Has it been proven that he maintained that site under bosses orders or at least during work time? Just because an Intel employee runs an adult site doesn't justify a headline "Intel supports porn".
Great idea! Next time I am traveling with my child, I am going to ask you to remove your t-shirt so that I can cut it up to use as emergency baby wipes, diapers and a change of cloth.
Hmm, generating electricity from temperature differences between the hot end of the heat pump and the environment will make the hot end hotter than it would be with the system designed to simply dissipate heat as quickly as possible. This will make the heat pump consume more energy in the first place. Given that the actual efficiency of recapturing the energy is likely to be far less than the carnot cycle maximum, I wonder if this will ever be worth the trouble.
The bigger story here is that non-congress members will be able to read budget for free in the first place. There should be a distributed volunteer campaign for each user to read a page of the budget and look for outrageous tidbits.
Ergo, right off the bat, about 50% of all Peruvian children [the ones who answered 5 less written multiple choice questions out of a 100] will be uneducable.
Either that, or they just read a little slower than American kids and are culturally less likely to pick random choices on questions they do not understand.
Only the colossal pollution and landfill burden created by billions of disposable disks that would be made per year only in US, not to mention the associated packing materials. Especially when they are perfectly recyclable electrons that are perfect for the case where you do not need/are allowed to archive the movie long term.
Because it's $200 with 9 free movies included, rather than $600 with none? It's one thing to win among 1% of the viewers, another to make a mass market product. HD-DVD may make a comeback at that time, or yet another disk-based or online product could leave both in the dust. But if I was Sony, I would be frantically thinking about how to drop the player cost by 75% and halve the movie price.
Even a small leak at this plant can kill many workers or even people in a nearby town without them even realizing they should run away for safety. I don't see CO being a practical fuel in any setting, and if you burn it you stop being carbon-neutral. They should just stick with generating hydrogen or electricity.
Or worse, we find and exploit a bug in the simulation, which causes the whole thing to crash
It would be more fun to exploit a buffer overflow to venture outside the address space of the simulation and send a copy of ourselves to everyone in god's address book.
Well, currently federal government decided to ignore the constitution and declare everything to be interstate commerce. Supreme court specifically ruled that the feds can outlaw growing and consuming pot in your own house, even when specifically authorized by state government, on the basis that if you didn't grow the pot yourself you would potentially buy it from another state.
For me, this is a far graver disregard for law than snorting or even dealing cocaine. In the later case I can just say "no thanks", while in the former I could die waiting for a medicine that would help my appetite and nausea while I am fighting cancer.
How do you know that our time span will not be affected when the time stops in future? For all we know, time coming to a stop in future can send some kind of waves back to our era and cause distortions that will end our existence tomorrow. Or, it could permit intelligent beings from near the end to travel back and seek refuge from being frozen still.
Sorry, it does not take you forever to pass the event horizon or become part of the singularity. It's only that photons emitted by you near the event horizon that are delayed in reaching the outside observer. Given that you only emit a finite number of photons your image will eventually fade away entirely. The experience will eventually give you a headache or footache, depending on which way you are falling as differences between gravitational pull on different parts of your body increase. In fact, you will be ripped apart before reaching the singularity and so will not really be able to experience it properly.
As to weather we are inside a gigantic black hole, with event horizon and singularity beyond the distance light traveled since the big bang, I am afraid we can not test that just yet.
And if they are traveling at 299792 km/s, they must have gone seriously anorexic. Any faster than that and he is probably a time traveler trying to become his own father.
If you have more experience in designing chips and building boards than me, do feel free to explain why EVRTHNG CNT SHUT DOWN. I noticed that my notebook uses very little power when I turn it off.
I don't think this game is about turning profits. They are probably just keeping DNF is an in-house playpen for developers to experiment with new technologies without worrying about immediate practicality in terms of performance, marketability or in-game consistency. It would only be released if by coincidence it comes close to running on consumer's hardware.
