Right from that article on non-ionizing radiation: "Nevertheless it is known to cause biological effects"
I wasn't meaning frequency though. I meant power level.
Standing in front of a live radar set will give you cancer. It happened to one of the radar pioneers, and it's happened to people standing in front of electronic warfare (jamming) planes that were mistakenly turned on.
Part of enjoying music is knowing what to expect next. They'd have to listen to your weird music numerous times before that'd be true, but they don't expect to get a chance. They know they won't be hearing it elsewhere, so it will never become a familiar tune to them.
Radio waves are harmful. We know this. There is no cut-off point at which they suddenly go from harmless to harmful.
However...
We've been living with this stuff for years, and we're not noticably dropping dead in any way related to it. It's in the noise compared to all the other bad things in our lives.
This is approximately item #6589726 on our list of killers. Relax. Have a cigarette.
Before they even landed, it was obvious that they'd find water and "possible evidence of life". This will need more study! That means continuing careers and bigger management empires.
It's easy:
1. get observation
2. concoct a theory INVOLVING WATER OR LIFE which explains the observation
3. report observation as evidence for water or life
The scientest who says "nah, it's just a reaction involving volcanic stuff and light, etc." is due for a bad employee review. He's not a team player.
...and GM will be getting eleventy zillion dollars from the government to research this, since the previous distractions^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H research projects didn't pan out.
An in-hub motor would eliminate the axle, which is at least partially unsprung weight. It would also eliminate any center differential; often this too is unsprung weight. So the unsprung weight situation isn't definitely worse, and could sometimes be a bit better.
If unsprung weight really mattered, we'd mount the brakes inboard. The Hummer H1 and HMMWV are about the only vehicles to bother with this.
Fully independant power will do wonders for vehicle control, especially with active speed difference control on turns.
That 1200x900 is single-color pixels, like in a camera sensor. It's not a real 1200x900, and it's nothing like the supposed 800x600 either. It shows weird moire-like effects too. The greyscale mode is really really dim, being unusable under bright indoor light -- it might just barely be tolerable under the mid-day sun of Libya. Tablet mode leaves you with no mouse or keyboard, so not too useful. The graphics tablet has hardware defects and, being overlaid on the touchpad with faulty automatic mode switching, is more hindrance than help.
The ordinary 800x480 is pretty decent. The only downside would be reduced battery life.
The "500" is part of the marketing name. In no way does the core run at 500 MHz. Actual performance is somewhere between a 200 MHz Pentium and a 200 MHz Pentium II.
Text is often done as images intended for normal computers. Browse the web and observe. Either it ends up really small and hard to read, or you scale it by 2x each way and effectively cut the OLPC resolution down to 600x450.
Every damn Bugzilla insists that I make an account. I don't want any more accounts!!!
I don't have any sort of account with Debian, yet I can file bugs and comment on bugs. It's easy, so they get lots of good bug reports from me. Likewise for the kernel, because they take bugs on an unrestricted mailing list.
With Bugzilla and restricted mailing lists, usually I just don't bother. Screw them. If they wanted bug reports, they wouldn't have made filing bug reports a pain in the ass.
So... will it be easy like Debian? I'm betting not. An account is surely required.
In the city, you actually pay for a spot near your home.
Outside the city, you pay for more land (more driveway, more garage) which you may choose to use for parking.
Then of course the insurance company will not give much of a discount for the extra cars. Perhaps they assume you loan them out, or that you really do drive much more.
Windows NT 3.x should have mapped C: to the user's home directory. Each user gets their own WINDOWS directory. Windows 95 should have made the non-user portions of the registry be read-only or even missing.
Then the apps written for Windows 95 would run within the user account. Those without drivers would have been fully compatible with Windows NT 4. Non-hardware drivers could have been virtualized in the next release.
Though born in the US, the guy spent his childhood elsewhere.
This may mean that his personal experiences lead to some countries being inappropriately favored over others. There should be only one favorate, the USA itself.
It runs Sugar, which is a slow and bloated pig written in Python. Now, pigs can indeed fly, if supplied with enough thrust.
