15 years ago I hooked my computer up to a 25" TV when Comedy Central wasn't on the local cable lineup and I wanted to watch South Park on a TV. That used a VGA-TV converter. The audio line out went to a stereo. South Park compresses pretty well and played fine full screen on Real Player. Today you can go straight VGA, DVI or HDMI. You can buy a remote for a computer for less than $10 and with XBMC you can use a smartphone or tablet as a remote.
People picture a computer sitting next to the TV but mine sits inside the entertainment system and it's not even seen. If you don't want to mess with a computer at all and you just want to try out streaming on your TV you could always get a Roku. Even when I watch an SD stream I think it looks better than SD on cable. I think cable makes SD look worse than it really is.
Most of the people I know who voted Republican that year were voting for Palin, not for McCain.
Most of the people I know who voted Republican were voting against the Democrats and not for anybody. The reverse is also true. Most of the Democrats I know are voting against Republicans. It is a rare treat to actually hear someone tell you why they are voting FOR someone.
You have to marvel at a society that can recognize the rights and responsibilities involved with gun ownership but bans the sale of a toy. Sort of like you can die for your country or be in a gang bang on camera at 18 but you can't have a beer.
I'm not saying you can't bring back the data I'm only suggesting that the object itself will bring back more memories. So if you include a laptop it should be one you used a lot. Maybe even your first one as that will likely mean more to you. If you go out and buy one solely for the purpose of retrieving data I think you'll find 25 years from now that the laptop gives you a sort of indirect nostalgia compared to a laptop you used frequently.
I can play River Raid on Stella any time I want without having buried anything. Holding a River Raid Atari 2600 cartridge in my hand provides another kind of nostalgia. The feelings of anticipation and excitement I had as a kid is very connected to that piece of plastic as much or more than the few kilobytes of data on it. Of course an entire Atari with a few cartridges could be even better but likely with diminishing returns for space. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't put the data above the media that delivers it. 25 years from now the physical objects that held your data will trigger more senses. So if you're going to put a computer in a time capsule, do it because it was your computer not because you're trying to preserve what 25 years from now will be a tiny amount of data. Data of any importance or meaning you'll likely still have access to anyway.
What should you put in a time capsule? Anything non-perishable that might mean something to you. Consider people recovering their time-capsules from 25 years ago. There might be a 5.25 floppy in there with someone's favorite childhood game. It may be difficult to play the game but the floppy disk's texture, smell, and label will bring back the memories. If you're going to store media you may find that in 25 years the data on it may be a pain in the ass to retrieve but the object itself will mean something. I also suggest media that you've used a lot. For example if you've been using a particular usb drive for the last year and it's time to upgrade put the old one in the capsule. 25 years from now the memories of using it are likely to bring you back more than the data that's on it.
I found this interesting. Seems taxes are one of several reasons for doing it. From the link in 2010/2011 Larry Ellison had a $1/yr salary but received $77 million in other compensation.
There are way more than 12 countries, so you know each country can't have their own holy month. Why do you think August being the countries holy month prevents other countries from having the same holy month.
August isn't the holy month, Ramadan is. Why do you think one calendar would prevent there being other calendars?
They are concerned that people installing will get freaked out by the various warning about turning off security features.
Given that installing an OS typically involves multiple warning messages about destroying all of the data on the drive they shouldn't worry about one more warning putting anybody off.
Given the history of conflict those seem like some of the easier predictions to make. Alas Psychohistory does not give specifics and only works in secrecy. Like time travel acting on knowledge of the future can alter the future.
With a divorce rate around 50% I agree that most marriages are not happy. I say most because if half end in divorce I'll wager that at least 'some' marriages continue unhappily. Half plus some is most*.
At this moment your post is modded down '-1 overrated' to give your post a score of zero. IMO/. has had an increasing number of unjustified negative mods. Your post is on-topic and reasonable. You don't have a 6 digit ID (neither do I) but you're a million away from all of the 2.6 million ID trolls and shills and your comment history doesn't indicate you're a nuisance that needs to be modded down all of the time (the last zero score post I see by you is equally baffling). Hopefully someone will come along and at least mod you back to your natural score.
Perhaps/. shouldn't give more mods to people who spend (or waste) all of their mod points whenever they get them and shouldn't keep giving mods to people who have a history of voting negatively.
