Actually, ethanol is the antidote for ethylene glycol. It is preferentially metabolized by the same system that metabolizes the glycol, so you "keep it busy" while you "pee it [EG] out", as you said.
Hadn't heard that for EG but had for methanol poisoning. Get REALLY drunk on GOOD booze (or really pure grain alcohol diluted to non-dehydrating concentrations - but NOT lab absolute alcohol, which is contaminated with benzene) for several days - avoid blindness and greatly reduce optic and other nerve damage.
Alcoholics usually admit their drinking habits after the evidence is so obvious they can't hide it (like after they've developed alcoholic cirrhosis).
Which, by the way, is related to the bogus statistics on alcohol-related disease increases (especially cirrhosis) right after the repeal of prohibition.
Seems that cirrhosis was evidence of illegal alcohol use during prohibition. (And if you think the current drug war is extreme, it ain't NOTHIN' like its predecessor. Think "evidence of illegal drug use" to get a feel for potential legal problems for the alcoholic.) So doctors would record diagnoses of cirrhosis as something else. The practice stopped the day of the end of prohibition. And as a result, the incidence of RECORDED cases of cirrhosis (which takes decades to develop) took a giant step-function increase that day.
Remember that when somebody tries to tell you that the cirrhosis stats show that prohibition was successful and that alcohol use soared once it was repealed. (Or tries to give you the same bogus line about what would happen if the government ever ended the current drug war.)
But even though the rest of us have been trying to stuff this idea into their tiny little skulls, they have to declare moral victory so they don't lose face?
Yes, they do.
Their company exists to protect the interests of their member copyright holders against widespread unauthorized copying.
Up to now their members/customers/owners have been interpreting the "internet piracy" as lost sales - or at least more sales lost than sales gained by free advertising, etc. - and they didn't have a download business model.
In this atmosphere, if they were to declare surrender, their members/customers/owners would just let them die - or replace their execs with new ones who would attempt to carry on the fight.
But now "this stuff" is beginning to percolate into the skulls of the RIAA's customers. And many of them do have a way to profit directly from authorized downloads (thanks to iTunes and the like). So it's now possible for both the RIAA and its clientele to look at things more rationally. They can entertain the possibility that unauthorized downloading, like pre-Betamax-decision videotaping of broadcasts, might not be an unmitigated disaster - and may even be a Good Thing (especially once the for-pay alternative is available for honest people who are more than browsing.)
So the RIAA can now back off its enforcement efforts and go back to more reasonable functions, such as hunting down mass-production pirates, collecting royalties from broadcasters and those creating commercial public performances, and so on.
But on their way out they still need to declare victory - not just to save their own tails, but to keep some pressure on downloaders to go to the commercial services and pay the 99 cents, and to keep in the public mind the idea that they SHOULD do so.
(Of course they can claim to their clientele (with some justification) that their efforts to date are what branded this concept into "the public mind" in the first place.)
Meanwhile, now that the clients see that the "piracy" isn't going to sink their ships they can get on with the job of making product and making money off it, and taking advantage of the new medium to make even more profit.
New media mean new opportunities for profit, and these opportunities are greater than the (largely illusory) "losses" from the unauthorized copying they enable. This was shown with piano rolls, wax tube recordings, disk recordings, radio broadcasting, and tape recordings.
Now it has been shown with digital recordings and network distribution. But it's sufficiently counter-intuitive to The Suits that they have to learn it fresh every time.
But the whole POINT of the "psychedelic" drugs (which turned out mainly to be hallucinogens) was an attempt to increase mental ability - intelligence, creativity, empathy, intuitive pattern-matching, and perhaps obtain access to paranormal abilities (this being before Rhine was debunked).
The very WORD "psychedelic" was coined to reflect this. Means "mind-expanding".
The adolescents of the '60s and '70s were trying very hard to obtain exactly the sort of mind amplification that these new drugs actually produce.
