The fossil fuels were used on the planets' surfaces. The FTL ships were still atomic, it's just that any knowledge of their inner workings had been lost in history. Because of that, when one of them broke down, no one could fix them. Those ships were old leftovers from the Empire.
Both Foundations were on Terminus, which was why the second was so hard to find, it was hidden inside the first. The "Star's End" reference was just put there by Seldon to throw future generations off the track.
You do realize that the microwave radiation coming out of your computer is weaker than the electromagnetic radiation (i.e. light) coming out of the lights in most buildings.
The general public is way too scared of the word radiation.
Light is radiation
Radio waves are radiation
Microwaves are radiation
Infrared is radiation
Electric motors make electromagnetic radiation
So, the only way to get away from (man-made) radiation is to get rid of anything that fits in the above list (computer, light bulbs, remote control, TV, VCR, CD-player, DVD-player, microwave, electric oven, hair dryer, ceiling fan, etc.)
Actually, with USB, any single device can only use up to half of the max (i.e. 6 Mbps). Yes you can have a total of 12 Mbps flowing over the cable, but only if that is 2 or more devices.
USB is great for input devices (keyboards, mice, joysticks) and medium bandwidth devices (scanners, printers, digital sound in/out) but USB is simply not a good idea to use when transferring anything more bandwidth intensive than sound.
FireWire, on the other hand has guaranteed bandwidth allotments (i.e. a device can say "I will need 300 Mbps", and all other devices on that bus will be limited to the remaining bandwidth), which makes it perfect for digital video.
If this is the intended use, then it is redundant, lasers have been used for this exact purpose for longer than 802.11 has been around. I read the article, an saw this as competition to 802.11.
If you are worried enough about security that you'd switch to infra-red, why not just stick to wired? With IR, you're stuck with line of sight which basically defeats the purpose of WiFi. You can't reliably move around (if your body comes between the base station and your computer, you've just broken your network connection, if you walk into the next room, you've just broken your network connection, if a piece of paper falls off your desk, and blocks your antenna, you've just broken your network connection,...)
This seems to me to have all of the drawbacks of CAT-5, with none of the benefits (namely, you can't tap into a wired ethernet connection unless you have a physical connection)
I want to know how you will be able to play DVD's with the macrovision removed.
IIRC, there needs to be a decoder in the DVD drive - the disks are already encoded.
Actually, no. Stored on the disc is simply a flag that tells the player to add the macrovision on playback. A player can simply ignore that flag, and not add the macrovision
Also, even if the player is generating a macrovision signal, the device that that video signal is sent to can *still* choose to ignore the macrovision. It's for this reason that when I need to play a DVD to a TV that only has coax inputs, I run the video from the DVD player into an old Betamax VCR (i.e. from before macrovision was in use) which unlike my modern VHS VCR happily ignores the macrovision signal when encoding the video into an RF signal to be sent to the TV
Still, no. You'd never get such a device to be that efficent. Take for example, two 99.999% reflective mirrors (better than anything available with our technology), placed a meter apart.
That would mean that the beam of light would hit the surface of a mirror about 300,000,000 times per second, which means that in 1/10 of a second, it would hit a mirror 30,000,000 times, which means that the final amount of energy in the laser could be calculated as follows:
(I = input energy)
(O = output energy)
O = I * (0.99999 ^ 30000000)
And this is assuming that you only need two mirrors, you aren't losing any energy because of the air, and you don't need any lenses.
Um, isn't the speed of light about 186282 miles/second? In which case, 260000 miles per hour is nowhere near a third the speed of light
3*260000 mi/hr = 780000 mi/hr
780000 mi/hr = 13000 mi/min
13000 mi/min = 216.67 mi/sec (a lot less than 186282)
I suppose you think that you can hook an electric generator up to the wheels of an electric car, and drive forever. (hint, neither are possible in any universe governed by the laws of thermodynamics... like ours).
Because lugging around a computer to every class is a much greater chore,
Umm, it's called a laptop, or a palmtop. Your textbook is probably more of a chore to carry around than most laptops, and definitely more of a chore than any palmtop.
and I don't think teachers appreciate students typing while they're lecturing.
Why on earth not? What problem could they have with students taking notes?
Actually, a Calorie (as used when describing the energy content of food) is actually 1000 calories (the SI unit). So, capitalization aside, you're both correct.
