Dude, I had a similar experience. Suggestion: kill your preferences folder, as there may be something nasty in it. You'll find it in C:\Documents and Settings\your-name-here\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles.
Of course, you'll lose all your bookmarks, preferences, settings, etc.
Disclaimer: I don't know a damned thing about Mozilla's guts. I just really, really like it, and when it broke after I upgraded it, I was desperate, and this (rather extreme) fix worked for me.
There is no magnetic field in the cabin, credit cards, etc are safe.
Well, I don't know anything about these fancy-pants Magneto-trains, but I can tell you that there's quite a bit of a magnetic field in an ordinary subway car.
Here's a little experiment you can try yourself, on your subway, or on the next MagLev train that you ride: scatter a handful of paper clips on the floor. Try it in several spots. Near the motors, the paper clips will stand straight up as the motors start. It's sort of horrifyingly cool.
On the Washington, D.C. Metro trains, the biggest magnetic fields are near the doors. I guess that's where the wheels are.
A professor once described computing on chips as a process of filling and emptying buckets of electrons.
He suggested a water analogy: imagine that a CPU contains a large number of buckets, with some simple plumbing between then. Computing consists of filling the buckets (from the faucets above) and emptying the buckets into each other, and eventually onto the floor below.
His point: the faster you want to compute, the more water/electrons are going to be pumped through the system. Faster -> more electrons per unit time -> more power consumption -> more heat.
The only way to make faster chips run at the same heat level is to make the buckets smaller, and I beleive that's hard to do.
That sounds like something that my mother in law can, and would, do.
Perhaps there's a huge business opportunity here: a big chain of photo-finishing shops, seeing the writing on the wall, might want to consider proprietary hardware to do this. Make the camera readable only by the Wal-Mart machine. Sell the cameras for below cost, and make it up in the printing / CD burning business.
Yes, dweebs like us could defeat the copy protection, but why would we bother?
Yeah, but apart from looking really cool, I'm still not sure I understand how this would help.
Windows behind windows... 3D would only help this if I could move my head around to see what was behind them. Otherwise, what's the point? Yes, that window that's partly obscured looks like it's farther away. But so what? It's still obscured.
Why? I'll tell ya why, Sparky: It's because big national projects like this tend to distract the masses from the fact that they're living in medieval poverty, and that their leaders are corrupt and/or ineffective.
At least it's less destructive than a war, which history shows us is often fomented for the same purpose.
If the net effect is to bring more people downtown, and that boosts sales at local businesses, then the idea is that the city will recoup their investment with from the increased sales taxes.
I think the article implied that it sort of built up until it started spilling over the top someplace. After that, the spillway started cutting into the rim, producing a bigger spillway...
So the triggering event might just have been: got too full.
An open-source version of Quicken or MS Money might address something that I hate about both of them: the constant advertising. It's annoying to be "warned" by MS Money: "Warning! You haven't registered to receive free money-saving offers!" "Click here to save on life insurance!"
I'd feel better if I were running a bootleg copy. But I stupidly paid retail for it.
I agree. It would go a LOOOONG way if I could look up a phone number on my PDA, and then tell the PDA to tell the phone to dial the number. Or tell the phone: Here, send this e-mail.
That'd be plenty integrated for me!
They're working on something sort of similar in the desert in Israel: Build a big tower near the coast, with holes in the side at the base. Spray water in the top. The cool air falls, and blows out the holes, where you've placed turbines.
And what about the NOISE? I bet a wind turbine that but would make a howl that you could hear in.. in... well, I haven't a clue about Australian goegraphy. But I bet it'd irritate the hell out of the cows.
Dude: PGP, in the forms that I've seen, permits output to ASCII. This is good for when you're trying to send encrypted e-mail messages, and you don't know what might happen to binary data.
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Dude, I had a similar experience. Suggestion: kill your preferences folder, as there may be something nasty in it. You'll find it in .
C:\Documents and Settings\your-name-here\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles
Of course, you'll lose all your bookmarks, preferences, settings, etc.
