What is the point of this? Sure, you could have one window as a giant TV screen, or you could connect it to your laptop and have it as a giant PC screen, but you would not write your thesis by tapping on the onscreen keyboard on your window. You could use this to make the window dark to block out the sun, like those welding filters that auto darken when you spark up the welding arc. That would be very useful for north facing windows. That way you would save money on blinds, if you wanted something actually useful.
That happens a lot I am sure, there is no security, I bet the computers were running Windows XP. The local library I visit sometimes has Windows XP computers with SP2, in 2012! There needs to be a better default operating system we could deploy in these circumstances that would do a better job of security. But if there is a hardware keylogger hidden behind the machine, then the most secure OS in the world will not protect you.
I can not manage my website on their computers as I need to use port 2083 to connect to the Cpanel software and they have blocked that. What purpose does that serve? They block that, but 4chan was still available. Still, if you have banking to do, better to use a machine that you personally have control over and not one that is administered by a foreign party.
Alien life in the universe that we could encounter, depending on the climactic conditions, gravity and atmosphere would be very different from humans to say the least. They would not be all humanoid races that speak english and can walk and act just like humans, they might be boneless creatures like an octopus or evolved dolphins that pilot ships full of water, or something that we have not even encountered yet. Dolphins show amazing intelligence so it is easy to imagine, that if they evolved over the course of millions of years on a remote planet and developed mathematics and science, they could invent space flight. Star Trek had humanoid aliens as standard, but the science fiction of Larry Niven envisaged quite different creatures such as the puppeteers.
Not to forget the even stranger aliens in the book Sundiver by David Brin. Discovery channel one time showed a Jupiter sized Earth like planet that had small creatures crawling along its surface that had to eat continually in order to have enough energy to move in the massive gravity. I am not sure if it is possible for such a large planet to form, most large planets that have been discovered are gas giants. But any alien planet we visited could have alien bacteria that we would not have a immunity to and it could be very dangerous if we brought it back to Earth. So any future space exploration would still require caution.
It would be very hard indeed to check the code that has been burned into a chip and is running some spy software, unless you could pull apart an Iphone 4s and analyse the whole circuitry and firmware for the backdoors code. I am not sure how difficult that would be, surely more than just a logic probe and some spare time.
The old DOS Norton Utilities was a awesome product, with the Norton disk editor and other cool features, their products now are just bloat and nothing else. using common sense on the Internet can keep you safer than this product.
Better to use chocolate doom for playing your Doom games, it has a good OPL styled music playback and the original setup program that works on Linux with Ncurses.
As a webmaster, I notice that a majority of my visitors run Windows XP even after all of these years, it will still be around for a long time to come, a lot of businesses still run Windows XP and my local town library runs XP on their machines, they do not even have sp3 installed yet. IE 8.0 is their main browser, you will be lucky if you find a machine with Firefox 3 as an alternative. People only use the machines for Runescape, Facebook and Youtube amongst other standard web browsing activities, surely a basic Linux installation could manage this, but I guess that not everyone would be happy with this.
Windows can use mount points as well silly, you can mount a drive to a folder and then remove the drive letter, leaving you with the mount point that is just another folder like Linux. You need to learn a little more about computers before spouting BS. Did mummy forget your Christmas present.?
To see this cosmic event happening before our eyes. I know that it has already happened and we are seeing the light from the event finally reaching our eyes or CCDS, but this is an awesome event to watch and shows how incredible the universe around us truly is.
It is humbling to think that it could be our solar system spiraling into the black hole, but we could save Earth if we had 6*6*6 levels of energy, we could keep Earth poised next to the black hole and watch everything else fall in. Until the Doctor opens the Satan pit that is...
I am using Internet Explorer 9 x64 to type this, on Windows 7 Ultimate. It has many cool features that Firefox is lacking, such as loading images in place on a web page when browsing with images off. Firefox can load an image in a new tab, but not load it in place. And the speed of IE9 is far greater than Firefox to load as well.
That expose style of swtching windows was present in Gnome 2 with Compiz. And it is a very good way of switching windows. The extensions website will help with adding some missing features to Gnome 3.
The planet is 600 light years away, I think they would have to be very keen to travel that far to take over Earth. And what if the planet is just another gas giant?
The Smart meters use 2.4GHZ WIFI, because the reader is too lazy to come to each house and read the meter like the good old days? And the fact that these meters can cause cancer and other ailments does not seem to matter to the people that are pushing this new technology. Some sense needs to be made of this soon and we need to work out why these meters are putting out so much radiation. How are they going to reduce carbon emissions.
Smoking killed 4.83 million people in 2000, And the diabetes rate is rising, so I think that shit food and smoking will take care of all of the stupid and fat for you nicely. With 2.5 million Americans dying from smoking every year, we do not need wars to kill off the people.
