Another thing to remember: If it wasn't spent on digging on mars, where would it be spent? Sure as hell not on curing disease. Most likely it would go straight to the military where it would be as useless as a hip pocket on a singlet.
I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.
Aren't some people dumb? It would require the knowledge of 15 million people to hoax the moon landing, as well as being harder than it would be to really land there.
Did you realise that Telstra is losing money on ADSL. I'm currently in the process of setting up an ISP now, and all the prices are huge for bandwidth. You can't blame Telstra for trying to make a profit. At the moment they're making a huge loss on bandwidth, and I wouldn't be supprised to see them be the next corporate collapse.
Yes but you use the antimatter beam to destroy their ship. The shields would be impractical to protect the entire earth, they only protect the ship....:-P
Wouldn't it be possible to make it go around the main loop several thousand times before going out? I'd imagine a beam of antiprotons would be needed to do anything useful. It's gunna take a heck of a lot of power though.
No, I do know how big a typical particle accelerator is. I was personally thinking a cyclotron would be better. They don't have to be 1 mile in diameter, they just use that for really energetic stuff. To produce antimatter AFIAK you only need a cyclotron around 50 metres in diameter. IIRC some universities have small units for this purpose.
We could use it to deflect asteroids. All you need is a small spacecraft carrying a particle accelerator. The craft would fly into space, to within range of the asteroid, then fire up it's particle accelerator. The particle accelerator would create a beam of high speed high energy antimatter aimed at the surface of the asteroid. The resultant explosion would be equivilant to a very large thermonuclear explosion and would deflect the asteroid.
I would recommend the spacecraft be manned and have enough computer capabilities to be able to simulate the motion of the asteroid itself and determine the best location to hit. It should be able to orbit at any distance from the earth between LEO and the moon. It would also need an VASMIR drive to allow it to easily change it's orbit.
Shields against such a weapon would be simple. Just detect the charge of the beam being fired at you and produce a large electric field of the same charge. This system would be ideal for defending earth from asteroids and the borg.:-P
For all you trolls and non-trolls out there who think Linux is hard to use. It's not. It's difficult to install and configure/get all hardware and software going nicely. But once that is done it's no harder than Windows.
90% of computer users always go to a computer shop to get major stuff done(like install new hardware, or upgrade windows) so they can continue to do that, and all the tricky Linux stuff can be handled by experts. This is what we do at the computer shop I work at. Use of Linux is simple. And the rest of those people who are more into computers will have no trouble getting a book on Linux and learning the finer points of using Linux.
Once it's installed and working, it doesn't break. And when they need to add new hardware and don't know how, they can do what 15 million windows users do, take it to a computer shop. No problem. The only problem facing Linux on the desktop is people like you.
Umm, if it's preinstalled and configured, and they take their computer to a computer shop whnen they want new hardware, whats the problem? Loading software is easy with rpm files an Kpackage. And once it's working it will keep working. Most people I know take their computers to shops to get new hardware installed even when they are running Windows. So where is the problem?
As long as Linux is preinstalled and configured properly, elderly people would ever have a problem, because there would be no need to change anything. If they want to keep using KDE 2.2.2 forever because it does what they need, why change?
The problem is that there is a heck of a lot of dust, and stars in the way. You need to try and peer between the stars, and through the dust. Visible light just won't do it. Often they use infrared, radio or x-ray for this. This one is an X-ray image.
Develop a theory of how you could create a tablet that one could take each day that would replace the need for sleep. Imagine, you could have 8 extra hours to yourself every day! Provided they didn't cost too much everyone would buy them.
It's quite easy to use with KMail. I just click on the lock icon to encrypt a message, and click on the.asc attachments to import keys. It automatically downloads public keys for people I don't already have the key for.
I use it, primarily for signing mail. I also use it for communicating passwords and other sensitive information to users of the hosting provider I work at. I think mail programs should automatically use GPG if the public key for a person is available.
As far as I know, the only problem with OLED at this point in time is that they degrade quickly, in about 5000 hours. Kodak is working on the problem, and from what I last heard they reckon it will be fixed soon. If I could get a 17 inch OLED monitor for the same price as a 17 inch CRT I'd definately get one.
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Yep. The reason for this is that all the links out of Australia are pay for bandwidth, so it costs the ISP's heaps.
Another thing to remember: If it wasn't spent on digging on mars, where would it be spent? Sure as hell not on curing disease. Most likely it would go straight to the military where it would be as useless as a hip pocket on a singlet.
I've discovered that the cheapest form of Peer to peer file sharing in Australia is loading the files your friends want on a CD-RW, take the CD to them, and then blank it and put the files you want from your friend's computer before taking it home. Depending on how far you live from your friend's place, and how you get there, it costs between $0.10 and $1.00 AUD per gigabyte. Much cheaper than Pacific internet ADSL at $139 a gig, or Telstra ADSL at $198 a gig.
