The "next big thing" may not be an MP3 player, but it will almost certainly need to play mp3s. My phone plays MP3s. My calculator (ti-89) plays MP3s (badly), my portable pvr (neuros 442) plays MP3s. I'm surprised they don't make dental fillings that play MP3s. Playing MP3s has become a standard feature, even if it's never going to be used everything has it.
No, no, no. Growth has cratered, sales have not. Growth is the first derivative of sales. So if sales are are approaching some steady number per year the growth value will be approaching 0. If you can graph, try graphing (ln(x)+2) and (d/dx(ln(x)+2)), it will give a nice intuitive picture.
Rip the collected works of Pink floyd to MP3. That's 20GB or so.
Then do the same for the Beatles, the Doors, the Pogues, Flogging Molly, and Therion. That's just a small part of my collection, and it's easily over 32gb. Anyone who buys a "collected works" box set of CDs when it's on sale gets a TON of music added to their collection for a generally reasonable price. Small Ipods can't hold that.
MACs are not 6 unique bytes long. They are 2 3-byte sections. The first 3 bytes are non-unique and identify the manufacturer. The last 3 bytes are given to each NIC, for about 16 million possible values per manufacturer. However, some NIC makers can easily exceed 16 million NICs made, so they either have to get a new manufacturer ID or start re-using MAC addresses.
The Free Will Theorem basically says that if we have free will, the whole universe has free will, if we don't nothing does. Thus, there must be a relationship if our current understanding of the universe is correct in some very important ways.
Billions of bacteria species have been trying for billions of years. True "grey goo" takes too much energy to ever convert the whole surface of the world.
Funnily, I do the exact opposite. I boot from a floppy, all the time. It's write-protected, of course. It contains GRUB. I eject it as soon as it loads the Linux, and plug it back in when I need to boot. Thus, the probability of corruption of my boot sector mattering is greatly reduced.
Except, of course, for Gnome, KDE, Samba, xfce, etc, etc. (Well, most of gnome/xfce are still GPLv2 or later, and KDE allows 2 and 3, but parts of each are v3 only.)
24-bit sound is indistinguishable from 16-bit sound, even to the trained ear. No study has shown differently, and at least one study has provided rather convincing evidence that this is the case.
If they have a monitor capable of taking TV input some media players, like the Neuros 442, can be set to display the screenshot. They're smaller and more easily concealable than laptops.
They can't support human life. Yeah. Except, y'know, for the people that live there. Sure, they import water, but we could extract that at a higher energy expense from the air and deep watersheds. (Solar energy can provide that extra energy, while also providing shade under the solar panels to make cooling the water-storage area easier.) A self-sustaining community in an Earth desert is perfectly possible.
If the mars polar caps do contain water ice a human community on Mars is possible.
A self-sustaining human community would want to know about any possible infectious sources. A self-sustaining extraterrestrial human community is necessary to avoid probable pandemics, asteroid impacts, or other situations that would have extreme adverse effects on Earth-based population.
Therefore this research is in the public interest, and only pretentious, greedy twits with no concept of the future such as yourself can't see even the basic potential listed above. And there's lots more that can come out of such research, but, as with you, I'm not writing my doctorate thesis here.
P.S. Preview is your friend, as is
Don't leave your passphrase on a post-it. Don't use a short passphrase. Don't use known-weak algorithms (MD5, SHA1 for hashing, DES for encryption, etc.) Don't leave your pagefile unencrypted, etc, etc. Install a case-open detector that will pull the power.
No current materials are usable for this. It's far, far, FAR easier to just build better wind plants or solar panels. A MASSIVE capacitor array might be able to store the energy, but the expense and size would be prohibitive. Large energy storage is used in Sandia's Z machine, capable of outputting pulses of 2.7MJ. A planned upgrade would bring it up to 20-30 MJ. An average bolt of lightning has about 500MJ of energy. Positive lightning carries as much as 300GJ. The Sandia researchers hope to create a Z-pinch based inertial fusion power plant capable of outputting 3GJ pulses, but this is still rather far in the future. The LHC will store up to 10GJ in its magnets, with 720MJ beam energy. The cost of the LHC should make the expense of such systems clear.
Last.fm, pandora, and the like can fill the gap of finding the "best" music, and they can fill it in a such a way that the best music is the music you seem to like, or that people who like the same music you like like. Your internet radio has 100,000 stations and IT wades through them all to find the ones that don't suck.
