Don't bother taking it offline, just set up your web server so it only responds to the google indexing server. Cache stays up all the time, but no one else can (easily) see that you are serving it.
How about something useful like making some dalogs fade in over half a second or so BEFORE they take input focus.
Nothing is more irritating than typing along and having an AIM window or whatever pop up and take the last 5 characters you typed. I've even had this happen when I was typing passwords. Highly annoying.
Maybe the WM could count the number of keystrokes made in the previous second or so to decide if it needs to fade in new dialogs before they take focus.
Hmm, you could also do something tricky like putting said BigFile on read only media (cdrom, dvd, or maybe a removeable HD or HD with the read-only jumper soldered closed). Then take the media with you and keep data files on removeable media.
Install tamper-evident seals all over everything, install a decoy system, and a hidden silent intrusion detection system (all rather trivial to do really).
Then reboot before entering a passphrase to foil network based attacks, and shut down and take all media with you when you leave. When the FBI breaks in to physically install a keylogger, they'll mistakenly bug the decoy system. If they figure that out, they'll find the tamper evident seals, and may have to come back later with duplicates. If they can circumvent those, they'll have tripped the silent intrusion detection system and been caught on hidden video camera, which will page you so you can check your house via the 802.11 link to your neighbors cable modem. If necessary you can then use your bluetooth system to detonate stun gernaids and flood the house with anestetic gas.
Anyway, you'll have been alerted to their poking around.
Great, so we discover the Smilers and some private research lab using their technology will accidentally destroy Houston, leaving a slice of Texas boiling and spitting up black, virulent clouds.
The obvious problem is that you are not using a relational system. Directories are good for sorting data that falls into single, clear catagories, not things like images, which often contain multiple themes. You just need to put them into a database and give each image descriptors indicating the properties of each image. Then you can run a query to see all images of a particular kid, or all images of a particular kid during a particular vacation.
Those of us who were 15 or older when we used our first mouse still remember how difficult it was, initially, to equate the horizontal movement of our mousing hand with the movement of the cursor on-screen.
Ok, these are the guys that are trying to design new user interfaces? They had trouble learning how to use a mouse? Something seems very wrong with that.
If you are using the original formed foam, open up the case, put in a small trashbag or two and fill them with expanding foam. Its cheap and easy to remove.
If you lost the original packing, you can make new form-fitting foam, but it will probably take several cans.
instead, use small trash bags. Place some books on the bottom (not yet taped up) of the box to center the item in the box. Place an empty bag on each of the 4 sides of the item and fill each one with expanding foam, be sure to tie it off well, and don't over fill. The foam expands about 90% in the first minute or two after dispensing, but will continue to expand for the next couple hours. Put a fifth bag on top and repeat. Seal the top and allow the foam to cure (about a day). Turn the box over and do the remaining side. To unpack, simply pull the now rigid bags off and remove the undamanged item.
Incidentally, this technique also works for making knifty transportation boxes from those aluminum cases they sell for 10-20 bux at wal-mart, great for pistols, radios, and other such things.
Might also be a good way to get your drugs through customs, seal your black tar heroin into a small bag and encase in a layer of foam. Encase this in another layer as the packing for a delicate item.
Hang on, you'll need to cite a reliable source for the cost of developing drugs. The figures I've seen, which I can't cite a source for either, put the figure at a few dozens of millions of dollars for drug research. Still a substantial sum, but a far cry from 'billions'.
From what I've read drug companies are mostly marketing, manufacturing and distrubtion, NOT development.
first, I'm with the other guys, for commonly used shortcuts, the keyboard is faster. In my prefered editor, I don't even know what some of the shortcuts are, I use them enough that its not a matter of 'I need to hit now to paste some text', I just do it, it doesnt' take anywhere NEAR two seconds.
Second, if it always feels faster to stay on the keyboard, then I will. I would rather feel uninterrupted than save a couple of minutes of coding time by using the mouse
the thought of adding a water pump running all the time to my water bill makes me cringe This is a good point, the water bill for my water-cooled car is horrendous, I'd hate to have to start paying such a bill for my computer.
I thought peltiers were cool
HA, thats funny.
now I wonder about them as well, with many people saying that they aren't as effective as reported.
I've used them, and they can be extremely effective, but until that new kind we had a story about recently show up, they generate a heck of a lot of heat for the work they do.
Remember back in the 80's when we as children were all assaulted with those terrible anti-drug ads from the mind of Nancy Reagan?
