Chernobyl was about as bad as it gets. And it was only caused by combination of test showing very little consideration (many safety systems were off, or circumventend, etc.), and unsafe graphite moderated RBMK reactor design.
That accident showed - with a particularly shocking way - that playing with nuclear plants is not a good thing to do. And all western, and probably new russian, reactor designs do not have the same critical flaws this one did. We are not going to see this kind of thing happening often.
Btw. I'd like to see a reliable report that shows any kind of real effects as far as Britain. Either immediately after the accident, or long term.
There seems to be rise in number of thyroid cancers (even most of those could've probably been avoided with iodine supplements) in parts of ex-SU near the plant, but no other statistically noticeable difference.
Natural stuff tends to be chaotic. It can't be predicted because of that.
Artificial things on the other hand are usually very non-chaotic, just because they are artificial. Made by something, with intent, and purpose, they don't just happen at random.
This may, or may not be true for weather modification, as it's not completely artificial, there was a natural, chaotic weather to begin with...
I live in Finland but don't know much about the copyright issues here. However, what I do know is that a few things are really absurd: So maybe you should get to know the copyrigh issues here before you start yelling false things about it?
You're allowed to import a certain number of pirated cds "for personal use" from abroad. Used to be true, I'm not sure, but I think I read from somewhere that this is supposed to change, or that it already has. No more importing pireted stuff if it's true.
You're allowed to copy these pirated cds, but not ones that you've bought.
Totally false. You are allowed to make copies for private use of _whatever material_. No matter if it's your own, friends, or borrowed from public library. Applies to all copyrighted stuff, except computer programs. Which you are not allowed to copy.
For every sale of recordable media (CD-Rs, tapes, possibly harddrives too) a certain percentage goes to the RIAA equivalent and then "supposedly" to domestic artists to compensate for illegal copying.
Officially it compensates for the aforementioned legal copying. NOT illegal. Not only does the royalty suck in princible, it's rather large. 0.25cents/minute for CD-R disks... about twenty overall. That's about half of the price of the whole disk!
I like Finnish music (despite what you said, not all TEOSTO payments go for "domestic" musicians, they also send part to foreign artists), and I agree with the princible, if you copy their stuff, yeah, give the guys a little compensation. But the implementation sucks, musicists SHOULD NOT have any money from cd's I buy and put data on. Whether or not it's my own work, Evil pirated computer software or whatever, as long as it's not music.
Which is why most of the people should not use the installer but packages compatible with their distribution. Dunno about the debs, but RPM packages are right there on main Mozilla download site.
Stop whining and get the damn SDL-Mixer, then play the game. Will you? After that, show some respect for the authors instead of trolling us with trifles.
Its just that, well, you said it youself - it's not on the top10 list. If you are comparing it to something from top5 list (and SC2 is there), well, there's nothing to have except disappointment.
Excepting worlds best game and getting medium-good space exploration game will instantly make you hate it.
Not only is SC2 one of the finest space exploration games, but I'd be willing to say that it is one of the finest games ever - all genres included.
Unless I mis-remember SC3 colonization didn't only involve pink mammals, though, you could clutter the galaxy with all the species from your alliance:)
And now that MPlayer supports (all the other major codecs are already there) Sorenson, and from what I can conclude about the latest news in the page, next release will probably do WMW8/9 as well, there aren't many video or audio files that Linux box couldn't play.
Games are still a valid point, wish that too would get better...
Without wishing to troll why is it available to the public at large than and used as a main browser by so many subscribers to this site ?.
It is available to the public so that people who WANT knowingly run it may do so and help squash bugs early so that they don't show up in those actual "end user" browsers. Mozilla.org pages quite clearly state that Mozilla.org provides binaries for testing and feedback.
And what comes to subscribers of this site... well, most of them are not exactly your everyday end-users, and they do know that Mozilla is one damn cool piece of software, even if it is in theory only for testing. Besides, many of us probably DO use those other, mozilla-derived browsers. I prefer Galeon, Phoenix seems to be getting much users lately... and so on.
Of course, there's also that not much alternatives have emerged... some people want the full-blown "communication suite" - projects like Phoenix and Galeon are browser only, only Mozilla based I've ever heard of is Netscape, but their releases are so few and far between that there are almost always some neat things that moz has that aren't yet updated into ns.
I've had self-compiled galeon 1.2.6 against 1.2b for a while now and it's been working pretty good, some crashes every now and then, but no showstoppers...