The use of smallpox as a biological weapon was. While other diseases had been used as bioweapons before (catapulting corpses killed via the black death in seiges, for example) the absence of immunity to smallpox among native Americans made it very effective. Also, the natives hadn't used biological weaponry.
I am a gamer. If I had a laptop it would be primarily for gaming, and only used for work/school as a secondary function. I would want a 21" LCD. I would want a good video card. I wouldn't care about battery life, because I have a device called an extension cord, and I can't game while driving anyway. I use Linux and WINE, not windows, and thus avoid most of the other problems. The only thing I care about at all is mass, and that's not a major concern as I don't have to walk that far.
That said, I'm an outlier. Most people will want small and light. Most people wouldn't carry a 4.5 pound keyboard around (Model M) but I would, since it's much, much better to type on. So some things that seem stupid will have a target demographic.
Actually it seems to be repeated impacts that cause some of the problems, combined with poor wrist positioning. A constantly bent wrist will crimp the nerve, and a standard rubber-dome keyboard will cause repeated impacts making touch typing painful. Buckling-spring keyboards avoid the impact problem by providing extra key travel beyond the activation point, touch-screen keyboards increase the problem.
A dvd can hold a TON of MP3 files, for a very low price. A pack of dvds and a case is cheaper for write-once media like music than another external hard drive.
Yes, you do need things. How so? You need a certain level of gear, group-wide, to complete a basic 5-man instance. It's not high, but it's there. You need a bit more to complete a heroic instance, and a bit more to complete Karazhan. If you want to go to black temple, (the final boss fight, etc, etc) you need a very high level of gear, and you need a large amount of gold to pay for repairs, enchantments and consumables.
If you want to PVP, gear is eaiser to get, just pvp a lot. But you still need money for enchantments and consumables.
It is not fun to be stuck and unable to progress further than Karazhan for years. It is not fun to be stuck in low-tier arena brackets for years (though more fun than the Karazhan stuck person, IMO.) WoW provides paths to progress, to have the game change due to your work, and to have fun most people do need things in it.
That said, the daily quests often provide enough gold to offset most costs, so grinding isn't normally as necessary anymore. Before their creation it was unavoidable.
It worked for me, I did it earlier today. Youtube seems to work, no firefox crashes yet. Ubuntu 7.10, Firefox 2.0.0.12, about:plugins should display the following once it is installed:
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The "next big thing" may not be an MP3 player, but it will almost certainly need to play mp3s. My phone plays MP3s. My calculator (ti-89) plays MP3s (badly), my portable pvr (neuros 442) plays MP3s. I'm surprised they don't make dental fillings that play MP3s. Playing MP3s has become a standard feature, even if it's never going to be used everything has it.
No, no, no. Growth has cratered, sales have not. Growth is the first derivative of sales. So if sales are are approaching some steady number per year the growth value will be approaching 0. If you can graph, try graphing (ln(x)+2) and (d/dx(ln(x)+2)), it will give a nice intuitive picture.
Rip the collected works of Pink floyd to MP3. That's 20GB or so. Then do the same for the Beatles, the Doors, the Pogues, Flogging Molly, and Therion. That's just a small part of my collection, and it's easily over 32gb. Anyone who buys a "collected works" box set of CDs when it's on sale gets a TON of music added to their collection for a generally reasonable price. Small Ipods can't hold that.
MACs are not 6 unique bytes long. They are 2 3-byte sections. The first 3 bytes are non-unique and identify the manufacturer. The last 3 bytes are given to each NIC, for about 16 million possible values per manufacturer. However, some NIC makers can easily exceed 16 million NICs made, so they either have to get a new manufacturer ID or start re-using MAC addresses.
The Free Will Theorem basically says that if we have free will, the whole universe has free will, if we don't nothing does. Thus, there must be a relationship if our current understanding of the universe is correct in some very important ways.
Correct, "virus" is a group noun. There is no singular form, only the plural.
Billions of bacteria species have been trying for billions of years. True "grey goo" takes too much energy to ever convert the whole surface of the world.
Because by blocking BT they are preventing what goes through their lines, and thus lose their safe harbor protection.
Funnily, I do the exact opposite. I boot from a floppy, all the time. It's write-protected, of course. It contains GRUB. I eject it as soon as it loads the Linux, and plug it back in when I need to boot. Thus, the probability of corruption of my boot sector mattering is greatly reduced.
Truecrypt the drive as well, for extra safety. There are no hidden partitions, that's just my porn/bank records/grades folder.
Except, of course, for Gnome, KDE, Samba, xfce, etc, etc. (Well, most of gnome/xfce are still GPLv2 or later, and KDE allows 2 and 3, but parts of each are v3 only.)
