Now that we can play tennis by remote control I think we should introduce the system for the 2008 Australian open. These people play under conditions when most people in this city are sitting under the aircon vents in office buildings and homes, debating wether or not to venture outside for a swim.
In the interests of fewer baked and dehydrated tennis players I think we should approve teleoperation (unless the roof is closed).
2) Place files into a folder inside the hidden iPod Control folder on the iPod itself.
3) Update the.xml file that tracks what songs are where on the filesystem of the iPod. It too is located in the iPod Control folder.
Why can't the iPod find the files on its own? I might be out somewhere and not have the software. The fact is that the IPOD works that way to give apple control over the content people put on the device.
Yes but the GNU toolchain belongs to the FSF. You could replace shell utils, etc with a set from (say) netbsd but that doesn't give you a compiler. In fact, I am not aware of anything free which can replace GCC.
The general idea is to set up shop on the rim of a crater near one of the moon's poles. Such areas would be in sunlight, with a line-of-sight link to Earth all year round.
I think we should start by getting a few moon facts straight before we progress to a permenant settlement:
The moon does not rotate with respect to its orbital period around the Earth.
The only places where the Earth rises and sets to even a small degree are close to the equator, and we seem to have decided not to build it there.
So if it was going to lose line of sight occasionally it would be on every lunar orbit, not every year. The lunar axis of rotation is so close to the orbital plane around the Earth that a polar station will never see the Earth move significantly in its sky.
If anybody is interested my preference would be for a heavy, pressurised rover. Capable of autonomous driving and control from the ground. Each new crew lands close to the path of the rover and drives it for a week or so. They then meet up with another lander and use its ascent stage to return to Earth. Some ascent stages are landed under remote control so that the first crew can use one to return.
The problem with a fixed base is that the local area will get boring pretty quickly, so a pressurised rover will be needed in any event. If the rover only drives at 10km/h the whole habitat may just as well be on the rover. It can drive fast enough to always be in sunlight, so you don't have to worry about energy storage at night.
Ascent stages are flown down under automatic control, or left beh
Is there an easy to install, easy to use OS X clone that is actually Linux? I love the interface with the remote control that I saw on my friend's mac yesterday.
As far as I am aware the only way to get close to the mac UI is to buy a Mac. There are many free Linux distributions you can try. Ubuntu is the best for newcomers IMO. The gnome desktop offers a clean, uncluttered environment. KDE is more busy, but has more features. There is plenty of choice.
The biggest WTF in the US mobile phone system is you pay to recieve calls.
I am not a USAian but I assume that mobile phones in the USA have a real geographic area code, so the caller doesn't always know they are calling a mobile.
In relating to another species or race humans will do one of the following:
Eradicate
Domesticate/enslave
Given that white people like me only started taking black people seriously about 50 years ago I can only assume that the neanderthals would be considered a sub-human slave species like cattle, dogs, etc.
Perhaps we wiped them out because they were too smart to be enslaved with the technology of the time.
Accidently fell overboard -- very bad, especially with our cold water here. That's why you don't make ocean passages alone, no matter how experienced you are.
And on a related topic:
Incapacitating medical problem -- 63 is probably about the median age for a heart attack.
Lets hope he is found shacked up with something soft and sultry - RAH
Flying directly through what's essentially a planet-sized cathode ray tube? Isn't that, you know...
You can only really see the northern lights from darkness, so for maximum effect you would have to launch and land in the dark. That wasn't a requirement for SS1. Neither was flying in extreme cold.
SS2 is sounding like a totally different beast from SS1, rather than just being a bigger version of it.
I don't remember any complaints. But I do remember that one charity had a thing where they offered to take all your one and two cent coins as a donation. They had to come up with a new gimmick after that.
One factor may be that we only got our current currency in the 1960's anyway. Before then it was all non-decimal pounds, shillings, etc. So the old people never were really fond enough of the new system to want to complain.
Does this mean if I buy something priced at $1.96, I have to pay $2.00 because I won't be able to make exactly $1.96?
Here in.au our smallest coin is 5 cents. If the price is 1.95 to 1.97 you pay 1.95. If the price is 1.98, 1.99 or 2.00 you pay 2.00. If you are paying with credit or eftpos you pay the exact amount.
Retailers tend to say 1.95 where they might have said 1.99 when we had one cent coins.
putting all of my coins into a huge pile, and then dumping them into the free Commerce Bank change counter after the pile achieves critical mass and things begin to orbit it.
That used to happen here in.au until we got rid of one and two cent coins. Now the smallest coin is five cents and the biggest is two dollars. Occasionally I buy something from a vending machine with six or eight five cent coins. Other than that they don't pile up.
You might get it elevated from a county to a state level, but that is as far as it is going to go.
As with the Indian example we have a federal election commission in Australia, and it works very well. Votes are cast by pencil on paper, counted by casual workers, and the count is mostly finished in a couple of hours. Manual counting doesn't really cost anything because the same people who do the counting are also needed to man the polling places during the day.
I can't see how any kind of count or survey could be done by using different equipment or methodology in every county. Nobody would trust the result if that was done. For federal elections at least the exact same proceedures must be used everywhere, otherwise you would never trust the result.
And who better to enforce standards on people than Microsoft, eh?;-)
Ah yes: Moonwatcher the proto-human reaches out to touch the mysterious monolith, not comprehending the message displayed on its surface: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
Here's a snapshot of a prototype of what these artifacts will look like.
