All those clueless gits out there who scream "they should have a network administrator!" might want to keep in mind that a network administrator isn't worth his weight in fuel to ship out there, much less keep around during the eight months of the year they're pretty much cut off from the outside world.
Anyone with a home *NIX system connected via broadband (or dialup) has to learn basic network admin anyway. Especially as soon as there is more than one device on the local network.
Of course, there is more the attitude of "if it works, don't f**k with it". The last thing anyone wants, is to get the blame if project X failed to transfer the last 24 hours of logged data, because they thought nobody would be used TCP/IP ports in the range 1024 to 32768.
Of course, she slept with her cat... but her cat couldn't be causing her allergies. Of course not.
Perhaps it wasn't the cat, but the "instant meals" that the cat brought it and hid somewhere in the crawlspace or bedroom.
My parents started having this rather awful smell in their bedroom. Since the door is always kept closed (to keep the cats out), and everything is kept spotless, dusted and washed every other day, we knew it couldn't be the furniture or decorations. After a couple of days, when the smell became rather strong, we found a partially eaten dead mouse, hidden behind the wardrobe. Our cat had sneaked in, when the door had been pushed open by a strong gust of wind.
Now, we keep a look out for any "surprises". Usually this is given away, when he shoots through the cat-flap, backs himself under the table and starts making growling noises. Then someone has to negotiate the hostage release.
Lake Ontario is already environmentally dead, as it was poisoned by the chemicals used during the days of lumber-jacking. Since much of the chemicals now reside in the sediment at the bottom of the lake, the greatest fear is that any form of dredging in the lake would release these chemicals into the local water supply.
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There used to be a software version of Scrabble which allowed you to play against other players by E-mail.
Scrabble assistant programs are somewhat useful. You enter the letters that you have and it provides a list of possible words that use all or nearly all of the letters. Good for reminding those obscure words, but you're probably better off browsing through the dictionary, reading books or solving the daily crossword.
Try a home broadband network - my system came with a firewall/anti-virus pre-installed. It didn't take more than 30 seconds after the cable was plugged in, for a port 135 RPC/DCOM exploit to be detected.
The firewall pops up a window with the IP address of the source IP address, and an option button to "trace" the location. At first, it was a novelty being able to see map of the likely location of the source, but became a pain after 15 minutes and realizing it was completely off (the map would go to the other side of the world for addresses which were definitely local). Am I better off knowing that these attempts are being detected, or better not knowing if they are being dectected or not?
Apparently, the fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.
Or to summarise:
It's better that the government knows what it dosn't know, than it dosn't know what it dosn't know.
So what happened to the theory that the energy passing through these sources ionised the air around them, which then in turn caused particles of soot and oil to become electrostatically charged and become attracted to the ground. At least, that was one theory for power lines. The other theory was that the oil used on the power lines contained chemicals like benzene, which were known carcinogens.
Nintendo have always been sceptical of the "Everything and the kitchen sink" approach that Microsoft and Sony have taken with their consoles. They do but one thing -- gaming -- but do it well, unlike their other competitors who want to be a DVD player/CD player/PC/Internet terminal/TiVo.
Weren't Nintendo the company that believed cartridges would never be replaced by CD-ROM's?
In any case, there are two things that guaranteed. Porting CD-ROM/DVD games from the PC to a console is going to require that amount of storage; either from DVD or broadband. So the console will require a system capable of reading DVD-ROM's. If you provide that, then you end up providing a CD-player/DVD-player for free.
If you opt for the broadband choice, then you need TCP/IP. That means you can then provide online gaming/Internet terminal as free extras.
A console system has to have an entertainment experience better than that of a PC, so you end up with a superset of PC features. One of the most popular accessories for the PS2 has been the "PS2 Eye Toy". That requires a USB port for the web-cam.
I would consider the TiVo as an unnecessary feature, but if the console comes with a large disk drive (>250Mbytes), and it allows the kids to record Cartoon Network without messing with the cable box/DVD player/remote controls in the living room, then why not allow that capability? After all, the number of transistors that can placed on silicon is doubling every 18 months.
Does it need to be fresh water? Presumably deuterium exists in sea water as well -- is it significantly harder to extract?
I guess they would want to get the sodium, potassium , minerals and other rare metals out first. I remember there was a story about how a reactor core had to be completely scrapped because a beancounter figured ordinary tap-water would be cheaper to use than distilled water.
The major fuel, deuterium, may be readily extracted from ordinary water, which is available to all nations.
I am sure many third-world residents will greatly appreciate having their fresh water supplies being redirected into providing fuel for fusion reactors. Though, maybe it will be possible to power water desalination plants using fusion reactors?