24-bit sound is indistinguishable from 16-bit sound, even to the trained ear. No study has shown differently, and at least one study has provided rather convincing evidence that this is the case.
And XMonad is fast, stable, supports plenty, and very minimalistic. A mouse is not needed. The full source is ~16KiB.
If they have a monitor capable of taking TV input some media players, like the Neuros 442, can be set to display the screenshot. They're smaller and more easily concealable than laptops.
If the mars polar caps do contain water ice a human community on Mars is possible.
A self-sustaining human community would want to know about any possible infectious sources. A self-sustaining extraterrestrial human community is necessary to avoid probable pandemics, asteroid impacts, or other situations that would have extreme adverse effects on Earth-based population.
Therefore this research is in the public interest, and only pretentious, greedy twits with no concept of the future such as yourself can't see even the basic potential listed above. And there's lots more that can come out of such research, but, as with you, I'm not writing my doctorate thesis here.
P.S. Preview is your friend, as is .
No, fossils no longer contain any organic material. They're just fancy rocks that USED to be organic. This cellulose still IS organic.
Don't leave your passphrase on a post-it. Don't use a short passphrase. Don't use known-weak algorithms (MD5, SHA1 for hashing, DES for encryption, etc.) Don't leave your pagefile unencrypted, etc, etc. Install a case-open detector that will pull the power.
No current materials are usable for this. It's far, far, FAR easier to just build better wind plants or solar panels. A MASSIVE capacitor array might be able to store the energy, but the expense and size would be prohibitive. Large energy storage is used in Sandia's Z machine, capable of outputting pulses of 2.7MJ. A planned upgrade would bring it up to 20-30 MJ. An average bolt of lightning has about 500MJ of energy. Positive lightning carries as much as 300GJ. The Sandia researchers hope to create a Z-pinch based inertial fusion power plant capable of outputting 3GJ pulses, but this is still rather far in the future. The LHC will store up to 10GJ in its magnets, with 720MJ beam energy. The cost of the LHC should make the expense of such systems clear.
Last.fm, pandora, and the like can fill the gap of finding the "best" music, and they can fill it in a such a way that the best music is the music you seem to like, or that people who like the same music you like like. Your internet radio has 100,000 stations and IT wades through them all to find the ones that don't suck.
The use of smallpox as a biological weapon was. While other diseases had been used as bioweapons before (catapulting corpses killed via the black death in seiges, for example) the absence of immunity to smallpox among native Americans made it very effective. Also, the natives hadn't used biological weaponry.
I am a gamer. If I had a laptop it would be primarily for gaming, and only used for work/school as a secondary function. I would want a 21" LCD. I would want a good video card. I wouldn't care about battery life, because I have a device called an extension cord, and I can't game while driving anyway. I use Linux and WINE, not windows, and thus avoid most of the other problems. The only thing I care about at all is mass, and that's not a major concern as I don't have to walk that far.
That said, I'm an outlier. Most people will want small and light. Most people wouldn't carry a 4.5 pound keyboard around (Model M) but I would, since it's much, much better to type on. So some things that seem stupid will have a target demographic.
Actually it seems to be repeated impacts that cause some of the problems, combined with poor wrist positioning. A constantly bent wrist will crimp the nerve, and a standard rubber-dome keyboard will cause repeated impacts making touch typing painful. Buckling-spring keyboards avoid the impact problem by providing extra key travel beyond the activation point, touch-screen keyboards increase the problem.
A dvd can hold a TON of MP3 files, for a very low price. A pack of dvds and a case is cheaper for write-once media like music than another external hard drive.
Yes, you do need things. How so? You need a certain level of gear, group-wide, to complete a basic 5-man instance. It's not high, but it's there. You need a bit more to complete a heroic instance, and a bit more to complete Karazhan. If you want to go to black temple, (the final boss fight, etc, etc) you need a very high level of gear, and you need a large amount of gold to pay for repairs, enchantments and consumables.
If you want to PVP, gear is eaiser to get, just pvp a lot. But you still need money for enchantments and consumables.
It is not fun to be stuck and unable to progress further than Karazhan for years. It is not fun to be stuck in low-tier arena brackets for years (though more fun than the Karazhan stuck person, IMO.) WoW provides paths to progress, to have the game change due to your work, and to have fun most people do need things in it.
That said, the daily quests often provide enough gold to offset most costs, so grinding isn't normally as necessary anymore. Before their creation it was unavoidable.