The missing matter is in all of the packing materials for all of the computers and instruments and equipment they've purchased to find the missing matter.
But let me elaborate anyway. What makes a story good? Forshadowing, suprises, interesting plot, character development... CT has all those. But what really makes a good story great is highly empathic characters. That's the critical component.
I hate ignorance and I do think that nanotech does need to be brought up on the socio-political radar. But I'm not worried about it. At least not right now. There's plenty of time left to do the right thing.
In StarTrek, the raw materials for the food replicators at least comes from human waste. The power comes from matter/antimatter fusion. Hmm that one's gonna be a problem. Neal's approach sounds a bit more feasable in the short run.
For the benefit of those of us who haven't read Diamond Age, how 'bout a summary of the machines and how they work?
This looks really cool, a good way to show off your skills. Unfortunately I'm moving that weekend:( Are there any other popular programming contests out there? I remember the 99 bottles of beer contest that got posted here a while back and then never happened. I busted my ass to write my submission in Forth. It was only about 70 bytes and most of that was unavoidable strings like "beer on the wall".
After a bit of research, I guess you are right. Technically "solenoid" is synonymous with "inductor". This seems odd since I've never heard "solenoid" used except in the context of an electromagnetic actuator. Oh well, learn something new every day.
One of the things that's been pissing me off lately when using various X apps, is that unless the app is native to KDE or Gnome or something, they ALL have different file-open dialog boxes. Don't bother explaining to me why it is, I know why it is, but it still sucks. What MacOS gave it's users back in 1984 was consistancy. It's nice that I have so many options, but for once I just wish that every X app had the same god damn file-open dialog box!
Any photographer worth his salt knows the old put the camera on a tripod and use long exposures for shooting in low light trick.
As for wetness, just get any popular camera that has a waterproof housing available as an option. These housing are typically very rugged and probably also afford the camera a greater degree of resiliance to physical damage.
I'm typing this on a brand new Gentoo box that I bootstrapped last week with a 2.6 kernel. Granted I did compile my own kernel, something I've done many many times, and correctly include the driver for my Santa Cruz sound card and ALSA support. Sound is working fine, I'm listening to The Grateful Dead on a shoutcast stream as I type this. There were no problems whatsoever, it just worked, out of the box.
Well okay there was one weird problem, I had to emerge alsamixer and fiddle with the levels because for somereason this card defaults having the left channel output set to zero. Go figure. A minor although slightly annoying hangup.
Features from new kernels have always been backported to old kernels. Backporting is nothing new and it's often a Good Thing(tm). Lots of stuff from 2.3/2.4 has been backported to 2.2, and lots of stuff from 2.5/2.6 has been backported to 2.4, and hopefully more good stuff will be backported so that the people that for whatever reason won't or can't upgrade to 2.6 will not be left out in the cold.
I don't know much about RedHat's backporting efforts specifically, although some people seem to think they've done a cob job of it. Perhaps that's the point the SUSE guy was trying to make? Not so much chiding RedHat for backporting, but for doing a crappy job of it.
Does anybody else have stuck in their head now the image of Alex in Centurian garb whipping Jesus?
It had been arranged by the prison charlie, as part of my further education to read him the Bible. I didn't so much like the latter part of the book which is more like all preachy talking, than fighting and the old in-out. I liked the parts where these old yahoodies tolchock each other and then drink their Hebrew vino and, then getting on to the bed with their wives' handmaidens. That kept me going.
Biblical fighting shot. Alex slashing away. Blood spurting. Alex lying with three semi-nude handmaidens. Christ being whipped on by Alex, dressed as a Legionary. "Move on there. Move on." I read all about the scourging and the crowning with thorns and all that, and I could viddy myself helping in and even taking charge of the tolchocking and the nailing in, being dressed in the height of Roman fashion.
