First step is something like everyone would get equal amount of money from nation government to use in campaign, and some way to enforce that no other funding is used. Next, now that monetary support from someone is no longer necessary BAN THE POLITICAL PARTIES, they are root of all evil.
Representative democracy does not work, and can not work, if persons we vote are not independent and think and act only as they themselves wish, but part of some group.
But absolute vacuum is only "absolute" vacuum as we, huge clumsy matter things perceive it, it's really crawling with all sorts of weird quantum particles, that are probably somehow associated with its properties.
Maybe vacuum has changed over time. Maybe there are even different kinds of vacuum existing at the same time in different parts of universe.
It's never too late for anything. Nvidia is just a company amongst others and even if they have fast chips, so what? People working there are just people, not gods, and it's not like they have all the designers in the world that are capable of doing 3D hardware. ATI already beats GF4 with R300.
Not to mention, said NVIDIA wouldn't even be there if they would've shared the same mentality when 3dfx ruled the market almost alone.
Pedantics aside, I'd guess that's why it was a ROVING prison, it moves on a lunar surface, escaping dawn so it always stays on whatever is dark side at the moment. Days and nights at Moon are so long that it wouldn't even have to move very fast.
Well, we are not the only ones that use magnetic materials for compass. Birds do that, some others animals do that... they don't need to know that they use compass, or consciously do or build anything, it's just an instinct. Thus bacteria might do that as well, hard to think what they might need orientation ability for, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
BTW, Little cars that burn methane wouldn't produce methane (because it was burned!) but CO2... which bacteria also produce. One could argue that bacteria don't HAVE little cars, but that they ARE little cars. Or maybe aircrafts or boats. Nano"technology" Von Neumann Machines... nature beats us in everything.
But in "life in mars?" -debate it doesn't really matter whether they use it for compass or is it just a byproduct of something other they do with ferrites. The important point is that for one reason or another, bacteria DO produce magnetite, and that their magnetite is distinguishable from inorganic magnetite crystals.
Who cares where they evolved? Even if they were originally from Mars, or Earth, and spread to the another by getting a lift on a meteor, it's HUGE find to know that they can survive the voyage trought vacuum and cold, and the atmospheric re-entry. And to adapt totally different environment, and continue to evolve and reproduce there.
Besides, if it were so, it proves theories of panspermia, and several billion years is more than enough time for those bacteria to drift to nearby planets and moons (Titan, Europa?) and even into dozens of nearest solar systems and who knows what kind of lifeforms may have evolved from those same ancestors in different places at same time.
However they end up solving the containment problems, I'm quite sure the device required to deliver 0.5 grams of stuff would be heck of a lot bigger than you can fit on a miniature plane.
Maybe MS can't ensure there are no viruses written, but they could at least try to find and fix few of most obvious security holes those viruses can use to work.
Then again, MS isn't exactly well known of securing its products...
Yeah, sure. Just because they didn't code it from scratch doesn't mean that they aren't responsible for it. Maybe they SHOULD have invested some extra money or research into it, don't you think?
They could strenghten the disks of course, but even if they make the stuff of carbon nanotubes or industrial diamond, whatever that's near impossible to break, it wont do any good if they are still vibrating so much it can't be read.
And even if the disks don't break, there still might be a change of drive mechanism somehow breaking and letting frisbee out, and at that speed, plus being made of ultra-strong material it can do some serious devastation.
Not to mention the noise... ever though 52x drives sound like yet engines? Well wait 'till it's ten times that!
Well, it depends. If I've got image, on partition with relatively low fragmentation, maximum speed could maybe be achieved as sustained.
Or course things are different if there are lots of different files from around the disk, or even few, but heavily fragmented.
Doesn't really matter though, the point stays that hard drives are not the limiting factor, that stretched 20M would still be enough for said 100x+ cd-writing.
1x != 150kbps, 1x == 150kB/s. CD-ROM disks clearly have the capasity of 650 megabytes, not megabits, and reading them at 150kbps would take almost ten hours instead of 74 mins.
40x is about 6MB/s. As things are right now, new IDE hard drives are very well capable of transferring data at 20-50M/s depending on drive and position of data on it. More than fast enough to keep up with 100x, or maybe even 200x or faster...
Problem with cdr* is not speed of ide bus, nor is it hard drives, but required huge spin speeds of cdr drives themselves, which causes inferior burn quality, and vibration.
