Earlier versions of The GIMP remind me of Maya. When using Maya, you can actually hide every single bit of user interface including the menu bar along the top in the name of screen real-estate. When you hold down the spacebar, something called the Hotbox comes up and it has every single menu in the entire program in it. Working entirely without menus and buttons can take a little getting used to, but it gives you a ton of screen space.
When I was using The GIMP 1.2.X, I really liked how all of its UI is either small (in the case of necesary elements) or can be hidden behind your image. It made the available image space so much bigger. However, I always thought that they needed to work on their menu scheme because File on the main window didn't have Save or other such things that manipulate files. Though come to think of it, most Windows applications just dump random things into the File menu such as Preferences that would really fit better under another menu. I like Apple's way of putting that sort of thing under a menu with the program's name.
I actually know a guy who was paid to think up possible terrorist attacks. One of the nastier ones involved a crop duster, chemical weapons, and school bus routes. Talk about an attention getter.
I wouldn't have been very surprised if he had planned to crash planes into buildings multiple times.
I've dropped my iPod onto cement from a height of about 4 feet. It barely dinged the corner of the plastic front and I have one of the Rev. 2 iPods with the flat face instead of the curved face that the new ones have. I highly doubt that a drop from anything less than 12 feet or so would break an iPod.
Of course, that doesn't really answer yoour question. No, you do not get to redownload the music if it somehow goes away. You do, however, get to burn it to CDs both in uncompressed wav (audio CD) and in the original AAC (data CD). With CDRs as cheap as they are, there's very little excuse for not backing the tracks up.
I don't know about you, but I can only put a few tracks into 64 MB of storage. My average MP3 is upwards of 5 MB, so that's perhaps 12 tracks into the memory of a recent PocketPC if I don't have anything else on it. And don't tell me to go out and buy a memory card. My iPod has 10 GB of space, the largest CF cards that I've seen are 1 GB and they cost about as much as my iPod did. I suppose that I could just get a million 16 MB cards and swap them out whenever I wanted to change songs (or in the middle of some of my songs), but I really don't feel like lugging around that many memory cards.
Besides, my Newton has a better (read: much bigger) screen than any PocketPC that I've seen. PocketPCs do have their uses, but music players they are not. Nor are they particularly good at viewing web pages due to their tiny low-res screens. My Newt doesn't work too well for that either, but it's far more tolerable to browse on a 320*480 screen than a 240*320. Consider also that I got my decked-out Newton 2100 for $116 including shipping. Cheaper, better screen, and better handwriting recognition is a great combination.
NTFS has a good permission system? That's news to me. As an administrator, I created a folder that denyed other users the ability to do anything with or to it. I set every single permission to "deny", especially the "Take Ownership" permission. I then logged in as a Limited account, navigated to the folder, right-clicked it, went to "Security", it told me that I wasn't allowed to view or change the security settings and that I couldn't take ownership. I then clicked on the "Advanced" button, went to the "Ownership" tab, and gave myself ownership. I then closed the two open dialogs, right-clicked again, added myself to the permissions, and gave myself full control over the folder.
In UNIX, I could set the permissions to 750 and not have to worry about it anymore.
Now, I like the link idea. Having the same file in multiple locations on your directory tree can be very useful. Also, the metadata and data streams are nice. However, NTFS doesn't have "strong security permissions" by any stretch of the imagination.
I have to edit the registry all the time. Programs like to set themselves up to autorun by putting themselves in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run. Most of these are programs that I don't like such as Microsoft Messenger. I go into the Microsoft Messenger preferences and uncheck "Run this program when Windows starts", but it doesn't remove the registry entry.
My point was that if the reactor won't meltdown when the new pebbles are touching each other and the reactor has no cooling whatsoever, then how, pray-tell, would the less radioactive waste meltdown? If you have any 'spent' pebbles, the critical mass of the system would be higher because of the lower radioactivity and the actual material would still be held at exactly the same distance from itself unless they want to remove it from the spheres for some reason.
Well, the pebbles are in contact with each other while they are being used. You can't get much closer than that.
Even if you somehow manage to lose all cooling and the uranium in the pebbles somehow melts (in a traditional reactor, that would be called a meltdown), the casing prevents the uranium from getting close enough to get critical mass.
I really don't think that you could get one of these reactors to become a nuclear bomb even if you knew exactly what you were doing, and most people wouldn't.
