To really do any good, one would drive the warhead into the asteroid before detonation
No, that would just break it up and make it worse. Some fragments might be accelerated sideways enough to miss the earth, but more will be accelerated forward or backward along the asteroid's current path. The result would be like being hit by shotgun blasts as the earth rotated through the asteroid fragments.
The total energy imparted to the planet by the asteroid would remain the same, but it would be spread over a greater area.
A better idea would be to use a stand-off blast where the nuke is detonated alongside the asteroid to give it a sideways shove and deflect it whole, but even this would be extremely inefficient, and you'd need to identify the trajectories very early.
NB, to the grandparent poster, the fact that the asteroid is the only object in the vicinity of the explosion would have no affect on the amount of energy it receives.
I dont care what OS you are using, if the software you are installing is bundled with spyware then you're "infected."
The OS matters because a properly designed OS will make it much harder for spyware to sink its hooks so deeply into the user's computer. The reason Giant is so good is that it removes spyware other solutions can't. The reason other software doesn't remove all spyware is because removing spyware from Windows is hard. The fact that it will be easy to remove their garbage means that Linux (and Mac OSX) will be much less attractive targets for spyware sellers.
I have to administer mac's at my college, and every one of them has anti spyware anti virus on them. Why would this be?
Shouldn't you be asking the administrator this question? Hang on....
Admittedly Linux machines dont have the infections yet but they are ones I've used online for a total of 15 minutes so not long enough to be infected.
Maybe you should have waited an hour or two before posting then.
Or you could just ask someone who's used Linux online for a little longer than you. They might be able to tell you how likely it is that you'll pick up an infestation of spyware (Hint: It's somewhere between Buckley's and none).
As an exercise, try to create a Word or rtf compatible document from the OOo counterpart to MSAccess. Oh wait...
In 1.9.58, Chose File/New/Text Document, View/Data Sources. Select the data tree in explorer view and right click, then select "Edit Data Base File" from the menu. Chose the Table icon, then Create Table in Design View (or use the wizard, if you want) to make an embedded XML table. Make the table and any queries, forms etc you want, then add your data through the form or set up text fields in the document instead. Once you've laid your document out select File/Save to save the doc in a nice friendly OOo XML format, then use Save As, pick your favorite obfuscated file format, ie Word.doc, and save a copy of the file.
Took me way longer to type this in than it did to make the file... Aint XML marvellous?
Interoperation like this has been a central part of MSOffice for quite a while.
Only within some very restrictive limits. Try to create a Word document from within MS Access, for example. Access will only write to.rtf files, probably because of the complexity of the.doc format. Building documents like that would be far simpler with an open XML format.
What needs to happen is to provide a means to do all typical tasks (and most advanced) tasks via GUI.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a plugin for Firefox to do that? Instead of about:config you could do network:config or storage:config. That way even distros with odd/etc configurations could have a standard place for users to play with settings.
Cryptographic handshake between firmware and OS/Application
Isn't this just Palladium? The PIC may be MS and AMD's full-scale trial of the technology.
At this price point, no-one can complain about the loss of functionality. If it works out, a few years from now they'll be able to point to the installed base of PICs and say "Look, it works fine. Now we can do this to all new PCs"
Well I don't mind volunteer advertizers because, unlike other advertizers, they actually believe in the product.
Every couple of weeks I get some volunteer advertisers pushing bicycles and wearing white shirts and black ties knocking on my door. They seem to believe very strongly in their product - would you like me to send them your way?
...doesn't it seem more likely that a tribe of hunter-gatherers would have started following a herd of grazing animals because it made acquiring meat easier?
Cereal agriculture likely started when because nomadic hunter-gatherers would trace the same path and use the same campsites during each of their seasonal migrations. The seeds they collected and brought to those campsites would have been those most suitable for human consumption (larger, tastier etc), and when unconsumed seeds sprouted and grew, the result would have been groves of high-quality food around each of the campsites.
Additionally, the boundary between liquid and gas dissapears, and the properties of the substance are somewhat different.
The change in properties is what's important to the separation of hydrogen and oxygen. Past the supercritical point, water becomes non-polar and more acidic.
From memory there was some work done a while back on producing peroxides using supercritical water, carbon dioxide and palladium catalysts. Acetylenes were the byproduct, and I wonder now if there might be an energy storage pathway in that reaction.
Re:Elena was debunked a while ago.
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A close friend of mine knows a few people who work for them in Vienna, and when he showed them the website, they were manically laughing and stating that if it was really true, she would die in about 2 years.
