Every disc in every Star Trek box set has hidden special features on it, as menu options hidden in the artwork. These are usually cast and crew interviews, but I believe there were one or two bloopers.
I discovered these by accident, and then spent hours finding and watching them.
I presume that by "automatic clock", he's referring to one that syncs its time by radio, and thus theoretically didn't require (or have controls for) manual setting.
There are almost 400 million people in the USA. A tiny number of those are Windows sysadmins. Almost everyone who owns a computer...And the people who don't think of themselves as sysadmins were likely hit harder than those who do, as they're the folks who don't know jack about patching.
Those with automatic updates were probably fine. Those without, well, they'll wonder why their computer didn't change the clock correctly with the rest of the country, and why it changed this past weekend. Twice a hassle, one more reason to hate computers.
Checkpoint is the single most popular longest lasting commercial Firewall product; you don't have to like it, but it's sort of silly to say that it's not a suitable product. Being a Slashdot reader, you should know better than to use that kind of logic. A product line's age or popularity has nothing to do with whether it's suitable for the task in question. If the software world ran on reputation, Windows would have been dropped ten years ago.
What with the trend to add information capabilities to anything and everything, I wouldn't be surprised if, in 30 years, we had wireless networks insanely dense by today's standards.
Another thing...Digital amplitude modulation works fine for fiber because fiber has a very high signal-to-noise ratio as a medium, leading to high data integrity. Open does not. FM and QAM offer some protection against this. Listen to the radio during a thunderstorm. Switch between AM and FM, and listen to the noise on each. The AM stations are much noisier than the FM stations, which only click and pop during major bolts. The AM stations, on the other hand, pick up every bit of cloud-to-cloud static discharge.
Simple on/off signaling is a very low grade form of amplitude modulation, and thus places limitations on the kinds and rate of signaling you can do without bleeding into neighboring frequencies.
Modulation using FM or QAM allows one to pack a lot more data into a much smaller frequency band, but they require the ability to alter the frequency of the EM radiation.
Once you get close to the frequency of infrared light... Why not just make the jump, and go with light instead? Perhaps because there aren't many known ways to tune the frequency of visible-spectrum EM emissions at rates which make using that part of the spectrum in that manner effective?
Terahertz research would seem to me to be a step in that direction, by bringing existing EM modulation techniques closer to that spectrum.
And, in the end, we're not going to want to stop there. We're going to eventually want to extend application of understood techniques to the UV bands and beyond.
It may not be effective for communicating in atmosphere, but it'll eventually be a great high-bandwidth solution for intercraft and interplanetary communications. The smaller you can make the parabolic dish, the easier it becomes to effectively focus the signal.
Guns cannot be entirely banned. They will always be in use, even if only by government employees.
Any definition of "banned" you were thinking of probably qualifies as some form of lesser "gun control," which you advocate. You might want to think about the line where having "gun control" laws amounts to banning guns, whether or not that moves, whether it should, and where it should stop.
I'll give you a hint: Most people's idea of "appropriate" gun control amounts to "people less responsible than me shouldn't have them." Beyond that, they think of it as a ban.
I've found myself in need of CPU burn-in software. Tools I've found apparently weren't designed for multi-core systems, and that's the kind of system I need to push.
What I'd like to do is write a bunch of assembler routines that repeat different classes of instructions. One would run simple FPU operations several hundred times, another would run integer ops, another, logic ops, more would run mmx ops, sse ops, sse2 ops, sse3 ops, etc.
The program would poll the CPU temperature every couple seconds, find the routine that causes the greatest amount of heat, and concentrate on it.
The overall program would be a C/assembler hybrid. The burn routines would be in assembler, but the analysis and scheduling routines would be in C.
What you're asking for is for someone else to cut you off from your addiction. It's nobody else's responsibility to raise you once you turn 18 but your own. And, prior to that, it's your parents responsibility. If you'd like, you can have your right to be your own legal gaurdian revoked, and have someone else parent you for the rest of your life. That way, you won't have to take responsibility for your own behavior beyond what your legal gaurdian dictates.
