interesting......at what depth is the pressure great enough for water molecules to metallise?
We're talking about 1GPa of pressure at 300K here. That's 10,000 bar. Or 64 miles deep, then you're talking ice at room temperature.
(Reference: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics)
I don't think it would last long though (probably only a few hundred million to a couple billion years in the Goldilocks Zone), considering the surface, even though it would be frozen solid in about 6 seconds after exposure to space, would start to sublime under raw solar radiation (and be instantly whipped away in a massive ion tail turning your planet into a super-giant ice comet) and particle bombardment since there would be little, if any, magnetic field to deflect said particles and no atmosphere to absorb the radiation.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
Every problem has a technological solution. People who didn't understand the technology called what they saw "magic" or "a miracle", and either embraced it or persecuted those who practiced it. Matter of undisputed, historical fact. Front projection cinema was considered "magic" by theatregoers when that was played in public for the first time: people actually ran for cover when trains came at them on the screen. I still see people leaning into turns during cop movie chase scenes (which are shot in such a way as to get people doing just that!), ducking laser fire during Star Wars; I know it's just a projection, but to some it's still magic.
<shootdown>the sand worms in "Dune" were not a problem at all, in fact they were essential to a large portion of the story; they were the whole point of the Spice plot: the worm *is* the Spice - as is specifically referred in the movie by the character Paul "Muad-Dib" Atreides.</shootdown>
I take exception to your claim that nobody has used short file names in decades, I still use short file names for the simple reason that I need to by the nature of the data that I'm dealing with (several million discrete text objects). It would be a criminal waste of time to give them all long file names, particularly given that data I need on any given occasion is simply searched via platform-level search tools (UltraFileSearch being one of them), and for speed it's all done in a virtual volume on a virtual machine session (don't ask me why, native searching on the dataset in win7 takes 3 or 4 hours, the same search on the same data on a virtual machine session in a virtual volume takes about three seconds).
not really surprising that Microsoft managed to get a mandate in for preformatting usb flash in xFAT as well, given that they're on the USB Flash Drive Alliance...
no, it's a specification. The SDXC logo is a trademark, for which to qualify you have to conform to the specification, including following the mandate that your card ships preformatted to exFAT. Otherwise, you don't get to use the logo and you don't even get to claim that your card is an SD-compatible device even if it physically fits the host adapter.
...cutting edge SSD, a proven and stable one would be nice, even if it means two or three year old tech, half the transistor density, a quarter the capacity and a quarter the speed.
It's still a "would be nice to have" here, I'm happy with my Momentus XT spinny-hybrid (that came with the laptop). Not sure what tech's in the netbook, it's only 160GB so I'm not expecting it to be a hybrid, but stranger things have happened. Plus even that's still fast enough to capture an HD stream.
...a move to Middle Earth would be a sideways one, climate-wise.
(according to this, if you want to know what the weather in the Shire is doing right now, come to Nottingham. Right now, it's wetter than an otter's pocket, colder than a penguin's chuff and darker than a black bull's arse).
there's this thing in English law, I don't know about the US code, that specifies for every civil or criminal offence, a section entitled "Offence by Bodies Corporate", in which the Director of a company is legally responsible - whether he is aware of the act or not* - for every single thing that occurs on his watch.
*caveat: ignorance is not a defence. - seven hundred year old maxim of English case law
There is, of course, an exception to this rule: Section 71 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 provides that a public authority will be held immune from civil claims if it turns evidence in *any other proceeding*.
This exception is widely abused to gain immunity from criminal prosecution as well, as I have witnessed first hand.
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that too.
Definitions: Levitate is to (cause to) rise and float in the air without any physical support. Elevate is to lift something in an upward direction.
OK, good fix - it did say "Elevate" in the episode "Dalek"...
Though the levitation trick was revealed in the Sylvester McCoy story "Remembrance of the Daleks" (Season 25 Episode 1) a minute from the end of the first episode, the only thing it actually said involved the extermination of our time travelling hero...
sources: Cambridge Online Dictionary, personal video library.
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data cluster process cluster (could be the same cluster, or a process cluster with a SAN, storage array or just a honkin' huge hard drive) and an interface (could be VMWare or Virtualbox or as simple as Remote Desktop (Windows))
- which anybody on the sub/network with the correct credentials can access at any time.
This is different from multiple accounts on a personal computer which is subject to the power state of the system: a cloud's accessibility would by definition be 24/7 with better than 99.9 uptime.
Of course, it helps to read a primer or two first. I learned how to build a cluster before I learned about machine images. Once you have the two married, you're laughing.
I've been messing with clusters now for nearly ten years, and Virtualbox for about 3 or 4. It's fun.
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if the volume of the universe is infinite, it can be reasoned (I won't go into the why) that it was infinite fourteen billion years ago.
interesting... ...at what depth is the pressure great enough for water molecules to metallise?
We're talking about 1GPa of pressure at 300K here. That's 10,000 bar. Or 64 miles deep, then you're talking ice at room temperature.