"Overclocking" is obviously wrong term and causes wrong conception, it's as mentioned in the article - drive mechanism is same in all those drive models, and thus destroying it is not really likely, they are only limited with firmware for reason that making one high-end drive is cheaper than designing n different models. Doesn't really make burning any faster, though. At 32x the burning time for 700M disk would theoretically be only about 2:50, but writing lead in/out does take those additional two minutes... and that probably doesn't change very much, so 40x drive would take maybe 4:00, and 48x about 3:40. What good does few minutes do unless burning thousands of disks?
Personally, I don't kive a damn about burn speed as long as it does its job under ten minutes.
GM plants are usually modified with aspects that make them better from viewpoint of humans, or companies. That may not give them any edge over natural plants when it's about survival of the fittest.
Some properties (disease or bug resistance for example) may or may not offer enough benefits to outweight the disadvantages (plant growing Bt may, for example, use bit less energy to do so, when natural version doesn't, and not do so well against it when it's not given fertilizers any more).
In this case, it's clearly even more unlikely, caffeine production hasn't evolved into caffee plants by change, or it would've disappeared already, thus decaf'd plants are not as competitive as existing ones, and can not threaten other organisms.
Halflings are not supposed to look like kids, they are small, humanoid fantasy race and they have kids as well as adults. What comes to their looks, they are supposed to look a lot smaller, that's true (and hence the name), but their face, and other features associated to age are not like those of kids, but about equal to those of human of same age (in relation to average lifetime, if that differs).
Dunno about yours, but my parport scanner uses parallelscsi emulation chip and shows in Linux as SCSI-generic device/dev/sg?, and it works as normal user just fine if you give it the right ownership privileges.
Have you tried other devices, scanners and other things that need raw access normally use/dev/parport? instead of/dev/lp?, which is meant for printers.
And of course you don't have this problem on windows or mac, because you are always root. Which is magnitudes worse than having to run one specific program as such.
Different things they may be, but if the effect should be identifical so doesn't matter which way it's done. Except that WM way of course works only for that WM...
Having WM which stops scrolling of virtual desktop when you move mouse to the edge of screen, and re-arrange all windows to fit the real screen if it becomes smaller than VD looks and feels just the same as having X (preferably config option between new and old way) always makes VD size same as real resolution. May be that the windows still have to be rearranged? May even be the reason why the VD always stays at the biggest possible mode.
It's not any harder to remember those keys than it is to remember how do you get into "display properties" config thingy in windoze.
REAL problem is that ca-+/i doesn't change your virtual resolution, and as such, is useless. If I want to change my screen from 1600x1200 to 1024x768 then it damn well should change it, and not just "zoom" into part of the screen and have the desktop just as huge as it was before. Especially as it doesn't rearrange windows, and that scrolling is just plain horrible.
Just what are you smoking? You'd never set up the "local security hole", even on your home system, and _AT THE SAME TIME_ you are bitching that the very same hole (which is giving users unlimited access to the parport) should be _ENABLED BY DEFAULT_.
And as others have corrected, that's a bad way to do it, just give/dev/lp? to some group and add all users that you want to have ability to print into that group.
The more radioactive something is, the shorter its half-life, something dangerous enough to kill you just by being in same room will not exist more than decade or two. Thousand years or less from now nuclear waste radiates so little it doesn't pose any danger to anyone unless you eat it, or grind it to dust and breathe it.
Why would anyone want to bore himself to death by standing in front of a microwave for quarter hour even if it doesn't leak.
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Almost all, if not all big capasitors are electrolytic, those things are very sensitive to overvoltage, as well as plugging them backwards. They probably do not like shorting, either. It may not kill you like shock, but being blind because a exploding capasitor threw some metal case fragments into your eyes is not very nice either.
Just to be sure, as you can't be too careful, discharge those damn things _TROUGH A RESISTOR, NOT BY SHORTING_.
If there is a part in EULA that is illegal, or otherwise unreasonable, the law you keep whining about probably gives you right to just ignore it. Infogrames probably knows that the EULA wouldn't hold in court, it's just there for those people that don't know it can be denied, or maybe for countries that doesn't have that kind of protetction as written law.
Ion propulsion is serious, working, propulsion technique, but NASA is constantly giving small amounts of funding to various strange ideas and theories, gambling that one of them might actually work, and eventually evolve to some kind of "warp engine", anti-gravity or whatever.
Oh, and yes, forgot to mention, fuel-cell powered electrical motors are just as much TEV as battery using electrical motor, because hydrogen they use must be produced somehow, requiring energy, which probably will come from those very same "allegedly bad" big powerplants.
