No need to design a complicated solar array when a simple RTG will do...unless you have some concern that an accident at launch could cause the putonium to be released into the environment....which was my point in the first place.
I was called ignorant by the previous poster, which made claims about RTGs that were completely incorrect. I supply links to back up my facts. So that's hardly a rant. More likely that you simply don't like the facts
Sorry, but all the ignorance is your own.
Nasa has sent a *lot* of RTGs to the moon.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianus/npsm3. "(Astronauts on five Apollo missions left RTG units on the lunar surface to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages.)"
Also, Viking used RTG. Also, RTG isnt the only type of Nuculear power. Nasa has Nuculear heaters on the recient Mars mission.
It's true that to go to the outer planets requires nuclear power, that doesn't mean that we are forced to use it. There is another option: simply don't send any probes there. I know the science is cool and all, but you have to assume some sort of responsibity to the general health of this planet. There will always be a risk of a accendent, it's happened before and it'll happen again.
"(Astronauts on five Apollo missions left RTG units on the lunar surface to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages.)" You can read more about it here: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianus /npsm3. htm
Also, what's interesting is that they managed to do this without requiring any nuclear batteries, or heaters.
NASA claim to be concerned about safty, but only the ESA can make their probes 100% safe by not launching any plutonium into orbit in the first place.
Is this the same copy right protection that was on the Massive Attacks 100th Window CD? Popped into my PC, whirred arround like crazy, jammed up my CD player, had to reboot the PC to open it again. Popped it in again and ripped perfectly using CDex. I should've demanded my money back, because it the "copy protect" feature doesn't work as advertised
It's interesting that the 64bit version of Mini-GZIP why would perform so much better than the 32bit version. It must use a lot 64 bit integers. Well, that's the only explaination I can think of.
If you look at it this way Bill Gates is almost a modern day Robinhood. Stealing from the rich (via the MS tax - anyone who can afford a PC must at least be above the proverty line) and giving to the poor
But I think Gates really does give alot away, granted he has alot to give away.
Quicky google:
Bill gates donates:
$100 Million Aids,
$20 million for new LCS building,
$37 Million to Combat Hepatitis B in China
$51m to schools
$25M for AIDS vaccine
1 billion to quake fund
$3.34 billion to charities that help fund health and education projects worldwide... this is over the last 4 years and equals about
10% of his total wealth.
That means if he continues at the same rate he'll have given away most of his wealth by the time he's dead.
Me too. I made the mistake of sending a post to a mailing list without realising that my email address would be published - damn! and I had that e-mail spam free for so long...
I wonder if anyone has debugged those those exe's to see what they do
The next version of Windows will prevent this sort of thing ever happening. Microsoft have found an ingenious new solution.
When you try to connect to the network the following message will appear:
"Connecting to the network may allow a worm, or virus to exploit one of the many security holes in Windows? Are you sure you want to connect to the Network? "
"Yes" "No"
This scheme is similar to the one in Outlook when you try to open a mail attachment and has proven very effective, as long as the user doesn't press "Yes".
That would make the virus writer much easiler to track down, becuase he has to recieve that data somehow. And with the hefty jail sentences being threatened, I think covering your trail is the #1 priority for any virus writer. I would say the most damaging thing a virus can do is destroying the user's documents
Actually you can look up the correct facts here: http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate 10.html
2000, United States Drowning Deaths and Rates per 100,000 All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 16 ICD-10 Codes: W65-W74,X71,X92,Y21
Number of Deaths Population Crude Rate 1,113 66,462,150 1.67
000, United States Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000 All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 16 ICD-10 Codes: W32-W34,X72-X74,X93-X95,Y22-Y24,Y35.0
Number of Deaths Population Crude Rate 1,046 66,462,150 1.57
As you see the total drowning just a small bit more than gun releated. Now, there's no option for "pool releated", but I would say most drownings happen in dangerous places , like where there is a big current.
Thank goodness there really was no danger! If the monitoring software had crashed while the plant was operational there could have been a serious breach in...
wait a minute! Did you say "a 6-inch hole in the plant's reactor head"???
As well as that, when you try to open a Project 2000 file with Project 98, the program will tell you to download the file converter to read the file. Then when go to MS web page it says that there is no convertor and you have to upgrade instead.
While the stuff this guy is coming out with is both interesting and true, it is still all common sense. Any one of us could come up with the same deductions that he did. So, why does MS need a sociologist with a sting of letters after his name to do this type of work?
I reckon it's because the big words they use impress the big nobs.
