they almost certainly would have no antivirus software,
Isn't that because there are almost certainly no Linux viruses ? What license issues are there with someone running Linux apps ? Aren't folks more likely to be running opensource stuff When was there last a critical user mode security problem in Linux, oh sure there have been a couple of potential nasties in Apache, but a show stopper for Desktop users ?
We have an NC60 that has given us two episodes of trouble, after that we made our own metal copy of the plastic part that kept breaking - sounds like your problem.
Our has made 30,000 prints, and with very good quality. We buy our own spares from variously grey market dealers as and when.
That said, Xerox have never been exactly helpful to us when we need diagrams or whatever, but I have cultivated the Xerox techs that have visited and who will often help, for the right incentives.
Exactly. I count communism as an external invader - especially since Mao learned his while in Europe (France again....)
Britain, German invaders not assimilated ? True, but then how much influence did they leave. In India, many of the British were "assimilated", the "Raj". Also the Indians get there own back with the number of Indian words now in English English, together with the fact that Indian food is the most popular food in the country (Too much Star Trek methinks) We are the English of Borg, have a cup of tea and then be assimilated......
And you don't study enough history. The same was true with the Soviet Union as well. It was that insanity called MAD. But just having the potential gave Soviet Russia political and military influence far beyond what their anemic economy and technology would warrant.
With MAD, you didn't get days of warning, just minutes. This isn't MAD, it would be totally stupid to launch an attack and know for certain you were going to lose.
Just who has a "proper" space program still ? Oh yes, the Anaemic economy and technology place.
They also sit on more natural resources than the USA, oil, minerals, metals.
Their tech seriously threatened US tech for years. Oh sure it was rougher, but an awful lot of science went into the bits that needed to work. Remember the "flogger" fighter with the ha ha ha tube based radio ? Then everyone worked out that tube tech is EMP proof.....
Targeting big rocks would be a bit iffy too. Not much capital in hitting the Arizona desert.
I don't know why they treat Korea with kid gloves, they can't have enough nukes to worry the US if it really came to it.
Have you already forgotten Tianeman square? Communist China is a brutal, repressive, murderous regime.
Ever been to China ? I worked there. The Chinese are doing what the Chinese have always done: been overwhelmed and absorbed the invader. Time after time, century after century.
Believe it or not there ARE problems with US and European "democracy"- like we don't have it.
Until you understand and see that nothing will change. No compulsion, just look at what folks like the EFF Amnesty and others are saying.
If they get a lunar base, bank on it that it will be heavily militarized and its top priority will be to learn how to drop rocks on American cities
How much notice would you get ? Quite long enough to launch a retaliatory strike before the rock even arrives. You read too much Heinlein.
SOLO, so what ? By then the technology was established as feasible and KNOWN to be reliable enough. Look at what Alcock and Brown did, 8 YEARS before, and think of the engineering progress in the intervening period.
No, once again a big deal is made of it, because Lindberg was American.
Except for that nasty using-up-all-the-oxygen thing... ah well. I'm sure we can adapt. Nitrogen works, right?:)
Errr ? Hydrogen burns with oxygen = water
water is split to (wait for it) Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Amazing.
The energy to crack water into hydrogen is however the stumbling block. And the lower energy density/unit volume compared to fossil fuels. Oh and it is HIGHLY explosive in the presence of a relatively teensy bit of O2.
Do you BELIEVE that the matter and energy consisting of the big bang always existed?
No, in the current state of knowledge, observed facts point to that theory as fitting the evidence best. Show me YOUR proof of your interpretation please.
Do you BELIEVE that the matter and energy ball was infinitely big, or did you finally find the end of the universe?
No, in the current state ok knowledge, observed facts point to that theory as fitting the evidence best. Show me YOUR proof of your interpretation. please. Current evidence doesn't show it was infinitely nig or contained an infinite amount of energy. A lot sure, but not infinite (see Olbers paradox)
Where is YOUR evidence for the existence of an invisible omnipotent "God" ?
Ultimately, he who gets there furstest with the mostest wins. Marconi did far far more to create the radio as a viable technology than did Tesla. The fact that the US courts rules that the US scientist had primacy over the Italian scientist's US patents is hardly surprising. The US has a history of such things. Witness last weeks announcement of the American who "invented" radar bears me out.
