a fairly good counterexample for your point just happened here in holland.
Brein (the local RIAA/MPAA surogate) won a court case against FTD (a large usenet community with its own spot database etc..), forcing them to close their central infrastructure. Promptly Spotnet gained massive popularity as the replacement. Where FTD required you to first search in the database, then look up the corresponding NZB on binsearch (or equivalent), and input the NZB into grabit/newsleecher, spotnet is a 3-in-1 type program, you search spots in your local database (which is built from data sourced from usenet itself) and can click 'download', next thing you know the files are on your hard drive.
Brein actually made usenet easier to use for the common lay-person, spotnet is (vastly) easier then kazaa/etc.. were, so joe sixpack should have no trouble with usenet anymore
he "needs" a cpu powerfull enough to handle flash (good luck with that, intel just barely manages to make those) and android 2.3, that pretty much screams "high end android device"
i dont know about the US, but dell offers a 229 euro netbook here
and yes, i know it isnt a full size notebook, but for me, it is more of an alternative for a tablet then a notebook. I am actually considering what to do in public transit for the coming year (just started a new job, 1.5 hours of tram for me each day), right now i enjoy myself watching series on my ipod touch, but i might want to get into some private coding or some such, and for that a netbook seems ideal
The soviets did several robotic sample returns, luna 16, 20 and 24 (there were more attempts, but they failed because of engines failing to ignite in various stages of the system), granted these probes just scooped some shit up from whereever they landed, but the land-collect-launch sample back to earth thing has been done
not per-see, for instance fable 3 (on the 360) has framerate issues in some areas, and the continuous disc-loading does cause some pop-up from time to time. Granted, the second issue could be solved by loading the dvd onto the hard drive, but not every console game offers 100% acceptable performance. Had it been a PC game, i could have chosen to either dail down the graphics a bit, or tweak my system (and possibly buy new parts) to make it run silky smooth all the time.
As it is, i dont care too much about it, since the game is smooth 95% of the time, and i can forgive some small hitches and lags, but it definitely doesnt offer the same perfectly tuned experience a pc game can deliver
$4.99 is an accounting charge due to financial reforms passed after the Enron mess. XCode 3.x comes free with every Mac, and 4.x will come free with Lion, as it's cost is built into the overall cost of the OS.
i dont understand this, there is plenty of software which is given updates for free (firefox, eclipse, netbeans, openoffice yadda yadda...), even enough from OS vendors (Internet explorer, security essentials, visual studio express). Why the hell does apple HAVE to charge money for an update to a free product?
i'm pretty sure that with todays sandbox-y games it would be pretty easy to build in a less then contrived mechanism to let the player choose which woman he ends up seeing.
so if i were to join them and go through the whole auditing thing, and decide to leave, their response would be to blurt out "Vectormatic looks at porn and wanks occasionally!!!!"
That'll teach me.
Considering that answering yes to some of the other questions (incest, pedofelia, rape) would amount to confessing a (rather serious) crime, and the social stigma on some others, why the hell would you answer yes to them? what good could come of it that overpowers the very obvious bad consequences
Cap'n, the hypocrisy meter, she canna take any more!
(honestly, a (presumed) american telling a european off for arrogance?)
Disclaimer, us dutchies are probably one of the least nationally arrogant people around, i personally dont give a flying fuck about our country or claiming that we are better, because in a lot of ways we arent (including not being arrogant enough)
i have no clue what "to octopus" means in this context (nor am i willing to google it while behind the work internet connection), but my word, you make it sound awesomely kinky
He'll probably let you borrow his truck, so long as you fill the tank up. Doesn't everyone do that?
i let my sister borrow my second car for a shopping run when i was out of town for the day, i ended up having to retrieve it with a broken alternator belt, flat battery, parked in a wheelclamp zone, blocking the loading dock of a company. If it hadnt been weekend i would have had to pay clamping/towing charges... Never mind the fact that she (well, really the idiot friend that was driving) didnt stop immediatly when red warning lights signaled the belt had snapped.
Now i realize that belt would have snapped anyway, but the way she handled the whole thing just sucked.
