It's useable, barely. A nightmare for a touch typist as there's nothing to tell you whether you're finger is on a key or smack in the middle of 3 keys.
I predict you won't see real miniturization until implants are available. Wait til you see what your grandkids can do!
A few years later, congress discovers that "adult-related" == "SEX" and passes laws requiring all evil sex practioners be jailed. At last the children will be safe as the country is run by the priests... Uhh... hmm... that doesn't seem to work.
Put yourself in their place. The **AAs are breathing down their necks. They may know their logs are going to be subpoenaed and this is a way to add a few tons of hay to the needlestack.
Ah ha! I get it! You want to breed a smarter humanity! Just add a camera in the bedroom (basically a public place (I mean you are doing them on camera!) ) and arrest anyone who is not bright enough to hack the video feed. Very clever!
Boycotting Sony BMG will have the same effect as boycotting RIAA.
"Wah! Our profits aren't humungous! Boycott? No, there's no boycott, its them pirates! Arr!"
Find an artist you like who is on one of Sony's labels (there are over 20 labels held by Sony BMG, so you should be able to find something). Take a few minutes to track down contact information for the artist. Now, write them and their agent a nice letter explaining how you really like their music, but are not buying their album because you don't want to risk being infected by Sony's defective copy protection. Let them yell at Sony.
Try reading before posting next time. My point was the GPs analogy was flawed. This isn't a case where just about anyone can help. There are millions of people who can give money or time to help the homeless. This is a case where exactly *1* person may have the answer to stopping this disease. Andrew Stimpson is the only fully documented case of successfully curing HIV infection.
That does look nice. But that's a proposed 2005 model. The *early* electric cars were by and large ugly. The picture I linked to is a Citicar circa 1970. It created a perception that electric = ugly in a lot of peoples minds. Many of the newmodels are not much better. For $14,000 I do not want something that looks like this. I don't get the whole "let's make a freaky body for our electric car" mentality.
Wikipedia's article on battery operated vehicles is pretty damn interesting. Why was that technology abandoned? There's no reason why with modern technology we couldn't build an all-electric car that had comparable performance to any hybrid (they already did in every category save range) and similar range (the missing piece). Who here wouldn't own a battery powered electric vehicle if it had about 300-350 miles of range?
I suspect time and availability of recharging are factors.
When the gas tank gets low, it's a few minutes at the station to refuel. With batteries you're looking at a few hours to recharge. Also, where can you plug in to recharge? In an apartment without reserved parking, you can't guarantee being able to get to a plug. I can imagine most landlords having a problem with long extension cords running across the parking lot.
If a gasoline-powered car runs out of gas, the driver can hitch a ride to a station and back with a couple of gallons. What do you do when if/when your batteries run out? Getting towed is expensive.
The early electric cars were also just plain ugly.
More like the terrible accident you know you shouldn't pause to gape at, but just can't help it.
"There's a 2.6 mile backup on the I-15 approaching the 241 interchange. Looks like all of Slashdot is pulling over for a look at the train wreck that was The SCO Group"
140 dB Extremely damaging to hearing no matter how short the time exposure
190-195 dB Human eardrums rupture 50 % of the time
198-202 dB Human death from sound wave alone.
From what I read, death generally occurs due to lung damage that induces air embolism.
So, in answer to your question: yes. If you pump out enough energy, it will be fatal.
Does the constitution need a group of lobbyists to protect itself?
Probably, but unfortunately, the Constitution is not a multi billion dollar corporation and there are just not enough (any?) pro bono lobbyists out there.
So, 5 years ago you were living a more sheltered life and not interacting with people?
No, I'm still sheltered and not interacting with people. *They*, however, are getting better at finding their way to me!
Either that, or the pit trap is full again. I *hate* it when that happens!
Sadly, 1-a-day has been pretty much baseline for a decade or so. I mean, go to a McD's or a Radio Shack and you can fill your quota without trying.
But, by going into a Radio Shack or McD's you *are* trying!
Who do you think buys the spots during reality tv programming?
An it will continue to pass closer and closer until *SPLAT*.
Haven't you noticed? 5 years ago, it would have been rare to meet 2 dense induhviduals in a week! Now, I usually encounter at least 1 a day. This accumulating density is subtly increasing the Earth's gravitational field. (Yes, yhat's also why your scale keeps going up.)
I believe reality television is to blame. I eagerly tuned in to the first season of Survivor, thinking "Oh boy! Televised Darwin Awards!" But, wha?? They *vote* people off? The smart people? This isn't "survival of the fittest", it's survival of the weaseliest. (It is so a word, Dilbert says so and that's good enough for me!)
And weaselness is closly related to denseness. Don't believe me? Take a minute to talk to your upper management. Then another minute to see what they get away with. See!?
If they run BSD/Apache as another poster suggested, they admit FOSS makes a better platform. If they run their own software they risk major loss of face if^H^Hwhen servers BSOD, hang, get infected.
It will a lot harder to blame admins for security issues when MicroSoft is the administrator.
Or maybe their customers will simply turn a blind eye to it all. Much as they have reliability and security problems in the past.
But, just imagine how much the CIA would be excited about being able to have
self-sufficient installations in places where infrastructure is
non-existent.
Suddenly, you can set up listening posts where nobody
will find you -- just as long as you can convince some helpful Air
Force General to give you a couple of big planes or helos to deliver
them when nobody is looking.
