I remember these books I had on "How things work" when I was a kid. One of them was all about the earth itself, volcanos, wind, water, the works.
I vividly remember a picture of a wave with a bunch of strange yellow things in it. The things were wave braker like devices that used the power of the waves to generate electricity.
"When I was a kid" is somewhere around the mid eighties here, I guess.
If everything I learned from books then is going to be re-invented this century I think we still have a LONG list ahead of us. Let's hope they pass up on some of the more stupid ones, like Windows 3.0.
Because just like clouds, fog and condenstation another big problem is that most office buildings have these neat windows that keep out as much sun as possible.
These windows have the added bonus that they tend to reflect *any* kind of optical ray everywhere but inside.
In other words, this does not work, we tried and switched the whole lot for a radiowave solution after finding out that a UTP cable from one office building to the next also wasn't too practical. Birds kept s(h)itting on it, resulting in more packet loss than was acceptable. And it sorta made strange patterns in the wind too, I don't think it would pass any sort of city security council.
I think there may be cheaper (and easier) ways to get a soothing background noise than using a complicated system of pumps, hoses and water to cool an expensive computer system.;-)
You may be able to use a quieter fan but have you ever heard a central heating system with a teeny tiny little bit of air in the pipes? That makes a helluva irritating noise! Forget the fan, start thinking more along the lines of a helicopter!
I imagine the same thing could happen to your computer when you start using pipes, fluids and the sort in there. Next time your computer hangs, you won't be able to just reboot, you'll need to call a plumber:-)
I don't care what kind of cooling my system uses I just wish they will one day come up with something QUIET!
I mean, listening to all them fans is irritating enough, I don't need an addition of gurgling and refrigerator noises, however appropriate those may be in some games.
I, for one, would be really happy if they started making AMD athlon XP 2000 processors, clocked down to the equivalent of an athlon 1Ghz. Fast enough for most purposes and maybe that'll allow me to ditch the fan and the accompanying noise.
I don't give a damn how dangerous this is, I NEED THIS!
I mean I'm getting sick of recharging the batteries for my Mp3 player, just fill it up with fuel cells and it might even run for more than 4 hours, maybe even more than 5!
The chance of some added pyrotechnics when listening to Rammstein's debut seems more like a bonus than a danger, in my opinion. But then again, unlike most other people, I tend to like stuff that blows up.
I'm not saying you should just go out and sell all your satellite information to the highest bidder -although that might make enough money to balance the budget- I'm just saying you should never rely *solely* on obscurity.
Obscurity doesn't work. Internet seems to know everything, or know someone who does, it's strange but true.
Where I work we rely on a couple of things for security and they seem to work pretty well, I've been working here for nearly 5 years and I can't remember we ever got cracked.
1. SSH
2. Identity keys and passphrases along with 1.
3. IP filtering, you have to be on an IP in our network before you can reach any critical servers.
If you couple this with a private network I don't see any real threats to the network, unless some kid builds a nuclear powered high frequency mega super radio antenna thingy in his backyard to send the whole thing crashing down to Tora Bora.
While I like Linux and run it whenever I need some server somewhere the whole thing is still quite far from being suitable as a normal desktop OS.
I use a PC at work which runs MS-NT and I got a machine at home which uses MS-XP. At work I don't have a choice but NT does what it needs to do and adinistrating the whole lot isn't my job so I really don't care.
At home 75% of the time spend behind my computer is spend on gaming. Gaming under Linux sucks, and don't give me all these rants that gaming under linux rules supreme or anything 'cos you're not convincing me. There's hardly any games for Linux and they usually (I SAID USUALLY, AS IN, NOT ALWAYS) come out way later.
So I'll stick to MS for my desktop until Linux gets better support from game developers. This does not only go for me but for many people I know who all love Linux but would also like to play a lot of computer games. Since a lot of games need patches etc. most people also do their surfing from within windows, so, however this survey came into being, it really isn't all that surprising.
Rock concerts have long been known to cause noticable seismic effects.
Here in the Netherlands there's this festival called Pinkpop where they (well some seismic center near there) once noted a 1.0 quake on the Richter scale during a rage against the machine concert in 1994. Not caused by the music but by people ritmically jumping around.
I wasn't there then.
I was there 4 years later though when Primus broke that record and set a whopping 1.2 on the Richter scale.
That was cool:-) I don't know which song it was but my money is on "Too many puppies" or "My name is mud":)
Sounds like a really usefull addition to our 2 goldfish, Blub-Niggurath and Azagblob, our toy cat Pookie, our fridge, the MP3 server and those cd's my co-worker cut up so they now function as Ninja stars.
