but they aren't really a sense in the same way that smell or sight is. I can't say to someone else "hey, do you feel that hunger over their?"
You also can't say 'hey, look at the inside of my eyelids... they're so dark. It is very tempting to lump all 'feeling' sensory perception together under the banner of 'kinesthetic' or somesuch, but just because the stimulus is internal rather than external, doesn't mean it isn't a 'sense'. Without such a sense, you would not be able to walk in the dark. I think the reason such things aren't accepted as 'sense', is that they're taken for granted. You never have to look at your feet to ensure that you're walking properly, at least, not since you were very very young, so you don't pay it any attention.
Not sure if you're trolling, but IIRC, the Sun is 8 light minutes from us (or maybe 8.5, depending on who you ask). So three times the distance would be 24 light minutes.
Apparently there's no Magnetars anywhere near Earth, and I'm wondering, since this star was 'the other side of the galactic center', could such things possibly be closer to the center than we thought? Would this explain what we currently think is the gravity of a central black hole?
Oh, and check out the New Scientist article.
I've worked in places where every critical server had a disk image taken of the system partition, the image was updated every month, so if the shit hit the fan, you could have your server back and running within the hour as if nothing had ever happened.
And the local user account setup during initial XP configuration is a member of which group by default?
Step forward, LOCALHOST\Administrators!
Also.. on a Linux system, not only does it ask you to create a root account/password, but distros like Debian, Mandrake, SuSe, Red Hat/FC, hell, even Linspire advise you strongly not to use the root account, and some give you a nice 'bomb' wallpaper in X to warn you when you're logged in as root. It's also difficult (or in some cases impossible) to not create a standard user account during initial Linux configuration.
With regards to Safe Mode, yes, there is one in XP, which helps out greatly with removing trojans/adware/viruses/AOL, but in the case of a Kernel rootkit, it isn't going to help. With Linux, you can have several Kernels, and choose which one to load at boot time. You can tell init what gets run at different runlevels. Also, working in the favour of Linux (and to a lesser extent, Apple Macs) is the market share of desktops. There's no percentage in writing this stuff for such a minority userbase, especially when the people on the other end are likely to be clueful enough to know 'why all these popups are suddenly appearing'.
That is kinda odd, all the new kit at work is Dell, and the recovery CDs basically put a standard XP image with the 'Welcome to windows' screen at start-up.
Oh, and if you never had the chance to experience such delights as OS/2, Windows 3.1 or 95/NT, count yourself lucky.
Okay, I take the point about windows activation, IMHO that's a horrible idea in the first place.
But as for XP being difficult to install... I've never found that to be the case. XP is surely easier to install that NT 4 Workstation. And pre-installed apps, well, if you bought a PC with XP pre-installed, you usually find you get a 'rescue' CD rather than a Windows CD, which puts all the right OEM drivers and software in there. Not a problem.
In any case... I have a ghost image of my machine, so if I ever smash my head hard enough against the wall to want to use MSIE for anything other than the corporate intranet, I'll have an easy way of cleaning such things. Hidden files? Sorry.. the entire MFT's been nuked. Hidden or otherwise, they're in bitbucket limbo now. I totally recommend disk imaging tools for novice windows users, in the same way that I recommend insurance for novice drivers.
At last, there's a strong factual basis supporting the life on Mars theory, I knew this day would come ever since... oh, wait. Just speculation. Damn! I thought they *really* meant it this time.
Come on, people... sure, time-traveling alien Nazis are worse than most holodeck episodes, but seriously - how many of you have submitted scripts (Trek or otherwise) to any of the production/publishing players?
Sure, they'll probably file it in the trash before they look at it, perhaps even sending you a polite rejection letter if you're lucky. Be sure to send a short synopsis of the plot and major waypoints of the storyline you intend along with the story, and be sure to mail a copy to yourself (which remains unopened until court) in case your idea gets robbed.
Before BigBiz started doing this stuff, the major Sci-Fi outfits (eg Astounding Science Fiction, Amazing Storeis and Thrilling Wonder Stories) were happy to receive submissions from readers. Many would be rejected, but a lucky few, including Isaac Asimov had several stories published and went on to forge careers from Sci-Fi because people enjoyed their work. Right now, the ratings for Enterprise are low, not because there's no demand for sci-fi or because the market's too saturated, but because Enterprise is still using alien time-traveling nazis. And once you've seen B5, or V, or read Foundation, or hell, even watched Andromeda, this level of surrealism just doesn't belong in the kind of thing which expects an hour of my life every week. If the show is to be popular, it needs to decide if its audience is
a) Lowest common denominator
b) Sci-Fi fans
Sure, less than 0.01% of the population wants to have to understand nuclear fission and special relatvity in order to watch TV, but let's stop the surrealism before we end up with Nazis being accidentally sucked back through a wormhole to the 1770's, riding flying dragons and having the King's men needing to be rescued by brave starfleet officers, aided in turn by a friendly witch they somehow replicated in the holodeck when the elven lieutenant accidentally typo'd a spoken command in the previous week's must-prove-I-am-NOT-typecast (read: holodeck) episode.