Underpowered? It's as bright as a stock 3 cell MagLite bulb! At that brightness the batteries still last at least three times as long! It's so rugged, as a demonstration I use my EverLED equipped MagLite to hammer nails into a board. And it pays for itself in batteries that you don't have to buy, not to mention the environmental considerations there. AND you can still adjust the beam focus, unlike most replacement LED bulbs. And as you've obviously noticed MOST LED flashlights are crap. The EverLED is made by hand in the USA. The EverLED is a premium product that belongs in a premium flashlight and comes at a premium price. You get what you pay for.
Right because the fans already in your PC don't use magnatism. Nor do the speakers nearby. Nor to the heads in your harddrive, the transformers in your PSU, you get the idea. Just because the fans use permanent magnets doesn't mean they're going to erase your hard drive.
I run a small online retail store, LED Supply. One day last year I got a call:
Hello this is AT&T relay operator 12345...
The person on the other end wanted to order 40,000 of our EverLED LED flashlight bulbs. We only sold 1000 of these in all of last year. At $40 a pop, most people only want to buy one. So right away warning bells went off in my head. Some toolbag wants to buy $1,600,000 worth of product from a retailer he has no relationship with and he is doing it over TTY relay???
I figured I'd try to find out a little more about the individual. I asked him where he was from. "Nigeria." WHOOP WHOOP DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! Needless to say I cut the conversation short.
It was a very difficult exchange, the Nigerian used broken english that neither myself nor the operator could really understand. It must have been very frustrating for the operator, I felt bad for her. The whole exchange took about an hour, it was extremely tedious. And it was a complete waste of my time. Thankfully that hour is ALL I lost.
The Nigerian tried to call me back TWICE both times using the TTY relay, of course I wasn't about to give him any more of my time. Selling $1.6 million worth of product via TTY relay is unconventional, but I don't discriminate against the disabled. I do NOT however do business with ANYBODY in or from Nigeria.
Of coure the primary benefit isn't just being able to run Linux binaries, but rather being able to run an entire Linux distribution! For example, you could boot Knoppix without exiting Windows! That's pretty freakin cool.
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The missing matter is in all of the packing materials for all of the computers and instruments and equipment they've purchased to find the missing matter.
The hell with that, whats REALLY cool is 802.11 sshing into your ZAURUS!!
It would be a trivial task to write a wrapper script that automates stopping processes and unmounting partitions. I bet somebody already has.
Nuff said.
But let me elaborate anyway. What makes a story good? Forshadowing, suprises, interesting plot, character development... CT has all those. But what really makes a good story great is highly empathic characters. That's the critical component.
"Whatever happens, happens."
-Spike Spiegel
I hate ignorance and I do think that nanotech does need to be brought up on the socio-political radar. But I'm not worried about it. At least not right now. There's plenty of time left to do the right thing.
In StarTrek, the raw materials for the food replicators at least comes from human waste. The power comes from matter/antimatter fusion. Hmm that one's gonna be a problem. Neal's approach sounds a bit more feasable in the short run.
For the benefit of those of us who haven't read Diamond Age, how 'bout a summary of the machines and how they work?
This looks really cool, a good way to show off your skills. Unfortunately I'm moving that weekend :( Are there any other popular programming contests out there? I remember the 99 bottles of beer contest that got posted here a while back and then never happened. I busted my ass to write my submission in Forth. It was only about 70 bytes and most of that was unavoidable strings like "beer on the wall".
After a bit of research, I guess you are right. Technically "solenoid" is synonymous with "inductor". This seems odd since I've never heard "solenoid" used except in the context of an electromagnetic actuator. Oh well, learn something new every day.
On Windows it's definately the Cygwin suite. I guess it's really many programs, but they come with a single installer.
On 'nix, it's definately vi or vim. Bash is a close second.
One of the things that's been pissing me off lately when using various X apps, is that unless the app is native to KDE or Gnome or something, they ALL have different file-open dialog boxes. Don't bother explaining to me why it is, I know why it is, but it still sucks. What MacOS gave it's users back in 1984 was consistancy. It's nice that I have so many options, but for once I just wish that every X app had the same god damn file-open dialog box!
