Obviously, if someone would install broken beads on my abacus without my permission, I would be rather miffed and would have no difficulty getting relief in court. The same thing applies to PCs. However, it simply isn't worth going to court for any damages under $20,000.
Nice project - though since you had a properly shaped parabolic reflector already, you could simply have coated it with aluminium foil - no need for glass, as the mirror stuff on the back of the glass is aluminium. I once saw a documentary showing that some people in the desert areas of China cook food with 1.5m parabolic reflectors and they easily bring a pot or a kettle to the boil with it.
I saw that documentary years ago. Archimedes would probably have devised a simple aiming device installed on each shield - similar to that used on a heliograph. The Mythbusters did not think of doing that and they did not have nearly enough mirrors. After all, the sun is a friggen nuclear reactor - of course you can burn things with it...
A number of mirror devices have been built to generate electricity on a commercial scale. So burning/blinding a ship using carefully positioned mirrors certainly was within Archimedes' capability. A handful of Mythbusters simply don't have the resources that a city state can throw at a problem.
http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/archimedes.html
There are about 7 possible alternatives to Exchange and I am just counting the ones that are actually working better than Exchange. They are not all free though, but still cheaper and better.
For thousands of years, man used autonomous vehicles. The 20th century will stand out as a glaring anomaly, when man tried to drive vehicles by himself and failed miserably, with tens of thousands dying each year in crashes. Going back to autonomous vehicles again is an interesting regression.
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Obviously, if someone would install broken beads on my abacus without my permission, I would be rather miffed and would have no difficulty getting relief in court. The same thing applies to PCs. However, it simply isn't worth going to court for any damages under $20,000.
Oh man, you just cracked me up - Microsoft security - certainly in a class of its own.
Be glad that you are not living in America. I have about 20 credit cards and several bank accounts. I'll need a backpack for all the keyfobs...
No, obviously this particular specimen didn't miss. It hit the ground so hard, it was enveloped by solid rock...
Feeling better now?
Actually, the likes of Pixar and Disney are using anything but MS...
Hmm, I guess that is why all the movie studios are using MS Windows XP to edit their blockbusters...
A few rolls of aluminium foil and an old C-band satellite dish. Sizzle, crackle, pop...
Pop, goes the weasel...
Nice project - though since you had a properly shaped parabolic reflector already, you could simply have coated it with aluminium foil - no need for glass, as the mirror stuff on the back of the glass is aluminium. I once saw a documentary showing that some people in the desert areas of China cook food with 1.5m parabolic reflectors and they easily bring a pot or a kettle to the boil with it.
I saw that documentary years ago. Archimedes would probably have devised a simple aiming device installed on each shield - similar to that used on a heliograph. The Mythbusters did not think of doing that and they did not have nearly enough mirrors. After all, the sun is a friggen nuclear reactor - of course you can burn things with it...
A number of mirror devices have been built to generate electricity on a commercial scale. So burning/blinding a ship using carefully positioned mirrors certainly was within Archimedes' capability. A handful of Mythbusters simply don't have the resources that a city state can throw at a problem. http://www.aerospacesoftware.com/archimedes.html
Samsung (previously HP) Openmail Novell Groupwise Novel Open Exchange Open-Xchange Kollab OpenGroupware Citadel etc.
Actually, something like that did happen recently. Ebay had to apologise and Google had to implement a fix.
There are about 7 possible alternatives to Exchange and I am just counting the ones that are actually working better than Exchange. They are not all free though, but still cheaper and better.
Britney? Nah, Canada's secret weapon Celine Dion is much more powerful at driving things away.
DOSBox: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
;-)
Put one of those in a worm and run a few hundred copies of it on a Linux machine, then send MS the money...
For thousands of years, man used autonomous vehicles. The 20th century will stand out as a glaring anomaly, when man tried to drive vehicles by himself and failed miserably, with tens of thousands dying each year in crashes. Going back to autonomous vehicles again is an interesting regression.
Actually, that would be very fast in a any city rush hour...
Wow, CVS can do colour prints? I'm sure neither subversion nor bitkeeper can do that...
Hmm, I think they are a dime a dozen... Just my tuppence worth.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a supersonic plane full of DVDs...
I don't think Concorde had the range to do that - maybe the Condorde had... ;-)
Engines are a whole lot better now. The cost to fly these things is mostly due to fuel.
I think the Concorde had less range and had to stop to refuel somewhere.