Well, if you like bigger cars than the VW Lupo, you could buy a VW Passat Wagon BlueMotion (188 inches in length, not a small car). If you drive carefully you will need less than 5 Litres per 100km or 47 mpg (US).
That is true. The company pays one 5 Euro fee pr month for all internet computers.
(It already has to pay 5 Euros per month for each radio in every company owned car and also for every company owned radio-(speaker) in the buildings. If you bring your private radio/tv to your workplace, you have to pay the 5 Euros per month yourself.)
"Old Earth: The original Earth, believed to have been destroyed by The Big Mistake of '08 (in which a miniature black hole was dropped into it), but later shown to have been spirited away by 'other' beings of godlike abilities and consciousness."
The system goes on-line August 4th. Google's Secretive Data Center begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29.
I think some part of his point was, that you should not spend billions on dubious aids medicine (which has always extreme side effetcs and mostly helps the US healtch industry) but spend the money on improving overall living/medical quality and education in africa. This is supposed to have more effect on the HIV/AIDS plague problem than any AIDS medicine. The prove is easy. In all more "civilized" countries in the world HIV is less common. Also, each 3rd world country has different "AIDS" problems, which can't be solved by US medicine but only through specific development help.
In general this approach is an alternative, regardless of the HIV/AIDS/death relationship. The educational approach is also valid for any western country, I guess, as more and more people don't care about these deseases any more.
5) Japan was warned repeatedly by the USA that refusing to surrender would exact a terrible toll;
I don't think this one counts.
Do you know any war where this sentence was, at some point, NOT issued to the other side?
E.g. Saddam warned about the terrible toll the US would have to suffer because he might use ABC weapons on them, which he didn't.
It's just a matter of how good your intelligence is and how real your think the thrat is.
Why on earth do they need 7 full CDs to install this OS ?
To install it, you will just need the netinstall-CD, which was in the past about 50MB. You can download the rest over the internet, which will be in total about the size of one or two CDs.
I can install Debian and have a useful machine for 5 - 7 years (that's how good apt-get is).
That is true, my home installation is now in it's 9th year and was originally a Debian 1.3 testing. I don't even remember the codename. And yes, it's as good as new and I don't intend to re-install any time soon.
I really like the specs on the Tyan S4882. Quad Opteron, 32GB RAM, and lots of stuff you probably don't want/need. It's a sweet motherboard, nonetheless.
No, it is not. Just look at the diagram at ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s4882_100.pdf. Those four SATA channels must share the bandwidth of 133MB/s with all other legacy PCI cards, USB and the graphics controller. Also the Dual SCSI-320 and the Dual GB NICs share the same 533MB/s bus bandwidth. This means, if you want fast I/O, you have to buy an extra PCI-X card for the other PCI-X bus.
To a far-off observer, time seems to stand still here. A spacecraft falling into a black hole would seem, to someone watching it from afar, to be stuck forever at the event horizon...
This is not the common theory. It would NOT stand still as a normal image. I think the image of the spacecraft would shift into red until it reaches frequency zero and is no longer detectable.
This is true. This year I was working at a company which still had NT 4.0 workstations only. I ran MS Office, IE, Mozilla and various other programs on a daily basis _on an user account_. If never crashed an I left it with more than 200 days of uptime.
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I for one welcome our new chinese submarine overlords.
How long does it take to transfer 1GB over an 8MBit/s link if 1 byte is 8 bits?
134 seconds?
How long does it take to transfer 1TB over an 8MBit/s link if 1 byte is 8 bits?
137438 seconds?
Yeah, seems very logic....not.
Mine shafts on Mars?
We must not allow a mine shaft gap!
Excellent! Now we can attack in any direction!
Well, if you like bigger cars than the VW Lupo, you could buy a VW Passat Wagon BlueMotion (188 inches in length, not a small car).
If you drive carefully you will need less than 5 Litres per 100km or 47 mpg (US).
for fuel efficient Mars Rovers.
And as soon as they know terrorists are doing this, they will blurr enough random parts of the country side too to get them confused.