When you ask that everybody be given blanket rules, just so that you have those rules, you're imposing your own views upon everyone else. That's antithetical to the principles upon which European culture in North America was founded; People emigrated to North America to escape restrictions and persecutions in place in thier own countries. They still do; I have coworkers whose parents immigrated from Iran and Vietnam. I tutor students who've fled Sudan.
What you're asking for is that everyone become restricted in some manner just so that you don't have to risk taking responsibility for an action you won't prevent yourself from taking.
Try installing filtering software. Or only surfing from public libraries. Or only access the Internet through dial-up. Or through a mobile phone. Join a "pornography addicts anonymous" group. All you've been doing is blaming pornography for miserable portions of your life. Perhaps there are other issues. Maybe you should see an honest-to-God psychologist for a while, one who helps you change yourself, instead of changing others.
Bush has the power to ignore the laws, but not the right. Because he's in charge of the branch that enforces laws, he can de facto pick and choose what laws to enforce. However, doing so is a breach of constitutional law, and Congress has the power to impeach him for it.
I would suggest you have an addictive personality. I was exposed to porn back in sixth grade. I've certainly managed to do well, by any reasonable standard of accomplishment.
That's sweet. My parents gave me "the talk" when I was 12, after I'd already been raiding my dad's collection of porno floppies for six months. I have to wonder what he kept on those 5.25" floppies, though...
Sure. Lots. Every time you hear about restrictions on who can get an abortion, or when, or mandatory counseling prior to surgery. And it often happens at the state level, where it's not as easy to get it ruled unconstitutional. (Yay! We're an independant state, and we can sometimes legislate our rights away!)
Unless it's ultra-violent rape porn or something You've illustrated the primary argument, that porn can have an influence on children's learned behavior. And there's millions of Americans who, for some reason, believe that any knowledge of sex will cause children to grow up to be something they shouldn't. (Like, "parents", I suppose.)
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Nor does it work in OOo 2.0 under Ubuntu Edgy.
;-)
I thought OOo was supposed to be cross-platform.
Every disc in every Star Trek box set has hidden special features on it, as menu options hidden in the artwork. These are usually cast and crew interviews, but I believe there were one or two bloopers.
I discovered these by accident, and then spent hours finding and watching them.
I think he's referring to latency in the USB transmission medium, especially if one uses a hub.
So, gorillas are in, then?
I presume that by "automatic clock", he's referring to one that syncs its time by radio, and thus theoretically didn't require (or have controls for) manual setting.
Those with automatic updates were probably fine. Those without, well, they'll wonder why their computer didn't change the clock correctly with the rest of the country, and why it changed this past weekend. Twice a hassle, one more reason to hate computers.
That's only true in vacuum. The parent AC must have been referring to a medium where light travels even faster.
Someone else already thirded and fourthed it.
Ironically, you're Taking the Fifth.
What with the trend to add information capabilities to anything and everything, I wouldn't be surprised if, in 30 years, we had wireless networks insanely dense by today's standards.
Another thing...Digital amplitude modulation works fine for fiber because fiber has a very high signal-to-noise ratio as a medium, leading to high data integrity. Open does not. FM and QAM offer some protection against this. Listen to the radio during a thunderstorm. Switch between AM and FM, and listen to the noise on each. The AM stations are much noisier than the FM stations, which only click and pop during major bolts. The AM stations, on the other hand, pick up every bit of cloud-to-cloud static discharge.
Simple on/off signaling is a very low grade form of amplitude modulation, and thus places limitations on the kinds and rate of signaling you can do without bleeding into neighboring frequencies.
Modulation using FM or QAM allows one to pack a lot more data into a much smaller frequency band, but they require the ability to alter the frequency of the EM radiation.
Terahertz research would seem to me to be a step in that direction, by bringing existing EM modulation techniques closer to that spectrum.
