The flame in the fist photo is saturated. The parts around the periphery that you can see properly are orangish. The flame may have been white, or it may not have. There's no way to tell conclusively from that photo. It could have been virtually any color that has significant red, green and blue components.
I strongly agree with Jack Thompson's desire to ban implied sex. In fact, I think showing a couple with their kids on TV and in games should be banned as well because of the implied sex between the couple.
The Update Manager should automatically notify the user when a new release is available. You can either wait for its daily check or launch it from the "Administration" menu and click "Check". It will then notify you that there is a new release available, you click "upgrade" and it downloads and upgrades everything. I'm in the middle of downloading the upgrade right now (its a 700 MB download which is going to take close to two hours to download on my connection), but from what I've heard, the upgrade from breezy to dapper is um a breeze.
I somehow doubt that Windows' automatic updates will get you to Vista quite as easily:)
Most applications don't need to do anything that requires root privileges. The worm could happily install its browser in the user's home directory. It won't affect other users, but that isn't a big consolation to most home machines where there are often just one or two users.
We have a intelligence committee in the congress for a reason And we all know how independent congress is of the white house. That's why we also have judicial oversight. The FISA court is specifically for intelligence matters, and isn't some 'random judge without security clearance'
I'm sure they have NO IDEA that fuels are blended, and would be eternally grateful to the anonymous slashdotters for telling them so that they can take it into account when designing engines!
I just measured things on my 1280x1024 screen. Excluding browser menus, toolbars, scrollbars etc, the window is 1265x856 pixels. The content occupies a 414x331 portion of the screen. This means that 87.3% of the area is junk.
Everytime someone says the word "nuclear" someone says "just drop it into the sun". Well, anything launched from the earth would still have earth's orbital velocity of about 30 km/sec. Braking in space is just as hard as accelerating, so it would still take quite a bit of rocket power to send the junk into the sun, so it's not quite "trivial".
A lot of the newer CFL lamps produce light that looks identical to that produced by lightbulbs (to my eyes at least)... have you looked into those?
That said, simply switching off lights in the room when you leave probably has you using less than half the energy for lighting than the average household in the US.
There are 600 coal plants in the US, and they produced a total of 1,974 terrawatthours in 2003. The largest nuclear plant currently operating has a capacity of 1335 MW, or 11.69 terrawatthours under the unrealistic assumption that it operates 24x7 at full capacity. Replacing all coal plants would therefore require building 169 new nuclear plants, all as big as the largest currently operating in the US. The Palo Verde plant cost $5.9B to construct (in 1988 dollars), so the cost of building all these new nuclear plants would be about $1 trillion.
The enormous scale of the problem really makes SHUTTING DOWN coal plants anytime in the near future virtually impossible. I think the bottom line is that we can't continue to consume energy at the massive per capita levels we do now. People need to realize that there's so much we can do to drastically cut down the amount of energy (and materials, as a matter of fact) without meaningfully impacting our standard of living. If every adult in the US could find a way to save the power equivalent to lighting a single 60 watt bulb for one hour every day, that would save enough power to eliminate one coal plant. (1974 TWh / 600 plants / 150M people / 365 days = 60 Wh)
A smaller business would have fewer customers and therefore not have to spend as much. Any business where sending a form letter to customers is a prohibitively high cost is probably sick and likely to go under anyway.
Given that it can take up weeks or months to clear up your credit history and potentially costs thousands of dollars if someone uses your information to open fraudulent accounts, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask companies to send a letter when they fail in their legal obligation to protect their customers personal information.
Maybe you need crack open a newspaper and realize that the world hasn't stood still over the past 2000 years
"The thinking and the ideas that it is possible to continue holding [people] under occupation - it's occupation; one may not like the word, but what is happening here; it's occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation in my mind is bad for Israel, also for the Palestinians, also for Israel's economy."
It's so funny to see criminals claim self-defense when their victims hit back. A agree, it is funny to watch Israel claim self-defense when they are attacked by people whose land they've been occupying.
That is, how much per square inch, single layer? And just how many layers does this employ?
Here's a brilliant idea: Maybe somewhere in the summary, Slashdot could include an easy way to get more information about the story... say, with a hyperlink to a webpage. Then people would have an easy way to find answers to questions they may have that aren't covered by the one paragraph summary. For instance, people could then read the news article that mentions that "In this demonstration there were over 1.3 million bits per data page, and 320 data pages spaced 0.067 degrees apart were stored in the same volume of material.".
You could easily have a "compatibility" mode where the interface returns 512 byte blocks even though its stored internally as 4096-byte blocks. You'd sacrifice performance, of course, but that probably not a huge issue when you're running legacy systems on newer hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
Really? You had DVRs, video-on-demand an such a two decades ago?
Do you really want to wait five years for them to start constructing the Freedom Bridge and Freedom Drive?
It seems like the new episodes are going to be broadcast on Comedy Central, not Fox, so Faux can continue to bite your shiny metal ass.
The flame in the fist photo is saturated. The parts around the periphery that you can see properly are orangish. The flame may have been white, or it may not have. There's no way to tell conclusively from that photo. It could have been virtually any color that has significant red, green and blue components.