I wonder if we can fit those things with our nerf guns, that'd be cool. Remote nerfwars!
The American constitution states that you have freedom of religion. There is also a seperation between state and church for the sake of this rule. If the state were to support one religion it would automatically limit the freedom of other religions.
This means that, in my opininion, the state cannot allow religious clubs to use state property because that could be viewed upon as support for that religion, which is something a state should NEVER do, in accordance with the constitution.
Crusades are mostly a thing of the past, luckily, lets keep it that way.
Last time I tried voice recognition was with some overlay for netscape. It worked sort of ok, but saying things like "back", "forward" and "reload" are barely faster than clikcing a button. And clicking a button doest hug nearly as much CPU time as speech recognition does.
I also own a Microft sidewinder speech talk whatever thingy, which also came with speech software so you could say "JUMP" in halflife and see the character is the game jump about a second later.
Great, two weeks after I buy my cassiopeia someone else makes up something new.
Guess this will always keep happening anyway.
But speech recognition? I've tried quite a few speech recognition things and while most of them were fun to play around with fun usually turns into frustration when some browser decides it needs to open 20 new windows if you cough. Besides, most commands are achieved a lot faster by keystrokes than by trying to convince the computer you want to do something useful for a change.
Break all this patent crap, this is for the good of everyone, finally a government thats acting sensible. I can understand people or companies want to get credited for the work they did but this shouldnt be taken too far.
It might be an idea to have the United Nations give the company (that holds the patents) large sums of money in order to stimulate further research in the field. That way they'll be happier too.
Now all we have to wait for is a government that states Shell (or whowuzzit) can shove those patents for the water powered engine up their **** because they're going to ignore them anyway.
I mean, my notebook has a 566 Mhz celeron, and that things gets so hot sometimes I fear great fears for the poor DVD's I insert into all that heat to be able to watch them whilst on the move.
A 1.13 Ghz notebook will therefore probably become standard issue survival gear since you can work, e-mail, game and toast bread on it. I wouldn't put in a DVD though, it'll probably melt.
I went to Ericsson once where they showed us a bunch of stuff working over bluetooth (vending machines, connections to pda's, laptops, internet radios, web pads and overhead beamers) and I must say I was impressed.
Interference may be an issue though but in the long run I think a technology like Bluetooth (not necesarily Bluetooth itself) will reach a large market. At some point in the future we will all probably have some fiber/DSL X megabit line into our home which is hooked up to some routing thing that sends the whole stream into the air thru some shortish range technology. From that point on we can access that broadband line from every Bluetooth enables device in our home. You don't need a high power 150' range wireless lan for that, you'd just upset the neighbourhood then.
Wireless lan may be able to do the same thing but as far as I know it's probably going to be a lot more expensive, Bluetooth and wireless lan are 2 different things (which was one of the first things I heard from the Ericsson people) with different uses. The Bluetooth organisation thingy whatever comittee or something wants to get the price of a chip under $5 so practically every manufacturer will throw in bluetooth, if only as a marketing thing. I don't see that happening with wireless lan.
Besides all that LAN's Ethernet, AFAIK, and Bluetooth makes individual connections to different devices on different frequencies, again AFAIK. Bluetooth just seems a lot more efficient to hook up devices that don't need a gazillion bits to operate at an acceptable level.
Ok, I'll stop ranting now, it's the end of the working day and I can't say I'm feeling very coherent:-)
There's too much rants, I agree, but it's not all nonsense. I happen to be working on a wireless project (GPRS) and while I don't know anything about braindamage or anything -I blame it all on headbanging- I do know those things get damn hot!
Since there are usually more than enough users within 100 meters to make your transmission speeds drop to incredible depths.
What we need is a 768 Terabit wireless thingy in every city center. But that will probably never happen since even cell phone radiation seems to be enough to fry your brain, according to some people. Imagine what a wireless link that fast will do to your brainstem.
I'm not sure if von indicated nobility, but it isn't a translation of the Dutch van either (I'm dutch, I think I know something about it;-)
Germany uses both van and von (as in 'Ludwig van Beethoven') I used to have a german teacher in Highschool who's surname was 'van Werch', he'd get really pissed off if we called him 'von werch'.
I don't know what the good translations are though, I sucked at all languages besides Dutch and English (french, german, latin, greek).
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Actually,
Yes!
I remember these books I had on "How things work" when I was a kid. One of them was all about the earth itself, volcanos, wind, water, the works.