Personally, I don't mind getting ads that are relevant and on my own terms. For some reason I quite enjoy looking at shopping catalogues and stuff even though 99% of the time I wouldn't buy anything from them. If there is something that I may be interested in then I don't mind being told about it.
Yes, the women's underwear section can be rather distracting...
For a moment, I thought the Canadian police were only going to have the tax charged on the telephone lines that they were wiretapping: Monthly Phone bill for XXX-XXX-XXXX
Basic service: $10.00 Digital Dialing: $5.00 Emergency Services Provision Tax: $1.00 Police Wiretap on this telephone line: $0.25 Optional services $3.50
I regularly record time-lapse sequence of clouds using a web-cam. For a 24-bit resolution of 320x240 at 10 seconds intervals for 24 days will take around 2 Gigabytes of data (uncompressed). That gets reduced down to anything from 20 to 80 megabytes depending upon compression quality. If you wanted 30 frames/second, you would need 300 times that amount (6000 to 24000 megabytes/day). For 80 years: 80 x 365 x [ 6000 24000 ], you would require 175 to 700 terabytes.
For some reason, the advert where the Feng Shui guy and his assistants go into a luxury home, remove everything but the TV, freezer, toilet and sofa comes to mind.
That's very much the pattern for North American cities as well. The middle-classes get pushed out into the suburbs, while only the extremely wealthy (who can afford to live anywhere) and poor (who live in subsidised housing). The problem is that if the council were to regenerate these deprived areas, they'd more than likely end up losing their electoral powerbase as the residents sought to continue to improve the quality of their neighbourhoods.
All the construction that I have seen being built is either "retirement flats", "executive homes" (only a very few), or "professional couple apartments". The unfortunate thing is that the retirees want to live in bungalows, so they don't have to climb stairs, professional couples really want houses, so they can prepare to start a family. I believe the phrase for the small apartments being built is "vasectomy housing", since they are deliberately designed to be unsuitable for children. This policy is mainly due to the PC goal of not building on the green belt but to regenerate brownfield sites.
You are absolutely correct, though, about the influx of English expats to Scotland. I happen to live in Edinburgh (the third most expensive city in Europe apparently) and I'm afraid that if I were to ever leave Edinburgh, it would be very difficult for me to afford to move back.
I'm in Edinburgh too. I don't object to anyone coming from abroad if they have unique skills to create their own employment, and don't depress the going wage rate for a particular profession, and as long as it is isn't my job they're taking. What I do object to is the inability of the city council to do anything to alleviate the housing shortage either by releasing land for new houses or to ugprade public transportation to outside the city.
Just curious, for what reason do you think it should be in the list of worst movies? I've read through the list, trying to determine what it takes to get a movie on this list. So far, I've gathered the following:
Unbelievable or crude plot-line Poor implementation of the original paperback novel, comic book or children's show Making fun of a profession, disablity, or other minority. Trying to create a sequel that tries to improve on a successful original, by adding layers of complexity or additional plot-lines.
As far as Titanic goes:
The plot line of Titanic was based on a true story. They were fairly sympathetic to the survivors and victims of this tragedy. If they tried to make Titanic II, now that would be bad.
If you have the chance, look for a book called "The Exploding Metropolis" by William H. Whyte. It was written back in the 1950's when the US cities were first starting to expand, and suburbia hadn't yet formed.
Actually, the South of England is getting to feel rather crowded just now. With the "White Flight" taking place from London, David Blunkett seems to think that the UK can easily absorb 100,000 immigrants/year from third world countries. Meanwhile, none of the Scottish natives can afford a house/apartment in Scotland because of all the retired English refugees fleeing the Home counties.
If you do some research on the many of the other European countries, you will see that there is rural depopulation as all the young single people move into the cities - this is across Europe. Many of them are actually moving into London to escape the high taxation in their own countries; Sweden has a "luxury view tax" which is charged on houses with beautiful scenic view. It was meant to be targeted at luxury homes, but has hit fishermen who owned traditional houses beside lakes. Half the population of Greece now lives in Athens (4.5 million people).
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All those clueless gits out there who scream "they should have a network administrator!" might want to keep in mind that a network administrator isn't worth his weight in fuel to ship out there, much less keep around during the eight months of the year they're pretty much cut off from the outside world.
Anyone with a home *NIX system connected via broadband (or dialup) has to learn basic network admin anyway. Especially as soon as there is more than one device on the local network.
Of course, there is more the attitude of "if it works, don't f**k with it". The last thing anyone wants, is to get the blame if project X failed to transfer the last 24 hours of logged data, because they thought nobody would be used TCP/IP ports in the range 1024 to 32768.
