I'm surprised that no-one else has mentioned this.
The truth is that a solar sail doesn't get you away from the sun by just having the sail aimed straight at the sun. It does it much more trickily than that:).
What happens is that you orientate the sail at 45% (or something like that) to the sun. That way, a large amount of the force from the sun actually goes to changing your orbital speed, and not just pushing you away from the sun. By orienting the sail so that it increases your orbital speed, you end up making greater size orbits around the sun, until you are far enough away from the sun and you can do some other tricky stuff to leave the solar system.
But, it works the opposite way too. Orient your sail so that you are decreasing your orbital speed. You go slower, and therefore your orbit size decreases, and you start approaching the sun.
Of course another poster queried why you would want to travel to the sun. Good question. But how about Mercury or Venus ?
You should already be blocking any attachments with a.pif,.scr,.cmd,.bat extension. Probably also.exe, or at least munge the name so you can't easily execute it.
In addition to that, I am now blocking anything which an attachment named: message.zip document.zip file.zip data.zip etc....... for whatever the virus uses.
If it got too bad, I'd put a virus scan on all incoming emails, but procmail rules seem to work fine.
Does anyone else find it frightfully disturbing that 16% of CIO believed the SCO's claims to hold enough water that they've changed their implementation strategies? I understand why a company that wasn't already using Linux would see this as a reason not to swap. But to be using or implementing Linux and to change your mind against it because of this seems like a rather signifigant change in attitude.
Who says that they changed their mind *against* linux ? They could just have easily changed their mind *towards* linux. The survey doesn't say. Perhaps those 16% are away from SCO, towards linux. Well, we can hope......
My ISP does give me such an interface. About 5 ports are blocked, and have always been. Just recently they provided an interface where I can selectively re-enable those ports again.
Yeah, 56k is pretty slow for lots of us these days.
But, the device is hackable, and so you can turn that modem into an incoming port, instead of connecting to the internet outgoing.
It would be great for me. I've got ADSL, and a non-router modem. I want to share the ADSL between the PCs in my house, and also allow my girlfriend to dial in to use it too (instead of paying an ISP). And, I don't want to have a noisy, power chugging PC running 24/7 just to do that.
This device would be great. One ethernet port to connect to the ADSL modem, one to connect to my internal network, and the landline modem to allow my girlfriend to dial in.
No, you aren't. Companies giving away product below cost is called dumping, and is illegal in most markets. MS could afford to sell their products very much cheaper than they do and still make a profit - but, if they start to do that, a ball would start rolling. For the same reason, drug companies are frightened of selling drugs at reasonable prices in the Third World. It wouldn't be long before the same was expected of them at home.
Well, the movie companies sell DVDs for different prices in different places. Can't they find a way to region-lock drugs too ?
Well, Western Australia takes up the entire Western part of Australia. The border is a straight line going North/South. But, South Australia is just a bit on the Southern coast of the mainland, and isn't the entirety of the southern most part of Australia. In fact, it doesn't even contain the most Southerly part of Australia. Tamania is more Southerly, and so are parts of Victoria and Western Australia.
Actually, from the text of the article, they say that they want it so that when you click on a link in google, you get the registration page of the NYT.
A robots.txt would stop google from indexing the site altogether. They don't want that to happen. They want a google search to show NYT web pages, but they just want to make sure that when the user tries to view it, they have to register with NYT first. That means that google must still index the page, but not allow access through the cache. Plus, it must direct to a sign-on page rather than the page itself, but that is something that I'm sure the NYT itself could handle, like it think it does now anyway.
I hear the stuff about "where's the fun in sending robots".
Well, I don't care if other people get to go into space. I'd prefer they didn't if it was going to cost me more.
But, if it was me who was getting the chance to go into space, then that would be a whole different story. I'd be happy to tax everyone to the hilt to pay for my trip.
It might be nice imagining people on the moon and in space etc, but it's just as fascinating for me watching the mars rover etc, and marvelling at the technology. Until it's my turn to buckle up.
The "advantage" of breastfeeding is indeed an advantage. Breastfeeding is better for the child than bottling. So, it's an advantage for the child to have their mother looking after them.
It's an advantage to me that women's bodies are more flexible:)
It's an advantage to the human race that there exists a sex which can have babies. Or, there wouldn't be a human race. Even if you want to lay eggs and share sitting on them, someone's still got to lay the eggs.