I vividly remember a picture of a wave with a bunch of strange yellow things in it. The things were wave braker like devices that used the power of the waves to generate electricity.
"When I was a kid" is somewhere around the mid eighties here, I guess.
If everything I learned from books then is going to be re-invented this century I think we still have a LONG list ahead of us. Let's hope they pass up on some of the more stupid ones, like Windows 3.0.
Because just like clouds, fog and condenstation another big problem is that most office buildings have these neat windows that keep out as much sun as possible.
These windows have the added bonus that they tend to reflect *any* kind of optical ray everywhere but inside.
In other words, this does not work, we tried and switched the whole lot for a radiowave solution after finding out that a UTP cable from one office building to the next also wasn't too practical. Birds kept s(h)itting on it, resulting in more packet loss than was acceptable. And it sorta made strange patterns in the wind too, I don't think it would pass any sort of city security council.
Ah well...
I think there may be cheaper (and easier) ways to get a soothing background noise than using a complicated system of pumps, hoses and water to cool an expensive computer system. ;-)
You may be able to use a quieter fan but have you ever heard a central heating system with a teeny tiny little bit of air in the pipes? That makes a helluva irritating noise! Forget the fan, start thinking more along the lines of a helicopter!
:-)
I imagine the same thing could happen to your computer when you start using pipes, fluids and the sort in there. Next time your computer hangs, you won't be able to just reboot, you'll need to call a plumber
I don't care what kind of cooling my system uses I just wish they will one day come up with something QUIET!
I mean, listening to all them fans is irritating enough, I don't need an addition of gurgling and refrigerator noises, however appropriate those may be in some games.
I, for one, would be really happy if they started making AMD athlon XP 2000 processors, clocked down to the equivalent of an athlon 1Ghz. Fast enough for most purposes and maybe that'll allow me to ditch the fan and the accompanying noise.
I don't give a damn how dangerous this is, I NEED THIS!
I mean I'm getting sick of recharging the batteries for my Mp3 player, just fill it up with fuel cells and it might even run for more than 4 hours, maybe even more than 5!
The chance of some added pyrotechnics when listening to Rammstein's debut seems more like a bonus than a danger, in my opinion. But then again, unlike most other people, I tend to like stuff that blows up.
Anyway: Bring 'em on!
I'm not saying you should just go out and sell all your satellite information to the highest bidder -although that might make enough money to balance the budget- I'm just saying you should never rely *solely* on obscurity.
Obscurity doesn't work. Internet seems to know everything, or know someone who does, it's strange but true.
Where I work we rely on a couple of things for security and they seem to work pretty well, I've been working here for nearly 5 years and I can't remember we ever got cracked.
1. SSH
2. Identity keys and passphrases along with 1.
3. IP filtering, you have to be on an IP in our network before you can reach any critical servers.
If you couple this with a private network I don't see any real threats to the network, unless some kid builds a nuclear powered high frequency mega super radio antenna thingy in his backyard to send the whole thing crashing down to Tora Bora.
While I like Linux and run it whenever I need some server somewhere the whole thing is still quite far from being suitable as a normal desktop OS.
I use a PC at work which runs MS-NT and I got a machine at home which uses MS-XP. At work I don't have a choice but NT does what it needs to do and adinistrating the whole lot isn't my job so I really don't care.
At home 75% of the time spend behind my computer is spend on gaming. Gaming under Linux sucks, and don't give me all these rants that gaming under linux rules supreme or anything 'cos you're not convincing me. There's hardly any games for Linux and they usually (I SAID USUALLY, AS IN, NOT ALWAYS) come out way later.
So I'll stick to MS for my desktop until Linux gets better support from game developers. This does not only go for me but for many people I know who all love Linux but would also like to play a lot of computer games. Since a lot of games need patches etc. most people also do their surfing from within windows, so, however this survey came into being, it really isn't all that surprising.
Sometimes the effects are unintentional.
:-) I don't know which song it was but my money is on "Too many puppies" or "My name is mud" :)
Rock concerts have long been known to cause noticable seismic effects.
Here in the Netherlands there's this festival called Pinkpop where they (well some seismic center near there) once noted a 1.0 quake on the Richter scale during a rage against the machine concert in 1994. Not caused by the music but by people ritmically jumping around.
I wasn't there then.
I was there 4 years later though when Primus broke that record and set a whopping 1.2 on the Richter scale.
That was cool
Sounds like a really usefull addition to our 2 goldfish, Blub-Niggurath and Azagblob, our toy cat Pookie, our fridge, the MP3 server and those cd's my co-worker cut up so they now function as Ninja stars.