The TAF has been working too, but only at some of its full potential (I could search, but ctrl-g didn't cycle trought results)
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Leukemia is cancer, faulty, uncontrollable replication of bodys own cells. It's not caused by bacteria or virus, and thus obviously you can't get one from a cat.
If you had to pick up an example disease, you took one that couldn't even in theory work the way you describe? Good way to convince the plausability of the theory to others...
Some animal diseases can affect humans, yes, but that does not require any hybrid hosts for intermediate stages. Common influenza, for example sometimes hops into men from pigs or birds.
How come that people always bitching about RPM are the ones that don't know A THING about it?
RPM deps CAN and ARE being auto-resolved by things like up2date, urpmi, and.... yeah, you got it, apt-get. Bad deps, like being dependent on file rather than package are not fault of rpm format, either, but packager.
There might be some options that debs support that RPM doesn't ("recommended" but not required package dependencies?), and the other way around, but these aren't.
I don't think I've NEVER, seen a criticizing of RPM that pointed any real defects when compared to equivalent products...
If I remember correctly, average temperature of Mars is about -63 degrees celsius (about +15 on Earth, don't know whether annual, geographical and day/night variation is anything alike).
People don't stay alive in "angora sweaters" at those kind of temperatures for long, something like those clothes used by people on the poles here might give some time, though.
Combine those with very good tents... yeah, people with oxygen masks just might stay alive.
And bourbon is not a good idea, despite the warm feeling it causes and reputation, alcohol does not really help keep people warm. Quite the opposite, actually.
Not having to change battery is certainly not a privilege of mechanical watches only, as you probably well know quartz watches can, and do, function with either light or kinetic power. With added benefit of that these can still have a rechargeable battery, or capasitor, and thus be functional for quite a bit longer without their main power source than when the "surplus" power store is in form of spring.
I know, it's hard to imagine, but it's true - technology that doesn't asphyxiate immediately when the spring doesn't have kinetic energy left. You know, this sort of thing just might catch on...:)
There is no technical reason to have a mechanical watch. They have the "work of art", sentimental value, but that's the only value there is. Sorry.
It may be sad from mech hacker's point of view, but so for your normal everyday people.
Or at least if you are using it as an antipyretic and not a painkiller. Fever is after all caused by your own body and not by the pathogen. It's part of the immune system and suppressing it with drugs only serves to make your flu last longer.
So unless you really have a good reason to be partly "functional" or body temperatures are approaching dangerous levels, no need to bother with pills.
Adobe's eBooks are encrypted, even if it is a very bad encryption, cracking it is just that - deliberately breaking encryption that was meant to keep stuff "hidden" from anything except Adobe's eBook reader.
Same goes for DeCSS. In addition to that, DeCSS programmer WAS distributing a part of a DVD player program. The key used to identify it, and decode the scream. DeCSS wasn't brute force decryption.
I don't know much about the case, but I'd be willing to guess that yet same goes third time for streambox, Real servers and clients use some encrypted handshake to identify each other, so to get the stream, streambox must've broken it. Or ripped the code from RealPlayer like DeCSS.
MPlayer, on the other hand, doesn't use brute force, nor do they reverse engineer key to decrypt anyones encryption... because there is nothing encrypted in Sorenson movies. They only feed stuff to dll, and take what it spews out.. that's even how it was meant to be used.
Bacterial cells are vastly different from mammalian (eg. human) cells, and are even classified in a different branch of the "tree of life", they are procaryotes, we are made of eycaryotes. Even plants are more related to us than bacteria...
Phages are specialized, they cant just go on and "decide" that it's more fun to infect very different mechanism. What they probably could do is to change a species of bacteria they are attacking - eg. killing out the bacterium that are actually our symbiotes, and beneficial, maybe even necessary to us.
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So they finally invent a system that isn't so FSCKING LOUD!
Oh, wait. 173dB? Ah, nevermind.
Chernobyl was about as bad as it gets. And it was only caused by combination of test showing very little consideration (many safety systems were off, or circumventend, etc.), and unsafe graphite moderated RBMK reactor design.
That accident showed - with a particularly shocking way - that playing with nuclear plants is not a good thing to do. And all western, and probably new russian, reactor designs do not have the same critical flaws this one did. We are not going to see this kind of thing happening often.
Btw. I'd like to see a reliable report that shows any kind of real effects as far as Britain. Either immediately after the accident, or long term.
