That's cool. But not all AP mines have a probe above ground AFAIK. Modern types have minuscule amounts of metal in the detonator to boot, too.
I don't think that looking for turned earth in any warzone's going to get you very far.. So just how is the mine detection gear supposed to work? Xray?
It seems to me that one solution would be to separate the HTML rendering engine portion of IE into a separate installatable service. Given API spec, you could even throw in Gecko and use that, if you felt very brave.
Then again, I'm of the subversive notion that chopping M$ up into a dozen smaller companies would be better for the consumer and better for the company. I have hard time imagining that smaller separate divisions pursuing their own agendas couldn't outdo M$ revenue as it is.. With no monopoly required.
Just make the damn Win32 OS a commodity. Like, make MS Operating Systems corporation do a public bid for each component that goes into the OS, such as email client, browser, ftp client..
No such thing as a free lunch I suppose. Any urban area's a mess of fiber crisscrossing underground tho. It seems somehow much "neater" to string the cable up in a pole, where you can actually go back and reroute as necessary. Maybe the city should consider a more attractive space rental in their poles, tearing up the streets hurts commerce etc. Okay, maybe they see that as a free pavement maintenance..!
I don't know, but personally, I'd much prefer a solution of utility poles where you can rent space to fixed installations.. You can charge a rent on it, annually, and if you keep your head cool about the rent levels to attract business, it can be fairly lucrative. After all, your initial investment has been done x years ago raising that pole..!
Maybe there's a good reason why this is not a good idea, but here goes - Is there any good reason why you cannot string up fiberoptic clothesline-style? Or even use telephone pole-approach?
Both should be X times cheaper than tearing up a sizable portion of a pavement..
That's a very involved solution to a straightforward problem.
Premise A) Websites require you to give back a code or whatever from the test email they send you.
Premise B) The scum working for website z is going to Make Money Fast by selling their address base. Just takes one employee with "flexible" morals.
Premise C) For whatever reason, you want the service/product provided by website z's less scummy workers.
Conclusion: Use a throw-away free web mail address such as yahoo or hotmail you can give to those websites. They usually have an easy way to nuke your inbox spam (likely hundreds..) whenever you're expecting mail from website z and you can probably save your password emails into a separate folder.
IMHO filtering out yahoo etc is stupid and elitist. I used hotmail for a long time before switching over to yahoo.
It's cheap even if you buy some extra room, it's easy to implement "no-yourname-in-receiver=>discard" filter, but that's not default so you don't get the stupid x-receiver-names-in-CC spams like you do in hotmail.. Address book is very nice, they have POP and SMTP and of course you can access it from an internet cafe in albania.
No, I'm not affiliated in any way, I just like my yahoo mail. Actually I have paid-for spamcop account, too. FWIW, yahoo has just now tightened their SMTP policy to weed out more spammers.
More proof?
Most *girls* I ever get mail from use yahoo and/or hotmail..! So filter them at your peril, boys.
That was my impression as well. The article was just way too *nice* and *ecstatic*, usually you they point out something nasty the company press relase glosses over. But not here.
They even completely pass over the fact M$ wants to lock you into Xbox peripherals, due to the proprietary USB stuff. Now that was dumb. Don't they *want* to sell the console to people who are punishing their way-expensive force-feedback wheels and pedals in PS2/PC right now?
Anyways, they make a huge deal out of the jaggies in PS2.. It's a TV.. It's got a built-in anti-alias..
Interesting idea, that. I wonder if there wouldn't be any non-magnetic high-temperature liquid they could use instead of lithium etc.
In any case, unorthodox ideas take science forwards. Unfortunately most of them are just plain bad. If there was a way to separate the unworkable ideas from great ones..
No, I don't think/. moderation model's the answer here..!
When I was back in trade school, sometime around -93 I think.. They gave us a rule of thumb that mainframe users stay happy if they have about 2400bps bandwith/user.
Most BBS systems I've ever seen wasted oodles and oodles of bandwith on the UI thought. That, plus fancy color-coding drops down the efficiency even more. I don't think I ever saw a proper screen division where the UI didn't update with whatever you were doing at the time.
And every time I read from a mag there's going to be a new modem spec in 6 months, "persons in the know" told me that's flat out impossible. Granted, I don't think you'd get much beyond 9600bps on the 60-era barbed wire phone exchanges.. As it is, you only get 48000 or 50000 connection with near-perfect digital lines.
