My point was (spelling and typing mistakes aside) that there is nothing wrong with Kazza in it's self.
There are plenty of perfectly legal uses for kazaa. Most of the users of kazaa use it to break the law but that dosen't mean the program (or the program maker) is inherently bad or illegal.
A hammer can be used to kill someone but do we sue hammer manufacturers?
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Err I suppose, I don't really think of him like that because she divorced her old husband (who I wouldn't have called my uncle either) and married again.
Is the spouse of you mothers sister really an uncle?
My aunts husband asked me a few days ago if I wouldn't mine showing him Linux and telling him a bit about it when he next comes round. I'm a little worried that I'll yap on endlessly about open source and Linux only being a kernel and the GPL and bore him to death before he even gets a chance to see how great various distos are.
What I really need is a good, SHORT, list of information about linux and open source software that I can print out and give to him to read at his leasure so I can get on with showing him some cool stuff on the PC.
Anyone know of anything like that?
Unencumbered??!?
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SCOoby Snacks
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This thing will be about 10 miles up, and assuming the signals are bi-directional (ie you talk to the balloon, it talks to you) this means a 40 mile round trip.
You send a packet to the balloon. 10 miles.
The balloon fowards it to the ground. 10 miles.
The server responds and the reply is sent to the balloon. 10 miles.
The reply is beamed down to you. 10 miles.
Given the aproximate speed of light to be 186,282 miles a second.
Thats 40/186282 I get 2.15*10^-4 s.
About a fifth of a milisecond. Which doesn't sound too bad, but I suspect the problems may lie in how fast the electronics on the balloon can process the incoming connections.
and the prize for returning alive?
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Then, says Wooster, they'll return to Earth alive and well
where they will be cut into lots of little bits to find out what happened to them...
...no? gunna send to to the rodent astronaut retirement village are they?
The minimum requirments are a pentium and 32MB of RAM.... And from the load time of the web page I think that web server is running on a that exact hardware.
However, the quality of life for those early sailors was much lower to begin with. Many of them would actually put on weight during the voyage because they had better nutrition on the ships. They got regular meals and a good protein intake from salted meat.
The risks were there but they were balanced by the benefits.
We now live in such a comfortable, danger free society (you may be frightend or terrorism but you are statistically very, very unlikely to be killed by a terror attack) that a risky mission like sending living poeple to mars is not as easy to accomplish.
Dunno about you, but at the university I went to the library and computer labs were full of identical PCs. Not unthinkable that they might have had a job lot of identical hardware lying around.
I know what you mean though, they do look quite new.
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I read that as "one-point-five MegaPeople".
I need to get out more.
My point was (spelling and typing mistakes aside) that there is nothing wrong with Kazza in it's self.
There are plenty of perfectly legal uses for kazaa. Most of the users of kazaa use it to break the law but that dosen't mean the program (or the program maker) is inherently bad or illegal.
A hammer can be used to kill someone but do we sue hammer manufacturers?
"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'"
--Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Don't balme to tools.
This is a really good idea, thanks. Downloading the latest knoppix now.
Err I suppose, I don't really think of him like that because she divorced her old husband (who I wouldn't have called my uncle either) and married again.
Is the spouse of you mothers sister really an uncle?
My aunts husband asked me a few days ago if I wouldn't mine showing him Linux and telling him a bit about it when he next comes round. I'm a little worried that I'll yap on endlessly about open source and Linux only being a kernel and the GPL and bore him to death before he even gets a chance to see how great various distos are.
What I really need is a good, SHORT, list of information about linux and open source software that I can print out and give to him to read at his leasure so I can get on with showing him some cool stuff on the PC.
Anyone know of anything like that?
SCO UNIX(R) is Legally Unencumbered +5 Funny
You forgot:
10's == Profit!
This thing will be about 10 miles up, and assuming the signals are bi-directional (ie you talk to the balloon, it talks to you) this means a 40 mile round trip.
You send a packet to the balloon. 10 miles.
The balloon fowards it to the ground. 10 miles.
The server responds and the reply is sent to the balloon. 10 miles.
The reply is beamed down to you. 10 miles.
Given the aproximate speed of light to be 186,282 miles a second.
Thats 40/186282
I get 2.15*10^-4 s.
About a fifth of a milisecond.
Which doesn't sound too bad, but I suspect the problems may lie in how fast the electronics on the balloon can process the incoming connections.
Then, says Wooster, they'll return to Earth alive and well
...no? gunna send to to the rodent astronaut retirement village are they?
where they will be cut into lots of little bits to find out what happened to them...
So you're saying hair dryers might be considered tech?
Suddenly the story starts to make sense
The minimum requirments are a pentium and 32MB of RAM.... And from the load time of the web page I think that web server is running on a that exact hardware.
Why not just buy an all digital DAB receiver?
or am I missing something?
However, the quality of life for those early sailors was much lower to begin with. Many of them would actually put on weight during the voyage because they had better nutrition on the ships. They got regular meals and a good protein intake from salted meat.
The risks were there but they were balanced by the benefits.
We now live in such a comfortable, danger free society (you may be frightend or terrorism but you are statistically very, very unlikely to be killed by a terror attack) that a risky mission like sending living poeple to mars is not as easy to accomplish.
No, I came up with it myself as a joke, but after posting I tried it in google and found that I'm not the first to have the idea
Clearly you got there before me too.
Metric time works as follows:
The day is the basic unit.
Each day is divided into 10 hours.
Each hour is divided into 100 minutes.
Each munute into 100 seconds.
This results in metric seconds which are 0.864 times the length of an imperial second.
Gotta go bow it's just coming up to 7.18 here in England and I'm going out at 7.80
I don't trust Microsoft.
14 meters per minute
Shouldn't that be per second?
Can't see the world record being broken any time soon!
If you happen to be on the space station viewing is not advised.
On the other hand having an unsecured wireless network could make a damn good defense against anything you happen get caught doing.
"It wasn't me downloading mp3s, someone hijacked my connection, etc..."
17 million pounds?
That should just about pay for the coffee.
Take a look at your HR department.
You won't be short of choice.
Dunno about you, but at the university I went to the library and computer labs were full of identical PCs. Not unthinkable that they might have had a job lot of identical hardware lying around.
I know what you mean though, they do look quite new.
Why, the hell, not?
see if anyone is breaking the terms of the GPL.
I'm all for science but I'm sure I could think of a better way to spend $1bn than making a fish book.
:)
Yeah, yeah, cure for cancer... heard it all before