The Orphanage actually did at least one scene from one of the trailers. I haven't seen which one this is (there are two that I have so far along with the robot walking demo), they did the scene where you are flying over some small rolling hills and you see the giant pod-cities off in the distance.
I know this because there is a movie of them talking about how great Maya is on Alias' site and they blend from an animated Maya scene to the final product. It's quite impressive.
Both trailers and the demo are on Apple's site and have been for months.
"[F]ree flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Really, that's a very insightful quote, even if it is from a game.
Either we have freedom of speech entirely or it will slip away as things are declared seditious. Speaking out agains the government is already considered unpatriotic by most people that I know. Anti-war demonstrations are even more so in their eyes. Personally, I think that demonstrations are just about as patriotic as you can possibly get, right up there with voting idiots out of office and I really don't understand why so many people think otherwise.
Think about what you would do if you were trying to get more control over the US. First, you turn popular opinion against guns (really, any weapons at all). You erode the right to carry them to the point that they all have to be registered and then you make them illegal to own privately. Once the general populace doesn't have weapons, they can't fight against your police forces, so you effectively have total control and you can do whatever you want as long as it won't cause the entire population to revolt at once. You could, for example, send all of the Mormons to labor camps from which they never seem to return. Nobody likes the Mormons, so nobody except them would put up a fight. If the government has control of the news outlets, most people wouldn't even hear about it other than when their neighbors are rounded up for being terrorist sympathizers.
I only use Mormons as an example because it's about time the Jews got a break from being killed in these hypothetical situations. You can replace that with whatever religious group you want.
PDAs don't do handwriting recognition well at all. That's why Grafitti exists. The Newton is the only PDA that I have ever used with passable full-screen HWR and it certainly couldn't recognize something as complex as a definite integral well enough to automatically parse it into something that the math routines would understand. All of the PocketPCs that I've seen have significantly worse HWR and much smaller screens which would make it rather hard to write much at all, let alone a full equation.
I have not yet seen a single character recognition system that had the slightest chance of correctly parsing standard mathmatical notation. You see, in math, the position of the elements is very relevant whereas in most OCR applications, the only positioning that you care about is vertical and horizontal spacing. The computer would interpret a definite integral either as at least three different lines of text or as a single line with lots of weird characters.
Now, I suppose that a specialized HWR application could be written, but it probably wouldn't recognize text very well, so you would need to switch between them if you wanted to write notes about a problem.
Oops. I was wrong. The 39 can't be reflashed. I seem to remember a way of getting one of the 39/40s with both a CAS and IR, but I might be totally wrong on that.
The HP-49G is entirely without IR, as is the HP-40. Interestingly, the HP-40 and the HP-39 are exactly the same hardware with the exception of the IR port. The American teachers told HP that a CAS is cheating and the European teachers were against IR, so the HP-40 that was sold in Europe has a CAS but no IR and the 39 sold in America has IR, but no CAS. IIRC, the 39 can even be flashed as a 40 to give it the CAS. Oddly enough, the 39 is strictly algebraic, though I don't know about the 40.
The 49 doesn't have IR and one of the pins necesary for the IR to work is used for FLASH bank switching. It does, however, have an IR lens (that piece of dark, shiny plastic) that makes it appear to have IR capability. I really don't care about the IR.
I wonder how they made the screen 16 pixels taller. They probably just destroyed the pixel aspect ratio and made the pixels non-square. The square pixels is the entire reason that I like HP's calculator displays over TI's. With the HPs, I don't have to do any correction to draw round circles in ASM.
Come to think of it, you could have all of the infected computers put the scanning routines on KaZaA or some similar program such that they wouldn't even have to transmit that directly. The only way to trace the virus back to the infecting computer would be to see it as it's infecting the host. In a Warhol Worm, that time is negligable, so the virus would effectively become untraceable. KaZaA traffic would increase which might send up a red flag in the RIAA, but I'm betting that they have no idea what a virus would look like, let alone what to do with the information. That would also eliminate the need for the infection routines for all of the platforms to be transmitted to each version of the virus. They would just download the appropriate executables from the P2P network which would take far less bandwidth.
I have an entirely different reason that we probably won't find anything. Imagine a fully fueled space shuttle moving at.3c. If it were to hit a planet, it would release some 15 million megatons of energy. That's roughly 10,000 times the world's nuclear arsenal (at least according to the numbers that I've seen) released in the same spot all in the space of a sneeze.
