The United States is a grand experiment in freedom. We do not have a democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic. True democracy results in exactly what you described: a slide into tyranny (of the majority). A Constitutional Republic, on the other hand -- if we were to actually follow the Constitution of the United States -- actually protects the rights of its citizens, and it protects them from encroachment by the majority-controlled government.
The Bible predicts that people will be intolerant of Christians. It also predicts that the 'mark of the beast' will come about, no matter what we do to try to stop it. If the 'mark of the beast' becomes a reality, the Bible will be proven correct.
I know this isn't the place for it, but I actually received my Gmail invite from Slashdot. So I figured I'd try again with Wave. You can use a special email I've set up for receiving a Wave invite:
From your Google search, I clicked the #1 result and read the following:
If I sound a little testy here, it's partly because I've found those astronomer/geologists involved to be quite arrogant. I listened to Linda Howe's interview with Steve Squyers, principal investigator on the Mars Rover Missions, during which, when the subject of organic life on Mars was brought up, he became agitated and downright rude to Howe - as if she asked a forbidden question. The reaction was appalling, certainly not something you'd expect from real scientists. (You can read the transcript of the interview here, near the bottom.) The thing is, they know what they want to discover - or what they think they will see on Mars - and their big egos (or brainwashed minds) won't leave room for anything else. It's quite comparable to how the Bush administration went after the Iraqi WMDs, really.
Can we harness a technology similar to RTGs for the consumer market?
RTGs last for a long, long time: 10 to 20 years or more. They're currently used in spaceflight, and have been used by the Apollo lunar landings, the Viking Landers, the Voyager explorations, and, of course, Cassini.
RTGs are not nuclear reactors, have no moving parts, and use neither fission nor fusion. The heat generated by the natural radioactive decay of plutonium, mostly Pu-238 (a non-weaponsgrade isotope), is changed into electricity by solid-state thermoelectric converters. Would it be possible to generate electricity from other sources of heat, too (such as the sun, described in this article)?
On Cassini, Power and Pyrotechnic Subsystem (PPS) provided a regulated 30V DC electrical power to the spacecraft, derived from the three RTGs onboard. It is then conditioned and distributed to the powered spacecraft components. RTGs don't provide a lot of power at once, but they provide it for a long time. But they're designed to last for many, many years. If the timespan were shortened, could they generate more power?
Which laptop is it? I like having an upgrade option. I've never upgraded a laptop CPU, so it might be good experience, too-- when I choose to upgrade down the line.
Point is, running AV is required but not sufficient to maintain a secure computing environment.
Duh.. that's what Tx said in the first place: Believe me, they need AV software. It is "required."
In your reply to that post, you argued that AntiVirus software is "like saying you need a solid metal door on your mudhut to protect from intruders", and that it "provides little real protection."
That's wrong. We all agreed that AntiVirus software helps. You, with your "mudhut" analogy, made it sound useless. It's not.
That beeing said, I have no idea why anyone would subscribe. I just block ads and get the stories ad-free anyways. And as for seeing them early...who to discuss with..yourself?
I've seriously considered subscribing because I want to support Slashdot. It might not be a purely practical reason in terms of cost and immediate personal gain, but I enjoy the site enough that I want to help them. If you've ever had to buy a server, you know it doesn't come cheap (don't forget electricity, rack space, bandwidth, cooling, management and maintenance). If you, and everyone else, just block the ads, how is Slashdot going to survive? In that case, you won't be able to discuss at all anymore!
Note: Don't try to open the practice tests in IE/Firefox (with adobe reader), save to desktop.
It might be OK if you use Adobe Reader 7 with Adobe Reader Speed Launch. I hated Acrobat 6 because it was so slow on startup, especially the browser plugin. But with version 7, it's blazingly fast. If you don't have it yet, get it. If you use PDFs at all, it'll save you lots of time.
The problem with keyword override is that people will choose the more expensive keywords in order to make more money, despite the keyword being less related to the actual context. This is bad news for the advertisers, who are the ones providing the money that makes the business work.
They couldn't call it the Nintendo Entertainment System, because that was taken (NES), and definitely wouldn't do the system justice. They thought they were safe with Nintendo Entertainment Console - but that's taken too (NEC).
Some of you might be interested in discussing Gmail in a forum-style environment. There are also many other Gmail discussions taking place. Some headlines:
o GMail - Improvements?
o Gmail's spam protection
o Deleting Gmail
o Gmail talks
o A GMessenger?
o Gmail Wishlist
o HTML formatted mail in Gmail
o Google Clamps Down On Gmail Accounts for Sex
... and more. Go to Google Community's Gmail Forum to check it out.
Apple shipped 876,000 Macs and 860,000 iPods last quarter. That's 1.6 million hard drives shipped by one (small) vendor in a quarter
So if Apple has a 5% market share, the total number of hard drives shipped per quarter is 32 million. Four quarters in a year gives us 128 million per year.
Using an average capacity of 200 GB, we get 6.4 billion GB/year. "The age of the universe is estimated to be somewhere around 14 billion years", so we have 89.6 billion billion GB.
To put that in better perspective, it also equals 8.77929688 × 10^16 terabytes (thanks Google calculator). Also known as 8.5735321 × 1013 petabytes...
