More to the point, there is a difference between Science Fiction, and Science Fantasy. Star Drek is almost science fiction, but star wars is science fantasy... Bloody book stores even put horror and pure fantasy in the section marked "Science Fiction".
Cant find a driver for you "thermonuclear device" please contact your hardware vendor for an updated driver.
Or worse, your locked out of your system after 30 days because Vista had determined there were too many changes. Bad luck, you cannot launch that missile till you validate your system with Microsoft!
I would wager quite a large sum of money that significantly less than 50% of "geeks" run Linux.
This probably depends on your definition of "Geek". If they are not running Linux, they really aren't geeks, just dumb-wanabe's. (Somewhat like the loose definition of nerd used on/.)
It would be more illuminating to discuss why so the Linux server percentage is so high. (Thus exposing the poor quality and/or high price of its competition)
Could be that one or two prudes have made it into the area that "approves" software. Or perhaps the titular head of Apple is going funny in the head in his old age. (Curious what lots of money and power do to people... Howard Ughes comes to mind, as well as several others....)
I agree... tinfoil hats on the GPS antenna's will break the speed measurement ability nicely.
Seriously, the Australian (especially Victorian) laws have taken all the fun out of driving. (See our "anti-hoon" legislation). Victorian state funds are significantly higher due to "speeders", given that there is only a 5% leeway on the posted speed. (which is generally better than the accuracy of the vehicles speedometer in the first place.)
This is good to know... I must say though, BMW is the only car I have seen that requires a RESET though the OBD loop to get rid of the fault light on the dash, even if this light only came up because it was time for a service! That is what I call obnoxious in the extreme! (Worse, I imagine it will then obscure real faults!)
Now, will the Japanese, and the USA follow these ISO regulations? The USA car industry does have a bad habit of following SAE regulations, and effectively ignoring the ISO standards.
Not really true... There are lean burn technologies used in internal combustion engines that run on air/fuel ratio's of 18..21 to 1, which is much more efficient than what cars currently use (about 12.1:1 to 12.5:1 for "lowest" emissions all round) However, these lean burn engines all suffer bad pollution (High Nitrous oxides from memory)
Yes, but eventually, all that heat ends up in the air anyway... the water is only the middleman. Water is actually probably the most efficient coolant around, however, the latent heat of evaporation means it works best when it is boiled off the surface to be cooled. This is not exactly ideal for a semiconductor, although it might be okay if the water was in direct contact with the silicon. (Silicon junction temperatures must be kept below 360 degrees Celsius.)
The thing that struck me was the phrase "contempt for parliament". I thought all people had at least a little contempt for parliament. (Then again, I am an Aussie, perhaps things are different in other (so called) "democracies";-(
A real nerd should already have read "Stranger in a strange land" which covers cannibalism from several angles... one of which is its taboo becuase otherwise we could not trust our own neighbors. But, to be eaten by ones friends is the highest compliment. (And were not talking about muff divers, etc here either!)
Ha Ha. The only thing that might take only 9 months from concept to deployment within the military would be a steel washer. If its electronic, the mere fact that it needs to pass stringent EMC/EMI requirements plus the enclosure requirements, etc, are enough to ensure that even a "simple" project will take several years!
If this were not the case, the military personnel would actually be better off. IE: instead of the heavy radio transceiver used by the army, it would be cheaper (and arguably better) to give each soldier a mobile phone (or even better, a mobile phone/computing device) and deploy several cellular base stations in the target area.
Apparently, Australia was the third (fifth?) country in the world to successfully launch a satellite into orbit. While this is hard to believe, apparently the launch vehicle for wresat was donated by the USA. However, it only took about 1 year to achieve this feat.
Now, can we actually achieve less, but have the remains fall on Canberra's parliament during a full sitting... that would do us all a favour! (As like all politicians around the world, Aussie politicians really do have their collective snouts in the public trough. If if looks like a pig, smells like a pig, and snorts like a pig, it must be a politician pig)
No, taking a picture of the inside of an ATM should not be illegal. Filling up the ATM with an explosive mixture of Oxygen and Acetylene and then lighting it should be illegal. (This was the way that several ATM's (dozens?) were opened in Sydney (NSW) some months ago.)Seems like the perpetrators got away with a large amount of cash using that process!