Unfortunately, they only had what was available at the time.
LSD, for instance, apparently reduces the threshold of patten matching - whether it's a real pattern or a false one - but simultaneously reduces the threshold of the "eureka" signal. So the user has a lot of odd thoughts, and every time he has a new one a his mind says: "That's RIGHT!". (You can imagine how this warped the minds of even well-educated and intelligent users, such as the emminent psychology professor Timothy Leary.)
Or amphetamines - which mimic various neurotransmitters, primarily in the fight/flight mechanism. You could achieve more focus and alertness (with some of them - at the cost of deep thought). But you paid for it later, as non-emergency systems (such as cell growth and even immune response) were put on hold to conserve resources for the "emergency".
Some use was also self-medicative. Psychology at the time (before the widespread use of Crack Cocaine led to the recognition of Freud's theories as typical cocaine addict ravings) was largely in a religious and black-art stage, and while there were a number of psychoactive drugs available that were pallative, but often mis-prescribed. People with mental problems often attempted to cadge prescriptions for, or buy on the black market, drugs that they perceived (often correctly) as improving their condition. And the Vietnam adventure resulted in a lot of people with injuries producing chronic pain, which could be alleviated only by narcotics.
And of course once a generation was "distracted" from government-approved "channels" into "self-actualization", the government started an ever-escalating drug war - which meant that the pure, pharmacutical-quality, drugs were supplanted by black-market concoctions of dubious ingredients, strength, and purity. This also warped medical practice, leading to under-medication for pain (which is still with us).
By the '80s the use of drugs in an attempt to increase intelligence had pretty much died out, and the remaining use of the remaining garbage-quality street drugs was mainly hedonistic, self-medicative, and the feeding of addictions.
I always knew seagulls were stupid, but how did they wind up in Utah?
While seagulls are optimized for ocean environments, have their breeding grounds there (so they really shouldn't vacation inland for more than 9 months or so), and tend to hang out there by preference, they do quite well on fresh-water lakes and land. A garbage dump is a banquet for them.
Like other soaring birds they get blown far inland by large storms from time to time - and may hang out there for weeks or months afterward if there's something (like food) to interest them.
Utah is a bit inland even for them, so they don't show up there TOO often. But there is one incident when they did, and it was very important.
Back when the Mormons were first out there, as with any bunch of new settlers trying to farm hostile land, their first crops were somewhat marginal. The spring of their first year the crops were beset by a local crop pest ("Mormon Crickets"), which was devouring whole fields.
Of course the Mormons prayed for assistance.
And suddenly a whole bunch of seaguls showed up (much to the surprise of the Mormons, who hadn't seen any in this place so far and knew how far they were from a seagul habitat).
The seagulls found the locusts, pigged out, and hung around until the locusts were pretty much gone and the crops saved.
This is the "Miracle of the Gulls" - the reason there is a monument to seagulls in Temple Square and why the California Seagull is the state bird of the Mormon-settled inland desert state of Utah.
Of course the story grew a bit over the years. My wife tells of the time, when she was a child and the family was visiting taking the Temple Square tour in Salt Lake City, they visited the monument. A small flock of seagulls had blown in and were hanging out around the monument, eating any dropped food and handouts from the tourists. The tour guide went into the spiel about the Miracle of the Gulls and how seagulls had never been seen in the area before or since - completely oblivious to the gulls wandering around, screeching, and squabbling over food in typical seagull style. B-)
("But Mommy..." pointing to the gulls all around. "Shhhhhh!" says mommy.)
All They Need To Invent Now...is a 50' high elastic band catapult to send the merry little winged trooper on his way!
Seriously: With the turbo add-on mentioned in the article, a launcher to accellerate the trooper up 200 MPH and launch him angled slightly upward would mean he could take off from a ground site rather than jump from a plane.
When will they start up 7bone with its 1024 bit addressing?
When you can cram enough memory into routers to handle the tables.
