TFS> The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million
Given that bacteria aren't generally counted by the baker's dozen, I'd say a proverbial handful still survives after 12 seconds.
Only if you manage to get more energy out than you've put in, which is gonna be hell to prove. The cold fusion guys have been trying to get arrested for years.
So $company standardizes on Redbuntian Linux for all of it's enterprise users. I'm not going to claim that they'll be doing a lot less support - users will be users - but at least if something needs to be changed to better match their workflow, they'll be able to.
I'm clueless as to how pagers work, but SMS does not have guaranteed delivery.
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#GSM
"Message delivery is best effort, so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient and delay or complete loss of a message is not uncommon, particularly when sending between networks."
The problem might be that they've so grown used to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown rolling over and playing dead on command, that they now assume the rest of the EU has no balls, either.
A possibility, however, several cases (dozens, I believe, if not more) have been well-documented of sex workers who have gained natural immunity from HIV. This is one of the current trails in the search for a vaccine, although apparently they lose the immunity after some time once they stop being regularly exposed.
If I'm gonna be torrenting files on my cellphone (like hell I will, but if), I'm gonna be torrenting files *for* my cellphone. A movie in 3gp for a cellphone screen should run you somewhere between 100 and 200 meg, which is quite reasonable depending on your specific data plan and the country you're paying it in.
'The latter use of the term implies that software can literally wear out or rust like a physical tool. More commonly, bit rot refers to the decay of physical storage media.'
Then, under "Problems with software", the article begins with:
'The term "bit rot" is often used to refer to dormant code rot, i.e. the fact that dormant (unused or little-used) code gradually decays in correctness as a result of interface changes in active code that is called from the dormant code.'
Nowhere is there reference of the number of security vulnerabilities that have been exposed over the years.
When random friend complains to me that his pc isn't working as it should, my standard answer is "I've told you this before: I'll happily fix it for you, but when I'm done it's gonna be running LInux."
Some refuse, some accept and tend to be happily surprised at the result. The ones that take the conversion, I also ask if they want me to set it up so I can get remote access should they need me to do something. I then set up their firewall for SSH (pubkey-only), and add them to my DynDNS.
The only recent call for help I've had, turned out to be a failing harddisk. My friend almost begged me to install Linux on the new disk as soon as possible, as he was very reluctant to use the other PC they have that has windows:-)
As far as I know, the whole issue is not that the planet is in danger, but that we as a species are about to be subject to another dramatic change in the environment. In other words, nothing to worry about on a planet-wide scale, but rather cause for concern if you've got some nice real estate at the coast (humans have always tended to settle around water) or an economy that is highly parasitic on the current environment.
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That's roughly every eight minutes, given an 8-hour day. Another post said that such procedure takes several minutes. What is it you do ?
TFS> The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million
Given that bacteria aren't generally counted by the baker's dozen, I'd say a proverbial handful still survives after 12 seconds.
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/msad16sep98_1.htm
I never thought about that, really. There are superficial parallels, too: solid/earth, liquid/water, gas/air and plasma/fire.
I wonder what distorted picture is gonna be left of *our* knowledge in a couple of thousand years.
Only if you manage to get more energy out than you've put in, which is gonna be hell to prove. The cold fusion guys have been trying to get arrested for years.
Well, America spawned him, and Columbus discovered America. There's your culprit. He's responsible for Bush, too, btw.
So $company standardizes on Redbuntian Linux for all of it's enterprise users. I'm not going to claim that they'll be doing a lot less support - users will be users - but at least if something needs to be changed to better match their workflow, they'll be able to.
I'm clueless as to how pagers work, but SMS does not have guaranteed delivery.
Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#GSM
"Message delivery is best effort, so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient and delay or complete loss of a message is not uncommon, particularly when sending between networks."
There *are* dead zones, but far less, ime.
Everywhere. The protocols used don't provide for guaranteed delivery.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennou_Coil
The problem might be that they've so grown used to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown rolling over and playing dead on command, that they now assume the rest of the EU has no balls, either.
Object oriented databases, probably. There's gonna be a standard any day now.
A possibility, however, several cases (dozens, I believe, if not more) have been well-documented of sex workers who have gained natural immunity from HIV. This is one of the current trails in the search for a vaccine, although apparently they lose the immunity after some time once they stop being regularly exposed.
If I'm gonna be torrenting files on my cellphone (like hell I will, but if), I'm gonna be torrenting files *for* my cellphone. A movie in 3gp for a cellphone screen should run you somewhere between 100 and 200 meg, which is quite reasonable depending on your specific data plan and the country you're paying it in.
Must not be a lot of liberals in the liberal party, then.
So they're lacking a *backup network*, not a network backup ?
And here's the rest of that line:
'The latter use of the term implies that software can literally wear out or rust like a physical tool. More commonly, bit rot refers to the decay of physical storage media.'
Then, under "Problems with software", the article begins with:
'The term "bit rot" is often used to refer to dormant code rot, i.e. the fact that dormant (unused or little-used) code gradually decays in correctness as a result of interface changes in active code that is called from the dormant code.'
Nowhere is there reference of the number of security vulnerabilities that have been exposed over the years.
Don't you mean Cloud + Sephiroth ? This *is* slash, after all.
Yes and no.
When random friend complains to me that his pc isn't working as it should, my standard answer is "I've told you this before: I'll happily fix it for you, but when I'm done it's gonna be running LInux."
:-)
Some refuse, some accept and tend to be happily surprised at the result. The ones that take the conversion, I also ask if they want me to set it up so I can get remote access should they need me to do something. I then set up their firewall for SSH (pubkey-only), and add them to my DynDNS.
The only recent call for help I've had, turned out to be a failing harddisk. My friend almost begged me to install Linux on the new disk as soon as possible, as he was very reluctant to use the other PC they have that has windows
Umm... bitrot refers to decay of media, not bugs found over time.
As far as I know, the whole issue is not that the planet is in danger, but that we as a species are about to be subject to another dramatic change in the environment. In other words, nothing to worry about on a planet-wide scale, but rather cause for concern if you've got some nice real estate at the coast (humans have always tended to settle around water) or an economy that is highly parasitic on the current environment.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not defending their patent claim, just responding to your query as to what exactly they meant by that.
Neither are they evolved to spout silliness on the internet, but there you go.