It would be very expensive to do so. The probe would have to lose a massive amount of momentum for its orbit to decay far enough for it to pass through the Sun.
I see now that WMAP is at an L2 point, whereas I had naively/foolishly assumed it was at an L3 point.
there's plenty of environments where internet connectivity is a given.
And there's plenty of shit that "happens": from small stuff like a broken router or cable modem or check that got lost in the mail, to big stuff like a back hoe accidentally cutting a cable.
You don't quite realize how big and empty space is, do you?
You don't realize how ginormously humongous the solar panels would have to be that far out to support a semi-sufficient colony that needs to manufacture stuff, how that raises the odds of them getting regularly hit, how many pebble-sized "asteroids" are there, how fast they move, or how "it only takes one", do you?
Remember, the Sun is *really small* that far away. This is the Sun from Mars, so you can imagine (well, maybe *you* can't) how much smaller it is from an asteroid.
Fortunately some of us are still looking towards space
Fortunately, because you like hard radiation, needing to carry *everything* with you, effectively infinite distances and a strong vacuum yet enough hydrogen that Really Fast ships would destroy themselves bumping into hydrogen atoms?
People need to give up the fiction that we'll ever live anywhere but this God-forsaken rock.
If you RTFA, they are switching from existing Novell and Exchange Servers and consolidating to Exchange.
That's the reasonable part...
Moving from on-premise to the cloud for Exchange should be seamless and reduce the cost of local administration and on-going hardware maintenance and software patching.
the plant where they enrich the uranium will be seriously damaged by the release of uranium hexafluoride and it will be very difficult to contain and clean up
Sure. But that's not a meltdown.
(Plz remember that when talking about nuclear material, "meltdown" has a specific meaning.)
See the thing is Iran is so efficient on on catching crooks (whether they are actually guilty of the crime the are charged with or not) while the rest of the world seems to lag way behind.
How is this different than Japan's forced confessions?
If his friends are anything like my friends, they would NOT know what to do with a multi-piece RAR file. They wouldn't be able to reintegrate the 4 or 5 pieces back into one MPG file.
The vast majority of images are already (compressed) JPG. If they could be compressed another 90% (which they can't be!) then everyone would do it and 500kbps would still seem faster than 50kbps dial-up.
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It does a better job of explaining stuff than does "bearded sky man says so".
I've got on order this video, which I saw once two years ago and want to see again.
It would be very expensive to do so. The probe would have to lose a massive amount of momentum for its orbit to decay far enough for it to pass through the Sun.
I see now that WMAP is at an L2 point, whereas I had naively/foolishly assumed it was at an L3 point.
into the Sun?
How about when it's for a device that can't function without an internet connection anyways?
I'm old enough and crotchety enough to think that the only valid need-a-connection computers are specialized kit like:
Certainly there are more, but I can't think of any at this time.
Smartphones, though, do not fall into that category, since I should still be able to
there's plenty of environments where internet connectivity is a given.
And there's plenty of shit that "happens": from small stuff like a broken router or cable modem or check that got lost in the mail, to big stuff like a back hoe accidentally cutting a cable.
Interwebz connected toasters
That's not a toaster, that's a Breakfast Food Cooker!
You don't quite realize how big and empty space is, do you?
You don't realize how ginormously humongous the solar panels would have to be that far out to support a semi-sufficient colony that needs to manufacture stuff, how that raises the odds of them getting regularly hit, how many pebble-sized "asteroids" are there, how fast they move, or how "it only takes one", do you?
Remember, the Sun is *really small* that far away. This is the Sun from Mars, so you can imagine (well, maybe *you* can't) how much smaller it is from an asteroid.
Supported by local production of essentials, ... and locally available matter.
You need factories and mines to do that.
probably mostly using solar energy
Huge solar panels in a field of rocks whizzing around at thousands of kph?
simple enough to produce so they don't need "serious support infrastructure".