The B2 units (hardware beta test 2) with 128 MB are often suffering from OOM (out-of-memory) events. When that happens, the kernel scores all processes and then kills the one with the worst score. That can take down the app, Sugar itself, or some random background task.
There are multi-megabyte python programs that could be written as multi-kilobyte C programs.
Basically, the existing hardware is being wasted by some less-than-excellent programmers.
The 1% of kids who care are the 1% who can do the most to power the economy. They are the ones worth supplying computers to, even at the effective $10000 per machine if you assume the other kids (99%) get no use out of their machines.
We've already tested pregnant rats in space. The babies were fine. This should be unsurprising, as the unborn sort of float around anyway. If you worry that rats aren't the same as humans then, well, there's only one way to get human data!
Pretty much nobody has a sterile environment for birth. Did you believe the green or blue sheet at a hospital suddenly makes the woman all sterile and eliminates the multiply-resistant pathogens from the hospital air? Few places have a greater variety of exotic disease organsims than a hospital does.
Special food is automatically provided. Please, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast if you doubt this. Small jars of "baby food" (mostly cornstarch and water) are entirely unnecessary. Normal babies don't cry much as long as they stay near their mother; a sling (full wrap style when in zero-G) solves this problem. I'll grant that diaper cleaning could be trouble, but it's not unsolvable.
Nearly all C-sections are lawyer-induced. Juries tend to believe that naturally born imperfect babies would always have been perfect if delivered by C-section, so that's what we get.
Of course, astronauts would need to be ready for common surgery in any case. Zero-gravity surgery has already been done, without any major problems.
Leftovers go with the rest of the bodily waste... or you can do like almost all mammals do: chow down!
Why do you anti-gun people keep pulling that one out? Do you really believe it? This isn't the movies; the bad guy can't "use the Force" to grab a gun.
The gun wouldn't have any bullets by the time it could be grabbed, and grabbing is only possible if I'm really bad at aiming. It works like this:
Only have the gun if you'd be willing to shoot an enemy. This is only an issue for pacifists.
Only show the gun when violence is likely.
If the attacker could grab the gun or could shoot you, then you shoot immediately. You try to shoot before the attacker even sees the gun. Otherwise, you may give the attacker a chance to follow orders and/or flee. Any movement toward you (to grab the gun or hurt you) means you shoot.
When you shoot, you aim for the easy target that will stop the enemy. Nearly always, this is the center of the upper chest. (heart, lungs, liver, spleen, spine, etc.) You don't mess around with targets that would be hard to hit, such as the head or knee.
When you shoot, you fire many rapid shots. You can empty the gun. You may reserve a couple bullets if you fear that the enemy may have an accomplice who might also need to be shot. If you know there is only one enemy, you empty the gun into him.
Now imagine that you are the bad guy. How exactly would you have grabbed the gun?
I think you meant that as a joke, but it is 100% correct.
The shooter would have died in a matter of moments. He could have shot only a few people before being shot himself. He would not have been able to reload.
As for the rest of the time, you might be surprised just how orderly and polite people are when they know that weapons are everywhere. Fights simply don't get started.
This chip has to throttle itself when you use all the cores. (probably a power/heat issue)
People hate throttling. Throttling is not marketable.
Intel marketing turned things around, saying that the chip speeds up (a.k.a. "stops throttling") when running single-threaded apps. Speeding up is good! It's like the old turbo buttons.
It's a sane idea. I'd been expecting to see chips that can't run at full speed continuously because of heat issues; this is pretty much the same thing. I should've patented it...
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Right from that article on non-ionizing radiation: "Nevertheless it is known to cause biological effects"
I wasn't meaning frequency though. I meant power level.
Standing in front of a live radar set will give you cancer. It happened to one of the radar pioneers, and it's happened to people standing in front of electronic warfare (jamming) planes that were mistakenly turned on.
Random noise would offer surprise, but it sucks. :-)
People like to hum along, literally or just in their mind. They like to sway to the music. That only works if they know the song.
