Don't say that, a neutron star has a diameter of about 25 km.:)
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Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX-like operating system mostly for the Intel chip and its clones.
This sounds like FreeBSD performs vastly better than any OS in the world. And how much faster is exteremly compared to Linux or Windows? Twice the speed? Four times?
"Fahrenheight? It's too damn hot in here for your jibberish. Go fill up the $24 AC with ice so we can get the temperature to a respectable level of Centrigadey goodness."
Acutually, it's called Celcius, not centigrade, and has been so since 1948.
Yes, that's possible. Sure, you have to check "Kernel debugging" in make menuconfig to get access to the sysrq option. But that alone doesn't add any debug symbols to the kernel.
I take this opportunity to do a shameless repost from my blog (sundae.se).. It's mostly just a random thought, and would probably not work in real life. But still an intersting idea, I think. (By the way, there seem to be other people having some similar ideas.) Ok, here goes:
I'm having an idea about how to get an almost endless resource of domain names available on the internet. I'm pretty sure I read something similar on Slashdot, but I lost the reference a long time ago.
Anyway, the idea is to allow anyone to register a top level domain (like.com,.net,.se) - but you can't use it directly. So whenever a top level domain is created, you have to register a second level domain (like sundae.se) under it to make use of it. Also, it's free for everyone to make use of the newly created top level domain. This system would allow people and companies to share the same second level domain to a much larger degree than now. Just like people have the same surnames, but have different street addresses, which makes them distinguishable. One example would be: apple.rec, apple.comp, apple.fruit.
However, this system also opens up a door for scammers and other not-so-nice people, because it's easy to get confused about if the domain really belongs to the company it claims to do. And we don't want people to get tricked into fake online banking sites, do we? Some kind of certificate (which you would get when registering your domain) integrated with the DNS would maybe solve this problem. The browser could then compare the certificate with the one on the web server and display the results quite visible, for every address the user visits. Also, some kind of machine learning technology could be used to monitor the certificates and warn the user if something is wrong. To discourage the use of disposable, throw away domains (that would make spammers really happy), there would still have be some kind of fee to register a domain.
Similarly, linux and other X-Windows systems implements focus-follows-pointer, and doesn't insist on raising a window when it gets focus. This is a huge time saver when you get used to it. As far as I can tell, neither Windows nor OS X permits this.
Actually, it's also possible in Windows - just add TweakUI.
It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer.
Once again.. for the millionth time: it's not about copyright when you are dealing with brand names (like M[a]cIntosh), it's a trademark issue.
Have you actually tried that? Here it takes a P90 for winamp to do its stuff, even with reduced settings. This may be a result of having to decode *and play* the file, of course . ..
Yes, I've tried it. But yes, I had to use the "low quality" settings, like 22 kHz and mono sound.
If you have the entire contents in memory you can be assured of not skipping if there becomes contention for the disk.
Well, the process can still be paged out. So you don't really gain anything from doing that.
iTunes on the mac is famous for not skipping no matter the system load, guess why?
Decoding an mp3 file is not a heavy task, even a 486 CPU would manage that. And Winamp hasn't skipped on my computer either, regardless of load. So I don't think it has anything to do with pre-decompressing the music.
So, Venus temperature ranges from -45 C to 464 C. Is that so extreme even when compared to our own satellite?
Quoting Wikipedia: The temperature at the tops of these clouds is approximately 45C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given by NASA, is 464C. The minimal value of the temperature, listed in the table, refers to cloud tops --on surface the temperature is never below 400C.
So, on the surface of Venus, there's not such a dramatic temperature range.
The Christian Science Monitor, which is a non-partisan newspaper I like to read online sometimes
Off-topic, I know... Anyway, The Christian Science Monitor is published by a church called Christian Science, which can be categorized under "New Religious Movements". I wouldn't quote a source like that, because I don't know about their values, what they believe in and their agendas. And just because you say that it's non-partisan doesn't make it so. It may be, or it may not be.
Aside from looking cool and being important to penguins (the two things that the article seems to focus on) this can affect things that are actually important.