What about a flexible 'phone that you wrap around your wrist and wear as a watch, but it can fold out into a keypad and a flexible screen or just a large touchscreen. Sort of like this idea: http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/nokia-4g-designer-phone/ maybe you could find a way to charge the 'phone using the swinging motion of walking around to charge the mobile phone.
I saw this idea in a book from my school library in the 80's along with many other fantastic ideas such as hosting the 2000 Olympics on the Moon and a transatlantic tunnel. I believed that by the year 2000, we would have such fantastic technology and be freed of the burden of hard manual labour by robots and be free to pursue other endeavours. But roll on 2011 and now we are only just testing this technology.
But I guess the future is taking longer than I thought to become a reality. But then again if robots were doing everything for us then what would we do? We would find something I guess, you would have more time for many other pursuits if you had a team of agricultural robots taking care of all the harvesting, sowing and herding the sheep in to be shorn. And even baling the wool for you. There would still be jobs to maintain those robots and program them. Unless they learn to program and repair/manufacture themselves...
The threat of litigation is not stopping everyone from downloading movies and games, the torrent sites are still running. And there are FTP sites popping up that have movies on them as well, piracy is everywhere.
Linux Mint is moving to Gnome 3 so even that distribution will be going down that road of bloat. But I just configured Lxde to look exactly like Gnome 2 on Fedora and I am happy enough with that.
There is a fork() of the Gnome 2 desktop code that may be able to resurrect this desktop environment. In my write-up I said that if this new Unity desktop is here to stay they had better not change it again on us again. Was Ubuntu 11.10 supposed to be running Gnome Shell with Unity on top, or is it just the same Unity desktop as 11.04?
I hope that this fork of Gnome 2 is successful and there are packages available in some third party repository for Ubuntu. Or someone just creates another distribution based on the MATE Desktop Environment and we could enjoy a stable and easy to use desktop without the load imposed by all of the Unity bloat. And I am typing this on a Fedora Core 15 desktop with Lxde. Fuck Unity, and Gnome 3.
I think you have underestimated the power of really big bombs. The Tsar bomba was rated at about 50MT when detonated, though there seems little debate that it would have reached its design yield of 100Mt if a uranium casing had been used rather than lead.
Anyway, taking into account the latent heat of vapuorisation of water, my back of the envelope calculation shows that it could vapourise a non trivial fraction (0.125) of a cubic kilometer of water. While that will return to the ocean eventually, on the timescale of a tsunami, it is effectively removed permenantly.
Also, according to wikipedia, 50Mt was about 1/4 of the estimated yield of the Krakatoa eruption which certainly caused decent sized tsunamis. The cause of the tsunamis seems to have been the volcano dumpig a lot of stuff into the sea. With a 50Mt blast in th eright place, one may be able to replicate a similar effect, magnifying the ability to generate a tsunami well beyond vapourising a lot of water.
Apparently a Saturn V rocket could deliver a 700 megaton warhead, that would obviously be overkill if a single 9 megaton warhead would be enough to destroy a single city. This gives me some hope that more nations will disassemble their weapons and find something more constructive to do with their nuclear material. The 1.3 Gigaton warhead mentioned on that page that the Antonov could theoretically carry would seem to have no real use apart from maybe deflecting an asteroid if we could get it into space that is.
A huge orbiting junk yard could lead to a space-station, the Chinese could build this and make a permanent step into space and help clean up all of the orbiting space junk, of which their must be millions of pieces by now. That would make future trips into space much safer.
The startup time should be faster if you used suspend instead of shutdown, Fedora 15 on my machine with 2GiB RAM, 7200rpm SATA 2 drives and i3 CPU @ 2.93 GHZ, starts back up to a desktop very quickly indeed, But I agree once they load it down with all of the services and other crap that Windows comes with then it will be slower than in these tests. And I did read the article.
Hopefully the Windows classic interface is an option.
The 4chan website is notorious for posting all kinds of material slandering various people without their knowledge, how would this apply to that site? I understand that if someone put up an anonymous imageboard website in the UK the equivalent of/b/, it would be targeted constantly if this law was in effect. I do not understand how that website is still up after all the stuff that has been posted there. But getting back to the point, this law sounds like the start of online censorship to restrict free speech and to allow the authorities to track the poster of comments they do not agree with.
Yes, we need the puppeteers to help us in our space voyages, they have the technology, we just need to ascend past pointless wars and start building a proper space programme again to be able to visit the ring-world. The General products hull reminds me of that movie Explorers where those kids went into space with the spaceship using a force-field hull.