Your friend was either taking the piss or didn't know much about the effects of radiation exposure. To simplify a complicated subject, either you become ill within a few days of being exposed to a high dose or radiation, or if you are below the threshold dose, you live the rest of your life with an increased probability of suffering from some sort of cancer. In either case, the timespan of "2 years" is wrong.
I mean, its one thing to accidentally expose a person to a disease that they had not been exposed to, but completely another to do it intentionally.
On July 16, 1763 General Amherst wrote in a letter to Colonel Bouquet;
"You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."
I tried to enter a number in a table today, and it would not let me enter my decimals. Just truncated it to a whole number. Could not get it to work right at all.
Ok, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls/astroturfers, but this is just plain dumb. In order to get a number in an OOo table to behave that way, you have to explicitly select one of the non-decimal number formats (Table/Number Format or Right Click/Number Format). This process is not significantly different in any word processor or spreadsheet.
Why don't you learn how to use the bloody program before you start whining about what it does or doesn't do?
off topic, but i really wished i could find the place to set urls that open new windows to open new tabs instead.
If you have a version pre 1.0, then you need to install the Single Window extension, but FF 1.0 has built-in single window functionality. To enable this feature type "about:config" in address bar and set "browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs" to "true". Then in "Tools/Options/Advanced", enable "Force links that open new windows to open it" option. Thats it. (from the Extensions page)
What, no Ireland (Kilkenny, Guinness) nor Czech Republic (Staropramen, Pilsner Urquell, Kozel) on the favorite beer list!?
Well, they were just the first that sprung to mind, and to paraphrase someone sensible, I've rarely met a beer I didn't like.
As far as your faves there. I don't mind the odd pint of Guinness, but if I had to make a choice between it and Theakston's Old Peculiar or even Newky Brown, I'd be leaving the Guinness in the tap.
I must admit to neglecting the Czech beers though - I've had (and liked) a few Urquells, but missed on the others in your list. I'll give them a go on the weekend, and if they're as good as you say, I might owe you one...
PS, I might keep quiet about the chocolate for now, but it'll come in handy next time I need a bribe - cheers.
you do not get rich by spending money foolishly. and you spend it very foolishly.
I don't want to get rich, and I don't want to seem rich. I want to live well. You seem to think the wealth is what matters. It doesn't, and there's little point in accumulating huge amounts of money if you don't spend it on things you enjoy. Believe me, I spend my money very wisely.
When's the last time you bought any thing European other than a tin of biscuits, wine, or a Linux distro? They are not expensive because they are good. They are expensive because you are paying for the outrageous taxes and labor costs which many European companies have to pay.
My cars were made in Germany and England. My best suit was made in Italy, and my spectacles have Italian frames. My coffee grinder is from Germany, and the best shoes I have were made in Spain. My favorite beers are made in England, Germany, Denmark and Belgium (Ok, I admit I like beer a lot...), while my girlfriend is addicted to Swiss and Belgian chocolates. My phone is Finnish and the engine in my boat was made in Sweden.
I do the research when I buy and, while all of these item are good quality, they are not the most expensive by any means. I don't think your argument against European products is is true at all.
Well, if the weather's too chaotic to predict, even with this much computing horsepower, maybe it would be simpler to go to Brazil and just swat the damn butterfly with the owner's manual.
I wonder how you or your source came up with those numbers. Just what is considered civilian and what is considered military?
As I understand it, the figures are compiled from a combination of hospital records when they are available and incidents verified by at least two separate press agencies otherwise. I agree the counts are not likely to be accurate, but since the US military won't supply figures ("We don't do body counts," Gen. Tommy Franks) they're the best available.
That's not to read malice into those disproportionate casualty figures though. I wouldn't suggest the US is not trying to reduce collateral damage, but that it shows their priority was to avoid American casualties.
Civilian casualties were kept relatively low considering this was an invasion of a country with a population of twenty five million, but even fewer soldiers were killed considering the scale of the event, hence the statistic.
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To really do any good, one would drive the warhead into the asteroid before detonation
No, that would just break it up and make it worse. Some fragments might be accelerated sideways enough to miss the earth, but more will be accelerated forward or backward along the asteroid's current path. The result would be like being hit by shotgun blasts as the earth rotated through the asteroid fragments.
The total energy imparted to the planet by the asteroid would remain the same, but it would be spread over a greater area.
