I'm heading to Kenya for the holidays to visit a sister studying in Nairobi. It would be a great present from Northwest to find my flights back (NBO->AMS->DTW) allow for it!!
Try a different OS! You might not have to reboot so much.
I have a RH 7.2 box that has been up for almost 6 days. That is nothing special, either! It was up for somewhere around 40-50 days before I tried ironing a shirt with a tv, 3-75W incandescents, a 100W full-spectrum flourescent llght, and 2 computers (with monitors) all on in my bedroom.
Wow, when I write it out, I guess it's no surprise that I tripped the circuit breaker!
With the processor speeds and storage abilities of current Pocket PCs, why require a dialup connection? Especially when the majority of users wouldn't have one while, say, traveling in a foreign country. (GSM still has yet to pick up here in the US).
Why not allow the OCR program, and any necessary foreign language translation dictionaries to live in the PDA's memory? I can't see it taking up anymore than several MB, (which could certaintly be offloaded when not traveling).
Is there something I really don't understand here?
Which foreign countries would have speed limits of 70 mph? Remember, the rest of the world has wisened up and switched to the metric system looooong ago! Which brings up up question...
Say you ARE driving down some foreign street and you use your nifty pocket pc to read perhaps a French sign that something to the likes of, "100 kilometres per heure". Wouldn't it be the "American" thing to do, to not only translate the (simple, I know), sign, but also to convert it into mph so we silly Americans don't blow a brain fuse?
Just think if these tags are somehow included in everything including clothing. Now, let's say I'm scanning people (with or without their knowledge). You could know as much as whether or not the girl next to you has a Victoria's Secret thong on, or some Jockey's brief. Perhaps even whether she has on any at all.
And same in reverse. What if it's a laundry day and you have to go commando? Do you really want people to know?
So let's say I'm a resident of England and I decide to take my laptop running the latest version of RedHat Linux to the park with me. I've heard that I can access the internet at the local park. But wait, it is through MSN... does that mean I get screwed?
I'm not thorougly familiar with.NET as it has been born from MS and therefore little use to me until now. My main question is this.. how portable will the code be? After skimming the article, I couldn't get an answer.
Also, is it known whether Microsoft will/could enforce copyright restrictions on it if the Linux community tries to improve on the MS design?
I have to admit that this could be very beneficial. When Napster was first starting to become big, my entire dorm had it. Hundreds of freshmen (in my dorm alone) spent hours a day using up the massive bandwidth my university has..without the slightest idea that they were breaking international copyright laws.
Now, I'm not saying that the knowledge is going to stop everyone, but it might make some feel guilty. The ethical dilemna might cause
Fewer people to trade
Fewer trades per person
More restrictions by ISPs/college/work (bandwidth provider)
Therefore, it probably wouldn't rid the problem, but it may put a significant dent in it.
You could also use the Rainbow Six plot by Tom Clancy. Alter a known virus to something even worse then develop a vaccine. Then, make the vaccine only available for people you want to live.
Saddam could be livin' it up in a matter of months.
First of all, "A priori" is Latin for "prior to". It is common in a legal scope for describing people who have committed crimes before those crimes were law. Hence, the act later defined as a crime was committed prior to the law being made.
Second, I believe that the news highlights the improvements made since the first test. I highly doubt there was no research into each failed test. Tell me, when you f* up at your job, do you continue doing whatever you do without looking for your error? You likely find your error and get all excited and cream your pants when you figure out what the heck you've been doing wrong. That's probably what just happened... they figured out what they've been doing wrong.
I believe that Lockheed-Martin is actively working on a Missle Defense System that will be based off of a network of airborne 747 jumbo jets in similar to that in Real Genius with Val Kilmer.
More on that project is available here. It is in conjunction with Boeing and TRW.
A space-based laser is planned to follow (also similar to the plan of the plot in Real Genius. Though it is not due to be functional until 2008-2010, it is already in design stages. It is also a USAF & Lockheed Martin project. For more info about it, check here.
It's interesting for those of you who have seen Real Genius how closely our Missle Defense System will follow the course of the movie. It is almost a theft of the plot. The main difference is that airborne/space-based laser in the movie was to be used for offensive strategy, not defensive.
I was thinking the same thing. Out of all the planes, ships, boats, submarines, etc... from WWII, it seems like a needle in a haystack to narrow the possibility down to Ms. Earhart.
1: Attack the business
MS is a little confused because they're used to isolating businesses, and either buying them out or destroying them. Open source takes the "business" approach away.
2: Attack the idea
According to our monopoly friends, MS support is superior and if it costs money, it has to be better. But what people realize is that Windows blows. It crashes, it locks, it clusterflops, etc.
