Unless I'm going away on holiday or something, my laptop and my desktop don't get turned off, I use S3.
I've got my laptop set up so when I press the power button, it enters "standby" (Oh, this is WinXP), and its off, almost instantly.
When I want to use it again, I press power, and its on, in about 2 seconds. I reboot maybe once a month, generally for config changes.
I don't know how much power S3 uses, but its not much. My battery is fuct, and I only get 30mins of use now, but I've left my lappy on standby for about 24 hours without AC power, and there was still 40% charge or something.
Every time I see someone shut down ther PC, or especially their laptop, I think why shut the machine down? Everyone is annoyed by long boot times, but hardly anyone I know uses suspend/sleep.
Every few years/months someone starts talking about how one day computers will be like TVs or radios, no waiting around for them to boot, just press power and they are ready. Well guess what folks? We have the technology! Use it!
Dude, the mass of the atmosphere in a ship would be NEGLIGABLE compared to all the metal and stuff thats holding it in.
consider this: air pressure at sea level is 14.something PSI. Thats pounds per square inch.
That means, at sea level, if you took a square that was 1 inch x 1 inch, then the weight of the air above that square, extending all the way to the edge of the atmosphere (>100km) is 14-odd pounds.
I totally agree with you there. As another poster pointed out, bacteria are far, far more than 10x smaller than the typical body cell, and as you and others have pointed out, we are made up of far more than cells containing "our" DNA.
My post was intended to be humourous, not informative or interesting, but I guess you never can tell whats going with the moderators...!
the term "nuclear powered RamJet/ScramJet" doesn't really make sense.
A normal jet engine sucks in air, compresses it with several large turbines, adds fuel and ignites it. In a ramjet the air is compressed by the motion of the engine through the air, think basically a tube that tapers inwards. There are no moving parts, the fowards motion of the unit itself generates the compression.
Problem is, this doesn't work at supersonic speeds. A scramjet is ramjet shaped to work with supersonic air flowing through it... not a simple thing to design, obviously.
a nuclear rocket doesn't work by using combustion, it uses a nuclear reactor core and passes either air from the atmosphere or some on-board fuel through the core to get it very hot... So it expans, exits the rear, and propels the rocket fowards.
Since a nuclear rocket exhaust would be highly radioactive, you wouldn't want to run one in the atmosphere. Not in my back yard, anyway! In the late eighties the US planned to test a nuclear powered rocket over New Zealand as part of the "Timberwind" project in the early 80s (from memory).
The thing about getting to orbit isn't so much the vertical velocity required, its your horizontal velocity. Rockets going to orbit don't go straight up; if they did they would end up coming straight back down... The trick is getting enough horizontal velocity so that as gravity pulls you down towards the earth you are moving fowards fast enough that you are continually "falling over the edge" of the horizon.
With a scramjet you only need half the fuel of a traditional rocket, as you burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of carrying it all with you. Yes, a traditional rocket IS needed to get you out of the atmosphere, but using a scramjet for the initial acceleration would end up saving a lot of fuel, and hence weight.
Actually, they both investigated, the ACCC said no first, but ANZ/Qantas hoped if the NZ commerce commission said yes they could get the ACCC to reconsider. but the CC also said no, so they were screwed (and rightly so - look at how prices are falling now!)
"I wonder if they have considered incorporating sealed helium bladders in the wings and other areas that are not going to be occupied by people."
Hmm I don't think its very simple to contain helium for a long period in anything other than a thick-walled metal cylinder. Doesn't helium just "leak through" most things within a few days/weeks, due to the very small atomic size?
I know this is the problem with transporting/storing hydrogen, and I'd be surprised if this isn't the case with helium. Think about a helium-filled party baloon - goes flat in a couple of days.
Translated to "moron" "Elin Oxenhielm, a 22-year-old madematics student at Stockholm Ubehsity, may habe solbid part of one of the, ERRRR, sciess's great progglems. Next weebuhk an article will be publishid rebealigg heh solushun f' part of Hilbeht's 16d progglem, Swebuhdish news agency TT reports."
