While you're at it, notice how many user-level apps come on the system CDs, and don't require a separate installation, which saves much time when you're setting up a usable system.
...I would drop XP in a heartbeat.
Why? XP has many apps that don't run, or run poorly, on linux. You can't expect every application developer to port their code to every OS out there, and many end up only supporting Windows. And many others only support UNIX variants. Set up a dual-boot system and use whatever OS better fits your needs for the moment.
From what I understand, a chimera is a creature that incorporates cells with different genomes. E.g., some cells are mouse cells, with mouse DNA, and some cells are human cells, with human DNA. Sort of like a PC with a Mac motherboard in it:=). Another thing, since most procreation methods involve the offspring organism developing from a single cell, a human-mouse chimera's child would be either a human or a mouse, but not another chimera. Odd, isn't it?
Your worldview is worthy of admiration - being the local system-level dude, blaming problems on the OS is very self-concious of you:-). However, if an application triggers an OS bug, it's the user's problem in the first place.
You see, being an application developer, you can't simply blame the bugs off and hope that the users would want to use your crashing app. Being an OS developer, however, you can safely ignore many OS bugs, and hope that the app developers will find a workaround, and your OS will keep shipping.
The OS developers only really need to worry when an OS bug is so bad that there are no workarounds!
..there is a pervert...or a few. Especially if the freak has a freaky sex organ...or a few. Than, again, how would I know - I'm just a humble slashdotter - nothing freaky except imagination.
$5 to tell me where I saw a Childrens' story where a white object falls from the sky onto a house & everyone dies.
TV?
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My hosts knew that fractional freezing also cost base fuel..
Fractional freezing would cost fuel..
Boiling would NOT cost fuel!! Since you run your boiler inside, and use the same fuel that's used for heating the living quarters anyways, in the balance, no heat is wasted.
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I know someone who had to get a new plastic esophagus after drinking a glass of unhydrous ethanol. Chears:-)
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It's not the concentration of the ethanol that gets you drunk, it's the amount. And why bother making your own, when any half-decent chem lab would have a few gallons of 95% ethanol ready to borrow? And if you do bother with the rectification column, why not make moonshine, instead of distilling vodka that has already been purified? Silly kids, you
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Sometimes I take a discreet sip when I think nobody is looking.
The stuff in vodka that gives you hangovers is fusel oils. Those are heavy alcohols, much heavier than ethanol. Methanol doesn't give hangovers - it just makes you blind and then kill you, but you won't get a hangover. Fortunately, these is very little of it in vodka.
Moon is orbiting Earth, right? So it's essentially falling to Earth continuously. The Earth's gravity on the Moon, while percievable, is only a higher-order effect, just like the Moon's gravity on Earth - i.e. it causes tidal waves, except there's no water. Sun's gravity on Earth doesn't really cause tidal waves, because the ratio of the Earth's diameter to the distance between objects is too small.
What OS? Smartcard doesn't need an OS, or an interpreter, or any shit like that. All it needs is an implementation of the authentication and communications protocols, nothing more, nothing less. Then again, Billy's shop has been known to overdesign stuff before. By, like, a factor of 10, maybe. I've written some Windows drivers where for 500 lines of functional code there is 5000 lines of code that has the single function of coping with the API. Now they've stuck a CLR on a smart card - what a great achievement of technology - it would be more appropriate stuck up their arse.
And passwords can proclaim the end of Bill Gates - with about the same net effect:-) The nifty idea is really nothing more than putting the password on a physical medium so you don't have to remember it. It's an old idea; the problems with it are - you need to carry the damn thing, you need to not loose the damn thing, and you need to get the damn thing out every time you are logging in. The reason your bank's web site offers you to store your credit card number in a cookie is that people object to having to mess around with physical objects when they need to get access...
..to get a good focus. Single LEDs are just not powerfull enough for a projector. The reason is cooling - the LED chip melts at about above 100mA current, even when mounted in a specially designed case. 100mA x 3.6V = 360mW electrical power, which is, taking into account the LED's higher efficiency, equivalent to a 2W incandescent bulb at most. Or something. I'm sure I got the efficiency numbers wrong, please correct me if you would.
It's a monochrome laser projector with a scanning mirror. There is one of these in every laser printer. Except this one scans two dimensions. Then again, its 320x200 instead of 5100 pixel line scanned by a 600dpi letter-size printer. So its not a big deal. Besides, wasn't there, back in 1998 or so, some 3D stereo display for some game console that used a red scanning laser? I think I've seen one in K-mart. I suppose, noone wanted a monochrome display then, and noone will want one now.
