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  1. Re:Help me understand... on Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? · · Score: 1

    I don't know if they really are able to reflect a true firestorm. I mean the safe might be not damaged, but he needs to reflect also all the heat. Get some 100C and I guess you can through the tapes away. The normal ones are made from metal meaing the heat goes through like nothing.

    Additionally if you have a real "hard core" fire, the floor benath the safe might at one point just give up, or the whole building collapses.

  2. Re:Help me understand... on Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? · · Score: 1

    Well but fires are not. Just in case ever asked whats really going to happen if your server room catches fire? Everything lost? *Everything*?

    I think this scenario is realistic enough. If you're an admin, for example talk with your chief about that. In a small company we backuped the data, and stored them in the company. During a fire training we once asked, well what would have happened if the fire would have been real? We would have been wiped out of buisness due to total loss. Easy solution once a week a trusted employee took home the big backup disk (if you want for security can be encrypted also). It's a cheap solution and in the worst case you just loose 4-5 buisness additional buisness days.

  3. Re:Ive said it before.... on Time to Face the Music · · Score: 1

    "Except, I don't trust the quality."

    Yes you're one of these audio geeks that can't stand the feeling to know that some audio compressor even stole you a single bit of your audio, altough even it's one of a high performance compressor, which cuts away data that is prooven to be under the human hearing level. No human cut ever hear that.

    Not that many mp3 you get on the net are ripped badly on the net, in a qualitiy rip of pop or modern music you can impossible hear any differency. Except only real gifted musicans, -maybe- on classic music.

    But I guess that is the same thing why people are bying gold or silver cables, when their effect on audio quality is so negliable in comperasion of the boxes, it's still a market for those brain-fuckers that can "hear" anything on which they spent a lot of money on.

  4. Re:How to interact with open source developers on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    """If you can code at all, sending in a patch will get you lots of goodwill from developers."""

    Usually, yes they will kiss you the feet for even an simplistic patch.

    However I guess you never have tried to get patch from you applied on the linus tree, did you?

  5. Re:Please. on Too Much Free Software · · Score: 1

    At my console:
    ------------------
    ~> /bin/false --version

    false (GNU sh-utils) 2.0
    Written by no one.

    Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    ------------------

    Aha! See there it took at least until version 2.0 to get "false" working proparly. Not counting all the prereleases.

  6. Re:While this most likely would never happen... on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I don't know for american law, but in european law seeing the code does not "infect" you of not being any more allowed to write similar code.

  7. Re:A reason on What if Microsoft went Open Source? · · Score: 1

    """Microsoft made the code for the NT Kernel."""

    Did or did not IBM code that one? I thought NT was a co-development with IBM, where ms more or less raped IBM and left them in the rain. ms developed the system further to windows NT, while IBM developed and sold OS 2

  8. Re:Black hole from the inside. on The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Doughnut · · Score: 1

    I cannot share the argumenting of the FAQs. Come on people keep it real and confess that singularities are actually so ming boggling that our brains which are created to understand "normal" space cannot fully understand a singularity.

    The FAQ mentions Past and Future. Do they exist inside a singularity at all? I mean the singulraity from the side of the singularity. Of course Past and Future exist from our view, but from it's own view? If you argue that they do exist, how does time flow inside a singularity? As far I understood on the event horizont itself it's standing, seen from an observer from the outside, but beyond?

    For the original Poster, why not? It might as well be that our whole universe is just a single moment of a black hole in another super-universe. Time flows here different than there.

  9. Re:Black hole from the inside. on The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Doughnut · · Score: 1

    No we don't. As said already principal pyhsical laws are likely not to change. However most laws we know are only gained through observation. Observation of "normal" space, we don't have an actual idea why it is that way it is. You can't tell if this ideas are true in extreme environments like singularities. Some physical laws might only have a stastical basis, they are very likely not to count in singularities.

    Like Newtons laws are very true in "normal" environments and normal space. However if you get into extremer conditions and nearing light speed, or having heavy masses Einstein comes in place. There are very likely to be also new laws or new aspects of current laws in or near singularities.

  10. Re:Black hole from the inside. on The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Doughnut · · Score: 1

    People talk so much bullshit.

    Honestly we don't have a franky idea how a black hole would look from the inside. From where do we know that any physical laws we know are valid inside of it? Quantum Mechanics? Might not be valid?

    There are theories that even simplistic mathematical laws are not valid in the near of heavy (or even inside) of bended space-time. Like what is the sum of angels inside a triangle. 180 ? Wrong! It may be less. Think of a triangle beeing bend over a sphere.

    So don't talk bullshit no man really knows or can be sure of.

