Well... And nowm, do you expect anyone but the telcos to participate in an internet run by the ITU? 'cause I do not. It will just become yet another phone system regulated to death and used to feed a few incumbents in a few years time.
No. That is not the obvious use. The obvious use will be delivering a nuclear (or large conventional) payload in the middle of an enemy port undetected. These things can be made as stealthy as the submarines never ever got. They make no noise. They can be made to have near zero magnetic signature. If you are not in a hurry they can go half the way acrosss the pacific if needed.
Fsck... The possible applications outright scare me. And at 60K they are only a fraction of the price of a missile. The only problem is navigating in shallow water, but this can be solved as well at around 60 more K.
People erroneously believe that water absorbs only at around 2 GHz where the microwaves operate. Wrong. It also absorbs in the C and Q band and some of these weapons are intended to operate in these bands. So you in fact can tune them to kill selectively any higher life forms. In fact it is the ultimate mass atrosity weapon if used in these bands. Ever seen a rat after 15s in a microwave?
Exactly why would I pay AOL to screw up my broadband connection for me
I guess you are not an analretentive cretinous fuck which does his best to make sure his children never ever get any sexual education. That is the market AOL is fishing in Europe now - the tight parental control one. Providing the parents with the means to spy on their children net access and censor it.
Frankly, I would be embarassed if I my kids grow up to be cretinous offspring that cannot read a book and will destroy the vehicle if it does not get its MTV fix for 5 minutes. You should first think are you doing things right as a parent before going and buying things like this.
Venus has near zero magnetic field. Any atmospheric stations there will have to be very heavily shielded and making a floating shielded station is non-trivial. Alternatively it will have to sit on the shadow side all year long. As venus rotates very slow this is not as difficult as it seems, but will definitely limit the options on how to power it, recycle oxigen, produce food, so on so forth.
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You are off the mark my dear.
Linux users may be averse to paying software.
Companies designing products for linux or under linux are not. There it is a bang for the buck. They will pay without a second thought if the product will save the same amount of money in in-house time and/or development.
Kylix in essence is a corporate product. So there is no aversion in question.
I think that the problem with Kylix is:
1. It was both early and late. Too late for the entusiasts and too early for the companies. Companies are just starting to be interested in Linux as a client and starting to look for RAD. Till now they though of it as only a server.
2. There is a considerable dislike towards borland in the professional development community. The general consensus is that their products are not up to the mark. As a result it is usually not even shortlisted (at least this was the case where I work).
Overall, if they want to ever sell in this market they have to continue keeping the barrier to entusiasts low or near zero and continue trying to sell. They are handicapped by selling against a negative opinion, but it is their fault at the end of the day so it is up to them to deal with it.
No. You need to use another measure different from temperature. Average temperature is the lamer's measurement for global warming. For example by the time the average European temperature will go up by a degree the average winter will drop by about 4 and the average summer will go up by about 5. These will prove a major disaster (as they are already doing during this summer draughts). Similarly, texas will cool and go moist, while Maine will go warmer by several degrees. So on, so forth.
Average temperature in N. Hemisphere is NOT a correct measure for global warming. And sorry I do not know what is.
Wrong conventional explosives also have the concept of critical mass/shape. 250+ kg of spherical TNT will selfdetonate on ignition. Same can be achieved in smaller quantities in other shapes.
Not entirely correct. Water absorbs at 2.2, 5.4 and several higher frequencies (f.e. current weather radars in the US use 5.4). Every single one of these frequencies starting from 5.4 is within the frequency range being investigated. So making a mass murder weapon out of them at the end of the day may be just a matter of slightly adjusting the frequency. Can even happen unintentionally...
Sorry? are there errors in what they are pointing out?
Yes there are. They are not weighting Texas and similar errors where the temperature will DROP during a global RISE. As a result their results are flawed.
Some of the date exclusions in MBH98 are based on the current climat model for effects of climate change. Namely the exclusion of Texas and surrounding areas from calculations is justified as it will become less continental if average northern hemisphere warms up (europe should go more) due to the gulfstream becoming weaker.
As a result if you leave the texas values in you will smoothen the overall result as expected and as described by these guys. If you take them out you get a correct result.
It can. High doses of microwave radiation can make a vegetable out of you with no problem whatsoever. So it is not harmless at all. Actually, human brains will definitely go before properly shielded equipment.
If you do not believe me, look around, make sure that there are no animal protection activists anywhere in sight and stick a rat for 5 seconds into a standard 800W microwave oven. Make sure it is set to max as most of them do not have a real power adjustment and lower power levels are achieved by turning the invertor on and off.
Observe the effects (not for the fainthearted).
P.S. It is rumoured that in some ex-soc countries MW components were wired into alarm installations instead of sirens. Have not seen it, but the thought is scary...
