The main problem is that for some reason plugs often fail to easily go into sockets.
Is it something to do with the Earth pin? In Malaysia I often find that the mechanical interlock between Earth and Active prevents the plug from seating correctly. Some Australian power boards work the same way.
Until we have wireless broadband that is ubiquitous, robust, and (most importantly) cheap, network appliances are going nowhere.
We do. Its the cellular network. iPhones and kindles are network appliances. Unfortunately this device doesn't have a cellular modem. And its architecture is too hungry for bandwidth anyway.
My sons ipod touch does everything this device does, and more. It has a smaller screen, but it has a smaller footprint as well. We bought it for ~230 AUD.
Its residual drag in the torque converter. These days with electronic throttle and fully electronic automatic transmissions there is no reason not to put the gear box in neutral when the engine is at idle.
I'm just not. Even in high school (~30 years ago) we had games on the Apple ][. I would watch other people play them, write my own or patch them for people. Never had an interest in playing.
My son plays Star Wars: The force unleashed on our (his) Wii. The graphics on that game are much more like PC games than the Wii Sport games. I am just not much into games myself.
In Malaysia there are monkeys pretty much anywhere there is a bit of bush and the ability to scavenge food. In Singapore cats are all over the place. They aren't huge and overfed like our cat. They are slimmed down killing machines.
It makes me wonder what happened to the monkeys? Do the cats kill them? I wouldn't be surprised.
If the impactor is small (say 1km in diameter) a small dedicated crew might be able to change its orbit enough to make a difference in 30 years. My bet will still be on people walking out of the danger zone under their own steam, with assistance from first world nations in the form of political aid for border crossings and food dumps.
My plan would be to do everything possible, including sending a space craft.
With automatic transmissions these days there is this legacy behavior whereby at idle on level ground with no brakes applied the car will creep forward slowly. So now if you want to cross the road you have to dodge creeping cars. I think the default should be for gentle braking with no pedals pressed. With hybrids and electric cars it should be safer to cross the road when there is a queue of nominally stopped cars.
It is wrong to call them early adopters. They installed the release when it became available, I doubt that any of the bugs I have seen will be fixed in this release.
The two boot screens look sparse and cold to me. I wondered if Mark Shuttleworth was paying people back for the complaints about his "human" color scheme. The GDM window looks ugly to me. I definitely want the old one back.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and it is quite buggy. Much more than previous releases. I have had to go back to the NDIS wrapper to use my WG511 PCMCIA wifi adapter. I haven't had to do that in years.
Ambulance drivers here in Melbourne, Australia use toughened laptops to track their operations out on the road. It seems to manage tasks from allocation to handoff in the hospital emergency room. A laptop with missing keys wouldn't be safe for them to use. It would accumulate crap and take their attention from the job at hand.
There is a clear plastic cover which you used to be able to buy for your car here in Victoria, Australia. The theory was that the plastic would reflect the flash from a speed or red light camera directly back into the camera and prevent it taking a good image of your registration plate.
evacuating a circle 10000km around the impact site doesn't seem impossible
I doubt that. Take any location in the US and calculate the population within a 10000km diameter. Consider NOLA during/after Katrina (how many days did it take the DHS to bring water to the Super Dome?). I wish you were right, but your optimism seems to be fed exclusively by Hollywood. Sorry.
I am not saying it is easy and I am not assuming we could do it today. Moving populations around on the Earth is much easier than moving them off the planet, which is the idea I was originally responding to. If we forecast a strike in India for example I expect we would then see decades of fighting over land to the north. Nukes and all. Not pretty.
If we can see objects like this coming we should be able to evacuate the impact site ahead of time.
Hm... up to 70km you say - that's quite unlikely, results would be quite devastating, even if you were 8000km away from the impact site (but depending on quite a few parameters of the object/impact).
Sure but half way around the earth is 20000km, so evacuating a circle 10000km around the impact site doesn't seem impossible. Easier than moving everybody to the moon or mars, anyway. I am assuming we can give ourselves 20 or 30 years warning with good quality remote sensing.
Then set aside a few hundred million a year in x-prize style incentives open to *everyone* not just US companies.
Cooperation is one thing, but we shouldn't rely on other nations to provide us with space access. It would be bad for the economy : US funds and technological advantage going to other countries.
Deep space exploration should be an international activity, if only because it is so expensive.
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The main problem is that for some reason plugs often fail to easily go into sockets.
Is it something to do with the Earth pin? In Malaysia I often find that the mechanical interlock between Earth and Active prevents the plug from seating correctly. Some Australian power boards work the same way.
Gmail is in the cloud. Its pretty popular. And not particularly reliable.
Come again on that one?
You should build what you can sell, otherwise you won't sell anything.
Until we have wireless broadband that is ubiquitous, robust, and (most importantly) cheap, network appliances are going nowhere.