In fact, the black hole is known to radiate Hwaking radiation, which means that the hypothetical perfect singularity black hole model, which can only absorb matter, does not exist. If the said conditions are not perfectly valid for a black hole, then why would it be a perfect singularity, even if this Hawking radiation exists only on a quantum probabilistic level?
The Hawking is not actually radiated by the black hole itself, it comes about when, as is always happening all around us, a particle and anti-particle come into existence, fly odd in opposite directions. Normally, such a pair of particles would simply be drawn back together, at which point they would annihilate each other, and return to the equivalent amount of energy.
However, when near the event horizon of a black hole, when these particles shoot off in opposite directions, if one of those directions happens to be towards the black hole, the other is, by definition, away from the black hole. Since the particle that crossed the event horizon, can never cross back out, the two particles never return to each other to be annihilated
This leaves a single particle flying away from the black hole. Repeat this process billions and billions of times, and we get a steady stream of particles (i.e. radiation) that seem to be emanating from the black hole itself.
Balderdash
I have many people that I know through a MUD that I play occasionally, some of whom I've met in real life, some of whom I knew before the MUD, some of whom I've never met face to face.
So, If' I'm understanding you correctly, the only people from that MUD that are "real", are the ones that I knew beforehand, everyone else is just a "TCP/IP connection".
I'll remember that, the next time I see any of them in person, and I'll make sure to tell them that they aren't real, and that they were just bade up by my computer.
(BTW, the English plural of "virus" is "viruses"; the Latin plural would be one of "viri" (pronounced "vee-ree"), "virorum", "viris", or "viros", depending on case.)
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Actually "viri" is the nominative plural of "vir" (man), not "virus". The only form of "virus" that is spelled "viri" is actually the genitive singular.
</pedantic>
Now, all of the NetInfo commands can only be run by root.
(You could just execute "sudo chmod 500/usr/bin/ni*", but that would also restrict nibtool and nice to root)
They're not "hacking" battle.net. They're building a clone of it. bnetd is not Blizzard's intellectual property, and they should have no say in what happens to it. This is akin to building a custom car in your garage, and then getting sued by Ford because they think that you have somehow infringed on their intellectual property rights.
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The fossil fuels were used on the planets' surfaces. The FTL ships were still atomic, it's just that any knowledge of their inner workings had been lost in history. Because of that, when one of them broke down, no one could fix them. Those ships were old leftovers from the Empire.
SPOILER ALERT
Both Foundations were on Terminus, which was why the second was so hard to find, it was hidden inside the first. The "Star's End" reference was just put there by Seldon to throw future generations off the track.
You do realize that the microwave radiation coming out of your computer is weaker than the electromagnetic radiation (i.e. light) coming out of the lights in most buildings.
The general public is way too scared of the word radiation.
So, the only way to get away from (man-made) radiation is to get rid of anything that fits in the above list (computer, light bulbs, remote control, TV, VCR, CD-player, DVD-player, microwave, electric oven, hair dryer, ceiling fan, etc.)
*cough* Atari paddle *cough*
Actually, with USB, any single device can only use up to half of the max (i.e. 6 Mbps). Yes you can have a total of 12 Mbps flowing over the cable, but only if that is 2 or more devices.
USB is great for input devices (keyboards, mice, joysticks) and medium bandwidth devices (scanners, printers, digital sound in/out) but USB is simply not a good idea to use when transferring anything more bandwidth intensive than sound.
FireWire, on the other hand has guaranteed bandwidth allotments (i.e. a device can say "I will need 300 Mbps", and all other devices on that bus will be limited to the remaining bandwidth), which makes it perfect for digital video.
If this is the intended use, then it is redundant, lasers have been used for this exact purpose for longer than 802.11 has been around. I read the article, an saw this as competition to 802.11.
If you are worried enough about security that you'd switch to infra-red, why not just stick to wired? With IR, you're stuck with line of sight which basically defeats the purpose of WiFi. You can't reliably move around (if your body comes between the base station and your computer, you've just broken your network connection, if you walk into the next room, you've just broken your network connection, if a piece of paper falls off your desk, and blocks your antenna, you've just broken your network connection, ...)
