I remember aluminum wire, and the fires. The chief problem was not that the "metal tends to flow" (that is just wrong). The problem was that aluminum had a significantly different coefficient of thermal expansion. One way of dealing with it was to tighten everything regularly (prohibitively expensive) or to just attach the wires with screws that had coefficients of thermal expansion compatible with aluminum.
TFA doesn't mention any. What they DO mention is "They're also not happy about the fees for Red Flag Linux, which are more than $700."
So what's with the FUD?
Seriously, this is about the Chinese government wanting to break MS dominance over the computer OS in china. If anyone was worried about "surveilance" they could install packages compiled from source so they knew what was in there.
"Godzilla" is a trademark, and exclusive rights in trademarks are perpetual by design. Should Coca-Cola be allowed to pass its own products off as Pepsi, just because Pepsi has been around since 1903?
I remember when they gave the Mozilla project crap. According to the reply letter from Mozilla, "Godzilla" is NOT trademarked. "Gojira" is.
Do you honestly think that foreign intelligence agencies won't write Linux or Macintosh viruses if it would get them into the DoD network? The OS might be part of the problem, but users are the much bigger one.
Oh they would write the viruses, but there are things like SELinux that protects against them even if installed at root.
And Linux can be a hell of a lot more secure than windows because you control what is running (you want no services? No problem). You can control the firewall rules completely. The list goes on.
I don't think a reboot of classic trek is needed at all.
I don't think reboots of classic series are needed.
It stifles creativity. People need to come up with new things like Babylon 5 and Firefly.
If the current "reboot" fad was the mentality in the sixties, we wouldn't have Star Trek at all, we would have Buck Rogers reboot (wait, we had that in the seventies... and it was NOT the quality of Star Trek).
Reboots are about selling product, not creating art.
Once I would have like to go there. Now it sounds like an Orwellian nightmare. Cameras everywhere (that happen to be "malfunctioning" when police hold down an unarmed, ticketed Brazillian subway passenger and shoot him in the head multiple times). Laws passed monitoring all communications. No privacy. Jail sentences if you will not or cannot tell them an encryption key.
This is the kind of shit they would tell us about Russia during the cold war.
Who's getting rich and who's gaining power through this?
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Give the children technology that they, and their teachers don't understand and the laptops will end up gathering dust.
I'm all for using OSS, but somebody needs to take responsibility and ensure that teachers and students are properly educated in their use.
How difficult is it to use firefox, Openoffice, and Gimp? Seriously? It's not like we are asking them to use LaTeX.
Neither students nor teachers are idiots, despite being treated by idiots for years by Windows software.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Well, Abe, this shows that our government is clearly now of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.
The lovely bill was signed by what is likely the most corrupt president since Andrew Jackson. Ironically, he is from your party, the Republicans (you were the first elected Republican president). And the republicans were formed by former members of the Whig party, which existed to fight the tyranny of Jackson.
What would you say if you were here today, Abe?
Is this what America has been fighting for?
While wind resistance scales with speed squared, the simple fact is that most of the energy wasted in a car is in stopping, not wind resistance.
Normal driving around the city I can get 19-22 MPG, and I use smart braking like the parent discusses.
Driving 65-75 MPH across states (where I am just GOING), I can get almost 35.
When this whole thing came out, I learned that Sarah Palin was illegally using personal email accounts for business email, supposedly to avoid leaving the electronic trail.
THAT was eye opening.
The display is only half the problem for a holographic "TV." You also have to have a holographic "camera", and those are not easy, especially since they require LASER light. I can't see it being safe for humans to "film" them with three lasers simultaneously (you need Red, Green, and Blue) that are intense enough to create the interferograms with enough contrast and to override background light.
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I remember aluminum wire, and the fires. The chief problem was not that the "metal tends to flow" (that is just wrong). The problem was that aluminum had a significantly different coefficient of thermal expansion. One way of dealing with it was to tighten everything regularly (prohibitively expensive) or to just attach the wires with screws that had coefficients of thermal expansion compatible with aluminum.
As if millions of cellphone users cried out "bullshit!" and were suddenly silenced.
So what's with the FUD?
Seriously, this is about the Chinese government wanting to break MS dominance over the computer OS in china. If anyone was worried about "surveilance" they could install packages compiled from source so they knew what was in there.
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"Godzilla" is a trademark, and exclusive rights in trademarks are perpetual by design. Should Coca-Cola be allowed to pass its own products off as Pepsi, just because Pepsi has been around since 1903?
