But "7.62 NATO" makes it sound kinda dangerous. This is a military caliber, pal. ".308 Winchester" sounds like something Grandpa Hicks puts into his rifle when he's out hunting ducks.
I just imagine what happens if one of these ultra-high velocity projectiles hist an airplane. I think it would either go straight through it and impact in some random house 200 miles away or it would rip the entire plane into pieces, which would then scatter everywhere. Or, most likely, both.
This is not a weapon you want to aim at an air target if there is non-hostile territory on the other end of the firing arc.
Now, if only they'd provision a banana-fana-fo-faser, we'd be set.
In other news, the new DDX-1701 will be equipped not only with f^Hphasers, but also with a dilithium powered warp drive. As the prime source for "dilithium crystals" seem to be SciFi conventions, the USA are proud to present the new conventions "NavyCon", "DARPACon" and "WarCon".
Hmm... A Snickers bar has 1142.28 kJ. So if a railgun would deliver 1 million Joules it had the power of 875.4 Snickers. Or 0.875 kilosnickers.
Come on, that "(kilo|mega)tons of TNT" thing is getting old, but I'd sure like to see a 5 kilosnickers railgun.
Besides, a weapon that sucks millions of joules out of a target would be much better. You could use all that energy to hit a second target or as a fast source of energy (for everyone who needs a few millions of joules of energy in the next 0.2 seconds).
Almost same thing can be applied to Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum (or whatever the highest end it's called), with a price difference of nearly 100$.
AFAIK does this come from the fact that ATI sells models with defects as lower-end models - I remember that one Radeon series' production failures were sold as a lower-end model; many of them had some nonfunctional pipelines but worked just fine when only one was used. So ATI locked most of the pipelines on supposedly defective cards and sold them.
I wouldn't complain; after all this means that you can buy a cheap card and - with some luck - use it as a better one.
However, more and more people know (and actually think about) overclocking. Back when overclocking gained significant speed boosts, most people didn't know or care about it. Nowadays, ordinary users on ordinary BBSs are talking about whether processor X can be overclocked or if a softmod for GPU Y raises your FPS by 2.
Even if most gamers yre not overclocking, many are thinking about it and a processor that comes without easy overclockability might just not appeal to them - even if they'd never overclock their systems.
If you change all of them Firefox will act pretty strange - middle-clicking links will open them in a new windows rather than in a new tab. If you want to keep the window count as low as possible, this behavior is certainly not acceptable.
The only setting I needed to change in order to be able to close tabs with a middle-click was middlemouse.contentLoadURL.
Still, this tip is very helpful - the way middle clicks on tabs were treated in Linux did annoy the hell out of me.
The problem is that Windows is used by lots of people who are amazed that the Internet is in their phone line and who think that nothing can happen to their system because the text on the box says "the most secure Windows ever". Microsoft is aiming at the "I don't wanna administriate, I just wanna do Word/play Quake" audience. People who run everything with full admin rights for the sake of simplicity/ease-of-use. Heck, I did that. When you cater to those who couldn't run (or even install) a firewall to save their life, you should use the most strict security settings available by default so they don't get hurt when they connect to the security wasteland that is the Internet. If they moan and bitch and have to change the settings in order to work properly - fine! Then they spend some time with their system! You can always add a booklet "how to adjust our paranoid security settings".
1.) The same applies to any other OS. I just switched to Linux, where the hell am I supposed to get updates from? Unfortunately the RedHat update server is not located in my local LAN.
Home users often have no better option than connecting to the net with an unpatched OS. Doing so with Windows requires patience, luck and/or a NAT router or firewall.
<bs="Microsoft">Come on, Windows just has high requirements. It's not MS's fault if you run their OS without sufficient hardware...</bs>
2.) Maybe he didn't turn on the firewall because...
a)...he didn't know it even existed.
b)...he didn't know it was not turned on by default.
c)...he didn't want the stupid thing because it breaks about avery internet-related program except MSIE/MSOE.
As a matter of fact the only way to get a working XP is by installing it, connecting to the 'net from behind a NAT router, downloading and executing/installing XP Antispy, a virus scanner and an HTTP filter, fixing a few Registry settings by hand and configuring the system not to use any of the stupid new "features", effectively turning it into Windows 2000. Do not attempt to do this without a NAT router, except if you like to reboot every 60 seconds. then you can connect to MS Update and try to get your updates (which probably requires disbaling the HTTP filter and some of Antispy's settings).