And, well, physically, women's brains are more geared towards wanting to have babies than men's are. Which is an advantage to the human race. If women didn't want babies so much, there wouldn't be as many humans. And if men were having the babies, then there wouldn't be as many because how many men would want to go through all that pain ?
Is it PAL and NTSC ?
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As far as I'm aware, all DVD players can do both PAL and NTSC.
Does this mean that this new device will be PAL capable too ?
If so, this would be the perfect thing for us poor Aussies who don't have a Tivo. Sounds like it would probably work without a subscription too. I'm assuming I can set it to record channel 7 at 8.30 every monday, like I can a normal VCR ?
Not sure about the 'I can program my times in myself' comment... that would defeat the object of Tivo, surely?
Well, a bit, yeah. But you still get lots of storage. It would be like a VCR that you never have to change your tape in. And, you can still pause live tv.
There's all these postings saying "just get a Tivo". What would be the best route for an Aussie ? Remember, we have PAL here, not NTSC, and I doubt there's a subscription service.
Is it possible to use a Tivo from the UK in Australia ?
How does an Aussie get one of these puppies which will work here ? I don't care too much about subscriptions - I can program my times in myself. But, it needs to work with PAL.
So, where can I get one ?
Do I have to hack one to get it to work ? I'd rather just buy one which works out of the box.
"all countries except Canada, Great Britain, and any country that has something we need."
That seems to be the record so far...
Well, Iraq has something which the USA needs... oil
Which is why they're an enemy, rather than someone to ignore. The upshot is that if you have something the USA needs, then you'd better be very friendly to them, or you'll be put on the hitlist
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I'm surprised that no-one else has mentioned this.
:).
The truth is that a solar sail doesn't get you away from the sun by just having the sail aimed straight at the sun. It does it much more trickily than that
What happens is that you orientate the sail at 45% (or something like that) to the sun. That way, a large amount of the force from the sun actually goes to changing your orbital speed, and not just pushing you away from the sun. By orienting the sail so that it increases your orbital speed, you end up making greater size orbits around the sun, until you are far enough away from the sun and you can do some other tricky stuff to leave the solar system.
But, it works the opposite way too. Orient your sail so that you are decreasing your orbital speed. You go slower, and therefore your orbit size decreases, and you start approaching the sun.
Of course another poster queried why you would want to travel to the sun. Good question. But how about Mercury or Venus ?
I'd like to do the same thing in Australia. Using Vodafone.
Any ideas ?
I don't think we have a free email address here which goes to a mobile phone.
While in theory that could be true, just try comparing the news you get from the BBC with that you get from the networks in the USA.
Those USA networks are much more biased than the BBC.
Yeah, of course Bill says that the hardware is going to be nearly free. He's planning on having his software running on all of it.
And, when you compare the software licensing fees he's going to charge to the price of the hardware............
Well, the hardware price isn't going to be significant, is it ?
Way to plan ahead Bill !
Why have you been hassling your local DVD people ?
Ever heard of ordering over the internet from the US ?
That's what I did, and the series is excellent.
You'll need a multiregion player, but who doesn't have one of those ?
Just checking, does this only effect http://, or is it now impossible to use an ftp URL which includes a password too ?
Ie. ftp://username:password@website.com
Will that work ?
You should already be blocking any attachments with a .pif, .scr, .cmd, .bat extension. Probably also .exe, or at least munge the name so you can't easily execute it.
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In addition to that, I am now blocking anything which an attachment named
message.zip
document.zip
file.zip
data.zip
etc....... for whatever the virus uses.
If it got too bad, I'd put a virus scan on all incoming emails, but procmail rules seem to work fine.
No worries.
Who says that they changed their mind *against* linux ? They could just have easily changed their mind *towards* linux. The survey doesn't say. Perhaps those 16% are away from SCO, towards linux. Well, we can hope......
My ISP does give me such an interface. About 5 ports are blocked, and have always been. Just recently they provided an interface where I can selectively re-enable those ports again.
It's iinet in Australia.
Yeah, 56k is pretty slow for lots of us these days.
But, the device is hackable, and so you can turn that modem into an incoming port, instead of connecting to the internet outgoing.
It would be great for me. I've got ADSL, and a non-router modem. I want to share the ADSL between the PCs in my house, and also allow my girlfriend to dial in to use it too (instead of paying an ISP). And, I don't want to have a noisy, power chugging PC running 24/7 just to do that.
This device would be great. One ethernet port to connect to the ADSL modem, one to connect to my internal network, and the landline modem to allow my girlfriend to dial in.