Part of enjoying music is knowing what to expect next. They'd have to listen to your weird music numerous times before that'd be true, but they don't expect to get a chance. They know they won't be hearing it elsewhere, so it will never become a familiar tune to them.
Come on, this is obvious.
Radio waves are harmful. We know this. There is no cut-off point at which they suddenly go from harmless to harmful.
However...
We've been living with this stuff for years, and we're not noticably dropping dead in any way related to it. It's in the noise compared to all the other bad things in our lives.
This is approximately item #6589726 on our list of killers. Relax. Have a cigarette.
Coolness would be geysers of cold Mountain Dew.
Before they even landed, it was obvious that they'd find water and "possible evidence of life". This will need more study! That means continuing careers and bigger management empires.
It's easy:
1. get observation
2. concoct a theory INVOLVING WATER OR LIFE which explains the observation
3. report observation as evidence for water or life
The scientest who says "nah, it's just a reaction involving volcanic stuff and light, etc." is due for a bad employee review. He's not a team player.
That axle would be needing a CV joint.
75 hp is overkill; that's a 300 hp car.
...and GM will be getting eleventy zillion dollars from the government to research this, since the previous distractions^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H research projects didn't pan out.
An in-hub motor would eliminate the axle, which is at least partially unsprung weight. It would also eliminate any center differential; often this too is unsprung weight. So the unsprung weight situation isn't definitely worse, and could sometimes be a bit better.
If unsprung weight really mattered, we'd mount the brakes inboard. The Hummer H1 and HMMWV are about the only vehicles to bother with this.
Fully independant power will do wonders for vehicle control, especially with active speed difference control on turns.
That 1200x900 is single-color pixels, like in a camera sensor. It's not a real 1200x900, and it's nothing like the supposed 800x600 either. It shows weird moire-like effects too. The greyscale mode is really really dim, being unusable under bright indoor light -- it might just barely be tolerable under the mid-day sun of Libya. Tablet mode leaves you with no mouse or keyboard, so not too useful. The graphics tablet has hardware defects and, being overlaid on the touchpad with faulty automatic mode switching, is more hindrance than help.
The ordinary 800x480 is pretty decent. The only downside would be reduced battery life.
The "500" is part of the marketing name. In no way does the core run at 500 MHz. Actual performance is somewhere between a 200 MHz Pentium and a 200 MHz Pentium II.
Text is often done as images intended for normal computers. Browse the web and observe. Either it ends up really small and hard to read, or you scale it by 2x each way and effectively cut the OLPC resolution down to 600x450.
Every damn Bugzilla insists that I make an account. I don't want any more accounts!!!
I don't have any sort of account with Debian, yet I can file bugs and comment on bugs. It's easy, so they get lots of good bug reports from me. Likewise for the kernel, because they take bugs on an unrestricted mailing list.
With Bugzilla and restricted mailing lists, usually I just don't bother. Screw them. If they wanted bug reports, they wouldn't have made filing bug reports a pain in the ass.
So... will it be easy like Debian? I'm betting not. An account is surely required.
In the city, you actually pay for a spot near your home.
Outside the city, you pay for more land (more driveway, more garage) which you may choose to use for parking.
Then of course the insurance company will not give much of a discount for the extra cars. Perhaps they assume you loan them out, or that you really do drive much more.
It's way to late now of course, but...
Windows NT 3.x should have mapped C: to the user's home directory. Each user gets their own WINDOWS directory.
Windows 95 should have made the non-user portions of the registry be read-only or even missing.
Then the apps written for Windows 95 would run within the user account. Those without drivers would have been fully compatible with Windows NT 4. Non-hardware drivers could have been virtualized in the next release.
Though born in the US, the guy spent his childhood elsewhere.
This may mean that his personal experiences lead to some countries being inappropriately favored over others. There should be only one favorate, the USA itself.
It runs Sugar, which is a slow and bloated pig written in Python. Now, pigs can indeed fly, if supplied with enough thrust.