I don't even know how you'd do this on a computer
Ever hear of a modem?
You don't even need to modify sources.list directly.
$ gksu update-manager -d
Will tell you that a new release is available will do everything for you.
A procedure otherwise known as deleting files and creating a file of the same size with random data.
I strongly agree with Jack Thompson's desire to ban implied sex. In fact, I think showing a couple with their kids on TV and in games should be banned as well because of the implied sex between the couple.
The Update Manager should automatically notify the user when a new release is available. You can either wait for its daily check or launch it from the "Administration" menu and click "Check". It will then notify you that there is a new release available, you click "upgrade" and it downloads and upgrades everything. I'm in the middle of downloading the upgrade right now (its a 700 MB download which is going to take close to two hours to download on my connection), but from what I've heard, the upgrade from breezy to dapper is um a breeze.
:)
I somehow doubt that Windows' automatic updates will get you to Vista quite as easily
Most applications don't need to do anything that requires root privileges. The worm could happily install its browser in the user's home directory. It won't affect other users, but that isn't a big consolation to most home machines where there are often just one or two users.
We have a intelligence committee in the congress for a reason
And we all know how independent congress is of the white house. That's why we also have judicial oversight. The FISA court is specifically for intelligence matters, and isn't some 'random judge without security clearance'
I'm sure they have NO IDEA that fuels are blended, and would be eternally grateful to the anonymous slashdotters for telling them so that they can take it into account when designing engines!
I just measured things on my 1280x1024 screen. Excluding browser menus, toolbars, scrollbars etc, the window is 1265x856 pixels. The content occupies a 414x331 portion of the screen. This means that 87.3% of the area is junk.
Newton and Keppler are not just rolling in their graves, but spinning around like motors
Braking a little won't cause it to spiral into the sun... all it would do is give you a slightly elliptical orbit.
Everytime someone says the word "nuclear" someone says "just drop it into the sun". Well, anything launched from the earth would still have earth's orbital velocity of about 30 km/sec. Braking in space is just as hard as accelerating, so it would still take quite a bit of rocket power to send the junk into the sun, so it's not quite "trivial".
A lot of the newer CFL lamps produce light that looks identical to that produced by lightbulbs (to my eyes at least)... have you looked into those?
That said, simply switching off lights in the room when you leave probably has you using less than half the energy for lighting than the average household in the US.
There are 600 coal plants in the US, and they produced a total of 1,974 terrawatthours in 2003. The largest nuclear plant currently operating has a capacity of 1335 MW, or 11.69 terrawatthours under the unrealistic assumption that it operates 24x7 at full capacity. Replacing all coal plants would therefore require building 169 new nuclear plants, all as big as the largest currently operating in the US. The Palo Verde plant cost $5.9B to construct (in 1988 dollars), so the cost of building all these new nuclear plants would be about $1 trillion.
The enormous scale of the problem really makes SHUTTING DOWN coal plants anytime in the near future virtually impossible. I think the bottom line is that we can't continue to consume energy at the massive per capita levels we do now. People need to realize that there's so much we can do to drastically cut down the amount of energy (and materials, as a matter of fact) without meaningfully impacting our standard of living. If every adult in the US could find a way to save the power equivalent to lighting a single 60 watt bulb for one hour every day, that would save enough power to eliminate one coal plant. (1974 TWh / 600 plants / 150M people / 365 days = 60 Wh)
A smaller business would have fewer customers and therefore not have to spend as much. Any business where sending a form letter to customers is a prohibitively high cost is probably sick and likely to go under anyway.
Given that it can take up weeks or months to clear up your credit history and potentially costs thousands of dollars if someone uses your information to open fraudulent accounts, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask companies to send a letter when they fail in their legal obligation to protect their customers personal information.
Only if they are the place an unauthorized person got your SSN from
Maybe you need crack open a newspaper and realize that the world hasn't stood still over the past 2000 years
"The thinking and the ideas that it is possible to continue holding [people] under occupation - it's occupation; one may not like the word, but what is happening here; it's occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation in my mind is bad for Israel, also for the Palestinians, also for Israel's economy."
- Ariel Sharon on 26 May, 2003.
It's so funny to see criminals claim self-defense when their victims hit back.
A agree, it is funny to watch Israel claim self-defense when they are attacked by people whose land they've been occupying.
That is, how much per square inch, single layer? And just how many layers does this employ?
Here's a brilliant idea: Maybe somewhere in the summary, Slashdot could include an easy way to get more information about the story... say, with a hyperlink to a webpage. Then people would have an easy way to find answers to questions they may have that aren't covered by the one paragraph summary. For instance, people could then read the news article that mentions that "In this demonstration there were over 1.3 million bits per data page, and 320 data pages spaced 0.067 degrees apart were stored in the same volume of material.".
While true, they are what a lot of top company execs read, and if they are ridiculing Vista it doesn't bode well for Microsoft.
You could easily have a "compatibility" mode where the interface returns 512 byte blocks even though its stored internally as 4096-byte blocks. You'd sacrifice performance, of course, but that probably not a huge issue when you're running legacy systems on newer hardware.