Long may they live. It is good to be able to hack devices and make them do things they were not intended to do. That is the hacker spirit living on in 2012.
But what if you build the computer outside the Universe so it is not part of the Universe. The AC was in hyperspace... BTW, is the One in the Last Answer story the cosmic AC?
How long will it be until we can build a supercomputer that can span the Universe and if the Universe suffers a heat death it could just remake the whole Universe as it stored the state of everything within? Therefore humanity could survive even the end of the whole Universe in 100,000,000,000,000 years time. The short story the Last Question made quite an impression on me and surely with the current evolution in technology we could create a God computer eventually that would exist outside of anything we could comprehend. That would be mind-blowing.
Libreoffice can open the *.docx format just fine; I just wish there was a way to work on Access databases in Libreoffice as you can in Access. That is my only gripe.
And the Windows Server 2012 operating system also has the Metro interface, although once you are logged in it is straight to a command-line interface, but why does a server OS need a fancy GUI for logging in?
I use a large screen with HDMI input and I can output sound over the HDMI cable as well, this removes a lot of the noise that the integrated sound suffers from on my machine.
This will not stop the terrorism that we are facing these days, and how much data storage will this entail? All of the torrents, Debian packages and music I have downloaded will be stored? Treating the commoners like terrorists.
And we are still here. Looks like the Earth`s magnetic field has protected us again. Thank god for a spinning Iron core. it would suck to be living on Mars right now.
"The Tunnel" A 1935 scifi film had videoconferencing in 1935. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film). This is quite prescient for the time, they could never have imagined that we would carry powerful computers in our pockets now though.
One of the computers in this story was composed of microscopic vacuum tubes. Will it be possible to create a massive analogue computer like that instead of using digital chips?
In the Anime Ghost in the Shell and the Robocop movies, the cars have barcode license plates. Predictive programming? How long until this is a reality?
Windows 8 might be worth using if it had the Windows classic interface with the Windows 2000 look, the Metro abomination is a shovel digging the grave of Win 8. Like Ubuntu dumping Gnome 2.32.2 and adopting Unity in 11.04. You just drive users away. I just installed Windows 7 in a Virtualbox instance and the Windows classic interface is the only one I can stand.
I have a Telstra T Tab tablet and I upgraded it to Android 2.2.2 and installed the flash plugin that was available and it works perfectly with the Dolphin HD browser. I am not sure if other Android devices have this available, but the Telstra tablet has flash support. If only I could get a keyboard to attach to it, then it could be a little laptop.
If you built the gun barrel 20 KM long, so that it extended into the outer atmosphere and it was an electromagnetic railgun, then you could gradually accellerate a craft and pop it out the top and fire a rocket engine to get an extra boost. It could work. The StarTram project could be more promising. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/StarTram
But that machine kept you at the source and transmitted your copy. Therefore you would have to kill yourself over and over. It would be useful for replicating a bag of 100 dollar bills expotentially though. You would be rich. You could buy 10 gold bars and replicate them with the machine to create 10,000 gold bars, sell them then make another 10,000. Think about it...
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Long may they live. It is good to be able to hack devices and make them do things they were not intended to do. That is the hacker spirit living on in 2012.
But what if you build the computer outside the Universe so it is not part of the Universe. The AC was in hyperspace... BTW, is the One in the Last Answer story the cosmic AC?
How long will it be until we can build a supercomputer that can span the Universe and if the Universe suffers a heat death it could just remake the whole Universe as it stored the state of everything within? Therefore humanity could survive even the end of the whole Universe in 100,000,000,000,000 years time. The short story the Last Question made quite an impression on me and surely with the current evolution in technology we could create a God computer eventually that would exist outside of anything we could comprehend. That would be mind-blowing.
Libreoffice can open the *.docx format just fine; I just wish there was a way to work on Access databases in Libreoffice as you can in Access. That is my only gripe.
The MATE desktop on Linux Mint 13 suits me just fine, I see no need to move to something like a giant Windows Phone styled interface.
And the Windows Server 2012 operating system also has the Metro interface, although once you are logged in it is straight to a command-line interface, but why does a server OS need a fancy GUI for logging in?
I use a large screen with HDMI input and I can output sound over the HDMI cable as well, this removes a lot of the noise that the integrated sound suffers from on my machine.
I just use quakespasm on Linux Mint to play Quake and I do not need to use the Quake CD to get that working.
This will not stop the terrorism that we are facing these days, and how much data storage will this entail? All of the torrents, Debian packages and music I have downloaded will be stored? Treating the commoners like terrorists.
What about XFS. How does that compare?
And we are still here. Looks like the Earth`s magnetic field has protected us again. Thank god for a spinning Iron core. it would suck to be living on Mars right now.
I remember an old version of Red Hat Linux that had autorun enabled by default. No longer of course.
On Ubuntu 11.04.
flynn@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sh ./trojan
sudo rm / -rf
read: 3: Illegal option -s
Almost had ya! ;-)
flynn@ubuntu:~/Desktop$
There is some information here about writing ELF viruses: http://virus.enemy.org/virus-writing-HOWTO/_html/. This is old, but shows some methods for writing a Linux virus.
"The Tunnel" A 1935 scifi film had videoconferencing in 1935. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tunnel_(1935_film). This is quite prescient for the time, they could never have imagined that we would carry powerful computers in our pockets now though.
The Decker unit will be able to assist you with greater efficiency.
Stanley Tweedle, Number 476329-43 Department 511 Level 4! Report to security!
Former assistant deputy backup courier for the Austral B Heretics.
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
One of the computers in this story was composed of microscopic vacuum tubes. Will it be possible to create a massive analogue computer like that instead of using digital chips?
In the Anime Ghost in the Shell and the Robocop movies, the cars have barcode license plates. Predictive programming? How long until this is a reality?
The vistart addon for Windows 8 will fix that. It still allows access to Metro as well. http://lee-soft.com/vistart/.
Windows 8 might be worth using if it had the Windows classic interface with the Windows 2000 look, the Metro abomination is a shovel digging the grave of Win 8. Like Ubuntu dumping Gnome 2.32.2 and adopting Unity in 11.04. You just drive users away. I just installed Windows 7 in a Virtualbox instance and the Windows classic interface is the only one I can stand.
I have a Telstra T Tab tablet and I upgraded it to Android 2.2.2 and installed the flash plugin that was available and it works perfectly with the Dolphin HD browser. I am not sure if other Android devices have this available, but the Telstra tablet has flash support. If only I could get a keyboard to attach to it, then it could be a little laptop.
If you built the gun barrel 20 KM long, so that it extended into the outer atmosphere and it was an electromagnetic railgun, then you could gradually accellerate a craft and pop it out the top and fire a rocket engine to get an extra boost. It could work. The StarTram project could be more promising. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/StarTram
But that machine kept you at the source and transmitted your copy. Therefore you would have to kill yourself over and over. It would be useful for replicating a bag of 100 dollar bills expotentially though. You would be rich. You could buy 10 gold bars and replicate them with the machine to create 10,000 gold bars, sell them then make another 10,000. Think about it...
I meant that mould does give off gases with an odour. CO2 could be a component of that.