This image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a bizarre, lumpy rock dubbed "Wopmay" on the inner slopes of "Endurance Crater.
Man, it looks like a fossilised elephant!
Of course, she slept with her cat... but her cat couldn't be causing her allergies. Of course not.
Perhaps it wasn't the cat, but the "instant meals" that the cat brought it and hid somewhere in the crawlspace or bedroom.
My parents started having this rather awful smell in their bedroom. Since the door is always kept closed (to keep the cats out), and everything is kept spotless, dusted and washed every other day, we knew it couldn't be the furniture or decorations. After a couple of days, when the smell became rather strong, we found a partially eaten dead mouse, hidden behind the wardrobe. Our cat had sneaked in, when the door had been pushed open by a strong gust of wind.
Now, we keep a look out for any "surprises". Usually this is given away, when he shoots through the cat-flap, backs himself under the table and starts making growling noises. Then someone has to negotiate the hostage release.
What about Sony's "Cell" architecture?
That's where market capitalization comes in
I thought market capitalization was when Wired used to call the internet "the Internet" and the web "the Web".
Lake Ontario is already environmentally dead, as it was poisoned by the chemicals used during the days of lumber-jacking. Since much of the chemicals now reside in the sediment at the bottom of the lake, the greatest fear is that any form of dredging in the lake would release these chemicals into the local water supply.
There used to be a software version of Scrabble which allowed you to play against other players by E-mail.
Scrabble assistant programs are somewhat useful. You enter the letters that you have and it provides a list of possible words that use all or nearly all of the letters. Good for reminding those obscure words, but you're probably better off browsing through the dictionary, reading books or solving the daily crossword.
Does it include a feature to allow right-mouse button clicking even if a web page's code disables it?
You can get around this in two ways:
View->Page source and then cut/paste the images/text you want.
Or you can also copy the current http page, and use it as input into an command line utility such as "lwp-rget".
Try a home broadband network - my system came with a firewall/anti-virus pre-installed. It didn't take more than 30 seconds after the cable was plugged in, for a port 135 RPC/DCOM exploit to be detected.
The firewall pops up a window with the IP address of the source IP address, and an option button to "trace" the location. At first, it was a novelty being able to see map of the likely location of the source, but became a pain after 15 minutes and realizing it was completely off (the map would go to the other side of the world for addresses which were definitely local). Am I better off knowing that these attempts are being detected, or better not knowing if they are being dectected or not?
In other words (Bernard's Longest Sentence):
Apparently, the fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.
Or to summarise:
It's better that the government knows what it dosn't know, than it dosn't know what it dosn't know.
So what happened to the theory that the energy passing through these sources ionised the air around them, which then in turn caused particles of soot and oil to become electrostatically charged and become attracted to the ground. At least, that was one theory for power lines. The other theory was that the oil used on the power lines contained chemicals like benzene, which were known carcinogens.
Nintendo have always been sceptical of the "Everything and the kitchen sink" approach that Microsoft and Sony have taken with their consoles. They do but one thing -- gaming -- but do it well, unlike their other competitors who want to be a DVD player/CD player/PC/Internet terminal/TiVo.
Weren't Nintendo the company that believed cartridges would never be replaced by CD-ROM's?
In any case, there are two things that guaranteed. Porting CD-ROM/DVD games from the PC to a console is going to require that amount of storage; either from DVD or broadband. So the console will require a system capable of reading DVD-ROM's. If you provide that, then you end up providing a CD-player/DVD-player for free.
If you opt for the broadband choice, then you need TCP/IP. That means you can then provide online gaming/Internet terminal as free extras.
A console system has to have an entertainment experience better than that of a PC, so you end up with a superset of PC features. One of the most popular accessories for the PS2 has been the "PS2 Eye Toy". That requires a USB port for the web-cam.
I would consider the TiVo as an unnecessary feature, but if the console comes with a large disk drive (>250Mbytes), and it allows the kids to record Cartoon Network without messing with the cable box/DVD player/remote controls in the living room, then why not allow that capability? After all, the number of transistors that can placed on silicon is doubling every 18 months.
He/she has doubled their productivity by posting the same reply twice in a comment. We won't hear from 'havoc' for another three months now.
Does it need to be fresh water? Presumably deuterium exists in sea water as well -- is it significantly harder to extract?
I guess they would want to get the sodium, potassium , minerals and other rare metals out first. I remember there was a story about how a reactor core had to be completely scrapped because a beancounter figured ordinary tap-water would be cheaper to use than distilled water.