:)
I wonder if we can fit those things with our nerf guns, that'd be cool. Remote nerfwars!
We need more stuff in our office! MUST BUY!
Slow site though
I don't think so.
The American constitution states that you have freedom of religion. There is also a seperation between state and church for the sake of this rule. If the state were to support one religion it would automatically limit the freedom of other religions.
This means that, in my opininion, the state cannot allow religious clubs to use state property because that could be viewed upon as support for that religion, which is something a state should NEVER do, in accordance with the constitution.
Crusades are mostly a thing of the past, luckily, lets keep it that way.
Ever tried one of them 9v things on your tongue? I did, plenty, when I was a kid, not quite painfull but you feel it.
Somehow I also managed to get my tongue stuck on my toy racing track once (which was like 12 or 18v or so).
THAT HURT!
Last time I tried voice recognition was with some overlay for netscape. It worked sort of ok, but saying things like "back", "forward" and "reload" are barely faster than clikcing a button. And clicking a button doest hug nearly as much CPU time as speech recognition does.
I also own a Microft sidewinder speech talk whatever thingy, which also came with speech software so you could say "JUMP" in halflife and see the character is the game jump about a second later.
How very practical.
Great, two weeks after I buy my cassiopeia someone else makes up something new.
Guess this will always keep happening anyway.
But speech recognition? I've tried quite a few speech recognition things and while most of them were fun to play around with fun usually turns into frustration when some browser decides it needs to open 20 new windows if you cough. Besides, most commands are achieved a lot faster by keystrokes than by trying to convince the computer you want to do something useful for a change.
Break all this patent crap, this is for the good of everyone, finally a government thats acting sensible. I can understand people or companies want to get credited for the work they did but this shouldnt be taken too far.
It might be an idea to have the United Nations give the company (that holds the patents) large sums of money in order to stimulate further research in the field. That way they'll be happier too.
Now all we have to wait for is a government that states Shell (or whowuzzit) can shove those patents for the water powered engine up their **** because they're going to ignore them anyway.
I mean, my notebook has a 566 Mhz celeron, and that things gets so hot sometimes I fear great fears for the poor DVD's I insert into all that heat to be able to watch them whilst on the move.
A 1.13 Ghz notebook will therefore probably become standard issue survival gear since you can work, e-mail, game and toast bread on it. I wouldn't put in a DVD though, it'll probably melt.
Wicked.
And I like them,
:-)
I went to Ericsson once where they showed us a bunch of stuff working over bluetooth (vending machines, connections to pda's, laptops, internet radios, web pads and overhead beamers) and I must say I was impressed.
Interference may be an issue though but in the long run I think a technology like Bluetooth (not necesarily Bluetooth itself) will reach a large market. At some point in the future we will all probably have some fiber/DSL X megabit line into our home which is hooked up to some routing thing that sends the whole stream into the air thru some shortish range technology. From that point on we can access that broadband line from every Bluetooth enables device in our home. You don't need a high power 150' range wireless lan for that, you'd just upset the neighbourhood then.
Wireless lan may be able to do the same thing but as far as I know it's probably going to be a lot more expensive, Bluetooth and wireless lan are 2 different things (which was one of the first things I heard from the Ericsson people) with different uses. The Bluetooth organisation thingy whatever comittee or something wants to get the price of a chip under $5 so practically every manufacturer will throw in bluetooth, if only as a marketing thing. I don't see that happening with wireless lan.
Besides all that LAN's Ethernet, AFAIK, and Bluetooth makes individual connections to different devices on different frequencies, again AFAIK. Bluetooth just seems a lot more efficient to hook up devices that don't need a gazillion bits to operate at an acceptable level.
Ok, I'll stop ranting now, it's the end of the working day and I can't say I'm feeling very coherent
Deadites mostly played dead. I suspect Bluetooth doesn't.
:-)
Ash's comment: "It's a trick, get an axe!" might help out here too though
That can't be too healthy either :-)
What we need is a 768 Terabit wireless thingy in every city center. But that will probably never happen since even cell phone radiation seems to be enough to fry your brain, according to some people. Imagine what a wireless link that fast will do to your brainstem.
Guacamole dip, anyone?
I'm not sure if von indicated nobility, but it isn't a translation of the Dutch van either (I'm dutch, I think I know something about it ;-)
Germany uses both van and von (as in 'Ludwig van Beethoven') I used to have a german teacher in Highschool who's surname was 'van Werch', he'd get really pissed off if we called him 'von werch'.
I don't know what the good translations are though, I sucked at all languages besides Dutch and English (french, german, latin, greek).