There are potentially thousands (millions?) of applications for this.
Yup. There are many uses (think of public displays that change less than once per hour), but the thin the greatparent argued against were watches - those just don't profit from this that much. Usualy it's better to have the watch display nothing at all than to have it display a wrong time.
Yeah, that will happen fast over a >40,000 Km length. Better to have your elevator car spray some "nutrients" or "fertilizer" as it drives by.
I'd go for internal storage. Distributed throughout the cable are small containers with carbon. When carbon is needed it's taken from there to wherever it's needed. If the containers are interconnected one could refill them by connecting the whole thing to a big carbon tank in the upper station. When carbon is used new carbon flows down.
Then again I'm not an engineer and smarter people than me have probably already contemplated that approach.
Let's be serious for a moment. Windows 3.11 wasn't that bad. It was so irrelevant that nobody ever used it and it took up space on the hard drive, okay. But it came with MemMaker. You could ask MemMaker to optimize your start files and then laugh at the pathetic job it did. Those were the days...
Well, the 'Pedia said that the B-2's price was "US$1.157-$2.2 billion in 1998" and I went with a rounded down optimistic number. At that order of magnitude it doesn't really matter which number comes before all those zeroes, at least not when you're talking about simple models to use for experiments...
But still, if you are worried about them coming for you, paint your bunker walls with checkerboards, and install triplasers. Or a large dog.
I'm currently working with the army to install a dog in a bunker. It's a real hassle.
First we tried to bolt the dog to a wall, but that was messy and after a few days the dog started to smell real bad and he came undone somehow.
Then we made a hole into the floor, put another dog in the hole and filled it with quick-dry cement. That was less messy, but again the dog started to smell after a couple days. Maybe we shouldn't have covered the dog up to the eyebrows, but I think it just didn't handle the concrete very well.
Experiments with welding have led to really unsatisfactory results. The dog started smelling bad right away.
Lately we have found something that appears to work, but we still have to find a way to keep the dog from moving while the hot glue settles. My friend Bill has suggested bolting it to the wall and then removing the bolts when the glue has cooled off - when the bolts are gone the dog will probably not start smelling due to less bolt exposure. We'll try that next. Bill is pretty smart.
Fighting fire with fire. Phh. Did that work in Kuwait? No, sir. Real firefighters use explosives to extinguish the fire, which is why our local fire department has completely switched over to C4. It saves a lot of water, too.
As for NAV... Maybe you could use a special NIC that detects malicious traffic and self-destructs rather than passing the packet to the rest of the system.
Norton Antivirus offers perfect security. Just leave it installed on a home user PC for long enough. Sooner or later the system will shut down in an unclean fashion, which NAV will take as a reason to hang at startup, taking the NIC with it.
Bang - no NIC, no malicious traffic from the internet.
It's also supported by about three programs. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but browser support for the format is abysmal: IE doesn't do it natively, Opera doesn't do it natively, the Mozilla team dropped support with Mozilla 1.5 (and all later browsers)... KHTML is pretty much the only engine out there that doesn't require a plugin to play MNG, putting MNG in the same league as Ogg Vorbis, SMIL and properly used XHTML 1.1.
I'd really like MNG to become a widely-used standard, but I doubt that will happen. People use GIFs and when that isn't enough they are happy to rape peoples CPUs with Flash animations. There isn't much demand for MNG and browser manufacturer complacency will ensure that it will stay that way because it isn't usable on the web.
There was one thing high school promoted and that was blind obediance to authority.
Holy shit. Just thinking that a school might promote such values boggles the mind - then again I'm German and we've already learned our lessons about blind obedience.
Seriously, disciplinatory action for talking back at the teacher? The worst thing that can happen to you over here is that the teacher cuts the discussion off and takes a note to round down your grade... Disciplinatory action is what happens when you beat up someone else or damage school equipment. And we're talking about detention or having to sweep the school yard. In order to get expelled you have to screw up big time - essentially breaking either someone's arm, the law or some really expensive schol property.
Yeah, we're really dedicated to making the streets safer for the upcoming world championship (and because I'm German I probably don't need to tell you which world championship I'm talking about).
Yes, but if it weren't for the evil pirate thieves they would have made £200b fom digital sales alone. Profit would increase by 200% per quarter, every single band (including indie bands) would be extremely creative and innovative and have a sound so wonderful that it'd make the world a better place all by itself, there would be no global warming and all terrorists would become pacifists. At least that's what EMI told me.
Ah, of course. Unix time makes sense... Although apparently no one besides VeriSign seems to use it in the DNS serial number, probably because YYYYMMDDNN is more human-readable.