I've seen a design for a ship called the Valkyrie with a cruising speed of.92c. It accelerates for 6 months to get there and when it is approaching the target system, the fuel tanks can be ground up and fired ahead of the ship to clear the way of any relativistic dust particles. Imagine if you aimed that dust at the star of a solar system. It would tear through it in no time producing enough turbulence to cause the star to expand until it can no longer sustain the critical mass necessary for a fusion reaction. You can then have the ship hit the planet. Moving at.92c, it should quite handily crack any planet in half.
These relativistic missiles are almost impossible to shoot down because by the time you can detect them, they aren't where you detected them. You might be able to shoot one down if you were really lucky, but then it would only be a matter of time before whoever was attacking you sent a whole fleet of them.
Now, it is quite possible that there are other civilizations that already have these. Just imagine a warmongering race hurling these ships about the galaxy to eliminate any possible competitors. The only transmissions that we detect could well be the dying cry of a race as they realize that they are the target of such a missile.
This actually sounds a lot like the Half-Life mod Natural Selection to me. The aliens have special powers (they can see anything that any alien can see, even through walls) and the marines have a commander who tells them what to do. It makes it an RTS for one person and an FPS for everyone else. The normal players can call up the commander and ask for health and weapons, too. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. I've tried to play it, but it never did work on my machine.
Anyway, this game sounds like it will be two marine groups against each other.
Actually, the lowest of the low end don't have CD burners if I remember correctly. Unless they changed their iBook lineup in the past few days, the lowest still just has a CD-ROM. The VAST majority of current Macs have CD-RW drives, but not all of them do.
Well, the only reason that they were ignorant of the fact that it was clearly not a work of their Usher is because they didn't have a human listen to it or even look at the name. I'm pretty sure that that would be fairly extreme negligence at the least and quite possibly perjury. That just seems a little like (as the man said) testifying "in a court of law that the 18 year-old caucasian male with a ponytail, weighing 140-150 pounds, is in fact the suspect since he is, after all, a caucasian male". Even a cursory comparison of the two would show quite well that they are not the same.
Actually, as of a few minutes ago when I checked, it's at:
14.839 per share 1.539 change 11.571 % change 14.960 high 12.970 low 12.970 open 925059 volume 307090 average volume 14.380 52-week high 0.780 52-week low 193.7M market cap N/A P/E
Now, doesn't that N/A Price/Earnings mean that they haven't earned any money?
I really wish that I was one of those guys that bought their stock a while ago at.780 per share. That's almost a 20-fold increase in value.
I rendered it on my computer. It takes me over 18 hours to render a 45 second clip with very little geometry. Yeah, my processor is slow. Of course, once I finished the rendering, I noticed something obviously wrong. At least I haven't made any mistakes that dumb again.
This approach could be useful for preserving the quality of scanned film, but I'm using it so that I have the original lossless version that I can then compress into other formats without utterly destroying it. I plan to use MP4, DivX, and possibly MPEG2 and DV. All of those formats are lossy, and I don't want an MPEG2 from an MP4 that came from a DivX or something like that.
Just be glad that you aren't working with uncompressed DV resolution (720*480*32bpp at 29.97 FPS) video. I've been dealing with some recently, and it's about 2.3 GB for a single minute of it. That's nearly 140 GB per hour. Fortunately, it tends to zip well, so I can archive the master footage without using a CD every 15 seconds or so.
What does A&E stand for? Accident and Emergency? I'm in the US, and I've never heard the term A&E used or anything other than that history/biography channel on cable.
You can pump hundreds of thousands of volts through the human body and it won't actually kill you as long as the current is low enough. However, it only take a small amount of current to kill yourself. I forget the actual numbers, though.
Actually, unless his password is 700 MB long, then quite a few would have his password, along with every password on/. and every comment that can possibly be posted, as well as every possible moderation variation on those comments. The ASCII goatse troll would get a +5 Insightful! The world as we know it would collapse (most likely, under the weight of the CDs required to hold all of the combinations).
There would also be one with a really REALLY huge number of digits of pi.
They CAN reuse codenames, you know. It's not like there is some sacred law that prevents them from using the codename of a hardware project as the codename for a software project, especially now that the hardware is out of R&D.