It's a shame that enough power to cause a massive explosion can only power a device that, for the most part, just displays text for 3 hours. We really need to rethink what a computer does when someone reads e-mail or browses the web. With an e-paper display, processor, disk and a WiFi radio should just briefly power themselves on when the user goes to a new URL and then completely shut down, yielding weeks of typical use on a single charge. Audio and video playback can be achieved by a dedicated chip and achieve playback times of the latest iPods. If users also want to use the same laptop as a desktop replacement, it can an internal PDA-like subsystem with it's own low power CPU, RAM and flash storage that synchronizes some directories with the main disk. Users can then choose weather they need high performance or long battery life at the moment and control either subsystem from the same display, keyboard and trackpad.
With clever engineering it should be possible to make a laptop exclusively used in low power mode solar powered if it's normally left out when not in use.
No they don't have to be "completely savvy". I would expect them to be intellectually curious though and not averse to getting cursory knowledge of other subjects that can help with their student's coursework.
People who do not want to learn have no place working in a school as IT stuff, much less as teachers. "foxfire" is not exactly an obscure piece of software that non-computer pros are unable to comprehend. The teacher certainly has right to observe student's use of computer and make sure that it serves an educational purpose. If the guy can not tell the difference between playing games and using a web browser to do Internet research, he can be better employed in a school cafeteria flipping burgers.
It's a school, not the army. Students are entitled to make the most efficient educational use possible of computers purchased by thousands of tax dollars their parents pay per year. The only restriction is that such use must not interfere with education of other students. Hence no breaking installed educational software, no hogging network resources, no accessing/changing grades, no installing games that will unduly tempt others to slack off during classes. However, installing Firefox is well within educational use. It can make the student more productive with tabbed browsing and download manager. It can also enable him/her to do research using search engines without exposing school systems to malware or being bothered with porno popups.
That's nothing! Regional registry 10 digit phone number exhaustion in... -20 years. These days big companies can not just get a/5 phone number suffix to use for themselves. They are instead forced to hide behind NATed PBX exchanges and ask people to reach individual employees by dialing an additional 4 digit port number. This has ruined american business, but that's nothing compared to draconian restrictions on families who are not able to get a separate external phone numbers for every TV, settop box, toilet and toaster that they own.
This ridiculous anachronism is to be fully blamed on laziness of government and corporate entities as well as some individual users who could not be bothered with 40 digit phone numbers. They were completely ignorant of widespread yellow pages services that would translate friendly names to actual numbers used internally by the phone network. In fact, modern phone headsets can be readily adopted to include an alphanumeric keyboard and do the yellow pages resolution automatically. Your traveling friend can be conveniently reached at room1135.guests.london.uk.holidayinnhotels.com.
Surely there is no need to keep beating the old horse and entertain some people's suggestions that we keep one or two familiar short phone numbers for each family or registered business and then address toasters or individual employees with extensions of length chosen by the particular entity to fit their needs. They are just afraid of our freedom and our speed typing skills!
What exactly is Google's backup policy? Did they already backup the document you updated yesterday evening? Can you ask them to? If this document later proves personally or legally compromising, can you ask them to purge it from their backup, cache and targeted ad keywords? Planning a visit to China? Are you sure they will not hand it over to authorities if you are suspected of spreading political descent, Falun Gong or Christianity? After all, an employee threatened with having himself and his whole family prosecuted can be very creative with hacking into even areas of Google network he is not authorized to access. I doubt very much he can hack into my external hard drive though.
Ah the irony. You can no longer do high speed file transfers between two notebooks on the road. I am not aware of any battery-powered ethernet hubs, so I guess the only option is ad-hoc WiFi with inherent manual setup and security issues. Copying multi-gigabyte movie projects or DVD ISOs is going to be slow to the point of making two guys sitting with notebooks and doing nothing look comical or even drain the batteries before the transfer is complete. Other vendors generally enable their operating systems do more in each release.
Overwhelming majority of features in the solar system are at least a billion years old. Anything younger should have obvious signs of recent formation. For the Rings of Saturn, we would expect to see some rocks still settling into circular orbit, remainder of the disintegrating satellite or at least markedly non-uniform size of composing rocks. So how did the scientists come up with this unlikely hypothesis of the rings having just formed by astronomical time scale in the first place? Even (primitive) life on Earth probably existing for millions of years.
Try TCP/IP over Firewire next time you need to transfer stuff between two computers. Way faster than ethernet through a hub and of course wireless. USB can not do the same thing easily since host and device do not use the same interface, hence you can not connect two computers with a cable without an adapter.