3: Make alliances (even with the Gov't)
What they're trying to do now. Thinking that since republicans are in control of the federal govt, MS is probably looking for a long shot in this one. I don't think there are nearly enough politicians that are totally void of a brain function to vote in favor of MS -- hopefully we'll never see.
4: Where from here?
Maybe, they'll start hiring mercaneries to systematically take care of their little PTK (People To Kill) lists. You know Linus has got to be up there near the top, along with dozens of people at several universities and research centers. To all of you potentials.. watch your six if #3 falls through.;)
Microsoft has many similar links to their website.
a.) Look at the Favorite menu that comes with MSIE. It's littered with MS and MSNBC links as well as some others (MSN, hotmail, etc). Plus, you don't think the other links create any revenue for MS?
b.) Home, Search, and Animated Logo buttons all go to sites owned by MS.
c.) The tools menu also includes links to MSN, Net2Phone, and Related links.. MS sites. Help menu choices go to MS.
d.) Add in channels and there are even more MS links.
Why not make.porn or.xxx? It would make it MUCH easier to legislate. Require all explicit sites to use either of those domains and then it would be very simple to restrict young people from viewing them. It would also prevent accidental opening of such sites by unexpecting visitors (such as my high school teacher who opened up www.whitehouse.com on a display screen only for an entire class to see pornography).
OK, here's the thing that I think people are having problems with. She'll attain ~mach 1.5 because of a LACK of air resistance in the upper atmosphere. Therefore, there won't be much friction to heat her up (I think if you worked the physics, it'd be the same friction that you'd find when reaching terminal velocity at lower altitudes). When the atmosphere DOES start to get "thicker", she'll have a higher coefficient of friction and will start to slow down. If there is anywhere in her drop where she'd get have excessive heat, it'll be when she starts slowing down.
My problem with the Discovery article is this--"She won't even have enough air to help her orient her body to avoid dangerous tumbling. " I think the author needs to think about basic physics. She won't tumble unless there is a force applied to her--the force usually causing tumbling is air friction. Let's think about this again, there won't be much air friction, ergo, not much need for recovering from one. Therefore, it's not really a life-threatening problem, is it?
She makes it sound all high and mighty when it really won't be that difficult. Contrary to what she said, it has been done, just at 2/3 the height.
So, maybe she should cut the drama of it, unless, she plans to take a nap on the way down:) I'd like to see THAT!
we have been forming steel since the middle ages, it has a long way to go...
Steel was first designed for mass production in the late 19th century by a man named Henry Bessemer--long after the middle ages. Iron was, at that time, the metal of choice for the rails during their boom. Unfortunately, iron was known for being malleable and would bend out of shape. Iron definitely had flaws that could be improved upon.
Enter Andrew Carnegie and Bessemer. Ever wonder why there are so many things named after Carnegie and why you may have heard of the Bessemer process? In 1855 Henry Bessemer discovered a way to decarbonize steel. Andrew Carnegie traveled to England in the 1870s and saw this process in action, albeit low key. In 1875, the first steel plant was opened in the United States and soon thereafter, Andrew Carnegie was on his way to making steel the popular metal that it is today.
Any chance you work for Lockheed down in the Fort Worth area? I've heard that the Joint Strike Fighter and F22 development teams could use some *nix people. Too bad I'm about 1400 miles away.
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I'm heading to Kenya for the holidays to visit a sister studying in Nairobi. It would be a great present from Northwest to find my flights back (NBO->AMS->DTW) allow for it!!
I have a RH 7.2 box that has been up for almost 6 days. That is nothing special, either! It was up for somewhere around 40-50 days before I tried ironing a shirt with a tv, 3-75W incandescents, a 100W full-spectrum flourescent llght, and 2 computers (with monitors) all on in my bedroom.
Wow, when I write it out, I guess it's no surprise that I tripped the circuit breaker!
Why not allow the OCR program, and any necessary foreign language translation dictionaries to live in the PDA's memory? I can't see it taking up anymore than several MB, (which could certaintly be offloaded when not traveling).
Is there something I really don't understand here?
Say you ARE driving down some foreign street and you use your nifty pocket pc to read perhaps a French sign that something to the likes of, "100 kilometres per heure". Wouldn't it be the "American" thing to do, to not only translate the (simple, I know), sign, but also to convert it into mph so we silly Americans don't blow a brain fuse?
I can't see the pictures, or even read about it because of his transfer limits, but think about this.
Did anybody die in Cartmanland? (Other than Kenny, he doesn't count.) Didn't think so.
And same in reverse. What if it's a laundry day and you have to go commando? Do you really want people to know?
So let's say I'm a resident of England and I decide to take my laptop running the latest version of RedHat Linux to the park with me. I've heard that I can access the internet at the local park. But wait, it is through MSN... does that mean I get screwed?
