Sorry for the pedantry, but I've been seeing this particular malapropism a lot lately. "Populous" is an adjective, meaning "densely inhabited". The noun you're looking for is "populace", meaning a population of people. Yes, they're pronounced exactly the same, so it's a very common substitution.
Hydrogen's not an energy source. It's an energy storage medium. If this eventually develops into a convenient method for producing it, it may be worth something in the long run.
I noticed that too. In particular, the comment about shipping energy around the national (and, conceivably, international) grids.
I suppose one advantage of SBSP is that the aim on the satellite transmitters could be adjusted to one of several ground receiving stations, which would allow the power to travel over smaller distances on the grid. Whether this could actually make up for inverse square losses due to longer transmission paths, I don't know. Still, it's an interesting advantage to SBSP that I hadn't previously considered.
Still, I think you're on the ball with regards to this being far more useful for remote, emergency & military power, and so on, rather than as any kind of baseload gen... it's clearly far too expensive for that, even compared to aging maintenance-intensive nukes, ground-based photo-voltaic solar, and wind, let alone cheap power like gas turbines and coal plants.
But the feature request that got you modded to +5 Insightful already exists. It's called UAC. No, seriously.
If you're logged into an admin account in Vista/Win7, you actually get a limited user account, and the UAC mechanism temporarily elevates you to a full admin when you click the infamous "Allow" buttons. Yes, it's a pretty lame bit of UI design. I turn that mode of UAC off, so that my admin accounts have full admin powers from the moment I log in.
However! If you log in as a limited user, UAC works differently. When it would have given you the aforementioned infamous "Allow/Cancel" dialog, it instead asks you to supply a Real Admin's username and password. It is, in fact, pretty much exactly the same experience as using Ubuntu's GUI for sudo-type tasks. In fact, since about 2 days after I started using Vista, I've been using a limited user account - and it's been fine.
So, no, it doesn't need to be put in future versions of Windows. Instead, Windows users need to start using the features of the current version(s). And, you know, stop using admin accounts when they don't really need them.
Obviously, making Windows software developers be less lame (cf The Sims 2) is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.:)
You can beg and throw cash at them, but they'll watch your house burn down.
Ouch, that's cold. Now I understand why they wouldn't want to accept payment on-need for a year's membership; otherwise why would anyone ever sign up in advance?
What they *should* offer is, if your house is burning down, you can join on the spot... but minimum membership period for such on-the-spot applications is 20 years. With an iron-clad contract ready to be signed, right there in the truck.
How are viruses and worms named, anyway? "Downadup" and "Conficker" are very... arbitrary names. Do they roll some dice and consult a table of vowel & consonant sounds or something?
(Reminds me of alien name generation tables from Traveller...)
This probably isn't pitched at householders. I think it would be great for supermarkets, cold warehouses, booze shops, chemical plants etc... people who need commercial/industrial levels of refrigeration.
I've always used the Win+E keyboard shortcut when I want Windows Explorer. Starts up in the "My Computer" pseudo-folder showing the drives ready to be selected from (same, I think, as what you're describing), and doesn't require a mouse targeting move away from the current screen location to the bottom-left corner.
It's usually correct to not blame on malice what can be explained by incompetence. But I do find it hard to understand how a seemingly-simple requirement (essentially, count the number of times a button has been pressed) can be so badly botched by a company whose other "secure terminal" products (eg, ATMs) seem trustworthy and reliable, without the implication of a sinister motive.
Yeah, but when you're talking about a data stream over a network, does a measurement of bytes per second refer to payload only, or total number of possible bit transitions divided by eight?
Consider that the overhead/payload ratio is going to vary based on high-level protocol, even when the physical & data link layers are identical (eg HTTP vs FTP).
That's why communications links are generally rated in bits per second rather than bytes per second.
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Sorry for the pedantry, but I've been seeing this particular malapropism a lot lately. "Populous" is an adjective, meaning "densely inhabited". The noun you're looking for is "populace", meaning a population of people. Yes, they're pronounced exactly the same, so it's a very common substitution.
Hydrogen's not an energy source. It's an energy storage medium. If this eventually develops into a convenient method for producing it, it may be worth something in the long run.
Wouldn't the hideous things done to YouTube audio by YouTube rather compromise the integrity of a demonstration of "loudness war" compression effects?
I noticed that too. In particular, the comment about shipping energy around the national (and, conceivably, international) grids.
