was kind of talking in the context of original message, which seemed to be: you shouldn't build big buildings because those Evil(tm) terrorists are lurking under every bed and WTC happens every day.
Perhaps you've heard of the Beijing government that periodically threatens to invade Taiwan (for instance if they elect a president the MAinland doesn't like)? The one armed with nuclear weapons? (That's real ones, H-bombs and ICBMs, not pretend "WMDs".)
Indeed I have, and you're right, they have nuclear weapons. Not only that but they also have over billion people there, you can get quite a nice amount of troops from that...
So now ask yourself, are the Chinese going to:
a) start flying planes into walls of the high buildings (buildings they undoubtedly would want for themselves in usable condition after the invasion) just for the fun of it
or perhaps b) mobilize their huge army that would be capable of invading hundreds of Taiwans in a heartbeat if they wish so, and threaten with those nukes?
Of course the towers could be damaged or fall in a war as well, but they will probably not be deliberately targeted with some kind of terrorist attacks.
The taiwanese have not been trying to play "world police" and stick their nose into the busines that absolutely DO NOT belong to them all the time.
You know what? Nobody is going to revenge them for what they didn't do.
Indeed you HAVEN'T learned anything from WTC if you believe they were just randomly picked because they were tall. They were picked because US is a nation of arrogant bastards that think they can screw everybody else without consequences.
Civilians in those towers certainly didn't deserve it, but your foreign policy begged it. Still does, the magnificently stupid "war on terrorism" only makes things worse.
PANTHER does. It's not even out yet if you haven't noticed. But why bother with the facts?
I never claimed it wasn't 64-bit machine, but right now, today, it does not have even partially 64-bit OS. Trash and yell all you can but that doesn't change. That nor stupid "it's not ready" -denials don't manage to get 64-bit Linux to vanish in puff of logic from this Earth either.
Frankly, I couldn't care less about who was first, everyone knows BOTH Apple and AMD are latecomers to 64-bit desktop/workstation market. I only responded to this because the guy was belittling AMD for being in "fantasy land" while it's perfectly usable for running 32-bit code in real world (and faster than existing x86 processors at that) and has had real 64-bit OS for a long time whether or not Mac zealots acknowledge that OS as "ready".
Both are good machines, and both are still somewhere between fantasy land and here, and will be for a while. That's it, nothing is going to change it, now let the stupid flames STOP
Umm, have you actually _USED_ Windows on AMD64 and seen it crashing (any more than it does on 32 bit x86, which is not much at all with 2k and XP), or just generally guessing something you don't actually have slightest idea about?
I'm first to admit I haven't used it, but I've seen no indication in any of bazillion Opteron or Athlon64 reviews that it would be crashy. Feel free to point me to reliable sources claiming contrary.
After all, those processors were designed from scratch to run all existing ia32 code perfectly, that's the whole REASON they exist and AMD instead didn't go with something totally incompatible, and they would NOT have been released until they can do that.
Well, sure there are some things that work, but not nearly anything.
Good luck, for example toggling shuffle (impossible as far as I can tell, unless there are undocumented shortcuts) or getting to/from search bar without extensive tabbing.
MS's Bluetooth mouse is around $70 as well, it's not rechargeable either but there should be plenty of buttons around...
Even that is bit pricey compared to their non-BT wireless which is around $40-$50.