Disclaimer: I don't know a damned thing about Mozilla's guts. I just really, really like it, and when it broke after I upgraded it, I was desperate, and this (rather extreme) fix worked for me.
Well, I don't know anything about these fancy-pants Magneto-trains, but I can tell you that there's quite a bit of a magnetic field in an ordinary subway car.
Here's a little experiment you can try yourself, on your subway, or on the next MagLev train that you ride: scatter a handful of paper clips on the floor. Try it in several spots. Near the motors, the paper clips will stand straight up as the motors start. It's sort of horrifyingly cool.
On the Washington, D.C. Metro trains, the biggest magnetic fields are near the doors. I guess that's where the wheels are.
Damn this language barrier!
And Babelfish doesn't help.
A professor once described computing on chips as a process of filling and emptying buckets of electrons.
He suggested a water analogy: imagine that a CPU contains a large number of buckets, with some simple plumbing between then. Computing consists of filling the buckets (from the faucets above) and emptying the buckets into each other, and eventually onto the floor below.
His point: the faster you want to compute, the more water/electrons are going to be pumped through the system. Faster -> more electrons per unit time -> more power consumption -> more heat.
The only way to make faster chips run at the same heat level is to make the buckets smaller, and I beleive that's hard to do.
Are there records kept for the amount of time the typical Slashdot victim-server lives after being posted?
That might make in interesting resarch project.
Well, OK, you're right.
That sounds like something that my mother in law can, and would, do.
Perhaps there's a huge business opportunity here: a big chain of photo-finishing shops, seeing the writing on the wall, might want to consider proprietary hardware to do this. Make the camera readable only by the Wal-Mart machine. Sell the cameras for below cost, and make it up in the printing / CD burning business.
Yes, dweebs like us could defeat the copy protection, but why would we bother?
"film has definitively lost the battle..."
Pardon me, but the battle won't be "lost" until the local supermarket starts selling disposable 3M-pixel digital cameras.
Yeah, but apart from looking really cool, I'm still not sure I understand how this would help.
Windows behind windows... 3D would only help this if I could move my head around to see what was behind them. Otherwise, what's the point? Yes, that window that's partly obscured looks like it's farther away. But so what? It's still obscured.
Are you sure that what you're seeing on those billboards are wind-powered generators?
In my neighborhood, they put those on top of dark-background billboards to keep the birds off.
This device is a God-damned miracle, my jaded brother. The article was about the author's personal reaction to something truly amazing.
I thought the article was swell.
Why? I'll tell ya why, Sparky: It's because big national projects like this tend to distract the masses from the fact that they're living in medieval poverty, and that their leaders are corrupt and/or ineffective.
At least it's less destructive than a war, which history shows us is often fomented for the same purpose.
I think they said that they were going to coat it with something shiny.
But think about it this way:
If the net effect is to bring more people downtown, and that boosts sales at local businesses, then the idea is that the city will recoup their investment with from the increased sales taxes.
So it's not free, but it might pay for itself.
So the triggering event might just have been: got too full.
I'd feel better if I were running a bootleg copy. But I stupidly paid retail for it.
I agree. It would go a LOOOONG way if I could look up a phone number on my PDA, and then tell the PDA to tell the phone to dial the number. Or tell the phone: Here, send this e-mail.
That'd be plenty integrated for me!
Think about it: Hold your PDA as you normally do. Pretend that there's full-motion live video of your mother. Hi, Ma!
Now pretend there's a camera in it. Where is that camera pointing?
Works at night, too. See:
http://magnet.consortia.org.il/ConSolar/Sabin/Z
And what about the NOISE? I bet a wind turbine that but would make a howl that you could hear in.. in... well, I haven't a clue about Australian goegraphy. But I bet it'd irritate the hell out of the cows.
This is a little more than three times faster than 2000 feet in 6000 years.
Dude: PGP, in the forms that I've seen, permits output to ASCII. This is good for when you're trying to send encrypted e-mail messages, and you don't know what might happen to binary data.
Charming!