Also, is it known whether Microsoft will/could enforce copyright restrictions on it if the Linux community tries to improve on the MS design?
Now, I'm not saying that the knowledge is going to stop everyone, but it might make some feel guilty. The ethical dilemna might cause
Fewer people to trade
Fewer trades per person
More restrictions by ISPs/college/work (bandwidth provider)
Therefore, it probably wouldn't rid the problem, but it may put a significant dent in it.
Saddam could be livin' it up in a matter of months.
First of all, "A priori" is Latin for "prior to". It is common in a legal scope for describing people who have committed crimes before those crimes were law. Hence, the act later defined as a crime was committed prior to the law being made.
Second, I believe that the news highlights the improvements made since the first test. I highly doubt there was no research into each failed test. Tell me, when you f* up at your job, do you continue doing whatever you do without looking for your error? You likely find your error and get all excited and cream your pants when you figure out what the heck you've been doing wrong. That's probably what just happened... they figured out what they've been doing wrong.
More on that project is available here. It is in conjunction with Boeing and TRW.
A space-based laser is planned to follow (also similar to the plan of the plot in Real Genius. Though it is not due to be functional until 2008-2010, it is already in design stages. It is also a USAF & Lockheed Martin project. For more info about it, check here.
It's interesting for those of you who have seen Real Genius how closely our Missle Defense System will follow the course of the movie. It is almost a theft of the plot. The main difference is that airborne/space-based laser in the movie was to be used for offensive strategy, not defensive.
I was thinking the same thing. Out of all the planes, ships, boats, submarines, etc... from WWII, it seems like a needle in a haystack to narrow the possibility down to Ms. Earhart.
1: Attack the business
MS is a little confused because they're used to isolating businesses, and either buying them out or destroying them. Open source takes the "business" approach away.
2: Attack the idea
According to our monopoly friends, MS support is superior and if it costs money, it has to be better. But what people realize is that Windows blows. It crashes, it locks, it clusterflops, etc.
3: Make alliances (even with the Gov't)
What they're trying to do now. Thinking that since republicans are in control of the federal govt, MS is probably looking for a long shot in this one. I don't think there are nearly enough politicians that are totally void of a brain function to vote in favor of MS -- hopefully we'll never see.
4: Where from here? ;)
Maybe, they'll start hiring mercaneries to systematically take care of their little PTK (People To Kill) lists. You know Linus has got to be up there near the top, along with dozens of people at several universities and research centers. To all of you potentials.. watch your six if #3 falls through.
a.) Look at the Favorite menu that comes with MSIE. It's littered with MS and MSNBC links as well as some others (MSN, hotmail, etc). Plus, you don't think the other links create any revenue for MS?
b.) Home, Search, and Animated Logo buttons all go to sites owned by MS.
c.) The tools menu also includes links to MSN, Net2Phone, and Related links.. MS sites. Help menu choices go to MS.
d.) Add in channels and there are even more MS links.
Why not make .porn or .xxx? It would make it MUCH easier to legislate. Require all explicit sites to use either of those domains and then it would be very simple to restrict young people from viewing them. It would also prevent accidental opening of such sites by unexpecting visitors (such as my high school teacher who opened up www.whitehouse.com on a display screen only for an entire class to see pornography).
My problem with the Discovery article is this--"She won't even have enough air to help her orient her body to avoid dangerous tumbling. " I think the author needs to think about basic physics. She won't tumble unless there is a force applied to her--the force usually causing tumbling is air friction. Let's think about this again, there won't be much air friction, ergo, not much need for recovering from one. Therefore, it's not really a life-threatening problem, is it?
She makes it sound all high and mighty when it really won't be that difficult. Contrary to what she said, it has been done, just at 2/3 the height.
So, maybe she should cut the drama of it, unless, she plans to take a nap on the way down :) I'd like to see THAT!
Steel was first designed for mass production in the late 19th century by a man named Henry Bessemer--long after the middle ages. Iron was, at that time, the metal of choice for the rails during their boom. Unfortunately, iron was known for being malleable and would bend out of shape. Iron definitely had flaws that could be improved upon.
Enter Andrew Carnegie and Bessemer. Ever wonder why there are so many things named after Carnegie and why you may have heard of the Bessemer process? In 1855 Henry Bessemer discovered a way to decarbonize steel. Andrew Carnegie traveled to England in the 1870s and saw this process in action, albeit low key. In 1875, the first steel plant was opened in the United States and soon thereafter, Andrew Carnegie was on his way to making steel the popular metal that it is today.
Any chance you work for Lockheed down in the Fort Worth area? I've heard that the Joint Strike Fighter and F22 development teams could use some *nix people. Too bad I'm about 1400 miles away.