Bollocks. Hertz gets the main credit, and Marconi's use of the lodge-Muirhead coherer was what beat Tesla hollow.
Tesla had some good ideas, but a lot of very very bad ones too. Live with it.
Steve
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The critical component that Loomis helped produce was the Cavity magnetron, a device which gave orders of magntitude more microwave energy than the existing Klystron or travelling wave tubes.
The Cavity Magentron was invented by Boot and Randall at the University of Birmingham (UK !!)
The safe transport of probably the most precious cargo of WWII to the US and its subsequent rapid development to mass production is what won the war, not the atomic bomb, though it helped.
The Magnetron and milli-metric radar is what gave us the ability to see 'U' boats. Seeing U boats allowed us to get shipping again. Shipping brought the supplies and troops from the US to start 'D' day.
This is THE place where techies hang out and (often) have great ideas. How do you make a pitch for a "science-based" program ? Where do ideas come from ?
...and many of those that have are even more seriously disfunctional than the normal spectrum Autistic,in other areas.
Those that suggest that the autistic shall inherit the earth can have had very little experience of working or living with the severe difficulties of the mentally impeded.
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A Rhodes scholar with a masters in economics from Oxford cannot be worse than Bush.
Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar wasn't he.....
Steve
they almost certainly would have no antivirus software,
Isn't that because there are almost certainly no Linux viruses ? What license issues are there with someone running Linux apps ? Aren't folks more likely to be running opensource stuff When was there last a critical user mode security problem in Linux, oh sure there have been a couple of potential nasties in Apache, but a show stopper for Desktop users ?
Steve
and that all the 9/11 hijackers and flights originated WITHIN the US. This is all a scam to get more state control of everyone.
Steve
We have an NC60 that has given us two episodes of trouble, after that we made our own metal copy of the plastic part that kept breaking - sounds like your problem.
Our has made 30,000 prints, and with very good quality. We buy our own spares from variously grey market dealers as and when.
That said, Xerox have never been exactly helpful to us when we need diagrams or whatever, but I have cultivated the Xerox techs that have visited and who will often help, for the right incentives.
Steve
I'm going to name my band "Quark-Gluon Plasma". All my fans will call it "QGP" for short. It's much cooler than "Bose-Einstein Condensate".
No, the whole point is QGP is much much HOTTER than a BEC.....
So you won't be a cool band, you'll be a hot band.
Steve
...IBM pisses REALLY hard on SCOs shoes....
Steve
Exactly. I count communism as an external invader - especially since Mao learned his while in Europe (France again....)
Britain, German invaders not assimilated ? True, but then how much influence did they leave. In India, many of the British were "assimilated", the "Raj". Also the Indians get there own back with the number of Indian words now in English English, together with the fact that Indian food is the most popular food in the country (Too much Star Trek methinks) We are the English of Borg, have a cup of tea and then be assimilated......
Yes there are. But we don't run over protestors with tanks or shoot dissidents
Oh yes you do ! - Remember Kent State ? Or Iraq not a month ago....
Steve
And you don't study enough history. The same was true with the Soviet Union as well. It was that insanity called MAD. But just having the potential gave Soviet Russia political and military influence far beyond what their anemic economy and technology would warrant.
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With MAD, you didn't get days of warning, just minutes. This isn't MAD, it would be totally stupid to launch an attack and know for certain you were going to lose
Just who has a "proper" space program still ? Oh yes, the Anaemic economy and technology place.
They also sit on more natural resources than the USA, oil, minerals, metals.
Their tech seriously threatened US tech for years. Oh sure it was rougher, but an awful lot of science went into the bits that needed to work. Remember the "flogger" fighter with the ha ha ha tube based radio ? Then everyone worked out that tube tech is EMP proof.....
Targeting big rocks would be a bit iffy too. Not much capital in hitting the Arizona desert.
I don't know why they treat Korea with kid gloves, they can't have enough nukes to worry the US if it really came to it.
Have you already forgotten Tianeman square? Communist China is a brutal, repressive, murderous regime.
Ever been to China ? I worked there. The Chinese are doing what the Chinese have always done: been overwhelmed and absorbed the invader. Time after time, century after century.
Believe it or not there ARE problems with US and European "democracy"- like we don't have it.
