I've triad all of the windows access control etc, and the problem is that too many applications, (games mostly) assume that the user is Administrator.
I've done the same as the previous poster, installed Ubuntu, with Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office etc my wife and children are fine.
The boys want to play some Windows games, so I've put VirtualBox on, loaded their version of XP which used to be in that computer. That lets me keep a virgin installation of XP with the basic games, so whenever they mess it up in future I can recover it in 5 mins - though they will lose their game saves.
My wife needs to run a.net application which I have not put on to VirtualBox, but I've no reason to think it won't work. Early days yet, but this seems to be working a treat.
Maybe time travel isn't necessary. Maybe the production of a Higg's Boson causes the universe to end. If all choices causes the universe to brnach into universes with each of the possible outcomes, then maybe the only universe we can exist in is one where the collider doesn't work.
So although >99.9% of all branchings lead to a successful trial (and the end of the universe), the only ones around afterwards are the ones where it didn't work.
The tagging is not so that the bins can be tracked, but so that the amount of rubbish (Garbage in US) that the households produce can be monitored. The bins get wheeled up to the rubbish lorry, which picks it up and empties it into the back, automatically. As it does so, it measures the weight of the bin and logs the address of the house. If the household produces too much waste over a long period, they will get notified/contacted/I don't know what. This is part of the attempt to reduce the overall levels of waste, by tackling it from the consumer end of the problem.
I think that the intention is to ensure that people reduce waste by recycling, using bottle banks, seperating out compostable etc, and those producing large amounts of normal rubbish, (which goes to landfills), are the people who are probably not recycling, but are just throwing away everything. I don;t know what is supposed to happen if you are recycling and still producing a lot of waste.
This is not a joke. When the Argentinians invaded the Falkland islands, the US had a treaty with Argentina, and was unable (officially) to help the UK. What if Argentina or another ally had demanded the disabling of US-origin aircraft? The US did give intelligence apparently, but all unofficial. The French were more helpful and gave the switch-off codes for some of their equipment such as exocets.
It happens. Also the brits have some european missiles etc which they may want to fit, and with no source code any UK-only equipment would have to be integrated in the US, at US prices, to fit in with US timescales, and if there is a serious war then US contractors are going to be busy enough with their own concerns to make UK-only mods top-priority, whilst Briatian will have programmers sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
**** Join the campaign to lose loose ****
We currently have a massive change to the evolutionary equilibrium. The equilibrium is being changed by medicine. Now genes which would have rarely allowed the bearer to survive to breeding age are no bar to having children. One good example is skull size at birth. Babies with big skulls tend to cause complications and have a lower survival rate - but not any more. Ditto for any of a hundred illnesses and childhood afflictions. Medicine will inadvertantly chnage the gene pool as much as any geological change would.
Simulators keep me going almost for ever, because you can never finish them. On-line sims doubly so. So for me it's Warbirds, (WWII on-line fighter sim) and Grand Prix Legends, (simulation of 1967 Grand prix series).
Both take months or years to master, and it is always possible to go back and do slightly better
Two puzzles - with answers I'm afraid.
1) Two doors, one leads to instant death, the other to safety. Two guards, one always tells the truth, the other always lies. How do you escape?
2) Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson arrive at two doors, one yellow and one red, Sherlock says "We take the yellow door Watson". Why?
1) Ask either guard, which door _the other guard_ would say leads to safety. Then take the door which he did not indicate. (Which ever guard you ask, the answer will contain one truth and one lie, so the answer will be the wrong door)
2) "It's a lemon entry my dear Watson!"
Evolution is already at work - in that many of the things that killed off the 'not fittest' no longer apply, for instance there has always been a battle between children being born with bigger heads( better able to learn early and survive), and killing the mother during childbirth. Now with hospitals these births all survive.
There are probably lots of examples where balancing of two opposing 'forces' has been swayed - another that springs to mind is the onset of early puberty, (good for childbirth rates but bad for killing mothers that are too young), has beens wayed by moderne medicine.
It seems crazy to say that evolution has 'stopped' because nothing is killing off people before they can breed - that is a change in evolutionary direction in itself.
