Yup. All the studies showing that rates of accidents triple while using a cell phone area all wrong, and you are the blessed exception to the rule. Reminds me of another study where 78% of all drivers considered themselves "above average".
a passenger will generally be privy to the environment like you. When I am talking to my wife when I am driving, we stop talking if I need my focus on something. The person on the other end of the phone just keeps babbling away, unaware that a semi is not totally in his lane and I have to decide whether to pass or ease off the gas.
No. These are not physical dip switches. Capacitors have to be constantly recharged to keep the charges that represent all the zeros and ones . Once power is removed, no more data.
Bad form to reply to myself, I know. However, I wanted to make sure my knee jerk reaction wasn't too far off base. I could not find a definitive answer, but see the discharge rate for RAM's capacitors to come out to a "half life" of 0.6 to 0.8 milliseconds. I was surprised by how quickly the charge deteriorates.
If you think forensics is going to be able to do anything with your RAM half a second after the power button is pushed, you are out of luck.
Yeah... uh right. I am sure there is some type of theoretical possibility here, but practically no. RAM has to be constantly "refreshed" to keep the charge high enough to be read. After about ten seconds without power, I doubt any instrument would be able to read the state before power down.
Yeah, yeah. Most likely, you are falling victim to Windows' misreporting of memory usage. In the age of "managed" memory, it become a little more difficult to know exactly how much memory a particular piece of software is using. Try this: in Win XP or 2000, look at a piece of software that has been running for a while. go to task manager and look at the memory "used". Minimize the piece of software. Look at the memory usage again. Amazingly, it will have dropped dramatically. This doesn't hold true with all software, but especially stuff designed under.NET, it will.
Absolutely. I am almost done reading an EULA on my other PC. When I am done, I look forward to finishing building my Win 95 system, working off of 3.1 sucks!
Ummmmm... by definition ions require some type of propellant. There are thoughts on some kind of mass driver that would take advantage of the sparsely populated atoms in space for thrust, but nothing past the drawing boards as far as I know.
That being said, ion drives are many, many times more efficient than traditional chemical propellants. If my memory serves, about 3 orders of magnitude more efficient. This yields a much smaller propellant tank. Especially when you consider that the tanks must also be dragged around.
If you are doing something you don't want to get caught for, use a throwaway email address. If you trust a web site to keep your information private, you need a reality check. You can fight the windmills all you want, but they will keep spinning away and ignore you.
Actually, let me refine my statement a bit. You'll never see a fully functional space elevator on earth. The requirements are too close to the edge of what is even theoretically possible. There is, in my mind, the possibility of a space elevator working on the moon, or other low gravity objects.
I cannot for the life of me envision using a cable in the tens of thousands of miles in length were a single atom being out of place is enough to bring it down. Place a material in space where there is no atmosphere to protect it from radiation, and I guarantee it will break down in one way or another.
Simple. The risk is taken into account by the project not being feasible in the first place. No elevator, no risk of elevator working. Disagree? Let's agree to revisit this again in 50 years and see how the progress has gone.
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And if you read the thread you were responding to, you'd know that this has nothing to do with the "average" in question.
Yup. All the studies showing that rates of accidents triple while using a cell phone area all wrong, and you are the blessed exception to the rule. Reminds me of another study where 78% of all drivers considered themselves "above average".
a passenger will generally be privy to the environment like you. When I am talking to my wife when I am driving, we stop talking if I need my focus on something. The person on the other end of the phone just keeps babbling away, unaware that a semi is not totally in his lane and I have to decide whether to pass or ease off the gas.
Be patient. The other five articles should appear soon.
No. These are not physical dip switches. Capacitors have to be constantly recharged to keep the charges that represent all the zeros and ones . Once power is removed, no more data.
Bad form to reply to myself, I know. However, I wanted to make sure my knee jerk reaction wasn't too far off base. I could not find a definitive answer, but see the discharge rate for RAM's capacitors to come out to a "half life" of 0.6 to 0.8 milliseconds. I was surprised by how quickly the charge deteriorates.
If you think forensics is going to be able to do anything with your RAM half a second after the power button is pushed, you are out of luck.
Yeah... uh right. I am sure there is some type of theoretical possibility here, but practically no. RAM has to be constantly "refreshed" to keep the charge high enough to be read. After about ten seconds without power, I doubt any instrument would be able to read the state before power down.
Ummm... that's a mirror you are looking at.
And a bar of soap.
(yeah, right)
Let me guess... you believed the Best Buy salesman who told you that you need a fast processor to surf the web and get emails, right?
Not FUD. This doesn't apply to Firefox, but you can see how it works with .NET assemblies here: http://www.itwriting.com/dotnetmem.php
Windows does not accurately show how much memory is being used by applications using managed memory.
Yeah, yeah. Most likely, you are falling victim to Windows' misreporting of memory usage. In the age of "managed" memory, it become a little more difficult to know exactly how much memory a particular piece of software is using. Try this: in Win XP or 2000, look at a piece of software that has been running for a while. go to task manager and look at the memory "used". Minimize the piece of software. Look at the memory usage again. Amazingly, it will have dropped dramatically. This doesn't hold true with all software, but especially stuff designed under .NET, it will.
Myself, I dropped out of high school and started working at 15, as a Lotus Notes developer
Wow. You should make a PSA. If that doesn't scare kids into staying in school, I don't know what will.
Absolutely. I am almost done reading an EULA on my other PC. When I am done, I look forward to finishing building my Win 95 system, working off of 3.1 sucks!
Not yet.
-- Brain
Narf!
-- Pinky
Ummmmm... by definition ions require some type of propellant. There are thoughts on some kind of mass driver that would take advantage of the sparsely populated atoms in space for thrust, but nothing past the drawing boards as far as I know.
That being said, ion drives are many, many times more efficient than traditional chemical propellants. If my memory serves, about 3 orders of magnitude more efficient. This yields a much smaller propellant tank. Especially when you consider that the tanks must also be dragged around.
Personally, I've been using Slashdot to meet my dating needs. Needless to say I have been less than impressed.
If you are doing something you don't want to get caught for, use a throwaway email address. If you trust a web site to keep your information private, you need a reality check. You can fight the windmills all you want, but they will keep spinning away and ignore you.
Problem solved.
And I thought looking to Star Trek for deep though was sad. This is over the top :)
And Lord forbid that the thing causes your spelling and lack of capitalization to degenerate FURTHER!
Call me a nut wack job.
Okay. You are a nut wack job.
What version are you using? I haven't noticed this behavior.
I have, however, noticed Firefox 2 crashing a lot more than it used to.
Actually, let me refine my statement a bit. You'll never see a fully functional space elevator on earth. The requirements are too close to the edge of what is even theoretically possible. There is, in my mind, the possibility of a space elevator working on the moon, or other low gravity objects.
I cannot for the life of me envision using a cable in the tens of thousands of miles in length were a single atom being out of place is enough to bring it down. Place a material in space where there is no atmosphere to protect it from radiation, and I guarantee it will break down in one way or another.
hey only need a little more length before you can weave these fibers into a super strong cable
My understanding is that it has to be one continuous piece.. not smaller "woven" pieces. Otherwise, the weight would be too much.
so how do they expect to avoid this risk?
Simple. The risk is taken into account by the project not being feasible in the first place. No elevator, no risk of elevator working. Disagree? Let's agree to revisit this again in 50 years and see how the progress has gone.