I seriously doubt Swissmetro will ever be built. The SBB doesn't want competition. Also, the only potential supporters of such a project, namely pro public transport political organisations like VCS, appear to be against it. They're apparently more interested in forcing people of the road with exorbitantly high taxes on fuel and artifically manufactured congestion though "traffic calming" and such.
Still the FC seems to be considering a pilot line from Geneva to Lausanne. I don't think it will be built, though. Not in this economic climate.
BTW: AFAIK, it is a lot more than 30 km from Geneva to Lausanne. More like 90 km. Still a less than New York to Los Angeles.
When I got cable (Cablecom/Swissonline), there was no tech sent at all. They just sent the cable modem plus instructions on how to install it and get a connection working.
déja -> already (as you said) voir -> to see (infinitive form) vu -> past participle of voir -> seen voir is conjugated with avoir, so "J'ai vu" means "I've seen". vous -> plural of you (as you also said), when written capitalised, it is also the polite form of "tu". Note that English has no equivilent thereof. (thou, thy and thine haven't been used for a long time)
It means "already seen" in English.
Please don't confuse déja vu with rendez-vous. And yes, you do seperate rendez and vous, since they are two seperate words. "Rendez-vous" is in fact an entire sentence, when finished with an exclamation mark, since "rendez" is the verb "se rendre" in the imperative form, where the subject is implied to be the second person.
If you have superuser priviledges, then you can easily disable a personal firewall (which resides on the same computer as the actual user does - not a safe practice!) by overwriting it's memory or just SIGKILLing it (Windows doesn't use signals, I know, but I mean terminate it in such a way that it can't trap the termination and call some kind of exit function, like a confirmation or an alert)
Though you can do much worse. Overwriting the first, say, 1000 sectors of the primary harddisk with random junk will not only erase the MBR, making the machine unbootable, it will also take out the first partition's boot sector and it's file allocation table. If you don't have a good backup, then either you spend a large sum of money on professional data recovery - if the virus did the job thoroughly with multiple passes there might not even be anything to recover - or you basically lose your data, at very least everything you had on your first partition. And that's in the best case, where you recreate the partition table either by hand or with an appropriate application. Not many people would bother, opting for a reformat instead. Ouch.
If you want to be extra mean, you can erase the flash EPROM. Then you can't start the computer at all, all the the user will see is a blank screen. They wouldn't even hear an error code (in the form of beeps) like they would if there was a memory error. The only way to reflash the chip is by taking it out and putting it in another motherboard while that motherboard is running, or buying a dedicated EPROM programming device.
I would venture a guess of another 50 years before it can do that.
Do you understand the notion of expotential growth? Your statement seems naive and shortsighted. We're not talking about quantum leaps in technology, we're talking about steady, incremental, predictable progress. I doubt it will take more than 10 years for CCDs to be superior to silver halide film in basically all quality aspects.
Oxygen isn't that common. It's hydrogen and helium that are the most common elements in the universe, because they were the ones synthesised after the big bang, along with trace amounts of lithium. All the other elements either came from fusion (those up to and including Fe [Iron]) or exotic processes like neutron stars (all the elements above Fe).
Actually, once a flipped the voltage switch on my PSU inadvertedly (230 VAC/50Hz -> 115 VAC/60Hz. Needless to say, I live in Europe). It made quite a bang, accompanied with a bright flash, a little bit of smoke and an unpleasant burning smell. The computer was off at the time, so the motherboard and the rest of the stuff hanging off the PSU survived. I'm thinking of annihilating an unwanted PSU in the same way, though I don't want plug into the same circuit as my box.
Also, when my old 15" monitor died, it made an odd, barely audible arcing sound. It just stopped working when I turned it on one day, no reason for its demise was apparent. I also have a broken CD-ROM drive and a multitude of dysfunctional hard disks, as well as an Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz that I had a little, uh, "accident" with when applying *electrically conductive* thermal paste. I didn't bother plugging it back in to see what would happen, and cleaning it up would been rather difficult, considering I don't really have the tools.
Nothing is completely safe. There are risks associated with everything.
You might contract a virus when you eat something. It might contain poison, put their by an ex-employee.
Or you might experience a heart attack while you are asleep. Or a meteorite might land on your roof and collapse your home. Or it might catch fire and burn down before you can escape.
There might be an earthquake. Some deranged maniac may release a nerve agent. There might be a methane explosion. Someone might rob your home/school/place of employment and you may get stabbed or shot in the process.
You might be involved in a car accident. Your engine might fail on a level crossing. Your vehicle may be hit by another that veered into the wrong line because its driver is drunk, asleep or using a mobile phone. You might be rammed in the back by a semi-trailer. You might be hit and dragged twenty metres a long the road when you get out at the scene of an accident.
Your train might derail. It may hit another train. A tunnel or a bridge may collapse. A bus you are in may go off the road and down an embankment.
