a microwave oven heats water not because of some linear higher-frequencies-have-more-energy thing. They work by radiating at the precise resonant frequency of the water molecule which is entirely a differnet cup of tea.
If higher-frequencies were more dangerous normal sunlight would be deadly because it has a very high frequency (in the Terahertz range). Of course, if you go beyond light into X-Rays and Gamma rays its a different story though.
The blueeprints were included but you got to be kidding if you think it helped the average user. Besides, on most modern PC's the functions lie on the chips which cannot be fixed. And modern PCBoard manufacturing techniques are totally different from the old days: chips are not in sockets anymore.
Ayd therein lies the rub. With a Mac or Windows you seldomly have to do that. With Linux they always have to whine and mess with these sys (mind you, YOU have to mess with the system) to get anything done. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of Linux, the world's most friendly OS.
Except in the exact industry that Adobe targets. There MacOS/X is waaaay over Linux
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Pascal, as a language, is designed so that everything can only refer to things above it in a file, except where explicitly declared. The idea of simply oredering your methinds/procedures as you wish and calling them at will does not exist. This means that the compiler can be written as a pipeline that emits code as it goes through. Modern languages must load everything into memory, resolve dependencies and then emit stuff.
Well, considering your sig, have you ever dealt with Leica Freaks who spend their life photographing lens test charts and then looking at them with loupes without actually USING the thing to take pics??
The other not-so-good meme is that solar energy has to replace everything that is available already immediately.
A set of Solar Panels on the roof of a house (or rather some solar thermal water heater) cannot replace all the gas that a house needs. But it CAN reduct your enegy bill considerably. My dad has a setup like that on our roof and he got a visit from the utilities who thought he has mucked around with the meter. Not so, a few simply black sets of pipies pre heated the water which helped reduce the electicity bill.
I work in a building which (admittedly with the help of a solar research institute) has reduced its energy consumption by 65% by good use of isolation and glazing. I might add that this is in Germany, not exactly the sunniest place in the world, so it works in more northern climes too.
The key here is local power generation and better isolation of the building instead of massive central power stations. For instance, the people in the previous article moans that a notebook cannot be powered by it. No, maybe not. But those cells might increase the duration of your battery by an hour or two and that is useful in itself. Because you get more out of your notebook and reduce consumption of fossil/nuclear powered electricity.
Most solar research does not deal with PV in any case, it deals with better isolation and solar thermal (concentrated rays and such) to reduce reliance on other energy sources.
Anone wants to know more about Solar please visit ISES.
Improv is dealy cool, yes, but read Spolsky's book about why it failed. Its a revelation. Spolsky used to be on the Excel Team, btw. And his book is readable on his website. Go and read it.
This book is great. And it greatest thing is that it tell you how the users are and that you bloody better deal with it. According to Spolsky they are simple:
a) They don't read. Anything b) The don't know how to use a mouse. c) You better deal with it
If your will is written as an ASCII text file, yes.
If your will is written in a binary format (word, PDF, OO) then its feasible to insert junk to compensate for that extra 0 you added to the amount you inherit.
Many file formats ignore junk or have the ability or can have comments inside the file which never appear in the document.
OO, for instance is a compressed XML file. You can insert you junk as an XML comment in the file which will never show up in the word processor unless someone unzip it andexamine the XML itself. Which ain't gonna happen.
If your contract is written in ASCII, this is a valid point. If it is written in any binary file (PDF, Word) as would be likely or if it contains pictures (company logo maybe),no way.
You can insert gibberish in those to match whatever you want and nobody would notice. Or add the gibeerish at the end of the internal picture. Most programs discard the rest of an image file after they have decompressed what they should have (because the sizes are specified in the headers So they know then they have all the pixels they simply stop).
Not so. The probem is that the average Joe has NO idea what space is like. There is no concept of the actual costs and distances and realities. Overexposure to Buck Rogers and such things do not help either.
The problem is not momentum, it is cost. It is way, way, way, way more expensive and complex to put a man on Mars than to put one on the moon.
An unmanned spacecraft basically gets alive and requires energy around any body it orbits and is thrown by gravity between them.