Surely pop-ups are pretty much deprecated by now? If a webdev wants something to be read/viewed by the surfer, pop-ups are not the way to do it. Now that XP SP2 has a pop-up blocker by default, and most of the clueful are using some BHO like google toolbar to block them, anyone who wants a message conveyed via pop-up windows might as well be keeping it as secret as the payroll list at the CIA's clandestine services division.
The message now, is that pop-ups suck, have always sucked (especially if you need to use a screen-reader), and will always suck. It's time the web designers expanded their knowledge from that 6 week evening class college course and took things like this into account. These days, I can't be bothered with sites that have pop-ups at all. If a page tries to launch a pop-up and it gets blocked, well, forget it. I'll surf someplace else.
Consider what would happen to General Motors (GM) if it almost wiped out all of its competitors in the automobile industry and captured 99% of the market.
Couldn't happen. There are UNIX evangelists, Novell evangelists, Apple evangelists, et cetera. And there are Rover, MG, Porsche, Ford, Renault, Honda... enthusiasts too - in some strange parallel universe, there's probably even Volvo-lovers, too;-). Take a look at this pitiful collection of cars to see how far this goes.
Also - consider the open-source model. Would GM have stood a chance if some other fellow set up a factory down the road and called it automobileforge.car -and started giving away free cars? Sure, that's ruinous to all concerned, but I'm trying to work within the analogy here.
"Everything is open and free" is certainly how the communists tried to describe themselves. But certainly no communist government ever has been able to achieve that ideal when put into practice.
Of course they did. I don't recall anybody going up to Stalin, looking him in the eye and saying "You're WRONG and you're a GROTESEQUELY UGLY FREAK". Well, nobody that lived, anyway.
Sorry, but I just don't really see too much value in this kind of comparison. Even viewing an intranet site on a switched 1Gbps ethernet connection at full duplex, the browser isn't the bottleneck.
It's either the network connection itself (especially on dial-up/ISDN/xDSL) or the server. So, fine.. if I use a browser which takes half a second longer to render a page, so what. I've just waited 30 seconds to get half a page from an overloaded server which lives on another continent. Curious that such other limitations should go without mention at the home of the Slashdot Effect.
I think you have to be careful plugging blogs on slashdot, in case somebody starts a googlebomb with the words Money-Grabbing Pseudo-scammer or something like that. That would be unfortunate.
Spot on! And, the fact that Iraq didn't have nukes, and got trounced, whereas North Korea likely does, and hasn't been invaded, is the surest sign to nations like Iran and North Korea, that they absolutely positively need nuclear weapons in order to deter would-be invaders. I'm not saying that I support commie dictators having incredibly dangerous weapons, but you can't uninvent nuclear technology, or change the laws of physics so it doesn't work anymore; and the more you try to suppress others from using that technology, the more they're going to resent it, and you, for trying to do so.
You moron, have you heard of suicide bombers? Kami Kaze? 9-11? There are people who don't give a damn about the consequences, or for whom the consequence of death is worth it so long as their enemies fall with them.
Not quite true. These people want to be martyrs to their cause. They're willing to die in order to further that cause. They will give their life for what they perceive to be the greater good of their people/religion/etc. Destroying their own entire society, even with the proviso that their enemies suffer too, is just not going to be on the agenda. It's easy to label things as 'insane' when we don't understand them, but it's not a very productive or insightful exercise.
Know thy enemy, knowledge is power, et cetera. If that wasn't true, no government would invest in military intelligence services. Blind ignorance and misleading propaganda will only get you so far, and usually in the wrong direction.
Somehow I doubt that if we had proposed raiding sweet lil' N. Korea with military force, you'd have supported it. Somehow, I get the feeling you would have said "We're attacking an innocent sovereign nation for no good reason!"
Depends on your version of innocent. If having nuclear weapons makes a state inherently evil, then that'd make USA, France, UK and Russia all evil. I think perhaps that being told not to develop nukes by a nation loaded with nukes is a little hypocritical. Sure, the stakes just got higher, we're really gonna have to learn to play nicely now. And that means everyone.
Nothing wrong with using religion in scifi. Asimov did it with 'Black Friar of the Flame' and the 'Foundation' series. Religion was also a fairly major thread in Babylon 5. It's certainly better than scripts which appear like:
Picard: We need those engines Now!
