What metal could withstand 1,650 C? I am seriously curious here because nothing that I know of can even come close to withstanding that much heat for that long of time.
I remember reading a book about turojet (fan?) engines and how the blades, even made using fancy techniques such as single mold crystal or something like that, cannot withstand the heat inside a modern military jet engine and must use a series of complicated air ducts to vent fresh air over the metal. If they can't make a material to withstand the heat of an aircraft engine why would they be able to make a material to wisthand 10's of minutes of 1000+ C heat?
It could also be Sten (first book of the sten series) whereby they use teddy bears to manipulate children to become emotionally and physically retarded.
Why did MS choose to have every menu in the entire system cascade down except for the single most important one? Any sane UI designer would put the Start button in the upper-left of the screen.
Click on start bar, drag to upper part of screen. Done.
No. People want windows, you give them windows. Furthermore you cannot absolutely lock down a desktop in any system, i don't care about kiosk mode or anything else, that stuff never works right.
Also note that with MY software you can still allow the user to make all the changes to the sytem they want.
True, true. We don't actually worry about or care if they figure out that little flaw, we have well over 300 computers with deep freeze on them and setting them all up to not boot off floppy etc would be way more time than it's worth.
If somebody actually figured it out then we would just reimage the computer, makes more sense imho.
Some suggestion, I work as a manager at a local university computer lab. Firs tthing is pick yourself up a copy of norton ghost. Second thing is buy licenses for Deep Freeze the best program ever as far as i'm concerend. Don't have to worry about people messing with settings and even allows them to install their own programs. I really, really, really love that program - it makes my job 10x easier.
Also, don't go with dell or gateway as your computer manufactures. Get somebody who specializes in corporate support, like Omnitech, they offer a 5 year warranty, online RMA's and no hassle returns of defective equipment as well as a parts closet. We are very happy with them
Heh, i've always believed NASA could make some nice side profit by sending porn stars up in space and having ZeroG sex then selling it for some major cash down here.
I mean, think of the POSSIBILITES. When people ask me why we should go to space I junk all the regular arguments and just say these two magic words "ZeroG Sex." Get's em every time.
From Goldfinger's Version -- which I decided was cool after it was on some racing games soundtrack (perhaps Gran Turismo 3). The song is about red balloons starting a nuclear war.
99 Red Balloons
You and I in a little toy shop buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got Set them free at the break of dawn 'Til one by one, they were gone Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message, "Something's out there" Floating in the summer sky 99 red balloons go by.
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet To worry, worry, super-scurry Call out the troops now in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it boys, this is war The president is on the line As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Kriegsminister Streichholz und Benzinkanister Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute Witterten schon fette Beute Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht Mann, wer haette das gedacht Dass es einmal soweit kommt Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 dreams I have had In every one a red balloon It's all over and I'm standin' pretty In the dust that was a city If I could find a souvenir Just to prove the world was here... And here it is, a red balloon I think of you and let it go.
Any source that leaked would also lead to the immediate firing of any employee. YOu would also see, I'm guessing, draconion controls on source access and such.
Just because something isn't copyrighted doesn't mean that people will leak it. There are still serious consequences that can occur such as loss of your job, et al.
Also, wishing for no copyright is an idle dream, more realalistically a shorter copyright term is much better.
No I read it, I just dismissed that part of his reasoning as naive thinking. While they can freely distrubute code, it wouldn't be copyrighted, the company they work for can freely fire them for distrubuting the code.
I just don't think it is really something that would happen.
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What you fail to grasp, apparently, is what would happen if there was no copy right law.
You see then you would have no GPL. Without a GPL company X would take source code and then insert it into product Y without giving credit, paying money, or re-releasing the source code. Which would violate the GPL and turn all open source products into, effectively, BSD licenses.
The GPL plays a role in free software, but only because of the way our present copright law is written. Remove copyright and you remove the necessity for the GPL.
Really? So what prevents company X from taking Open Source code and inserting into product Y without giving credit or releasing the modifications?
No copyright would basically turn the software world into a BSD style license.
Ah but without copyright law a company could take portions of the code and compile them into Product X and not release the source to the general public. That would violate the spirit of open-source software.
Then you would have no GPL and no restrictions upon who uses/distributes the code.