Sorry for the off-topic* post but it's really been bothering me lately and I needed to vent.
*If someone is going to mod my post down please at least use the correct mod of off-topic.
it's attractive that they are offering an android tablet comparable to the Kindle Fire, for $50 less.
I don't know that it's comparable to the Kindle Fire given the resistive screen among other specs. Heck this one is $99, has pretty much the same specs as the offering by Family Christian except the Sears model is capacitive.
I wouldn't trust any images from JPL at the moment. Yes, the pictures are interesting, so are pictures from Star Trek.
Why? I haven't heard anything so I searched for fake JPL images and this was the first thing that came up. I'm assuming you're not talking about that so I'm curious.
Insurance companies will insure anything, including nuclear power. Like you said they are in the business of assessing risk/reward factors. They don't really care about the type or scale of disaster and they will insure up to a certain amount and set rates and premiums accordingly. So in the Nuclear industry the insurance pool is about $12.6 billion. That's what they'll insure. They'd insure more if rates were higher. So it just becomes a matter of whether insurance makes nuclear economically unfeasible (Most people would say it is economically unfeasible, since Congress picks up the bill after that amount according to the Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act). Fukushima may be more than $250 billion in damages. Of course the same argument could be applied to say commercial space flight is a bad idea.
My point really is just that it is up to the actuaries like you say. There is no threshold for acceptable consequences other than a cost/benefit analysis.
A mulit-filter process is likely to be used and while I didn't RTFA the summary says different hole sizes can be made so you might be able to fine tune it for each thing you want to filter. Imagine running sea water through a process that isolates different molecules. Not only do you get salt out of water so that you get salt and water you might be able to separate other useful things out along the way.
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The derivatives market is $1200 trillion dollars or..
1.2 quadrillion seconds: 38,026 Millenia
BTW Google says 1 trillion seconds is 316.888 Centuries
15 years ago I hooked my computer up to a 25" TV when Comedy Central wasn't on the local cable lineup and I wanted to watch South Park on a TV. That used a VGA-TV converter. The audio line out went to a stereo. South Park compresses pretty well and played fine full screen on Real Player. Today you can go straight VGA, DVI or HDMI. You can buy a remote for a computer for less than $10 and with XBMC you can use a smartphone or tablet as a remote.
People picture a computer sitting next to the TV but mine sits inside the entertainment system and it's not even seen. If you don't want to mess with a computer at all and you just want to try out streaming on your TV you could always get a Roku. Even when I watch an SD stream I think it looks better than SD on cable. I think cable makes SD look worse than it really is.
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see but you can't. HHGTTG
Most of the people I know who voted Republican that year were voting for Palin, not for McCain.
Most of the people I know who voted Republican were voting against the Democrats and not for anybody. The reverse is also true. Most of the Democrats I know are voting against Republicans. It is a rare treat to actually hear someone tell you why they are voting FOR someone.
You have to marvel at a society that can recognize the rights and responsibilities involved with gun ownership but bans the sale of a toy. Sort of like you can die for your country or be in a gang bang on camera at 18 but you can't have a beer.
I'm not saying you can't bring back the data I'm only suggesting that the object itself will bring back more memories. So if you include a laptop it should be one you used a lot. Maybe even your first one as that will likely mean more to you. If you go out and buy one solely for the purpose of retrieving data I think you'll find 25 years from now that the laptop gives you a sort of indirect nostalgia compared to a laptop you used frequently.
I can play River Raid on Stella any time I want without having buried anything. Holding a River Raid Atari 2600 cartridge in my hand provides another kind of nostalgia. The feelings of anticipation and excitement I had as a kid is very connected to that piece of plastic as much or more than the few kilobytes of data on it. Of course an entire Atari with a few cartridges could be even better but likely with diminishing returns for space. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't put the data above the media that delivers it. 25 years from now the physical objects that held your data will trigger more senses. So if you're going to put a computer in a time capsule, do it because it was your computer not because you're trying to preserve what 25 years from now will be a tiny amount of data. Data of any importance or meaning you'll likely still have access to anyway.