Geordi: I'm sorry captain, but I'm having trouble with (tech department, please insert words here -Ed.)
If the data is declassified, can you share it with us or point us towards a page with it on?
Otherwise you might just as well say 'my numbers are based on some random number I just rolled a dice and came up with'.
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You also can't say 'hey, look at the inside of my eyelids... they're so dark. It is very tempting to lump all 'feeling' sensory perception together under the banner of 'kinesthetic' or somesuch, but just because the stimulus is internal rather than external, doesn't mean it isn't a 'sense'. Without such a sense, you would not be able to walk in the dark. I think the reason such things aren't accepted as 'sense', is that they're taken for granted. You never have to look at your feet to ensure that you're walking properly, at least, not since you were very very young, so you don't pay it any attention.
Thank-you for the $3 tip, Mr Smith. Now if you want the antidote to the poison you just shovelled in your face, it'll cost you $3,000.
Just a thought.
Not sure if you're trolling, but IIRC, the Sun is 8 light minutes from us (or maybe 8.5, depending on who you ask). So three times the distance would be 24 light minutes.
I thought it was just that it was the biggest such explosion recorded by humans within the last 400 years.
Apparently there's no Magnetars anywhere near Earth, and I'm wondering, since this star was 'the other side of the galactic center', could such things possibly be closer to the center than we thought? Would this explain what we currently think is the gravity of a central black hole?
Oh, and check out the New Scientist article.
I've worked in places where every critical server had a disk image taken of the system partition, the image was updated every month, so if the shit hit the fan, you could have your server back and running within the hour as if nothing had ever happened.
Step forward, LOCALHOST\Administrators!
Also.. on a Linux system, not only does it ask you to create a root account/password, but distros like Debian, Mandrake, SuSe, Red Hat/FC, hell, even Linspire advise you strongly not to use the root account, and some give you a nice 'bomb' wallpaper in X to warn you when you're logged in as root. It's also difficult (or in some cases impossible) to not create a standard user account during initial Linux configuration.
With regards to Safe Mode, yes, there is one in XP, which helps out greatly with removing trojans/adware/viruses/AOL, but in the case of a Kernel rootkit, it isn't going to help. With Linux, you can have several Kernels, and choose which one to load at boot time. You can tell init what gets run at different runlevels. Also, working in the favour of Linux (and to a lesser extent, Apple Macs) is the market share of desktops. There's no percentage in writing this stuff for such a minority userbase, especially when the people on the other end are likely to be clueful enough to know 'why all these popups are suddenly appearing'.
Oh, and if you never had the chance to experience such delights as OS/2, Windows 3.1 or 95/NT, count yourself lucky.
But as for XP being difficult to install... I've never found that to be the case. XP is surely easier to install that NT 4 Workstation. And pre-installed apps, well, if you bought a PC with XP pre-installed, you usually find you get a 'rescue' CD rather than a Windows CD, which puts all the right OEM drivers and software in there. Not a problem.
In any case... I have a ghost image of my machine, so if I ever smash my head hard enough against the wall to want to use MSIE for anything other than the corporate intranet, I'll have an easy way of cleaning such things. Hidden files? Sorry.. the entire MFT's been nuked. Hidden or otherwise, they're in bitbucket limbo now. I totally recommend disk imaging tools for novice windows users, in the same way that I recommend insurance for novice drivers.At last, there's a strong factual basis supporting the life on Mars theory, I knew this day would come ever since... oh, wait. Just speculation. Damn! I thought they *really* meant it this time.
Sure, they'll probably file it in the trash before they look at it, perhaps even sending you a polite rejection letter if you're lucky. Be sure to send a short synopsis of the plot and major waypoints of the storyline you intend along with the story, and be sure to mail a copy to yourself (which remains unopened until court) in case your idea gets robbed.
Before BigBiz started doing this stuff, the major Sci-Fi outfits (eg Astounding Science Fiction, Amazing Storeis and Thrilling Wonder Stories) were happy to receive submissions from readers. Many would be rejected, but a lucky few, including Isaac Asimov had several stories published and went on to forge careers from Sci-Fi because people enjoyed their work. Right now, the ratings for Enterprise are low, not because there's no demand for sci-fi or because the market's too saturated, but because Enterprise is still using alien time-traveling nazis. And once you've seen B5, or V, or read Foundation, or hell, even watched Andromeda, this level of surrealism just doesn't belong in the kind of thing which expects an hour of my life every week. If the show is to be popular, it needs to decide if its audience is
- a) Lowest common denominator
- b) Sci-Fi fans
Sure, less than 0.01% of the population wants to have to understand nuclear fission and special relatvity in order to watch TV, but let's stop the surrealism before we end up with Nazis being accidentally sucked back through a wormhole to the 1770's, riding flying dragons and having the King's men needing to be rescued by brave starfleet officers, aided in turn by a friendly witch they somehow replicated in the holodeck when the elven lieutenant accidentally typo'd a spoken command in the previous week's must-prove-I-am-NOT-typecast (read: holodeck) episode.Send them some ideas. They could really use them.