When the USA government had balls (read as not as corrupt as they are now, or beholden to the large corporates) they broke up AT&T, which at the time was the biggest corporation on the face of the earth. However, I suspect it had unwanted side affects. (Like less money spent on pure R&D... and a breakup in name only, nothing changed behind the scenes)
So, the EU are only doing what the US government can no longer do, no matter how much it might want to! (I am not saying they do want to either... dicking with any company could be a very bad thing!)
Surely, this is just a way for this (unknown to me) artist to become famous of the back of a now defunct natural feature. (Or should I have said "On the face of it"?)
Actually, 99 times out of 100, its the software. As a hardware developer, it really pisses me off when I have to look through the crappy code to find the bloody obvious fault that 20 software "gurus" couldn't bloody well see! Of course, the software developers don't do the same for me. Software writers are overpaid, and underworked. If they got off their arses, and did some of their own testing, things might be a bit different.
A better example is Toyota - Lexus. In Japan, many of the vehicles sold in the USA as Lexus's were sold in Japan as Toyota's. (Although, this is strictly no longer the case... Also, the Toyota's in Japan were often more luxurious than the Lexus in the USA!)
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I'd be more worried about Termite Flu" myself!
More to the point, there is a difference between Science Fiction, and Science Fantasy. Star Drek is almost science fiction, but star wars is science fantasy ... Bloody book stores even put horror and pure fantasy in the section marked "Science Fiction".
Cant find a driver for you "thermonuclear device" please contact your hardware vendor for an updated driver.
Or worse, your locked out of your system after 30 days because Vista had determined there were too many changes. Bad luck, you cannot launch that missile till you validate your system with Microsoft!
I would wager quite a large sum of money that significantly less than 50% of "geeks" run Linux.
This probably depends on your definition of "Geek". If they are not running Linux, they really aren't geeks, just dumb-wanabe's. (Somewhat like the loose definition of nerd used on /.)
It would be more illuminating to discuss why so the Linux server percentage is so high. (Thus exposing the poor quality and/or high price of its competition)
Even Hitler let you pee in peace ... I'm afraid (very afraid!) that the USA has lost its way.
... or perhaps
It used to be Up, Up and away, but with camera's looking on it really is a Downder
Truth, Justice, and the American way!
Could be that one or two prudes have made it into the area that "approves" software. Or perhaps the titular head of Apple is going funny in the head in his old age. (Curious what lots of money and power do to people ... Howard Ughes comes to mind, as well as several others ....)
I agree ... tinfoil hats on the GPS antenna's will break the speed measurement ability nicely.
Seriously, the Australian (especially Victorian) laws have taken all the fun out of driving. (See our "anti-hoon" legislation). Victorian state funds are significantly higher due to "speeders", given that there is only a 5% leeway on the posted speed. (which is generally better than the accuracy of the vehicles speedometer in the first place.)
This is good to know ... I must say though, BMW is the only car I have seen that requires a RESET though the OBD loop to get rid of the fault light on the dash, even if this light only came up because it was time for a service! That is what I call obnoxious in the extreme! (Worse, I imagine it will then obscure real faults!)
Now, will the Japanese, and the USA follow these ISO regulations? The USA car industry does have a bad habit of following SAE regulations, and effectively ignoring the ISO standards.
Only nerds with a low IQ ... It really is insulting to the rest of the nerds.
This is akin to the religious freaks that speak in tongues.
