The real enemy is water. IIRC there was a 1957 Plymouth that was placed in a time capsule in Oklahoma and buried. It was dug up in 2007. The capsule had leaked and the car was ruined.
Planned? No there is no planned obsolescence in the computer business. The progress of hardware manufacturers and software coders, and the length of the chain from production to distribution, is such that anything you can buy at retail is already obsolete.
Rush
"Freewill"
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson
album: "Permanent Waves"
There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance,
A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance.
A planet of playthings,
We dance on the strings
Of powers we cannot perceive
"The stars aren't aligned,
Or the gods are malign..."
Blame is better to give than receive.
[Chorus]
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose free will
In particle physics, proton decay is a hypothetical form of radioactive decay in which the proton decays into lighter subatomic particles, usually a neutral pion and a positron. Proton decay has not been observed. There is currently no evidence that proton decay exists.
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Proton decay is one of the few observable effects of the various proposed GUTs, the other major one being magnetic monopoles. Both became the focus of major experimental physics efforts starting in the early 1980s. Proton decay was, for a time, an extremely exciting area of experimental physics research. To date, all attempts to observe these events have failed. Recent experiments at the Super-Kamiokande water Cherenkov radiation detector in Japan indicate that if protons decay at all, their half-life must be at least 10^35 years.
I take the second paragraph to mean that half lives of less than 10^35 years have been ruled out. Not that 10^35 years is the half life of a proton.
Stellar Era Ends: During this era, which will last from 100 million years to one trillion years after the Big Bang (and is the era we are currently in), most of the energy generated by the universe will be in the form of stars burning hydrogen and other elements in their cores. This long period will give way to an even longer lingering death for our universe.
So in 10^18 years, the universe may still exist, but it will likely be a very cold place to be, and will have been such for trillions of years.
Uh? According to the annual report at the web site you linked, the total energy usage of the US (not including isolation) is about 100 Quads per year. A quad is 10^15 BTUs. One BTU is about 1055 Joules. So, the US uses ~10^20 Joules per year (J/a). The whole world uses about 4 or 5 times that amount. But, lets say the whole world uses 10^21 J/a. At that rate it will take 10^18 years to use 10^39 J. I don't think that the universe will last a substantial fraction of that time period.
Comparing the retail price of a text message with the cost of downloading data from the the Hubble, is a bit like comparing the cost of running a municipal water system with the retail price of a bottle of imported mineral water.
It can be done, but it is kind of pointless.
A better comparison might be between a ground based content generator and the Hubble or between a text message and a post card.
"He said the guy is Russian, which is correct. He emigrated to Israel where he solved the solution. He will always be Russian no matter where he lives."
No. Read this comment. He was not Russian in Russia or whatever part of the Soviet Union he lived in. He is now Israeli. He may in Israeli parlance be a "Russian" meaning that was his native language when he arrived in Israel, and he is not a Sabra, a person born and raised in Israel, but he is an Israeli now.
"When you mistype a URL, you get the squatter page hosted at yourtypo.com, or you get a 404 error when there's no squatter. In the case of a 404, your browser can do a google search for you."
Yes, that is what happens. But it has nothing to do with my browser prefs.
"This feature subverts user preferences set within browsers, which allow the user to select which search engine receives their typos and invalid domains."
when I mistype a url I don't get kicked to Google, which is my preferred search engine, I wind up at some random adult entertainment site. I just went through my preferences in about:config and did not see anything about dns or web addresses. Can anyone tell me what this quote is referring to?
"The Breakdown: Synthetic Diamonds One of these rings gets its sparkle from a foreign diamond mine, the other from a lab in a Boston suburb. Can you spot the engineered ice?" By M. Elizabeth Roman in Boston Magazine for January 2008:
"Its technology allows Apollo to control the impurities that give a diamond its hue. As a result, the company's ice boasts the same broad color range--clear, pink, blue, yellow, and even black--as the naturally occurring stuff, says Alexandria Matossian of Bostonian Jewelers (currently the lone bricks-and-mortar store where you can buy an Apollo)."
The ancient Greeks knew that men often find that their greatest strength becomes their greatest weakness. A man who has arete ("excellence") such as great power, great beauty or great prowess may develop hubris ("arrogant pride"), which in turn leads to ate ("blind recklessness" the final letter is pronounced), when an he loses his sense of humility and becomes rash or imprudent. Ate, in turn, leads to nemesis ("retributive justice").
Vista? Office 2007?.docx? What else could have lead to these products, other than the mentality of: "they will eat my dog-food and say it is Foie Gras Truffles".
I was in a store a couple of days ago that had a rack of CDs by the checkout. The new Celine Dion CD was in the rack. The price sticker on each of the CDs covered the picture of her face on the CD label. The clerk denied responsibility.
I have jumped off the upgrade train and am still using W2K & Office 97. Still WFM. BTW, I was at my bank a few days ago and noticed they were still using W2K. I guess it still works for them too.
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Word.
The real enemy is water. IIRC there was a 1957 Plymouth that was placed in a time capsule in Oklahoma and buried. It was dug up in 2007. The capsule had leaked and the car was ruined.