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Earlier versions of The GIMP remind me of Maya. When using Maya, you can actually hide every single bit of user interface including the menu bar along the top in the name of screen real-estate. When you hold down the spacebar, something called the Hotbox comes up and it has every single menu in the entire program in it. Working entirely without menus and buttons can take a little getting used to, but it gives you a ton of screen space.
When I was using The GIMP 1.2.X, I really liked how all of its UI is either small (in the case of necesary elements) or can be hidden behind your image. It made the available image space so much bigger. However, I always thought that they needed to work on their menu scheme because File on the main window didn't have Save or other such things that manipulate files. Though come to think of it, most Windows applications just dump random things into the File menu such as Preferences that would really fit better under another menu. I like Apple's way of putting that sort of thing under a menu with the program's name.
I actually know a guy who was paid to think up possible terrorist attacks. One of the nastier ones involved a crop duster, chemical weapons, and school bus routes. Talk about an attention getter.
I wouldn't have been very surprised if he had planned to crash planes into buildings multiple times.
I've dropped my iPod onto cement from a height of about 4 feet. It barely dinged the corner of the plastic front and I have one of the Rev. 2 iPods with the flat face instead of the curved face that the new ones have. I highly doubt that a drop from anything less than 12 feet or so would break an iPod.
Of course, that doesn't really answer yoour question. No, you do not get to redownload the music if it somehow goes away. You do, however, get to burn it to CDs both in uncompressed wav (audio CD) and in the original AAC (data CD). With CDRs as cheap as they are, there's very little excuse for not backing the tracks up.
I don't know about you, but I can only put a few tracks into 64 MB of storage. My average MP3 is upwards of 5 MB, so that's perhaps 12 tracks into the memory of a recent PocketPC if I don't have anything else on it. And don't tell me to go out and buy a memory card. My iPod has 10 GB of space, the largest CF cards that I've seen are 1 GB and they cost about as much as my iPod did. I suppose that I could just get a million 16 MB cards and swap them out whenever I wanted to change songs (or in the middle of some of my songs), but I really don't feel like lugging around that many memory cards.
Besides, my Newton has a better (read: much bigger) screen than any PocketPC that I've seen. PocketPCs do have their uses, but music players they are not. Nor are they particularly good at viewing web pages due to their tiny low-res screens. My Newt doesn't work too well for that either, but it's far more tolerable to browse on a 320*480 screen than a 240*320. Consider also that I got my decked-out Newton 2100 for $116 including shipping. Cheaper, better screen, and better handwriting recognition is a great combination.
NTFS has a good permission system? That's news to me. As an administrator, I created a folder that denyed other users the ability to do anything with or to it. I set every single permission to "deny", especially the "Take Ownership" permission. I then logged in as a Limited account, navigated to the folder, right-clicked it, went to "Security", it told me that I wasn't allowed to view or change the security settings and that I couldn't take ownership. I then clicked on the "Advanced" button, went to the "Ownership" tab, and gave myself ownership. I then closed the two open dialogs, right-clicked again, added myself to the permissions, and gave myself full control over the folder.
In UNIX, I could set the permissions to 750 and not have to worry about it anymore.
Now, I like the link idea. Having the same file in multiple locations on your directory tree can be very useful. Also, the metadata and data streams are nice. However, NTFS doesn't have "strong security permissions" by any stretch of the imagination.
I have to edit the registry all the time. Programs like to set themselves up to autorun by putting themselves in HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Run. Most of these are programs that I don't like such as Microsoft Messenger. I go into the Microsoft Messenger preferences and uncheck "Run this program when Windows starts", but it doesn't remove the registry entry.
My point was that if the reactor won't meltdown when the new pebbles are touching each other and the reactor has no cooling whatsoever, then how, pray-tell, would the less radioactive waste meltdown? If you have any 'spent' pebbles, the critical mass of the system would be higher because of the lower radioactivity and the actual material would still be held at exactly the same distance from itself unless they want to remove it from the spheres for some reason.
Well, the pebbles are in contact with each other while they are being used. You can't get much closer than that.
Even if you somehow manage to lose all cooling and the uranium in the pebbles somehow melts (in a traditional reactor, that would be called a meltdown), the casing prevents the uranium from getting close enough to get critical mass.
I really don't think that you could get one of these reactors to become a nuclear bomb even if you knew exactly what you were doing, and most people wouldn't.