Seriously, Windows XP takes about a day to set up so you can start installing any programs besides what's absolutely required.
One thing I leanred when I switched to Linux - it's actually faster and easier to set up. Says someone who thinks of himself as a Windows poweruser...
Of course this does not apply to Debian Woody, Slackware, Gentoo and RedHat. (RedHat pretends to be user friendly, but the installer tries to trick innocent Windows emigrants into destroying their MBR. To Win emigrants (if there are any besides me): Don't believe the anaconda propaganda! RedHat/Fedora can boot from/, even if it's not within the first 1024 sectors! anaconda tells you otherwise because it hates you!)
Because the special interest has lots of money? Come on, we're talking about schools here. Most of them are probably so underfunded that they'd paint their classrooms red-green-blue-yellow and have their students say "All Hail Bill Gates!" every morning if they got twenty bucks for it.
...Space Patrol/Raumpatruouille Orion, the 1966 Grandfather-of-SciFi-series. The Raumpatrouille movie is basically the original episodes glued together with some new footage.
What's more interestimg to me is Microsofts opinion on all major (and some smaller) German parties announcing to switch all government computers to Linux in they are elected (as seen in the 2002 elections).
Heh, maybe they'll just make all MS products Europe incompatible. The document you are trying to open is from Europe. Word does not support European documents. If you need to open this document, ask the document's creator to move to the USA and save the document again.
Your post made me realize that it would indeed be interesting to see what the incredible amount of digital detritus on my hard drive consists of, so I scanned the E partition of my Win machine (which I use for gaming/working/almost everything).
According to JDiskReport, my E drive looks like this:
Number of files: 93.301 Number of files in the RECYCLER dir because I didn't think of emptying it before scanning: 1.194 File types taking up the most space by size: AVI Video (.avi, 13.5 GB), CD Image (.iso, 9.5 GB), CD Image (.bin, 7.5 GB), RAR Archive (.rar, 5.6 GB), MP3 Audio (.mp3, 5,1 GB), CD Image (.img, 4.7 GB), MPEG Video (.mpg, 2.4 GB), Unreal Textures (.utx, 2.3 GB) Top 6 folders taking up the most space: Programs folder (30.8 GB), Games folder (24.2 G), Music folder (6.2 GB), Download folder (4.6 GB), pseudo-temporary folder (4.4 GB), RECYCLED (2.3 GB) The biggest file is a VMWare virtual disk with a size of 1.1 GB. The oldest files (except for 1/1/1970-bogus stuff) belong to a copy of STUNTS that I didn't know I still had. The newest file (w/o bogus) is my eMule's preferences file.
The scan took about 15 minutes.
Wow, with the Info I gathered just because I wanted to reply to your post I've been able to locate about 8 GB of useless junk I've forgotten about.
So, as the example proves, a database-driven FS is indeed best suited for people who put buttloads of useless junk on their HDD and then forget about it. Yay for Storage! ^_^
Because the marketing guys say so. Everyone knows that marketing people always say the truth and know everything.
But of course, no one is going to use this stuff, since everyone will migrate to Windows once Longhorn comes out. I know it's true, a Microsoft marketing guy told me...
...a plugin that scans all files you open for (updated) metadata, but comes at the small cost of making all FS accesses 500% slower... ...a plugin that only makes the FS 20% slower but doesn't care about metadata at all... ...a plugin that instantly produces a segfault and screws up the database and... ...several thousand promosing eternal alpha versions.
Actually, I'd rather like a PC that works without relying on molecules.
They've considered photons, DNA and the third dimension - why not consider metaphysic?
The new ZX Specter: Now with UDRAM (UnDead RAM; the data doesn't die when you turn off the power), Real Voodoo video card (speed dependent on the amount of chickens sacrificed on the GPU) and the processing power of a 2.5 GigaSoul FPGhA (Field Programmable Ghost Array). Available at your local Pagan store for the price of... your soul, of course.
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Yes! Now finally I can convert those british units!
But "7.62 NATO" makes it sound kinda dangerous. This is a military caliber, pal.
".308 Winchester" sounds like something Grandpa Hicks puts into his rifle when he's out hunting ducks.
Yeah, screw private space flights. We do this Jules Verne style and just shoot people to the moon with a giant railgun!