So the interesting thing about this gadget is not the amazing fact that someone made a laser projector, because there really is nothing amazing about it. The interesting thing is whether these guys would ever get 3 lasers (especially the blue one) cheap enough, while powerfull enough to scan a highres picture, as large as an LCD projector does, onto a wall. They'd need 3 powerfull lasers. As light sources go, lasers are about the least efficient, so the gizmo would drain a lot of power, and it will have to be large, with the heatsinks, fans, an all. So, the gadget would really end up being at least as large as an LCD projector, and some 10 times more expensive, mostly because of the blue laser. Why bother?
Gasoline stays on the ground when itleaks, and soaks into stuff. Hydrogen floats up rather quickly; faster than it mixes with air. We all pretty much know what happens when a gasoline tank ruptures. We also know what happens when a propane tank ruptures. When a hydrogen tank ruptures, the gas is likely to float way up before it mixes with air enough to be able to ignite. Of course, if a tank raptures indoors, and the gas is confined, and allowed to pre-mix with air, an explosion would likiely be more powerfull than, say, propane. In fact, hydrogen-air mixture might even detonate, as opposed to just burning, which would be next to impossible to achieve with propane even if you wanted to, unless you had just right amount of leakage in a very large confined volume.
As far as hindenburg goes, the skin of the airship was coated with nitrocellulose, which burns very quickly. Scientific opinion (google for it) is that it's likely to have been the skin coating that caused the disaster, and not the hydrogen. The skip of the ship was ignited by static electricity, and burned off violently. If it were filled with helium, the result would have been the same.
He probably has six gmail invites. At the rate I've been getting mine refilled, I suppose anyone and their great aunt have 6 gmail invites. I've a few myself - lemme know and I'll send you one.
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That future is now - go try this. If you never used linux before, better try this first.
While you're at it, notice how many user-level apps come on the system CDs, and don't require a separate installation, which saves much time when you're setting up a usable system.
Why? XP has many apps that don't run, or run poorly, on linux. You can't expect every application developer to port their code to every OS out there, and many end up only supporting Windows. And many others only support UNIX variants. Set up a dual-boot system and use whatever OS better fits your needs for the moment.
From what I understand, a chimera is a creature that incorporates cells with different genomes. E.g., some cells are mouse cells, with mouse DNA, and some cells are human cells, with human DNA. Sort of like a PC with a Mac motherboard in it:=). Another thing, since most procreation methods involve the offspring organism developing from a single cell, a human-mouse chimera's child would be either a human or a mouse, but not another chimera. Odd, isn't it?
Yep. Size matters.
To make people with rolling shit?
No, I'm more evel than that. I want to make mice with squishy shit.
I wanna horses yanker! ..not up your arse, I hope?
Your worldview is worthy of admiration - being the local system-level dude, blaming problems on the OS is very self-concious of you:-). However, if an application triggers an OS bug, it's the user's problem in the first place.
You see, being an application developer, you can't simply blame the bugs off and hope that the users would want to use your crashing app. Being an OS developer, however, you can safely ignore many OS bugs, and hope that the app developers will find a workaround, and your OS will keep shipping.
The OS developers only really need to worry when an OS bug is so bad that there are no workarounds!
So that's why my reseating of I/O cards wasn't helpign much! Firefox was at fault!
..there is a pervert...or a few. Especially if the freak has a freaky sex organ...or a few. Than, again, how would I know - I'm just a humble slashdotter - nothing freaky except imagination.
$5 to tell me where I saw a Childrens' story where a white object falls from the sky onto a house & everyone dies.
TV?
My hosts knew that fractional freezing also cost base fuel..
Fractional freezing would cost fuel..
Boiling would NOT cost fuel!! Since you run your boiler inside, and use the same fuel that's used for heating the living quarters anyways, in the balance, no heat is wasted.
I know someone who had to get a new plastic esophagus after drinking a glass of unhydrous ethanol. Chears:-)
It's not the concentration of the ethanol that gets you drunk, it's the amount. And why bother making your own, when any half-decent chem lab would have a few gallons of 95% ethanol ready to borrow? And if you do bother with the rectification column, why not make moonshine, instead of distilling vodka that has already been purified? Silly kids, you
Sometimes I take a discreet sip when I think nobody is looking.