The ice tongue that the iceberg is going to hit is the ocean end of a glacier. If that is knocked off by the collision that could be like pulling the cork from a bottle. It may cause the glacier to discharge into the more rapidly than it otherwise would, raising sea levels.
How does having a projector properly mounted to the ceiling and a screen against a wall take up any more space than a LCD or equivalent?
That's the nice thing about a projector, you can mount it just about anywhere.
Sure you can, but a projector still requires quite some space. You need to have a certain distance between the projector and the wall (unless you get a wide angle lens - which can be quite costly). Also, you have to get rid of anything that's obstructing the light beam. In a small apartment, that's not always the easiest thing to do.
How would it be different than blowing up an oil pipeline?
Well for starters, the nuclear reactor is run by a leading edge PLC which could detect an event like that and shut down the reactor.
Nuclear Reactors have come a long way since chernobyl.
Sure - and Chernobyl was obsolete even in 1986. But you still need some kind of material to "burn" in a reactor - which is radioactive. So if someone blows the whole thing up, I would guess that the effect would be the same as from a dirty bomb.
However, there are other neat reactor designs, like one in China that is helium cooled and also supposed to be idiot proof.
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How many Microsoft-funded studies have been buried because the conclusion was "incorrect"?
How would Dr. Thompson ever know that? Has he been in charge for a lot of MS-funded studies lately?
It's too big to be a space station.
:)
Don't say that, a neutron star has a diameter of about 25 km.
Starting out from the 386BSD project, it is an extremely fast UNIX-like operating system mostly for the Intel chip and its clones.
This sounds like FreeBSD performs vastly better than any OS in the world. And how much faster is exteremly compared to Linux or Windows? Twice the speed? Four times?
I don't really get it.. I RTFA, but I still don't understand where you are supposed to get your internet uplink from?
The article talks about the new law (as of today) which makes it illegal to download unauthorized copies of music and movies.
New laws are being considered there that would help crack down on sites like the pirate bay, but they are not there yet.
Well, tomorrow is July 1st.
"Fahrenheight? It's too damn hot in here for your jibberish. Go fill up the $24 AC with ice so we can get the temperature to a respectable level of Centrigadey goodness."
Acutually, it's called Celcius, not centigrade, and has been so since 1948.
Yes, that's possible.
Sure, you have to check "Kernel debugging" in make menuconfig to get access to the sysrq option. But that alone doesn't add any debug symbols to the kernel.
Did you have CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO set when you compiled the kernel? That may add several MBs to your kernel...
We should probably have some more TLDs
.com, .net, .se) - but you can't use it directly. So whenever a top level domain is created, you have to register a second level domain (like sundae.se) under it to make use of it. Also, it's free for everyone to make use of the newly created top level domain. This system would allow people and companies to share the same second level domain to a much larger degree than now. Just like people have the same surnames, but have different street addresses, which makes them distinguishable. One example would be: apple.rec, apple.comp, apple.fruit.
I take this opportunity to do a shameless repost from my blog (sundae.se).. It's mostly just a random thought, and would probably not work in real life. But still an intersting idea, I think. (By the way, there seem to be other people having some similar ideas.) Ok, here goes:
I'm having an idea about how to get an almost endless resource of domain names available on the internet. I'm pretty sure I read something similar on Slashdot, but I lost the reference a long time ago.
Anyway, the idea is to allow anyone to register a top level domain (like
However, this system also opens up a door for scammers and other not-so-nice people, because it's easy to get confused about if the domain really belongs to the company it claims to do. And we don't want people to get tricked into fake online banking sites, do we? Some kind of certificate (which you would get when registering your domain) integrated with the DNS would maybe solve this problem. The browser could then compare the certificate with the one on the web server and display the results quite visible, for every address the user visits. Also, some kind of machine learning technology could be used to monitor the certificates and warn the user if something is wrong. To discourage the use of disposable, throw away domains (that would make spammers really happy), there would still have be some kind of fee to register a domain.
Uh oh! New machines come with Windows XP - can't get approval to get Win2k any more. And guess what: The good old VB 4 app won't run under XP.
This might help. It worked for me...