Slashbots are always quick to condemm copyright law and seldom realize that it is because of copyright law that things like Linux and BSD are able to be what they are.
The second part can be partially explained by the fact that there isn't much point in voting if you're a democrat in Nebraska. Kindof like being a republican in Mass. Alot of people didn't vote at the last Hagel election because the guy the democrats got to challenge him, Stormy Dean, was a complete tool who had no appeal and no chance of winning. I'm a registered democrat and I voted for Hagel.
A literacy test is uncostitutional because it places a ADDITIONAL requirement on voting other than what the constitution says. Now if it were an ammendment, maybe, but it is still a bad idea. That is one reason.
Why oh why do I need to read to be able to vote? Why does this make the least bit of difference? I have an NATURAL AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT to be able to vote for my leaders, regardless of my reading ability. You say if I can't read and understand what I am voting for what does it matter? It matters because you took away my rights. If you studied political science you would also know that even voting for a random canidate doesn't harm the political process or voting for a candidate based solely on his looks doesn't necassarily harm the political process. It doesn't matter if I can't understand it you still abridged my right to voting. And if we have literacy tests, why not eye tests? And IQ tests and... you see the point I hope.
Also, literacy tests are inherently designed to oppress poor and uneducated classes of people . They constrict a barrier to the voting process that shouldn't be there and abridge the fundamental human right of being able to choose their leaders.
Chuck Hagel still owns stock in ES&S's parent company. He has won every election that used ES&S machines to count the votes.
Well yes he has but instead of some sort of vast conspiracy it might be helpful to note that Chuck Hagel hails from my hometown state of Nebraska which is extremely conservative. All 3 of our representatives are Republicans, and our governor is. Our 1 democrat, Ben Nelson, is basically a republican who believes in abortion - look at the voter tallies sometime. Something like 60% of the registered voter population is Republican. Better yet, Chuck Hagel is also a very good senator by most people's standards, including my own, and enjoys broad support from both the left and right wings.
He wins elections because he is a republican in a very republican state and he is a good senator. Quite simple.
To shoot an object in orbit that way would be prohibitively fuel expensive. Now i'm not a physics expert but from what I understand of orbital mechanics firing something south requires a Crap Ton of fuel because the orbit has to be higher or something. Additionally the minutemen actually only have a range of 6,000-plus miles (5,218 nautical miles).
The russians did expierement with retrograde rockets fired around the south pole but discovered that they just weren't very effective other than being a suprise hit.
Ever wondered why all the US Early Warning Radars point northwards? Because all N. America, Chinese, and Russian ICBM launches go over the north pole to hit their targets.
I've heard from various sources that suggest up until the point were the warheads seperate from the re entry vehicle the arming process can be shutdown.
Well for one those ICBM's are enormously expensive. A single minuteman costs 7$ million dollars. For another we just don't have that many of them. IIRC, there are roughly 530 or so Minuteman III ICBM's in the US and about 50 of the newever 10 warhead Peacekeepers. That's all (discounting SRBM's). Replace those Nuke warheads with regular warheads (and the minuteman I isn't mirv'ed) and that's not alot of firepower.
Worse yet, then you take away warheads that "need" to be there for the US's Nuclear Triad. Furthermore, you launch an ICBM over russia (remember to get to the middle east it is going to have to fly over either russia or china) and try to convince them that it isn't targeted at them.
Exactly right. Consider Mac OS X, the current (IMHO) desktop OS to beat. It has everything anybody could ever need, grandmas can sit down at it and feel comfortable and apple STILL only controls a fraction of the market.
You can say that it is due to the need to buy Apple hardware instead of being able to install it on x86 machines but I really wonder. Apple obviously feels it cannot compete with Microsoft which should tell the Linux people what they are up against. If linux could get to that level would people really drop windows? Or would they stick with what they knew and liked?
I mean, Linux as a dekstop machine sucks for most people. Hell, i'm a computer geek and I can't stand using it as a dekstop (server yes, desktop no). Everything you could want in a desktop is not there. You don't have easy hardware setup, you don't have easy software install, you don't have a coherent and logical desktop enviroment (although the latest offerings are getting extremely close to this), you don't have games, and nothing "just works."
I think what will be interesting is if the Open Source people can get their software to finally become more easy to use, et al and then see what happens to Microsoft. As it stands now they aren't a threat because the stuff they make just isn't as good as either Windows or Mac OS X.