If it's that simple to produce, it's not that advanced.
However, semi-self-sufficient by definition will get supply ships from earth
Really Expensive supplies, that would make the operation uneconomical.
Once there are a few semi-self-sustaining outposts on asteroids
Supported by *what*?
Instead think of advanced materials that currently are in labs or in theoretical calculations only
All that high-tech wizardry needs a serious support infrastructure, which they won't have.
Not only that, but it appears that mammalian embryos need gravity to develop, and there's not enough gravity on any of the asteroids.
Fortunately some of us are still looking towards space
Fortunately, because you like hard radiation, needing to carry *everything* with you, effectively infinite distances and a strong vacuum yet enough hydrogen that Really Fast ships would destroy themselves bumping into hydrogen atoms?
People need to give up the fiction that we'll ever live anywhere but this God-forsaken rock.
MS hosts the exchange server offsite in their datacenters for you.
IOW, there's a whole lot of fiber between "Here" and "There", and the Servants Of The People are not in direct control of the People's Data?
No, I don't particularly like that, and it has nothing to do with whether their email is Exchange or Postfix...
If you RTFA, they are switching from existing Novell and Exchange Servers and consolidating to Exchange.
That's the reasonable part...
Moving from on-premise to the cloud for Exchange should be seamless and reduce the cost of local administration and on-going hardware maintenance and software patching.
In this context, what exactly does "cloud" mean?
the plant where they enrich the uranium will be seriously damaged by the release of uranium hexafluoride and it will be very difficult to contain and clean up
Sure. But that's not a meltdown.
(Plz remember that when talking about nuclear material, "meltdown" has a specific meaning.)
You herd whooshing noises?
Tres impressive!
See the thing is Iran is so efficient on on catching crooks (whether they are actually guilty of the crime the are charged with or not) while the rest of the world seems to lag way behind.
How is this different than Japan's forced confessions?
hahahahahahahaha
Yeah, I guess I know some like that too.
That's the extent of their abilities.
Should they be allowed to have PCs? (Yes, I'm elitist.)
If his friends are anything like my friends, they would NOT know what to do with a multi-piece RAR file. They wouldn't be able to reintegrate the 4 or 5 pieces back into one MPG file.
They can't follow simple directions?
Since the grandparent says the images "look like crap"
I missed that part. So, yeah, you're probably right about the proxy.
Actually you can compress JPG further, and my Dialup ISP does it (converts a 50K jpeg to 5K).
If my ISP were to on-the-fly hack down the size and resolution of the images I'm requesting, then I'd crawl thru the wires and beat them mercilessly.
Just as I squeeze MPG episodes of Penn&Teller down to 10 megabyte size for emailing friends.
Now it's obvious that you're not bright enough to split big files into pieces.
It's all relative to how much quality you are willing to sacrifice.
If the web site wanted their videos to be 320x240 at 10fps then they'd have made them that way in the first place.
images are compressed to 10% original size.
The vast majority of images are already (compressed) JPG. If they could be compressed another 90% (which they can't be!) then everyone would do it and 500kbps would still seem faster than 50kbps dial-up.
safe deposit box.
To heck with that...
Your parents' house, girlfriend's apartment, etc is perfectly adequate.
By keeping it at home you are one failure from losing it all.
That's a big, steaming pile of horse gonads.
External hard drives are a cheap, easy way to back up all your data.
Inciting to what? Riot?
People simply don't want to sit in a fixed position governed by a box and a monitor
Get Off My Lawn!!
19" monitors, full-sized keyboards and real optical mice are much more comfortable than laptop h/w.
Besides, I'm disabled and can only use one hand to type and thus laptop keyboards suck.
but Itanium's great for its niche.
Itanium really sucks.
Itanium II is really good at FP. But that's a *tiny* niche, and x86_64 is catching up.
It didn't supplant X86.
But Intel wanted it to. That's why they had to copy AMD's 64-bit architecture to stay relevant.