By the way, the anti-drug propaganda in schools is as bad now as it ever has been. The local school has a big campaign running next week. They make all the kids wear slippers and have 'give drugs the slip!' posters everywhere.
Alegedtly, according to a widely unknown WHO study, correct, second-hand smoke is pretty benign. Unfortunately I don't have the refrence, but I think I found it on slashdot at one point.
The primary issue with getting into orbit isn't going up, its with going sideways at around 17,000 mph. Last time I checked zepplins were, due to technical limitations, traveling somewhat slower than that.
there is no such thing as non-violent intent in the use of a firearm,
I really don't care if gun owners are violent or not, as long as they understand that if they are violent toward another person, with or without their gun, they are likely to get their ass kicked and sent to prison.
The way to make them understand this is to make punisment for crimes harsh and public. I have no problem with public floggings in exchange for prison time (ie, you can trade a years worth of prison time for 50 lashes, which are televised at least at the local level). Executions, if allowed, should ALWAYS be televised nationally. If citizens are going to allow the death penalty, it shouldn't be done in secret, out of sight.
but in contrast the majority of anonymous communication is used without violent intent.
The majority of guns are used without the intent of violence to any person. Some anonymous communication is used with the intent of violence, presumably.
Normally I would defend spending lots of cash on collider projects, but in this case, I think you have a very good point. As far as science research goes, that is truely an ass-load of money. I'd rather see it go to other projects and save the big-ass collider for later, perhaps the cost will come down as technology progresses and the designers get more crafty about blowing shit up.
On the other hand, if the money doesn't go to the collider, it'll probably be sent to poverty level baby factories on welfair, in which case, I'd rather see the collider.
Science THINKS that these things are possible, but science also was sure that the Earth was the...
Science doesn't do, think or say anything. Its a process, not a person. PEOPLE thought that the Earth was flat or round, other people thought that it was not. Science simply helps people to draw reasonable conclusions based on the evidence. That doesn't mean the conclusions will be correct, just that they ought to be consistant with the evidence.
Hell, your not even buying electrons, for the most part all the electrons in your computer stay there, when you download a book, its just their servers telling your electrons what configuration to take.
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The sub in 20K Leagues was powered by a 'pile'. It never said nuclear pile, just 'pile'. Probably he was making a refrence to the voltaic pile.
This is from memory, I don't have the text online, and I don't feel like manually grep'ing the dead-tree version.
Don't bother taking it offline, just set up your web server so it only responds to the google indexing server. Cache stays up all the time, but no one else can (easily) see that you are serving it.
Not only is the idea of transparent windows old, utilities to set windows and menus transparancy settings have been around for at least a year.
How about something useful like making some dalogs fade in over half a second or so BEFORE they take input focus.
Nothing is more irritating than typing along and having an AIM window or whatever pop up and take the last 5 characters you typed. I've even had this happen when I was typing passwords. Highly annoying.
Maybe the WM could count the number of keystrokes made in the previous second or so to decide if it needs to fade in new dialogs before they take focus.
Hmm, you could also do something tricky like putting said BigFile on read only media (cdrom, dvd, or maybe a removeable HD or HD with the read-only jumper soldered closed). Then take the media with you and keep data files on removeable media.
Install tamper-evident seals all over everything, install a decoy system, and a hidden silent intrusion detection system (all rather trivial to do really).
Then reboot before entering a passphrase to foil network based attacks, and shut down and take all media with you when you leave. When the FBI breaks in to physically install a keylogger, they'll mistakenly bug the decoy system. If they figure that out, they'll find the tamper evident seals, and may have to come back later with duplicates. If they can circumvent those, they'll have tripped the silent intrusion detection system and been caught on hidden video camera, which will page you so you can check your house via the 802.11 link to your neighbors cable modem. If necessary you can then use your bluetooth system to detonate stun gernaids and flood the house with anestetic gas.
Anyway, you'll have been alerted to their poking around.
Great, so we discover the Smilers and some private research lab using their technology will accidentally destroy Houston, leaving a slice of Texas boiling and spitting up black, virulent clouds.
If it were floating, wouldn't it immediately raise sea levels?
3 feet would be an insane amount, 3 inches sounds more reasonable.
Any time i use a floppy, I put the file on three times, using three different names, just to be sure it'll work.