Thanks to the Dialectizer. Its pretty funny translated into any of the other options too, but my favourite is "Jive"
Yeah, I always found my palm very useful, but I never had it with me - too much trouble to carry everywhere!
So, I replaced my nokia 8210 and palmpilot with a nokia 7650 (specs here, you can't get them in north america.)
I'm a convert. The 7650 doesn't suffer too much from lack of a full keyboard or touch screen, and it not too big to carry everywhere. The OS is a dream, everything just works and is very intuitave. Its fun taking snaps or short videos with its built-in camera, and the quality is poor, but ok for fun shots. kinda webcam quality. 640x480.
The contacts/calendar function is just as good as the palm, and it seems to sync with outlook with less trouble. The games are very good, and there are lots of them on the web. Most java games are about 100kb and good fun. GPRS means I can use email, web and even FTP from anywhere. FTP is very handy as the phones internal memory is limited. Take a few pics and low on memory - no prob, just FTP them up to my machine at home!
The phone is actually nearly identical to the 3650, but without the fisher-price styling.
In actual fact, only 20 million americans use P2P software.
But some of those people use it alot, far more than the average person, so really what they mean is "the equivalent of 43 million americans use P2P sofware".
Don't worry guys, those scientists have thought of every contingency!
If the black hole does escape and falls to the center of the earth, we just use the Nuke-and-Big-Chunk-o-Iron technique (as detailed here) to crack the earth's crust and send a probe down to scoop it up!
If it takes a million dollar system a hundred days to balance a bank's client records at the end of the month, then they'll buy a hundred of them; however, if it takes a $40,000 system 10 minutes but there might be a glitch (*cough*intel*cough*), or the system might crash halfway through and lose data, then a million dollars it is.
Dude, I don't think anyone will pay much for a system that takes a hundred days to balance records each month;)
For those of you NOT following events in NZ, we're facing severe power shortages this winter.
Down here we've not built any new power plants for many years, we've just had a severe drought over summer causing our hydro lakes to be nearly empty, and just to top things off our largest natural gas field has just started running out - several years earlier than expected.
We've been asked to save 10% power, or we'll likely face brownouts, just as it gets freezing cold here. Yaaaaay.
Quite true, we probably won't be using x86 hardware in 20 years... but I bet whatever we are using will have more than enough horsepower to emulate it.
Look at the C64 emulator scene - I'd imagine that in 20 years Linux, WinNT and stuff will be regarded in the same way C64 is now.
Hell, with the likes of VMWare or VirtualPC we can emulate x86 with todays high-end hardware (yes I know, vmware isn't really emulation, its virtualisation. sue me)
Yes, the ASP.Net Starter Kits are just sample asp.net web projects. Useful, but they aren't opening up any windows code or anything.
They ARE much more than hello world application though, they are examples of common design patterns, showing best practices. ASP.NET developers (like myself) would be advised to download them, and see how Microsoft reccommend you do certain things, and the new license means we are free to incorporate their code in our products - this is new.
We don't need to buy.NET to compile and run them. Microsoft gives the SDK away, which includes all the compilers and documentation. Its just the IDE you pay for...
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Unless I'm going away on holiday or something, my laptop and my desktop don't get turned off, I use S3.
I've got my laptop set up so when I press the power button, it enters "standby" (Oh, this is WinXP), and its off, almost instantly.
When I want to use it again, I press power, and its on, in about 2 seconds. I reboot maybe once a month, generally for config changes.
I don't know how much power S3 uses, but its not much. My battery is fuct, and I only get 30mins of use now, but I've left my lappy on standby for about 24 hours without AC power, and there was still 40% charge or something.
Every time I see someone shut down ther PC, or especially their laptop, I think why shut the machine down? Everyone is annoyed by long boot times, but hardly anyone I know uses suspend/sleep.
Every few years/months someone starts talking about how one day computers will be like TVs or radios, no waiting around for them to boot, just press power and they are ready. Well guess what folks? We have the technology! Use it!
Where I work they filter email pretty aggressively based on keywords.
Here are some keywords that cause an email (incoming or outgoing) to be rejected
"Joke" - because the email must be a joke.
"blone" - err.. presumeably because its a blonde joke?