I wonder if there is a scene where the robot doesn't recogzine, that the north korean has his hands up in the air and starts shooting?
Again, this show us how great a movie robocop was and that we should be afraid.
That is true. The company pays one 5 Euro fee pr month for all internet computers.
(It already has to pay 5 Euros per month for each radio in every company owned car and also for every company owned radio-(speaker) in the buildings.
If you bring your private radio/tv to your workplace, you have to pay the 5 Euros per month yourself.)
Don't we already send out enough signals into space, many of which deal with the subject of life on our planet?
Oh, yeah. They already got our "historical documents" and shaped their entire society accordingly.
Next time you want to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia, just launch your missles one after another.
"Old Earth: The original Earth, believed to have been destroyed by The Big Mistake of '08 (in which a miniature black hole was dropped into it), but later shown to have been spirited away by 'other' beings of godlike abilities and consciousness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos
July 20th, 1969 was the first manned lunar landing. To me, this is a more significant anniversary than Viking.
You mean, the first faked lunar landing was more important to you than the first faked mars landing?
Fire the "L.A.S.E.R."!
The system goes on-line August 4th. Google's Secretive Data Center begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29.
I think some part of his point was, that you should not spend billions on dubious aids medicine (which has always extreme side effetcs and mostly helps the US healtch industry) but spend the money on improving overall living/medical quality and education in africa. This is supposed to have more effect on the HIV/AIDS plague problem than any AIDS medicine.
The prove is easy. In all more "civilized" countries in the world HIV is less common.
Also, each 3rd world country has different "AIDS" problems, which can't be solved by US medicine but only through specific development help.
In general this approach is an alternative, regardless of the HIV/AIDS/death relationship.
The educational approach is also valid for any western country, I guess, as more and more people don't care about these deseases any more.
And then, there is the pope...
I don't think this one counts.
Do you know any war where this sentence was, at some point, NOT issued to the other side?
E.g. Saddam warned about the terrible toll the US would have to suffer because he might use ABC weapons on them, which he didn't.
It's just a matter of how good your intelligence is and how real your think the thrat is.
Why on earth do they need 7 full CDs to install this OS ?
To install it, you will just need the netinstall-CD, which was in the past about 50MB. You can download the rest over the internet, which will be in total about the size of one or two CDs.
I can install Debian and have a useful machine for 5 - 7 years (that's how good apt-get is).
That is true, my home installation is now in it's 9th year and was originally a Debian 1.3 testing. I don't even remember the codename.
And yes, it's as good as new and I don't intend to re-install any time soon.
I really like the specs on the Tyan S4882. Quad Opteron, 32GB RAM, and lots of stuff you probably don't want/need. It's a sweet motherboard, nonetheless.
No, it is not.
Just look at the diagram at ftp://ftp.tyan.com/datasheets/d_s4882_100.pdf. Those four SATA channels must share the bandwidth of 133MB/s with all other legacy PCI cards, USB and the graphics controller.
Also the Dual SCSI-320 and the Dual GB NICs share the same 533MB/s bus bandwidth.
This means, if you want fast I/O, you have to buy an extra PCI-X card for the other PCI-X bus.
To a far-off observer, time seems to stand still here. A spacecraft falling into a black hole would seem, to someone watching it from afar, to be stuck forever at the event horizon...
This is not the common theory. It would NOT stand still as a normal image.
I think the image of the spacecraft would shift into red until it reaches frequency zero and is no longer detectable.
Copying data to a single IDE drive and calling it "backup" is just pathetic.
He should read the Tao of Backup http://www.taobackup.com/ and be enlightend.
they launch the first warp-one capable space ship from a silo.
I rember a company which had most of their UNIX passwords set to the machines hostname + a secret number.
Unfortunately they had machine names longer than 8 characters und their passwords were only veryfied on the first 8 characters. Go figure.
This is true. This year I was working at a company which still had NT 4.0 workstations only.
I ran MS Office, IE, Mozilla and various other programs on a daily basis _on an user account_.
If never crashed an I left it with more than 200 days of uptime.