Looks better than the luggable-type system my boss got a couple of years ago. We do consulting work around the country, and he and I had to lug this thing on a cross-country airplane flight. Whereas the new computer folds up like a briefcase, that thing had to be carried in two pieces, plus keyboard!
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I thought you were going on a scale of "Ouch!", "Wow", or "Boinnnnnnnnng!" Somebody's been watching too many old Christmas movies. I guess it's me.
At $230, it doesn't look like it's breaking the bank for a DVR...until you realize that it doesn't include a hard disk! It also doesn't record HD video. At that price, it seems like it should do one or the other.
I saw a show on PBS about this guy once - Innovation, I think. He did do a small-scale experiment on the show, where he made a molecule that looked like a molecule with one smell, but vibrated like another. He gave the smell to some perfume experts, who agreed that it smelled like it vibrated, not like it looked.
But that discriminates against mutes! As well as people who have lost their voices/have sore throats, etc. And after 30 or so candidates, judges, and issues, there are bound to be some of those.
It also allows underage individuals (particularly babies) to vote, sometimes even disproportionately!
Wait, I've got it! Take a little flat piece of styrofoam, of which we should have a large supply in landfills. Then take two AOL CDs, and glue one to each side (in case it flips over). Then set it afloat in the ocean. As long as you can find enough styrofoam to keep up with the AOL CDs, it might work!
But seriously, the point is, little reflectors might work better than giant sheets.
It does seem like launching a sunshade isn't worthwhile, but here's a better scenario:
Various means of producing power causes pollution. Pollution = Greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases cause global warming. Humankind builds electromagnetic launchers to launch giant sunshade.
Then, either: Humankind builds fossil-fueled electric power plants to power launchers. Fossil-fueled plants generate more greenhouse gases than the sunshade counteracts.
Or: Humankind builds nuclear-fueled (or solar or wind or anything renewable) electric power plants to power launchers. Humankind discovers the new power plants can be used to slow global warming enough that they don't need the sunshade.
Actually, Hubble was already on Service Pack 2. This means that NASA has decided to go ahead and create Service Pack 3, instead of just waiting for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope to open new Vistas.
This being halloween, I guess it's appropriate that I made a deal with a daemon...
I personally use wipfw, the Windows version of the BSD firewall (which I hear Macs also use). It works fine on my desktop, but I think it may have broken suspend/hibernate functionality on my laptop, so back up your system before installation.
Better yet, if possible, send commands on the channel that patch all the unpatched servers!
P.S. For anyone thinking about this, this is like making a virus to patch a virus, and is probably as illegal as setting up a botnet in the first place.
At best, sunlight provides 1 KW/m^2 of energy to the Earth's surface. So the physical minimum possible size is 1600 m^2. At best, the efficiency will probably be ~15%, so that's 10,667 m^2.
That was before BOINC. Now the SETI client is open-sourced, and there are optimized versions. If your optimized version returns results like the standard client, you get credit; if its results are different, you don't.
The problem is, as discussed earlier, GPUs do single-precision math, and SETI requires double-precision.
Like the man said, if they want to give Apple an extra million bucks just to install Windows MCE (with BootCamp, of course) and a few extra bits of hardware, why don't they just do it?
I think they were referring more to gender than to age.
But note when this film was made: 13 years ago in 1993. If there was a 10 year old girl then who knew UNIX, my questions would be "Where is she now?" and "Is she available?"!
Only if the landfill is dry and sealed. If the wood or paper gets wet, it rots, releasing methane (CH4) into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than CO2.
Besides, recycling reduces the demand for fossil fuels burned to process the raw trees.
Wouldn't they need your geographic location anyway, to determine if the waves your computer is reading are similar to nearby waves? I expect they either ask for your location or determine it from the servers you connect to - which wouldn't be that reliable.
Now I know the vice president of Iran is delusional, too:
Vice President Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who also heads the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said the heavy-water facility will be used to treat and diagnose AIDS...
What on earth does a nuclear plant have to do with AIDS? Are they going to radiation poison all people who didn't abstain?
Pretty low, actually. They store up energy opening their mandibles, and then release it when closing them. That means once they've closed their mandibles, it takes awhile for them to open again.
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I personally find the most disturbing event of the year, at least over the long term, to be the martial law legislation signed back in October.
Allowing any President to declare martial law that easily seems a very dangerous step to me.
Looks better than the luggable-type system my boss got a couple of years ago. We do consulting work around the country, and he and I had to lug this thing on a cross-country airplane flight. Whereas the new computer folds up like a briefcase, that thing had to be carried in two pieces, plus keyboard!
I thought you were going on a scale of "Ouch!", "Wow", or "Boinnnnnnnnng!" Somebody's been watching too many old Christmas movies. I guess it's me.