That's why we have instated a super-secure system. First of all, our su doesn't sit in/bin/su. Instead the file gets copied to a random place in the file system with a random filename at random intervals. Of course this is not logged, in order to improve security. Also, the only computer where it's possible to get root access at all (we use a special version of the Linux kernel that does not allow local users to become root and immediately detects any attempt to do so on all other computers) sits in an hermetically sealed room with three redundant sets of motion detectors that can only be disabled by the CEO, the CIO and our lawyer, respectively. A fourth set of motion detectors ensures that there is never more than one person in the room. The floor of the room is made up of 2x2" tiles, most of which are pressure sensitive and are not ever to be touched. The touchable tiles are dispersed in a semi-random pattern; the administrator has to know which ones are rigged, dancing a delicate ballet while passing the fifty meters between the door and the computer. Authorization itself requires the use of a special key, a keycard, two passphrases, a fingerprint, a tongue print, a retina scan, a blood sample, a sperm sample and a spoken passphrase, which is a tonguetwister in Frisian, spoken backwards. When in root mode the administrator has to press a key at least every five seconds but not faster than twice per second.
If at any point anything unusual is detected our sensitive corporate data is automatically protected from being compromised as C4 charges in the walls and floors are detonated, immediately annihilating the entire building and everything within ten meters of it.
Some say that our approach might be a bit too proactive, but =%&/(&%/%&$/"$?=(/)&%=/%/)+NO CARRIER
They are popular among AMD64 users. If you want to use Flash in Firefox you have to use a 32-bit version of Firefox, which means that you either use the binary package or install a semi-separate 32-bit subsystem, having to compile stuff like X11 AGAIN just so that you have all dependencies for the damn 32-bit Firefox fulfilled. The same goes for mplayer and the win32codecs. Binary ebuilds are a godsend for AMD64 users who don't want to lug around two installations of most libraries just to be able to view movie files and Flash animations.
Antivir is quite nice, but until recently it suffered from the update servers not being capable of handling the load of the requests - it was next to impossible to update your virus definitions during the day.
It seems to have improved a bit, but OTOH they added nag screens in the recent releases.
It gets even better! Not only can we save countless Europeans from death, we can also convert the saved Euros into pounds and thus save lots of pounds. Ultra-light fusion reactors are just around the corner!
True. The 12" iBook/PowerBooks have just the right size; a 12" Apple notebook with a recent processor and a matte screen would be extremely welcome.
I definitvely don't like the glossy screen. I use my iBook as a portable development platform and that means working on the train and in other locations with lots of direct light. I hope that until Leopard comes out they'll release either a non-glossy MacBook or a 12" MBP with matte screen option.
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There are potentially thousands (millions?) of applications for this.
Yup. There are many uses (think of public displays that change less than once per hour), but the thin the greatparent argued against were watches - those just don't profit from this that much. Usualy it's better to have the watch display nothing at all than to have it display a wrong time.
Yeah, that will happen fast over a >40,000 Km length. Better to have your elevator car spray some "nutrients" or "fertilizer" as it drives by.
I'd go for internal storage. Distributed throughout the cable are small containers with carbon. When carbon is needed it's taken from there to wherever it's needed. If the containers are interconnected one could refill them by connecting the whole thing to a big carbon tank in the upper station. When carbon is used new carbon flows down.
Then again I'm not an engineer and smarter people than me have probably already contemplated that approach.
Let's be serious for a moment. Windows 3.11 wasn't that bad. It was so irrelevant that nobody ever used it and it took up space on the hard drive, okay. But it came with MemMaker. You could ask MemMaker to optimize your start files and then laugh at the pathetic job it did. Those were the days...
Well, the 'Pedia said that the B-2's price was "US$1.157-$2.2 billion in 1998" and I went with a rounded down optimistic number. At that order of magnitude it doesn't really matter which number comes before all those zeroes, at least not when you're talking about simple models to use for experiments...
Ugh. Shouldn't have skipped lunch.
Maybe they should make immigration policies of the world an obligatory addendum to high school curriculums.
But still, if you are worried about them coming for you, paint your bunker walls with checkerboards, and install triplasers. Or a large dog.
I'm currently working with the army to install a dog in a bunker. It's a real hassle.
First we tried to bolt the dog to a wall, but that was messy and after a few days the dog started to smell real bad and he came undone somehow.
Then we made a hole into the floor, put another dog in the hole and filled it with quick-dry cement. That was less messy, but again the dog started to smell after a couple days. Maybe we shouldn't have covered the dog up to the eyebrows, but I think it just didn't handle the concrete very well.
Experiments with welding have led to really unsatisfactory results. The dog started smelling bad right away.
Lately we have found something that appears to work, but we still have to find a way to keep the dog from moving while the hot glue settles. My friend Bill has suggested bolting it to the wall and then removing the bolts when the glue has cooled off - when the bolts are gone the dog will probably not start smelling due to less bolt exposure. We'll try that next. Bill is pretty smart.
Repeat after me: "A one billion dollar aircraft does not qualify as a simple model."
Fighting fire with fire. Phh. Did that work in Kuwait? No, sir. Real firefighters use explosives to extinguish the fire, which is why our local fire department has completely switched over to C4. It saves a lot of water, too.
As for NAV... Maybe you could use a special NIC that detects malicious traffic and self-destructs rather than passing the packet to the rest of the system.
Norton Antivirus offers perfect security. Just leave it installed on a home user PC for long enough. Sooner or later the system will shut down in an unclean fashion, which NAV will take as a reason to hang at startup, taking the NIC with it.
