A white dwarf star would be cold enough to allow for normal temperatures, even at distances closer than Mercury.
It's been a long time since I did any real physics work, let alone astrophysics, but wouldn't tidal gravitational forces pose a problem in that situation?
I wonder if bribing someone at NASA or ESA to include your mini-satellite as part of the payload of the next launch would be acceptable; it's probably the most realistic chance...
No, XP Home will not utilise two physical processors, but dual core (and HT-enabled) processors work just fine. The laptop I'm typing this on right now is running XP Home and using both cores of its Core Duo just fine.
They don't make the decisions, the House of Lords cannot create or pass laws. All they can do is approve or reject bills that are sent to them by the House of Commons. If they reject a bill, the Commons can modify it or not as they see fit and send it back again. A few years ago the Parliament Act was passed to give the government a means of forcing a bill through when the Lords repeatedly reject it, although I don't know the details of it.
To be perfectly frank, at times the Lords is the only thing standing between us and yet another stupid, knee-jerk law that would do more harm than good. If you've been following UK news lately you'll have seen a number of instances of bad anti-terror laws being abused to do things including making sure families are in the right area for the school they want to send their children to to enforcing local rubbish disposal rules.
Oh, and none of the Lords are self-appointed; some inherited their titles from their parents, while these days most are awarded them by the government.
Or you will be found hanging in your garden shed with a very convincing suicide note.
No need to fake a suicide - they'd be guilty of possessing and distributing child porn, not to mention various "perverting the course of justice" or blackmail type offences. There'd be enough to put them away for quite a while I'd imagine.
($40 / month for unlimited access, $20 / month for access limited to, I believe, 10 books)
I've not looked into Safari for a while, but I believe that the cheaper plan allows you access to a sort of "rolling bookshelf" of up to 10 books at a time (though I don't remember what restrictions, if any, there are on how often you can change the books). Just thought I'd point that out, as your post could be read as saying that you have access to a specific 10 books (which would be pretty useless).
You realise that your experience actually backs up his assertion, don't you? You were not one of the early adopters that had problems with XP and hated it; you held out, and in that time patches were released and hardware improved and so you had no problems.
I would also contest your closing remark, as Win2k was a pretty good OS and from what I've experienced of using the Windows 2008 Server trial as a desktop OS at home, that's pretty damn good too.
Well, I've only really used Vista on one laptop, but it is a pretty good one and Vista certainly doesn't feel like a dog on it. That said, I've no idea what XP would run like on the same hardware of course.
And angels guide the spheres in their heavenly courses.
We'll work the truth out sooner or later; I just hope it's soon enough that I get to hear. I may be a programmer now but my degree is in physics and I still find it fascinating.
An OS is to run programs and be an interface to the system, not to look super pretty.
No, that's what you want from an OS. I want something that I'm going to find pleasing to my eyes, given I spend upwards of 10 hours a day staring at my monitor.
Besides which, you do realise that the prettiness you're complaining of is the Explorer desktop shell, which can be replaced if you so wish? For example, see Wikipedia for details.
patently software because you've come up with a novel algorithm that's faster than anyone else's due to a neat trick or technique you've come up with shouldn't.
Rubbish. Source code is protected by copyright and therefore does not need protection by patents.
If you come up with that algorithm, all it tells me is that it's possible. I still have to do the hard work myself to reimplement your idea (or to come up with my own trick). Even if you show me the source code I have no rights to reuse it.
And I'm not saying the web application developers need to prevent it
Well, I am. There is simply no excuse for anyone to be writing web apps that are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. The attack vector should be known to anyone with even a passing interest in programming for the web, and there are standard library calls for all the languages I've used that take care of it for you.
Besides which, this is really just a special case of the old maxim: never trust your input data. Anyone writing code that is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks is almost certainly writing vulnerabilities into their code in other ways too.
Yes, the design of SQL communication protocols makes it easy to do stupid things and open your code up to attack. That's no excuse for actually doing so however.
Very few countries where they would be have included in such legislation "and the retailer must make it easy".