And, most clever of all:
"spam" - because, the email *must* be spam!
Brilliant! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before! Quick, I'm off to patent this filtering method.
Yeah, I used a script, and came up with the same thing. "furry artpron"... WTF? /me is confused.
Yes, but MS are now allowing you to download this compiler for free, and use it for COMMERCIAL use as well.
Quite a big difference, IMO.
Dude, the mass of the atmosphere in a ship would be NEGLIGABLE compared to all the metal and stuff thats holding it in.
consider this: air pressure at sea level is 14.something PSI. Thats pounds per square inch.
That means, at sea level, if you took a square that was 1 inch x 1 inch, then the weight of the air above that square, extending all the way to the edge of the atmosphere (>100km) is 14-odd pounds.
Its not much.
I totally agree with you there. As another poster pointed out, bacteria are far, far more than 10x smaller than the typical body cell, and as you and others have pointed out, we are made up of far more than cells containing "our" DNA.
My post was intended to be humourous, not informative or interesting, but I guess you never can tell whats going with the moderators...!
I was in a lecture one day and our lecturer said:
"There are about 10^13 cells in the human body. There are also about 10^14 bacteria living in and on the average human body.
That means each one of the cells in your body is outnumbered by bacteria 10-1.
Now, turn around in your seat and look at the person next to you, and think about just what you are looking at..."
(I checked the figures here)
the term "nuclear powered RamJet/ScramJet" doesn't really make sense.
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A normal jet engine sucks in air, compresses it with several large turbines, adds fuel and ignites it. In a ramjet the air is compressed by the motion of the engine through the air, think basically a tube that tapers inwards. There are no moving parts, the fowards motion of the unit itself generates the compression.
Problem is, this doesn't work at supersonic speeds. A scramjet is ramjet shaped to work with supersonic air flowing through it... not a simple thing to design, obviously.
a nuclear rocket doesn't work by using combustion, it uses a nuclear reactor core and passes either air from the atmosphere or some on-board fuel through the core to get it very hot... So it expans, exits the rear, and propels the rocket fowards.
Since a nuclear rocket exhaust would be highly radioactive, you wouldn't want to run one in the atmosphere. Not in my back yard, anyway! In the late eighties the US planned to test a nuclear powered rocket over New Zealand as part of the "Timberwind" project in the early 80s (from memory).
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/13/13p16b.h
Basically, yes.
The thing about getting to orbit isn't so much the vertical velocity required, its your horizontal velocity. Rockets going to orbit don't go straight up; if they did they would end up coming straight back down... The trick is getting enough horizontal velocity so that as gravity pulls you down towards the earth you are moving fowards fast enough that you are continually "falling over the edge" of the horizon.
With a scramjet you only need half the fuel of a traditional rocket, as you burn oxygen from the atmosphere instead of carrying it all with you. Yes, a traditional rocket IS needed to get you out of the atmosphere, but using a scramjet for the initial acceleration would end up saving a lot of fuel, and hence weight.
Q) What do you call a Lada with a sunroof?
A) A miniskip
Actually, they both investigated, the ACCC said no first, but ANZ/Qantas hoped if the NZ commerce commission said yes they could get the ACCC to reconsider. but the CC also said no, so they were screwed (and rightly so - look at how prices are falling now!)
"I wonder if they have considered incorporating sealed helium bladders in the wings and other areas that are not going to be occupied by people."
Hmm I don't think its very simple to contain helium for a long period in anything other than a thick-walled metal cylinder. Doesn't helium just "leak through" most things within a few days/weeks, due to the very small atomic size? I know this is the problem with transporting/storing hydrogen, and I'd be surprised if this isn't the case with helium. Think about a helium-filled party baloon - goes flat in a couple of days.
Someone send Darl a soap-on-a-rope for xmas. He's gonna need it.
For you, no problem!!
Translated to "moron"
"Elin Oxenhielm, a 22-year-old madematics student at Stockholm Ubehsity, may habe solbid part of one of the, ERRRR, sciess's great progglems. Next weebuhk an article will be publishid rebealigg heh solushun f' part of Hilbeht's 16d progglem, Swebuhdish news agency TT reports."