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Has it been proven that he maintained that site under bosses orders or at least during work time? Just because an Intel employee runs an adult site doesn't justify a headline "Intel supports porn".
Great idea! Next time I am traveling with my child, I am going to ask you to remove your t-shirt so that I can cut it up to use as emergency baby wipes, diapers and a change of cloth.
Hmm, generating electricity from temperature differences between the hot end of the heat pump and the environment will make the hot end hotter than it would be with the system designed to simply dissipate heat as quickly as possible. This will make the heat pump consume more energy in the first place. Given that the actual efficiency of recapturing the energy is likely to be far less than the carnot cycle maximum, I wonder if this will ever be worth the trouble.
The bigger story here is that non-congress members will be able to read budget for free in the first place. There should be a distributed volunteer campaign for each user to read a page of the budget and look for outrageous tidbits.
Ergo, right off the bat, about 50% of all Peruvian children [the ones who answered 5 less written multiple choice questions out of a 100] will be uneducable.
Either that, or they just read a little slower than American kids and are culturally less likely to pick random choices on questions they do not understand.
What's wrong with DIVX style lockdowns btw?
Only the colossal pollution and landfill burden created by billions of disposable disks that would be made per year only in US, not to mention the associated packing materials. Especially when they are perfectly recyclable electrons that are perfect for the case where you do not need/are allowed to archive the movie long term.
Because it's $200 with 9 free movies included, rather than $600 with none? It's one thing to win among 1% of the viewers, another to make a mass market product. HD-DVD may make a comeback at that time, or yet another disk-based or online product could leave both in the dust. But if I was Sony, I would be frantically thinking about how to drop the player cost by 75% and halve the movie price.
Even a small leak at this plant can kill many workers or even people in a nearby town without them even realizing they should run away for safety. I don't see CO being a practical fuel in any setting, and if you burn it you stop being carbon-neutral. They should just stick with generating hydrogen or electricity.
Or worse, we find and exploit a bug in the simulation, which causes the whole thing to crash
It would be more fun to exploit a buffer overflow to venture outside the address space of the simulation and send a copy of ourselves to everyone in god's address book.
Well, currently federal government decided to ignore the constitution and declare everything to be interstate commerce. Supreme court specifically ruled that the feds can outlaw growing and consuming pot in your own house, even when specifically authorized by state government, on the basis that if you didn't grow the pot yourself you would potentially buy it from another state.
For me, this is a far graver disregard for law than snorting or even dealing cocaine. In the later case I can just say "no thanks", while in the former I could die waiting for a medicine that would help my appetite and nausea while I am fighting cancer.
Here is an explanation why it is a bug
How do you know that our time span will not be affected when the time stops in future? For all we know, time coming to a stop in future can send some kind of waves back to our era and cause distortions that will end our existence tomorrow. Or, it could permit intelligent beings from near the end to travel back and seek refuge from being frozen still.
Sorry, it does not take you forever to pass the event horizon or become part of the singularity. It's only that photons emitted by you near the event horizon that are delayed in reaching the outside observer. Given that you only emit a finite number of photons your image will eventually fade away entirely. The experience will eventually give you a headache or footache, depending on which way you are falling as differences between gravitational pull on different parts of your body increase. In fact, you will be ripped apart before reaching the singularity and so will not really be able to experience it properly.
As to weather we are inside a gigantic black hole, with event horizon and singularity beyond the distance light traveled since the big bang, I am afraid we can not test that just yet.
And if they are traveling at 299792 km/s, they must have gone seriously anorexic. Any faster than that and he is probably a time traveler trying to become his own father.
If you have more experience in designing chips and building boards than me, do feel free to explain why EVRTHNG CNT SHUT DOWN. I noticed that my notebook uses very little power when I turn it off.
I don't think this game is about turning profits. They are probably just keeping DNF is an in-house playpen for developers to experiment with new technologies without worrying about immediate practicality in terms of performance, marketability or in-game consistency. It would only be released if by coincidence it comes close to running on consumer's hardware.