For all practial reasons dead in the transit between the planets. The spaceship does not require energy to fly between the planets because it coasts on Gravity. During the trip it does not require any energy to function except for some housekeeping. So the distance between the planets DOES NOT MATTER.
For a human it does matter. A manned ship requires constant energy input the whole mission because you have to keep him, well, alive. And there lies the rub. Space is big. Mars is maaaany times farther from earth than the moon.
With current tech we as a society simply cannot afford to go there, whether we like it or not.
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If you hash all the files then yes. If you hash only the CD as a whole you could replace all the critical binaries with a rootkit and add 1 single file to the CD (which may or not be readable or installed) to change the hash or the entire CD to match that of the original. Ora few files, but i single one would be best.
You could hide this data by adding it as garbage at the end of a binary file which most readers would ignore, such as a PNG or ZIP file.
Check on that stupid, horrible habit of computers to popup things while you are typing. In particular, if I open a web browser, immediately start typing in the bar and then the friggin thing goes to its home page and changes the URL.
Or another windows pops up and you type your password or something into that. I accidentally IM'ed my root password to someone like that the other day.
One simple solution would be NOT to change the window focus when the user had been typing anything during the last 5 seconds or so. That alone would make my life uch easier. And both Linux and Windows is guilty of this.
Speak for yourself. "Most people" are not Slashdot techies who spend hours faffing around with their machines.
I have a car and I certainly do not spend half of my life messing around with the engine to squeeze 5% out of the thing. I use it to drive around. Same for most people and computers.
Besides, I am by this time sick and tired of having to maintain a lot of half-assed home-built computers. The waste of time is not really worth it.
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Ok, I stand corrected. So how exactly then is a BT headset less dangerous than a micowave oven?
That pen is an urban myth
a microwave oven heats water not because of some linear higher-frequencies-have-more-energy thing. They work by radiating at the precise resonant frequency of the water molecule which is entirely a differnet cup of tea.
If higher-frequencies were more dangerous normal sunlight would be deadly because it has a very high frequency (in the Terahertz range). Of course, if you go beyond light into X-Rays and Gamma rays its a different story though.
The blueeprints were included but you got to be kidding if you think it helped the average user. Besides, on most modern PC's the functions lie on the chips which cannot be fixed. And modern PCBoard manufacturing techniques are totally different from the old days: chips are not in sockets anymore.
Ayd therein lies the rub. With a Mac or Windows you seldomly have to do that. With Linux they always have to whine and mess with these sys (mind you, YOU have to mess with the system) to get anything done. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of Linux, the world's most friendly OS.
One of the manned landers landed pretty much right next to one of the older unmanned ships which was still there.
A bluetooth headset needs to have anough power to reach you phone 10 meters away.
A cellphone need to reach the next antenna which may be 5 kilometers away.
There is a radical difference in signal strength here.
Except in the exact industry that Adobe targets. There MacOS/X is waaaay over Linux
Pascal, as a language, is designed so that everything can only refer to things above it in a file, except where explicitly declared. The idea of simply oredering your methinds/procedures as you wish and calling them at will does not exist. This means that the compiler can be written as a pipeline that emits code as it goes through. Modern languages must load everything into memory, resolve dependencies and then emit stuff.
e-penis
I learned a new word today!
But thats the entire point. Its THEIR money THEY are throwing away. Nobody gives a damn what YOU think about what they do with their own money
And their money funds Nvidia's research so you can play minesweeper cheaper in any case.
If other enthusiasts blow their money on penis-extending toys its their own friggin problem.
Well, considering your sig, have you ever dealt with Leica Freaks who spend their life photographing lens test charts and then looking at them with loupes without actually USING the thing to take pics??
The other not-so-good meme is that solar energy has to replace everything that is available already immediately.
A set of Solar Panels on the roof of a house (or rather some solar thermal water heater) cannot replace all the gas that a house needs. But it CAN reduct your enegy bill considerably. My dad has a setup like that on our roof and he got a visit from the utilities who thought he has mucked around with the meter. Not so, a few simply black sets of pipies pre heated the water which helped reduce the electicity bill.
I work in a building which (admittedly with the help of a solar research institute) has reduced its energy consumption by 65% by good use of isolation and glazing. I might add that this is in Germany, not exactly the sunniest place in the world, so it works in more northern climes too.
