who has boiling water and ice when they're hiking?
I have matches and myself, making it easy to find +100 and +36 degrees on the centigrade scale provided that I have access to some firewood and freshwater. As a bonus, I often have some coffee grains so I can enjoy a nice cup while I make the rest of the thermometer. I do NOT have cold salt water when hiking. If I, by some odd chance of LSD-induced packing, only had cold salt water and my mouth with me, I could just as easily make a C thermometer as a F one.
If I had still worked for TenFour, there is a non-zero chance that I would have been able to get near the path of totality (it looks like it's close to Chantilly, VA)... But now, I'll be thousands of miles away.:-(
What if they DON'T share any of our religions? Then ALL of ours must be wrong.
Not at all. It just means that those godless comm^H^H^H^Haliens haven't found Jesus/Allah/Cthulhu/Buddha/Coresh yet.
There are several SF short stories on the subject of mixing religion with space exploration, Arthur C. Clarke's The Star is probably the most well known. Another, whose author I can't recall right now, details the trials and tribulations of a space-faring merchant on an isolated planet populated by gentle lizards and what he has to put up with when a earthly priest comes along, teaching the aliens about original sin and getting killed in the process when the lizards take him a little bit too literally.
Of course, in Germany he was dubbed into saying "Ich kauf's für eine D-Mark" which actually does sound kinda funny.
It's also a world where money trumps morals. OCP chief Dick Jones (a perfectly cast Ronny Cox) is a stiff and greedy lion drunk on his own power, and the slum denizens are constantly repeating the punch line from a bawdy TV show: "I'll buy that for a dollar!"
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And, if they tout complete security as a feature, then they are taking on that part of the business.
"Amid increasingly frequent and sophisticated network attacks, users expect their systems to remain resilient, and for system and data confidentiality, integrity, and availability to be maintained. (...)As a leader in the computing industry, Microsoft carries a substantial responsibility."
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If someone breaks into my house, I am not suing the person who built my house.
Even if the lock and indeed the whole of the front door is pathetic, has known vulnerabilities and the maker still touts it as secure with the well-known chairman of the company that built the house (door, lock and all) having announced a big push for increased security almost two years ago? How is the buyer of that house supposed to know that his front door is made of a material that looks like steel and feels like steel but offer about as much protection from burglars as Aerogel?
The UUCP password for all customers on a certain large american ISP was for a very long time 'notobvious'. I still get a chuckle out of imagining how it came to be:
Technician: What should we set the password to, boss?
Boss: I don't care, just pick one that's not obvious.
Technician: Right, boss.
To be fair, it was just the password to login to the modem server, every customer had an additional real password to actually access the UUCP box behind it.
Backup, backup, backup. Done the backup yet? Good. Now replace it on warranty. All 'cudas I own (including a LVM'd JBOD of 8 'cudas in a 19" rack case) and have sold are still quiet. They're not supposed to make noise. I've never heard one make any kind of noise.
Well, actually, sometimes, when the kids are sleeping and the house is quiet, I can hear the one at home (80 gig, 'bout a year old) seek. A very soft tic, tic, tic sound. If I bend down and really try to listen for it, that is. No rattling. I don't tolerate rattling in my hard drives and neither should you.
I recently bought an ASUS DVD-ROM, the DVD-E616 which is very, very quiet, even at full speed.
I used to read games and stuff into image files and mount them using Alcohol 120%, partly for the speed increase, but mostly to get rid of the noise from my old CD-ROM. With the new one, I don't really need to do that anymore.
Other tips include finding a quiet hard drive (Seagate Barracuda, Samsung Spinpoint), a silent CPU fan (Arctic Cooling, most newer Zalmans, basically anything with a large, relatively slow fan), quiet case fans if they are needed (Papst, preferably if you have a case that takes 12cm fans as the larger ones can spin slower and still move the same amount of air, reducing both fan noise and air noise) but the biggest problem IMHO is the graphics card fan. Small, fast and irritating. Zalman has a few solutions, both with and without fans, but they don't fit all cards. The fan in the PSU is normally a regular 8cm fan which can be replaced with a quiet Papst. I regularly build office-style machines for clients using these components and the cheap low-end stuff have gotten a lot quieter just in the last year or so.
