Fair enough, but I still manage to only have to go through the search history no more than once a month - I've kind of developed a sense for what might be interesting to me later.
I also use TiddlyWiky and the FF TiddlySnip extension to catalogue anything I think might be remotely useful, thus generating a searchable index that's a lot smaller than google. It won't last, either, but it does a very fine job for now.
What you *could* do, is set up a reverse proxy that saves every single page you ever go to, and run something like ht/dig on that for indexing. Same thing as what I do with my TW, but automatic and for everything that passes through your connection.
Browser-based solutions would be a Good Thing, but I don't really see this happening soon.
A silly question perhaps, but if the laser beam is creating the plasma channel to guide the lightning, isn't the lightning going to hit and damage the laser ?
I do agree with your final point - there are actual medical issues that cause one to gain weight, and lots of it.
However, how is it that you're a fat whining bitch, while the disabled people I know have a normal weight, with one or two bordering on skinny ? They can't get up at all, yet they manage to keep a healthy weight.
You're not telling me that an untreated broken foot (bad as that is) is directly related to obesitas.
I believe part of the prohibition is any creature that has fangs or claws, so croc would normally not be considered fit for consumption, right ?
So, does that mean that the croc-based medicine would be allowed when the patient's life is in danger, but not as a preventative measure to strengthen the immune system (in the same way that vitamins are taken regularly) ?
I suggest you read both his and my statement again. We're saying quite different things, although indeed both using the same alphabet - maybe that's what confusing you.
I never said that. I'm saying that I think that the risk of accidents for a given driver when drunk is proportionate to the risk of accidents when that same driver is sober.
*My* suspicion is that you'll find that it is often the same drivers that are likely to cause accidents, regardless of wether they're sober.
In other words, someone who tends to drive safely when sober is likely to do so when he's drunk as well and excercise even greater care exactly because he's drunk; while someone who already drives agressively when sober is probably going to be even more stupid when drunk, and thus have an even greater chance of causing accidents.
No scientific basis whatsoever for this, just my own experience and observations.
It seems to me that, as your CPU heats, you get more power. Your fan goes faster, and as it cools your chip, the power output drops and your fan spins down.
Fully automated fan control, and as little noise as possible.
Well, that depends on what kind of failure you're looking at.
If you're talking multiple power plant failure, well... I'm not sure how the situation is in.US, but in.EU most countries have import/export agreements with their neighour counterparts, so that even if several plants were to fail, a minimum service would still be available if not instantly, then at least within a short time. Since the.EU power landscape is divided into the various national companies, it is unlikely that a specific vulnerability / maintenance oversight / whatever happens in multiple countries simultaneously.
Physical infrastructure-wise, I think the routing on the high-tension net is sufficiently resilient, but the local distribution cabins, and possibly up to some high-to-low transformation stations are probably weak spots.
Electrickery-wise, you'll find that the entire net actually acts like a capacitor. If you could shutdown each and every producing element on the entire grid simultaneously, you wouldn't actually notice until moments later. I haven't got hard time values, but I'd guess we're talking minutes. Thus, momentary interruptions are not a worry. I remember stories about electrical technicians being used for IT infrastructure maintenance, and shutting down or patching equipment without notice because they were used to being able to do that on the electrical grid:-)
> Nuclear plants however are only available in the huge, bulky variation.
Actually, there was a recent/. article about Toshiba building small, safe reactors for "home" use - say, one or two per appartment block / suburb street.
Regardless of the usual stereotypes about the average (USAian) punter, it seems to me that by bussing in totally unrelated people, they're actually *broadening* the range of people who are at some level aware of their antics. Sure, most of them might care little, but there's bound to be at least a few in each bus who'll be sufficiently interested to check up on things.
Or am I underestimating the amount of Soma in the water supplies that much ?
Most, if not all, of the documents that you're required to produce, are things that any software vendor that expects to actually offer useful support to it's customers should have at hand anyway.
If you don't have that, well... let's just say it explains a lot about *why* MS products and support are perceived to suck as much as they are.
Additionally, that means that you shouldn't blame the EU for those "wasted" mandays, since in reality they're your own backlog of work that you couldn't be bothered to do for the last 20-odd years.
Now what annoys me the most, and may well be the most telling about the entire company's attitude, is that
a) you see the writing of documentation as a useless, lossmaking activity
b) you seem to think that "noncurrent technology" needs no longer be supported, regardless of how much customers are still using it
Heh. In Dutch, the word 'gift' also exists, but it has two meanings:
- (most common) a present, just like the english form
- (slightly archaic) a poison
It's a little known secret that they've used a trick in the Notepad format where they map characters one-to-one onto the 8-bit binary equivalent of their ascii number. I hope that helps you to break the format ?
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> On the other hand, it would probably run linux.
Of course. Can you imagine running MS software on that ?
"Oh god no, not bluescreen, not now ! I'm so sorry darling, this has never happened before..."
... I can *feel* the MS IE team reading the specs and going "oooh, a challenge"
Fair enough, but I still manage to only have to go through the search history no more than once a month - I've kind of developed a sense for what might be interesting to me later.
I also use TiddlyWiky and the FF TiddlySnip extension to catalogue anything I think might be remotely useful, thus generating a searchable index that's a lot smaller than google. It won't last, either, but it does a very fine job for now.
