No hard data (sorry), but a recent Mac version of NAV had the rather nasty habit of searching Mail.app's mbox files for viruses and simply deleting the whole file if it found one rather than removing the offending attachment.
Bearing in mind this is the same Symantec who haven't managed to produce a safe, reliable disk utility suite since 1998 (unlike Alsoft or MicroMat), I think Mac users are pretty safe ignoring anything Symantec's "experts" have to say.
I put a gallon of water in the tank when I fill up and I have a 100% reduction in emissions, plus without the inefficient water splitter the fuel consumption is also reduced by 100%.
Interesting post. Totally off-topic, but interesting enough for an old fossil (35) to respond.
Adults say they feel the same person they were as when they were younger...
If you push for details, most of us fogies will say "I feel the same...except for the bad back, I'm a little depressed about the grey hairs, I just don't have the energy to go clubbing or the time and will to play immersive video games, but I feel the same". Pure denial. But what you lose on the swings you pick up on the roundabouts: most will say they've grown and learned along the way, and experience changes people in ways they may not even be aware of. Basically, the worst position to observe a person objectively is from behind the eyeballs.
...all young people say older people don't pay any attention to them for whatever reason...
Yeah, sorry, there really isn't a valid excuse for that one. Unfortunately the tradition of mentoring has been lost; retirees (people with both experience and lots of time on their hands) are increasingly isolated from youth, which is partially due to the modern trend towards retirement villages and the like, partially due to peer pressure (who wants to hang around with old people anyway? They aren't cool). Anyone younger than retirement age is probably too busy with their own lives to deal with (what is to them) irritating youthful exuberance and inexperience. Teachers included: if you think about it, with thirty students in a class (to make the maths easy) and seven hours of lessons a day, that's 14 minutes per student; divide that by the number of classes, and subtract time for class lectures, and you end up with a situation where kids can have an education almost completely devoid of two-way interaction with adults (I just described my own education here, it isn't a new phenomenon). And we expect this system to produce knowledgable, well socialised individuals? Old and wise my ass!
...old people think they can't get jobs because of the young people, young people think they can't get jobs because of experienced people...
A variant on the old "them [insert socio-economic/ethnic/religious group] is taking all our jobs" theme; the grass being greener, and all. It also makes a great beat-up for the newspapers when circulation is flagging in a particular demographic, with the added advantage that if you wait, one group eventually becomes the other, so nobody's nose is out of joint for long.
...young-against-old-person arguments are normally sided on the old person'd side.
Which is totally unfair, what with all these vicious little old ladies lurking in wait to force their handbags on sweet, innocent teenage hoodlums;). Its playing on sympathy: who is probably going to die first? But there's a positive side: who is probably going to die first? The great thing about old age is if you wait long enough the problem goes away (or you become part of the problem, so it isn't quite as annoying).
What you've noticed here is one of the dilemmas of the modern world: youth is so highly valued for its superficial qualities that nobody is prepared to acknowledge its passing, but as soon as the benefits of age are threatened the genuinely youthful are targetted. Its a combination of self-deception, self-interest, self-loathing and enough other selves to keep a behavioral psychologist in grants for life.
I can't really back this argument up with any evidence because my heads feeling pretty empty right now...
If this is the kind of thought you put into a post with an empty head, I'd be interested to see what you come up with when the gears are engaged. You should register, if only to make conversations easier to track.
If basic CCDs can be put in cheap optical mice, there's no reason something with perhaps a few hundred/thousand pixels wouldn't be possible at a price comparable to a small graphics tablet.
I'd say the esoteric nature of the device would be a greater hinderance than cost; the limited number of replies to this article will give you a rough idea of how many people will want one of these. But I think those who will want one will really, really want one.
Which is precisely why you don't wan't to go poking probes around the place possibly creating sparks, you just neutralise the fuel regardless. Hosing an object will discharge static or covering it with foam will prevent ignition, and those are usually the first steps in a flammables spill.
However, if you look at the frequency response you'll see the lower limit is 400Hz, which means they are fine for speech but entirely unsatisfactory for hi-fi sound reproduction (unless you enjoy the average telephone's bass response). Two other problems are that the volume decays less rapidly than normal speakers (which means anyone directly in line with them will be able to hear them more clearly than conventional speakers at greater distance, ), and they're mono: trying to use two together would probably produce undesirable intermodulation effects rather than a coherent stereo field.