Sounds a bit like it's shortspeak for mercenary. "OK boys, send in the MRCHs to clear this place out!" Or maybe I've just been playing too much Far Cry...
allofmp3.com isn't legal, it migth be in Russia, but that doesn't mean that people outside russia can buy from them legally.
So you're saying that unless for example amazon.com doesn't have an agreement with KODA, a Danish citizen can't buy music from Amazon?
How about an American citizen currently in Denmark?
A Danish citizen in the US?
How about the free-trade agreements that are in place in most of the civilized world, don't they apply to music?
What about the fact that parallell imports are deemed legal throughout the EU, is music somehow exempt from that ruling?
Could a Danish citizen buy a CD in Russia and legally bring it back to Denmark with him/her?
Since you're obviously a lawyer specializing in international intellectual property rights, I figured I'd ask.
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9. ???
10. Profit!!!
Cool gadget. However, I can't but help feeling the name is poorly chosen. I kept squinting, half expecting to find the goatse guy gaping at me on the page... *shudders*
:-) Not really. Just up the amount of photons and decrease the size of the sphere. But it's not as immediately mind-boggling since the distances involved are so much smaller.
If someone can think of another way to allow for seemingly endless variety in ringtones, I'd take that option any day.
Text-To-Speech: "Mr. ComboyNeal, telephone for you, Sir" in a husky female voice. Many phones already have loudspeaker abilities and advanced ring tone generation. Use them for good instead of evil.
Thought experiment:
Go outside (No, it won't kill you) and look up at a bright star. Now imagine that star is in the center of a sphere and your eye is on the surface of the sphere. The aperture of your eye captures enough photons to image the star constantly. Now imagine that same amount of photons reaching all points of the sphere's surface. That's a serious bunch of photons. And the star outputs them constantly, for billions of years.
Any biology majors here care to tell me how many photons the eye needs to 'see' a reasonably bright star? With that information, you can calculate the rest (left as an exercise for the reader).
If you, like me, can't afford the Chenbro, try the Compucase. It's cheap, takes a whole lot of drives (I have 8 in mine with easy room for 3 more). It has 12cm fans right in front of the drives so they keep really cool. Not much noise either, provided you use quiet drives (I have 7x160MB Seagate Barracudas and a 200GB on the way).
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I have matches and myself, making it easy to find +100 and +36 degrees on the centigrade scale provided that I have access to some firewood and freshwater. As a bonus, I often have some coffee grains so I can enjoy a nice cup while I make the rest of the thermometer. I do NOT have cold salt water when hiking. If I, by some odd chance of LSD-induced packing, only had cold salt water and my mouth with me, I could just as easily make a C thermometer as a F one.
So that's what it is? Silly me, I thought he was growing a beard to feel more manly.
If I had still worked for TenFour, there is a non-zero chance that I would have been able to get near the path of totality (it looks like it's close to Chantilly, VA)... But now, I'll be thousands of miles away. :-(
Not at all. It just means that those godless comm^H^H^H^Haliens haven't found Jesus/Allah/Cthulhu/Buddha/Coresh yet.
There are several SF short stories on the subject of mixing religion with space exploration, Arthur C. Clarke's The Star is probably the most well known. Another, whose author I can't recall right now, details the trials and tribulations of a space-faring merchant on an isolated planet populated by gentle lizards and what he has to put up with when a earthly priest comes along, teaching the aliens about original sin and getting killed in the process when the lizards take him a little bit too literally.
I have used 2004 for over four months now, and I'm pretty satisfied with it so far, as years go.
He would eat the hikers and press their "Help!" buttons to get more food delivered.
If someone breaks into my house, I am not suing the person who built my house.
Even if the lock and indeed the whole of the front door is pathetic, has known vulnerabilities and the maker still touts it as secure with the well-known chairman of the company that built the house (door, lock and all) having announced a big push for increased security almost two years ago? How is the buyer of that house supposed to know that his front door is made of a material that looks like steel and feels like steel but offer about as much protection from burglars as Aerogel?