They're don't use square wave, so it's not quite *that* bad.
Of course, EMC only exists in Europe, much like global heating. I actually performed RF immunity and emission tests on my prototype last week. IEC will come and *smack* you if you try running 10Mbps over barbed wire over here:-)
Actually, you cannot run 100Mbps with unshielded twisted cable without breaking regs.
To make things that much worse, every barb is a small antenna for high frequencies. Yeek!
Ok, so you never shop online and you never need Flash web pages, right?
Some of us do. I have Yahoo filter everything out that's not addressed to me and there's steady trickle of 2-5 SPAM/day to the trash. God knows how much to the spamcop account I actually give out.
My yahoo address used to be fairly spam-free, but then this one PBEM ladder put my email address visible in their website among list of tournament participants.. And there's been spam ever since. Hooray for spider-bots.
Ok, you're saying basically the same thing as I did. Working out, using bicycle instead of car, etc etc.. That does nothing as far the excercise cal burn is concerned, but it *does* make your body burn more energy when you're sitting on your ass reading slashdot.
By the way, weight watchers recommend you *don't* excercise until you're close to the weight you want to keep. Because excercise makes you feel hungrier, most of us anyway..
I went to gym for 2 years and had some 20 kilos overweight.. Then I stopped gym and started on swimming and went on low fat/low sugar "diet". Meaning I changed the way I eat and got rid of those 20 kilos in about 18 months.
Moral? I don't know. But it's far easier to cut down on calorie input than to up the energy output.
Excercise doesn't do jack. Period.
Just do the math, one hour in gym increases your daily energy consumption in _low single digit_ percentage.
I repeat: One hour of _heavy labour_ has *minimal* effect on your daily energy use.
Ok, got that?
So what you're left with is choking the energy and especially fat input.. When you have *that* under control, it's beneficial to excercise some, which forces your body to speed up metabolism to cope with periodical energy-drain sessions. That could mean taking bicycle to work.. Combine that with your starvin' marvin' diet and you *can actually lose weight*!!
Excercise? Oh please. Unless your work is manual labor and you actually exercise 8 hours, five days a week, excercise *still is not going to do jack*.
I've figured it out when I get older. There's only one truth and that is that anyone who says they know the absolute truth is either ignorant or lying or both.
If nuclear power was clearly economically *un*-viable, why would France produce >70% of their energy that way?
Maybe there was corruption and/or gross inefficiency in state-owned nuke plants in UK? That is, after all, the hallmark of any state-owned business with a monopoly.
Only thing I know is that the atmosphere is crappy enough as it is and the less coal we burn the better for everyone. 1st world can build nuke plants that are much much less likely to kill you than pollution from fossile fuel plants which *does* kill people. Let the developing nations have their shot at producing electricity with cheap initial costs of coal..
Chernobyl is still operational, too. The reactor design was not really faulty, the safety procedures/equipment were.
Biggest joke around these parts is that choking power plant investments, politicians are in fact promoting use of russian nuclear power. Those guys actually plan to build a few right across the border so they can sell some electricity to us. Whoo-pee. Much better than making our own, no?
Good, except that an engine which produces 75kW at bar will generate something like 3x that in waste heat. I don't know what's the efficiency of infernal combustion these days, but my old textbooks said the ballpark is around 30%.. That goes way up if you ditch the radiator, but it's kinda short-lived afterwards.
If I read the article properly, the diode does *not* convert heat to electricity in a way that would cool down the environment in any meaningful way. So you still need radiator, but maybe you can leech some of those kWs to recharge battery..
Too bad you cannot really ditch the car generator. That'd make assisted start tricky when your battery's drained. Maybe that'd have a social angle, tho.. Can chat up the lady while you wait for her (car) to warm up.
Slashdot Mirror
There are ads in google? I see I've been missing from communal experience since I use WebWasher..
/.? Get a job, hippie.
I just wonder if I'm the only person who's getting tired of the academic "nobody must make money out of anything" attitude in
Article says the detection is optical.
That's cool. But not all AP mines have a probe above ground AFAIK. Modern types have minuscule amounts of metal in the detonator to boot, too.
I don't think that looking for turned earth in any warzone's going to get you very far.. So just how is the mine detection gear supposed to work? Xray?
It seems to me that one solution would be to separate the HTML rendering engine portion of IE into a separate installatable service. Given API spec, you could even throw in Gecko and use that, if you felt very brave.