I suppose one advantage of SBSP is that the aim on the satellite transmitters could be adjusted to one of several ground receiving stations, which would allow the power to travel over smaller distances on the grid. Whether this could actually make up for inverse square losses due to longer transmission paths, I don't know. Still, it's an interesting advantage to SBSP that I hadn't previously considered.
Still, I think you're on the ball with regards to this being far more useful for remote, emergency & military power, and so on, rather than as any kind of baseload gen... it's clearly far too expensive for that, even compared to aging maintenance-intensive nukes, ground-based photo-voltaic solar, and wind, let alone cheap power like gas turbines and coal plants.
Hrmm. "The first humans to experience entanglement", huh? And how long before the experiment becomes the basis for a porn movie plot?
Yeah, I've heard that...
Certainly a snappier title. Thank you once again, Mr Orwell, for providing such a wonderful utopia for us to emulate!
I'll give you an even better tip: don't bother with it. Not even Bill Nighy could save that movie. And I paid to see it at the cinema!
Castrix does seem to go well with Unix...
- Always filter all of your input for injection attempts. Write a validation class to handle this.
Why isn't there one built in to the language? Seems like something that damn well ought to be there.
I was using some fairly new (2-3 year old) 386-powered industrial automation Remote Terminal Units just this morning.
But yeah, the 386s are deprecated. All our models have mighty, bleeding-edge 586 CPUs now.
I can't say anything about The Sims 2.
But the feature request that got you modded to +5 Insightful already exists. It's called UAC. No, seriously.
If you're logged into an admin account in Vista/Win7, you actually get a limited user account, and the UAC mechanism temporarily elevates you to a full admin when you click the infamous "Allow" buttons. Yes, it's a pretty lame bit of UI design. I turn that mode of UAC off, so that my admin accounts have full admin powers from the moment I log in.
However! If you log in as a limited user, UAC works differently. When it would have given you the aforementioned infamous "Allow/Cancel" dialog, it instead asks you to supply a Real Admin's username and password. It is, in fact, pretty much exactly the same experience as using Ubuntu's GUI for sudo-type tasks. In fact, since about 2 days after I started using Vista, I've been using a limited user account - and it's been fine.
So, no, it doesn't need to be put in future versions of Windows. Instead, Windows users need to start using the features of the current version(s). And, you know, stop using admin accounts when they don't really need them.
Obviously, making Windows software developers be less lame (cf The Sims 2) is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. :)
I think that's called the BoatTorrent protocol.
It's easy to find places with sloping waters.
All you need are big waves...
Ouch, that's cold. Now I understand why they wouldn't want to accept payment on-need for a year's membership; otherwise why would anyone ever sign up in advance?
What they *should* offer is, if your house is burning down, you can join on the spot... but minimum membership period for such on-the-spot applications is 20 years. With an iron-clad contract ready to be signed, right there in the truck.
How are viruses and worms named, anyway? "Downadup" and "Conficker" are very... arbitrary names. Do they roll some dice and consult a table of vowel & consonant sounds or something?
(Reminds me of alien name generation tables from Traveller...)
This probably isn't pitched at householders. I think it would be great for supermarkets, cold warehouses, booze shops, chemical plants etc... people who need commercial/industrial levels of refrigeration.
I've always used the Win+E keyboard shortcut when I want Windows Explorer. Starts up in the "My Computer" pseudo-folder showing the drives ready to be selected from (same, I think, as what you're describing), and doesn't require a mouse targeting move away from the current screen location to the bottom-left corner.
Spiralling Magnetic Signal sounds like a good name for a geekcore band.
I don't know. Most cats core dump rather than BSoD, so I don't think Windows is standard on the platform...
It's usually correct to not blame on malice what can be explained by incompetence. But I do find it hard to understand how a seemingly-simple requirement (essentially, count the number of times a button has been pressed) can be so badly botched by a company whose other "secure terminal" products (eg, ATMs) seem trustworthy and reliable, without the implication of a sinister motive.
Yeah, but when you're talking about a data stream over a network, does a measurement of bytes per second refer to payload only, or total number of possible bit transitions divided by eight?
Consider that the overhead/payload ratio is going to vary based on high-level protocol, even when the physical & data link layers are identical (eg HTTP vs FTP).
That's why communications links are generally rated in bits per second rather than bytes per second.
IIRC, XP is version 5.1 and 2000 is version 5.0. So, if Win7 is Vista SP3, I guess XP is Win2000 with a service pack as well?
And naked tits & boobies, of course.
Yeah, but they're only good for powering simultaneous harmonic time machines.