I just imagine what happens if one of these ultra-high velocity projectiles hist an airplane. I think it would either go straight through it and impact in some random house 200 miles away or it would rip the entire plane into pieces, which would then scatter everywhere. Or, most likely, both.
This is not a weapon you want to aim at an air target if there is non-hostile territory on the other end of the firing arc.
If you're a Buddhist that's no problem. If you don't mind respawning as a toad or a rock or something.
Now, if only they'd provision a banana-fana-fo-faser, we'd be set.
In other news, the new DDX-1701 will be equipped not only with f^Hphasers, but also with a dilithium powered warp drive. As the prime source for "dilithium crystals" seem to be SciFi conventions, the USA are proud to present the new conventions "NavyCon", "DARPACon" and "WarCon".
Hmm... A Snickers bar has 1142.28 kJ. So if a railgun would deliver 1 million Joules it had the power of 875.4 Snickers. Or 0.875 kilosnickers.
Come on, that "(kilo|mega)tons of TNT" thing is getting old, but I'd sure like to see a 5 kilosnickers railgun.
Besides, a weapon that sucks millions of joules out of a target would be much better. You could use all that energy to hit a second target or as a fast source of energy (for everyone who needs a few millions of joules of energy in the next 0.2 seconds).
As far as I know, coil guns do the same job rail guns do, but better. So why do they intend to use rail guns?
Not all chips are created equal.
I believe there should be an Amendment concerning this.
Equal rights for all chips! Down with rac-- er, chipism!
Almost same thing can be applied to Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum (or whatever the highest end it's called), with a price difference of nearly 100$.
AFAIK does this come from the fact that ATI sells models with defects as lower-end models - I remember that one Radeon series' production failures were sold as a lower-end model; many of them had some nonfunctional pipelines but worked just fine when only one was used. So ATI locked most of the pipelines on supposedly defective cards and sold them.
I wouldn't complain; after all this means that you can buy a cheap card and - with some luck - use it as a better one.
However, more and more people know (and actually think about) overclocking. Back when overclocking gained significant speed boosts, most people didn't know or care about it. Nowadays, ordinary users on ordinary BBSs are talking about whether processor X can be overclocked or if a softmod for GPU Y raises your FPS by 2.
Even if most gamers yre not overclocking, many are thinking about it and a processor that comes without easy overclockability might just not appeal to them - even if they'd never overclock their systems.
Fedora Core 1, using the Firefox GTK2 + XFT build.
If you change all of them Firefox will act pretty strange - middle-clicking links will open them in a new windows rather than in a new tab. If you want to keep the window count as low as possible, this behavior is certainly not acceptable.
The only setting I needed to change in order to be able to close tabs with a middle-click was middlemouse.contentLoadURL.
Still, this tip is very helpful - the way middle clicks on tabs were treated in Linux did annoy the hell out of me.
The problem is that Windows is used by lots of people who are amazed that the Internet is in their phone line and who think that nothing can happen to their system because the text on the box says "the most secure Windows ever".
Microsoft is aiming at the "I don't wanna administriate, I just wanna do Word/play Quake" audience. People who run everything with full admin rights for the sake of simplicity/ease-of-use. Heck, I did that.
When you cater to those who couldn't run (or even install) a firewall to save their life, you should use the most strict security settings available by default so they don't get hurt when they connect to the security wasteland that is the Internet. If they moan and bitch and have to change the settings in order to work properly - fine! Then they spend some time with their system! You can always add a booklet "how to adjust our paranoid security settings".
We're talking about Microsoft here - it't be a small price for them if everyone who updated got 50.000 bucks.
In unrelated news, Microsoft has just bought Russia.
1.) The same applies to any other OS. I just switched to Linux, where the hell am I supposed to get updates from? Unfortunately the RedHat update server is not located in my local LAN.
...he didn't know it even existed. ...he didn't know it was not turned on by default. ...he didn't want the stupid thing because it breaks about avery internet-related program except MSIE/MSOE.
Home users often have no better option than connecting to the net with an unpatched OS. Doing so with Windows requires patience, luck and/or a NAT router or firewall.
<bs="Microsoft">Come on, Windows just has high requirements. It's not MS's fault if you run their OS without sufficient hardware...</bs>
2.) Maybe he didn't turn on the firewall because...
a)
b)
c)
My Windows security wet dream involves me breaking all Windows boxen with Bill Gates' head. Clippy is not in it. Clippy is scary.
