I just talked to my sister in law who is considering moving to Nevada. She is concerned about the radiation...."whaat?" From the nuke repository, you know. I explained that when I went to the NTS, I was impressed by the stringency of the monitoring; if you had an isotope trace procedure done on you, you couldn't get in (or out) because the detectors picked that up.
All those underground shots in the 70's, and how much radiation leaked into Las Vegas groundwater? Not so much.
But people are freaked out by radiation. Hey, 30 thousand people died when that Japanese plant blew up.
At work we have a flow-restricted faucet. To make coffee, everybody just puts the pot under the faucet and walks away, because it takes too long to wait for it to fill up.
I was forced to buy XP when I bought the machine. Why should I be forced to pay for a replacement? The real foolishness is when people buy new Win8 machines and pay for retail copies of Win7. Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank!
Update: I have been Microsoft-free for 2 years. As soon as better chromebooks show up, I'm getting one...
No, they use much less air conditioning in Germany. Ask a German who has visited the USA about our crazy A/C systems. They think we like to live in refrigerators. Here in the USA, the ice cold air from Fifth Avenue haute couture shops floods out into the street from open front doors.
"If a Linux distribution somehow got a large foothold in the market, they will find a way to keep their dominance. Having a particular fork of the kernel, a distribution system that is a bit different, rename some folders around. Add a closed source install tool... "
You mean if Android had the predominant part of the market?
If you do this for free, learn Linux and install it on all those PCs. it's easy, and you will save a lot of time, not only on the install but not-fixing things. Oh, and money.
Windows XP Professional x86 August 24, 2001 - April 8, 2014
Windows XP Professional x86 died April 8th 2014. Proceeded in death by Parents DOS, windows 3.11 and younger brother XP Home and lesser known sister XP X64. and cousins windows CE, ME, NT and 98.
XP Pro, as he was called by his friends, leaves behind younger nephews and nieces, sextuplets Windows 7-Starter, Home-Basic, Home-Premium , Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate; also grandnephews and nieces Windows 8 , 8-Pro , 8-Enterprise, and RT. Windows 8 had some personality issues so will not attend any of the memorials.
A memorial will be held on or about April 20 on the internet with smoke rising high. Also on the first day after the first Zero day attack money will flow from the 2,470,000 ATMs which have XP on life support.
It takes me a half hour to upgrade an XP machine to Linux Mint, with only a few minutes of actual typing time. And it costs nothing, so let's get going.
Microsoft frequently uses the crack dealer business model. After all, this is how everybody got hooked on Windows and Word: by getting it for free (mostly stealing).
I was a high power radar transmitter engineer, and I've had to look for these coronal discharges in 40-50 KV power supplies, where the clearances were tight and corona starts a breakdown process. I had to sit in the total dark for several minutes until I could see it, guided by the sound and possibly smell.
The discharge from a big tesla coil is the same kind of thing, but high frequency AC. Faintly noticeable, unless you get a low resistance path to discharge it, like static discharge when you walk across the rug and touch a light switch. Or lightning.
If you walk next to a big power line you may hear the discharge. If it freaks out the deer, too bad. They can cross under the line away from a discharge point.
No. The beacon signal has nothing to do with the primary radar, except that the antenna is usually located on top of the radar antenna, and uses the same azimuth pointing information. The interrogator is transmitted in a short pulse, and when the plane receives it, it generates its own fixed amplitude response pulse which has its squawk coded into it. It is received back at the ground radar antenna and decoded and displayed, next to the primary radar return. The code gives the 4 digit squawk, plane altitude (which the radar can't detect), and other info like whether they've been hijacked or their radios are dead.
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New Linux is always better. Well, maybe not Ubuntu, always.
Skeptics follow up on apparent flaws in the argument. Deniers start with the conclusion and cherry pick facts that support it.
Not the real New York, where we keep the cows, grass, and mountains. The cost of living is incredibly lower.
Turn off the TV. That solves #1.
I just talked to my sister in law who is considering moving to Nevada. She is concerned about the radiation...."whaat?" From the nuke repository, you know. I explained that when I went to the NTS, I was impressed by the stringency of the monitoring; if you had an isotope trace procedure done on you, you couldn't get in (or out) because the detectors picked that up.