This seems to me to have all of the drawbacks of CAT-5, with none of the benefits (namely, you can't tap into a wired ethernet connection unless you have a physical connection)
Actually, no. Stored on the disc is simply a flag that tells the player to add the macrovision on playback. A player can simply ignore that flag, and not add the macrovision
Also, even if the player is generating a macrovision signal, the device that that video signal is sent to can *still* choose to ignore the macrovision. It's for this reason that when I need to play a DVD to a TV that only has coax inputs, I run the video from the DVD player into an old Betamax VCR (i.e. from before macrovision was in use) which unlike my modern VHS VCR happily ignores the macrovision signal when encoding the video into an RF signal to be sent to the TV
Still, no. You'd never get such a device to be that efficent. Take for example, two 99.999% reflective mirrors (better than anything available with our technology), placed a meter apart.
That would mean that the beam of light would hit the surface of a mirror about 300,000,000 times per second, which means that in 1/10 of a second, it would hit a mirror 30,000,000 times, which means that the final amount of energy in the laser could be calculated as follows:
(I = input energy)
(O = output energy)
O = I * (0.99999 ^ 30000000)
And this is assuming that you only need two mirrors, you aren't losing any energy because of the air, and you don't need any lenses.
Um, isn't the speed of light about 186282 miles/second? In which case, 260000 miles per hour is nowhere near a third the speed of light
3*260000 mi/hr = 780000 mi/hr
780000 mi/hr = 13000 mi/min
13000 mi/min = 216.67 mi/sec (a lot less than 186282)
I suppose you think that you can hook an electric generator up to the wheels of an electric car, and drive forever. (hint, neither are possible in any universe governed by the laws of thermodynamics ... like ours).
Ummm, there has never been a Mac with Ethernet that could not support DHCP.
Well, here's 5 z pieces, just repeat this pattern over an over again:
Z_Z_Z_Z_Z
ZZZZZZZZZZ <--- row
_Z_Z_Z_Z_Z
4 's' pieces, one 'z':
_Z_______
ZZ_______
ZSSSSSSSS <--- row
SSSSSSSS_
123456789
10 columns:
5 's' pieces, one 'z':
_Z______S_
ZZ______SS
ZSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSS__
1234567890
Of course, there are probably many better strategies, I just can't think of them when I'm not playing :)
Actually, a Calorie (as used when describing the energy content of food) is actually 1000 calories (the SI unit). So, capitalization aside, you're both correct.
The Hawking is not actually radiated by the black hole itself, it comes about when, as is always happening all around us, a particle and anti-particle come into existence, fly odd in opposite directions. Normally, such a pair of particles would simply be drawn back together, at which point they would annihilate each other, and return to the equivalent amount of energy.
However, when near the event horizon of a black hole, when these particles shoot off in opposite directions, if one of those directions happens to be towards the black hole, the other is, by definition, away from the black hole. Since the particle that crossed the event horizon, can never cross back out, the two particles never return to each other to be annihilated
This leaves a single particle flying away from the black hole. Repeat this process billions and billions of times, and we get a steady stream of particles (i.e. radiation) that seem to be emanating from the black hole itself.
You don't need a "hacked" version to run on your PC. Darwin runs fine on x86 hardware as is.
No, they were all killed in the great Canada/USA war (you know, the one in which satan, and sadam come out of hell to wreak havoc on a USO show) :)
Balderdash I have many people that I know through a MUD that I play occasionally, some of whom I've met in real life, some of whom I knew before the MUD, some of whom I've never met face to face. So, If' I'm understanding you correctly, the only people from that MUD that are "real", are the ones that I knew beforehand, everyone else is just a "TCP/IP connection". I'll remember that, the next time I see any of them in person, and I'll make sure to tell them that they aren't real, and that they were just bade up by my computer.
Actually "viri" is the nominative plural of "vir" (man), not "virus". The only form of "virus" that is spelled "viri" is actually the genitive singular.
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sudo chmod 500
Now, all of the NetInfo commands can only be run by root.
(You could just execute "sudo chmod 500
They're not "hacking" battle.net. They're building a clone of it. bnetd is not Blizzard's intellectual property, and they should have no say in what happens to it. This is akin to building a custom car in your garage, and then getting sued by Ford because they think that you have somehow infringed on their intellectual property rights.
Umm, no, kryptonite is not a real element (you're thinking of krypton)