(Reference: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics)
I don't think it would last long though (probably only a few hundred million to a couple billion years in the Goldilocks Zone), considering the surface, even though it would be frozen solid in about 6 seconds after exposure to space, would start to sublime under raw solar radiation (and be instantly whipped away in a massive ion tail turning your planet into a super-giant ice comet) and particle bombardment since there would be little, if any, magnetic field to deflect said particles and no atmosphere to absorb the radiation.
sounds more like New Delhi. The only place I know (there might well be others) that uses "smoke" to describe local weather phenomena.
didn't he drop it in a ditch?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
Every problem has a technological solution. People who didn't understand the technology called what they saw "magic" or "a miracle", and either embraced it or persecuted those who practiced it. Matter of undisputed, historical fact. Front projection cinema was considered "magic" by theatregoers when that was played in public for the first time: people actually ran for cover when trains came at them on the screen. I still see people leaning into turns during cop movie chase scenes (which are shot in such a way as to get people doing just that!), ducking laser fire during Star Wars; I know it's just a projection, but to some it's still magic.
<shootdown>the sand worms in "Dune" were not a problem at all, in fact they were essential to a large portion of the story; they were the whole point of the Spice plot: the worm *is* the Spice - as is specifically referred in the movie by the character Paul "Muad-Dib" Atreides.</shootdown>
I take exception to your claim that nobody has used short file names in decades, I still use short file names for the simple reason that I need to by the nature of the data that I'm dealing with (several million discrete text objects). It would be a criminal waste of time to give them all long file names, particularly given that data I need on any given occasion is simply searched via platform-level search tools (UltraFileSearch being one of them), and for speed it's all done in a virtual volume on a virtual machine session (don't ask me why, native searching on the dataset in win7 takes 3 or 4 hours, the same search on the same data on a virtual machine session in a virtual volume takes about three seconds).
not really surprising that Microsoft managed to get a mandate in for preformatting usb flash in xFAT as well, given that they're on the USB Flash Drive Alliance...
no, it's a specification. The SDXC logo is a trademark, for which to qualify you have to conform to the specification, including following the mandate that your card ships preformatted to exFAT. Otherwise, you don't get to use the logo and you don't even get to claim that your card is an SD-compatible device even if it physically fits the host adapter.
was that before or after the IBM 1311?
...cutting edge SSD, a proven and stable one would be nice, even if it means two or three year old tech, half the transistor density, a quarter the capacity and a quarter the speed.
It's still a "would be nice to have" here, I'm happy with my Momentus XT spinny-hybrid (that came with the laptop). Not sure what tech's in the netbook, it's only 160GB so I'm not expecting it to be a hybrid, but stranger things have happened. Plus even that's still fast enough to capture an HD stream.
...a move to Middle Earth would be a sideways one, climate-wise.
(according to this, if you want to know what the weather in the Shire is doing right now, come to Nottingham. Right now, it's wetter than an otter's pocket, colder than a penguin's chuff and darker than a black bull's arse).
there's this thing in English law, I don't know about the US code, that specifies for every civil or criminal offence, a section entitled "Offence by Bodies Corporate", in which the Director of a company is legally responsible - whether he is aware of the act or not* - for every single thing that occurs on his watch.
*caveat: ignorance is not a defence. - seven hundred year old maxim of English case law
There is, of course, an exception to this rule: Section 71 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 provides that a public authority will be held immune from civil claims if it turns evidence in *any other proceeding*.
This exception is widely abused to gain immunity from criminal prosecution as well, as I have witnessed first hand.
that too.
Definitions:
Levitate is to (cause to) rise and float in the air without any physical support.
Elevate is to lift something in an upward direction.
OK, good fix - it did say "Elevate" in the episode "Dalek"...
Though the levitation trick was revealed in the Sylvester McCoy story "Remembrance of the Daleks" (Season 25 Episode 1) a minute from the end of the first episode, the only thing it actually said involved the extermination of our time travelling hero...
sources: Cambridge Online Dictionary, personal video library.
"LEVITATE!"
Actually, this explains it a lot better.
to me, a cloud on a local level is:
data cluster
process cluster (could be the same cluster, or a process cluster with a SAN, storage array or just a honkin' huge hard drive)
and an interface (could be VMWare or Virtualbox or as simple as Remote Desktop (Windows))
- which anybody on the sub/network with the correct credentials can access at any time.
This is different from multiple accounts on a personal computer which is subject to the power state of the system: a cloud's accessibility would by definition be 24/7 with better than 99.9 uptime.
One word: Virtualbox.
Of course, it helps to read a primer or two first. I learned how to build a cluster before I learned about machine images. Once you have the two married, you're laughing.
I've been messing with clusters now for nearly ten years, and Virtualbox for about 3 or 4. It's fun.
Reefer Madness was 1936. Jussayin'. :)
well, that blows. As a content creator with two documentaries on the piratebay, that pisses me off.
one word:
Bumblebees.
That is all.
because we need to know if running WoW on our Pentium II is going to cause a fire?
that'll be Encke
ok. HOW do you come to that conclusion??
5.66 standard from the download page, or go pro 5.65 for free from the archive directory?
There's a no-brainer.