We do. Its the cellular network. iPhones and kindles are network appliances. Unfortunately this device doesn't have a cellular modem. And its architecture is too hungry for bandwidth anyway.
My sons ipod touch does everything this device does, and more. It has a smaller screen, but it has a smaller footprint as well. We bought it for ~230 AUD.
Its residual drag in the torque converter. These days with electronic throttle and fully electronic automatic transmissions there is no reason not to put the gear box in neutral when the engine is at idle.
I am just not much into games myself.
I don't understand...
I'm just not. Even in high school (~30 years ago) we had games on the Apple ][. I would watch other people play them, write my own or patch them for people. Never had an interest in playing.
I have posted this on /. a few times in the past so...
$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Linux | wc -l
180
$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Windows | wc -l
331
$ grep -v 10.1.1. access_log.* | grep access_point_names | cut -d" " -f12- | grep Macintosh | wc -l
83
The thing is, most Americans see Internet Explorer as 'The Internet'
Fixed that for you.
No my mum is an Australian and she is exactly the same. Fortunately she has three offspring to install software for her.
My son plays Star Wars: The force unleashed on our (his) Wii. The graphics on that game are much more like PC games than the Wii Sport games. I am just not much into games myself.
In Malaysia there are monkeys pretty much anywhere there is a bit of bush and the ability to scavenge food. In Singapore cats are all over the place. They aren't huge and overfed like our cat. They are slimmed down killing machines.
It makes me wonder what happened to the monkeys? Do the cats kill them? I wouldn't be surprised.
If the impactor is small (say 1km in diameter) a small dedicated crew might be able to change its orbit enough to make a difference in 30 years. My bet will still be on people walking out of the danger zone under their own steam, with assistance from first world nations in the form of political aid for border crossings and food dumps.
My plan would be to do everything possible, including sending a space craft.
With automatic transmissions these days there is this legacy behavior whereby at idle on level ground with no brakes applied the car will creep forward slowly. So now if you want to cross the road you have to dodge creeping cars. I think the default should be for gentle braking with no pedals pressed. With hybrids and electric cars it should be safer to cross the road when there is a queue of nominally stopped cars.
Its the Last Bug which is always impossible to find.
Thats a feature. I am sure the fuel tank indicates low as well.
But it is a surprise. Ubuntu so far has been (if not stable) then well tested and polished.
It is wrong to call them early adopters. They installed the release when it became available, I doubt that any of the bugs I have seen will be fixed in this release.
The two boot screens look sparse and cold to me. I wondered if Mark Shuttleworth was paying people back for the complaints about his "human" color scheme. The GDM window looks ugly to me. I definitely want the old one back.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and it is quite buggy. Much more than previous releases. I have had to go back to the NDIS wrapper to use my WG511 PCMCIA wifi adapter. I haven't had to do that in years.
My observations.
Ambulance drivers here in Melbourne, Australia use toughened laptops to track their operations out on the road. It seems to manage tasks from allocation to handoff in the hospital emergency room. A laptop with missing keys wouldn't be safe for them to use. It would accumulate crap and take their attention from the job at hand.
There is a clear plastic cover which you used to be able to buy for your car here in Victoria, Australia. The theory was that the plastic would reflect the flash from a speed or red light camera directly back into the camera and prevent it taking a good image of your registration plate.
Those registration plate covers are now illegal.
evacuating a circle 10000km around the impact site doesn't seem impossible
I doubt that. Take any location in the US and calculate the population within a 10000km diameter. Consider NOLA during/after Katrina (how many days did it take the DHS to bring water to the Super Dome?). I wish you were right, but your optimism seems to be fed exclusively by Hollywood. Sorry.
I am not saying it is easy and I am not assuming we could do it today. Moving populations around on the Earth is much easier than moving them off the planet, which is the idea I was originally responding to. If we forecast a strike in India for example I expect we would then see decades of fighting over land to the north. Nukes and all. Not pretty.
If we can see objects like this coming we should be able to evacuate the impact site ahead of time.
Hm... up to 70km you say - that's quite unlikely, results would be quite devastating, even if you were 8000km away from the impact site (but depending on quite a few parameters of the object/impact).
Give this a try, maybe you'll reconsider: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
Sure but half way around the earth is 20000km, so evacuating a circle 10000km around the impact site doesn't seem impossible. Easier than moving everybody to the moon or mars, anyway. I am assuming we can give ourselves 20 or 30 years warning with good quality remote sensing.
Then set aside a few hundred million a year in x-prize style incentives open to *everyone* not just US companies.
Cooperation is one thing, but we shouldn't rely on other nations to provide us with space access. It would be bad for the economy : US funds and technological advantage going to other countries.
Deep space exploration should be an international activity, if only because it is so expensive.
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