The next 50 years of computing will see the introduction of AI to PC's in the form of an expert system designed to protect against intruders and malicious programs.
So would a future version of Windows with this kind of AI uninstall itself the instant its switched on?
No, he said only "twice as powerful", and that it would take a hundred years. So the timing looks about right for Vista, but the computing power would be sorely lacking.
We are intent on making ourselves as obnoxious and dangerous as possible. Sooner or later it's going to bite us in the ass.
It appears the US is the RIAA of world politics.
I'm not just flamebaiting here: compare US foreign policy with the business strategy of major media, you'll see numerous parallels such as conducting aggressive campaigns based on flimsy evidence, engaging in restrictive trade practices, and the list goes on. The point is the rest of the world is as justified in disliking the US as Slashdotters are in hating the RIAA, for many of the same reasons. The main difference is the RIAA doesn't have the power to bomb the living crap out of its adversaries or install puppet governments, so nobody feels compelled to detonate themselves inside Sony's HQ...
If you fart in a methane atmosphere, does it smell?
Do you mean the fart or the atmosphere?
Either way, the answer is no: if you're attempting to breathe pure methane you won't be able to smell anything (not for more than a few seconds, anyway).
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No hard data (sorry), but a recent Mac version of NAV had the rather nasty habit of searching Mail.app's mbox files for viruses and simply deleting the whole file if it found one rather than removing the offending attachment.
Try searching the discussions on http://www.macintosh.com/ for more details and other problems.
Bearing in mind this is the same Symantec who haven't managed to produce a safe, reliable disk utility suite since 1998 (unlike Alsoft or MicroMat), I think Mac users are pretty safe ignoring anything Symantec's "experts" have to say.
I liked the first sentence of the second link:
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
So making Linux user friendly will push it back below 1% of the market?
Great: now we can reject our own faces, rather than letting other people do it.
And wear and tear: after two years I'm still on the original set of tyres!
...will Bill Gates consider him a peer?
If you're going to crash you need something to burn.
I put a gallon of water in the tank when I fill up and I have a 100% reduction in emissions, plus without the inefficient water splitter the fuel consumption is also reduced by 100%.
As soon as they get laid without paying for it.
Is there any other reason nerds need that much money?
[or...]
You're only as young as the girl you feel, and a few billion buys a lot of 18 year old hookers.
Interesting post. Totally off-topic, but interesting enough for an old fossil (35) to respond.
...all young people say older people don't pay any attention to them for whatever reason...
...old people think they can't get jobs because of the young people, young people think they can't get jobs because of experienced people...
...young-against-old-person arguments are normally sided on the old person'd side.
;). Its playing on sympathy: who is probably going to die first? But there's a positive side: who is probably going to die first? The great thing about old age is if you wait long enough the problem goes away (or you become part of the problem, so it isn't quite as annoying).
Adults say they feel the same person they were as when they were younger...
If you push for details, most of us fogies will say "I feel the same...except for the bad back, I'm a little depressed about the grey hairs, I just don't have the energy to go clubbing or the time and will to play immersive video games, but I feel the same". Pure denial. But what you lose on the swings you pick up on the roundabouts: most will say they've grown and learned along the way, and experience changes people in ways they may not even be aware of. Basically, the worst position to observe a person objectively is from behind the eyeballs.
Yeah, sorry, there really isn't a valid excuse for that one. Unfortunately the tradition of mentoring has been lost; retirees (people with both experience and lots of time on their hands) are increasingly isolated from youth, which is partially due to the modern trend towards retirement villages and the like, partially due to peer pressure (who wants to hang around with old people anyway? They aren't cool). Anyone younger than retirement age is probably too busy with their own lives to deal with (what is to them) irritating youthful exuberance and inexperience. Teachers included: if you think about it, with thirty students in a class (to make the maths easy) and seven hours of lessons a day, that's 14 minutes per student; divide that by the number of classes, and subtract time for class lectures, and you end up with a situation where kids can have an education almost completely devoid of two-way interaction with adults (I just described my own education here, it isn't a new phenomenon). And we expect this system to produce knowledgable, well socialised individuals? Old and wise my ass!