(Note that some of the tables are not what you'd expect, but are from algorithm hacks to speed up searching to achieve adequate instruction/packet ratios.)
For 1024 bits, absent algorithmic breakthroughs, you'd need so much that storing one bit per quantum on all the particles in the router wouldn't be adequate. You'd have to go to chipped or even nudged quanta (though you probably wouldn't need to go all the way to pizzication.) B-) See Hal Draper's MS Fnd in a Lbry if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
It makes sense to license transmitters. The EM spectrum of useful radio frequencies has finite bandwidth, and we must have some plan for use so that the most people can get the most benefit out of it.
No, it doesn't.
It makes sense to license OPERATION of transmitters and/or the people who operate them.
Licensing type-approved transmitters, which are crippled so they are unable to violate the rules, is a shortcut to create added utility. Building adherence of the rules into the device allows it to be operated in a rule-abiding way by people who have no special training or licensing.
In this case the claim is that there exists no person who shoots someone in the face and is not a hitman and is not a gamer - so what's required to debunk that claim is a counterexample (someone who shoots someone in the face and is neither a hitman nor a gamer), and only one is logically required;
Which makes it trivial.
Crooks of all sorts have been routinely shooting for the face since a media blitz made them aware that essentially all police (and some civilians) are routinely wearing kevlar bullet-resistant vests.
Interestingly, the media blitz was part of the gun-ban movment's "cop-killer bullets" hysteria. The so-called cop-killer bullets were teflon coated - not to pentrate vests - but to avoid barrel wear. In fact:
- The teflon coating didn't help them penetrate vests.
- Essentially nobody but cops HAD them. (The particular bullet that started the flap was intended to penetrate sheet metal rather than bouncing off into bystanders or back at the shooter - an important matter when somebody is shooting at you from inside a car or through a little window in a fire door.)
- No such bullet had ever killed a cop.
- Police organizations PLEADED with the the media NOT to go on with this kick and thus inform the crooks that they were bullet resistant on the core body and unprotected on the head - and were ignored.
So now head shots are routine - BECAUSE of the media. (Using them in a video game is just adding a touch of realism.) So of course (as with violent TV programs and movies inspiring copycats) media operators want to deflect criticism toward their major competitors: video games, graphic novels, police procedural fiction, and the internet.
I suspect the point of putting a webserver on the phone is not to do the usual web-hosting stuff, but to provide a simple control interface for the phone from connected devices (or even the phone itself.)
Active web pages provide a FANTASTICALLY easy way to construct elaborate user interfaces that are compatible with a wide variety of broswing hardware/software combinations.
Doesn't anyone think this is a bit disturbingly similar to the biblical "mark of the beast"? I'm not even a religious nut, but the "coincidences" are hard to ignore.
Some religious orginizations have been making exactly that claim since before the Internet. (I had already heard it some time before 1973.)
Some go into considerable detail (such as making the claim that "the beast" itself is a computer in Switzerland which handles the database, or that "the mark" might be an invisible laser tatoo - a claim that predates RFID chips.)
"Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks."
This sort of makes me want to make mine use a different algorithm. Something asocial.
Such algorithms are already out there.
If anybody tries to use them (as a regular thing rather than a proof of concept experiment), it will encourage others to do so.
The result would be congestion and boloxing up the traffic flow of the net - with the "early adopters" ending up with worse service than they had before starting the war.
Further, if it becomes a problem for them, count on the ISPs to prohibit such hacked TCP implementations, then use the new packet inspection capabilities of edge routers to identify and cut off or throttle users who run such hacks. (Many of the functions of an edge router amount to a "reverse firewall" to protect the network against malicious users.)
Apparently even sociopaths can understand this well enough to chose not to pick a fight they are sure to lose.
If your 3Mb/s connection generates 750Kb/s and the problem is a bottleneck, then dropping the maximum speed available to you is not going to change anything. Your throughput at the bottleneck will be just as fast - 750Kb/s.