The "rest of the city" is a lot further from your brain than your phone's antenna. Also; bear in mind:
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1: (most) Mobile phones have vertical monopole antennae - ergo they radiate best sideways (i.e. into your head!)
2: Mobile phone antennas are designed to use your skull as part of the antenna system; they DELIBERATELY radiate into your head!
Care to show any references backing that up?
An aside; one of the places you are less likely to be affected by radiation from the base-station antenna, is right below it.
Agreed.
It takes about 40m range before the signal radiates widely enough to reach the ground (due to the height of the transmitter)
Well, that would depend on the height of the tower.
Similarly, linux and other X-Windows systems implements focus-follows-pointer, and doesn't insist on raising a window when it gets focus. This is a huge time saver when you get used to it. As far as I can tell, neither Windows nor OS X permits this.
Actually, it's also possible in Windows - just add TweakUI.
It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to "Macintosh" to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer.
Once again.. for the millionth time: it's not about copyright when you are dealing with brand names (like M[a]cIntosh), it's a trademark issue.
There are many, many countries out there with huge hunger problems-- some have far worse, I'd wager, than anything in North Korea.
Did you that one report estimated that two million people have died from starvation in North Korea since the 90's? Link Link
Have you actually tried that? Here it takes a P90 for winamp to do its stuff, even with reduced settings. This may be a result of having to decode *and play* the file, of course . . .
Yes, I've tried it. But yes, I had to use the "low quality" settings, like 22 kHz and mono sound.
If you have the entire contents in memory you can be assured of not skipping if there becomes contention for the disk.
Well, the process can still be paged out. So you don't really gain anything from doing that.
iTunes on the mac is famous for not skipping no matter the system load, guess why?
Decoding an mp3 file is not a heavy task, even a 486 CPU would manage that. And Winamp hasn't skipped on my computer either, regardless of load. So I don't think it has anything to do with pre-decompressing the music.
So, Venus temperature ranges from -45 C to 464 C. Is that so extreme even when compared to our own satellite?
Quoting Wikipedia: The temperature at the tops of these clouds is approximately 45C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given by NASA, is 464C. The minimal value of the temperature, listed in the table, refers to cloud tops --on surface the temperature is never below 400C.
So, on the surface of Venus, there's not such a dramatic temperature range.
The Christian Science Monitor, which is a non-partisan newspaper I like to read online sometimes
Off-topic, I know... Anyway,
The Christian Science Monitor is published by a church called Christian Science, which can be categorized under "New Religious Movements". I wouldn't quote a source like that, because I don't know about their values, what they believe in and their agendas. And just because you say that it's non-partisan doesn't make it so. It may be, or it may not be.
Aside from looking cool and being important to penguins (the two things that the article seems to focus on) this can affect things that are actually important.
The ice tongue that the iceberg is going to hit is the ocean end of a glacier. If that is knocked off by the collision that could be like pulling the cork from a bottle. It may cause the glacier to discharge into the more rapidly than it otherwise would, raising sea levels.
Clickable link.
How does having a projector properly mounted to the ceiling and a screen against a wall take up any more space than a LCD or equivalent?
That's the nice thing about a projector, you can mount it just about anywhere.
Sure you can, but a projector still requires quite some space. You need to have a certain distance between the projector and the wall (unless you get a wide angle lens - which can be quite costly).
Also, you have to get rid of anything that's obstructing the light beam. In a small apartment, that's not always the easiest thing to do.
That's not adware.. it's nagware.
The free version is also adware. A fact they lie about on their website. For this reason I avoid trillian entirely.
Well, from an outsider's point of view.. how do we know you're not just trolling? Some proof backing up what you're suggesting could be helpful.
Clickable link
How would it be different than blowing up an oil pipeline?
Well for starters, the nuclear reactor is run by a leading edge PLC which could detect an event like that and shut down the reactor.
Nuclear Reactors have come a long way since chernobyl.
Sure - and Chernobyl was obsolete even in 1986. But you still need some kind of material to "burn" in a reactor - which is radioactive. So if someone blows the whole thing up, I would guess that the effect would be the same as from a dirty bomb.
However, there are other neat reactor designs, like one in China that is helium cooled and also supposed to be idiot proof.