From the web-site:
The major fuel, deuterium, may be readily extracted from ordinary water, which is available to all nations.
I am sure many third-world residents will greatly appreciate having their fresh water supplies being redirected into providing fuel for fusion reactors. Though, maybe it will be possible to power water desalination plants using fusion reactors?
I don't know about "Lasers". You might open the case and shoot your eye out.
Great! A built in anti-theft device!
Personally, I don't mind getting ads that are relevant and on my own terms. For some reason I quite enjoy looking at shopping catalogues and stuff even though 99% of the time I wouldn't buy anything from them. If there is something that I may be interested in then I don't mind being told about it.
Yes, the women's underwear section can be rather distracting...
For a moment, I thought the Canadian police were only going to have the tax charged on the telephone lines that they were wiretapping:
Monthly Phone bill for XXX-XXX-XXXX
Basic service: $10.00
Digital Dialing: $5.00
Emergency Services Provision Tax: $1.00
Police Wiretap on this telephone line: $0.25
Optional services $3.50
Those are compressions with the proper video codecs. The original images are saved raw, but compressed using whatever codec eg. MPEG2, MPEG4.
I regularly record time-lapse sequence of clouds using a web-cam. For a 24-bit resolution of 320x240 at 10 seconds intervals for 24 days will take around 2 Gigabytes of data (uncompressed). That gets reduced down to anything from 20 to 80 megabytes depending upon compression quality. If you wanted 30 frames/second, you would need 300 times that amount (6000 to 24000 megabytes/day). For 80 years: 80 x 365 x [ 6000 24000 ], you would require 175 to 700 terabytes.
For some reason, the advert where the Feng Shui guy and his assistants go into a luxury home, remove everything but the TV, freezer, toilet and sofa comes to mind.
That's very much the pattern for North American cities as well. The middle-classes get pushed out into the suburbs, while only the extremely wealthy (who can afford to live anywhere) and poor (who live in subsidised housing). The problem is that if the council were to regenerate these deprived areas, they'd more than likely end up losing their electoral powerbase as the residents sought to continue to improve the quality of their neighbourhoods.
All the construction that I have seen being built is either "retirement flats", "executive homes" (only a very few), or "professional couple apartments". The unfortunate thing is that the retirees want to live in bungalows, so they don't have to climb stairs, professional couples really want houses, so they can prepare to start a family. I believe the phrase for the small apartments being built is "vasectomy housing", since they are deliberately designed to be unsuitable for children. This policy is mainly due to the PC goal of not building on the green belt but to regenerate brownfield sites.
You are absolutely correct, though, about the influx of English expats to Scotland. I happen to live in Edinburgh (the third most expensive city in Europe apparently) and I'm afraid that if I were to ever leave Edinburgh, it would be very difficult for me to afford to move back.
I'm in Edinburgh too. I don't object to anyone coming from abroad if they have unique skills to create their own employment, and don't depress the going wage rate for a particular profession, and as long as it is isn't my job they're taking. What I do object to is the inability of the city council to do anything to alleviate the housing shortage either by releasing land for new houses or to ugprade public transportation to outside the city.
Just curious, for what reason do you think it should be in the list of worst movies? I've read through the list, trying to determine what it takes to get a movie on this list. So far, I've gathered the following:
Unbelievable or crude plot-line
Poor implementation of the original paperback novel, comic book or children's show
Making fun of a profession, disablity, or other minority.
Trying to create a sequel that tries to improve on a successful original, by adding layers of complexity or additional plot-lines.
As far as Titanic goes:
The plot line of Titanic was based on a true story.
They were fairly sympathetic to the survivors and victims of this tragedy.
If they tried to make Titanic II, now that would be bad.
If you have the chance, look for a book called "The Exploding Metropolis" by William H. Whyte. It was written back in the 1950's when the US cities were first starting to expand, and suburbia hadn't yet formed.
Actually, the South of England is getting to feel rather crowded just now. With the "White Flight" taking place from London, David Blunkett seems to think that the UK can easily absorb 100,000 immigrants/year from third world countries. Meanwhile, none of the Scottish natives can afford a house/apartment in Scotland because of all the retired English refugees fleeing the Home counties.
If you do some research on the many of the other European countries, you will see that there is rural depopulation as all the young single people move into the cities - this is across Europe. Many of them are actually moving into London to escape the high taxation in their own countries; Sweden has a "luxury view tax" which is charged on houses with beautiful scenic view. It was meant to be targeted at luxury homes, but has hit fishermen who owned traditional houses beside lakes. Half the population of Greece now lives in Athens (4.5 million people).