..
Then again, I'm of the subversive notion that chopping M$ up into a dozen smaller companies would be better for the consumer and better for the company. I have hard time imagining that smaller separate divisions pursuing their own agendas couldn't outdo M$ revenue as it is.. With no monopoly required.
Just make the damn Win32 OS a commodity. Like, make MS Operating Systems corporation do a public bid for each component that goes into the OS, such as email client, browser, ftp client
No such thing as a free lunch I suppose. Any urban area's a mess of fiber crisscrossing underground tho. It seems somehow much "neater" to string the cable up in a pole, where you can actually go back and reroute as necessary. Maybe the city should consider a more attractive space rental in their poles, tearing up the streets hurts commerce etc. Okay, maybe they see that as a free pavement maintenance..!
I don't know, but personally, I'd much prefer a solution of utility poles where you can rent space to fixed installations.. You can charge a rent on it, annually, and if you keep your head cool about the rent levels to attract business, it can be fairly lucrative. After all, your initial investment has been done x years ago raising that pole..!
Maybe there's a good reason why this is not a good idea, but here goes - Is there any good reason why you cannot string up fiberoptic clothesline-style? Or even use telephone pole-approach?
Both should be X times cheaper than tearing up a sizable portion of a pavement..
That's a very involved solution to a straightforward problem.
Premise A) Websites require you to give back a code or whatever from the test email they send you.
Premise B) The scum working for website z is going to Make Money Fast by selling their address base. Just takes one employee with "flexible" morals.
Premise C) For whatever reason, you want the service/product provided by website z's less scummy workers.
Conclusion: Use a throw-away free web mail address such as yahoo or hotmail you can give to those websites. They usually have an easy way to nuke your inbox spam (likely hundreds..) whenever you're expecting mail from website z and you can probably save your password emails into a separate folder.
Problem solved. Not perfect, but it works.
IMHO filtering out yahoo etc is stupid and elitist. I used hotmail for a long time before switching over to yahoo.
It's cheap even if you buy some extra room, it's easy to implement "no-yourname-in-receiver=>discard" filter, but that's not default so you don't get the stupid x-receiver-names-in-CC spams like you do in hotmail.. Address book is very nice, they have POP and SMTP and of course you can access it from an internet cafe in albania.
No, I'm not affiliated in any way, I just like my yahoo mail. Actually I have paid-for spamcop account, too. FWIW, yahoo has just now tightened their SMTP policy to weed out more spammers.
More proof?
Most *girls* I ever get mail from use yahoo and/or hotmail..! So filter them at your peril, boys.
That was my impression as well. The article was just way too *nice* and *ecstatic*, usually you they point out something nasty the company press relase glosses over. But not here.
.. It's a TV .. It's got a built-in anti-alias ..
They even completely pass over the fact M$ wants to lock you into Xbox peripherals, due to the proprietary USB stuff. Now that was dumb. Don't they *want* to sell the console to people who are punishing their way-expensive force-feedback wheels and pedals in PS2/PC right now?
Anyways, they make a huge deal out of the jaggies in PS2
Interesting idea, that. I wonder if there wouldn't be any non-magnetic high-temperature liquid they could use instead of lithium etc.
/. moderation model's the answer here..!
In any case, unorthodox ideas take science forwards. Unfortunately most of them are just plain bad. If there was a way to separate the unworkable ideas from great ones..
No, I don't think
I wonder if they can prove someday that in the presence of a scientific theory, emotionally oriented people evolve selective blindess/deafness.
Damn!
Does this mean there's no hope of girls evolving into seeing geeks as sex-y during my lifetime?
You think 1TB of HDD space is bad?
Imagine installing that puppy from 20 DVDs..!
3) Babylon 5. We will design big ass space stations that are like New York only in space.
Not to forget: "Pick fights with aliens with unknown technology and resources because we did OK in the last war we got pulled into!"
..But maybe nicer for him than the Repo man.
New economy? Bah.
I suppose that's what the "page resize/rotate" option does in print options.
I print letter docs on A4s at work all day long, no problem.
Two words.
Nuclear. Power.
Isn't it terrible when technology really does solve the problem?
When I was back in trade school, sometime around -93 I think .. They gave us a rule of thumb that mainframe users stay happy if they have about 2400bps bandwith/user.
.. As it is, you only get 48000 or 50000 connection with near-perfect digital lines.
