If you can't replicate elements, you can't replicate anything. Moron.
Your post contains such a vast quantity of bovine excrement that light has difficulty escaping from its surface.
There is a vast difference between assembling atoms into molecules (e.g., carbon into diamond), and transmuting one element into another (e.g., lead into gold). All current nanotechnological research (of which I am aware) concerns itself with the former, not the latter.
Hence, diamonds are much easier to manufacture than gold.
Say, did you know that you don't have to hit the return key when you reach the right-hand side of the text entry box? Your text will automatically wrap around to the next line!! Yes, it's true; it really, really will! Isn't technology wonderful?
Before you compress, run a defragger that zeros out all unused blocks (and, even better, the unused bytes at the end of the last block in each file). The zeroed blocks/bytes will compress to almost nothing (relative to the 1Gb of data). Also, you can dd to "a single image file, which can be much easier to work with."
while the small number of independent opensource Java implementations out there flounder several versions behind the current spec.
"Flounder" is a fish. The correct word to use in this situation is "founder". This misuse is a common mistake; I have seen newscasters and print reporters make it.
Thanks for the info. I think that if I want to get a deeper understanding of how Linux works, I'll probably go with LFS, rather than Gentoo. The documentation that I've read for both LFS and Gentoo installation seem to be step-by-step recipes for how to get a sytem up. What I'd like to see is a thorough explanation of why each step is done.
I am familiar with the general principles of UNIX, as I was a UNIX administrator back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I also developed some system software for a fault-tolerant UNIX-like kernel shortly thereafter (device drivers, filesystems, etc.). I also delved into BSD UNIX internals at about that time. It would be interesting to see how Linux differs. One of these days, I might get back into it.
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I've read the documentation (or an earlier version of it, at least), but I was wondering whether there was a script of some kind that did everything (or almost everything) for you. The two posters that I quoted conflicted with each other; hence my question.
There's this thing called fiction where you don't have to tell the truth, then there's this thing called science fiction where you can just make anything you like up.
That's Fantasy, not Science Fiction.
Science Fiction speculates about areas where current human knowledge is lacking, but does not violate the known laws of physics, etc. With Fantasy, all bets are off.
For example, using a warp drive to travel at super-luminal speeds is Science Fiction; using a chemical rocket to do it is Fantasy. Most stories with magic in them are Fantasy, although I've read/seen a few that try to explain magic using technology, such as Babylon-5's technomages. (Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but most magic in fiction these days is distinguishable from any sufficiently advanced technology because it violates known laws of physics (particulary the second law of thermodynamics).)
Sometimes things that claim to be Science Fiction start out as Science Fiction, but turn into Fantasy later (e.g., Stargate-SG1). Other things were never Science Fiction to begin with (e.g., Space 1999).
But true Science Fiction tries to remain consistant with the current state of human knowledge, and definitely does not "just make anything you like up".
Well, they can search your 'private' house if they get a warrant, so why is your data any different?
The difference is, you are not required to give the police a key to your house or to assist them in any way with their search. If you don't give them a key, they can break down the door (sometimes they do anyway) or pick the lock, but they can't arrest you for refusing to provide them with a key.
The same for encrypted data. If they have a search warrant, they can sieze the data and try to decrypt them themselves, but you are not (or should not be) required to give them the key.
To what extent do things like Alzheimer's cause death? They harm quality of life, certainly, but not being able to remember things is not fatal.
I would guess that it could be fatal if it were to damage those parts of the brain responsible for autonomous processes, e.g., breathing. IANAMP (medical person), so I don't know whether it can actually do this.
If the tank is outside, the hydrogen will rise or dissipate almost immediately. Also, the rapid combustion of hydrogen results in an implosion, which is usually not as bad as an explosion (such as that caused by the ignition of gasoline vapor). Finally, seepage can be reduced by lining the tank.
where are you going to get the energy to do this electrolysis? [...] solar cells output DC
DC output is ideal for electrolysis. (In fact, using AC for electrolysis would require a subsequent step to separate the resulting oxygen and hydrogen.) You don't need to convert to AC or put it on the Grid; have the solar cells in the vicinity of the electrolysis plant and you're all set.
The problem with the 50% efficiency (and other problems) of fuel cells will be solved or mitigated with the passage of time, as more and more research is done by energy companies (due to the finite and diminishing supply of fossil fuels). In the meantime, these problems can be avoided by burning the hydrogen and using the heat to run a Stirling or other engine. The engine can drive a generator to generate electricity, or the mechanical output can be used directly.
unless we invent interstellar travel, we have a finite shelflife here.
Eventually, our universe will rip itself apart (the accelerating expanding universe theory). So, unless we invent interdimensional travel, we have a finite shelf life here.
so your password is IagmuplMafasHIadifGAnnito? Forget the password, how do you remember that mnemonic?
"I'm a geeky messed-up plywood-licker. My aardvark fondles attic stairs. However, I am debasing inexpensive furniture. Giving Anita naughty nighties is terribly optimistic."
C++ won that competition, though the reasons why are obscure to me.
