A personal blacklist is a pretty good idea. Google is already working on personalized search based on a profile which contains a list of interests. They should try out more personalization like that.
However, I don't think that's a good solution for getting rid of link farms. Google should deal with those itself because they mess things up for everybody. They should keep tweaking their alogirthms to detect link farms better and encourage people to report them.
Regarding that picture: you should check what Snopes has to say on it:
These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: "Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA."
Cancer doesn't seem to be mentioned. I think it's probably an important factor here. As a person ages more mutations arise in their cells and the chance of cancer increases. Something needs to be done about this.
Our limited lifespan also probably protects us against cancer. If a cell can only divide a certain number of times the damage it can cause through rapid division is limited. If the cell is modified for immortality the problem would be greater. Mutations allowing unlimited or less limited division are routinely found in cancer cells. If all of one's cells were modified in such a way cancer would probably become more common.
Why would anyone do such a thing? They could easily simulate it using software. That would be cheaper for many reasons. They don't have to hire all those people. They can do it all using one or a few computers instead of many. They need a lot less space and they have smaller energy bills.
These calculators can do more complex operations like graphing and iterative numerical solving. These would benefit from overclocking.
They can also run interpreted and assembler programs. These would also run faster, but that's not necessarily a good thing because many are games that may become too fast and unplayable.
Huygens spent 20 days in sleep mode between when it separated from Cassini and when it entered the atmosphere. Perhaps it could have gone into sleep mode again. A timer can use practically no power.
IEradicator is a tiny script that uses the Windows setup engine to surgically remove Internet Explorer versions 3 through 6.0 from Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium and Windows 2000(sr1).
I suspect that components that dissipate a lot of heat (like the CPU and GPU) would need some sort of individual attention. For example if you had a single source of cold air you would probably need ducts that blow it on those heat sinks.
They don't give a lot of details but it seems it'd be expensive and a lot of work. It's probably easier and cheaper to just run some fiber alongside the power lines.
I'm surprised nobody noticed. Camera images generally contain some noise. The noise changes even when nothing else changes. It can be especially pronounced in the dark.
Plus what about weather conditions? Plenty of local people must have seen the site. What about when it was raining or snowing and the webcam wasn't showing that?
Several Archos products can read CompactFlash. With an adapter they can also read other flash menu formats. Most of the Gmini series has this capability built in. Some other products support accessories which allow reading of CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MMC and Memory Sticks.
That sucks. I thought jet powered meant he was doing something with bleed air. That would have been really cool. Somehow using jet power to run a fridge compressor would have been cool too.
Unfortunately he's just using the cooling of the gas tank as fuel is used. Sure, the fuel is being used by a jet engine but that method of cooling has nothing to do with it.
Yes, they're difficult to detect over deep water. However, the earthquake was obvious enough and one should assume that there may be a tsunami after a quake like that. There should have been some kind of warning.
China will probably overtake the US farily soon. They have a much larger population and due to their current rate of progress many people will be getting computers. I'm sure they'll be able to get decent broadband as well.
I bet that if they had a "Popular Image Queries" list there would be several porn queries on it. A porn query might even be on the #1 spot. Unfortunately you they just have specific categories. Note that there is no "Popular News Queries" list either (only categories) so you can't say that they decided to not have a general image query list just because of porn.
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However, I don't think that's a good solution for getting rid of link farms. Google should deal with those itself because they mess things up for everybody. They should keep tweaking their alogirthms to detect link farms better and encourage people to report them.
These images are actually publicity photos taken of the then 30-year-old Bill Gates coincident with the initial release of Microsoft Windows in 1985. The Corbis photo archive identifies their depiction thusly: "Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA."
According to WMP 10 the audio is: Windows Media Audio 9.1 16 kbps, 16 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Could you even return it? You're often not allowed to return software after you've unsealed the media.
Our limited lifespan also probably protects us against cancer. If a cell can only divide a certain number of times the damage it can cause through rapid division is limited. If the cell is modified for immortality the problem would be greater. Mutations allowing unlimited or less limited division are routinely found in cancer cells. If all of one's cells were modified in such a way cancer would probably become more common.
Why would anyone do such a thing? They could easily simulate it using software. That would be cheaper for many reasons. They don't have to hire all those people. They can do it all using one or a few computers instead of many. They need a lot less space and they have smaller energy bills.
They can also run interpreted and assembler programs. These would also run faster, but that's not necessarily a good thing because many are games that may become too fast and unplayable.
Huygens spent 20 days in sleep mode between when it separated from Cassini and when it entered the atmosphere. Perhaps it could have gone into sleep mode again. A timer can use practically no power.
XP has automatic updates, a program that can check for updates, download updates using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service and even install them automatically. That program doesn't appear to use Internet Explorer.
IEradicator is a tiny script that uses the Windows setup engine to surgically remove Internet Explorer versions 3 through 6.0 from Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium and Windows 2000(sr1).
I suspect that components that dissipate a lot of heat (like the CPU and GPU) would need some sort of individual attention. For example if you had a single source of cold air you would probably need ducts that blow it on those heat sinks.
That is easy to solve. You can get power from one of those power connectors used for disk drives. Some single-GPU graphics cards already require that.
They don't give a lot of details but it seems it'd be expensive and a lot of work. It's probably easier and cheaper to just run some fiber alongside the power lines.
How can you tell?
Your RSS client is only supposed to check slashdot every 30 minutes. Otherwise it can get banned.
Do the Gou'ald count?
Plus what about weather conditions? Plenty of local people must have seen the site. What about when it was raining or snowing and the webcam wasn't showing that?
The Innoplus PhotoTainer also does this, plus it runs Linux.
All of these can be used as MP3 players. Some can even play video. The Archos Gmini 120 would be the most economical choice.
You'd probably want to free up some space on the camera or media you're copying from (ie. erase some files). I hope this device can do that.
Unfortunately he's just using the cooling of the gas tank as fuel is used. Sure, the fuel is being used by a jet engine but that method of cooling has nothing to do with it.
Maybe some of the countries didn't have any sort of tsunami warning system. The west coast of USA and Canada has the NOAA West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.
Pirated copies of Windows?
China will probably overtake the US farily soon. They have a much larger population and due to their current rate of progress many people will be getting computers. I'm sure they'll be able to get decent broadband as well.
An emulator already exists. It has been released as free software under the GPL. It supports Linux and Windows.
I bet that if they had a "Popular Image Queries" list there would be several porn queries on it. A porn query might even be on the #1 spot. Unfortunately you they just have specific categories. Note that there is no "Popular News Queries" list either (only categories) so you can't say that they decided to not have a general image query list just because of porn.