What you *could* do, is set up a reverse proxy that saves every single page you ever go to, and run something like ht/dig on that for indexing. Same thing as what I do with my TW, but automatic and for everything that passes through your connection.
Browser-based solutions would be a Good Thing, but I don't really see this happening soon.
A silly question perhaps, but if the laser beam is creating the plasma channel to guide the lightning, isn't the lightning going to hit and damage the laser ?
I do agree with your final point - there are actual medical issues that cause one to gain weight, and lots of it.
However, how is it that you're a fat whining bitch, while the disabled people I know have a normal weight, with one or two bordering on skinny ? They can't get up at all, yet they manage to keep a healthy weight.
You're not telling me that an untreated broken foot (bad as that is) is directly related to obesitas.
I believe part of the prohibition is any creature that has fangs or claws, so croc would normally not be considered fit for consumption, right ?
So, does that mean that the croc-based medicine would be allowed when the patient's life is in danger, but not as a preventative measure to strengthen the immune system (in the same way that vitamins are taken regularly) ?
Not quite as specifically calculated, but yes, that's the idea.
True; and I should have chosen slightly different wording, as that was not at all what I meant to imply.
On the other hand - and not generalizing by a long shot - it *is* possible to be drunk and drive better than some people do when sober.
I suggest you read both his and my statement again. We're saying quite different things, although indeed both using the same alphabet - maybe that's what confusing you.
I never said that. I'm saying that I think that the risk of accidents for a given driver when drunk is proportionate to the risk of accidents when that same driver is sober.
*My* suspicion is that you'll find that it is often the same drivers that are likely to cause accidents, regardless of wether they're sober.
In other words, someone who tends to drive safely when sober is likely to do so when he's drunk as well and excercise even greater care exactly because he's drunk; while someone who already drives agressively when sober is probably going to be even more stupid when drunk, and thus have an even greater chance of causing accidents.
No scientific basis whatsoever for this, just my own experience and observations.
It seems to me that, as your CPU heats, you get more power. Your fan goes faster, and as it cools your chip, the power output drops and your fan spins down.
Fully automated fan control, and as little noise as possible.
You mean, why not use _transparant_ aluminium ? After all, that can be designed and produced using 1986 material.
Redundant Array of Independent Pringles ?
> So how fragile is the electrical grid
.US, but in .EU most countries have import/export agreements with their neighour counterparts, so that even if several plants were to fail, a minimum service would still be available if not instantly, then at least within a short time. Since the .EU power landscape is divided into the various national companies, it is unlikely that a specific vulnerability / maintenance oversight / whatever happens in multiple countries simultaneously.
:-)
Well, that depends on what kind of failure you're looking at.
If you're talking multiple power plant failure, well... I'm not sure how the situation is in
Physical infrastructure-wise, I think the routing on the high-tension net is sufficiently resilient, but the local distribution cabins, and possibly up to some high-to-low transformation stations are probably weak spots.
Electrickery-wise, you'll find that the entire net actually acts like a capacitor. If you could shutdown each and every producing element on the entire grid simultaneously, you wouldn't actually notice until moments later. I haven't got hard time values, but I'd guess we're talking minutes. Thus, momentary interruptions are not a worry. I remember stories about electrical technicians being used for IT infrastructure maintenance, and shutting down or patching equipment without notice because they were used to being able to do that on the electrical grid
> Nuclear plants however are only available in the huge, bulky variation.
/. article about Toshiba building small, safe reactors for "home" use - say, one or two per appartment block / suburb street.
Actually, there was a recent
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/20/0429200
Regardless of the usual stereotypes about the average (USAian) punter, it seems to me that by bussing in totally unrelated people, they're actually *broadening* the range of people who are at some level aware of their antics. Sure, most of them might care little, but there's bound to be at least a few in each bus who'll be sufficiently interested to check up on things.
Or am I underestimating the amount of Soma in the water supplies that much ?
Most, if not all, of the documents that you're required to produce, are things that any software vendor that expects to actually offer useful support to it's customers should have at hand anyway.
If you don't have that, well... let's just say it explains a lot about *why* MS products and support are perceived to suck as much as they are.
Additionally, that means that you shouldn't blame the EU for those "wasted" mandays, since in reality they're your own backlog of work that you couldn't be bothered to do for the last 20-odd years.
Now what annoys me the most, and may well be the most telling about the entire company's attitude, is that
a) you see the writing of documentation as a useless, lossmaking activity
b) you seem to think that "noncurrent technology" needs no longer be supported, regardless of how much customers are still using it
The machines are starting to develop a survival instinct, then. Skynet is coming.
I predict the results of a soon-to-be-released study: Laptop usage has positive effects on rheumathism.
I'd guess from just in front of your face, as braces tend to be metal, and thus the current went mostly through them and not through you.
Heh. In Dutch, the word 'gift' also exists, but it has two meanings:
- (most common) a present, just like the english form
- (slightly archaic) a poison
It's a little known secret that they've used a trick in the Notepad format where they map characters one-to-one onto the 8-bit binary equivalent of their ascii number. I hope that helps you to break the format ?
well that seems to have worked.
Damn, now I'm gonna get -1 Redundants. Time to modify that anti-gravitron deflector shield, cap'n.