Not necessarily.
If you can only put a quarter as much in the queues as each of the competing 3M users who are throwing four times as many packets at the bottleneck as you are, each packet has the same probability of discard, you get a quarter as many through as they do (and as you did when you had the bandwidth).
Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks.
The dominant source of angular momentum in the water of a lake will be the currents from the entry to the exit channels, which will have some offset from dead-on toward each other and the center of the lake, along with the other currents (such as half-lake-sized eddies) they cause. The momentum from the earth's rotation will be orders of magnitude down.
I'm not in IT for my company so I only know part of it, from observation mainly.
First: All important files are to be kept on network fileservers - big RAID boxes which keep backups automagically, as configured, as part of their normal operation. All workstations automount them, all home directories are on them, laptops sync to them when on LAN, etc. (There are also "scratch" filesystems for temporary files - build intermediates, chip simulations and their results, etc. These are cheap, fast, and non-redundant Probably fast drives on fast servers. Files there may persist for months but will be lost if a drive fails.) If you want your files preserved you make sure they're on a backed-up fileserver or you lose.
Second: Backup tapes (generated by the fileserver appliances) are periodically transported, by currier in locked box, to an offsite storage facility. (No idea how often or where. Not my problem.)
There is just no way we can supply our energy needs in the long haul other than with nuclear... that is unless we accept a massive change in our life styles!
Sure there is: Space-based solar.
We're less than 100 million miles from a STAR. It's trivial to collect so much solar power, convert it to milimeter waves and beam it to ground (at >90% efficiency, with most of the losses NOT showing up at the in-atmosphere end) that the waste heat from USING the energy would be enough boil the oceans. (And once waste heat becomes a problem, to put up enough sunshades to reduce the solar input to compensate.)
The limit becomes how dark things can get before you can't grow food.
With 1970s technology it would actually have been cheaper than building new fossil fuel or nuclear plants on the ground - and with 2000s tech it would be easier yet.
YOu've got to have the uranium in a gaseous state. That means heating it so hot that not only do you have a pool of molten uranium, but it's BOILING.
Huh?
One version I saw articles about had the uranium in a COMPOUND and selectively raised an electron to an excited state - after which other lasers would raise it to another in easy steps until the molecule of interest was ionized and could be swept to collection by an electric field. (I think there was another where the excited molecule would particpate in a chemical reaction, after which you could extract it chemically.)
No metal vapor. (Maybe not even the hexafloride gas, which is nasty enough but no worse than in a centrifuge. Lower pressure would make up for higher reactivity due to excitation.) In an industrial-rate process you might even recover much of the ionization energy for reuse.
Even for the metal vapor approach it's not like you have to boil a pot of molten uranium. You can just bombard it with an electron or ion beam to bring off vapor at any rate you want - atom by atom if desirable. Electric and magnetic fields can then sort out well-behaved beams of single-atoms in any desired ionization state for the actual isotope-selective process. That keeps erosion in the chamber down to a controlled rate, so you can shut it down and replace the lining as necessary. (Or just have the chamber lined with URANIUM, so any bombarding ion or multi-atom particles just tweak its thickness.)
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Actually, ethanol is the antidote for ethylene glycol. It is preferentially metabolized by the same system that metabolizes the glycol, so you "keep it busy" while you "pee it [EG] out", as you said.
Hadn't heard that for EG but had for methanol poisoning. Get REALLY drunk on GOOD booze (or really pure grain alcohol diluted to non-dehydrating concentrations - but NOT lab absolute alcohol, which is contaminated with benzene) for several days - avoid blindness and greatly reduce optic and other nerve damage.
Alcoholics usually admit their drinking habits after the evidence is so obvious they can't hide it (like after they've developed alcoholic cirrhosis).
Which, by the way, is related to the bogus statistics on alcohol-related disease increases (especially cirrhosis) right after the repeal of prohibition.
