Are they going to include the Windows classic interface? That is my favourite interface, it is very simple and sleek, hopefully that will be an option.
Concerning the OpenOffice debacle, I always used to uninstall Gnome and OpenOffice and then install a vanilla build of OpenOffice from a rpm pack and then I could run OpenOffice without any of the Gnome dependencies. But that was a while ago... Is Libreoffice the same?
And they really should have used Debian instead of Ubuntu, the 11.04 release is getting very bloated with the Unity / Gnome 3 desktop.
This reminds me of the photograph of Earth taken by Voyager the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph taken from the edge of the solar system. That is an amazing picture. It makes you realize just how small and fragile the Earth really is in the immensity of the Universe.
But what about building diamond semiconductors and revolutionizing the electronics industry? Would diamond be a very good material to build a chip with? It worked in a SciFi short story I read once where they were harvesting diamonds from the core of Neptune... They were the size of a VW.
And there was not the constant drive-by shootings we are having every day almost in the cities where the crime gangs are shooting up houses with automatic pistols. They take the guns off the innocent civilians and the criminals are still armed.
How does the security of the Android operating system compare to a more open operating system distribution like Debian or Fedora? Are they checking the applications that are added to ensure they do not bring in any security holes?
Just wondering. I am wanting to purchase a new or second hand `phone and I am wondering whether the Android thing is worth it or should I get something running Symbian.
So that scene in 2001 with David Bowman jumping out of the space pod into the emergency airlock could be possible, even though you would suffer some damage? At least you would not have blood pouring out of you like in Event Horizon.
A CRT monitor screen is a vacuum tube. The last ones still in use in a lot of computer rooms that have not upgraded to LCD screens. I still use a Phillips 107B 17" CRT. With Debian 6.0 of course.
Well, in the movies the terrorist/bad guy always uses Internet cafes to communicate with his superiors over IRC, maybe they should monitor that too... Like the Bruce Willis re-make of Day of the Jackal.
I doubt that they will stop the wars whilst people like Obama and others are in the White House and in charge of the nation with their own agendas that do not benefit the majority. Most people care more about Lady Gaga than space exploration.
But what about ripping CD`s into Itunes, the music is only for your use, and many people want to copy music into their library and keep the music CD away somewhere safe. This is a good decision.
What about the wheels on the vehicles in Snow Crash that where composed of many spokes sticking out that automatically adjusted to fit the terrain ahead? They where called Smart-wheels and they provided good traction at high-speed. I am not sure if this is possible yet, but would this work any better, assuming the spokes could be strong enough to support the vehicle and its rider.
Can you type sudo apt-get install synaptic? I love synaptic, the Software Center can not compare to it`s features. Please Canonical, leave it in the repository and then it is available when someone does want it.
This is the first quantum supercomputer, a 128 qubit machine that is already here. I am not sure how it compares to the machine planned in the OP, but it would be quite good for cracking a password hash or any other number crunching task for sure. Obviously if this is available to Lockheed Martin, then I am sure that the NSA have already taken ownership of machines like this as well. But this could simulate the weather better than existing machines and improve long term forecasts as well as predict financial data.
This has amazing possibilities for healing the disabled with certain disabilities I am sure of that, this is medical science at it`s best, with the soldier who otherwise would have an artificial leg, but he can regenerate the muscles in the damaged limb with implantation. This is what we need to help our injured soldiers from Iraq & Afghanistan. We should be able to help these people regenerate tissue instead of just chopping off the limb.
This rifle would easily take down a vehicle like this, they are not as invincible as they claim to be. I am sure that they are proof against a Kalashnikov or a.223 caliber rifle, but a good sniper rifle like the Anzio would take it out with one shot. Is this the start of the Mexican border war as depicted in the Robocop movie?
In one of the novels of Star Wars, the protagonist put 3 crystals in his lightsaber instead of one and he could switch it to 3 different lengths. So this is quite possible in the Star Wars universe. And lightsabers used standard laser diodes. So having 2 extra length settings for your light saber that the enemy does not know about would be very advantageous in battle.
What happened to the rumours a while ago about charging for E-mail? This might stem the tide if an E-Mail cost a very small fee to send, but considering the volumes of E-Mail sent around the world, this would not be very popular at all. There will be some bright spark out there that will come up with a solution for spam E-mails soon, but those Nigerian E-mails sure are funny...
The Sun can take much more than this, it is pretty massive to say the least and something like this will have no effect on it. Even the bomb in the movie Sunshine would be like a small hand grenade compared to the size of the Sun.
I would love to see a solar flare like this on a hyper-giant star like VY Canis Majoris, that would be unbelievably awesome. That star is 3,000,000,000 KM in diameter, truly dwarfing the Sun which is 1,470,000 KM. It is truly amazing how small we really are on a stellar scale.
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Phosgene gas in an oxygen tent would work, I have inhaled that before and it just made me want to go to sleep. That would be very peaceful.
Are they going to include the Windows classic interface? That is my favourite interface, it is very simple and sleek, hopefully that will be an option.
Definitely a photo of a model taken with flash in a dark room, why is it advertised as a deep space photo though...
Gnome Shell now available in Ubuntu 11.10 repositories. This might make a difference, if only they would keep Gnome 2...