What should you put in a time capsule? Anything non-perishable that might mean something to you. Consider people recovering their time-capsules from 25 years ago. There might be a 5.25 floppy in there with someone's favorite childhood game. It may be difficult to play the game but the floppy disk's texture, smell, and label will bring back the memories. If you're going to store media you may find that in 25 years the data on it may be a pain in the ass to retrieve but the object itself will mean something. I also suggest media that you've used a lot. For example if you've been using a particular usb drive for the last year and it's time to upgrade put the old one in the capsule. 25 years from now the memories of using it are likely to bring you back more than the data that's on it.
I found this interesting. Seems taxes are one of several reasons for doing it. From the link in 2010/2011 Larry Ellison had a $1/yr salary but received $77 million in other compensation.
There are way more than 12 countries, so you know each country can't have their own holy month. Why do you think August being the countries holy month prevents other countries from having the same holy month.
August isn't the holy month, Ramadan is. Why do you think one calendar would prevent there being other calendars?
That's what she said.
I don't bother trying to make that distinction with anyone other than technical people. With anyone else it is futile.
Cars are the web, trucks are FTP, motorcycles are IM and the road is the internet.
They are concerned that people installing will get freaked out by the various warning about turning off security features.
Given that installing an OS typically involves multiple warning messages about destroying all of the data on the drive they shouldn't worry about one more warning putting anybody off.
Given the history of conflict those seem like some of the easier predictions to make. Alas Psychohistory does not give specifics and only works in secrecy. Like time travel acting on knowledge of the future can alter the future.
With a divorce rate around 50% I agree that most marriages are not happy. I say most because if half end in divorce I'll wager that at least 'some' marriages continue unhappily. Half plus some is most*.
*For some values of most.
We look forward to Apple’s strong and creative thoughts on ongoing standards development.
At this moment your post is modded down '-1 overrated' to give your post a score of zero. IMO /. has had an increasing number of unjustified negative mods. Your post is on-topic and reasonable. You don't have a 6 digit ID (neither do I) but you're a million away from all of the 2.6 million ID trolls and shills and your comment history doesn't indicate you're a nuisance that needs to be modded down all of the time (the last zero score post I see by you is equally baffling). Hopefully someone will come along and at least mod you back to your natural score.
/. shouldn't give more mods to people who spend (or waste) all of their mod points whenever they get them and shouldn't keep giving mods to people who have a history of voting negatively.
Perhaps
Sorry for the off-topic* post but it's really been bothering me lately and I needed to vent.
*If someone is going to mod my post down please at least use the correct mod of off-topic.
it's attractive that they are offering an android tablet comparable to the Kindle Fire, for $50 less.
I don't know that it's comparable to the Kindle Fire given the resistive screen among other specs. Heck this one is $99, has pretty much the same specs as the offering by Family Christian except the Sears model is capacitive.
I wouldn't trust any images from JPL at the moment. Yes, the pictures are interesting, so are pictures from Star Trek.
Why? I haven't heard anything so I searched for fake JPL images and this was the first thing that came up. I'm assuming you're not talking about that so I'm curious.
I didn't even have to go to Best Buy. I read online that the Kindle Fire is too crippled as a general Android tablet.
Nobody wants to insure nuclear power plants.
Nobody?
Insurance companies will insure anything, including nuclear power. Like you said they are in the business of assessing risk/reward factors. They don't really care about the type or scale of disaster and they will insure up to a certain amount and set rates and premiums accordingly. So in the Nuclear industry the insurance pool is about $12.6 billion. That's what they'll insure. They'd insure more if rates were higher. So it just becomes a matter of whether insurance makes nuclear economically unfeasible (Most people would say it is economically unfeasible, since Congress picks up the bill after that amount according to the Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act). Fukushima may be more than $250 billion in damages. Of course the same argument could be applied to say commercial space flight is a bad idea.
My point really is just that it is up to the actuaries like you say. There is no threshold for acceptable consequences other than a cost/benefit analysis.
In your opinion what is the threshold for acceptable consequences?
Do you really believe they should wait until it does damage to arrest (e.g., steals credit card info and uses, spams a ton of crap)?
Personally, I do believe a crime has not happened until it affects another person.
Of the top 500 supercomputers (often used for science and research) Linux does okay.
A mulit-filter process is likely to be used and while I didn't RTFA the summary says different hole sizes can be made so you might be able to fine tune it for each thing you want to filter. Imagine running sea water through a process that isolates different molecules. Not only do you get salt out of water so that you get salt and water you might be able to separate other useful things out along the way.