Seems that cirrhosis was evidence of illegal alcohol use during prohibition. (And if you think the current drug war is extreme, it ain't NOTHIN' like its predecessor. Think "evidence of illegal drug use" to get a feel for potential legal problems for the alcoholic.) So doctors would record diagnoses of cirrhosis as something else. The practice stopped the day of the end of prohibition. And as a result, the incidence of RECORDED cases of cirrhosis (which takes decades to develop) took a giant step-function increase that day.
Remember that when somebody tries to tell you that the cirrhosis stats show that prohibition was successful and that alcohol use soared once it was repealed. (Or tries to give you the same bogus line about what would happen if the government ever ended the current drug war.)
But even though the rest of us have been trying to stuff this idea into their tiny little skulls, they have to declare moral victory so they don't lose face?
Yes, they do.
Their company exists to protect the interests of their member copyright holders against widespread unauthorized copying.
Up to now their members/customers/owners have been interpreting the "internet piracy" as lost sales - or at least more sales lost than sales gained by free advertising, etc. - and they didn't have a download business model.
In this atmosphere, if they were to declare surrender, their members/customers/owners would just let them die - or replace their execs with new ones who would attempt to carry on the fight.
But now "this stuff" is beginning to percolate into the skulls of the RIAA's customers. And many of them do have a way to profit directly from authorized downloads (thanks to iTunes and the like). So it's now possible for both the RIAA and its clientele to look at things more rationally. They can entertain the possibility that unauthorized downloading, like pre-Betamax-decision videotaping of broadcasts, might not be an unmitigated disaster - and may even be a Good Thing (especially once the for-pay alternative is available for honest people who are more than browsing.)
So the RIAA can now back off its enforcement efforts and go back to more reasonable functions, such as hunting down mass-production pirates, collecting royalties from broadcasters and those creating commercial public performances, and so on.
But on their way out they still need to declare victory - not just to save their own tails, but to keep some pressure on downloaders to go to the commercial services and pay the 99 cents, and to keep in the public mind the idea that they SHOULD do so.
(Of course they can claim to their clientele (with some justification) that their efforts to date are what branded this concept into "the public mind" in the first place.)
Meanwhile, now that the clients see that the "piracy" isn't going to sink their ships they can get on with the job of making product and making money off it, and taking advantage of the new medium to make even more profit.
New media mean new opportunities for profit, and these opportunities are greater than the (largely illusory) "losses" from the unauthorized copying they enable. This was shown with piano rolls, wax tube recordings, disk recordings, radio broadcasting, and tape recordings.
Now it has been shown with digital recordings and network distribution. But it's sufficiently counter-intuitive to The Suits that they have to learn it fresh every time.
You've covered the amphetamines.
But the whole POINT of the "psychedelic" drugs (which turned out mainly to be hallucinogens) was an attempt to increase mental ability - intelligence, creativity, empathy, intuitive pattern-matching, and perhaps obtain access to paranormal abilities (this being before Rhine was debunked).
The very WORD "psychedelic" was coined to reflect this. Means "mind-expanding".
The adolescents of the '60s and '70s were trying very hard to obtain exactly the sort of mind amplification that these new drugs actually produce.
Unfortunately, they only had what was available at the time.
LSD, for instance, apparently reduces the threshold of patten matching - whether it's a real pattern or a false one - but simultaneously reduces the threshold of the "eureka" signal. So the user has a lot of odd thoughts, and every time he has a new one a his mind says: "That's RIGHT!". (You can imagine how this warped the minds of even well-educated and intelligent users, such as the emminent psychology professor Timothy Leary.)
Or amphetamines - which mimic various neurotransmitters, primarily in the fight/flight mechanism. You could achieve more focus and alertness (with some of them - at the cost of deep thought). But you paid for it later, as non-emergency systems (such as cell growth and even immune response) were put on hold to conserve resources for the "emergency".