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What is the point of this? Sure, you could have one window as a giant TV screen, or you could connect it to your laptop and have it as a giant PC screen, but you would not write your thesis by tapping on the onscreen keyboard on your window. You could use this to make the window dark to block out the sun, like those welding filters that auto darken when you spark up the welding arc. That would be very useful for north facing windows. That way you would save money on blinds, if you wanted something actually useful.
That happens a lot I am sure, there is no security, I bet the computers were running Windows XP. The local library I visit sometimes has Windows XP computers with SP2, in 2012! There needs to be a better default operating system we could deploy in these circumstances that would do a better job of security. But if there is a hardware keylogger hidden behind the machine, then the most secure OS in the world will not protect you.
I can not manage my website on their computers as I need to use port 2083 to connect to the Cpanel software and they have blocked that. What purpose does that serve? They block that, but 4chan was still available. Still, if you have banking to do, better to use a machine that you personally have control over and not one that is administered by a foreign party.
Alien life in the universe that we could encounter, depending on the climactic conditions, gravity and atmosphere would be very different from humans to say the least. They would not be all humanoid races that speak english and can walk and act just like humans, they might be boneless creatures like an octopus or evolved dolphins that pilot ships full of water, or something that we have not even encountered yet. Dolphins show amazing intelligence so it is easy to imagine, that if they evolved over the course of millions of years on a remote planet and developed mathematics and science, they could invent space flight. Star Trek had humanoid aliens as standard, but the science fiction of Larry Niven envisaged quite different creatures such as the puppeteers.
Not to forget the even stranger aliens in the book Sundiver by David Brin. Discovery channel one time showed a Jupiter sized Earth like planet that had small creatures crawling along its surface that had to eat continually in order to have enough energy to move in the massive gravity. I am not sure if it is possible for such a large planet to form, most large planets that have been discovered are gas giants. But any alien planet we visited could have alien bacteria that we would not have a immunity to and it could be very dangerous if we brought it back to Earth. So any future space exploration would still require caution.
It would be very hard indeed to check the code that has been burned into a chip and is running some spy software, unless you could pull apart an Iphone 4s and analyse the whole circuitry and firmware for the backdoors code. I am not sure how difficult that would be, surely more than just a logic probe and some spare time.
The old DOS Norton Utilities was a awesome product, with the Norton disk editor and other cool features, their products now are just bloat and nothing else. using common sense on the Internet can keep you safer than this product.
Better to use chocolate doom for playing your Doom games, it has a good OPL styled music playback and the original setup program that works on Linux with Ncurses.
Get it here. Works very well on Fedora Core 16.
As a webmaster, I notice that a majority of my visitors run Windows XP even after all of these years, it will still be around for a long time to come, a lot of businesses still run Windows XP and my local town library runs XP on their machines, they do not even have sp3 installed yet. IE 8.0 is their main browser, you will be lucky if you find a machine with Firefox 3 as an alternative. People only use the machines for Runescape, Facebook and Youtube amongst other standard web browsing activities, surely a basic Linux installation could manage this, but I guess that not everyone would be happy with this.
Windows can use mount points as well silly, you can mount a drive to a folder and then remove the drive letter, leaving you with the mount point that is just another folder like Linux. You need to learn a little more about computers before spouting BS. Did mummy forget your Christmas present.?
To see this cosmic event happening before our eyes. I know that it has already happened and we are seeing the light from the event finally reaching our eyes or CCDS, but this is an awesome event to watch and shows how incredible the universe around us truly is.
It is humbling to think that it could be our solar system spiraling into the black hole, but we could save Earth if we had 6*6*6 levels of energy, we could keep Earth poised next to the black hole and watch everything else fall in. Until the Doctor opens the Satan pit that is...
I am using Internet Explorer 9 x64 to type this, on Windows 7 Ultimate. It has many cool features that Firefox is lacking, such as loading images in place on a web page when browsing with images off. Firefox can load an image in a new tab, but not load it in place. And the speed of IE9 is far greater than Firefox to load as well.
That expose style of swtching windows was present in Gnome 2 with Compiz. And it is a very good way of switching windows. The extensions website will help with adding some missing features to Gnome 3.
The planet is 600 light years away, I think they would have to be very keen to travel that far to take over Earth. And what if the planet is just another gas giant?
The Smart meters use 2.4GHZ WIFI, because the reader is too lazy to come to each house and read the meter like the good old days? And the fact that these meters can cause cancer and other ailments does not seem to matter to the people that are pushing this new technology. Some sense needs to be made of this soon and we need to work out why these meters are putting out so much radiation. How are they going to reduce carbon emissions.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/12/health/main572833.shtml
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistics/
Smoking killed 4.83 million people in 2000, And the diabetes rate is rising, so I think that shit food and smoking will take care of all of the stupid and fat for you nicely. With 2.5 million Americans dying from smoking every year, we do not need wars to kill off the people.