There seems to be rise in number of thyroid cancers (even most of those could've probably been avoided with iodine supplements) in parts of ex-SU near the plant, but no other statistically noticeable difference.
Are you trying to say that there are people that do not spend their time in college drinkin 24/7? Oh the horror.
Natural stuff tends to be chaotic. It can't be predicted because of that.
Artificial things on the other hand are usually very non-chaotic, just because they are artificial. Made by something, with intent, and purpose, they don't just happen at random.
This may, or may not be true for weather modification, as it's not completely artificial, there was a natural, chaotic weather to begin with...
I live in Finland but don't know much about the copyright issues here. However, what I do know is that a few things are really absurd:
So maybe you should get to know the copyrigh issues here before you start yelling false things about it?
You're allowed to import a certain number of
pirated cds "for personal use" from abroad.
Used to be true, I'm not sure, but I think I read from somewhere that this is supposed to change, or that it already has. No more importing pireted stuff if it's true.
You're allowed to copy these pirated cds, but not ones that you've bought.
Totally false. You are allowed to make copies for private use of _whatever material_. No matter if it's your own, friends, or borrowed from public library. Applies to all copyrighted stuff, except computer programs. Which you are not allowed to copy.
For every sale of recordable media (CD-Rs, tapes, possibly harddrives too) a certain percentage goes to the RIAA equivalent and then "supposedly" to domestic artists to compensate for illegal copying.
Officially it compensates for the aforementioned legal copying. NOT illegal. Not only does the royalty suck in princible, it's rather large. 0.25cents/minute for CD-R disks... about twenty overall. That's about half of the price of the whole disk!
I like Finnish music (despite what you said, not all TEOSTO payments go for "domestic" musicians, they also send part to foreign artists), and I agree with the princible, if you copy their stuff, yeah, give the guys a little compensation. But the implementation sucks, musicists SHOULD NOT have any money from cd's I buy and put data on. Whether or not it's my own work, Evil pirated computer software or whatever, as long as it's not music.
... and it rocks.
Wonder why windows version doesn't have this one.
Those small, nifty things are just what it makes so much better than IE...
Which is why most of the people should not use the installer but packages compatible with their distribution. Dunno about the debs, but RPM packages are right there on main Mozilla download site.
No permission bugs in those.
Anyone home? It's FIRST ALPHA RELEASE.
Stop whining and get the damn SDL-Mixer, then play the game. Will you? After that, show some respect for the authors instead of trolling us with trifles.
Thanks.
SC3 isn't a bad game at all...
Its just that, well, you said it youself - it's not on the top10 list. If you are comparing it to something from top5 list (and SC2 is there), well, there's nothing to have except disappointment.
Excepting worlds best game and getting medium-good space exploration game will instantly make you hate it.
Get the amiga-version and play it with UAE or Fellow.
Not only does it work with current hardware, but it also looks a LOT better than the horrid DOS game.. PC's really were crap back then.
Not only is SC2 one of the finest space exploration games, but I'd be willing to say that it is one of the finest games ever - all genres included.
:)
Unless I mis-remember SC3 colonization didn't only involve pink mammals, though, you could clutter the galaxy with all the species from your alliance
No? He wasn't even referring to his god with the big letter christian Dolts seem to be thinking is reserved for their supreme ass^H^H^Hbeing.
Might very well be god of pr0n! Or the aforementioned Zeus, for that matter.
Been working for a long time now.
And now that MPlayer supports (all the other major codecs are already there) Sorenson, and from what I can conclude about the latest news in the page, next release will probably do WMW8/9 as well, there aren't many video or audio files that Linux box couldn't play.
Games are still a valid point, wish that too would get better...
Without wishing to troll why is it available to the public at large than and used as a main browser by so many subscribers to this site ?.
It is available to the public so that people who WANT knowingly run it may do so and help squash bugs early so that they don't show up in those actual "end user" browsers. Mozilla.org pages quite clearly state that Mozilla.org provides binaries for testing and feedback.
And what comes to subscribers of this site... well, most of them are not exactly your everyday end-users, and they do know that Mozilla is one damn cool piece of software, even if it is in theory only for testing. Besides, many of us probably DO use those other, mozilla-derived browsers. I prefer Galeon, Phoenix seems to be getting much users lately... and so on.
Of course, there's also that not much alternatives have emerged... some people want the full-blown "communication suite" - projects like Phoenix and Galeon are browser only, only Mozilla based I've ever heard of is Netscape, but their releases are so few and far between that there are almost always some neat things that moz has that aren't yet updated into ns.