Richard Feynman once told a story about a sociologist that was giving a lecture about a paper he wrote, but he couldn't understand a word of it. At first he thought it was becuase he wasn't qualified enough on the subject material, but then he said damn it I'm going to try to concentrate on just one sentence and see if I can understand what it means. So the sentence he picked was "The individual member of the social community often recieves his information via visual, symbolic channels". After a while he eventually figured it out. Do you know what it means? "People read"!!!... of course if the sociologist just said everything straight everybody would just say "oh, but that's obvious" so hence the big words and convoluted sentences.
Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels
These were pretty bad admitedly, but in comparision to Avenging Angelo they are Oscar candites. I mean is it for real? or is it some type of sick joke at the audience's expense?
At least I can now use that experience as a point of reference next time I see a bad move. "Well, that was realy bad, but at least it wasn't as bad as Avenging Angelo"
I didn't see that one. There seem to be so many settings for the WindowsUpdate scattered all over the place.
But thanks for the info anyway,
cheers,
Ed
At the moment you can't fully switch off automatic updates on WinXP. I disabled the setting and even shutdown the service, but still IE automatically navigates to the windows update page, even though that's not my home page.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. We should be so complacent and just say "Oh, yes another virus, doesn't matter, just download the latest patch and itll be alright". Imagine if the next virus exploits a hole that has not yet been discovered - why not? If the security experts can discover new holes, then the black hats can as well. To top that, imagine instead of a puny DOS payload, this virus destroys data files on the host machine. There would be wide scale panic. Nobody would even dare to connect to the internet. It would be the DOOMSDAY virus.
Never mind live video streams and voice recognition, we haven't yet got the basics working.
How about allowing all applications seemlessly integrate pictures into the documents. You may think this already works, but it doesn't (at least not seeminglessly). I can't copy and paste a graphic from Mozilla into a Outlook (sorry, copying the picture to disk and then navigating through the file system heirarchy and inserting isn't what I call seemless integration). A picture can only be Pasted into Outlook *uncompressed*. I can't post a picture into any forums. I do a lot of GUI design and it's impossible to communicate your ideas without pictures.
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No need to design a complicated solar array when a simple RTG will do ...unless you have some concern that an accident at launch could cause the putonium to be released into the environment....which was my point in the first place.
I was called ignorant by the previous poster, which made claims about RTGs that were completely incorrect. I supply links to back up my facts. So that's hardly a rant. More likely that you simply don't like the facts
Sorry, but all the ignorance is your own. Nasa has sent a *lot* of RTGs to the moon. You can read more about it here: http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianus/npsm3. "(Astronauts on five Apollo missions left RTG units on the lunar surface to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages.)"
Also, Viking used RTG. Also, RTG isnt the only type of Nuculear power. Nasa has Nuculear heaters on the recient Mars mission.
It's true that to go to the outer planets requires nuclear power, that doesn't mean that we are forced to use it. There is another option: simply don't send any probes there. I know the science is cool and all, but you have to assume some sort of responsibity to the general health of this planet. There will always be a risk of a accendent, it's happened before and it'll happen again.
"(Astronauts on five Apollo missions left RTG units on the lunar surface to power the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages.)"s /npsm3. htm
You can read more about it here:
http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/ianu
Also, what's interesting is that they managed to do this without requiring any nuclear batteries, or heaters. NASA claim to be concerned about safty, but only the ESA can make their probes 100% safe by not launching any plutonium into orbit in the first place.
Is this the same copy right protection that was on the Massive Attacks 100th Window CD?
Popped into my PC, whirred arround like crazy, jammed up my CD player, had to reboot the PC to open it again. Popped it in again and ripped perfectly using CDex.
I should've demanded my money back, because it the "copy protect" feature doesn't work as advertised
If that's true, then it means that the performance gain has nothing to do with 64-bit. Rather it's just because there are more registers
It's interesting that the 64bit version of Mini-GZIP why would perform so much better than the 32bit version. It must use a lot 64 bit integers. Well, that's the only explaination I can think of.
If you look at it this way Bill Gates is almost a modern day Robinhood. Stealing from the rich (via the MS tax - anyone who can afford a PC must at least be above the proverty line) and giving to the poor
The Windows ATM experience
But I think Gates really does give alot away, granted he has alot to give away. Quicky google: Bill gates donates: $100 Million Aids, $20 million for new LCS building, $37 Million to Combat Hepatitis B in China $51m to schools $25M for AIDS vaccine 1 billion to quake fund $3.34 billion to charities that help fund health and education projects worldwide ... this is over the last 4 years and equals about
10% of his total wealth.