A variant on the old "them [insert socio-economic/ethnic/religious group] is taking all our jobs" theme; the grass being greener, and all. It also makes a great beat-up for the newspapers when circulation is flagging in a particular demographic, with the added advantage that if you wait, one group eventually becomes the other, so nobody's nose is out of joint for long.
Which is totally unfair, what with all these vicious little old ladies lurking in wait to force their handbags on sweet, innocent teenage hoodlums
What you've noticed here is one of the dilemmas of the modern world: youth is so highly valued for its superficial qualities that nobody is prepared to acknowledge its passing, but as soon as the benefits of age are threatened the genuinely youthful are targetted. Its a combination of self-deception, self-interest, self-loathing and enough other selves to keep a behavioral psychologist in grants for life.
I can't really back this argument up with any evidence because my heads feeling pretty empty right now...
If this is the kind of thought you put into a post with an empty head, I'd be interested to see what you come up with when the gears are engaged. You should register, if only to make conversations easier to track.
If basic CCDs can be put in cheap optical mice, there's no reason something with perhaps a few hundred/thousand pixels wouldn't be possible at a price comparable to a small graphics tablet.
I'd say the esoteric nature of the device would be a greater hinderance than cost; the limited number of replies to this article will give you a rough idea of how many people will want one of these. But I think those who will want one will really, really want one.
Furthermore, volcanoes are overall coolers because of the aerosols and sulfuric gasses they release, unlike humans.
So everything would be fine if humans released more sulfuric gasses? That means we could save the world by eating boiled eggs!
Someone managed to find two sober ABC employees on the same day!
So your super power is remaining totally motionless for long periods? Evil do-ers, fear the inertia!
Static can be a source of ignition.
Which is precisely why you don't wan't to go poking probes around the place possibly creating sparks, you just neutralise the fuel regardless. Hosing an object will discharge static or covering it with foam will prevent ignition, and those are usually the first steps in a flammables spill.
There are ultradirectional speakers that use interference between two ultrasonic transducers, such as this one:
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http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/gimme/storereframe
However, if you look at the frequency response you'll see the lower limit is 400Hz, which means they are fine for speech but entirely unsatisfactory for hi-fi sound reproduction (unless you enjoy the average telephone's bass response). Two other problems are that the volume decays less rapidly than normal speakers (which means anyone directly in line with them will be able to hear them more clearly than conventional speakers at greater distance, ), and they're mono: trying to use two together would probably produce undesirable intermodulation effects rather than a coherent stereo field.
I say let 'em. Common sense will prevail for the rest of us.
Problem: if stupid people go deaf the rest of us will have to listen to them shouting their inane conversations at each other.
The next 50 years of computing will see the introduction of AI to PC's in the form of an expert system designed to protect against intruders and malicious programs.
So would a future version of Windows with this kind of AI uninstall itself the instant its switched on?
No, he said only "twice as powerful", and that it would take a hundred years. So the timing looks about right for Vista, but the computing power would be sorely lacking.
Hey, I know who John Howard is! He's the Australian who models the Bush-brand brown lipstick.
Not one person has been locked up because of his or her name.
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http://archive.webactive.com/freespeech/fsrn20020
OK, that was because they just looked funny rather than their names, but the basic assumption is the same.
We are intent on making ourselves as obnoxious and dangerous as possible. Sooner or later it's going to bite us in the ass.
It appears the US is the RIAA of world politics.
I'm not just flamebaiting here: compare US foreign policy with the business strategy of major media, you'll see numerous parallels such as conducting aggressive campaigns based on flimsy evidence, engaging in restrictive trade practices, and the list goes on. The point is the rest of the world is as justified in disliking the US as Slashdotters are in hating the RIAA, for many of the same reasons. The main difference is the RIAA doesn't have the power to bomb the living crap out of its adversaries or install puppet governments, so nobody feels compelled to detonate themselves inside Sony's HQ...
Titan has highly evolved indigenous life, but they don't want us to know they're there in case we stink up the place with all our oxygen...
They were considering calling it the "Genesis-spot", or "G-spot" for short, but then they would have run the risk of never being able to find it...
If you fart in a methane atmosphere, does it smell?
Do you mean the fart or the atmosphere?
Either way, the answer is no: if you're attempting to breathe pure methane you won't be able to smell anything (not for more than a few seconds, anyway).
Personally I need oxygen to breathe.
Then I assume you don't often travel by bus.
I believe the BBC has already reported this:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/episodes/aliensofl