The Orphanage actually did at least one scene from one of the trailers. I haven't seen which one this is (there are two that I have so far along with the robot walking demo), they did the scene where you are flying over some small rolling hills and you see the giant pod-cities off in the distance.
I know this because there is a movie of them talking about how great Maya is on Alias' site and they blend from an animated Maya scene to the final product. It's quite impressive.
Both trailers and the demo are on Apple's site and have been for months.
"[F]ree flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Really, that's a very insightful quote, even if it is from a game.
Either we have freedom of speech entirely or it will slip away as things are declared seditious. Speaking out agains the government is already considered unpatriotic by most people that I know. Anti-war demonstrations are even more so in their eyes. Personally, I think that demonstrations are just about as patriotic as you can possibly get, right up there with voting idiots out of office and I really don't understand why so many people think otherwise.
Think about what you would do if you were trying to get more control over the US. First, you turn popular opinion against guns (really, any weapons at all). You erode the right to carry them to the point that they all have to be registered and then you make them illegal to own privately. Once the general populace doesn't have weapons, they can't fight against your police forces, so you effectively have total control and you can do whatever you want as long as it won't cause the entire population to revolt at once. You could, for example, send all of the Mormons to labor camps from which they never seem to return. Nobody likes the Mormons, so nobody except them would put up a fight. If the government has control of the news outlets, most people wouldn't even hear about it other than when their neighbors are rounded up for being terrorist sympathizers.
I only use Mormons as an example because it's about time the Jews got a break from being killed in these hypothetical situations. You can replace that with whatever religious group you want.
More like 1592% as of today. The 52-week low was 0.780 and the current price is 12.420.
PDAs don't do handwriting recognition well at all. That's why Grafitti exists. The Newton is the only PDA that I have ever used with passable full-screen HWR and it certainly couldn't recognize something as complex as a definite integral well enough to automatically parse it into something that the math routines would understand. All of the PocketPCs that I've seen have significantly worse HWR and much smaller screens which would make it rather hard to write much at all, let alone a full equation.
I have not yet seen a single character recognition system that had the slightest chance of correctly parsing standard mathmatical notation. You see, in math, the position of the elements is very relevant whereas in most OCR applications, the only positioning that you care about is vertical and horizontal spacing. The computer would interpret a definite integral either as at least three different lines of text or as a single line with lots of weird characters.
Now, I suppose that a specialized HWR application could be written, but it probably wouldn't recognize text very well, so you would need to switch between them if you wanted to write notes about a problem.
Oops. I was wrong. The 39 can't be reflashed. I seem to remember a way of getting one of the 39/40s with both a CAS and IR, but I might be totally wrong on that.
The HP-49G is entirely without IR, as is the HP-40. Interestingly, the HP-40 and the HP-39 are exactly the same hardware with the exception of the IR port. The American teachers told HP that a CAS is cheating and the European teachers were against IR, so the HP-40 that was sold in Europe has a CAS but no IR and the 39 sold in America has IR, but no CAS. IIRC, the 39 can even be flashed as a 40 to give it the CAS. Oddly enough, the 39 is strictly algebraic, though I don't know about the 40.
The 49 doesn't have IR and one of the pins necesary for the IR to work is used for FLASH bank switching. It does, however, have an IR lens (that piece of dark, shiny plastic) that makes it appear to have IR capability. I really don't care about the IR.
I wonder how they made the screen 16 pixels taller. They probably just destroyed the pixel aspect ratio and made the pixels non-square. The square pixels is the entire reason that I like HP's calculator displays over TI's. With the HPs, I don't have to do any correction to draw round circles in ASM.
Same AC as the last one.
Come to think of it, you could have all of the infected computers put the scanning routines on KaZaA or some similar program such that they wouldn't even have to transmit that directly. The only way to trace the virus back to the infecting computer would be to see it as it's infecting the host. In a Warhol Worm, that time is negligable, so the virus would effectively become untraceable. KaZaA traffic would increase which might send up a red flag in the RIAA, but I'm betting that they have no idea what a virus would look like, let alone what to do with the information. That would also eliminate the need for the infection routines for all of the platforms to be transmitted to each version of the virus. They would just download the appropriate executables from the P2P network which would take far less bandwidth.
I have an entirely different reason that we probably won't find anything. Imagine a fully fueled space shuttle moving at .3c. If it were to hit a planet, it would release some 15 million megatons of energy. That's roughly 10,000 times the world's nuclear arsenal (at least according to the numbers that I've seen) released in the same spot all in the space of a sneeze.
