I'm sitting here looking at the large whole in the top of my microwave and the can of food sitting melted in a whole in the ceiling and wondering, how are they planning to build a microwave receiver station with no metal?
Oh, and, don't expect much in the way of cell phone reception any more after they put those up in space.:-)
Dude - grow up. Strike 1, you're a troll, strike two you're flamebait...you keep going at this rate you'll end up being in/etc/baddies on slashdot...
Heck, the first time I posted something on/. I was called a troll too (and look how much I've improved now:P ) - and I didn't even post anonymously. There are a lot of better things to direct your complainergy to then to that post - perhaps you should use it to recharge your laptop.
Depends; you could be using a graphics and CPU intensive program set (such as windows) or you could be using a very efficient systen (such as linux) - I have an old Dtk laptop which lasts more than four hours on its batteries in linux but less then two when it still had windows (3.11, albeit) on it. And as you would type more with linux anyways....you may actually get a whole 10 or 15 minutes extra, roughly the amount of time of a UPS.:) But from my experience, Compaq makes low-quality, over-priced laptops (you ever used an armada 4120? or a presario, i think its called, 1230? The latter has a benchmark test of 120 MHz, and a 233 MHz CPU...)
What a better way of recruiting power from laptops may be by putting carpet material on the bottom, and whenever you use it, it converts all the static electricity from that carpet rubbing against your clothes into the battery (god knows its some 50,000 volts:) )
> What's a "49 metre [sic] band" in English? (why "sic"? metre is spelled right in non-US spelling.:) )
49 metre band is in reference to shortwave radio.
Re:Actually ants outnumber us 1 million to 1
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6,000,000,000,000,000 that's 6 quadrillion...
If you estimate that every ant weighs half a gram (I'm not at all sure how close that is to accurate - but I'd say on average its about right:) ), then you have 3,000,000,000,000,000 grams of ants in the world - or 3 billion metric tonnes. Ants have only a slightly greater total mass than humans and some how I doubt every human weigns an average of 500 kilos (about 1100 lbs).:)
Or you could pay nothing and listen to CBC or another non-US public broadcaster (CBC can be found at 5960 on the 49 metre band - at least I think its 49 metres, I can't find my shortwave...) in the US and a range of frequencies that can be found at http://www.rcinet.ca/pages/hor_sw.asp . Alternatively you can listen to scores of RealAudio stations across the internet - many of them have no advertising (other then self-promotion).
I think that there is another email problem similar to spam that needs to be addressed though (I've only been on slashdot for a little over a week so I'm not sure if it already has been) and that's those never-ending chain letters, which I've had come back to me every few months, despite ignoring them. The worst are virus warnings.
If yuo get a polaroid camera (~C$50.00) and a 600 dpi scanner (~C$120.00), then you can save a lot of money. A digital camera goes for about C$1000.00 that has some measure of quality, and every picture in a polaroid camera costs about C$1.00. That means that in order for the digital camera to be cheaper then the traditional - for the same quality - you would need to take 830 photos. Considering I'm still using the same roll of film I was using in grade 8 (I've graduated from high school now), the traditional cameras are significantly cheaper.:-)
A woman in Australia was reported, in Adbusters Magazine, (www.adbusters.org) to have put a sign on her snail-mail box saying "All junk mail will result in a Au$75.00 processing fee." The first ten junk letters she got, she sent the senders invoices for $75.00 each, and 2 of them payed. One sent back an angry letter, and one other replied - I don't remember what they said, the last six ignoring the bill. Perhaps what I'll do is have my email box forward to/usr/bin/vacation with the.vacation file containing:
All spam messages will result in a US$100.00 processing fee, payable to -whatever-here-.
Signed,
\u@\h
Then take eery company that spam's you to small claims court. (Though that would become very tiring.)
On a similar note I have had a yahoo! account for about 18 months and I have yet to receive a single spam message on that account. Similarly I have had my primary e-mail account and I don't think I've ever gotten more than one spam e-mail in a semester, except for all that real-audio stuff I forgot to uncheck when I downloaded it...:)
Say...go figure! I'm busy reading that very book (got it as a graduation gift from a friend).