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First step is something like everyone would get equal amount of money from nation government to use in campaign, and some way to enforce that no other funding is used. Next, now that monetary support from someone is no longer necessary BAN THE POLITICAL PARTIES, they are root of all evil.
Representative democracy does not work, and can not work, if persons we vote are not independent and think and act only as they themselves wish, but part of some group.
But absolute vacuum is only "absolute" vacuum as we, huge clumsy matter things perceive it, it's really crawling with all sorts of weird quantum particles, that are probably somehow associated with its properties.
Maybe vacuum has changed over time. Maybe there are even different kinds of vacuum existing at the same time in different parts of universe.
It's never too late for anything. Nvidia is just a company amongst others and even if they have fast chips, so what? People working there are just people, not gods, and it's not like they have all the designers in the world that are capable of doing 3D hardware. ATI already beats GF4 with R300.
Not to mention, said NVIDIA wouldn't even be there if they would've shared the same mentality when 3dfx ruled the market almost alone.
Pedantics aside, I'd guess that's why it was a ROVING prison, it moves on a lunar surface, escaping dawn so it always stays on whatever is dark side at the moment. Days and nights at Moon are so long that it wouldn't even have to move very fast.
Well, we are not the only ones that use magnetic materials for compass. Birds do that, some others animals do that... they don't need to know that they use compass, or consciously do or build anything, it's just an instinct. Thus bacteria might do that as well, hard to think what they might need orientation ability for, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
BTW, Little cars that burn methane wouldn't produce methane (because it was burned!) but CO2... which bacteria also produce. One could argue that bacteria don't HAVE little cars, but that they ARE little cars. Or maybe aircrafts or boats. Nano"technology" Von Neumann Machines... nature beats us in everything.
But in "life in mars?" -debate it doesn't really matter whether they use it for compass or is it just a byproduct of something other they do with ferrites. The important point is that for one reason or another, bacteria DO produce magnetite, and that their magnetite is distinguishable from inorganic magnetite crystals.
Who cares where they evolved? Even if they were originally from Mars, or Earth, and spread to the another by getting a lift on a meteor, it's HUGE find to know that they can survive the voyage trought vacuum and cold, and the atmospheric re-entry. And to adapt totally different environment, and continue to evolve and reproduce there.
Besides, if it were so, it proves theories of panspermia, and several billion years is more than enough time for those bacteria to drift to nearby planets and moons (Titan, Europa?) and even into dozens of nearest solar systems and who knows what kind of lifeforms may have evolved from those same ancestors in different places at same time.
However they end up solving the containment problems, I'm quite sure the device required to deliver 0.5 grams of stuff would be heck of a lot bigger than you can fit on a miniature plane.
Maybe MS can't ensure there are no viruses written, but they could at least try to find and fix few of most obvious security holes those viruses can use to work.
Then again, MS isn't exactly well known of securing its products...
Yeah, sure. Just because they didn't code it from scratch doesn't mean that they aren't responsible for it. Maybe they SHOULD have invested some extra money or research into it, don't you think?
They could strenghten the disks of course, but even if they make the stuff of carbon nanotubes or industrial diamond, whatever that's near impossible to break, it wont do any good if they are still vibrating so much it can't be read.
And even if the disks don't break, there still might be a change of drive mechanism somehow breaking and letting frisbee out, and at that speed, plus being made of ultra-strong material it can do some serious devastation.
Not to mention the noise... ever though 52x drives sound like yet engines? Well wait 'till it's ten times that!
Well, it depends. If I've got image, on partition with relatively low fragmentation, maximum speed could maybe be achieved as sustained.
Or course things are different if there are lots of different files from around the disk, or even few, but heavily fragmented.
Doesn't really matter though, the point stays that hard drives are not the limiting factor, that stretched 20M would still be enough for said 100x+ cd-writing.
1x != 150kbps, 1x == 150kB/s. CD-ROM disks clearly have the capasity of 650 megabytes, not megabits, and reading them at 150kbps would take almost ten hours instead of 74 mins.
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40x is about 6MB/s. As things are right now, new IDE hard drives are very well capable of transferring data at 20-50M/s depending on drive and position of data on it. More than fast enough to keep up with 100x, or maybe even 200x or faster
Problem with cdr* is not speed of ide bus, nor is it hard drives, but required huge spin speeds of cdr drives themselves, which causes inferior burn quality, and vibration.