.92c. It accelerates for 6 months to get there and when it is approaching the target system, the fuel tanks can be ground up and fired ahead of the ship to clear the way of any relativistic dust particles. Imagine if you aimed that dust at the star of a solar system. It would tear through it in no time producing enough turbulence to cause the star to expand until it can no longer sustain the critical mass necessary for a fusion reaction. You can then have the ship hit the planet. Moving at .92c, it should quite handily crack any planet in half.
I've seen a design for a ship called the Valkyrie with a cruising speed of
These relativistic missiles are almost impossible to shoot down because by the time you can detect them, they aren't where you detected them. You might be able to shoot one down if you were really lucky, but then it would only be a matter of time before whoever was attacking you sent a whole fleet of them.
Now, it is quite possible that there are other civilizations that already have these. Just imagine a warmongering race hurling these ships about the galaxy to eliminate any possible competitors. The only transmissions that we detect could well be the dying cry of a race as they realize that they are the target of such a missile.
This actually sounds a lot like the Half-Life mod Natural Selection to me. The aliens have special powers (they can see anything that any alien can see, even through walls) and the marines have a commander who tells them what to do. It makes it an RTS for one person and an FPS for everyone else. The normal players can call up the commander and ask for health and weapons, too. At least, that's how it's supposed to work. I've tried to play it, but it never did work on my machine.
Anyway, this game sounds like it will be two marine groups against each other.
Actually, the lowest of the low end don't have CD burners if I remember correctly. Unless they changed their iBook lineup in the past few days, the lowest still just has a CD-ROM. The VAST majority of current Macs have CD-RW drives, but not all of them do.
Well, the only reason that they were ignorant of the fact that it was clearly not a work of their Usher is because they didn't have a human listen to it or even look at the name. I'm pretty sure that that would be fairly extreme negligence at the least and quite possibly perjury. That just seems a little like (as the man said) testifying "in a court of law that the 18 year-old caucasian male with a ponytail, weighing 140-150 pounds, is in fact the suspect since he is, after all, a caucasian male". Even a cursory comparison of the two would show quite well that they are not the same.
Actually, as of a few minutes ago when I checked, it's at:
.780 per share. That's almost a 20-fold increase in value.
14.839 per share
1.539 change
11.571 % change
14.960 high
12.970 low
12.970 open
925059 volume
307090 average volume
14.380 52-week high
0.780 52-week low
193.7M market cap
N/A P/E
Now, doesn't that N/A Price/Earnings mean that they haven't earned any money?
I really wish that I was one of those guys that bought their stock a while ago at
I rendered it on my computer. It takes me over 18 hours to render a 45 second clip with very little geometry. Yeah, my processor is slow. Of course, once I finished the rendering, I noticed something obviously wrong. At least I haven't made any mistakes that dumb again.
This approach could be useful for preserving the quality of scanned film, but I'm using it so that I have the original lossless version that I can then compress into other formats without utterly destroying it. I plan to use MP4, DivX, and possibly MPEG2 and DV. All of those formats are lossy, and I don't want an MPEG2 from an MP4 that came from a DivX or something like that.
Just be glad that you aren't working with uncompressed DV resolution (720*480*32bpp at 29.97 FPS) video. I've been dealing with some recently, and it's about 2.3 GB for a single minute of it. That's nearly 140 GB per hour. Fortunately, it tends to zip well, so I can archive the master footage without using a CD every 15 seconds or so.
What does A&E stand for? Accident and Emergency? I'm in the US, and I've never heard the term A&E used or anything other than that history/biography channel on cable.
Volts jolt, but mills kill.
You can pump hundreds of thousands of volts through the human body and it won't actually kill you as long as the current is low enough. However, it only take a small amount of current to kill yourself. I forget the actual numbers, though.
Actually, unless his password is 700 MB long, then quite a few would have his password, along with every password on /. and every comment that can possibly be posted, as well as every possible moderation variation on those comments. The ASCII goatse troll would get a +5 Insightful! The world as we know it would collapse (most likely, under the weight of the CDs required to hold all of the combinations).
There would also be one with a really REALLY huge number of digits of pi.
They CAN reuse codenames, you know. It's not like there is some sacred law that prevents them from using the codename of a hardware project as the codename for a software project, especially now that the hardware is out of R&D.