And, in the end, we're not going to want to stop there. We're going to eventually want to extend application of understood techniques to the UV bands and beyond.
It may not be effective for communicating in atmosphere, but it'll eventually be a great high-bandwidth solution for intercraft and interplanetary communications. The smaller you can make the parabolic dish, the easier it becomes to effectively focus the signal.
Only if you're in Soviet airspace. Go high enough, and you'll no longer be "in Soviet Russia". (Or any Russia, for that matter.)
(Yeah, yeah, "*whoosh*".)
Indeed. My great-uncle is in his seventies, and is always trying new things.
:-(
But then, he goes out for a weekly bike ride, and I can't keep up with him.
Guns cannot be entirely banned. They will always be in use, even if only by government employees.
Any definition of "banned" you were thinking of probably qualifies as some form of lesser "gun control," which you advocate. You might want to think about the line where having "gun control" laws amounts to banning guns, whether or not that moves, whether it should, and where it should stop.
I'll give you a hint: Most people's idea of "appropriate" gun control amounts to "people less responsible than me shouldn't have them." Beyond that, they think of it as a ban.
Funny, I thought he was talking about the American Revolution.
In such a world, more people would apply aftershave once they got to work, else their car would leave them in the driveway.
I've found myself in need of CPU burn-in software. Tools I've found apparently weren't designed for multi-core systems, and that's the kind of system I need to push.
What I'd like to do is write a bunch of assembler routines that repeat different classes of instructions. One would run simple FPU operations several hundred times, another would run integer ops, another, logic ops, more would run mmx ops, sse ops, sse2 ops, sse3 ops, etc.
The program would poll the CPU temperature every couple seconds, find the routine that causes the greatest amount of heat, and concentrate on it.
The overall program would be a C/assembler hybrid. The burn routines would be in assembler, but the analysis and scheduling routines would be in C.
What you're asking for is for someone else to cut you off from your addiction. It's nobody else's responsibility to raise you once you turn 18 but your own. And, prior to that, it's your parents responsibility. If you'd like, you can have your right to be your own legal gaurdian revoked, and have someone else parent you for the rest of your life. That way, you won't have to take responsibility for your own behavior beyond what your legal gaurdian dictates.
When you ask that everybody be given blanket rules, just so that you have those rules, you're imposing your own views upon everyone else. That's antithetical to the principles upon which European culture in North America was founded; People emigrated to North America to escape restrictions and persecutions in place in thier own countries. They still do; I have coworkers whose parents immigrated from Iran and Vietnam. I tutor students who've fled Sudan.
What you're asking for is that everyone become restricted in some manner just so that you don't have to risk taking responsibility for an action you won't prevent yourself from taking.
Try installing filtering software. Or only surfing from public libraries. Or only access the Internet through dial-up. Or through a mobile phone. Join a "pornography addicts anonymous" group. All you've been doing is blaming pornography for miserable portions of your life. Perhaps there are other issues. Maybe you should see an honest-to-God psychologist for a while, one who helps you change yourself, instead of changing others.
Bush has the power to ignore the laws, but not the right. Because he's in charge of the branch that enforces laws, he can de facto pick and choose what laws to enforce. However, doing so is a breach of constitutional law, and Congress has the power to impeach him for it.
You're going to blame porn for your addiction?
I would suggest you have an addictive personality. I was exposed to porn back in sixth grade. I've certainly managed to do well, by any reasonable standard of accomplishment.
That's sweet. My parents gave me "the talk" when I was 12, after I'd already been raiding my dad's collection of porno floppies for six months. I have to wonder what he kept on those 5.25" floppies, though...
I wasn't blaming, or even criticizing, Google. Simply correcting someone.
Sure. Lots. Every time you hear about restrictions on who can get an abortion, or when, or mandatory counseling prior to surgery. And it often happens at the state level, where it's not as easy to get it ruled unconstitutional. (Yay! We're an independant state, and we can sometimes legislate our rights away!)