So rather than encoding our information in a simple form which people in the future can translate we should be building a machine which can adapt to conditions in the future and learn how to communicate with the natives. And if the natives don't evolve in the right direction it should direct their evolution until they bloody well do understand it.
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Now that we can play tennis by remote control I think we should introduce the system for the 2008 Australian open. These people play under conditions when most people in this city are sitting under the aircon vents in office buildings and homes, debating wether or not to venture outside for a swim.
In the interests of fewer baked and dehydrated tennis players I think we should approve teleoperation (unless the roof is closed).
Why can't the iPod find the files on its own? I might be out somewhere and not have the software. The fact is that the IPOD works that way to give apple control over the content people put on the device.
Yes but the GNU toolchain belongs to the FSF. You could replace shell utils, etc with a set from (say) netbsd but that doesn't give you a compiler. In fact, I am not aware of anything free which can replace GCC.
From TFA:
I think we should start by getting a few moon facts straight before we progress to a permenant settlement:
So if it was going to lose line of sight occasionally it would be on every lunar orbit, not every year. The lunar axis of rotation is so close to the orbital plane around the Earth that a polar station will never see the Earth move significantly in its sky.
If anybody is interested my preference would be for a heavy, pressurised rover. Capable of autonomous driving and control from the ground. Each new crew lands close to the path of the rover and drives it for a week or so. They then meet up with another lander and use its ascent stage to return to Earth. Some ascent stages are landed under remote control so that the first crew can use one to return.
The problem with a fixed base is that the local area will get boring pretty quickly, so a pressurised rover will be needed in any event. If the rover only drives at 10km/h the whole habitat may just as well be on the rover. It can drive fast enough to always be in sunlight, so you don't have to worry about energy storage at night.
Ascent stages are flown down under automatic control, or left behI thought you meant Tom Hanks and something else
Hope thats not as bad as being bought out by Microsoft
As far as I am aware the only way to get close to the mac UI is to buy a Mac. There are many free Linux distributions you can try. Ubuntu is the best for newcomers IMO. The gnome desktop offers a clean, uncluttered environment. KDE is more busy, but has more features. There is plenty of choice.
Its funny how many times you think oh yeah he's dead for sure and they get found in the end. Its worth searching. Tony Bullimore survived.
Only a dope would commit suicide knowing that people would risk their lives trying to find him. This guy doesn't sound like a dope.
I am not a USAian but I assume that mobile phones in the USA have a real geographic area code, so the caller doesn't always know they are calling a mobile.
In relating to another species or race humans will do one of the following:
Given that white people like me only started taking black people seriously about 50 years ago I can only assume that the neanderthals would be considered a sub-human slave species like cattle, dogs, etc.
Perhaps we wiped them out because they were too smart to be enslaved with the technology of the time.
And on a related topic:
Lets hope he is found shacked up with something soft and sultry - RAH
That one went right over my head. Care to elaborate?
You can only really see the northern lights from darkness, so for maximum effect you would have to launch and land in the dark. That wasn't a requirement for SS1. Neither was flying in extreme cold.
SS2 is sounding like a totally different beast from SS1, rather than just being a bigger version of it.
How are you going to make them, short of sending in the US marines?
I don't remember any complaints. But I do remember that one charity had a thing where they offered to take all your one and two cent coins as a donation. They had to come up with a new gimmick after that.
One factor may be that we only got our current currency in the 1960's anyway. Before then it was all non-decimal pounds, shillings, etc. So the old people never were really fond enough of the new system to want to complain.
Here in .au our smallest coin is 5 cents. If the price is 1.95 to 1.97 you pay 1.95. If the price is 1.98, 1.99 or 2.00 you pay 2.00. If you are paying with credit or eftpos you pay the exact amount.
Retailers tend to say 1.95 where they might have said 1.99 when we had one cent coins.
That used to happen here in .au until we got rid of one and two cent coins. Now the smallest coin is five cents and the biggest is two dollars. Occasionally I buy something from a vending machine with six or eight five cent coins. Other than that they don't pile up.
They may be counting copies distributed on the darknet after downloading. Burning a CD for a friend, that sort of thing.
Hmmm interesting. You must be older than the most typical age of downloaders if you know what a "goto" is :)
I am pretty sure that the same flat head screwdriver would open each of those locks as well.
As with the Indian example we have a federal election commission in Australia, and it works very well. Votes are cast by pencil on paper, counted by casual workers, and the count is mostly finished in a couple of hours. Manual counting doesn't really cost anything because the same people who do the counting are also needed to man the polling places during the day.
I can't see how any kind of count or survey could be done by using different equipment or methodology in every county. Nobody would trust the result if that was done. For federal elections at least the exact same proceedures must be used everywhere, otherwise you would never trust the result.
Presumably thats why it comes with FreeDOS, instead of a linux distro.
Ah yes: Moonwatcher the proto-human reaches out to touch the mysterious monolith, not comprehending the message displayed on its surface: Abort, Retry, Ignore?
So rather than encoding our information in a simple form which people in the future can translate we should be building a machine which can adapt to conditions in the future and learn how to communicate with the natives. And if the natives don't evolve in the right direction it should direct their evolution until they bloody well do understand it.