Planned? No there is no planned obsolescence in the computer business. The progress of hardware manufacturers and software coders, and the length of the chain from production to distribution, is such that anything you can buy at retail is already obsolete.
Rush "Freewill" Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson album: "Permanent Waves" There are those who think that life has nothing left to chance, A host of holy horrors to direct our aimless dance. A planet of playthings, We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive "The stars aren't aligned, Or the gods are malign..." Blame is better to give than receive. [Chorus] You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will
Can you imagine the blisters he would get for 100 of them. Makes me hurt to think about it.
Windows 7 = Vista 1.1
"For me, GMail equals unprofessional. It equals Mom and Pop."
This of course explains why several of the nation's top universities have gone the G-mail route.
Proton decay From Wikipedia
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I take the second paragraph to mean that half lives of less than 10^35 years have been ruled out. Not that 10^35 years is the half life of a proton.
The following is from a PBS Nova show website:
So in 10^18 years, the universe may still exist, but it will likely be a very cold place to be, and will have been such for trillions of years.
Uh? According to the annual report at the web site you linked, the total energy usage of the US (not including isolation) is about 100 Quads per year. A quad is 10^15 BTUs. One BTU is about 1055 Joules. So, the US uses ~10^20 Joules per year (J/a). The whole world uses about 4 or 5 times that amount. But, lets say the whole world uses 10^21 J/a. At that rate it will take 10^18 years to use 10^39 J. I don't think that the universe will last a substantial fraction of that time period.
Well, why not?
Comparing the retail price of a text message with the cost of downloading data from the the Hubble, is a bit like comparing the cost of running a municipal water system with the retail price of a bottle of imported mineral water.
It can be done, but it is kind of pointless.
A better comparison might be between a ground based content generator and the Hubble or between a text message and a post card.
"He said the guy is Russian, which is correct. He emigrated to Israel where he solved the solution. He will always be Russian no matter where he lives." No. Read this comment. He was not Russian in Russia or whatever part of the Soviet Union he lived in. He is now Israeli. He may in Israeli parlance be a "Russian" meaning that was his native language when he arrived in Israel, and he is not a Sabra, a person born and raised in Israel, but he is an Israeli now.
"When you mistype a URL, you get the squatter page hosted at yourtypo.com, or you get a 404 error when there's no squatter. In the case of a 404, your browser can do a google search for you." Yes, that is what happens. But it has nothing to do with my browser prefs.
"This feature subverts user preferences set within browsers, which allow the user to select which search engine receives their typos and invalid domains."
when I mistype a url I don't get kicked to Google, which is my preferred search engine, I wind up at some random adult entertainment site. I just went through my preferences in about:config and did not see anything about dns or web addresses. Can anyone tell me what this quote is referring to?
"There are alternatives to Hotmail. There are none to the iPhone (so far)."
I guess peace and quiet don't cut it for you?
"Was the earth even cold enough back then to have that much ice?"
Sure. The Hummer hadn't been invented back then.
"Unfortunately, we still have clients who insist on using Windows 2000 (which can't run IE 7)."
Bug or feature?
Win 2K Office 97. Still WFM.
"The Breakdown: Synthetic Diamonds
One of these rings gets its sparkle from a foreign diamond mine, the other from a lab in a Boston suburb. Can you spot the engineered ice?" By M. Elizabeth Roman in Boston Magazine for January 2008:
"Its technology allows Apollo to control the impurities that give a diamond its hue. As a result, the company's ice boasts the same broad color range--clear, pink, blue, yellow, and even black--as the naturally occurring stuff, says Alexandria Matossian of Bostonian Jewelers (currently the lone bricks-and-mortar store where you can buy an Apollo)."
The ancient Greeks knew that men often find that their greatest strength becomes their greatest weakness. A man who has arete ("excellence") such as great power, great beauty or great prowess may develop hubris ("arrogant pride"), which in turn leads to ate ("blind recklessness" the final letter is pronounced), when an he loses his sense of humility and becomes rash or imprudent. Ate, in turn, leads to nemesis ("retributive justice").
.docx? What else could have lead to these products, other than the mentality of: "they will eat my dog-food and say it is Foie Gras Truffles".
Vista? Office 2007?
Nemesis is sure to follow.
Organization is for wimps.
I was in a store a couple of days ago that had a rack of CDs by the checkout. The new Celine Dion CD was in the rack. The price sticker on each of the CDs covered the picture of her face on the CD label. The clerk denied responsibility.
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint my friend
Pass it over to me
Roll another one
Just like the other one
You've been holding on to it
And I sure will like a hit
Roll another one
Just like the other one
That one's burned to the end
Come on and be a real friend
I have jumped off the upgrade train and am still using W2K & Office 97. Still WFM. BTW, I was at my bank a few days ago and noticed they were still using W2K. I guess it still works for them too.
"And Fusion reactor research can never come to a conclusion until or unless we get a fusion reactor."
Look! Up in the sky! It's a fusion reactor!
That is the sun, you moron.
Well, it is a fusion reactor, isn't it?