The obvious problem is that you are not using a relational system. Directories are good for sorting data that falls into single, clear catagories, not things like images, which often contain multiple themes. You just need to put them into a database and give each image descriptors indicating the properties of each image. Then you can run a query to see all images of a particular kid, or all images of a particular kid during a particular vacation.
No doubt also handy for sorting porn.
Ok, these are the guys that are trying to design new user interfaces? They had trouble learning how to use a mouse? Something seems very wrong with that.
If you are using the original formed foam, open up the case, put in a small trashbag or two and fill them with expanding foam. Its cheap and easy to remove.
If you lost the original packing, you can make new form-fitting foam, but it will probably take several cans.
instead, use small trash bags. Place some books on the bottom (not yet taped up) of the box to center the item in the box. Place an empty bag on each of the 4 sides of the item and fill each one with expanding foam, be sure to tie it off well, and don't over fill. The foam expands about 90% in the first minute or two after dispensing, but will continue to expand for the next couple hours. Put a fifth bag on top and repeat. Seal the top and allow the foam to cure (about a day). Turn the box over and do the remaining side. To unpack, simply pull the now rigid bags off and remove the undamanged item.
Incidentally, this technique also works for making knifty transportation boxes from those aluminum cases they sell for 10-20 bux at wal-mart, great for pistols, radios, and other such things.
Might also be a good way to get your drugs through customs, seal your black tar heroin into a small bag and encase in a layer of foam. Encase this in another layer as the packing for a delicate item.
Hang on, you'll need to cite a reliable source for the cost of developing drugs. The figures I've seen, which I can't cite a source for either, put the figure at a few dozens of millions of dollars for drug research. Still a substantial sum, but a far cry from 'billions'.
From what I've read drug companies are mostly marketing, manufacturing and distrubtion, NOT development.
My G200TV card does that, I like it. Better than those little logos (I can never remember who that stupid peacock is anyway)
first, I'm with the other guys, for commonly used shortcuts, the keyboard is faster. In my prefered editor, I don't even know what some of the shortcuts are, I use them enough that its not a matter of 'I need to hit now to paste some text', I just do it, it doesnt' take anywhere NEAR two seconds.
Second, if it always feels faster to stay on the keyboard, then I will. I would rather feel uninterrupted than save a couple of minutes of coding time by using the mouse
This is a good point, the water bill for my water-cooled car is horrendous, I'd hate to have to start paying such a bill for my computer.
I thought peltiers were cool
HA, thats funny.
now I wonder about them as well, with many people saying that they aren't as effective as reported.
I've used them, and they can be extremely effective, but until that new kind we had a story about recently show up, they generate a heck of a lot of heat for the work they do.
By the way, the anti-drug propaganda in schools is as bad now as it ever has been. The local school has a big campaign running next week. They make all the kids wear slippers and have 'give drugs the slip!' posters everywhere.
Alegedtly, according to a widely unknown WHO study, correct, second-hand smoke is pretty benign. Unfortunately I don't have the refrence, but I think I found it on slashdot at one point.
Because, you twit, then they'd know you were reading their encrypted material and would stop doing anything illegal.
The primary issue with getting into orbit isn't going up, its with going sideways at around 17,000 mph. Last time I checked zepplins were, due to technical limitations, traveling somewhat slower than that.
I really don't care if gun owners are violent or not, as long as they understand that if they are violent toward another person, with or without their gun, they are likely to get their ass kicked and sent to prison.
The way to make them understand this is to make punisment for crimes harsh and public. I have no problem with public floggings in exchange for prison time (ie, you can trade a years worth of prison time for 50 lashes, which are televised at least at the local level). Executions, if allowed, should ALWAYS be televised nationally. If citizens are going to allow the death penalty, it shouldn't be done in secret, out of sight.
but in contrast the majority of anonymous communication is used without violent intent.
The majority of guns are used without the intent of violence to any person. Some anonymous communication is used with the intent of violence, presumably.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309060370/html/110.html
On the other hand, if the money doesn't go to the collider, it'll probably be sent to poverty level baby factories on welfair, in which case, I'd rather see the collider.
Science doesn't do, think or say anything. Its a process, not a person. PEOPLE thought that the Earth was flat or round, other people thought that it was not. Science simply helps people to draw reasonable conclusions based on the evidence. That doesn't mean the conclusions will be correct, just that they ought to be consistant with the evidence.
Hell, your not even buying electrons, for the most part all the electrons in your computer stay there, when you download a book, its just their servers telling your electrons what configuration to take.