I could see the army doing this, but I don't get the CIA's interest.
A bit of googling reveals that commercial turbines capable of 150kw generally have a rotor diameter of about 25 meters and sit on a 30+ meter tower. The best I found for solar panels was around 2.8kw/m^2 which means a 50m^2 array. Either way, you can't exactly hide it.
After all, what says "I AM HIDING OVER HERE!" better than a giant oscillating fan or dark panels the size of a house?
Slashdot Mirror
there's a cow in my bug soup!
They're jes a usin' that new fangled metric thingy. Never did make no damn sense.
The idea's already been used in faux commercial form: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-279368700 1194157382
Why is the phrase "Loose lips sink ships" coming to mind just now?
It's useable, barely. A nightmare for a touch typist as there's nothing to tell you whether you're finger is on a key or smack in the middle of 3 keys.
I predict you won't see real miniturization until implants are available. Wait til you see what your grandkids can do!
He makes movies from video games. Calling him a "director" is like calling the guy who writes the novelization of a movie an "Author".
Get your ass back to Redmond!
Nanotubes go flash bang wallop
(Yeah, I know you didn't mean that kind of flash, but the video is kinda cool.)
A few years later, congress discovers that "adult-related" == "SEX" and passes laws requiring all evil sex practioners be jailed. At last the children will be safe as the country is run by the priests... Uhh... hmm... that doesn't seem to work.
Put yourself in their place. The **AAs are breathing down their necks. They may know their logs are going to be subpoenaed and this is a way to add a few tons of hay to the needlestack.
Or, a 16" monitor set to 800x600 when viewed from 2'.
Ah ha! I get it! You want to breed a smarter humanity! Just add a camera in the bedroom (basically a public place (I mean you are doing them on camera!) ) and arrest anyone who is not bright enough to hack the video feed. Very clever!
Sorry, wrong answer, thanks for trying to play.
Try reading before posting next time. My point was the GPs analogy was flawed. This isn't a case where just about anyone can help. There are millions of people who can give money or time to help the homeless. This is a case where exactly *1* person may have the answer to stopping this disease. Andrew Stimpson is the only fully documented case of successfully curing HIV infection.
That does look nice. But that's a proposed 2005 model. The *early* electric cars were by and large ugly. The picture I linked to is a Citicar circa 1970. It created a perception that electric = ugly in a lot of peoples minds. Many of the new models are not much better. For $14,000 I do not want something that looks like this. I don't get the whole "let's make a freaky body for our electric car" mentality.
It's not quite the same thing. Now if he was the *only* person in the world with disposable time and money, you might have a point.
When the gas tank gets low, it's a few minutes at the station to refuel. With batteries you're looking at a few hours to recharge. Also, where can you plug in to recharge? In an apartment without reserved parking, you can't guarantee being able to get to a plug. I can imagine most landlords having a problem with long extension cords running across the parking lot.
If a gasoline-powered car runs out of gas, the driver can hitch a ride to a station and back with a couple of gallons. What do you do when if/when your batteries run out? Getting towed is expensive.
The early electric cars were also just plain ugly.
- 140 dB Extremely damaging to hearing no matter how short the time exposure
- 190-195 dB Human eardrums rupture 50 % of the time
- 198-202 dB Human death from sound wave alone.
From what I read, death generally occurs due to lung damage that induces air embolism.So, in answer to your question: yes. If you pump out enough energy, it will be fatal.
Either that, or the pit trap is full again. I *hate* it when that happens!
But, by going into a Radio Shack or McD's you *are* trying! Who do you think buys the spots during reality tv programming?
An it will continue to pass closer and closer until *SPLAT*.
Haven't you noticed? 5 years ago, it would have been rare to meet 2 dense induhviduals in a week! Now, I usually encounter at least 1 a day. This accumulating density is subtly increasing the Earth's gravitational field. (Yes, yhat's also why your scale keeps going up.)
I believe reality television is to blame. I eagerly tuned in to the first season of Survivor, thinking "Oh boy! Televised Darwin Awards!" But, wha?? They *vote* people off? The smart people? This isn't "survival of the fittest", it's survival of the weaseliest. (It is so a word, Dilbert says so and that's good enough for me!)
And weaselness is closly related to denseness. Don't believe me? Take a minute to talk to your upper management. Then another minute to see what they get away with. See!?
"will" not "should"
This could be a lose/lose proposition for MicroSoft.
They have touted their system as being capable of "five nines" (99.999% uptime per year, or, only 315 seconds of downtime per year). As being cheaper to operate and less vulnerable than Linux.
If they run BSD/Apache as another poster suggested, they admit FOSS makes a better platform. If they run their own software they risk major loss of face if^H^Hwhen servers BSOD, hang, get infected.
It will a lot harder to blame admins for security issues when MicroSoft is the administrator.
Or maybe their customers will simply turn a blind eye to it all. Much as they have reliability and security problems in the past.
A bit of googling reveals that commercial turbines capable of 150kw generally have a rotor diameter of about 25 meters and sit on a 30+ meter tower. The best I found for solar panels was around 2.8kw/m^2 which means a 50m^2 array. Either way, you can't exactly hide it.
After all, what says "I AM HIDING OVER HERE!" better than a giant oscillating fan or dark panels the size of a house?