The B2 units (hardware beta test 2) with 128 MB are often suffering from OOM (out-of-memory) events. When that happens, the kernel scores all processes and then kills the one with the worst score. That can take down the app, Sugar itself, or some random background task.
There are multi-megabyte python programs that could be written as multi-kilobyte C programs.
Basically, the existing hardware is being wasted by some less-than-excellent programmers.
The 1% of kids who care are the 1% who can do the most to power the economy. They are the ones worth supplying computers to, even at the effective $10000 per machine if you assume the other kids (99%) get no use out of their machines.
We've already tested pregnant rats in space. The babies were fine. This should be unsurprising, as the unborn sort of float around anyway. If you worry that rats aren't the same as humans then, well, there's only one way to get human data!
Pretty much nobody has a sterile environment for birth. Did you believe the green or blue sheet at a hospital suddenly makes the woman all sterile and eliminates the multiply-resistant pathogens from the hospital air? Few places have a greater variety of exotic disease organsims than a hospital does.
Special food is automatically provided. Please, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast if you doubt this. Small jars of "baby food" (mostly cornstarch and water) are entirely unnecessary. Normal babies don't cry much as long as they stay near their mother; a sling (full wrap style when in zero-G) solves this problem. I'll grant that diaper cleaning could be trouble, but it's not unsolvable.
Nearly all C-sections are lawyer-induced. Juries tend to believe that naturally born imperfect babies would always have been perfect if delivered by C-section, so that's what we get.
Of course, astronauts would need to be ready for common surgery in any case. Zero-gravity surgery has already been done, without any major problems.
Leftovers go with the rest of the bodily waste... or you can do like almost all mammals do: chow down!
"large company"???
You didn't list that as a requirement.
Instead, consider something like "CSPI, Inc.".
Forging a telephone bill is trivial, even if one sticks to the United States.
Identity theft of a corporation has made Slashdot before; search and you might find the article.
Criminals can get way more than $500 with that certificate. Criminals have been known to do identity theft on whole corporations.
So, by the economics of it all, this is a crime that pays quite well.
npdsplay.dll, npdrmv2.dll, and npwmsdrm.dll
All in 8.3 format. Filesystem problems? I guess Apple's "C:ngrtltns.w95" ad was a bit premature.
Why do you anti-gun people keep pulling that one out? Do you really believe it? This isn't the movies; the bad guy can't "use the Force" to grab a gun.
The gun wouldn't have any bullets by the time it could be grabbed, and grabbing is only possible if I'm really bad at aiming. It works like this:
Only have the gun if you'd be willing to shoot an enemy. This is only an issue for pacifists.
Only show the gun when violence is likely.
If the attacker could grab the gun or could shoot you, then you shoot immediately. You try to shoot before the attacker even sees the gun. Otherwise, you may give the attacker a chance to follow orders and/or flee. Any movement toward you (to grab the gun or hurt you) means you shoot.
When you shoot, you aim for the easy target that will stop the enemy. Nearly always, this is the center of the upper chest. (heart, lungs, liver, spleen, spine, etc.) You don't mess around with targets that would be hard to hit, such as the head or knee.
When you shoot, you fire many rapid shots. You can empty the gun. You may reserve a couple bullets if you fear that the enemy may have an accomplice who might also need to be shot. If you know there is only one enemy, you empty the gun into him.
Now imagine that you are the bad guy. How exactly would you have grabbed the gun?
I think you meant that as a joke, but it is 100% correct.
The shooter would have died in a matter of moments. He could have shot only a few people before being shot himself. He would not have been able to reload.
As for the rest of the time, you might be surprised just how orderly and polite people are when they know that weapons are everywhere. Fights simply don't get started.
Some people didn't get it. Here:
This chip has to throttle itself when you use all the cores. (probably a power/heat issue)
People hate throttling. Throttling is not marketable.
Intel marketing turned things around, saying that the chip speeds up (a.k.a. "stops throttling") when running single-threaded apps. Speeding up is good! It's like the old turbo buttons.
It's a sane idea. I'd been expecting to see chips that can't run at full speed continuously because of heat issues; this is pretty much the same thing. I should've patented it...