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/gnome-shell-is-finally-available-in.html
Concerning the OpenOffice debacle, I always used to uninstall Gnome and OpenOffice and then install a vanilla build of OpenOffice from a rpm pack and then I could run OpenOffice without any of the Gnome dependencies. But that was a while ago... Is Libreoffice the same?
And they really should have used Debian instead of Ubuntu, the 11.04 release is getting very bloated with the Unity / Gnome 3 desktop.
damn, here is the proper link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot.
This reminds me of the photograph of Earth taken by Voyager the famous Pale Blue Dot photograph taken from the edge of the solar system. That is an amazing picture. It makes you realize just how small and fragile the Earth really is in the immensity of the Universe.
But what about building diamond semiconductors and revolutionizing the electronics industry? Would diamond be a very good material to build a chip with? It worked in a SciFi short story I read once where they were harvesting diamonds from the core of Neptune... They were the size of a VW.
And there was not the constant drive-by shootings we are having every day almost in the cities where the crime gangs are shooting up houses with automatic pistols. They take the guns off the innocent civilians and the criminals are still armed.
Gun buy-backs do not stop crime.
How does the security of the Android operating system compare to a more open operating system distribution like Debian or Fedora? Are they checking the applications that are added to ensure they do not bring in any security holes?
Just wondering. I am wanting to purchase a new or second hand `phone and I am wondering whether the Android thing is worth it or should I get something running Symbian.
So that scene in 2001 with David Bowman jumping out of the space pod into the emergency airlock could be possible, even though you would suffer some damage? At least you would not have blood pouring out of you like in Event Horizon.
A CRT monitor screen is a vacuum tube. The last ones still in use in a lot of computer rooms that have not upgraded to LCD screens. I still use a Phillips 107B 17" CRT. With Debian 6.0 of course.
Well, in the movies the terrorist/bad guy always uses Internet cafes to communicate with his superiors over IRC, maybe they should monitor that too... Like the Bruce Willis re-make of Day of the Jackal.
I doubt that they will stop the wars whilst people like Obama and others are in the White House and in charge of the nation with their own agendas that do not benefit the majority. Most people care more about Lady Gaga than space exploration.
Johnny cab was the funniest part of that movie, if we had real cab drivers like that city life would be quite different...
But what about ripping CD`s into Itunes, the music is only for your use, and many people want to copy music into their library and keep the music CD away somewhere safe. This is a good decision.
And I bet they run Windows XP as well...
What about the wheels on the vehicles in Snow Crash that where composed of many spokes sticking out that automatically adjusted to fit the terrain ahead? They where called Smart-wheels and they provided good traction at high-speed. I am not sure if this is possible yet, but would this work any better, assuming the spokes could be strong enough to support the vehicle and its rider.
Can you type sudo apt-get install synaptic? I love synaptic, the Software Center can not compare to it`s features. Please Canonical, leave it in the repository and then it is available when someone does want it.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/27/first-quantum-computer-sold/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Venturebeat+(VentureBeat)#bXpulseX
This is the first quantum supercomputer, a 128 qubit machine that is already here. I am not sure how it compares to the machine planned in the OP, but it would be quite good for cracking a password hash or any other number crunching task for sure. Obviously if this is available to Lockheed Martin, then I am sure that the NSA have already taken ownership of machines like this as well. But this could simulate the weather better than existing machines and improve long term forecasts as well as predict financial data.
The future is here.
This has amazing possibilities for healing the disabled with certain disabilities I am sure of that, this is medical science at it`s best, with the soldier who otherwise would have an artificial leg, but he can regenerate the muscles in the damaged limb with implantation. This is what we need to help our injured soldiers from Iraq & Afghanistan. We should be able to help these people regenerate tissue instead of just chopping off the limb.
http://www.anzioironworks.com/20MM-TAKE-DOWN-RIFLE.htm
This rifle would easily take down a vehicle like this, they are not as invincible as they claim to be. I am sure that they are proof against a Kalashnikov or a .223 caliber rifle, but a good sniper rifle like the Anzio would take it out with one shot. Is this the start of the Mexican border war as depicted in the Robocop movie?
In one of the novels of Star Wars, the protagonist put 3 crystals in his lightsaber instead of one and he could switch it to 3 different lengths. So this is quite possible in the Star Wars universe. And lightsabers used standard laser diodes. So having 2 extra length settings for your light saber that the enemy does not know about would be very advantageous in battle.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2006/feb/05/aolyahootost
What happened to the rumours a while ago about charging for E-mail? This might stem the tide if an E-Mail cost a very small fee to send, but considering the volumes of E-Mail sent around the world, this would not be very popular at all. There will be some bright spark out there that will come up with a solution for spam E-mails soon, but those Nigerian E-mails sure are funny...
The Sun can take much more than this, it is pretty massive to say the least and something like this will have no effect on it. Even the bomb in the movie Sunshine would be like a small hand grenade compared to the size of the Sun.
I would love to see a solar flare like this on a hyper-giant star like VY Canis Majoris, that would be unbelievably awesome. That star is 3,000,000,000 KM in diameter, truly dwarfing the Sun which is 1,470,000 KM. It is truly amazing how small we really are on a stellar scale.