No. We're just going to confirm that you are a certifable idiot.
Except for the Flat Headed Flat Earth Society who seem to think that none of it is real.
Aren't some people dumb? It would require the knowledge of 15 million people to hoax the moon landing, as well as being harder than it would be to really land there.
Did you realise that Telstra is losing money on ADSL. I'm currently in the process of setting up an ISP now, and all the prices are huge for bandwidth. You can't blame Telstra for trying to make a profit. At the moment they're making a huge loss on bandwidth, and I wouldn't be supprised to see them be the next corporate collapse.
I dunno, KMail seems to read it quite fine.
Yes but you use the antimatter beam to destroy their ship. The shields would be impractical to protect the entire earth, they only protect the ship.... :-P
The key advantage is that it allows problems to be fixed a lot easier.
Wouldn't it be possible to make it go around the main loop several thousand times before going out? I'd imagine a beam of antiprotons would be needed to do anything useful. It's gunna take a heck of a lot of power though.
No, I do know how big a typical particle accelerator is. I was personally thinking a cyclotron would be better. They don't have to be 1 mile in diameter, they just use that for really energetic stuff. To produce antimatter AFIAK you only need a cyclotron around 50 metres in diameter. IIRC some universities have small units for this purpose.
We could use it to deflect asteroids. All you need is a small spacecraft carrying a particle accelerator. The craft would fly into space, to within range of the asteroid, then fire up it's particle accelerator. The particle accelerator would create a beam of high speed high energy antimatter aimed at the surface of the asteroid. The resultant explosion would be equivilant to a very large thermonuclear explosion and would deflect the asteroid.
:-P
I would recommend the spacecraft be manned and have enough computer capabilities to be able to simulate the motion of the asteroid itself and determine the best location to hit. It should be able to orbit at any distance from the earth between LEO and the moon. It would also need an VASMIR drive to allow it to easily change it's orbit.
Shields against such a weapon would be simple. Just detect the charge of the beam being fired at you and produce a large electric field of the same charge. This system would be ideal for defending earth from asteroids and the borg.
For all you trolls and non-trolls out there who think Linux is hard to use. It's not. It's difficult to install and configure/get all hardware and software going nicely. But once that is done it's no harder than Windows.
90% of computer users always go to a computer shop to get major stuff done(like install new hardware, or upgrade windows) so they can continue to do that, and all the tricky Linux stuff can be handled by experts. This is what we do at the computer shop I work at. Use of Linux is simple. And the rest of those people who are more into computers will have no trouble getting a book on Linux and learning the finer points of using Linux.
Linux does come pre-installed and pre-configured. At least if you come to my shop.
Once it's installed and working, it doesn't break. And when they need to add new hardware and don't know how, they can do what 15 million windows users do, take it to a computer shop. No problem. The only problem facing Linux on the desktop is people like you.
Umm, if it's preinstalled and configured, and they take their computer to a computer shop whnen they want new hardware, whats the problem? Loading software is easy with rpm files an Kpackage. And once it's working it will keep working. Most people I know take their computers to shops to get new hardware installed even when they are running Windows. So where is the problem?
As long as Linux is preinstalled and configured properly, elderly people would ever have a problem, because there would be no need to change anything. If they want to keep using KDE 2.2.2 forever because it does what they need, why change?
Yes. There are plenty of apps and they are all free so it gives equality for all, not just those who can afford to buy software.
The problem is that there is a heck of a lot of dust, and stars in the way. You need to try and peer between the stars, and through the dust. Visible light just won't do it. Often they use infrared, radio or x-ray for this. This one is an X-ray image.
Develop a theory of how you could create a tablet that one could take each day that would replace the need for sleep. Imagine, you could have 8 extra hours to yourself every day! Provided they didn't cost too much everyone would buy them.
It is. At least with KMail/GPG. I write a message to someone, click encrypt then send, it will download the key and encrypt it.
It's quite easy to use with KMail. I just click on the lock icon to encrypt a message, and click on the .asc attachments to import keys. It automatically downloads public keys for people I don't already have the key for.
I use it, primarily for signing mail. I also use it for communicating passwords and other sensitive information to users of the hosting provider I work at. I think mail programs should automatically use GPG if the public key for a person is available.
As far as I know, the only problem with OLED at this point in time is that they degrade quickly, in about 5000 hours. Kodak is working on the problem, and from what I last heard they reckon it will be fixed soon. If I could get a 17 inch OLED monitor for the same price as a 17 inch CRT I'd definately get one.