No, you aren't. Companies giving away product below cost is called dumping, and is illegal in most markets. MS could afford to sell their products very much cheaper than they do and still make a profit - but, if they start to do that, a ball would start rolling. For the same reason, drug companies are frightened of selling drugs at reasonable prices in the Third World. It wouldn't be long before the same was expected of them at home.
Well, the movie companies sell DVDs for different prices in different places. Can't they find a way to region-lock drugs too ?
Answering my own post after a google search.
Her name is Hilary Rosen (one "l" in Hilary)
She is the president and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, which is the long arm of the law for major record labels.
I got a bit of a fright too.
Hillary Rosen is the enemy. She is a lawyer or similar for the music companies. I'm sure someone will correct me.
Why not Southern Australia and Western Australia?
Well, Western Australia takes up the entire Western part of Australia. The border is a straight line going North/South. But, South Australia is just a bit on the Southern coast of the mainland, and isn't the entirety of the southern most part of Australia. In fact, it doesn't even contain the most Southerly part of Australia. Tamania is more Southerly, and so are parts of Victoria and Western Australia.
Actually, from the text of the article, they say that they want it so that when you click on a link in google, you get the registration page of the NYT.
A robots.txt would stop google from indexing the site altogether. They don't want that to happen. They want a google search to show NYT web pages, but they just want to make sure that when the user tries to view it, they have to register with NYT first. That means that google must still index the page, but not allow access through the cache. Plus, it must direct to a sign-on page rather than the page itself, but that is something that I'm sure the NYT itself could handle, like it think it does now anyway.
I hear the stuff about "where's the fun in sending robots".
Well, I don't care if other people get to go into space. I'd prefer they didn't if it was going to cost me more.
But, if it was me who was getting the chance to go into space, then that would be a whole different story. I'd be happy to tax everyone to the hilt to pay for my trip.
It might be nice imagining people on the moon and in space etc, but it's just as fascinating for me watching the mars rover etc, and marvelling at the technology. Until it's my turn to buckle up.
I think it's because a Joule is a unit for energy.
And E=mc^2
Hence, knowing c (Speed of light) you can convert easily between the other two.
The "advantage" of breastfeeding is indeed an advantage. Breastfeeding is better for the child than bottling. So, it's an advantage for the child to have their mother looking after them.
:)
It's an advantage to me that women's bodies are more flexible
It's an advantage to the human race that there exists a sex which can have babies. Or, there wouldn't be a human race. Even if you want to lay eggs and share sitting on them, someone's still got to lay the eggs.
And, well, physically, women's brains are more geared towards wanting to have babies than men's are. Which is an advantage to the human race. If women didn't want babies so much, there wouldn't be as many humans. And if men were having the babies, then there wouldn't be as many because how many men would want to go through all that pain ?
As far as I'm aware, all DVD players can do both PAL and NTSC.
Does this mean that this new device will be PAL capable too ?
If so, this would be the perfect thing for us poor Aussies who don't have a Tivo. Sounds like it would probably work without a subscription too. I'm assuming I can set it to record channel 7 at 8.30 every monday, like I can a normal VCR ?
Yippee ! I'm getting a Tivo......
Yeah, but it wouldn't be PAL, would it ?
Not sure about the 'I can program my times in myself' comment... that would defeat the object of Tivo, surely?
Well, a bit, yeah. But you still get lots of storage. It would be like a VCR that you never have to change your tape in. And, you can still pause live tv.
So,
There's all these postings saying "just get a Tivo". What would be the best route for an Aussie ? Remember, we have PAL here, not NTSC, and I doubt there's a subscription service.
Is it possible to use a Tivo from the UK in Australia ?
How does an Aussie get one of these puppies which will work here ? I don't care too much about subscriptions - I can program my times in myself. But, it needs to work with PAL.
So, where can I get one ?
Do I have to hack one to get it to work ? I'd rather just buy one which works out of the box.
"all countries except Canada, Great Britain, and any country that has something we need."
That seems to be the record so far...
Well, Iraq has something which the USA needs... oil
Which is why they're an enemy, rather than someone to ignore. The upshot is that if you have something the USA needs, then you'd better be very friendly to them, or you'll be put on the hitlist
It seems I'm the only person here to actually not know what the original purpose of the police box was.
I mean, before 1960 when they were taken out of service, what were they used for ?
Did they have a telephone inside which connected you to the police ?
Or was it somewhere to hide when you were being chased by hooligans ?