Until you understand and see that nothing will change. No compulsion, just look at what folks like the EFF Amnesty and others are saying.
If they get a lunar base, bank on it that it will be heavily militarized and its top priority will be to learn how to drop rocks on American cities
How much notice would you get ? Quite long enough to launch a retaliatory strike before the rock even arrives. You read too much Heinlein.
SOLO, so what ? By then the technology was established as feasible and KNOWN to be reliable enough. Look at what Alcock and Brown did, 8 YEARS before, and think of the engineering progress in the intervening period.
No, once again a big deal is made of it, because Lindberg was American.
Steve
The most significant of these prizes was the Orteig Prize, won by Charles Lindbergh for his 1927 flight from New York to Paris.
Quoted from the Space.com site.
Why was this "the most significant" - its not as if he was the first, or the second, but the 67th !
The first Transatlantic flight was by Alcock and Brown in June 1919- 8 years before Lindbergh got round to it.
Steve
Except for that nasty using-up-all-the-oxygen thing
Errr ? Hydrogen burns with oxygen = water
water is split to (wait for it) Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Amazing.
The energy to crack water into hydrogen is however the stumbling block. And the lower energy density
Steve
EVOLUTIONISM
Do you BELIEVE that the matter and energy consisting of the big bang always existed?
No, in the current state of knowledge, observed facts point to that theory as fitting the evidence best. Show me YOUR proof of your interpretation please.
Do you BELIEVE that the matter and energy ball was infinitely big, or did you finally find the end of the universe?
No, in the current state ok knowledge, observed facts point to that theory as fitting the evidence best. Show me YOUR proof of your interpretation. please. Current evidence doesn't show it was infinitely nig or contained an infinite amount of energy. A lot sure, but not infinite (see Olbers paradox)
Where is YOUR evidence for the existence of an invisible omnipotent "God" ?
Anybody remember the Arthur C Clarke stories with chimps with tweaked genomes. Rendezvous with Rama had one I think.
Here we go again, from impossible to obvious in one generation.
Steve
Oklo ?
Amazing thing
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Ultimately, he who gets there furstest with the mostest wins. Marconi did far far more to create the radio as a viable technology than did Tesla. The fact that the US courts rules that the US scientist had primacy over the Italian scientist's US patents is hardly surprising. The US has a history of such things. Witness last weeks announcement of the American who "invented" radar bears me out.
Steve
Bollocks. Hertz gets the main credit, and Marconi's use of the lodge-Muirhead coherer was what beat Tesla hollow.
Tesla had some good ideas, but a lot of very very bad ones too. Live with it.
Steve
The critical component that Loomis helped produce was the Cavity magnetron, a device which gave orders of magntitude more microwave energy than the existing Klystron or travelling wave tubes.
The Cavity Magentron was invented by Boot and Randall at the University of Birmingham (UK !!)
The safe transport of probably the most precious cargo of WWII to the US and its subsequent rapid development to mass production is what won the war, not the atomic bomb, though it helped.
The Magnetron and milli-metric radar is what gave us the ability to see 'U' boats. Seeing U boats allowed us to get shipping again. Shipping brought the supplies and troops from the US to start 'D' day.
Steve
Its becoming a world wide problem for amateur scientists.
(Society Amateur Scientists have a letter writing campaign about it.
Steve
Mike Oehler ($50 and up underground house) is still alive and very well, I had a set of design videos from him a month or so ago.
He has built a tidy business with his Earth sheltered housing courses.
Steve
Sokal wrote a PARODY that was DESIGNED to take the piss. Its called HUMOUR.
Sokal was pointing out that it was possible to get any old crap accepted if the words were in the right order....
Steve
This is THE place where techies hang out and (often) have great ideas. How do you make a pitch for a "science-based" program ? Where do ideas come from ?
Steve
And strangely enough the "cure" for ulcers came about round about the same time as all that expensive ulcer medication was just comming out of patent.
Not really, the antibiotic cure came out before Zantac, which was specifically developed for gastric ulcers !
In the eon-long struggle between cockup and conspiracy, the cock-up is winning hands down....
Steve
...and many of those that have are even more seriously disfunctional than the normal spectrum Autistic,in other areas.
Those that suggest that the autistic shall inherit the earth can have had very little experience of working or living with the severe difficulties of the mentally impeded.
Steve