  11. Re:But what about the moon? on Is The Earth's Rotation Changing? · · Score: 1

    Or same reason why does the moon always face the earth? The moon had also "tides", which slew his rotation until he continued to face earth, making the tides stop. His rotation slowed much faster than earths because of his smaller mass.

  12. Re:But what about the moon? on Is The Earth's Rotation Changing? · · Score: 0

    Momentum isn't energy,

    no momentum _is_ energy, well actually it's a form of energy. And well can't you as well loose momentum into a molecular level? (== heat).

    Well the original poster is true, earth does slow down due to the tides, until, well until moon and earth stay on face each other, and a moon rotation will take exactly the same time as an earth day, (a day will then last 28 current earth-days?).

    This happened to other planets before. For example Pluto and Charon, they always look at each other from the same spot. Why? Because in ages back they probable had liquids and they slowed down due to tidal friction until they froze in this stable system.

  13. Re:We should retrieve it someday on NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    Someday it will might as well crush into a star and melt.

  14. Re:Great! on ESA to Give New Life to Old Satellites · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well it ain`t so easy it, this way we should focus on an economic basis, instead of startrek dreams.

    For example thought economically why do you need men in space after all? Answer, you don't. To launch satellits, or to make scientific experimiments you do not need a man in space.

    IMHO the ESA has done the right decision. To focus all energies on unmanned missions. This way you can do efectivly everything the NASA can, but are cheaper and more secure. (For science automatic labours are possible, and if zou think of the place and weight saved by letting away the humans and the life support this pays of quite fast.)

  15. Re:Precisely the kind of ideas aerospace needs now on ESA to Give New Life to Old Satellites · · Score: 1

    Well the ESA is at least cheaper.

  16. Re:Precisely the kind of ideas aerospace needs now on ESA to Give New Life to Old Satellites · · Score: 1

    Nobody needs astronauts eitherway, what for?

  17. Re:The Death of Linux on ReactOS 0.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Linux does NOT aim to replace windows! Remember that! That was never a target from Linus or other kernel devs. It can be useful to replace windows, yes, but for linux this was never a primary target, they just wanted to make a nice and good UNIX Os (originally for the i386). ReactOS however has other goals, and thats okay also.

  18. Re:Is this a worthwhile project? on ReactOS 0.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Arent the people that always post how sensless they think a project is in their eyes not a waste of resources?

  19. Re:XFree86 for ReactOS on ReactOS 0.1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Wine is not a operating system kernel. They are implementing a Windows compatible kernel.

  20. Re:LCDs Still Suck. on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    Do not forget my major reason. LCD's are thousend times more eye-frendly. If you work more than just here and there in front of a screen your eyes should be worth it. Since I bought a LCD for at home my headaches when using the computer strongly reduced.

    If you work on native resolution they are also radically more sharply then CRTs. A pixel is a pixel, and not a blurred point.

    (Not to mention radiation, but who notices, cares)

  21. Re:Almost but not quite on Remote Root Exploit in CVS · · Score: 1

    Well the compiler building the cross compiler should be the very same compiler source, so you build a native host gcc first, you want the cross compiler be bugfree won't you? :o)

  22. Re:The two major questions about EMPs. Anyone? on U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon · · Score: 1

    I think there are 2 major reasos why no serious EMP Guns exist.

    First one generation I know of are self destructive. The Idea is to create a strong electro-magnetic field. Then let the outside explode and the field crunches, this results into a very strong burst. But as the gun explodes by using you got 1 shot only...

    Second is the size of this cannons, these are to heavy to carry around.

    Third are the energy requirments, who has always thousend of kilowats nearby?

    Forth and most important is the limited range they function, I mean size and power and all that you could all mount on a battle ship. However the range (don't know exactly, some 100 meters in best case) is far too short. If as battleship an enemy should get that close you are long dead already. I mean in a modern major ship against ship battle from the distance they don't even see each others at the horizont.

  23. Re:High Power RF @ Microwave Freqs == Heat on U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon · · Score: 1

    "Note: If you don't agree with me, don't bother replying. I won't read it."

    Very self-centered. Well have you considered that there are other people in the world than you? Maybe we other readers want to read oppionions of others readers about your comment?

    --
    Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.

  24. Re:Microwave aircraft HAVE cooked people on U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon · · Score: 1

    "Note: If you don't agree with me, don't bother replying. I won't read it."

    Very self-centered. Well have you considered that there are other people in the world than you? Maybe we other readers want to read oppionions of others readers about your comment?

  25. Re:Not quite EMP on U.S. Air Force Developing Microwave Weapon · · Score: 1

    Well but mass _is_ energy, remember? E=mc^2 ;o))