Most BBS systems I've ever seen wasted oodles and oodles of bandwith on the UI thought. That, plus fancy color-coding drops down the efficiency even more. I don't think I ever saw a proper screen division where the UI didn't update with whatever you were doing at the time.
And every time I read from a mag there's going to be a new modem spec in 6 months, "persons in the know" told me that's flat out impossible. Granted, I don't think you'd get much beyond 9600bps on the 60-era barbed wire phone exchanges
They're don't use square wave, so it's not quite *that* bad.
:-)
Of course, EMC only exists in Europe, much like global heating. I actually performed RF immunity and emission tests on my prototype last week. IEC will come and *smack* you if you try running 10Mbps over barbed wire over here
Actually, you cannot run 100Mbps with unshielded twisted cable without breaking regs.
To make things that much worse, every barb is a small antenna for high frequencies. Yeek!
There's no content. Just post.
Not another one.
.. And there's been spam ever since. Hooray for spider-bots.
Ok, so you never shop online and you never need Flash web pages, right?
Some of us do. I have Yahoo filter everything out that's not addressed to me and there's steady trickle of 2-5 SPAM/day to the trash. God knows how much to the spamcop account I actually give out.
My yahoo address used to be fairly spam-free, but then this one PBEM ladder put my email address visible in their website among list of tournament participants
Ok, you're saying basically the same thing as I did. Working out, using bicycle instead of car, etc etc.. That does nothing as far the excercise cal burn is concerned, but it *does* make your body burn more energy when you're sitting on your ass reading slashdot.
By the way, weight watchers recommend you *don't* excercise until you're close to the weight you want to keep. Because excercise makes you feel hungrier, most of us anyway..
I went to gym for 2 years and had some 20 kilos overweight.. Then I stopped gym and started on swimming and went on low fat/low sugar "diet". Meaning I changed the way I eat and got rid of those 20 kilos in about 18 months.
Moral? I don't know. But it's far easier to cut down on calorie input than to up the energy output.
Excercise?
Excercise doesn't do jack. Period.
Just do the math, one hour in gym increases your daily energy consumption in _low single digit_ percentage.
I repeat: One hour of _heavy labour_ has *minimal* effect on your daily energy use.
Ok, got that?
So what you're left with is choking the energy and especially fat input.. When you have *that* under control, it's beneficial to excercise some, which forces your body to speed up metabolism to cope with periodical energy-drain sessions. That could mean taking bicycle to work.. Combine that with your starvin' marvin' diet and you *can actually lose weight*!!
Excercise? Oh please. Unless your work is manual labor and you actually exercise 8 hours, five days a week, excercise *still is not going to do jack*.
I've figured it out when I get older. There's only one truth and that is that anyone who says they know the absolute truth is either ignorant or lying or both.
If nuclear power was clearly economically *un*-viable, why would France produce >70% of their energy that way?
Maybe there was corruption and/or gross inefficiency in state-owned nuke plants in UK? That is, after all, the hallmark of any state-owned business with a monopoly.
Only thing I know is that the atmosphere is crappy enough as it is and the less coal we burn the better for everyone. 1st world can build nuke plants that are much much less likely to kill you than pollution from fossile fuel plants which *does* kill people. Let the developing nations have their shot at producing electricity with cheap initial costs of coal..
Chernobyl is still operational, too. The reactor design was not really faulty, the safety procedures/equipment were.
Biggest joke around these parts is that choking power plant investments, politicians are in fact promoting use of russian nuclear power. Those guys actually plan to build a few right across the border so they can sell some electricity to us. Whoo-pee. Much better than making our own, no?
Hmm.
.. That goes way up if you ditch the radiator, but it's kinda short-lived afterwards.
Good, except that an engine which produces 75kW at bar will generate something like 3x that in waste heat. I don't know what's the efficiency of infernal combustion these days, but my old textbooks said the ballpark is around 30%
If I read the article properly, the diode does *not* convert heat to electricity in a way that would cool down the environment in any meaningful way. So you still need radiator, but maybe you can leech some of those kWs to recharge battery..
Too bad you cannot really ditch the car generator. That'd make assisted start tricky when your battery's drained. Maybe that'd have a social angle, tho.. Can chat up the lady while you wait for her (car) to warm up.
Morpheus is also nice for mirroring.
Don't care it's EVIL closed source. Works for me.
And since I like giving a little back to the community, I'm leaving the morpheus client on overnight..