Some use was also self-medicative. Psychology at the time (before the widespread use of Crack Cocaine led to the recognition of Freud's theories as typical cocaine addict ravings) was largely in a religious and black-art stage, and while there were a number of psychoactive drugs available that were pallative, but often mis-prescribed. People with mental problems often attempted to cadge prescriptions for, or buy on the black market, drugs that they perceived (often correctly) as improving their condition. And the Vietnam adventure resulted in a lot of people with injuries producing chronic pain, which could be alleviated only by narcotics.
And of course once a generation was "distracted" from government-approved "channels" into "self-actualization", the government started an ever-escalating drug war - which meant that the pure, pharmacutical-quality, drugs were supplanted by black-market concoctions of dubious ingredients, strength, and purity. This also warped medical practice, leading to under-medication for pain (which is still with us).
By the '80s the use of drugs in an attempt to increase intelligence had pretty much died out, and the remaining use of the remaining garbage-quality street drugs was mainly hedonistic, self-medicative, and the feeding of addictions.
(See Niven and Pournelle for consequences of a larger one.)
I always knew seagulls were stupid, but how did they wind up in Utah?
While seagulls are optimized for ocean environments, have their breeding grounds there (so they really shouldn't vacation inland for more than 9 months or so), and tend to hang out there by preference, they do quite well on fresh-water lakes and land. A garbage dump is a banquet for them.
Like other soaring birds they get blown far inland by large storms from time to time - and may hang out there for weeks or months afterward if there's something (like food) to interest them.
Utah is a bit inland even for them, so they don't show up there TOO often. But there is one incident when they did, and it was very important.
Back when the Mormons were first out there, as with any bunch of new settlers trying to farm hostile land, their first crops were somewhat marginal. The spring of their first year the crops were beset by a local crop pest ("Mormon Crickets"), which was devouring whole fields.
Of course the Mormons prayed for assistance.
And suddenly a whole bunch of seaguls showed up (much to the surprise of the Mormons, who hadn't seen any in this place so far and knew how far they were from a seagul habitat).
The seagulls found the locusts, pigged out, and hung around until the locusts were pretty much gone and the crops saved.
This is the "Miracle of the Gulls" - the reason there is a monument to seagulls in Temple Square and why the California Seagull is the state bird of the Mormon-settled inland desert state of Utah.
Of course the story grew a bit over the years. My wife tells of the time, when she was a child and the family was visiting taking the Temple Square tour in Salt Lake City, they visited the monument. A small flock of seagulls had blown in and were hanging out around the monument, eating any dropped food and handouts from the tourists. The tour guide went into the spiel about the Miracle of the Gulls and how seagulls had never been seen in the area before or since - completely oblivious to the gulls wandering around, screeching, and squabbling over food in typical seagull style. B-)
("But Mommy..." pointing to the gulls all around. "Shhhhhh!" says mommy.)
All They Need To Invent Now...is a 50' high elastic band catapult to send the merry little winged trooper on his way!
Seriously: With the turbo add-on mentioned in the article, a launcher to accellerate the trooper up 200 MPH and launch him angled slightly upward would mean he could take off from a ground site rather than jump from a plane.
As it stands, there is no real impetus to use ipv6.
Beg to differ.
IPv6 is used in certain foreign countries - at least partly to support mobile computing.
You can't sell networking equipment into some of them (notably Japan) without having an IPv6 solution available.
When will they start up 7bone with its 1024 bit addressing?
When you can cram enough memory into routers to handle the tables.
(Note that some of the tables are not what you'd expect, but are from algorithm hacks to speed up searching to achieve adequate instruction/packet ratios.)
For 1024 bits, absent algorithmic breakthroughs, you'd need so much that storing one bit per quantum on all the particles in the router wouldn't be adequate. You'd have to go to chipped or even nudged quanta (though you probably wouldn't need to go all the way to pizzication.) B-) See Hal Draper's MS Fnd in a Lbry if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
Shouldn't the next generation called IPv8? We don't have an IPv5 in between IPv4 and IPv6, do we?