Are you a small car?
The stuff in vodka that gives you hangovers is fusel oils. Those are heavy alcohols, much heavier than ethanol. Methanol doesn't give hangovers - it just makes you blind and then kill you, but you won't get a hangover. Fortunately, these is very little of it in vodka.
Earth's gravity does exist on the moon.
Moon is orbiting Earth, right? So it's essentially falling to Earth continuously. The Earth's gravity on the Moon, while percievable, is only a higher-order effect, just like the Moon's gravity on Earth - i.e. it causes tidal waves, except there's no water. Sun's gravity on Earth doesn't really cause tidal waves, because the ratio of the Earth's diameter to the distance between objects is too small.
joystick-conditioned fingers?
What, an "early demise" article, and no mention of netcraft?
standards-based, stable OS
What OS? Smartcard doesn't need an OS, or an interpreter, or any shit like that. All it needs is an implementation of the authentication and communications protocols, nothing more, nothing less. Then again, Billy's shop has been known to overdesign stuff before. By, like, a factor of 10, maybe. I've written some Windows drivers where for 500 lines of functional code there is 5000 lines of code that has the single function of coping with the API. Now they've stuck a CLR on a smart card - what a great achievement of technology - it would be more appropriate stuck up their arse.
And passwords can proclaim the end of Bill Gates - with about the same net effect:-) The nifty idea is really nothing more than putting the password on a physical medium so you don't have to remember it. It's an old idea; the problems with it are - you need to carry the damn thing, you need to not loose the damn thing, and you need to get the damn thing out every time you are logging in. The reason your bank's web site offers you to store your credit card number in a cookie is that people object to having to mess around with physical objects when they need to get access...
..all these potentiometers.
You mean potentionmeters?
..to get a good focus. Single LEDs are just not powerfull enough for a projector. The reason is cooling - the LED chip melts at about above 100mA current, even when mounted in a specially designed case. 100mA x 3.6V = 360mW electrical power, which is, taking into account the LED's higher efficiency, equivalent to a 2W incandescent bulb at most. Or something. I'm sure I got the efficiency numbers wrong, please correct me if you would.
It's a monochrome laser projector with a scanning mirror. There is one of these in every laser printer. Except this one scans two dimensions. Then again, its 320x200 instead of 5100 pixel line scanned by a 600dpi letter-size printer. So its not a big deal. Besides, wasn't there, back in 1998 or so, some 3D stereo display for some game console that used a red scanning laser? I think I've seen one in K-mart. I suppose, noone wanted a monochrome display then, and noone will want one now.
So the interesting thing about this gadget is not the amazing fact that someone made a laser projector, because there really is nothing amazing about it. The interesting thing is whether these guys would ever get 3 lasers (especially the blue one) cheap enough, while powerfull enough to scan a highres picture, as large as an LCD projector does, onto a wall. They'd need 3 powerfull lasers. As light sources go, lasers are about the least efficient, so the gizmo would drain a lot of power, and it will have to be large, with the heatsinks, fans, an all. So, the gadget would really end up being at least as large as an LCD projector, and some 10 times more expensive, mostly because of the blue laser. Why bother?
Gasoline stays on the ground when itleaks, and soaks into stuff. Hydrogen floats up rather quickly; faster than it mixes with air. We all pretty much know what happens when a gasoline tank ruptures. We also know what happens when a propane tank ruptures. When a hydrogen tank ruptures, the gas is likely to float way up before it mixes with air enough to be able to ignite. Of course, if a tank raptures indoors, and the gas is confined, and allowed to pre-mix with air, an explosion would likiely be more powerfull than, say, propane. In fact, hydrogen-air mixture might even detonate, as opposed to just burning, which would be next to impossible to achieve with propane even if you wanted to, unless you had just right amount of leakage in a very large confined volume.
As far as hindenburg goes, the skin of the airship was coated with nitrocellulose, which burns very quickly. Scientific opinion (google for it) is that it's likely to have been the skin coating that caused the disaster, and not the hydrogen. The skip of the ship was ignited by static electricity, and burned off violently. If it were filled with helium, the result would have been the same.
He probably has six gmail invites. At the rate I've been getting mine refilled, I suppose anyone and their great aunt have 6 gmail invites. I've a few myself - lemme know and I'll send you one.