In fact anyone capable to run his own infrastructure already had most of this services more than 10 years ago.
Webmail, file storage accessible from anywhere, files synchronization between computers thru Internet, remote encrypted backups... all of this is quite trivial to setup and can be tailored to your needs in such a way that you won't even think of going back to "generic" services.
Don't get me wrong, all this "cloud" thing has been great to bring to the masses what we nerds always had. But I have yet to see one of this services successfully replacing what I already provide to myself with just an Internet connection, a router, a NAS, and tiny server.
Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers
Are american drivers specially retarded?
I don't intend to be rude but... Confusion? Fear? It is just a roundabout! You just, you know, drive around it. I swear I can't understand what is so difficult.
Other than "we sent something outside the solar system again", does this mean anything? Again? The only man made objects travelling beyond Pluto's orbit are Pioneer 10 & 11, and Voyager 1 & 2. Four, just four small space probes.
Sorry dude, all the space ships you see on TV are just FX. We are not (yet) exploring the galaxy.
Will we get any new data about "termination shock" or whatnot? Yeah! We may confirm that there exists this termination shock we expect to find there, or we may find our theories are wrong and there is not such "thing".
I'd figured that since the vast majority of companies I've seen haven't (yet) started to migrate to Office 2007 then maybe sending.docx fils to everyone might not be such a smart move. Each time MS releases a new Office version, many corporate assholes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H managers set a policy of using the new format on any communication. They don't care if you can't read the content, in fact, they hope you cant.
Their message is "I am cool. I use the newest stuff. My dick is bigger than yours".
As almost anything you have seen on the news from Argentina, reality is quite different.
Electricty companies have been demanding an price increment since 2 years ago, but it would be a very unpopular and "politicaly incorrect" for the government to allow it; so they need to present this as some kind of "emergency".
In the end, companies will:
a) be permited to rise prices about 25% b) receive a direct subside from government c) receive an indirect subside form government in form of tax excemptions, "special" fuell prices for generation, "loans" for equipment renewal, etc. d) all of the above
I thought to get OS upgrades to the IPAQ you needed to have it flashed by a dealer [...] Or am I talking rubbish here and it is simply a software update?
You don't need a dealer even for Windows ROM updates, since iPAQ ROM is flashable. It's like when you flash a new ROM version to your motherboard.
Instalation of diferent flavors of Familiar Linux is well covered in detailed instructions in many HowTo's and FAQs.
Even if they were pros, the injured divers made a rookie mistake.
Diving is really, really wonderful and very safe if you follow proper security measures. But like in many other activities there are always some risks involved, and it is YOUR responsabiliy to do all you can to minimize this risks.
You never trust your computer alone, you always doble check with the tables, and you memorize the tables, just in case. Ok, calculations with Nitrox are more difficult than with air, but anyway after a while you should develop some mental aproximations to right values based on experience.
I mean, I would never accept a "5 hours to fly safely" time, after 3 dives in a row (RTFA). No matter what computer says it, I'll relax in the sun for at least 12 hours before even getting close to an airport.
On the other hand, Uwatec executives should be impaled on air tanks, and dragged to Bonaire, Cozumel, or any other location full of divers year round, where we can take turns torturing them for years before killing them and feeding their corpses to the sharks.
There were just less than 400 defective computers, this could have been solved quite easily.
...The spacecraft will be placed in orbit just inside of the terminator so as to obtain optimal shadow relief of surface features...
The terminator (imaginary line dividing lighted and shadowed surface) moves as the moon rotates on its axis. Even if they change the orbit once every few days, in the three month of time mission it means A LOT of fuel. Am I missing something here?
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In fact anyone capable to run his own infrastructure already had most of this services more than 10 years ago.
Webmail, file storage accessible from anywhere, files synchronization between computers thru Internet, remote encrypted backups... all of this is quite trivial to setup and can be tailored to your needs in such a way that you won't even think of going back to "generic" services.
Don't get me wrong, all this "cloud" thing has been great to bring to the masses what we nerds always had. But I have yet to see one of this services successfully replacing what I already provide to myself with just an Internet connection, a router, a NAS, and tiny server.
Roundabouts (or rotaries, or traffic circles, as they're known in parts of the U.S.) induce confusion and fear in many drivers
Are american drivers specially retarded?
I don't intend to be rude but... Confusion? Fear? It is just a roundabout! You just, you know, drive around it. I swear I can't understand what is so difficult.
Yes, I'm planning to be a zombie. I should start training on eating brains.
In time, all 100% of users will die. Should we start buying coffins?
I like the way you think.
Four, just four small space probes.
Sorry dude, all the space ships you see on TV are just FX. We are not (yet) exploring the galaxy. Will we get any new data about "termination shock" or whatnot? Yeah! We may confirm that there exists this termination shock we expect to find there, or we may find our theories are wrong and there is not such "thing".
Their message is "I am cool. I use the newest stuff. My dick is bigger than yours".
Pioneer was supposed to die after reaching the outer planets, but it died in late 2003.
Pioneer 10 is not really dead, it is just so far away we can no longer hear it.
I believe this concept (or one very similar) Arthur C Clarke aired in his book 2061.
He was just re using the concept he presented for the first time in "The Fountains of Paradise" (1978).
Great book, BTW.
"[...] today just 1 death can derail projects. Death is no longer seen as an acceptable loss [...]"
Yeah! This is why cars where banned long time ago, along with cigarettes and invading other peoples land just to grab their oil.
My tester shows 213 V right now, at my house in downtown Buenos Aires. As I said in a previous post, this is just PR bs.
As almost anything you have seen on the news from Argentina, reality is quite different.
Electricty companies have been demanding an price increment since 2 years ago, but it would be a very unpopular and "politicaly incorrect" for the government to allow it; so they need to present this as some kind of "emergency".
In the end, companies will:
a) be permited to rise prices about 25%
b) receive a direct subside from government
c) receive an indirect subside form government in form of tax excemptions, "special" fuell prices for generation, "loans" for equipment renewal, etc.
d) all of the above
You don't need a dealer even for Windows ROM updates, since iPAQ ROM is flashable. It's like when you flash a new ROM version to your motherboard.
Instalation of diferent flavors of Familiar Linux is well covered in detailed instructions in many HowTo's and FAQs.
Here is the paper (in PDF format)
Even if they were pros, the injured divers made a rookie mistake.
Diving is really, really wonderful and very safe if you follow proper security measures. But like in many other activities there are always some risks involved, and it is YOUR responsabiliy to do all you can to minimize this risks.
You never trust your computer alone, you always doble check with the tables, and you memorize the tables, just in case. Ok, calculations with Nitrox are more difficult than with air, but anyway after a while you should develop some mental aproximations to right values based on experience.
I mean, I would never accept a "5 hours to fly safely" time, after 3 dives in a row (RTFA). No matter what computer says it, I'll relax in the sun for at least 12 hours before even getting close to an airport.
On the other hand, Uwatec executives should be impaled on air tanks, and dragged to Bonaire, Cozumel, or any other location full of divers year round, where we can take turns torturing them for years before killing them and feeding their corpses to the sharks.
There were just less than 400 defective computers, this could have been solved quite easily.
Babylon 5 final was the best one i've ever seen. Ofc, B5 was different in every aspect.
"......he is a dead mouse brain laminated with plastic and I have no idea at all of who I am."
"Think blue, count two", 1963, Cordwainer Smith
The 4.4% baryons are the "normal" matter.