In my personal situation, i will NEVER lend out my own car to anyone but my girlfried. the lease-mobile, i hardly care about, just as long as it doesnt violate insurance terms.
and yeah, i do notice when it gets below 18 degrees, but thats mostly down to the fact that i'm stubborn enough to walk around in just a t-shirt about just the whole year. As for sleeping, i've slept right next to open windows when it was freezing outside, or right below a single-pane window (very poor isolation) at below freezing, as long as you use a decent blanket, it isnt a problem. Getting out of the comfy and warm bed is a tad harder when it is 10 degrees, but that is all
Besides, the sleeping quarters are likely to be a relatively small part of the base, you could heat that to 18 degrees and keep the rest at 10 if you so desire
thank you good sir, for that mental image of Admiral Ackbar shouting "It's a trap!" in the face of milions of WP7 phones swarming out of a star destroyer, with Ballmer at the helm, complete in Grand Moff uniform
i you set up your martian base somewhere in the -5 region, i reckon heating would hardly be needed. When it is minus 5 (centigrade) i can stay outside without much trouble in a pair of jeans and a good winter coat, and most of the heat loss then is from wind/air cooling, which would not be that big of a factor at 0.01 Bar atmospheric pressure. Hell, given that us meatbags produce a good amount of heat moving around, you could have bigger cooling needs then heating in those conditions.
As for the living space, humans need about 20 degrees centigrade to be comfortable, and while heating a place to 25 degrees above ambient isnt exactly a low energy demand, it seems more feasable then dealing with cooling it to ambient -100 or so, especially if you would like to spend longer times on site. Hell, give everyone a good thick sweater and lower the hab temperature to 10 degrees and you just eliminated half your heating bill.
You might be right about using apollo tech on mercury, and i would LOVE to see that mission go through (hell, if nasa gets going on a new moon mission, mercury can be done five years after the first second moon landing), but starting from scratch, the martian environment seems much easier to live in for us meatbags
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we will just make it a criminal offense to use SSH, that way, only criminal use SSH!
(and god, how i wish i was kidding)
a fairly good counterexample for your point just happened here in holland.
Brein (the local RIAA/MPAA surogate) won a court case against FTD (a large usenet community with its own spot database etc..), forcing them to close their central infrastructure. Promptly Spotnet gained massive popularity as the replacement. Where FTD required you to first search in the database, then look up the corresponding NZB on binsearch (or equivalent), and input the NZB into grabit/newsleecher, spotnet is a 3-in-1 type program, you search spots in your local database (which is built from data sourced from usenet itself) and can click 'download', next thing you know the files are on your hard drive.
Brein actually made usenet easier to use for the common lay-person, spotnet is (vastly) easier then kazaa/etc.. were, so joe sixpack should have no trouble with usenet anymore
he "needs" a cpu powerfull enough to handle flash (good luck with that, intel just barely manages to make those) and android 2.3, that pretty much screams "high end android device"
why pay 500 bucks for a table which cant survive being beaten with a $200 laptop?
the OS
i dont know about the US, but dell offers a 229 euro netbook here
and yes, i know it isnt a full size notebook, but for me, it is more of an alternative for a tablet then a notebook. I am actually considering what to do in public transit for the coming year (just started a new job, 1.5 hours of tram for me each day), right now i enjoy myself watching series on my ipod touch, but i might want to get into some private coding or some such, and for that a netbook seems ideal
post-chernobyl all remaining RBMKs were modified to somewhat mitigate the design flaws which contributed to the chernobyl disaster.
while i would highly recommend against anyone ever building any type of RBMK again, a revised RBMK is a slightly different animal to Chernobyl-4
The soviets did several robotic sample returns, luna 16, 20 and 24 (there were more attempts, but they failed because of engines failing to ignite in various stages of the system), granted these probes just scooped some shit up from whereever they landed, but the land-collect-launch sample back to earth thing has been done
not per-see, for instance fable 3 (on the 360) has framerate issues in some areas, and the continuous disc-loading does cause some pop-up from time to time. Granted, the second issue could be solved by loading the dvd onto the hard drive, but not every console game offers 100% acceptable performance. Had it been a PC game, i could have chosen to either dail down the graphics a bit, or tweak my system (and possibly buy new parts) to make it run silky smooth all the time.
As it is, i dont care too much about it, since the game is smooth 95% of the time, and i can forgive some small hitches and lags, but it definitely doesnt offer the same perfectly tuned experience a pc game can deliver
$4.99 is an accounting charge due to financial reforms passed after the Enron mess. XCode 3.x comes free with every Mac, and 4.x will come free with Lion, as it's cost is built into the overall cost of the OS.
i dont understand this, there is plenty of software which is given updates for free (firefox, eclipse, netbeans, openoffice yadda yadda...), even enough from OS vendors (Internet explorer, security essentials, visual studio express). Why the hell does apple HAVE to charge money for an update to a free product?
i'm pretty sure that with todays sandbox-y games it would be pretty easy to build in a less then contrived mechanism to let the player choose which woman he ends up seeing.
so if i were to join them and go through the whole auditing thing, and decide to leave, their response would be to blurt out "Vectormatic looks at porn and wanks occasionally!!!!"