Exactly true. A few years ago, around 1999, the upgrade cycle for the university I work for was 3 years. You got a new computer every 3 years, and that last year was a real bitch trying to get along.
This year we switched to a 5 year upgrade cycle on most computers and a 6 year upgrade cycle on "low use" - i.e. secretary computers. It makes sense when you think about it. 5 years ago it was 1998 and the fastest chip out there was a 350mhz (iirc). Today, a 350mhz CPU will do just fine running office 2k, windows 2k, and email/browsing the web. It is even usuable with things like photoshop and dreamweaver (assuming you have about 256mb of ram). THe latest machines we buy are 2.8GHZ and I doubt that in 5 years even they will really need to be replaced.
However, student public computers - bought for and by the students - we keep on a 3 year upgrade cycle if for no other reason than to impress incoming students with all the shiny flat panel monitors and 3GHZ processors with DVD/CDRW drives.In reality, they don't need that but they sure as heck like using them and like to think that their money goes to buying worthwhile equipment.
I kindof like it, it involves a heck of alot less work and saves alot of time and energy in what used to be the annual summer hell months of trying to switch and change over 200 some computers.
We do.. it's called the court system. That is the problem.. the Patent Office grants overly broad (and stupid) patents on the basis that the courts are more qualified to deal with the problem than the patent system. That and not granting a patent can probably lead to some bad things (read: people can sue the patent office).
Stupid.. yes but what can you do? At least patents run out after a few years..
Well you can't ask Movie and television script writings to get sci-fi plots right. I mean think of even the Matrix where the whole reason for the Matrix (power source) is fundamentally flawed.
And V too of course. They come to earth looking for water but (somehow) manage to miss all those huge Gas Giants full of water, Europa, and the Asteroid belt. It makes - literally - no sense for them to invade earth for "Water" and expend the delta-v when they could just grab it from anywhere else in the solar system.
Just about every Alien Invasion movie has this problem... they all expect the aliens to come to Earth to grab our "resources" but the fact is earth is a piss poor place to get resources. The asteroids, etc are far more accessible and you don't have to fight a war to get said resources.
On the contrary, in 5 years of college I have never once taken a class before 12:30. Of course, believe it or not, I still do manage to oversleep every once in awhile =)
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What metal could withstand 1,650 C? I am seriously curious here because nothing that I know of can even come close to withstanding that much heat for that long of time.
I remember reading a book about turojet (fan?) engines and how the blades, even made using fancy techniques such as single mold crystal or something like that, cannot withstand the heat inside a modern military jet engine and must use a series of complicated air ducts to vent fresh air over the metal. If they can't make a material to withstand the heat of an aircraft engine why would they be able to make a material to wisthand 10's of minutes of 1000+ C heat?
It could also be Sten (first book of the sten series) whereby they use teddy bears to manipulate children to become emotionally and physically retarded.
Journaling file system xp doesn't have it
Wrong. NTFS
Why did MS choose to have every menu in the entire system cascade down except for the single most important one? Any sane UI designer would put the Start button in the upper-left of the screen.
Click on start bar, drag to upper part of screen. Done.
yes that's smart.
No. People want windows, you give them windows. Furthermore you cannot absolutely lock down a desktop in any system, i don't care about kiosk mode or anything else, that stuff never works right.
Also note that with MY software you can still allow the user to make all the changes to the sytem they want.
True, true. We don't actually worry about or care if they figure out that little flaw, we have well over 300 computers with deep freeze on them and setting them all up to not boot off floppy etc would be way more time than it's worth.
If somebody actually figured it out then we would just reimage the computer, makes more sense imho.
Some suggestion, I work as a manager at a local university computer lab. Firs tthing is pick yourself up a copy of norton ghost. Second thing is buy licenses for Deep Freeze the best program ever as far as i'm concerend. Don't have to worry about people messing with settings and even allows them to install their own programs. I really, really, really love that program - it makes my job 10x easier.
Also, don't go with dell or gateway as your computer manufactures. Get somebody who specializes in corporate support, like Omnitech, they offer a 5 year warranty, online RMA's and no hassle returns of defective equipment as well as a parts closet. We are very happy with them
Heh, i've always believed NASA could make some nice side profit by sending porn stars up in space and having ZeroG sex then selling it for some major cash down here.