A better idea would be to use a stand-off blast where the nuke is detonated alongside the asteroid to give it a sideways shove and deflect it whole, but even this would be extremely inefficient, and you'd need to identify the trajectories very early.
NB, to the grandparent poster, the fact that the asteroid is the only object in the vicinity of the explosion would have no affect on the amount of energy it receives.
If the future holds more of this I hope I die soon.
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Thank you for using IBM.
I dont care what OS you are using, if the software you are installing is bundled with spyware then you're "infected."
The OS matters because a properly designed OS will make it much harder for spyware to sink its hooks so deeply into the user's computer. The reason Giant is so good is that it removes spyware other solutions can't. The reason other software doesn't remove all spyware is because removing spyware from Windows is hard. The fact that it will be easy to remove their garbage means that Linux (and Mac OSX) will be much less attractive targets for spyware sellers.
I have to administer mac's at my college, and every one of them has anti spyware anti virus on them. Why would this be?
Shouldn't you be asking the administrator this question? Hang on....
Admittedly Linux machines dont have the infections yet but they are ones I've used online for a total of 15 minutes so not long enough to be infected.
Maybe you should have waited an hour or two before posting then.
Or you could just ask someone who's used Linux online for a little longer than you. They might be able to tell you how likely it is that you'll pick up an infestation of spyware (Hint: It's somewhere between Buckley's and none).
As an exercise, try to create a Word or rtf compatible document from the OOo counterpart to MSAccess. Oh wait...
.doc, and save a copy of the file.
In 1.9.58, Chose File/New/Text Document, View/Data Sources. Select the data tree in explorer view and right click, then select "Edit Data Base File" from the menu. Chose the Table icon, then Create Table in Design View (or use the wizard, if you want) to make an embedded XML table. Make the table and any queries, forms etc you want, then add your data through the form or set up text fields in the document instead. Once you've laid your document out select File/Save to save the doc in a nice friendly OOo XML format, then use Save As, pick your favorite obfuscated file format, ie Word
Took me way longer to type this in than it did to make the file... Aint XML marvellous?
Interoperation like this has been a central part of MSOffice for quite a while.
.rtf files, probably because of the complexity of the .doc format. Building documents like that would be far simpler with an open XML format.
Only within some very restrictive limits. Try to create a Word document from within MS Access, for example. Access will only write to
What needs to happen is to provide a means to do all typical tasks (and most advanced) tasks via GUI.
/etc configurations could have a standard place for users to play with settings.
I wonder how hard it would be to make a plugin for Firefox to do that? Instead of about:config you could do network:config or storage:config. That way even distros with odd
Cryptographic handshake between firmware and OS/Application
Isn't this just Palladium? The PIC may be MS and AMD's full-scale trial of the technology.
At this price point, no-one can complain about the loss of functionality. If it works out, a few years from now they'll be able to point to the installed base of PICs and say "Look, it works fine. Now we can do this to all new PCs"
Well I don't mind volunteer advertizers because, unlike other advertizers, they actually believe in the product.
Every couple of weeks I get some volunteer advertisers pushing bicycles and wearing white shirts and black ties knocking on my door. They seem to believe very strongly in their product - would you like me to send them your way?
...doesn't it seem more likely that a tribe of hunter-gatherers would have started following a herd of grazing animals because it made acquiring meat easier?
Cereal agriculture likely started when because nomadic hunter-gatherers would trace the same path and use the same campsites during each of their seasonal migrations. The seeds they collected and brought to those campsites would have been those most suitable for human consumption (larger, tastier etc), and when unconsumed seeds sprouted and grew, the result would have been groves of high-quality food around each of the campsites.
Now that's an idea for a Thunderbird plugin! Strip urls from the spam and have it request the stuff over and over again... I'd use it.
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It has been submitted, but no action so far.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2456
So no one can criticize another country until their own is perfect? Which perfect land do you live in?
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Queensland?
Well, at least the Aussies here will get it...
http://www.australearn.org/tourism/AU/Queensland.
They are the future of unaccountable editorializing.
You mean unaccountable the way Groklaw (Pamela Jones' blog) has been throughout the SCO debacle?
Additionally, the boundary between liquid and gas dissapears, and the properties of the substance are somewhat different.
The change in properties is what's important to the separation of hydrogen and oxygen. Past the supercritical point, water becomes non-polar and more acidic.
From memory there was some work done a while back on producing peroxides using supercritical water, carbon dioxide and palladium catalysts. Acetylenes were the byproduct, and I wonder now if there might be an energy storage pathway in that reaction.