The key here is local power generation and better isolation of the building instead of massive central power stations. For instance, the people in the previous article moans that a notebook cannot be powered by it. No, maybe not. But those cells might increase the duration of your battery by an hour or two and that is useful in itself. Because you get more out of your notebook and reduce consumption of fossil/nuclear powered electricity.
Most solar research does not deal with PV in any case, it deals with better isolation and solar thermal (concentrated rays and such) to reduce reliance on other energy sources.
Anone wants to know more about Solar please visit
ISES.
In wasn't so bloody cold I'd move there!
In Germany DSL is just a TAD more expensive.
Improv is dealy cool, yes, but read Spolsky's book about why it failed. Its a revelation. Spolsky used to be on the Excel Team, btw. And his book is readable on his website. Go and read it.
> 007: "Who are you?"
> Pussy: "My name is Pussy Galore."
> 007: "I must be dreaming..."
The original script read like this:
007: "Who are you?"
Pussy: "Pussy"
007: "I know, but what's your name?"
This book is great. And it greatest thing is that it tell you how the users are and that you bloody better deal with it. According to Spolsky they are simple:
a) They don't read. Anything
b) The don't know how to use a mouse.
c) You better deal with it
And he is right.
If your will is written as an ASCII text file, yes.
If your will is written in a binary format (word, PDF, OO) then its feasible to insert junk to compensate for that extra 0 you added to the amount you inherit.
Many file formats ignore junk or have the ability or can have comments inside the file which never appear in the document.
OO, for instance is a compressed XML file. You can insert you junk as an XML comment in the file which will never show up in the word processor unless someone unzip it andexamine the XML itself. Which ain't gonna happen.
If your contract is written in ASCII, this is a valid point. If it is written in any binary file (PDF, Word) as would be likely or if it contains pictures (company logo maybe),no way.
You can insert gibberish in those to match whatever you want and nobody would notice. Or add the gibeerish at the end of the internal picture. Most programs discard the rest of an image file after they have decompressed what they should have (because the sizes are specified in the headers So they know then they have all the pixels they simply stop).
Sigh.
Not so. The probem is that the average Joe has NO idea what space is like. There is no concept of the actual costs and distances and realities. Overexposure to Buck Rogers and such things do not help either.
The problem is not momentum, it is cost. It is way, way, way, way more expensive and complex to put a man on Mars than to put one on the moon.
An unmanned spacecraft basically gets alive and requires energy around any body it orbits and is thrown by gravity between them.
For all practial reasons dead in the transit between the planets. The spaceship does not require energy to fly between the planets because it coasts on Gravity. During the trip it does not require any energy to function except for some housekeeping. So the distance between the planets DOES NOT MATTER.
For a human it does matter. A manned ship requires constant energy input the whole mission because you have to keep him, well, alive. And there lies the rub. Space is big. Mars is maaaany times farther from earth than the moon.
With current tech we as a society simply cannot afford to go there, whether we like it or not.
If you hash all the files then yes. If you hash only the CD as a whole you could replace all the critical binaries with a rootkit and add 1 single file to the CD (which may or not be readable or installed) to change the hash or the entire CD to match that of the original. Ora few files, but i single one would be best.
You could hide this data by adding it as garbage at the end of a binary file which most readers would ignore, such as a PNG or ZIP file.
Check on that stupid, horrible habit of computers to popup things while you are typing. In particular, if I open a web browser, immediately start typing in the bar and then the friggin thing goes to its home page and changes the URL.
Or another windows pops up and you type your password or something into that. I accidentally IM'ed my root password to someone like that the other day.
One simple solution would be NOT to change the window focus when the user had been typing anything during the last 5 seconds or so. That alone would make my life uch easier. And both Linux and Windows is guilty of this.
Do I even WANT to know?
One thing you cannot buy for the Mac Mini is dual head video. That is sadly a major showstopper for me.
Speak for yourself. "Most people" are not Slashdot techies who spend hours faffing around with their machines.
I have a car and I certainly do not spend half of my life messing around with the engine to squeeze 5% out of the thing. I use it to drive around. Same for most people and computers.
Besides, I am by this time sick and tired of having to maintain a lot of half-assed home-built computers. The waste of time is not really worth it.