There ae inherent pitfalls in it. They are mostly similar to the problem of swapping over NFS. It overall boils down to buffer management.
Basically, in order to execute the network device request you often have to get more memory. In order to get more memory you have to execute a network request. So on so forth.
It is so obvious that the poster and most people who commented are americans. You need to get some decent cars guys that is all I can say. Even the family spare pool car which is a yesterdays day tech being 9 years old does 45+ MPG. My new one does 60+. Both of them doing 0-60 in under 9s. So hearing numbers like 10 mpg is not even funny.
Suggestion: Go near a Uranium mine if you can. Print your words in 200 copies. Dip in the waste water. Eat them.
P.S. I have seen the waste waters and how a river looks all the 200 km down from a uranium mine. So I know what I am talking about. It aint pretty. And it is not anywhere near to coal or oil.
For anyone with university level knowledge of chemistry this is extremely fascinating because it harnesses the biggest pest in electrolysis and battery design. The so called dual layer phenomena.
So even if it never ever makes it to become a decent generator the reseach may still give insight in making existing devices and fuel cells more efficient
I think you do not comprehend the idea of a hedge funding. Actually, this would have been the correct action for RBC if they had around 500-2bn invested in IBM or other linux related companies. Dunno about baystar. They are small fish.
And CX for that matter.
Anyway, stability, security and Vixie? Give me an effing break. The man has great ideas, but god forbid him from implementing them or even directing the implementation.
If you want an example, take the source of dig out of bind 8 or even 4.9 and try to read it. 40K of a single C file. Bloody hell... It is HIS handywork. His name is in the copyright. Behold (I already did once upon a time).
That is what Tamara class antistealth radar is based on. It sees F117 and B2 no problem. And cannot be destroyed by antiradar missiles because the radar itself is fully passive and they have nothing to home on.
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Well... And nowm, do you expect anyone but the telcos to participate in an internet run by the ITU? 'cause I do not. It will just become yet another phone system regulated to death and used to feed a few incumbents in a few years time.
Well you should. Find anything by the ITU that is free. Even standards.
No. That is not the obvious use. The obvious use will be delivering a nuclear (or large conventional) payload in the middle of an enemy port undetected. These things can be made as stealthy as the submarines never ever got. They make no noise. They can be made to have near zero magnetic signature. If you are not in a hurry they can go half the way acrosss the pacific if needed.
Fsck... The possible applications outright scare me. And at 60K they are only a fraction of the price of a missile. The only problem is navigating in shallow water, but this can be solved as well at around 60 more K.
It is a DUPE. This has been on slashdot before.
People erroneously believe that water absorbs only at around 2 GHz where the microwaves operate. Wrong. It also absorbs in the C and Q band and some of these weapons are intended to operate in these bands. So you in fact can tune them to kill selectively any higher life forms. In fact it is the ultimate mass atrosity weapon if used in these bands. Ever seen a rat after 15s in a microwave?
I guess you are not an analretentive cretinous fuck which does his best to make sure his children never ever get any sexual education. That is the market AOL is fishing in Europe now - the tight parental control one. Providing the parents with the means to spy on their children net access and censor it.
And frankly there is plenty of people who buy it.Frankly, I would be embarassed if I my kids grow up to be cretinous offspring that cannot read a book and will destroy the vehicle if it does not get its MTV fix for 5 minutes. You should first think are you doing things right as a parent before going and buying things like this.
Venus has near zero magnetic field. Any atmospheric stations there will have to be very heavily shielded and making a floating shielded station is non-trivial. Alternatively it will have to sit on the shadow side all year long. As venus rotates very slow this is not as difficult as it seems, but will definitely limit the options on how to power it, recycle oxigen, produce food, so on so forth.
You are off the mark my dear.
Linux users may be averse to paying software.
Companies designing products for linux or under linux are not. There it is a bang for the buck. They will pay without a second thought if the product will save the same amount of money in in-house time and/or development.
Kylix in essence is a corporate product. So there is no aversion in question.
I think that the problem with Kylix is:
1. It was both early and late. Too late for the entusiasts and too early for the companies. Companies are just starting to be interested in Linux as a client and starting to look for RAD. Till now they though of it as only a server.
2. There is a considerable dislike towards borland in the professional development community. The general consensus is that their products are not up to the mark. As a result it is usually not even shortlisted (at least this was the case where I work).
Overall, if they want to ever sell in this market they have to continue keeping the barrier to entusiasts low or near zero and continue trying to sell. They are handicapped by selling against a negative opinion, but it is their fault at the end of the day so it is up to them to deal with it.
No. You need to use another measure different from temperature. Average temperature is the lamer's measurement for global warming. For example by the time the average European temperature will go up by a degree the average winter will drop by about 4 and the average summer will go up by about 5. These will prove a major disaster (as they are already doing during this summer draughts). Similarly, texas will cool and go moist, while Maine will go warmer by several degrees. So on, so forth.