A close friend of mine knows a few people who work for them in Vienna, and when he showed them the website, they were manically laughing and stating that if it was really true, she would die in about 2 years.
Your friend was either taking the piss or didn't know much about the effects of radiation exposure.
To simplify a complicated subject, either you become ill within a few days of being exposed to a high dose or radiation, or if you are below the threshold dose, you live the rest of your life with an increased probability of suffering from some sort of cancer. In either case, the timespan of "2 years" is wrong.
I mean, its one thing to accidentally expose a person to a disease that they had not been exposed to, but completely another to do it intentionally.
On July 16, 1763 General Amherst wrote in a letter to Colonel Bouquet;
"You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race."
There are several other confirmed examples as well. Have a look at The Staight Dope for more about this one. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_066.html
I tried to enter a number in a table today, and it would not let me enter my decimals. Just truncated it to a whole number. Could not get it to work right at all.
Ok, I know I shouldn't feed the trolls/astroturfers, but this is just plain dumb. In order to get a number in an OOo table to behave that way, you have to explicitly select one of the non-decimal number formats (Table/Number Format or Right Click/Number Format). This process is not significantly different in any word processor or spreadsheet.
Why don't you learn how to use the bloody program before you start whining about what it does or doesn't do?
off topic, but i really wished i could find the place to set urls that open new windows to open new tabs instead.
If you have a version pre 1.0, then you need to install the Single Window extension, but FF 1.0 has built-in single window functionality. To enable this feature type "about:config" in address bar and set "browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs" to "true". Then in "Tools/Options/Advanced", enable "Force links that open new windows to open it" option. Thats it. (from the Extensions page)
Why assume he's not a sleazeball? Heck, I'm assuming his "disability" is a scam too.
His disability is schizophrenia so it's not likely to be a scam and it certainly won't affect his sleazeball status.
What, no Ireland (Kilkenny, Guinness) nor Czech Republic (Staropramen, Pilsner Urquell, Kozel) on the favorite beer list!?
Well, they were just the first that sprung to mind, and to paraphrase someone sensible, I've rarely met a beer I didn't like.
As far as your faves there. I don't mind the odd pint of Guinness, but if I had to make a choice between it and Theakston's Old Peculiar or even Newky Brown, I'd be leaving the Guinness in the tap.
I must admit to neglecting the Czech beers though - I've had (and liked) a few Urquells, but missed on the others in your list. I'll give them a go on the weekend, and if they're as good as you say, I might owe you one...
PS, I might keep quiet about the chocolate for now, but it'll come in handy next time I need a bribe - cheers.
you do not get rich by spending money foolishly. and you spend it very foolishly.
I don't want to get rich, and I don't want to seem rich. I want to live well. You seem to think the wealth is what matters. It doesn't, and there's little point in accumulating huge amounts of money if you don't spend it on things you enjoy. Believe me, I spend my money very wisely.
When's the last time you bought any thing European other than a tin of biscuits, wine, or a Linux distro? They are not expensive because they are good. They are expensive because you are paying for the outrageous taxes and labor costs which many European companies have to pay.
My cars were made in Germany and England. My best suit was made in Italy, and my spectacles have Italian frames. My coffee grinder is from Germany, and the best shoes I have were made in Spain. My favorite beers are made in England, Germany, Denmark and Belgium (Ok, I admit I like beer a lot...), while my girlfriend is addicted to Swiss and Belgian chocolates. My phone is Finnish and the engine in my boat was made in Sweden.
I do the research when I buy and, while all of these item are good quality, they are not the most expensive by any means. I don't think your argument against European products is is true at all.
Well, if the weather's too chaotic to predict, even with this much computing horsepower, maybe it would be simpler to go to Brazil and just swat the damn butterfly with the owner's manual.
Is there a pattern of addresses the phish was posted to? There may have been a mailing list of Linux user database compromised.
I wonder how you or your source came up with those numbers. Just what is considered civilian and what is considered military?
As I understand it, the figures are compiled from a combination of hospital records when they are available and incidents verified by at least two separate press agencies otherwise. I agree the counts are not likely to be accurate, but since the US military won't supply figures ("We don't do body counts," Gen. Tommy Franks) they're the best available.
That's not to read malice into those disproportionate casualty figures though. I wouldn't suggest the US is not trying to reduce collateral damage, but that it shows their priority was to avoid American casualties.
Civilian casualties were kept relatively low considering this was an invasion of a country with a population of twenty five million, but even fewer soldiers were killed considering the scale of the event, hence the statistic.