Thanks to the Dialectizer. Its pretty funny translated into any of the other options too, but my favourite is "Jive"
"Fuel Cells:
The wonderful side of this dream is that some engineers expect it to be reality by the end of 2001"
Err... whats the hold up? Are they finishing duke nukem first?
Maybe it was someone from SCO, inserting code from UnixWare to give them the 'evidence' they need...
;)
Has anyone tried sys_wait4(__WCLONE|__WALL) on Unixware?
Yeah, I always found my palm very useful, but I never had it with me - too much trouble to carry everywhere!
So, I replaced my nokia 8210 and palmpilot with a nokia 7650 (specs here, you can't get them in north america.)
I'm a convert. The 7650 doesn't suffer too much from lack of a full keyboard or touch screen, and it not too big to carry everywhere. The OS is a dream, everything just works and is very intuitave. Its fun taking snaps or short videos with its built-in camera, and the quality is poor, but ok for fun shots. kinda webcam quality. 640x480.
The contacts/calendar function is just as good as the palm, and it seems to sync with outlook with less trouble. The games are very good, and there are lots of them on the web. Most java games are about 100kb and good fun. GPRS means I can use email, web and even FTP from anywhere. FTP is very handy as the phones internal memory is limited. Take a few pics and low on memory - no prob, just FTP them up to my machine at home!
The phone is actually nearly identical to the 3650, but without the fisher-price styling.
Chillisoft was in California, so California law probably applies. And it's complicated. See California Civil Code section 2080-2080.10.
:)
Sorry dude - wrong company. You're talking about Chillisoft. The rest of us are talking about Chilliware
In actual fact, only 20 million americans use P2P software.
But some of those people use it alot, far more than the average person, so really what they mean is "the equivalent of 43 million americans use P2P sofware".
Don't worry guys, those scientists have thought of every contingency!
If the black hole does escape and falls to the center of the earth, we just use the Nuke-and-Big-Chunk-o-Iron technique (as detailed here)
to crack the earth's crust and send a probe down to scoop it up!
No worries mate, she'll be right!
If it takes a million dollar system a hundred days to balance a bank's client records at the end of the month, then they'll buy a hundred of them; however, if it takes a $40,000 system 10 minutes but there might be a glitch (*cough*intel*cough*), or the system might crash halfway through and lose data, then a million dollars it is.
;)
Dude, I don't think anyone will pay much for a system that takes a hundred days to balance records each month
For those of you NOT following events in NZ, we're facing severe power shortages this winter.
Down here we've not built any new power plants for many years, we've just had a severe drought over summer causing our hydro lakes to be nearly empty, and just to top things off our largest natural gas field has just started running out - several years earlier than expected.
We've been asked to save 10% power, or we'll likely face brownouts, just as it gets freezing cold here. Yaaaaay.
pass me the sheep.
Quite true, we probably won't be using x86 hardware in 20 years... but I bet whatever we are using will have more than enough horsepower to emulate it.
Look at the C64 emulator scene - I'd imagine that in 20 years Linux, WinNT and stuff will be regarded in the same way C64 is now.
Hell, with the likes of VMWare or VirtualPC we can emulate x86 with todays high-end hardware (yes I know, vmware isn't really emulation, its virtualisation. sue me)
Yes, the ASP.Net Starter Kits are just sample asp.net web projects. Useful, but they aren't opening up any windows code or anything.
.NET to compile and run them. Microsoft gives the SDK away, which includes all the compilers and documentation. Its just the IDE you pay for...
They ARE much more than hello world application though, they are examples of common design patterns, showing best practices. ASP.NET developers (like myself) would be advised to download them, and see how Microsoft reccommend you do certain things, and the new license means we are free to incorporate their code in our products - this is new.
We don't need to buy
WRONG. FFS, read the parent of the post you are replying to. IIS DOES NOT RUN IN KERNEL SPACE.
Although this is really just a technicality, since it does run as LocalSystem - the unix equivalent of root, but without any network access.
as the parent's parent said, IIS 6 can be run as a completely unpriveledged user. The way it should have been from the start...