No, but do that too much and have too many people complain and you'll get slapped, probably by the OFT and possibly by the courts, who tend to take a *very* dim view of people taking the piss out of the law.
I agree that some companies employ shady tactics, but if more people would take them to task for it they'd be forced to stop.
note how Blu-Ray is failing to fly off the shelves -- it was the format war, not DRM that kept it from selling, right? RIGHT!?!?
The format war, the high prices, the lack of a compelling advantage over DVDs, the requirement to purchase expensive equipment (player and HD TV) to use them, yes. Of all the reasons I can think of for ordinary people to not buy them, DRM really isn't one of them. Non-one outside of tech forums really gives a monkeys about that.
DVD killed video because of indisputable superiority. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are not sufficiently better than DVD to drive uptake, especially with the prices being so much higher.
On the other hand I believe that today's youth being anti-copyright comes more from the fact that the copyright holders have abused their side of the deal than from anything else.
I disagree that today's youth has become anti-copyright. I think that it's just become a lot easier to violate copyright. When I was a kid people were copying software, music and videos tape-to-tape. They no more cared about copyright then than they do now I think. The only difference I see today is that you don't have to know someone with the stuff you want to copy, you can generally find it online.
True, but for every one comment like that, there are a dozen that are off-topic or stupid, another handful that are trolls, and a good few that look informative but are just plain wrong. The moderators don't always know which is which, either.
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A white dwarf star would be cold enough to allow for normal temperatures, even at distances closer than Mercury.
It's been a long time since I did any real physics work, let alone astrophysics, but wouldn't tidal gravitational forces pose a problem in that situation?
I wonder if bribing someone at NASA or ESA to include your mini-satellite as part of the payload of the next launch would be acceptable; it's probably the most realistic chance...
No, XP Home will not utilise two physical processors, but dual core (and HT-enabled) processors work just fine. The laptop I'm typing this on right now is running XP Home and using both cores of its Core Duo just fine.
They don't make the decisions, the House of Lords cannot create or pass laws. All they can do is approve or reject bills that are sent to them by the House of Commons. If they reject a bill, the Commons can modify it or not as they see fit and send it back again. A few years ago the Parliament Act was passed to give the government a means of forcing a bill through when the Lords repeatedly reject it, although I don't know the details of it.
To be perfectly frank, at times the Lords is the only thing standing between us and yet another stupid, knee-jerk law that would do more harm than good. If you've been following UK news lately you'll have seen a number of instances of bad anti-terror laws being abused to do things including making sure families are in the right area for the school they want to send their children to to enforcing local rubbish disposal rules.
Oh, and none of the Lords are self-appointed; some inherited their titles from their parents, while these days most are awarded them by the government.
Or you will be found hanging in your garden shed with a very convincing suicide note.
No need to fake a suicide - they'd be guilty of possessing and distributing child porn, not to mention various "perverting the course of justice" or blackmail type offences. There'd be enough to put them away for quite a while I'd imagine.
Personally I think that's fair enough, given that Apple software never conforms to Windows look and feel on Windows.
($40 / month for unlimited access, $20 / month for access limited to, I believe, 10 books)
I've not looked into Safari for a while, but I believe that the cheaper plan allows you access to a sort of "rolling bookshelf" of up to 10 books at a time (though I don't remember what restrictions, if any, there are on how often you can change the books). Just thought I'd point that out, as your post could be read as saying that you have access to a specific 10 books (which would be pretty useless).
You know, some of us have used both Windows and various Linux distros on the desktop, and genuinely prefer Windows.
There are plenty of reasons to stick with Windows, and stupidity, while certainly convenient for its detractors, is only one of them.
You realise that your experience actually backs up his assertion, don't you? You were not one of the early adopters that had problems with XP and hated it; you held out, and in that time patches were released and hardware improved and so you had no problems.
I would also contest your closing remark, as Win2k was a pretty good OS and from what I've experienced of using the Windows 2008 Server trial as a desktop OS at home, that's pretty damn good too.