Bang - no NIC, no malicious traffic from the internet.
It's also supported by about three programs. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but browser support for the format is abysmal: IE doesn't do it natively, Opera doesn't do it natively, the Mozilla team dropped support with Mozilla 1.5 (and all later browsers)... KHTML is pretty much the only engine out there that doesn't require a plugin to play MNG, putting MNG in the same league as Ogg Vorbis, SMIL and properly used XHTML 1.1.
I'd really like MNG to become a widely-used standard, but I doubt that will happen. People use GIFs and when that isn't enough they are happy to rape peoples CPUs with Flash animations. There isn't much demand for MNG and browser manufacturer complacency will ensure that it will stay that way because it isn't usable on the web.
There was one thing high school promoted and that was blind obediance to authority.
Holy shit. Just thinking that a school might promote such values boggles the mind - then again I'm German and we've already learned our lessons about blind obedience.
Seriously, disciplinatory action for talking back at the teacher? The worst thing that can happen to you over here is that the teacher cuts the discussion off and takes a note to round down your grade... Disciplinatory action is what happens when you beat up someone else or damage school equipment. And we're talking about detention or having to sweep the school yard. In order to get expelled you have to screw up big time - essentially breaking either someone's arm, the law or some really expensive schol property.
Yeah, we're really dedicated to making the streets safer for the upcoming world championship (and because I'm German I probably don't need to tell you which world championship I'm talking about).
Yes, but if it weren't for the evil pirate thieves they would have made £200b fom digital sales alone. Profit would increase by 200% per quarter, every single band (including indie bands) would be extremely creative and innovative and have a sound so wonderful that it'd make the world a better place all by itself, there would be no global warming and all terrorists would become pacifists. At least that's what EMI told me.
Ah, of course. Unix time makes sense... Although apparently no one besides VeriSign seems to use it in the DNS serial number, probably because YYYYMMDDNN is more human-readable.
Makes sense. If it wasn't so the .com TLD would be pretty old...
com. 10728 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1148423243 1800 900 604800 900
Even more important, how exactly are they going to fot 70 days into June?
That's why we have instated a super-secure system. First of all, our su doesn't sit in /bin/su. Instead the file gets copied to a random place in the file system with a random filename at random intervals. Of course this is not logged, in order to improve security. Also, the only computer where it's possible to get root access at all (we use a special version of the Linux kernel that does not allow local users to become root and immediately detects any attempt to do so on all other computers) sits in an hermetically sealed room with three redundant sets of motion detectors that can only be disabled by the CEO, the CIO and our lawyer, respectively. A fourth set of motion detectors ensures that there is never more than one person in the room. The floor of the room is made up of 2x2" tiles, most of which are pressure sensitive and are not ever to be touched. The touchable tiles are dispersed in a semi-random pattern; the administrator has to know which ones are rigged, dancing a delicate ballet while passing the fifty meters between the door and the computer. Authorization itself requires the use of a special key, a keycard, two passphrases, a fingerprint, a tongue print, a retina scan, a blood sample, a sperm sample and a spoken passphrase, which is a tonguetwister in Frisian, spoken backwards. When in root mode the administrator has to press a key at least every five seconds but not faster than twice per second.
If at any point anything unusual is detected our sensitive corporate data is automatically protected from being compromised as C4 charges in the walls and floors are detonated, immediately annihilating the entire building and everything within ten meters of it.
Some say that our approach might be a bit too proactive, but =%&/(&%/%&$/"$?=(/)&%=/%/)+NO CARRIER
Seriously, why are we still stuck with DDR2? I want a processor that supports at least 7th Mix!
They are popular among AMD64 users. If you want to use Flash in Firefox you have to use a 32-bit version of Firefox, which means that you either use the binary package or install a semi-separate 32-bit subsystem, having to compile stuff like X11 AGAIN just so that you have all dependencies for the damn 32-bit Firefox fulfilled. The same goes for mplayer and the win32codecs. Binary ebuilds are a godsend for AMD64 users who don't want to lug around two installations of most libraries just to be able to view movie files and Flash animations.
Antivir is quite nice, but until recently it suffered from the update servers not being capable of handling the load of the requests - it was next to impossible to update your virus definitions during the day.
It seems to have improved a bit, but OTOH they added nag screens in the recent releases.
It gets even better! Not only can we save countless Europeans from death, we can also convert the saved Euros into pounds and thus save lots of pounds. Ultra-light fusion reactors are just around the corner!
I meant to write: "Obviously the American organisms came through panspermia, the Japanese ones from hot springs and the European ones out of spite."
Obviously the American organisms came into panspermia, the Japanese ones from hot springs and the European ones out of spite.
True. The 12" iBook/PowerBooks have just the right size; a 12" Apple notebook with a recent processor and a matte screen would be extremely welcome.
I definitvely don't like the glossy screen. I use my iBook as a portable development platform and that means working on the train and in other locations with lots of direct light. I hope that until Leopard comes out they'll release either a non-glossy MacBook or a 12" MBP with matte screen option.