"View selection source" is neat, wish this one would make its way to galeon as well...
Galeon 1.2.7 officially supports mozilla 1.2.
And type-ahead find!
I've had self-compiled galeon
1.2.6 against 1.2b for a while now and it's been working pretty good, some crashes every now and then, but no showstoppers...
The TAF has been working too, but only at some of its full potential (I could search, but ctrl-g didn't cycle trought results)
Leukemia is cancer, faulty, uncontrollable replication of bodys own cells. It's not caused by bacteria or virus, and thus obviously you can't get one from a cat.
If you had to pick up an example disease, you took one that couldn't even in theory work the way you describe? Good way to convince the plausability of the theory to others...
Some animal diseases can affect humans, yes, but that does not require any hybrid hosts for intermediate stages. Common influenza, for example sometimes hops into men from pigs or birds.
How come that people always bitching about RPM are the ones that don't know A THING about it?
.... yeah, you got it, apt-get. Bad deps, like being dependent on file rather than package are not fault of rpm format, either, but packager.
RPM deps CAN and ARE being auto-resolved by things like up2date, urpmi, and
There might be some options that debs support that RPM doesn't ("recommended" but not required package dependencies?), and the other way around, but these aren't.
I don't think I've NEVER, seen a criticizing of RPM that pointed any real defects when compared to equivalent products...
Well, these new images prove nothing to nutcases if that is the case.
R2D2 and C3P0 had to get there somehow, tough luck if their lander happens to look just like that used in the apollo "fake" program.
If I remember correctly, average temperature of Mars is about -63 degrees celsius (about +15 on Earth, don't know whether annual, geographical and day/night variation is anything alike).
People don't stay alive in "angora sweaters" at those kind of temperatures for long, something like those clothes used by people on the poles here might give some time, though.
Combine those with very good tents... yeah, people with oxygen masks just might stay alive.
And bourbon is not a good idea, despite the warm feeling it causes and reputation, alcohol does not really help keep people warm. Quite the opposite, actually.
Humans do not pop in full vacuum.
Not having to change battery is certainly not a privilege of mechanical watches only, as you probably well know quartz watches can, and do, function with either light or kinetic power. With added benefit of that these can still have a rechargeable battery, or capasitor, and thus be functional for quite a bit longer without their main power source than when the "surplus" power store is in form of spring.
:)
I know, it's hard to imagine, but it's true - technology that doesn't asphyxiate immediately when the spring doesn't have kinetic energy left. You know, this sort of thing just might catch on...
There is no technical reason to have a mechanical watch. They have the "work of art", sentimental value, but that's the only value there is. Sorry.
It may be sad from mech hacker's point of view, but so for your normal everyday people.
Hear, hear!
It truly does suck to live this north.
You might as well stop using that Tylenol too.
Or at least if you are using it as an antipyretic and not a painkiller. Fever is after all caused by your own body and not by the pathogen. It's part of the immune system and suppressing it with drugs only serves to make your flu last longer.
So unless you really have a good reason to be partly "functional" or body temperatures are approaching dangerous levels, no need to bother with pills.
Adobe's eBooks are encrypted, even if it is a very bad encryption, cracking it is just that - deliberately breaking encryption that was meant to keep stuff "hidden" from anything except Adobe's eBook reader.
Same goes for DeCSS. In addition to that, DeCSS programmer WAS distributing a part of a DVD player program. The key used to identify it, and decode the scream. DeCSS wasn't brute force decryption.
I don't know much about the case, but I'd be willing to guess that yet same goes third time for streambox, Real servers and clients use some encrypted handshake to identify each other, so to get the stream, streambox must've broken it. Or ripped the code from RealPlayer like DeCSS.
MPlayer, on the other hand, doesn't use brute force, nor do they reverse engineer key to decrypt anyones encryption... because there is nothing encrypted in Sorenson movies. They only feed stuff to dll, and take what it spews out.. that's even how it was meant to be used.
Bacterial cells are vastly different from mammalian (eg. human) cells, and are even classified in a different branch of the "tree of life", they are procaryotes, we are made of eycaryotes. Even plants are more related to us than bacteria...
Phages are specialized, they cant just go on and "decide" that it's more fun to infect very different mechanism. What they probably could do is to change a species of bacteria they are attacking - eg. killing out the bacterium that are actually our symbiotes, and beneficial, maybe even necessary to us.