At $230, it doesn't look like it's breaking the bank for a DVR...until you realize that it doesn't include a hard disk! It also doesn't record HD video. At that price, it seems like it should do one or the other.
I saw a show on PBS about this guy once - Innovation, I think. He did do a small-scale experiment on the show, where he made a molecule that looked like a molecule with one smell, but vibrated like another. He gave the smell to some perfume experts, who agreed that it smelled like it vibrated, not like it looked.
But that discriminates against mutes! As well as people who have lost their voices/have sore throats, etc. And after 30 or so candidates, judges, and issues, there are bound to be some of those.
It also allows underage individuals (particularly babies) to vote, sometimes even disproportionately!
The League of Women Voters might even claim that women can't cheer as loudly as men!
Wait, I've got it! Take a little flat piece of styrofoam, of which we should have a large supply in landfills. Then take two AOL CDs, and glue one to each side (in case it flips over). Then set it afloat in the ocean. As long as you can find enough styrofoam to keep up with the AOL CDs, it might work!
But seriously, the point is, little reflectors might work better than giant sheets.
It does seem like launching a sunshade isn't worthwhile, but here's a better scenario:
Various means of producing power causes pollution.
Pollution = Greenhouse gases.
Greenhouse gases cause global warming.
Humankind builds electromagnetic launchers to launch giant sunshade.
Then, either:
Humankind builds fossil-fueled electric power plants to power launchers.
Fossil-fueled plants generate more greenhouse gases than the sunshade counteracts.
Or:
Humankind builds nuclear-fueled (or solar or wind or anything renewable) electric power plants to power launchers.
Humankind discovers the new power plants can be used to slow global warming enough that they don't need the sunshade.
Actually, Hubble was already on Service Pack 2. This means that NASA has decided to go ahead and create Service Pack 3, instead of just waiting for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope to open new Vistas.
This being halloween, I guess it's appropriate that I made a deal with a daemon...
I personally use wipfw, the Windows version of the BSD firewall (which I hear Macs also use). It works fine on my desktop, but I think it may have broken suspend/hibernate functionality on my laptop, so back up your system before installation.
I thought of that before. Usually, those cell-network-based data services have a special clause in the contract forbidding VOIP use. :(
Better yet, if possible, send commands on the channel that patch all the unpatched servers!
P.S. For anyone thinking about this, this is like making a virus to patch a virus, and is probably as illegal as setting up a botnet in the first place.
At best, sunlight provides 1 KW/m^2 of energy to the Earth's surface. So the physical minimum possible size is 1600 m^2. At best, the efficiency will probably be ~15%, so that's 10,667 m^2.
Or a little over 112 yards by 112 yards.
So the minimum size is about two football fields.
I could write a book with this! The title? Secrets of Programming!
That was before BOINC. Now the SETI client is open-sourced, and there are optimized versions. If your optimized version returns results like the standard client, you get credit; if its results are different, you don't.
The problem is, as discussed earlier, GPUs do single-precision math, and SETI requires double-precision.
Like the man said, if they want to give Apple an extra million bucks just to install Windows MCE (with BootCamp, of course) and a few extra bits of hardware, why don't they just do it?
So what you're saying is, electrocution is always a potential problem?
Shocking!
I think they were referring more to gender than to age.
But note when this film was made: 13 years ago in 1993. If there was a 10 year old girl then who knew UNIX, my questions would be "Where is she now?" and "Is she available?"!
But will it run Linux? Oh, wait, this is a video card...
But will it run Folding@Home? (Since it's NVidia, the answer is no, so I probably won't buy one.)
I'm sure the steam (and the water that makes it) won't touch the trash.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_exchanger
Probably won't touch any fruit or fruit juice either.
Only if the landfill is dry and sealed. If the wood or paper gets wet, it rots, releasing methane (CH4) into the atmosphere. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times stronger than CO2.
Besides, recycling reduces the demand for fossil fuels burned to process the raw trees.
Wouldn't they need your geographic location anyway, to determine if the waves your computer is reading are similar to nearby waves? I expect they either ask for your location or determine it from the servers you connect to - which wouldn't be that reliable.
This will of course have to be followed by a patch to correct "windows save you time" to "Windows saves you time":
MS Vista Patch MSV1447: Patch to correct Vista startup subliminal message to prevent users defenestrating themselves or their colleagues.
"Guniune" may be patched to "Genuine" in Service Pack 1, but only if the NRA refuses to pay Microsoft the requested ad fees!
Pretty low, actually. They store up energy opening their mandibles, and then release it when closing them. That means once they've closed their mandibles, it takes awhile for them to open again.
Kinda...
like...
William...
Shatner.
More like impact hammer jumping in UT. I imagine the ants' prey tends to get smeared.