I mean, think of the POSSIBILITES. When people ask me why we should go to space I junk all the regular arguments and just say these two magic words "ZeroG Sex." Get's em every time.
From Goldfinger's Version -- which I decided was cool after it was on some racing games soundtrack (perhaps Gran Turismo 3). The song is about red balloons starting a nuclear war.
99 Red Balloons
You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, "Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by.
99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.
99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons
99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenir
Just to prove the world was here...
And here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.
Any source that leaked would also lead to the immediate firing of any employee. YOu would also see, I'm guessing, draconion controls on source access and such.
Just because something isn't copyrighted doesn't mean that people will leak it. There are still serious consequences that can occur such as loss of your job, et al.
Also, wishing for no copyright is an idle dream, more realalistically a shorter copyright term is much better.
No I read it, I just dismissed that part of his reasoning as naive thinking. While they can freely distrubute code, it wouldn't be copyrighted, the company they work for can freely fire them for distrubuting the code.
I just don't think it is really something that would happen.
What you fail to grasp, apparently, is what would happen if there was no copy right law.
You see then you would have no GPL. Without a GPL company X would take source code and then insert it into product Y without giving credit, paying money, or re-releasing the source code. Which would violate the GPL and turn all open source products into, effectively, BSD licenses.
Yep. I sure don't get it.
The GPL plays a role in free software, but only because of the way our present copright law is written. Remove copyright and you remove the necessity for the GPL.
Really? So what prevents company X from taking Open Source code and inserting into product Y without giving credit or releasing the modifications?
No copyright would basically turn the software world into a BSD style license.
Ah but without copyright law a company could take portions of the code and compile them into Product X and not release the source to the general public. That would violate the spirit of open-source software.
Then you would have no GPL and no restrictions upon who uses/distributes the code.
Slashbots are always quick to condemm copyright law and seldom realize that it is because of copyright law that things like Linux and BSD are able to be what they are.
The first part i'm not sure of, who knows.
The second part can be partially explained by the fact that there isn't much point in voting if you're a democrat in Nebraska. Kindof like being a republican in Mass. Alot of people didn't vote at the last Hagel election because the guy the democrats got to challenge him, Stormy Dean, was a complete tool who had no appeal and no chance of winning. I'm a registered democrat and I voted for Hagel.
That would be my guess at least.
A literacy test is uncostitutional because it places a ADDITIONAL requirement on voting other than what the constitution says. Now if it were an ammendment, maybe, but it is still a bad idea. That is one reason.
Why oh why do I need to read to be able to vote? Why does this make the least bit of difference? I have an NATURAL AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT to be able to vote for my leaders, regardless of my reading ability. You say if I can't read and understand what I am voting for what does it matter? It matters because you took away my rights. If you studied political science you would also know that even voting for a random canidate doesn't harm the political process or voting for a candidate based solely on his looks doesn't necassarily harm the political process. It doesn't matter if I can't understand it you still abridged my right to voting. And if we have literacy tests, why not eye tests? And IQ tests and... you see the point I hope.
Also, literacy tests are inherently designed to oppress poor and uneducated classes of people . They constrict a barrier to the voting process that shouldn't be there and abridge the fundamental human right of being able to choose their leaders.
Chuck Hagel still owns stock in ES&S's parent company. He has won every election that used ES&S machines to count the votes.
Well yes he has but instead of some sort of vast conspiracy it might be helpful to note that Chuck Hagel hails from my hometown state of Nebraska which is extremely conservative. All 3 of our representatives are Republicans, and our governor is. Our 1 democrat, Ben Nelson, is basically a republican who believes in abortion - look at the voter tallies sometime. Something like 60% of the registered voter population is Republican. Better yet, Chuck Hagel is also a very good senator by most people's standards, including my own, and enjoys broad support from both the left and right wings.
He wins elections because he is a republican in a very republican state and he is a good senator. Quite simple.
To shoot an object in orbit that way would be prohibitively fuel expensive. Now i'm not a physics expert but from what I understand of orbital mechanics firing something south requires a Crap Ton of fuel because the orbit has to be higher or something. Additionally the minutemen actually only have a range of 6,000-plus miles (5,218 nautical miles).