Microsoft claims Windows is secure. It isn't.
To be fair, it was just the password to login to the modem server, every customer had an additional real password to actually access the UUCP box behind it.
Well, actually, sometimes, when the kids are sleeping and the house is quiet, I can hear the one at home (80 gig, 'bout a year old) seek. A very soft tic, tic, tic sound. If I bend down and really try to listen for it, that is. No rattling. I don't tolerate rattling in my hard drives and neither should you.
I used to read games and stuff into image files and mount them using Alcohol 120%, partly for the speed increase, but mostly to get rid of the noise from my old CD-ROM. With the new one, I don't really need to do that anymore.
Other tips include finding a quiet hard drive (Seagate Barracuda, Samsung Spinpoint), a silent CPU fan (Arctic Cooling, most newer Zalmans, basically anything with a large, relatively slow fan), quiet case fans if they are needed (Papst, preferably if you have a case that takes 12cm fans as the larger ones can spin slower and still move the same amount of air, reducing both fan noise and air noise) but the biggest problem IMHO is the graphics card fan. Small, fast and irritating. Zalman has a few solutions, both with and without fans, but they don't fit all cards. The fan in the PSU is normally a regular 8cm fan which can be replaced with a quiet Papst. I regularly build office-style machines for clients using these components and the cheap low-end stuff have gotten a lot quieter just in the last year or so.
I thought it was Vicious Basic?
Sounds a bit like it's shortspeak for mercenary. "OK boys, send in the MRCHs to clear this place out!" Or maybe I've just been playing too much Far Cry...
So you're saying that unless for example amazon.com doesn't have an agreement with KODA, a Danish citizen can't buy music from Amazon?
How about an American citizen currently in Denmark?
A Danish citizen in the US?
How about the free-trade agreements that are in place in most of the civilized world, don't they apply to music?
What about the fact that parallell imports are deemed legal throughout the EU, is music somehow exempt from that ruling?
Could a Danish citizen buy a CD in Russia and legally bring it back to Denmark with him/her?
Since you're obviously a lawyer specializing in international intellectual property rights, I figured I'd ask.
There's a Freudian slip you don't see every day. ;-)
7. If it is old news for geeks or stuff that doesn't matter, send it to Slashdot.
8. If it is old news for geeks or stuff that doesn't matter, send it to Slashdot. Again.
9. ???
10. Profit!!!
How long until a virtual terrorist hijacks the uplink and "lands" this automated plane in a building?
Cool gadget. However, I can't but help feeling the name is poorly chosen. I kept squinting, half expecting to find the goatse guy gaping at me on the page... *shudders*
:-) Not really. Just up the amount of photons and decrease the size of the sphere. But it's not as immediately mind-boggling since the distances involved are so much smaller.
Text-To-Speech: "Mr. ComboyNeal, telephone for you, Sir" in a husky female voice. Many phones already have loudspeaker abilities and advanced ring tone generation. Use them for good instead of evil.
Or maybe they just get a dead iPod...
I think they use some kind of religious reward system, ie they get an iPod after death or something like that.
The Microsoft astroturfer's pay checks bounced and they're running amok, not knowing what to think anymore.
Go outside (No, it won't kill you) and look up at a bright star. Now imagine that star is in the center of a sphere and your eye is on the surface of the sphere. The aperture of your eye captures enough photons to image the star constantly. Now imagine that same amount of photons reaching all points of the sphere's surface. That's a serious bunch of photons. And the star outputs them constantly, for billions of years.
Any biology majors here care to tell me how many photons the eye needs to 'see' a reasonably bright star? With that information, you can calculate the rest (left as an exercise for the reader).
If you, like me, can't afford the Chenbro, try the Compucase. It's cheap, takes a whole lot of drives (I have 8 in mine with easy room for 3 more). It has 12cm fans right in front of the drives so they keep really cool. Not much noise either, provided you use quiet drives (I have 7x160MB Seagate Barracudas and a 200GB on the way).