Yes, we do.
But it was an experiment that didn't work out into somthing that got deployed.
It makes sense to license transmitters. The EM spectrum of useful radio frequencies has finite bandwidth, and we must have some plan for use so that the most people can get the most benefit out of it.
No, it doesn't.
It makes sense to license OPERATION of transmitters and/or the people who operate them.
Licensing type-approved transmitters, which are crippled so they are unable to violate the rules, is a shortcut to create added utility. Building adherence of the rules into the device allows it to be operated in a rule-abiding way by people who have no special training or licensing.
It is NOT a general case solution.
... media operators want to deflect criticism toward their major competitors: ...
Also police procedural non-fiction.
In this case the claim is that there exists no person who shoots someone in the face and is not a hitman and is not a gamer - so what's required to debunk that claim is a counterexample (someone who shoots someone in the face and is neither a hitman nor a gamer), and only one is logically required;
Which makes it trivial.
Crooks of all sorts have been routinely shooting for the face since a media blitz made them aware that essentially all police (and some civilians) are routinely wearing kevlar bullet-resistant vests.
Interestingly, the media blitz was part of the gun-ban movment's "cop-killer bullets" hysteria. The so-called cop-killer bullets were teflon coated - not to pentrate vests - but to avoid barrel wear. In fact:
- The teflon coating didn't help them penetrate vests.
- Essentially nobody but cops HAD them. (The particular bullet that started the flap was intended to penetrate sheet metal rather than bouncing off into bystanders or back at the shooter - an important matter when somebody is shooting at you from inside a car or through a little window in a fire door.)
- No such bullet had ever killed a cop.
- Police organizations PLEADED with the the media NOT to go on with this kick and thus inform the crooks that they were bullet resistant on the core body and unprotected on the head - and were ignored.
So now head shots are routine - BECAUSE of the media. (Using them in a video game is just adding a touch of realism.) So of course (as with violent TV programs and movies inspiring copycats) media operators want to deflect criticism toward their major competitors: video games, graphic novels, police procedural fiction, and the internet.
The fact that it's a web server says NOTHING about whether you get to it through the network, the cable, bluetooth, or some combination of them.
Probably to provide a convenient, portable, control interface for the phone.
...
...
No more (Windows-only!) phone-specific software to talk to your phone from your laptop. Fire up the browser and point it to the phone's server.
Bingo: Arbitrarily elaborate and easy-to-use set of active windows to control, interrogate, and operate the phone.
Using IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape,
From Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
(Now if it also hosts a VoIP server to access phone service and network router with DAT and DHCP to access the data service you're done.)
I suspect the point of putting a webserver on the phone is not to do the usual web-hosting stuff, but to provide a simple control interface for the phone from connected devices (or even the phone itself.)
Active web pages provide a FANTASTICALLY easy way to construct elaborate user interfaces that are compatible with a wide variety of broswing hardware/software combinations.
Doesn't anyone think this is a bit disturbingly similar to the biblical "mark of the beast"? I'm not even a religious nut, but the "coincidences" are hard to ignore.
Some religious orginizations have been making exactly that claim since before the Internet. (I had already heard it some time before 1973.)
Some go into considerable detail (such as making the claim that "the beast" itself is a computer in Switzerland which handles the database, or that "the mark" might be an invisible laser tatoo - a claim that predates RFID chips.)
"Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks."
This sort of makes me want to make mine use a different algorithm. Something asocial.
Such algorithms are already out there.
If anybody tries to use them (as a regular thing rather than a proof of concept experiment), it will encourage others to do so.
The result would be congestion and boloxing up the traffic flow of the net - with the "early adopters" ending up with worse service than they had before starting the war.
Further, if it becomes a problem for them, count on the ISPs to prohibit such hacked TCP implementations, then use the new packet inspection capabilities of edge routers to identify and cut off or throttle users who run such hacks. (Many of the functions of an edge router amount to a "reverse firewall" to protect the network against malicious users.)