A driver is just a solonoid connected to a paper cone. Look up how solonoids are constructed and you should get a pretty good idea of how to procede.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~hsakr/hdspeakers/hdspea kers.htm
Any photographer worth his salt knows the old put the camera on a tripod and use long exposures for shooting in low light trick.
As for wetness, just get any popular camera that has a waterproof housing available as an option. These housing are typically very rugged and probably also afford the camera a greater degree of resiliance to physical damage.
Welcome to Animal Farm.
I'm typing this on a brand new Gentoo box that I bootstrapped last week with a 2.6 kernel. Granted I did compile my own kernel, something I've done many many times, and correctly include the driver for my Santa Cruz sound card and ALSA support. Sound is working fine, I'm listening to The Grateful Dead on a shoutcast stream as I type this. There were no problems whatsoever, it just worked, out of the box.
Well okay there was one weird problem, I had to emerge alsamixer and fiddle with the levels because for somereason this card defaults having the left channel output set to zero. Go figure. A minor although slightly annoying hangup.
Features from new kernels have always been backported to old kernels. Backporting is nothing new and it's often a Good Thing(tm). Lots of stuff from 2.3/2.4 has been backported to 2.2, and lots of stuff from 2.5/2.6 has been backported to 2.4, and hopefully more good stuff will be backported so that the people that for whatever reason won't or can't upgrade to 2.6 will not be left out in the cold.
I don't know much about RedHat's backporting efforts specifically, although some people seem to think they've done a cob job of it. Perhaps that's the point the SUSE guy was trying to make? Not so much chiding RedHat for backporting, but for doing a crappy job of it.
uCLinux has been merged back into 2.6.
Introduced in 1986. Produced with very few changes through 2001. Cheap and easy to fix, cheap and easy to find parts. Nothing whacky. Jeeps go best.
This is completely offtopic and next time why don't you just PM me if you have questions? But for the record...
WTF are you shitting? The EverLED rules them all.
The LED Museum's EverLED review
FlashLightReviews.com's EverLED review
Feel free to search around on candlepowerforums.com to see what those guys think of it.
Underpowered? It's as bright as a stock 3 cell MagLite bulb! At that brightness the batteries still last at least three times as long! It's so rugged, as a demonstration I use my EverLED equipped MagLite to hammer nails into a board. And it pays for itself in batteries that you don't have to buy, not to mention the environmental considerations there. AND you can still adjust the beam focus, unlike most replacement LED bulbs. And as you've obviously noticed MOST LED flashlights are crap. The EverLED is made by hand in the USA. The EverLED is a premium product that belongs in a premium flashlight and comes at a premium price. You get what you pay for.
Right because the fans already in your PC don't use magnatism. Nor do the speakers nearby. Nor to the heads in your harddrive, the transformers in your PSU, you get the idea. Just because the fans use permanent magnets doesn't mean they're going to erase your hard drive.
The person on the other end wanted to order 40,000 of our EverLED LED flashlight bulbs. We only sold 1000 of these in all of last year. At $40 a pop, most people only want to buy one. So right away warning bells went off in my head. Some toolbag wants to buy $1,600,000 worth of product from a retailer he has no relationship with and he is doing it over TTY relay???
I figured I'd try to find out a little more about the individual. I asked him where he was from. "Nigeria." WHOOP WHOOP DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! Needless to say I cut the conversation short.
It was a very difficult exchange, the Nigerian used broken english that neither myself nor the operator could really understand. It must have been very frustrating for the operator, I felt bad for her. The whole exchange took about an hour, it was extremely tedious. And it was a complete waste of my time. Thankfully that hour is ALL I lost.
The Nigerian tried to call me back TWICE both times using the TTY relay, of course I wasn't about to give him any more of my time. Selling $1.6 million worth of product via TTY relay is unconventional, but I don't discriminate against the disabled. I do NOT however do business with ANYBODY in or from Nigeria.
Classic
Excellent explanation.
Of coure the primary benefit isn't just being able to run Linux binaries, but rather being able to run an entire Linux distribution! For example, you could boot Knoppix without exiting Windows! That's pretty freakin cool.