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The United States is a grand experiment in freedom. We do not have a democracy. We have a Constitutional Republic. True democracy results in exactly what you described: a slide into tyranny (of the majority). A Constitutional Republic, on the other hand -- if we were to actually follow the Constitution of the United States -- actually protects the rights of its citizens, and it protects them from encroachment by the majority-controlled government.
The Bible predicts that people will be intolerant of Christians. It also predicts that the 'mark of the beast' will come about, no matter what we do to try to stop it. If the 'mark of the beast' becomes a reality, the Bible will be proven correct.
I know this isn't the place for it, but I actually received my Gmail invite from Slashdot. So I figured I'd try again with Wave. You can use a special email I've set up for receiving a Wave invite:
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wave [at] greengar [dot] com
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Echoes my thoughts. You could very well be right, but at least be open to other possibilities.
So how about thinking ahead to the future then.. What if one of those folks in the 2030's visited us today?
Wow, that's good to know. A file system suited especially for flash drives! Why isn't there an open source implementation?
It's Picasa, not Picassa. This is a very common mistake.
Can we harness a technology similar to RTGs for the consumer market? RTGs last for a long, long time: 10 to 20 years or more. They're currently used in spaceflight, and have been used by the Apollo lunar landings, the Viking Landers, the Voyager explorations, and, of course, Cassini. RTGs are not nuclear reactors, have no moving parts, and use neither fission nor fusion. The heat generated by the natural radioactive decay of plutonium, mostly Pu-238 (a non-weaponsgrade isotope), is changed into electricity by solid-state thermoelectric converters. Would it be possible to generate electricity from other sources of heat, too (such as the sun, described in this article)? On Cassini, Power and Pyrotechnic Subsystem (PPS) provided a regulated 30V DC electrical power to the spacecraft, derived from the three RTGs onboard. It is then conditioned and distributed to the powered spacecraft components. RTGs don't provide a lot of power at once, but they provide it for a long time. But they're designed to last for many, many years. If the timespan were shortened, could they generate more power?
Which laptop is it? I like having an upgrade option. I've never upgraded a laptop CPU, so it might be good experience, too-- when I choose to upgrade down the line.
Point is, running AV is required but not sufficient to maintain a secure computing environment.
Duh.. that's what Tx said in the first place: Believe me, they need AV software. It is "required."
In your reply to that post, you argued that AntiVirus software is "like saying you need a solid metal door on your mudhut to protect from intruders", and that it "provides little real protection."
That's wrong. We all agreed that AntiVirus software helps. You, with your "mudhut" analogy, made it sound useless. It's not.
Now your spam filter can catch AIDS too. But don't ask how.
That beeing said, I have no idea why anyone would subscribe. I just block ads and get the stories ad-free anyways. And as for seeing them early...who to discuss with..yourself?
I've seriously considered subscribing because I want to support Slashdot. It might not be a purely practical reason in terms of cost and immediate personal gain, but I enjoy the site enough that I want to help them. If you've ever had to buy a server, you know it doesn't come cheap (don't forget electricity, rack space, bandwidth, cooling, management and maintenance). If you, and everyone else, just block the ads, how is Slashdot going to survive? In that case, you won't be able to discuss at all anymore!
Answer is 42.
Note: Don't try to open the practice tests in IE/Firefox (with adobe reader), save to desktop. It might be OK if you use Adobe Reader 7 with Adobe Reader Speed Launch. I hated Acrobat 6 because it was so slow on startup, especially the browser plugin. But with version 7, it's blazingly fast. If you don't have it yet, get it. If you use PDFs at all, it'll save you lots of time.
It's already being done. I've seen websites with links to special pages specifically for spambots and the like.
"The best hoaxes start off completely plausibly, and become more bizarre slowly, so only by the end do you realise you've been fooled."
How about Microsoft dumps search technology, switches to Google?
The problem with keyword override is that people will choose the more expensive keywords in order to make more money, despite the keyword being less related to the actual context. This is bad news for the advertisers, who are the ones providing the money that makes the business work.
When they acquired Picasa, they also got Picasa Hello, which is now effectively Google Hello.
change it to @google.com?
That wouldn't be impossible: Yahoo! offers @yahoo.com email.
it's *slashdot* addiction - no way around it
mod parent up - this is what i thought when i read the post.
They couldn't call it the Nintendo Entertainment System, because that was taken (NES), and definitely wouldn't do the system justice. They thought they were safe with Nintendo Entertainment Console - but that's taken too (NEC).
Some of you might be interested in discussing Gmail in a forum-style environment. There are also many other Gmail discussions taking place. Some headlines:
... and more. Go to Google Community's Gmail Forum to check it out.
o GMail - Improvements?
o Gmail's spam protection
o Deleting Gmail
o Gmail talks
o A GMessenger?
o Gmail Wishlist
o HTML formatted mail in Gmail
o Google Clamps Down On Gmail Accounts for Sex
So if Apple has a 5% market share, the total number of hard drives shipped per quarter is 32 million. Four quarters in a year gives us 128 million per year.
Using an average capacity of 200 GB, we get 6.4 billion GB/year. "The age of the universe is estimated to be somewhere around 14 billion years", so we have 89.6 billion billion GB.
To put that in better perspective, it also equals 8.77929688 × 10^16 terabytes (thanks Google calculator). Also known as 8.5735321 × 1013 petabytes...
85,735,321,000,000 petabytes.
Phenomenal, really.