That'll teach me.
Considering that answering yes to some of the other questions (incest, pedofelia, rape) would amount to confessing a (rather serious) crime, and the social stigma on some others, why the hell would you answer yes to them? what good could come of it that overpowers the very obvious bad consequences
Cap'n, the hypocrisy meter, she canna take any more!
(honestly, a (presumed) american telling a european off for arrogance?)
Disclaimer, us dutchies are probably one of the least nationally arrogant people around, i personally dont give a flying fuck about our country or claiming that we are better, because in a lot of ways we arent (including not being arrogant enough)
i have no clue what "to octopus" means in this context (nor am i willing to google it while behind the work internet connection), but my word, you make it sound awesomely kinky
just get ubuntu satanic edition, that way, when someone wants you to fix their computer you get to ask for a sacrifical goat and a butchers knife
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
you forgot the "Hello IT, " and the whelsh accent
happy ending
Macs do that too these days? that might actually justify the price... I'll have to do some TCO analysis on Mac Vs girlfriend + linux box
He'll probably let you borrow his truck, so long as you fill the tank up. Doesn't everyone do that?
i let my sister borrow my second car for a shopping run when i was out of town for the day, i ended up having to retrieve it with a broken alternator belt, flat battery, parked in a wheelclamp zone, blocking the loading dock of a company. If it hadnt been weekend i would have had to pay clamping/towing charges... Never mind the fact that she (well, really the idiot friend that was driving) didnt stop immediatly when red warning lights signaled the belt had snapped.
Now i realize that belt would have snapped anyway, but the way she handled the whole thing just sucked.
In my personal situation, i will NEVER lend out my own car to anyone but my girlfried. the lease-mobile, i hardly care about, just as long as it doesnt violate insurance terms.
never mind said user wanting vista because "windows 7 isnt out for another year, and vista wasnt that terrible on my previous computer...."
i tell you, that OS recuded the quad-core 8GB ram system i built her to the equivalent of a pentium 4 based celeron running XP, with 256mb ram
my bad, i interpreted "dark side" on the wiki to mean permanently dark, which is obviously isnt
that would make a mercurian base even harder, since you would have to deal with the entire range of temperatures between 100 and 700K
Not the north pole, the netherlands
and yeah, i do notice when it gets below 18 degrees, but thats mostly down to the fact that i'm stubborn enough to walk around in just a t-shirt about just the whole year. As for sleeping, i've slept right next to open windows when it was freezing outside, or right below a single-pane window (very poor isolation) at below freezing, as long as you use a decent blanket, it isnt a problem. Getting out of the comfy and warm bed is a tad harder when it is 10 degrees, but that is all
Besides, the sleeping quarters are likely to be a relatively small part of the base, you could heat that to 18 degrees and keep the rest at 10 if you so desire
a device jamming technology X doesnt just disturb one type of device dependent on that technology, no, it jams ALL devices depending on X
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The scale is just different.
i wonder what 1978 years of inflation amounts too :P
thank you good sir, for that mental image of Admiral Ackbar shouting "It's a trap!" in the face of milions of WP7 phones swarming out of a star destroyer, with Ballmer at the helm, complete in Grand Moff uniform
i you set up your martian base somewhere in the -5 region, i reckon heating would hardly be needed. When it is minus 5 (centigrade) i can stay outside without much trouble in a pair of jeans and a good winter coat, and most of the heat loss then is from wind/air cooling, which would not be that big of a factor at 0.01 Bar atmospheric pressure. Hell, given that us meatbags produce a good amount of heat moving around, you could have bigger cooling needs then heating in those conditions.
As for the living space, humans need about 20 degrees centigrade to be comfortable, and while heating a place to 25 degrees above ambient isnt exactly a low energy demand, it seems more feasable then dealing with cooling it to ambient -100 or so, especially if you would like to spend longer times on site. Hell, give everyone a good thick sweater and lower the hab temperature to 10 degrees and you just eliminated half your heating bill.
You might be right about using apollo tech on mercury, and i would LOVE to see that mission go through (hell, if nasa gets going on a new moon mission, mercury can be done five years after the first second moon landing), but starting from scratch, the martian environment seems much easier to live in for us meatbags