Re:Does it need really to be on 24x7?
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For most setups, it depends on hardware support. My NIC has a WOL (Wake-On-LAN) wire, and my motherboard has a connector for it. I personnally dont have WOL set up because I dont want people accessing my computer when I'm asleep. By setting the sleep timeout to about 10 mins and enabling WOL, you can get exactly this effect, plus good power conservation. I have seen many modems that do the same thing, but I didn't pay a whole lot of attention. I know there is a software option for modem wakeups in Windows (sorry), but I haven't done much other research into software solutions.
Before going off on the weight limit issue, lets consider its living environment: Underwater!
Crabs often crawl up on the beach, out of the water. Obviously, the size limit is proportional to the weight, but in this case, the weight is proportional to this creatures weight and buoyancy. The underwater exoskeleton weight limit would be much larger than the one for today's creatures that come out of the water.
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of CmdrTacquitos? Now that'd be a handful...:)
BTW, anyone who says "Is this news for nerds...?" etc. is a complete and total moron, and should be modded as such. Also, you greatly improved my otherwise lonely and exam-filled V-Day.
One more thing: if you are CmdrTaco, why are you reading this? You should be celebrating with your fiance long after this discssion is archived:)
Microsoft cannot base its defense on the design of its source code and simultaneously deny the litigating states the opportunity to test those arguments by interrogating the code.
Interrogate
v.: to ask questions of formally in examining.
Since when was Windows able to answer questions? Given it's bugginess, if it were to pass a Turing test, it would be a psychologist's nightmare (or possibly source of income for life:).
Seriously, even the help center can't answer most of my questions.
In the U.S., regulation would start by giving the end user some rights. It would then progress into taking those or other rights away, then standardized EULA's, leaving no room for a new licensing concept. Where would the GPL be today if this was already in place?
... of a wonderful song by someone named Eric Idle...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Pretty good idea, except for one thing: accountability.
If people are not actually on the planet, they will not care about it. Entire planets would be destroyed, or at least ravaged. Since all thats there is robots anyway, this wouldn't immediately affect us, but just imagine the effect when an alien civilization comes along and sees what we've done to countless worlds.
Also, what happens if something goes wrong with Earth? Where will we go if our ecosystem crashes? No one really wants to live on a planet that's been used to store garbage for a decade or two.
Basically, we shouldn't try to solve our problems by putting them in someone else's back yard.
I have contemplated doing this, just never actally got around to it. I think the easiest thing to do would be to convert the pic to grayscale, then set up a table of ASCII characters corresponding to certain darknesses, for in stance, a white pixel would be replaced by ' ', and a slightly darker pixel would be replaced by '.', etc. To make the table, it would probably be best to do a print screen and check percentage of black vs. white pixels, and rank them in the table. This would look quite large in any sort of viewer unless you use a pretty small font or something. You could look for a character match, it might actually look better that way. My way takes a bit of energy and looks best when you unfocus your eyes. Anyway, thats my $.02.
I think this would actually be a nifty file format if the ASCII/RGB-Grayscale table got to be semi-standard, it would end up being about 1/3 the size of a grayscale BMP, aside from it beinghard to view. Theres probably better ways, but thats what I've come up with.
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For most setups, it depends on hardware support. My NIC has a WOL (Wake-On-LAN) wire, and my motherboard has a connector for it. I personnally dont have WOL set up because I dont want people accessing my computer when I'm asleep. By setting the sleep timeout to about 10 mins and enabling WOL, you can get exactly this effect, plus good power conservation. I have seen many modems that do the same thing, but I didn't pay a whole lot of attention. I know there is a software option for modem wakeups in Windows (sorry), but I haven't done much other research into software solutions.
My $.02
HA. I'm surprised I'm not already dead. Waking up at 3 in the afternoon is fun, really...
Before going off on the weight limit issue, lets consider its living environment: Underwater!
Crabs often crawl up on the beach, out of the water. Obviously, the size limit is proportional to the weight, but in this case, the weight is proportional to this creatures weight and buoyancy. The underwater exoskeleton weight limit would be much larger than the one for today's creatures that come out of the water.
thanks :) :)
I'm a little rusty with latin (OK, so I dont know any latin
are you sure? I thought maybe it was spelled penii or penae. Certainly sounds better... :)
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of CmdrTacquitos? Now that'd be a handful... :)
:)
BTW, anyone who says "Is this news for nerds...?" etc. is a complete and total moron, and should be modded as such.
Also, you greatly improved my otherwise lonely and exam-filled V-Day.
One more thing: if you are CmdrTaco, why are you reading this? You should be celebrating with your fiance long after this discssion is archived
Congrats to you both.
Since when was Windows able to answer questions? Given it's bugginess, if it were to pass a Turing test, it would be a psychologist's nightmare (or possibly source of income for life
Seriously, even the help center can't answer most of my questions.
In the U.S., regulation would start by giving the end user some rights. It would then progress into taking those or other rights away, then standardized EULA's, leaving no room for a new licensing concept. Where would the GPL be today if this was already in place?
... of a wonderful song by someone named Eric Idle...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Just think about the next trend in digital toys: cute, cuddly, electronic pets that KILL YOU IF YOU DONT FEED THEM RIGHT NOW!!
Pretty good idea, except for one thing: accountability.
If people are not actually on the planet, they will not care about it. Entire planets would be destroyed, or at least ravaged. Since all thats there is robots anyway, this wouldn't immediately affect us, but just imagine the effect when an alien civilization comes along and sees what we've done to countless worlds.
Also, what happens if something goes wrong with Earth? Where will we go if our ecosystem crashes? No one really wants to live on a planet that's been used to store garbage for a decade or two.
Basically, we shouldn't try to solve our problems by putting them in someone else's back yard.
I have contemplated doing this, just never actally got around to it. I think the easiest thing to do would be to convert the pic to grayscale, then set up a table of ASCII characters corresponding to certain darknesses, for in stance, a white pixel would be replaced by ' ', and a slightly darker pixel would be replaced by '.', etc. To make the table, it would probably be best to do a print screen and check percentage of black vs. white pixels, and rank them in the table. This would look quite large in any sort of viewer unless you use a pretty small font or something. You could look for a character match, it might actually look better that way. My way takes a bit of energy and looks best when you unfocus your eyes. Anyway, thats my $.02.
I think this would actually be a nifty file format if the ASCII/RGB-Grayscale table got to be semi-standard, it would end up being about 1/3 the size of a grayscale BMP, aside from it beinghard to view. Theres probably better ways, but thats what I've come up with.
Is it just me, or does this scream 'pay for pr0n'.
BTW: First post! (I decided it should at least be semi-relevant