Race and rally cars do not lock their wheels to get the best braking on gravel, sand and ice - nor should you. Cars don't have ABS because ABS is banned on these cars - because it would make braking too easy, not because it wouldn't slow them down as well as the competitors without ABS. Therefore you want it.
Anyone remember this in Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy? Where you had to "sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same channel"....?
He should have just said that the law clearly exempts "John Gilmore". If no-one could produce the law, then no-one could argue with him.
Ah - on second thought, the problem is that they might have asked him to prove that he _was_ John Gilmore.....
I once wanted to go to (from UK) to Washington for Christmas, then Sydney for Jan, then home. Northwest airlines gave the best price. That meant that my return flight was Sydney - Honolulu - Los Angeles - Detroit - Somewhere else - London.
When we arrived at LA immigration wanted the address where we were going to stay, (they always ask for that). We didn't have one, we were 'in transit' through the states. Even though we had the tickets, they wouldn't accept that (it probably doesn't happen very often). In the end we gave the British embassy in Washington as contact address and they were happy. Idiots.
As an outsider it seems to me that people in the US do not value learning. Heroes in films do not win through cleverness, they win through strength. At schools it seems, the clever kids are not admired.
I notice that in technology there is a US attitude that a "Simple and Strong" solution is better than a "Clever" one. The baddies in films are always well-spoken and clever, (and usually British to boot!) The hero is working class, but tough... etc....
I wonder if this could work with HUD or for display injection into a pair of glasses? That would be neat - to have the image in your glasses / windscreen!
I'd love wireless speakers - I want to have speakers on either side of the headrest of my chair, so I can get quite good, spatially seperated sounds, but without tripping over the wires everytime I get in or out of it!
World's most stable democracy? Is that a joke? How many leaders have been impeached in the last 250 years from say USA, and UK? How many civil wars? Not very stable
What percentage of americans vote - 18% ish? How many non-millionaires have been president this century? Not very democratic.
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Nice to see Boeingnot relying on state funding for their research and development.
I've triad all of the windows access control etc, and the problem is that too many applications, (games mostly) assume that the user is Administrator. I've done the same as the previous poster, installed Ubuntu, with Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office etc my wife and children are fine. The boys want to play some Windows games, so I've put VirtualBox on, loaded their version of XP which used to be in that computer. That lets me keep a virgin installation of XP with the basic games, so whenever they mess it up in future I can recover it in 5 mins - though they will lose their game saves. My wife needs to run a .net application which I have not put on to VirtualBox, but I've no reason to think it won't work. Early days yet, but this seems to be working a treat.
Maybe time travel isn't necessary. Maybe the production of a Higg's Boson causes the universe to end. If all choices causes the universe to brnach into universes with each of the possible outcomes, then maybe the only universe we can exist in is one where the collider doesn't work. So although >99.9% of all branchings lead to a successful trial (and the end of the universe), the only ones around afterwards are the ones where it didn't work.
Short Story Competition - tried, struggled, failed.
The tagging is not so that the bins can be tracked, but so that the amount of rubbish (Garbage in US) that the households produce can be monitored. The bins get wheeled up to the rubbish lorry, which picks it up and empties it into the back, automatically. As it does so, it measures the weight of the bin and logs the address of the house. If the household produces too much waste over a long period, they will get notified/contacted/I don't know what. This is part of the attempt to reduce the overall levels of waste, by tackling it from the consumer end of the problem. I think that the intention is to ensure that people reduce waste by recycling, using bottle banks, seperating out compostable etc, and those producing large amounts of normal rubbish, (which goes to landfills), are the people who are probably not recycling, but are just throwing away everything. I don;t know what is supposed to happen if you are recycling and still producing a lot of waste.
12 years is quite quick compared to how long it took America to accept plate tectonics! (Don't mention evolution...)
