I do use the same user/pass combos for most of the sites I go to, mostly forums and things like that. But I have different combos for the important accounts. All my e-mail accounts and credit card/bank account sites have different ones, and the admin pass for my OS X computer is different too.
A massive missile launch would probably be over the north pole. What orbit is the ISS in again where they can see the north pole well? At best, they'd get a good look once every hour or two.
And why do they want to rely on Human eyes, anyways? Radar is more reliable and accurate - you can get a count of the missiles, determine their course, where they were launched from, and where they will hit.
Amid all the speculation of just how impending our doom is, has anyone considered just how difficult it would be to create a truly independent civilization with our current level of technology?
To start, we'll probably need to replicate most of Earth's biosphere on another planet. That means terraforming, quite an ambitious project. While we're changing the atmosphere of an entire planet, we'll also have to move enough examples of most of the species on the planet to reproduce properly, including humans. Just how many humans, for example, would be required to have a stable, long-term civilization? I don't know, but I don't think it would compare favorably to the total number of people we've sent into orbit so far. Not to mention all the other species.
Then, we'll have to duplicate most of Earth's heavy industry, including power generation and the ability to gather raw materials, process them, and manufacture things from them.
I do think that we will be able to do these things eventually, and that we have to do them eventually if we want to be a lasting race. We just aren't going to be doing them today. It's just too hard to get things out of Earth's gravity well with today's technology.
Everyone (except the far-left, and the RIAA) knows that you'll make far more money by embracing and investing in new technology then by trying to suppress it.
Interesting concept. You could "subscribe" to a show you like for $x a month/year, and be allowed to download it as a torrent as soon as it came out. That way, the distributors wouldn't even need that much bandwidth. Perhaps with discounts for high seed ratios too.
The trick is whether you'd be able to get enough money in to support production. The episodes would probably be reseeded on free trackers within a few hours, so you'd be counting on enough viewers to either simply want to pay the producers, or to be willing to pay to get it sooner and faster then non-subscribers.
I just grabbed it and tried it with a few documents. So far, it doesn't seem to like images. It didn't display them in simpler documents, and died on a complex one
On the plus side, it's smaller and faster then anything else (except maybe TextEdit), and appears to work fine with text and tables. I appreciate the simplicity too - it's nice to have a functional word processor that doesn't try to do everything under the sun.
The real test, though, is interoperability with most versions of MS Word.
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I do use the same user/pass combos for most of the sites I go to, mostly forums and things like that. But I have different combos for the important accounts. All my e-mail accounts and credit card/bank account sites have different ones, and the admin pass for my OS X computer is different too.
A massive missile launch would probably be over the north pole. What orbit is the ISS in again where they can see the north pole well? At best, they'd get a good look once every hour or two.
And why do they want to rely on Human eyes, anyways? Radar is more reliable and accurate - you can get a count of the missiles, determine their course, where they were launched from, and where they will hit.
This might be a stupid question, but isn't WPA fairly secure?
Amid all the speculation of just how impending our doom is, has anyone considered just how difficult it would be to create a truly independent civilization with our current level of technology?
To start, we'll probably need to replicate most of Earth's biosphere on another planet. That means terraforming, quite an ambitious project. While we're changing the atmosphere of an entire planet, we'll also have to move enough examples of most of the species on the planet to reproduce properly, including humans. Just how many humans, for example, would be required to have a stable, long-term civilization? I don't know, but I don't think it would compare favorably to the total number of people we've sent into orbit so far. Not to mention all the other species.
Then, we'll have to duplicate most of Earth's heavy industry, including power generation and the ability to gather raw materials, process them, and manufacture things from them.
I do think that we will be able to do these things eventually, and that we have to do them eventually if we want to be a lasting race. We just aren't going to be doing them today. It's just too hard to get things out of Earth's gravity well with today's technology.
Everyone (except the far-left, and the RIAA) knows that you'll make far more money by embracing and investing in new technology then by trying to suppress it.
Interesting concept. You could "subscribe" to a show you like for $x a month/year, and be allowed to download it as a torrent as soon as it came out. That way, the distributors wouldn't even need that much bandwidth. Perhaps with discounts for high seed ratios too.
The trick is whether you'd be able to get enough money in to support production. The episodes would probably be reseeded on free trackers within a few hours, so you'd be counting on enough viewers to either simply want to pay the producers, or to be willing to pay to get it sooner and faster then non-subscribers.
I just grabbed it and tried it with a few documents. So far, it doesn't seem to like images. It didn't display them in simpler documents, and died on a complex one On the plus side, it's smaller and faster then anything else (except maybe TextEdit), and appears to work fine with text and tables. I appreciate the simplicity too - it's nice to have a functional word processor that doesn't try to do everything under the sun. The real test, though, is interoperability with most versions of MS Word.
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