include 'std_copyright.inc'
doesn't give much away about the date of publication in this case.Surely pop-ups are pretty much deprecated by now? If a webdev wants something to be read/viewed by the surfer, pop-ups are not the way to do it. Now that XP SP2 has a pop-up blocker by default, and most of the clueful are using some BHO like google toolbar to block them, anyone who wants a message conveyed via pop-up windows might as well be keeping it as secret as the payroll list at the CIA's clandestine services division.
The message now, is that pop-ups suck, have always sucked (especially if you need to use a screen-reader), and will always suck. It's time the web designers expanded their knowledge from that 6 week evening class college course and took things like this into account. These days, I can't be bothered with sites that have pop-ups at all. If a page tries to launch a pop-up and it gets blocked, well, forget it. I'll surf someplace else.
Couldn't happen. There are UNIX evangelists, Novell evangelists, Apple evangelists, et cetera. And there are Rover, MG, Porsche, Ford, Renault, Honda... enthusiasts too - in some strange parallel universe, there's probably even Volvo-lovers, too ;-). Take a look at this pitiful collection of cars to see how far this goes.
Also - consider the open-source model. Would GM have stood a chance if some other fellow set up a factory down the road and called it automobileforge.car -and started giving away free cars? Sure, that's ruinous to all concerned, but I'm trying to work within the analogy here.
Of course they did. I don't recall anybody going up to Stalin, looking him in the eye and saying "You're WRONG and you're a GROTESEQUELY UGLY FREAK". Well, nobody that lived, anyway.
It's either the network connection itself (especially on dial-up/ISDN/xDSL) or the server. So, fine.. if I use a browser which takes half a second longer to render a page, so what. I've just waited 30 seconds to get half a page from an overloaded server which lives on another continent. Curious that such other limitations should go without mention at the home of the Slashdot Effect.
In any case, with Internet Explorer, you get browser helpers like CoolWebSearch, IGetNet, HomeOldSP and many, many more all for free! (even if you don't want them)....when the world stopped laughing, it was revealed this person might have some sort of conflict of interest, being that he works for MS and all....
No, I didn't pay for it. I have a PRS Licence.
Also, I told my friend not to buy the Spice Girls CD, and deprived them of a sale.
Because downloading mpegs is similar to waving a cutlass around and talking odd.
Attn MPAA/RIAA: You're WRONG and you're a GROTESQUELY UGLY FREAK.
I think you have to be careful plugging blogs on slashdot, in case somebody starts a googlebomb with the words Money-Grabbing Pseudo-scammer or something like that. That would be unfortunate.
Spot on! And, the fact that Iraq didn't have nukes, and got trounced, whereas North Korea likely does, and hasn't been invaded, is the surest sign to nations like Iran and North Korea, that they absolutely positively need nuclear weapons in order to deter would-be invaders. I'm not saying that I support commie dictators having incredibly dangerous weapons, but you can't uninvent nuclear technology, or change the laws of physics so it doesn't work anymore; and the more you try to suppress others from using that technology, the more they're going to resent it, and you, for trying to do so.
Not quite true. These people want to be martyrs to their cause. They're willing to die in order to further that cause. They will give their life for what they perceive to be the greater good of their people/religion/etc. Destroying their own entire society, even with the proviso that their enemies suffer too, is just not going to be on the agenda. It's easy to label things as 'insane' when we don't understand them, but it's not a very productive or insightful exercise.
Know thy enemy, knowledge is power, et cetera. If that wasn't true, no government would invest in military intelligence services. Blind ignorance and misleading propaganda will only get you so far, and usually in the wrong direction.
Depends on your version of innocent. If having nuclear weapons makes a state inherently evil, then that'd make USA, France, UK and Russia all evil. I think perhaps that being told not to develop nukes by a nation loaded with nukes is a little hypocritical. Sure, the stakes just got higher, we're really gonna have to learn to play nicely now. And that means everyone.
Picard: We need those engines Now!
Geordi: I'm sorry captain, but I'm having trouble with (tech department, please insert words here -Ed.)
If the data is declassified, can you share it with us or point us towards a page with it on?
Otherwise you might just as well say 'my numbers are based on some random number I just rolled a dice and came up with'.