It's a shame that enough power to cause a massive explosion can only power a device that, for the most part, just displays text for 3 hours. We really need to rethink what a computer does when someone reads e-mail or browses the web. With an e-paper display, processor, disk and a WiFi radio should just briefly power themselves on when the user goes to a new URL and then completely shut down, yielding weeks of typical use on a single charge. Audio and video playback can be achieved by a dedicated chip and achieve playback times of the latest iPods. If users also want to use the same laptop as a desktop replacement, it can an internal PDA-like subsystem with it's own low power CPU, RAM and flash storage that synchronizes some directories with the main disk. Users can then choose weather they need high performance or long battery life at the moment and control either subsystem from the same display, keyboard and trackpad.
With clever engineering it should be possible to make a laptop exclusively used in low power mode solar powered if it's normally left out when not in use.
No they don't have to be "completely savvy". I would expect them to be intellectually curious though and not averse to getting cursory knowledge of other subjects that can help with their student's coursework.
People who do not want to learn have no place working in a school as IT stuff, much less as teachers. "foxfire" is not exactly an obscure piece of software that non-computer pros are unable to comprehend. The teacher certainly has right to observe student's use of computer and make sure that it serves an educational purpose. If the guy can not tell the difference between playing games and using a web browser to do Internet research, he can be better employed in a school cafeteria flipping burgers.
It's a school, not the army. Students are entitled to make the most efficient educational use possible of computers purchased by thousands of tax dollars their parents pay per year. The only restriction is that such use must not interfere with education of other students. Hence no breaking installed educational software, no hogging network resources, no accessing/changing grades, no installing games that will unduly tempt others to slack off during classes. However, installing Firefox is well within educational use. It can make the student more productive with tabbed browsing and download manager. It can also enable him/her to do research using search engines without exposing school systems to malware or being bothered with porno popups.
That's nothing! Regional registry 10 digit phone number exhaustion in... -20 years. These days big companies can not just get a /5 phone number suffix to use for themselves. They are instead forced to hide behind NATed PBX exchanges and ask people to reach individual employees by dialing an additional 4 digit port number. This has ruined american business, but that's nothing compared to draconian restrictions on families who are not able to get a separate external phone numbers for every TV, settop box, toilet and toaster that they own.
This ridiculous anachronism is to be fully blamed on laziness of government and corporate entities as well as some individual users who could not be bothered with 40 digit phone numbers. They were completely ignorant of widespread yellow pages services that would translate friendly names to actual numbers used internally by the phone network. In fact, modern phone headsets can be readily adopted to include an alphanumeric keyboard and do the yellow pages resolution automatically. Your traveling friend can be conveniently reached at room1135.guests.london.uk.holidayinnhotels.com.
Surely there is no need to keep beating the old horse and entertain some people's suggestions that we keep one or two familiar short phone numbers for each family or registered business and then address toasters or individual employees with extensions of length chosen by the particular entity to fit their needs. They are just afraid of our freedom and our speed typing skills!
What exactly is Google's backup policy? Did they already backup the document you updated yesterday evening? Can you ask them to? If this document later proves personally or legally compromising, can you ask them to purge it from their backup, cache and targeted ad keywords? Planning a visit to China? Are you sure they will not hand it over to authorities if you are suspected of spreading political descent, Falun Gong or Christianity? After all, an employee threatened with having himself and his whole family prosecuted can be very creative with hacking into even areas of Google network he is not authorized to access. I doubt very much he can hack into my external hard drive though.
Ah the irony. You can no longer do high speed file transfers between two notebooks on the road. I am not aware of any battery-powered ethernet hubs, so I guess the only option is ad-hoc WiFi with inherent manual setup and security issues. Copying multi-gigabyte movie projects or DVD ISOs is going to be slow to the point of making two guys sitting with notebooks and doing nothing look comical or even drain the batteries before the transfer is complete. Other vendors generally enable their operating systems do more in each release.
Overwhelming majority of features in the solar system are at least a billion years old. Anything younger should have obvious signs of recent formation. For the Rings of Saturn, we would expect to see some rocks still settling into circular orbit, remainder of the disintegrating satellite or at least markedly non-uniform size of composing rocks. So how did the scientists come up with this unlikely hypothesis of the rings having just formed by astronomical time scale in the first place? Even (primitive) life on Earth probably existing for millions of years.
Try TCP/IP over Firewire next time you need to transfer stuff between two computers. Way faster than ethernet through a hub and of course wireless. USB can not do the same thing easily since host and device do not use the same interface, hence you can not connect two computers with a cable without an adapter.