What I don't get is why people need to vote on line. In Canada we consistently have >80% voter turnout for federal elections, and in the 1995 Quebec referendum we had 92% voter turnout (which resulted in 49.4% Yes 50.6% No to separation - a difference of some 40,000 votes). All that is done there is prior to the election, every voting citizen in the country is sent a piece of paper that has the names of all the candidates in the persons' riding, what party they are from and where the voting booth that they are to present themselves to is found. Also, all employers are _required_ to give half a day off to each of their voting age employees so that they can vote.
Seems to make more sense then trying to do it over the internet - as the only way I can see them verifying people is by Social Security Numbers or in quasi-socialist countries MediCare numbers, as a large proportion of the population may not have a driver's lisence.
Linux runs on nearly everything in some form or other, except fot the arcane MCArchitecture (found in PS/2 boxes by IBM) and pre 386 x86 computers. It also has a small issue with Mac classics and Osborne computers. (I believe that it won't work on a Vic20 or TI-99-4a either.:) )
Ici au Québec, nous avons l'Office de la Langue Francaise (The Language Police).
This government incarceration department enforces all public and commercial signs containing French twice as large or in twice the quantity of any other language (though only English is ever fined). Anyways, that's just those finnicky Quebec nationalists....:)
Everyone on Earth would need an IP address to connect to that server...there are only 4228250625 possible IP addresses in the world, and slightly over 6000000000 people in the world. Methinks you don't have to worry. Just a thought.
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er yes....
Just not of humans.
I believe that's pretty close to the estimated number of planetary ants.:)
Yes, In Greenfield Mass, I was looking, along with a small contingent of GEECS admins, for an ISP for our server, and found that two of the places were run by x-cons. We needed a permanent connection, and when we asked one of the guys about it, he said he logged people off by hand after two hours, saying something along the lines of 'you can't possibly need to be on longer than that in a day.'
The Avro Arrow was the number one military aircraft of the time - but our very own John Deifenbaker (responsible for the Deifenbunker and the Deifendollar in Canada) said "we don't need that! that's too expensive!" and all 10 Arrow's built were cut up for scrap and the instructions and documents on building it were destroyed. If you are looking for a conspiracy theory grab this and run with it.
Perhaps that's true, but a space shuttle reentering the atmosphere has a downward motion of 3 _kilometres_ per second....not to mention the forward motion of 40,000 kilometres per hour (11.111 kilometres per second). I suspect that that speed - mach 25 - is plenty enough to make a decent sonic boom.
>Three astronauts died in a fire in the Apollo 1 capsule, during an unfueled test on the launch pad. Their deaths were not a secret, and was much publicised at the time.
>Seven more astronauts died during launch of the SST Challenger, and that was also highly publicised.
If you go to the tours at KSC in Florida, you are told that either 15 or 16 astronauts - I can't remember which - "gave their lives" to the US Space program.... Who are the remaining 5 or 6 unaccounted for astronauts?
Anyone know if the European Space (Association?) has ever sent up a manned mission?
If I were looking for a new car of whatever brand name (try getting a new citroën from france and type it right 5 times over) the first thing I would do is go to one of the 11 dealerships in my home town (oddly, of a mere 5000 people) and test drive a couple of cars. When I liked one, then I would go on the internet - knowing how the car handles - and look for a cheaper one of the same.
I work for three stooges in montreal, and the three guys all have the e-mail addresses firstname@lastname.qc.ca
Personally I find it mildly 31337ish of them - I mean what's the point of that.
Then again, the opposite extreme has compuserve's old addresses, 102103.104@compuserve.com for example If we were all reduced to serial numbers and IP addresses would that get rid of this odd means of using domains?
I'm an admin (one of several) at geecs.org...if we wanted to, I bet there are several hackers that would put up cash for a name like that - but that's lame.
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I'm sitting here looking at the large whole in the top of my microwave and the can of food sitting melted in a whole in the ceiling and wondering, how are they planning to build a microwave receiver station with no metal?
Oh, and, don't expect much in the way of cell phone reception any more after they put those up in space.:-)
IBM's buying Sequent - what on Earth is Sequent?