"Overclocking" is obviously wrong term and causes wrong conception, it's as mentioned in the article - drive mechanism is same in all those drive models, and thus destroying it is not really likely, they are only limited with firmware for reason that making one high-end drive is cheaper than designing n different models. Doesn't really make burning any faster, though. At 32x the burning time for 700M disk would theoretically be only about 2:50, but writing lead in/out does take those additional two minutes... and that probably doesn't change very much, so 40x drive would take maybe 4:00, and 48x about 3:40. What good does few minutes do unless burning thousands of disks?
Personally, I don't kive a damn about burn speed as long as it does its job under ten minutes.
GM plants are usually modified with aspects that make them better from viewpoint of humans, or companies. That may not give them any edge over natural plants when it's about survival of the fittest.
Some properties (disease or bug resistance for example) may or may not offer enough benefits to outweight the disadvantages (plant growing Bt may, for example, use bit less energy to do so, when natural version doesn't, and not do so well against it when it's not given fertilizers any more).
In this case, it's clearly even more unlikely, caffeine production hasn't evolved into caffee plants by change, or it would've disappeared already, thus decaf'd plants are not as competitive as existing ones, and can not threaten other organisms.
Halflings are not supposed to look like kids, they are small, humanoid fantasy race and they have kids as well as adults. What comes to their looks, they are supposed to look a lot smaller, that's true (and hence the name), but their face, and other features associated to age are not like those of kids, but about equal to those of human of same age (in relation to average lifetime, if that differs).
Dunno about yours, but my parport scanner uses parallelscsi emulation chip and shows in Linux as SCSI-generic device /dev/sg?, and it works as normal user just fine if you give it the right ownership privileges.
/dev/parport? instead of /dev/lp?, which is meant for printers.
Have you tried other devices, scanners and other things that need raw access normally use
And of course you don't have this problem on windows or mac, because you are always root. Which is magnitudes worse than having to run one specific program as such.
Different things they may be, but if the effect should be identifical so doesn't matter which way it's done. Except that WM way of course works only for that WM...
Having WM which stops scrolling of virtual desktop when you move mouse to the edge of screen, and re-arrange all windows to fit the real screen if it becomes smaller than VD looks and feels just the same as having X (preferably config option between new and old way) always makes VD size same as real resolution. May be that the windows still have to be rearranged? May even be the reason why the VD always stays at the biggest possible mode.
It's not any harder to remember those keys than it is to remember how do you get into "display properties" config thingy in windoze.
REAL problem is that ca-+/i doesn't change your virtual resolution, and as such, is useless. If I want to change my screen from 1600x1200 to 1024x768 then it damn well should change it, and not just "zoom" into part of the screen and have the desktop just as huge as it was before. Especially as it doesn't rearrange windows, and that scrolling is just plain horrible.
Just what are you smoking? You'd never set up the "local security hole", even on your home system, and _AT THE SAME TIME_ you are bitching that the very same hole (which is giving users unlimited access to the parport) should be _ENABLED BY DEFAULT_.
/dev/lp? to some group and add all users that you want to have ability to print into that group.
And as others have corrected, that's a bad way to do it, just give
FUD.
The more radioactive something is, the shorter its half-life, something dangerous enough to kill you just by being in same room will not exist more than decade or two. Thousand years or less from now nuclear waste radiates so little it doesn't pose any danger to anyone unless you eat it, or grind it to dust and breathe it.
Why would anyone want to bore himself to death by standing in front of a microwave for quarter hour even if it doesn't leak.
Almost all, if not all big capasitors are electrolytic, those things are very sensitive to overvoltage, as well as plugging them backwards. They probably do not like shorting, either. It may not kill you like shock, but being blind because a exploding capasitor threw some metal case fragments into your eyes is not very nice either.
Just to be sure, as you can't be too careful, discharge those damn things _TROUGH A RESISTOR, NOT BY SHORTING_.
If there is a part in EULA that is illegal, or otherwise unreasonable, the law you keep whining about probably gives you right to just ignore it. Infogrames probably knows that the EULA wouldn't hold in court, it's just there for those people that don't know it can be denied, or maybe for countries that doesn't have that kind of protetction as written law.
Current hard drives need to be sealed too, and they are dirt cheap in case you havent noticed.
Ion propulsion is serious, working, propulsion technique, but NASA is constantly giving small amounts of funding to various strange ideas and theories, gambling that one of them might actually work, and eventually evolve to some kind of "warp engine", anti-gravity or whatever.
Oh, and yes, forgot to mention, fuel-cell powered electrical motors are just as much TEV as battery using electrical motor, because hydrogen they use must be produced somehow, requiring energy, which probably will come from those very same "allegedly bad" big powerplants.