I remember when they gave the Mozilla project crap. According to the reply letter from Mozilla, "Godzilla" is NOT trademarked. "Gojira" is.
My package is at least that big.
Oh come on, someone had to say it.
You mean your package can fit on a thumb drive?
Do you honestly think that foreign intelligence agencies won't write Linux or Macintosh viruses if it would get them into the DoD network? The OS might be part of the problem, but users are the much bigger one.
Oh they would write the viruses, but there are things like SELinux that protects against them even if installed at root.
And Linux can be a hell of a lot more secure than windows because you control what is running (you want no services? No problem). You can control the firewall rules completely. The list goes on.
Thanks, I will never be buying any of your products.
I'll stick with building my own systems, and installing Linux, and I'll use digital music players that support Ogg-vorbis.
It is quite obvious that you do not want any customer you cannot control.
Xbox 360 console set to raise gamersâ(TM) power bills
That article quotes the Xbox 360 as drawing 160 W. , the Xbox as drawing 74, and the PS2 as drawing 50.
The boss doesn't want to pay for employee bootup time?
The (salaried) boss should come in early and boot every single employees computer.
Yeah it's like Seaquest DSV. One of my friends put it like this.
Season One: Wow this show has a lot of potential...... ummm when is it going to realize it?
Season Two: Wow this show REALLY sucks.
Season Three: The show is actually good now, but nobody cares.
But what will happen?
Are you sure about that? Intel have been working on Atom and say it's better than ARM now,
Even back in April, atom had an idle power range of 80-100mW.
I don't think reboots of classic series are needed.
It stifles creativity. People need to come up with new things like Babylon 5 and Firefly.
If the current "reboot" fad was the mentality in the sixties, we wouldn't have Star Trek at all, we would have Buck Rogers reboot (wait, we had that in the seventies... and it was NOT the quality of Star Trek).
Reboots are about selling product, not creating art.
Will the newly "immune" people be carriers of HIV?
X-Wing vs Tie fighter has been out for years and allows online multiplayer.
According to an Inquirer article, the estimates were about $10 billion.
I would think it would cost more than $10.8 billion to develop FC9 from scratch then...since it's a better OS.
You shove your laptop, camera and phone up your ass?
the goatse guy probably does.
They damn well should have proof for how many times it was downloaded. "making available" is NOT making a copy.
Exactly when did they start to go insane?
Once I would have like to go there. Now it sounds like an Orwellian nightmare. Cameras everywhere (that happen to be "malfunctioning" when police hold down an unarmed, ticketed Brazillian subway passenger and shoot him in the head multiple times). Laws passed monitoring all communications. No privacy. Jail sentences if you will not or cannot tell them an encryption key.
This is the kind of shit they would tell us about Russia during the cold war.
Who's getting rich and who's gaining power through this?
" Give the children technology that they, and their teachers don't understand and the laptops will end up gathering dust. I'm all for using OSS, but somebody needs to take responsibility and ensure that teachers and students are properly educated in their use.
How difficult is it to use firefox, Openoffice, and Gimp? Seriously? It's not like we are asking them to use LaTeX.
Neither students nor teachers are idiots, despite being treated by idiots for years by Windows software.
Well, Abe, this shows that our government is clearly now of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.
The lovely bill was signed by what is likely the most corrupt president since Andrew Jackson. Ironically, he is from your party, the Republicans (you were the first elected Republican president). And the republicans were formed by former members of the Whig party, which existed to fight the tyranny of Jackson.
What would you say if you were here today, Abe? Is this what America has been fighting for?
it wasn't the war that ended the surplus, it was the .com bubble collapsing. And it was only a surplus if you include FICA contributions.
Bullshit.
The surplus was ended by Bush and cronies deciding to spend it all on a huge, unnecessary tax refund, most of which went to the extremely rich.
While wind resistance scales with speed squared, the simple fact is that most of the energy wasted in a car is in stopping, not wind resistance. Normal driving around the city I can get 19-22 MPG, and I use smart braking like the parent discusses. Driving 65-75 MPH across states (where I am just GOING), I can get almost 35.
When this whole thing came out, I learned that Sarah Palin was illegally using personal email accounts for business email, supposedly to avoid leaving the electronic trail. THAT was eye opening.
The display is only half the problem for a holographic "TV." You also have to have a holographic "camera", and those are not easy, especially since they require LASER light. I can't see it being safe for humans to "film" them with three lasers simultaneously (you need Red, Green, and Blue) that are intense enough to create the interferograms with enough contrast and to override background light.