Anyways, I think we don't need to worry about this. We'd be in trouble if AOL and MS merged to create the American-Wintel-On-Line system (AWOL).
Ok, ok...details :)
:)
We should thus work towards trapping lightning bolts and storing them in lithium-ion filled mountains.
Dude - grow up. Strike 1, you're a troll, strike two you're flamebait...you keep going at this rate you'll end up being in /etc/baddies on slashdot...
/. I was called a troll too (and look how much I've improved now :P ) - and I didn't even post anonymously. There are a lot of better things to direct your complainergy to then to that post - perhaps you should use it to recharge your laptop.
Heck, the first time I posted something on
Depends; you could be using a graphics and CPU intensive program set (such as windows) or you could be using a very efficient systen (such as linux) - I have an old Dtk laptop which lasts more than four hours on its batteries in linux but less then two when it still had windows (3.11, albeit) on it. And as you would type more with linux anyways....you may actually get a whole 10 or 15 minutes extra, roughly the amount of time of a UPS. :)
:) )
But from my experience, Compaq makes low-quality, over-priced laptops (you ever used an armada 4120? or a presario, i think its called, 1230? The latter has a benchmark test of 120 MHz, and a 233 MHz CPU...)
What a better way of recruiting power from laptops may be by putting carpet material on the bottom, and whenever you use it, it converts all the static electricity from that carpet rubbing against your clothes into the battery (god knows its some 50,000 volts
> What's a "49 metre [sic] band" in English? :) )
(why "sic"? metre is spelled right in non-US spelling.
49 metre band is in reference to shortwave radio.
6,000,000,000,000,000
:) ), then you have 3,000,000,000,000,000 grams of ants in the world - or 3 billion metric tonnes. Ants have only a slightly greater total mass than humans and some how I doubt every human weigns an average of 500 kilos (about 1100 lbs). :)
that's 6 quadrillion...
If you estimate that every ant weighs half a gram (I'm not at all sure how close that is to accurate - but I'd say on average its about right
Or you could pay nothing and listen to CBC or another non-US public broadcaster (CBC can be found at 5960 on the 49 metre band - at least I think its 49 metres, I can't find my shortwave...) in the US and a range of frequencies that can be found at http://www.rcinet.ca/pages/hor_sw.asp . Alternatively you can listen to scores of RealAudio stations across the internet - many of them have no advertising (other then self-promotion).
I think that there is another email problem similar to spam that needs to be addressed though (I've only been on slashdot for a little over a week so I'm not sure if it already has been) and that's those never-ending chain letters, which I've had come back to me every few months, despite ignoring them. The worst are virus warnings.
If yuo get a polaroid camera (~C$50.00) and a 600 dpi scanner (~C$120.00), then you can save a lot of money. A digital camera goes for about C$1000.00 that has some measure of quality, and every picture in a polaroid camera costs about C$1.00. That means that in order for the digital camera to be cheaper then the traditional - for the same quality - you would need to take 830 photos. Considering I'm still using the same roll of film I was using in grade 8 (I've graduated from high school now), the traditional cameras are significantly cheaper.:-)
A woman in Australia was reported, in Adbusters Magazine, (www.adbusters.org) to have put a sign on her snail-mail box saying "All junk mail will result in a Au$75.00 processing fee." The first ten junk letters she got, she sent the senders invoices for $75.00 each, and 2 of them payed. One sent back an angry letter, and one other replied - I don't remember what they said, the last six ignoring the bill. Perhaps what I'll do is have my email box forward to /usr/bin/vacation with the .vacation file containing:
All spam messages will result in a US$100.00 processing fee, payable to -whatever-here-.
Signed,
\u@\h
Then take eery company that spam's you to small claims court. (Though that would become very tiring.)
On a similar note I have had a yahoo! account for about 18 months and I have yet to receive a single spam message on that account. Similarly I have had my primary e-mail account and I don't think I've ever gotten more than one spam e-mail in a semester, except for all that real-audio stuff I forgot to uncheck when I downloaded it...:)
Say...go figure! I'm busy reading that very book (got it as a graduation gift from a friend).