Vista is a dog even on a good laptop.
Well, I've only really used Vista on one laptop, but it is a pretty good one and Vista certainly doesn't feel like a dog on it. That said, I've no idea what XP would run like on the same hardware of course.
On the Moon for a start.
Yes, I'm thinking far off long term, but isn't that more fun?
And angels guide the spheres in their heavenly courses.
We'll work the truth out sooner or later; I just hope it's soon enough that I get to hear. I may be a programmer now but my degree is in physics and I still find it fascinating.
Idiots will dispute anything. Don't let them bother you.
No they won't!
An OS is to run programs and be an interface to the system, not to look super pretty.
No, that's what you want from an OS. I want something that I'm going to find pleasing to my eyes, given I spend upwards of 10 hours a day staring at my monitor.
Besides which, you do realise that the prettiness you're complaining of is the Explorer desktop shell, which can be replaced if you so wish? For example, see Wikipedia for details.
patently software because you've come up with a novel algorithm that's faster than anyone else's due to a neat trick or technique you've come up with shouldn't.
Rubbish. Source code is protected by copyright and therefore does not need protection by patents.
If you come up with that algorithm, all it tells me is that it's possible. I still have to do the hard work myself to reimplement your idea (or to come up with my own trick). Even if you show me the source code I have no rights to reuse it.
And I'm not saying the web application developers need to prevent it
Well, I am. There is simply no excuse for anyone to be writing web apps that are vulnerable to SQL injection attacks. The attack vector should be known to anyone with even a passing interest in programming for the web, and there are standard library calls for all the languages I've used that take care of it for you.
Besides which, this is really just a special case of the old maxim: never trust your input data. Anyone writing code that is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks is almost certainly writing vulnerabilities into their code in other ways too.
Yes, the design of SQL communication protocols makes it easy to do stupid things and open your code up to attack. That's no excuse for actually doing so however.
Sorry, I haven't looked at the structure of an actual TCP packet in a long time, but I have no idea what you're talking about.
He's being sarcastic.
It's hardly a tax if you can choose not to pay it, now is it?
Very few countries where they would be have included in such legislation "and the retailer must make it easy".
No, but do that too much and have too many people complain and you'll get slapped, probably by the OFT and possibly by the courts, who tend to take a *very* dim view of people taking the piss out of the law.
I agree that some companies employ shady tactics, but if more people would take them to task for it they'd be forced to stop.
note how Blu-Ray is failing to fly off the shelves -- it was the format war, not DRM that kept it from selling, right? RIGHT!?!?
The format war, the high prices, the lack of a compelling advantage over DVDs, the requirement to purchase expensive equipment (player and HD TV) to use them, yes. Of all the reasons I can think of for ordinary people to not buy them, DRM really isn't one of them. Non-one outside of tech forums really gives a monkeys about that.
DVD killed video because of indisputable superiority. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are not sufficiently better than DVD to drive uptake, especially with the prices being so much higher.
On the other hand I believe that today's youth being anti-copyright comes more from the fact that the copyright holders have abused their side of the deal than from anything else.
I disagree that today's youth has become anti-copyright. I think that it's just become a lot easier to violate copyright. When I was a kid people were copying software, music and videos tape-to-tape. They no more cared about copyright then than they do now I think. The only difference I see today is that you don't have to know someone with the stuff you want to copy, you can generally find it online.
True, but for every one comment like that, there are a dozen that are off-topic or stupid, another handful that are trolls, and a good few that look informative but are just plain wrong. The moderators don't always know which is which, either.
I'm pretty certain the only people that can demand a percentage of gross are the actors, writer and director.
And even then only if they're superstars. Sure, Tom Cruise or someone can probably demand $100mil + percentage, but Jo Bitpart most definitely can't.
And yes, you can call me "racist" ;)
No, but I could call you "speciest", if it was a real word.
If you want reliable safe systems, I'd bet on telecommunications companies rather than banks.
I worked for a company owned by one for a few years. I wouldn't take that bet if I were you.