A couple of possible reasons:
C++ was created by a guy at AT&T/Bell Labs, where C was created. Objective C was created by NextStep (?) for their NeXT machine. So C++ had greater visibility.
The early C++ compilers translated C++ into C, and thus were more easily ported to other machines/systems. (I bought a C++ compiler that did this for my Amiga back around 1985 or so.) IFAICR, Objective C did not do this.
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I mean, most of my relatives don't know anything about computers, much less debugging.
That's all very well, but where are the service packs for MS-Windows 95?
That would be great!
Now a burgler would know not only where all the cameras are, but how far away from your house you are.
There is a vast difference between assembling atoms into molecules (e.g., carbon into diamond), and transmuting one element into another (e.g., lead into gold).
All current nanotechnological research (of which I am aware) concerns itself with the former, not the latter.
Hence, diamonds are much easier to manufacture than gold.
(see also this post.
Say, did you know that you don't have to hit the return key when you reach the right-hand side of the text entry box?
Your text will automatically wrap around to the next line!!
Yes, it's true; it really, really will!
Isn't technology wonderful?
Before you compress, run a defragger that zeros out all unused blocks (and, even better, the unused bytes at the end of the last block in each file).
The zeroed blocks/bytes will compress to almost nothing (relative to the 1Gb of data).
Also, you can dd to "a single image file, which can be much easier to work with."
The correct word to use in this situation is "founder".
This misuse is a common mistake; I have seen newscasters and print reporters make it.
Thanks for the info.
I think that if I want to get a deeper understanding of how Linux works, I'll probably go with LFS, rather than Gentoo.
The documentation that I've read for both LFS and Gentoo installation seem to be step-by-step recipes for how to get a sytem up.
What I'd like to see is a thorough explanation of why each step is done.
I am familiar with the general principles of UNIX, as I was a UNIX administrator back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and I also developed some system software for a fault-tolerant UNIX-like kernel shortly thereafter (device drivers, filesystems, etc.).
I also delved into BSD UNIX internals at about that time.
It would be interesting to see how Linux differs.
One of these days, I might get back into it.
Thanks for the info.
Yeah, I've read the documentation (or an earlier version of it, at least), but I was wondering whether there was a script of some kind that did everything (or almost everything) for you.
The two posters that I quoted conflicted with each other; hence my question.
OK, thanks.
OK, thanks for the info.
Science Fiction speculates about areas where current human knowledge is lacking, but does not violate the known laws of physics, etc.
With Fantasy, all bets are off.
For example, using a warp drive to travel at super-luminal speeds is Science Fiction; using a chemical rocket to do it is Fantasy.
Most stories with magic in them are Fantasy, although I've read/seen a few that try to explain magic using technology, such as Babylon-5's technomages.
(Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but most magic in fiction these days is distinguishable from any sufficiently advanced technology because it violates known laws of physics (particulary the second law of thermodynamics).)
Sometimes things that claim to be Science Fiction start out as Science Fiction, but turn into Fantasy later (e.g., Stargate-SG1).
Other things were never Science Fiction to begin with (e.g., Space 1999).
But true Science Fiction tries to remain consistant with the current state of human knowledge, and definitely does not "just make anything you like up".
Does Gentoo have an installer, or not?
(Personally, I use Slackware.)
If you don't give them a key, they can break down the door (sometimes they do anyway) or pick the lock, but they can't arrest you for refusing to provide them with a key.
The same for encrypted data.
If they have a search warrant, they can sieze the data and try to decrypt them themselves, but you are not (or should not be) required to give them the key.
IANAMP (medical person), so I don't know whether it can actually do this.
Also, the rapid combustion of hydrogen results in an implosion, which is usually not as bad as an explosion (such as that caused by the ignition of gasoline vapor).
Finally, seepage can be reduced by lining the tank.DC output is ideal for electrolysis.
(In fact, using AC for electrolysis would require a subsequent step to separate the resulting oxygen and hydrogen.)
You don't need to convert to AC or put it on the Grid; have the solar cells in the vicinity of the electrolysis plant and you're all set.
The problem with the 50% efficiency (and other problems) of fuel cells will be solved or mitigated with the passage of time, as more and more research is done by energy companies (due to the finite and diminishing supply of fossil fuels).
In the meantime, these problems can be avoided by burning the hydrogen and using the heat to run a Stirling or other engine.
The engine can drive a generator to generate electricity, or the mechanical output can be used directly.
Better:
"Loose" rhymes with "Goose".
"Lose" rhymes with "Choose".
No, wait, "Lose" rhymes with "Chose".
No, wait, with "hose".
With "booze"?
No, wait...
Ah, crap, screw it.
So, unless we invent interdimensional travel, we have a finite shelf life here.
My aardvark fondles attic stairs.
However, I am debasing inexpensive furniture.
Giving Anita naughty nighties is terribly optimistic."
Never mind.
I wish I had known that.
I paid mucho bucks for the SAS C++ compiler for the Amiga.
Objective C was created by NextStep (?) for their NeXT machine.
So C++ had greater visibility.
(I bought a C++ compiler that did this for my Amiga back around 1985 or so.)
IFAICR, Objective C did not do this.