All those underground shots in the 70's, and how much radiation leaked into Las Vegas groundwater? Not so much.
But people are freaked out by radiation. Hey, 30 thousand people died when that Japanese plant blew up.
At work we have a flow-restricted faucet. To make coffee, everybody just puts the pot under the faucet and walks away, because it takes too long to wait for it to fill up.
I was forced to buy XP when I bought the machine. Why should I be forced to pay for a replacement? The real foolishness is when people buy new Win8 machines and pay for retail copies of Win7. Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank!
Update: I have been Microsoft-free for 2 years. As soon as better chromebooks show up, I'm getting one. ..
Why not? They'd probably win.
No, they use much less air conditioning in Germany. Ask a German who has visited the USA about our crazy A/C systems. They think we like to live in refrigerators.
Here in the USA, the ice cold air from Fifth Avenue haute couture shops floods out into the street from open front doors.
Buying all their electricity from French nukes.
Where can I buy your book and subscribe to your YouTube channel?
No, people were buying rooms full of them and turning them into supercomputers.
Run XP in a VM on Linux. Sooner or later people will discover they don't need XP that much.
"If a Linux distribution somehow got a large foothold in the market, they will find a way to keep their dominance. Having a particular fork of the kernel, a distribution system that is a bit different, rename some folders around. Add a closed source install tool... "
You mean if Android had the predominant part of the market?
Want something easier? Tell us, why do we have to sleep?
You can buy new tires for Model T's.
My Mint has a nice start button, and menu system that's better than XP.
If you do this for free, learn Linux and install it on all those PCs. it's easy, and you will save a lot of time, not only on the install but not-fixing things. Oh, and money.
Completely inadequate if they are using solid state instead of tubes!
Windows XP Professional x86
August 24, 2001 - April 8, 2014
Windows XP Professional x86 died April 8th 2014. Proceeded in death by Parents DOS, windows 3.11 and younger brother XP Home and lesser known sister XP X64. and cousins windows CE, ME, NT and 98.
XP Pro, as he was called by his friends, leaves behind younger nephews and nieces, sextuplets Windows 7-Starter, Home-Basic, Home-Premium , Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate; also grandnephews and nieces Windows 8 , 8-Pro , 8-Enterprise, and RT. Windows 8 had some personality issues so will not attend any of the memorials.
A memorial will be held on or about April 20 on the internet with smoke rising high. Also on the first day after the first Zero day attack money will flow from the 2,470,000 ATMs which have XP on life support.
In lieu of flowers, send donations to Linux.org.
It takes me a half hour to upgrade an XP machine to Linux Mint, with only a few minutes of actual typing time. And it costs nothing, so let's get going.
Microsoft frequently uses the crack dealer business model. After all, this is how everybody got hooked on Windows and Word: by getting it for free (mostly stealing).
I was a high power radar transmitter engineer, and I've had to look for these coronal discharges in 40-50 KV power supplies, where the clearances were tight and corona starts a breakdown process. I had to sit in the total dark for several minutes until I could see it, guided by the sound and possibly smell.
The discharge from a big tesla coil is the same kind of thing, but high frequency AC. Faintly noticeable, unless you get a low resistance path to discharge it, like static discharge when you walk across the rug and touch a light switch. Or lightning.
If you walk next to a big power line you may hear the discharge. If it freaks out the deer, too bad. They can cross under the line away from a discharge point.
No. The beacon signal has nothing to do with the primary radar, except that the antenna is usually located on top of the radar antenna, and uses the same azimuth pointing information. The interrogator is transmitted in a short pulse, and when the plane receives it, it generates its own fixed amplitude response pulse which has its squawk coded into it. It is received back at the ground radar antenna and decoded and displayed, next to the primary radar return. The code gives the 4 digit squawk, plane altitude (which the radar can't detect), and other info like whether they've been hijacked or their radios are dead.
Obama can run it off of PV cells on the roof. Maybe he got some in the Solyndra liquidation.