As a matter of fact the only way to get a working XP is by installing it, connecting to the 'net from behind a NAT router, downloading and executing/installing XP Antispy, a virus scanner and an HTTP filter, fixing a few Registry settings by hand and configuring the system not to use any of the stupid new "features", effectively turning it into Windows 2000. Do not attempt to do this without a NAT router, except if you like to reboot every 60 seconds.
/, even if it's not within the first 1024 sectors! anaconda tells you otherwise because it hates you!)
then you can connect to MS Update and try to get your updates (which probably requires disbaling the HTTP filter and some of Antispy's settings).
Seriously, Windows XP takes about a day to set up so you can start installing any programs besides what's absolutely required.
One thing I leanred when I switched to Linux - it's actually faster and easier to set up. Says someone who thinks of himself as a Windows poweruser...
Of course this does not apply to Debian Woody, Slackware, Gentoo and RedHat. (RedHat pretends to be user friendly, but the installer tries to trick innocent Windows emigrants into destroying their MBR. To Win emigrants (if there are any besides me): Don't believe the anaconda propaganda! RedHat/Fedora can boot from
Because the special interest has lots of money? Come on, we're talking about schools here. Most of them are probably so underfunded that they'd paint their classrooms red-green-blue-yellow and have their students say "All Hail Bill Gates!" every morning if they got twenty bucks for it.
...Space Patrol/Raumpatruouille Orion, the 1966 Grandfather-of-SciFi-series.
The Raumpatrouille movie is basically the original episodes glued together with some new footage.
What's more interestimg to me is Microsofts opinion on all major (and some smaller) German parties announcing to switch all government computers to Linux in they are elected (as seen in the 2002 elections).
Heh, maybe they'll just make all MS products Europe incompatible.
The document you are trying to open is from Europe. Word does not support European documents. If you need to open this document, ask the document's creator to move to the USA and save the document again.
Your post made me realize that it would indeed be interesting to see what the incredible amount of digital detritus on my hard drive consists of, so I scanned the E partition of my Win machine (which I use for gaming/working/almost everything).
According to JDiskReport, my E drive looks like this:
Number of files: 93.301
Number of files in the RECYCLER dir because I didn't think of emptying it before scanning: 1.194
File types taking up the most space by size: AVI Video (.avi, 13.5 GB), CD Image (.iso, 9.5 GB), CD Image (.bin, 7.5 GB), RAR Archive (.rar, 5.6 GB), MP3 Audio (.mp3, 5,1 GB), CD Image (.img, 4.7 GB), MPEG Video (.mpg, 2.4 GB), Unreal Textures (.utx, 2.3 GB)
Top 6 folders taking up the most space: Programs folder (30.8 GB), Games folder (24.2 G), Music folder (6.2 GB), Download folder (4.6 GB), pseudo-temporary folder (4.4 GB), RECYCLED (2.3 GB)
The biggest file is a VMWare virtual disk with a size of 1.1 GB.
The oldest files (except for 1/1/1970-bogus stuff) belong to a copy of STUNTS that I didn't know I still had.
The newest file (w/o bogus) is my eMule's preferences file.
The scan took about 15 minutes.
Wow, with the Info I gathered just because I wanted to reply to your post I've been able to locate about 8 GB of useless junk I've forgotten about.
So, as the example proves, a database-driven FS is indeed best suited for people who put buttloads of useless junk on their HDD and then forget about it.
Yay for Storage! ^_^
Because the marketing guys say so.
Everyone knows that marketing people always say the truth and know everything.
But of course, no one is going to use this stuff, since everyone will migrate to Windows once Longhorn comes out.
I know it's true, a Microsoft marketing guy told me...
You will probably get to choose between...
...a plugin that scans all files you open for (updated) metadata, but comes at the small cost of making all FS accesses 500% slower...
...a plugin that only makes the FS 20% slower but doesn't care about metadata at all...
...a plugin that instantly produces a segfault and screws up the database and...
...several thousand promosing eternal alpha versions.
Actually, I'd rather like a PC that works without relying on molecules.
They've considered photons, DNA and the third dimension - why not consider metaphysic?
The new ZX Specter: Now with UDRAM (UnDead RAM; the data doesn't die when you turn off the power), Real Voodoo video card (speed dependent on the amount of chickens sacrificed on the GPU) and the processing power of a 2.5 GigaSoul FPGhA (Field Programmable Ghost Array). Available at your local Pagan store for the price of... your soul, of course.