What I don't get is why people need to vote on line. In Canada we consistently have >80% voter turnout for federal elections, and in the 1995 Quebec referendum we had 92% voter turnout (which resulted in 49.4% Yes 50.6% No to separation - a difference of some 40,000 votes). All that is done there is prior to the election, every voting citizen in the country is sent a piece of paper that has the names of all the candidates in the persons' riding, what party they are from and where the voting booth that they are to present themselves to is found. Also, all employers are _required_ to give half a day off to each of their voting age employees so that they can vote.
Seems to make more sense then trying to do it over the internet - as the only way I can see them verifying people is by Social Security Numbers or in quasi-socialist countries MediCare numbers, as a large proportion of the population may not have a driver's lisence.
Linux runs on nearly everything in some form or other, except fot the arcane MCArchitecture (found in PS/2 boxes by IBM) and pre 386 x86 computers. It also has a small issue with Mac classics and Osborne computers. (I believe that it won't work on a Vic20 or TI-99-4a either. :) )
Ici au Québec, nous avons l'Office de la Langue Francaise (The Language Police).
:)
This government incarceration department enforces all public and commercial signs containing French twice as large or in twice the quantity of any other language (though only English is ever fined). Anyways, that's just those finnicky Quebec nationalists....
This brings something to mind:
Everyone on Earth would need an IP address to connect to that server...there are only 4228250625 possible IP addresses in the world, and slightly over 6000000000 people in the world. Methinks you don't have to worry. Just a thought.
er yes....
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Just not of humans.
I believe that's pretty close to the estimated number of planetary ants.
Yes, In Greenfield Mass, I was looking, along with a small contingent of GEECS admins, for an ISP for our server, and found that two of the places were run by x-cons. We needed a permanent connection, and when we asked one of the guys about it, he said he logged people off by hand after two hours, saying something along the lines of 'you can't possibly need to be on longer than that in a day.'
He bore a federal penitentiary tattoo.
The Avro Arrow was the number one military aircraft of the time - but our very own John Deifenbaker (responsible for the Deifenbunker and the Deifendollar in Canada) said "we don't need that! that's too expensive!" and all 10 Arrow's built were cut up for scrap and the instructions and documents on building it were destroyed. If you are looking for a conspiracy theory grab this and run with it.
Perhaps that's true, but a space shuttle reentering the atmosphere has a downward motion of 3 _kilometres_ per second....not to mention the forward motion of 40,000 kilometres per hour (11.111 kilometres per second). I suspect that that speed - mach 25 - is plenty enough to make a decent sonic boom.
>Three astronauts died in a fire in the Apollo 1 capsule, during an unfueled test on the launch pad. Their deaths were not a secret, and was much publicised at the time.
>Seven more astronauts died during launch of the SST Challenger, and that was also highly publicised.
If you go to the tours at KSC in Florida, you are told that either 15 or 16 astronauts - I can't remember which - "gave their lives" to the US Space program.... Who are the remaining 5 or 6 unaccounted for astronauts?
Anyone know if the European Space (Association?) has ever sent up a manned mission?
i found another one but its not completely on line...
o cs/rogers-commission/table-of-contents.htm l
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/d
Here's the report on the Challenger crash: /pao/History/kerwin.html, its "inconclusive".
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office
If I were looking for a new car of whatever brand name (try getting a new citroën from france and type it right 5 times over) the first thing I would do is go to one of the 11 dealerships in my home town (oddly, of a mere 5000 people) and test drive a couple of cars. When I liked one, then I would go on the internet - knowing how the car handles - and look for a cheaper one of the same.
I work for three stooges in montreal, and the three guys all have the e-mail addresses
firstname@lastname.qc.ca
Personally I find it mildly 31337ish of them - I mean what's the point of that.
Then again, the opposite extreme has compuserve's old addresses,
102103.104@compuserve.com for example
If we were all reduced to serial numbers and IP addresses would that get rid of this odd means of using domains?
I'm an admin (one of several) at geecs.org...if we wanted to, I bet there are several hackers that would put up cash for a name like that - but that's lame.
don't worry, up North we only waste solar energy which would otherwise go to heat by using hydro power.:) No lost fossil fuels...