What about a flexible 'phone that you wrap around your wrist and wear as a watch, but it can fold out into a keypad and a flexible screen or just a large touchscreen. Sort of like this idea: http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/nokia-4g-designer-phone/ maybe you could find a way to charge the 'phone using the swinging motion of walking around to charge the mobile phone.
I saw this idea in a book from my school library in the 80's along with many other fantastic ideas such as hosting the 2000 Olympics on the Moon and a transatlantic tunnel. I believed that by the year 2000, we would have such fantastic technology and be freed of the burden of hard manual labour by robots and be free to pursue other endeavours. But roll on 2011 and now we are only just testing this technology.
But I guess the future is taking longer than I thought to become a reality. But then again if robots were doing everything for us then what would we do? We would find something I guess, you would have more time for many other pursuits if you had a team of agricultural robots taking care of all the harvesting, sowing and herding the sheep in to be shorn. And even baling the wool for you. There would still be jobs to maintain those robots and program them. Unless they learn to program and repair/manufacture themselves...
The threat of litigation is not stopping everyone from downloading movies and games, the torrent sites are still running. And there are FTP sites popping up that have movies on them as well, piracy is everywhere.
Linux Mint is moving to Gnome 3 so even that distribution will be going down that road of bloat. But I just configured Lxde to look exactly like Gnome 2 on Fedora and I am happy enough with that.
There is a fork() of the Gnome 2 desktop code that may be able to resurrect this desktop environment. In my write-up I said that if this new Unity desktop is here to stay they had better not change it again on us again. Was Ubuntu 11.10 supposed to be running Gnome Shell with Unity on top, or is it just the same Unity desktop as 11.04?
I hope that this fork of Gnome 2 is successful and there are packages available in some third party repository for Ubuntu. Or someone just creates another distribution based on the MATE Desktop Environment and we could enjoy a stable and easy to use desktop without the load imposed by all of the Unity bloat. And I am typing this on a Fedora Core 15 desktop with Lxde. Fuck Unity, and Gnome 3.
CSI will jump on this for sure...
I think you have underestimated the power of really big bombs. The Tsar bomba was rated at about 50MT when detonated, though there seems little debate that it would have reached its design yield of 100Mt if a uranium casing had been used rather than lead.
Anyway, taking into account the latent heat of vapuorisation of water, my back of the envelope calculation shows that it could vapourise a non trivial fraction (0.125) of a cubic kilometer of water. While that will return to the ocean eventually, on the timescale of a tsunami, it is effectively removed permenantly.
Also, according to wikipedia, 50Mt was about 1/4 of the estimated yield of the Krakatoa eruption which certainly caused decent sized tsunamis. The cause of the tsunamis seems to have been the volcano dumpig a lot of stuff into the sea. With a 50Mt blast in th eright place, one may be able to replicate a similar effect, magnifying the ability to generate a tsunami well beyond vapourising a lot of water.
Apparently a Saturn V rocket could deliver a 700 megaton warhead, that would obviously be overkill if a single 9 megaton warhead would be enough to destroy a single city. This gives me some hope that more nations will disassemble their weapons and find something more constructive to do with their nuclear material. The 1.3 Gigaton warhead mentioned on that page that the Antonov could theoretically carry would seem to have no real use apart from maybe deflecting an asteroid if we could get it into space that is.
A huge orbiting junk yard could lead to a space-station, the Chinese could build this and make a permanent step into space and help clean up all of the orbiting space junk, of which their must be millions of pieces by now. That would make future trips into space much safer.
We can only hope.
The startup time should be faster if you used suspend instead of shutdown, Fedora 15 on my machine with 2GiB RAM, 7200rpm SATA 2 drives and i3 CPU @ 2.93 GHZ, starts back up to a desktop very quickly indeed, But I agree once they load it down with all of the services and other crap that Windows comes with then it will be slower than in these tests. And I did read the article.
Hopefully the Windows classic interface is an option.
The 4chan website is notorious for posting all kinds of material slandering various people without their knowledge, how would this apply to that site? I understand that if someone put up an anonymous imageboard website in the UK the equivalent of /b/, it would be targeted constantly if this law was in effect. I do not understand how that website is still up after all the stuff that has been posted there. But getting back to the point, this law sounds like the start of online censorship to restrict free speech and to allow the authorities to track the poster of comments they do not agree with.
Yes, we need the puppeteers to help us in our space voyages, they have the technology, we just need to ascend past pointless wars and start building a proper space programme again to be able to visit the ring-world. The General products hull reminds me of that movie Explorers where those kids went into space with the spaceship using a force-field hull.