You might struck by lightening. You may fall into a body of water and drown. Your plane may stall and slam into the ground. Your spouse, SO, flatmate, relative(s), colleagues or whoever else you come into contact with may go off their rocker, get the nearest sharp object and impale you with it.
You may contract a rare disease. You might fall out of a tenth floor window. You could be unfortunate enough to be walking by a shodily built structure before it gives way. You might by buried in a landslide, or freeze to death in a blizzard. You might be shot by a police officer. You might commit suicide when in a psychotic state.
Life is dangerous. In fact, to paraphrase a well known quotation, you are never going to get out of it alive.
Rather than making it illegal, why not just humiliate people who don't eitheruse a buzzer turn their phones off?
When a phone rings, the film is simply stopped, a spotlight is directed onto the person whose phone is ringing, and the person is informed, over that Dolby Surround Sound system on extra high bass, that the film will continue when that person hangs up, and that the cinema/theater can assume no responsibility for any injuries inflicted onto the pest nor damage done to his or her mobile phone by members of the audience.
Actually, for most of us, coax networks aren't an option, since there aren't any PCI based coax NICs available. Everything is twisted-pair. I have a 3com Ethernet III combo (3c509B-TPC) card which worked fine, but I had to dump it when I got a system with an all-PCI motherboard. TP requires a hub or a switch, unlike coax, where you could connect two computers end to end. (Perhaps you could do that with a TP crossover cable, but I need to use a hub anyhow)
Long answer: Because people "need" something to believe in. They want to see patterns where there aren't any, they want to see a purpose where there is just statistical chance and determinism. They refuse to accept that complexity can arise from simplicity. They don't trust that which they do not understand. Since there is no real evidence that there is a deity, (or that nobody ever landed on the moon) they instead choose to see evidence where there isn't any, and refuse to accept any arguments that negate their logic or lack thereof.
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I seriously doubt BMG made such a statement.
Look at all the spelling mistakes. Do you think their marketdroids would allow such a message to contain any at all?
Yeah, real practical. Rather than just programming a kernel driver, now you want him to effectively implement a complete hardware abstraction layer.
What planet are you living on?
I seriously doubt Swissmetro will ever be built. The SBB doesn't want competition. Also, the only potential supporters of such a project, namely pro public transport political organisations like VCS, appear to be against it. They're apparently more interested in forcing people of the road with exorbitantly high taxes on fuel and artifically manufactured congestion though "traffic calming" and such.
Still the FC seems to be considering a pilot line from Geneva to Lausanne. I don't think it will be built, though. Not in this economic climate.
BTW: AFAIK, it is a lot more than 30 km from Geneva to Lausanne. More like 90 km. Still a less than New York to Los Angeles.
When I got cable (Cablecom/Swissonline), there was no tech sent at all. They just sent the cable modem plus instructions on how to install it and get a connection working.
"Déja vu" is a French expression.
déja -> already (as you said)
voir -> to see (infinitive form)
vu -> past participle of voir -> seen
voir is conjugated with avoir, so "J'ai vu" means "I've seen".
vous -> plural of you (as you also said), when written capitalised, it is also the polite form of "tu". Note that English has no equivilent thereof. (thou, thy and thine haven't been used for a long time)
It means "already seen" in English.
Please don't confuse déja vu with rendez-vous. And yes, you do seperate rendez and vous, since they are two seperate words. "Rendez-vous" is in fact an entire sentence, when finished with an exclamation mark, since "rendez" is the verb "se rendre" in the imperative form, where the subject is implied to be the second person.
Using grep is not allowed. Real geeks already no every single kernel error off by heart. Even the lp0 on fire one.
If you have superuser priviledges, then you can easily disable a personal firewall (which resides on the same computer as the actual user does - not a safe practice!) by overwriting it's memory or just SIGKILLing it (Windows doesn't use signals, I know, but I mean terminate it in such a way that it can't trap the termination and call some kind of exit function, like a confirmation or an alert)
Though you can do much worse. Overwriting the first, say, 1000 sectors of the primary harddisk with random junk will not only erase the MBR, making the machine unbootable, it will also take out the first partition's boot sector and it's file allocation table. If you don't have a good backup, then either you spend a large sum of money on professional data recovery - if the virus did the job thoroughly with multiple passes there might not even be anything to recover - or you basically lose your data, at very least everything you had on your first partition. And that's in the best case, where you recreate the partition table either by hand or with an appropriate application. Not many people would bother, opting for a reformat instead. Ouch.
If you want to be extra mean, you can erase the flash EPROM. Then you can't start the computer at all, all the the user will see is a blank screen. They wouldn't even hear an error code (in the form of beeps) like they would if there was a memory error. The only way to reflash the chip is by taking it out and putting it in another motherboard while that motherboard is running, or buying a dedicated EPROM programming device.