Not really true ... There are lean burn technologies used in internal combustion engines that run on air/fuel ratio's of 18..21 to 1, which is much more efficient than what cars currently use (about 12.1:1 to 12.5:1 for "lowest" emissions all round) However, these lean burn engines all suffer bad pollution (High Nitrous oxides from memory)
Yes, but eventually, all that heat ends up in the air anyway ... the water is only the middleman. Water is actually probably the most efficient coolant around, however, the latent heat of evaporation means it works best when it is boiled off the surface to be cooled. This is not exactly ideal for a semiconductor, although it might be okay if the water was in direct contact with the silicon. (Silicon junction temperatures must be kept below 360 degrees Celsius.)
Of course, any laptop already has everything needed for this, except a trivial piece of software.
The thing that struck me was the phrase "contempt for parliament". I thought all people had at least a little contempt for parliament. (Then again, I am an Aussie, perhaps things are different in other (so called) "democracies";-(
I for one have contempt for all parliamentarians!
A real nerd should already have read "Stranger in a strange land" which covers cannibalism from several angles ... one of which is its taboo becuase otherwise we could not trust our own neighbors. But, to be eaten by ones friends is the highest compliment. (And were not talking about muff divers, etc here either!)
Ha Ha. The only thing that might take only 9 months from concept to deployment within the military would be a steel washer. If its electronic, the mere fact that it needs to pass stringent EMC/EMI requirements plus the enclosure requirements, etc, are enough to ensure that even a "simple" project will take several years!
If this were not the case, the military personnel would actually be better off. IE: instead of the heavy radio transceiver used by the army, it would be cheaper (and arguably better) to give each soldier a mobile phone (or even better, a mobile phone/computing device) and deploy several cellular base stations in the target area.
And where can I buy some of this "Primordial soup"? It sounds tasty...
I'm sure roughly half the restaurants I have been to were serving this, but calling it something else.
It's not flash. EEPROMs can be rewritten millions of times, so it would take decades of continuously flashing your BIOS before you hit the limit.
What do you think flash is? Like someone said earlier
"The universe has a limited number of atoms." ... but an unlimited number of morons !!!
It has been a long time since I saw an EEPROM/Flash like memory that had a re-write life of less than 1000X.
Apparently, Australia was the third (fifth?) country in the world to successfully launch a satellite into orbit. While this is hard to believe, apparently the launch vehicle for wresat was donated by the USA. However, it only took about 1 year to achieve this feat.
... that would do us all a favour! (As like all politicians around the world, Aussie politicians really do have their collective snouts in the public trough. If if looks like a pig, smells like a pig, and snorts like a pig, it must be a politician pig)
Now, can we actually achieve less, but have the remains fall on Canberra's parliament during a full sitting
Closely related to unobtanium!
No, taking a picture of the inside of an ATM should not be illegal. Filling up the ATM with an explosive mixture of Oxygen and Acetylene and then lighting it should be illegal. (This was the way that several ATM's (dozens?) were opened in Sydney (NSW) some months ago.)Seems like the perpetrators got away with a large amount of cash using that process!
When the USA government had balls (read as not as corrupt as they are now, or beholden to the large corporates) they broke up AT&T, which at the time was the biggest corporation on the face of the earth. However, I suspect it had unwanted side affects. (Like less money spent on pure R&D ... and a breakup in name only, nothing changed behind the scenes)
... dicking with any company could be a very bad thing!)
So, the EU are only doing what the US government can no longer do, no matter how much it might want to! (I am not saying they do want to either
Surely, this is just a way for this (unknown to me) artist to become famous of the back of a now defunct natural feature. (Or should I have said "On the face of it"?)
If you read through the link given in the blurb, you will find that it IS independent of the base used!RTFM
Actually, 99 times out of 100, its the software. As a hardware developer, it really pisses me off when I have to look through the crappy code to find the bloody obvious fault that 20 software "gurus" couldn't bloody well see! Of course, the software developers don't do the same for me. Software writers are overpaid, and underworked. If they got off their arses, and did some of their own testing, things might be a bit different.
A better example is Toyota - Lexus. In Japan, many of the vehicles sold in the USA as Lexus's were sold in Japan as Toyota's. (Although, this is strictly no longer the case ... Also, the Toyota's in Japan were often more luxurious than the Lexus in the USA!)