This is not a joke. When the Argentinians invaded the Falkland islands, the US had a treaty with Argentina, and was unable (officially) to help the UK. What if Argentina or another ally had demanded the disabling of US-origin aircraft? The US did give intelligence apparently, but all unofficial. The French were more helpful and gave the switch-off codes for some of their equipment such as exocets. It happens. Also the brits have some european missiles etc which they may want to fit, and with no source code any UK-only equipment would have to be integrated in the US, at US prices, to fit in with US timescales, and if there is a serious war then US contractors are going to be busy enough with their own concerns to make UK-only mods top-priority, whilst Briatian will have programmers sitting around twiddling their thumbs. **** Join the campaign to lose loose ****
We currently have a massive change to the evolutionary equilibrium. The equilibrium is being changed by medicine. Now genes which would have rarely allowed the bearer to survive to breeding age are no bar to having children. One good example is skull size at birth. Babies with big skulls tend to cause complications and have a lower survival rate - but not any more. Ditto for any of a hundred illnesses and childhood afflictions. Medicine will inadvertantly chnage the gene pool as much as any geological change would.
Simulators keep me going almost for ever, because you can never finish them. On-line sims doubly so. So for me it's Warbirds, (WWII on-line fighter sim) and Grand Prix Legends, (simulation of 1967 Grand prix series). Both take months or years to master, and it is always possible to go back and do slightly better
What's wrong with being pale or a vegetarian?????
First we have to discover some human intelligence.
My top space film - "Silent Running"
Two puzzles - with answers I'm afraid. 1) Two doors, one leads to instant death, the other to safety. Two guards, one always tells the truth, the other always lies. How do you escape? 2) Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson arrive at two doors, one yellow and one red, Sherlock says "We take the yellow door Watson". Why? 1) Ask either guard, which door _the other guard_ would say leads to safety. Then take the door which he did not indicate. (Which ever guard you ask, the answer will contain one truth and one lie, so the answer will be the wrong door) 2) "It's a lemon entry my dear Watson!"
Evolution is already at work - in that many of the things that killed off the 'not fittest' no longer apply, for instance there has always been a battle between children being born with bigger heads( better able to learn early and survive), and killing the mother during childbirth. Now with hospitals these births all survive. There are probably lots of examples where balancing of two opposing 'forces' has been swayed - another that springs to mind is the onset of early puberty, (good for childbirth rates but bad for killing mothers that are too young), has beens wayed by moderne medicine. It seems crazy to say that evolution has 'stopped' because nothing is killing off people before they can breed - that is a change in evolutionary direction in itself.
Race and rally cars do not lock their wheels to get the best braking on gravel, sand and ice - nor should you. Cars don't have ABS because ABS is banned on these cars - because it would make braking too easy, not because it wouldn't slow them down as well as the competitors without ABS. Therefore you want it.
I ask new starters to my projects to write or add to the "things new starters should know" document. That seems to help.
Anyone remember this in Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy? Where you had to "sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same channel"....?
I'm also worried about the lack of a decent defragmenter for the unused portions of my hard disk....
He should have just said that the law clearly exempts "John Gilmore". If no-one could produce the law, then no-one could argue with him. Ah - on second thought, the problem is that they might have asked him to prove that he _was_ John Gilmore.....
I once wanted to go to (from UK) to Washington for Christmas, then Sydney for Jan, then home. Northwest airlines gave the best price. That meant that my return flight was Sydney - Honolulu - Los Angeles - Detroit - Somewhere else - London. When we arrived at LA immigration wanted the address where we were going to stay, (they always ask for that). We didn't have one, we were 'in transit' through the states. Even though we had the tickets, they wouldn't accept that (it probably doesn't happen very often). In the end we gave the British embassy in Washington as contact address and they were happy. Idiots.
As an outsider it seems to me that people in the US do not value learning. Heroes in films do not win through cleverness, they win through strength. At schools it seems, the clever kids are not admired. I notice that in technology there is a US attitude that a "Simple and Strong" solution is better than a "Clever" one. The baddies in films are always well-spoken and clever, (and usually British to boot!) The hero is working class, but tough... etc....
I wonder if this could work with HUD or for display injection into a pair of glasses? That would be neat - to have the image in your glasses / windscreen!
Replete = "Fully supplied with..." according to OED.
I'd love wireless speakers - I want to have speakers on either side of the headrest of my chair, so I can get quite good, spatially seperated sounds, but without tripping over the wires everytime I get in or out of it!
World's most stable democracy? Is that a joke? How many leaders have been impeached in the last 250 years from say USA, and UK? How many civil wars? Not very stable What percentage of americans vote - 18% ish? How many non-millionaires have been president this century? Not very democratic.