Do you understand the notion of expotential growth? Your statement seems naive and shortsighted. We're not talking about quantum leaps in technology, we're talking about steady, incremental, predictable progress. I doubt it will take more than 10 years for CCDs to be superior to silver halide film in basically all quality aspects.
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All very good, until quantum computers come along, making asymmetric encryption schemes all but worthless.
MASER = Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Like a LASER, just with microwaves.
Oxygen isn't that common. It's hydrogen and helium that are the most common elements in the universe, because they were the ones synthesised after the big bang, along with trace amounts of lithium. All the other elements either came from fusion (those up to and including Fe [Iron]) or exotic processes like neutron stars (all the elements above Fe).
All very nice, but we're talking about Radeon 9700 here, which is a different chip entirely. And not supported by DRI, BTW.
Not in liquid form it isn't. And in gas form, H is rather inconvenient, having a fairly low density.
Five bucks says that the server would look like the photos hostedon it a shortly after being posted on /.
Actually, once a flipped the voltage switch on my PSU inadvertedly (230 VAC/50Hz -> 115 VAC/60Hz. Needless to say, I live in Europe). It made quite a bang, accompanied with a bright flash, a little bit of smoke and an unpleasant burning smell. The computer was off at the time, so the motherboard and the rest of the stuff hanging off the PSU survived. I'm thinking of annihilating an unwanted PSU in the same way, though I don't want plug into the same circuit as my box.
Also, when my old 15" monitor died, it made an odd, barely audible arcing sound. It just stopped working when I turned it on one day, no reason for its demise was apparent. I also have a broken CD-ROM drive and a multitude of dysfunctional hard disks, as well as an Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz that I had a little, uh, "accident" with when applying *electrically conductive* thermal paste. I didn't bother plugging it back in to see what would happen, and cleaning it up would been rather difficult, considering I don't really have the tools.
Die Blinkenlichten sind kaputt.
Nothing is completely safe. There are risks associated with everything.
You might contract a virus when you eat something. It might contain poison, put their by an ex-employee.
Or you might experience a heart attack while you are asleep. Or a meteorite might land on your roof and collapse your home. Or it might catch fire and burn down before you can escape.
There might be an earthquake. Some deranged maniac may release a nerve agent. There might be a methane explosion. Someone might rob your home/school/place of employment and you may get stabbed or shot in the process.
You might be involved in a car accident. Your engine might fail on a level crossing. Your vehicle may be hit by another that veered into the wrong line because its driver is drunk, asleep or using a mobile phone. You might be rammed in the back by a semi-trailer. You might be hit and dragged twenty metres a long the road when you get out at the scene of an accident.
Your train might derail. It may hit another train. A tunnel or a bridge may collapse. A bus you are in may go off the road and down an embankment.
You might struck by lightening. You may fall into a body of water and drown. Your plane may stall and slam into the ground. Your spouse, SO, flatmate, relative(s), colleagues or whoever else you come into contact with may go off their rocker, get the nearest sharp object and impale you with it.
You may contract a rare disease. You might fall out of a tenth floor window. You could be unfortunate enough to be walking by a shodily built structure before it gives way. You might by buried in a landslide, or freeze to death in a blizzard. You might be shot by a police officer. You might commit suicide when in a psychotic state.
Life is dangerous. In fact, to paraphrase a well known quotation, you are never going to get out of it alive.
Rather than making it illegal, why not just humiliate people who don't eitheruse a buzzer turn their phones off?
When a phone rings, the film is simply stopped, a spotlight is directed onto the person whose phone is ringing, and the person is informed, over that Dolby Surround Sound system on extra high bass, that the film will continue when that person hangs up, and that the cinema/theater can assume no responsibility for any injuries inflicted onto the pest nor damage done to his or her mobile phone by members of the audience.
Actually, for most of us, coax networks aren't an option, since there aren't any PCI based coax NICs available. Everything is twisted-pair. I have a 3com Ethernet III combo (3c509B-TPC) card which worked fine, but I had to dump it when I got a system with an all-PCI motherboard. TP requires a hub or a switch, unlike coax, where you could connect two computers end to end. (Perhaps you could do that with a TP crossover cable, but I need to use a hub anyhow)
Why does Christianity persist?
Long answer: Because people "need" something to believe in. They want to see patterns where there aren't any, they want to see a purpose where there is just statistical chance and determinism. They refuse to accept that complexity can arise from simplicity. They don't trust that which they do not understand. Since there is no real evidence that there is a deity, (or that nobody ever landed on the moon) they instead choose to see evidence where there isn't any, and refuse to accept any arguments that negate their logic or lack thereof.
Short answer: Because they *want* to believe.
(everything is IMHO, IANAP)
Except for the $120,000 part, of course.
1 Newton meter = 1 Watt
Why couldn't they've just said that?
No, more likely he new that she'd never go out with him in the first place.
I don't want to spoil your quote or anything but sqrt(1000000) is 1000.