That means if he continues at the same rate he'll have given away most of his wealth by the time he's dead.
Me too. I made the mistake of sending a post to a mailing list without realising that my email address would be published - damn! and I had that e-mail spam free for so long... I wonder if anyone has debugged those those exe's to see what they do
The next version of Windows will prevent this sort of thing ever happening. Microsoft have found an ingenious new solution. When you try to connect to the network the following message will appear: "Connecting to the network may allow a worm, or virus to exploit one of the many security holes in Windows? Are you sure you want to connect to the Network? " "Yes" "No" This scheme is similar to the one in Outlook when you try to open a mail attachment and has proven very effective, as long as the user doesn't press "Yes".
That would make the virus writer much easiler to track down, becuase he has to recieve that data somehow. And with the hefty jail sentences being threatened, I think covering your trail is the #1 priority for any virus writer.
I would say the most damaging thing a virus can do is destroying the user's documents
Sorry to go off topic on this Isreali /Palastinean discussion, but has anyone used this EarthStation p2p? Any good? How would you rate it?
Too true. Don't know why you got marked as flamebait while the other guy got Insiteful
Actually you can look up the correct facts here:e 10.html
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrat
2000, United States
Drowning Deaths and Rates per 100,000
All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 16
ICD-10 Codes: W65-W74,X71,X92,Y21
Number of
Deaths Population Crude Rate
1,113 66,462,150 1.67
000, United States
Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000
All Races, Both Sexes, Ages 0 to 16
ICD-10 Codes: W32-W34,X72-X74,X93-X95,Y22-Y24,Y35.0
Number of
Deaths Population Crude Rate
1,046 66,462,150 1.57
As you see the total drowning just a small bit more than gun releated.
Now, there's no option for "pool releated", but I would say most drownings happen in dangerous places
, like where there is a big current.
Thank goodness there really was no danger! If the monitoring software had crashed while the plant was operational there could have been a serious breach in... wait a minute! Did you say "a 6-inch hole in the plant's reactor head"???
As well as that, when you try to open a Project 2000 file with Project 98, the program will tell you to download the file converter to read the file. Then when go to MS web page it says that there is no convertor and you have to upgrade instead.
I reckon it's because the big words they use impress the big nobs.
Richard Feynman once told a story about a sociologist that was giving a lecture about a paper he wrote, but he couldn't understand a word of it. At first he thought it was becuase he wasn't qualified enough on the subject material, but then he said damn it I'm going to try to concentrate on just one sentence and see if I can understand what it means. So the sentence he picked was "The individual member of the social community often recieves his information via visual, symbolic channels". After a while he eventually figured it out. Do you know what it means?
"People read"!!!... of course if the sociologist just said everything straight everybody would just say "oh, but that's obvious" so hence the big words and convoluted sentences.
Gigli, The Hulk and Charlies Angels These were pretty bad admitedly, but in comparision to Avenging Angelo they are Oscar candites. I mean is it for real? or is it some type of sick joke at the audience's expense? At least I can now use that experience as a point of reference next time I see a bad move. "Well, that was realy bad, but at least it wasn't as bad as Avenging Angelo"
I didn't see that one. There seem to be so many settings for the WindowsUpdate scattered all over the place. But thanks for the info anyway, cheers, Ed
At the moment you can't fully switch off automatic updates on WinXP. I disabled the setting and even shutdown the service, but still IE automatically navigates to the windows update page, even though that's not my home page.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
We should be so complacent and just say "Oh, yes another virus, doesn't matter, just download the latest patch and itll be alright". Imagine if the next virus exploits a hole that has not yet been discovered - why not? If the security experts can discover new holes, then the black hats can as well. To top that, imagine instead of a puny DOS payload, this virus destroys data files on the host machine. There would be wide scale panic. Nobody would even dare to connect to the internet.
It would be the DOOMSDAY virus.
Never mind live video streams and voice recognition, we haven't yet got the basics working. How about allowing all applications seemlessly integrate pictures into the documents. You may think this already works, but it doesn't (at least not seeminglessly). I can't copy and paste a graphic from Mozilla into a Outlook (sorry, copying the picture to disk and then navigating through the file system heirarchy and inserting isn't what I call seemless integration). A picture can only be Pasted into Outlook *uncompressed*. I can't post a picture into any forums. I do a lot of GUI design and it's impossible to communicate your ideas without pictures.