The russians did expierement with retrograde rockets fired around the south pole but discovered that they just weren't very effective other than being a suprise hit.
Ever wondered why all the US Early Warning Radars point northwards? Because all N. America, Chinese, and Russian ICBM launches go over the north pole to hit their targets.
I've heard from various sources that suggest up until the point were the warheads seperate from the re entry vehicle the arming process can be shutdown.
Whether or not it's true I don't know.
Well for one those ICBM's are enormously expensive. A single minuteman costs 7$ million dollars. For another we just don't have that many of them. IIRC, there are roughly 530 or so Minuteman III ICBM's in the US and about 50 of the newever 10 warhead Peacekeepers. That's all (discounting SRBM's). Replace those Nuke warheads with regular warheads (and the minuteman I isn't mirv'ed) and that's not alot of firepower.
Worse yet, then you take away warheads that "need" to be there for the US's Nuclear Triad. Furthermore, you launch an ICBM over russia (remember to get to the middle east it is going to have to fly over either russia or china) and try to convince them that it isn't targeted at them.
Exactly right. Consider Mac OS X, the current (IMHO) desktop OS to beat. It has everything anybody could ever need, grandmas can sit down at it and feel comfortable and apple STILL only controls a fraction of the market.
You can say that it is due to the need to buy Apple hardware instead of being able to install it on x86 machines but I really wonder. Apple obviously feels it cannot compete with Microsoft which should tell the Linux people what they are up against. If linux could get to that level would people really drop windows? Or would they stick with what they knew and liked?
I mean, Linux as a dekstop machine sucks for most people. Hell, i'm a computer geek and I can't stand using it as a dekstop (server yes, desktop no). Everything you could want in a desktop is not there. You don't have easy hardware setup, you don't have easy software install, you don't have a coherent and logical desktop enviroment (although the latest offerings are getting extremely close to this), you don't have games, and nothing "just works."
I think what will be interesting is if the Open Source people can get their software to finally become more easy to use, et al and then see what happens to Microsoft. As it stands now they aren't a threat because the stuff they make just isn't as good as either Windows or Mac OS X.
Exactly true. A few years ago, around 1999, the upgrade cycle for the university I work for was 3 years. You got a new computer every 3 years, and that last year was a real bitch trying to get along.
This year we switched to a 5 year upgrade cycle on most computers and a 6 year upgrade cycle on "low use" - i.e. secretary computers. It makes sense when you think about it. 5 years ago it was 1998 and the fastest chip out there was a 350mhz (iirc). Today, a 350mhz CPU will do just fine running office 2k, windows 2k, and email/browsing the web. It is even usuable with things like photoshop and dreamweaver (assuming you have about 256mb of ram). THe latest machines we buy are 2.8GHZ and I doubt that in 5 years even they will really need to be replaced.
However, student public computers - bought for and by the students - we keep on a 3 year upgrade cycle if for no other reason than to impress incoming students with all the shiny flat panel monitors and 3GHZ processors with DVD/CDRW drives.In reality, they don't need that but they sure as heck like using them and like to think that their money goes to buying worthwhile equipment.
I kindof like it, it involves a heck of alot less work and saves alot of time and energy in what used to be the annual summer hell months of trying to switch and change over 200 some computers.
We do.. it's called the court system. That is the problem.. the Patent Office grants overly broad (and stupid) patents on the basis that the courts are more qualified to deal with the problem than the patent system. That and not granting a patent can probably lead to some bad things (read: people can sue the patent office).
Stupid.. yes but what can you do? At least patents run out after a few years..
Well you can't ask Movie and television script writings to get sci-fi plots right. I mean think of even the Matrix where the whole reason for the Matrix (power source) is fundamentally flawed.
And V too of course. They come to earth looking for water but (somehow) manage to miss all those huge Gas Giants full of water, Europa, and the Asteroid belt. It makes - literally - no sense for them to invade earth for "Water" and expend the delta-v when they could just grab it from anywhere else in the solar system.
Just about every Alien Invasion movie has this problem... they all expect the aliens to come to Earth to grab our "resources" but the fact is earth is a piss poor place to get resources. The asteroids, etc are far more accessible and you don't have to fight a war to get said resources.
On the contrary, in 5 years of college I have never once taken a class before 12:30. Of course, believe it or not, I still do manage to oversleep every once in awhile =)