Average temperature in N. Hemisphere is NOT a correct measure for global warming. And sorry I do not know what is.
Wrong conventional explosives also have the concept of critical mass/shape. 250+ kg of spherical TNT will selfdetonate on ignition. Same can be achieved in smaller quantities in other shapes.
Not entirely correct. Water absorbs at 2.2, 5.4 and several higher frequencies (f.e. current weather radars in the US use 5.4). Every single one of these frequencies starting from 5.4 is within the frequency range being investigated. So making a mass murder weapon out of them at the end of the day may be just a matter of slightly adjusting the frequency. Can even happen unintentionally...
Yes there are. They are not weighting Texas and similar errors where the temperature will DROP during a global RISE. As a result their results are flawed.
Another question.
Some of the date exclusions in MBH98 are based on the current climat model for effects of climate change. Namely the exclusion of Texas and surrounding areas from calculations is justified as it will become less continental if average northern hemisphere warms up (europe should go more) due to the gulfstream becoming weaker.
As a result if you leave the texas values in you will smoothen the overall result as expected and as described by these guys. If you take them out you get a correct result.
Questions:
1. Who are these guys. There are no affiliations listed and the research sponsor is not listed.
2. MBH98 is not the only paper. It was one of the first ones. After that more detailed research was done and it did not refute any of the claims.
3. Is the ice melt in the arctic a figment of my imagination?
4. Is the retreat of South American Glaciers a figment of my imagination?
5. Why doesn't NOAA put all the data for public consumption so that anyone can see who is right and who is wrong?
It can. High doses of microwave radiation can make a vegetable out of you with no problem whatsoever. So it is not harmless at all. Actually, human brains will definitely go before properly shielded equipment.
If you do not believe me, look around, make sure that there are no animal protection activists anywhere in sight and stick a rat for 5 seconds into a standard 800W microwave oven. Make sure it is set to max as most of them do not have a real power adjustment and lower power levels are achieved by turning the invertor on and off.
Observe the effects (not for the fainthearted).
P.S. It is rumoured that in some ex-soc countries MW components were wired into alarm installations instead of sirens. Have not seen it, but the thought is scary...
There ae inherent pitfalls in it. They are mostly similar to the problem of swapping over NFS. It overall boils down to buffer management.
Basically, in order to execute the network device request you often have to get more memory. In order to get more memory you have to execute a network request. So on so forth.
Also, AFAIK RAID does not work properly over NBD.
It is so obvious that the poster and most people who commented are americans. You need to get some decent cars guys that is all I can say. Even the family spare pool car which is a yesterdays day tech being 9 years old does 45+ MPG. My new one does 60+. Both of them doing 0-60 in under 9s. So hearing numbers like 10 mpg is not even funny.
Yep. Because the reason for this is that this is what the next big worm will be. There is a remote exec hole in the messenger service.
So for once I think AOL deserves an applause.
Suggestion: Go near a Uranium mine if you can. Print your words in 200 copies. Dip in the waste water. Eat them.
P.S. I have seen the waste waters and how a river looks all the 200 km down from a uranium mine. So I know what I am talking about. It aint pretty. And it is not anywhere near to coal or oil.
No it is not.
For anyone with university level knowledge of chemistry this is extremely fascinating because it harnesses the biggest pest in electrolysis and battery design. The so called dual layer phenomena.
So even if it never ever makes it to become a decent generator the reseach may still give insight in making existing devices and fuel cells more efficient
I think you do not comprehend the idea of a hedge funding. Actually, this would have been the correct action for RBC if they had around 500-2bn invested in IBM or other linux related companies. Dunno about baystar. They are small fish.
And CX for that matter. Anyway, stability, security and Vixie? Give me an effing break. The man has great ideas, but god forbid him from implementing them or even directing the implementation. If you want an example, take the source of dig out of bind 8 or even 4.9 and try to read it. 40K of a single C file. Bloody hell... It is HIS handywork. His name is in the copyright. Behold (I already did once upon a time).
It may sound like nitpicking, but
1: These are not top of the line.
Both foundry and Extreme have lower forwarding latency and you do not give a flying f*** about management, multicast and IP for this application.
2: What f*** ethernet?
VT does not use ethernet. I would not expect a Cray designed cluster to use it either.
Not Funny.
That is what Tamara class antistealth radar is based on. It sees F117 and B2 no problem. And cannot be destroyed by antiradar missiles because the radar itself is fully passive and they have nothing to home on.
Yes, but this is not Joe user's computer.
I am writing it on another debian system with 3 more in the house and 30+ more in the office. Yes, "it just works (TM)".
But it is not joe user's desktop and it does not come preloaded on any brand names. They formally do not support it.