Apparently even sociopaths can understand this well enough to chose not to pick a fight they are sure to lose.
If we use 'Ford's Law', I would expect my computer to spontaneously flip over and catch on fire because of a faulty five cent connector.
I take it you haven't been following the news about the lithium cells in laptops and cellphones catching fire.
(Now HOW MUCH does that little charge controller chip with the temperature sensor cost in commercial-sized lots?)
If your 3Mb/s connection generates 750Kb/s and the problem is a bottleneck, then dropping the maximum speed available to you is not going to change anything. Your throughput at the bottleneck will be just as fast - 750Kb/s.
Not necessarily.
If you can only put a quarter as much in the queues as each of the competing 3M users who are throwing four times as many packets at the bottleneck as you are, each packet has the same probability of discard, you get a quarter as many through as they do (and as you did when you had the bandwidth).
Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks.
(does the Coriolis effect come into play here?)
Not enough to matter.
The dominant source of angular momentum in the water of a lake will be the currents from the entry to the exit channels, which will have some offset from dead-on toward each other and the center of the lake, along with the other currents (such as half-lake-sized eddies) they cause. The momentum from the earth's rotation will be orders of magnitude down.
I'm not in IT for my company so I only know part of it, from observation mainly.
First: All important files are to be kept on network fileservers - big RAID boxes which keep backups automagically, as configured, as part of their normal operation. All workstations automount them, all home directories are on them, laptops sync to them when on LAN, etc. (There are also "scratch" filesystems for temporary files - build intermediates, chip simulations and their results, etc. These are cheap, fast, and non-redundant Probably fast drives on fast servers. Files there may persist for months but will be lost if a drive fails.) If you want your files preserved you make sure they're on a backed-up fileserver or you lose.
Second: Backup tapes (generated by the fileserver appliances) are periodically transported, by currier in locked box, to an offsite storage facility. (No idea how often or where. Not my problem.)
... was legalize Spam.
There is just no way we can supply our energy needs in the long haul other than with nuclear... that is unless we accept a massive change in our life styles!
Sure there is: Space-based solar.
We're less than 100 million miles from a STAR. It's trivial to collect so much solar power, convert it to milimeter waves and beam it to ground (at >90% efficiency, with most of the losses NOT showing up at the in-atmosphere end) that the waste heat from USING the energy would be enough boil the oceans. (And once waste heat becomes a problem, to put up enough sunshades to reduce the solar input to compensate.)
The limit becomes how dark things can get before you can't grow food.
With 1970s technology it would actually have been cheaper than building new fossil fuel or nuclear plants on the ground - and with 2000s tech it would be easier yet.
YOu've got to have the uranium in a gaseous state. That means heating it so hot that not only do you have a pool of molten uranium, but it's BOILING.
Huh?
One version I saw articles about had the uranium in a COMPOUND and selectively raised an electron to an excited state - after which other lasers would raise it to another in easy steps until the molecule of interest was ionized and could be swept to collection by an electric field. (I think there was another where the excited molecule would particpate in a chemical reaction, after which you could extract it chemically.)
No metal vapor. (Maybe not even the hexafloride gas, which is nasty enough but no worse than in a centrifuge. Lower pressure would make up for higher reactivity due to excitation.) In an industrial-rate process you might even recover much of the ionization energy for reuse.
Even for the metal vapor approach it's not like you have to boil a pot of molten uranium. You can just bombard it with an electron or ion beam to bring off vapor at any rate you want - atom by atom if desirable. Electric and magnetic fields can then sort out well-behaved beams of single-atoms in any desired ionization state for the actual isotope-selective process. That keeps erosion in the chamber down to a controlled rate, so you can shut it down and replace the lining as necessary. (Or just have the chamber lined with URANIUM, so any bombarding ion or multi-atom particles just tweak its thickness.)