Windows EventID 9582: The virtual memory necessary to run your Exchange server is fragmented in such a way that performance may be affected. It is highly recommended that you restart all Exchange services to correct this issue.
How do you make ensure athletes are taking such substances in a "healthy" manner?
You don't.
Not to mention that we have zero clue about the long term effects of all the designer performance enhancers that are being cooked up today.
Well... this is one way of finding out.
I think Red Dwarf touched on this idea. Soccer teams were starting to put on players who had obviously been genetically enhanced, so they booted them out into their own league, which buried normal Soccer in a year, and only ended when one of the countries (Scotland?) put on a player who was a 8ft wide hunk of flesh, completely obscuring the goal (but still failed to qualify for the third round)
We use L/100km in Australia too, but I think a lot of people here have a fair idea of what mpg figure is good vs what is bad. What year did you guys start using decimal? When I was at university I owned a '63 Morris 850 (Mini), which got about 40mpg.
Up until about a month ago my current car (2002 Ford Falcon Ute)'s computer said it got 11.2L/100km, and I do probably 75% highway travel @ ~110km/h. Now it has started saying it's getting around 9.5-10L/100km, but the amount and type of driving i'm doing hasn't changed... so i'm not sure if I trust it, especially as the fuel gauge will periodically spontaneously say the tank is completely empty.
I wish we were in a bar. I'd take you up on that bet and snag me a free drink:) Easy counter-example, you're not going to find a Bose-Einstein Condensate cropping up in a nova.
I did think of the really cold things that probably wouldn't happen inside a supernova (although... you never know:), but the type of action under consideration (eg universe crashing) is probably more likely to happen because of a really 'hot' action than a really 'cold' one.
This argument would probably attract a lot of really strange stares from other bar patrons, particularly as the evening dragged on...:)
Well... it could be that the 'crash' or 'reboot' propagates at the speed of light. So some part of the universe has already crashed and the crash just hasn't reached us yet.
That being said, it's a fairly safe bet that anything to do with physics probably happens inside a supernova (every possible particle created, however fleetingly), so if a few supernovae haven't triggered the destruction of the universe I think we're pretty safe.
Bah. That'll teach you. They've been warning you for years about the perils of 4 bit encryption!
And don't just go and move to 5 bit encryption, i'm sure that that'll be broken any year now. I'd suggest starting at 8 bit, with a plan to move to 16 bit in 18 months or so.
btw, if this technology has a doubling time trend like Moore's law, does that mean they'll double the number of bits every x months, or add a new bit every x months? I need to know so I can plan my move to 32 bit encryption...
I'm not quite sure why such a product doesn't exist yet... about 10 years ago I figured that the sex doll people would be building in a microphone and speaker and making a deal with the sex phone line people to give the doll a voice. It would be a great revenue model... charge $xxx for the doll up front, and then $xxx/minute to get a real girl (or a guy with a girly sounding voice) on the other end of the phone too.
In fact these days i'm sure they could figure out a way of putting 'grope sensors' on the doll and hooking it up to the internet, so the person on the other end knows what you are currently up to and can provide appropriate feedback.
I'm sure you could rig it so that it would blow up on queue, or even vent some fake smoke or something... but the third time it happens in a meeting just after the last of the donuts has gone it might start to look a bit suspicious...
Instead of making 100s of different NICs that all behaved differently and required their own software drivers, NIC makers all constructed their hardware so that it would behave like a NE2000 ethernet card.
That's almost how it happened. Novell used National Semiconductors sample design for how a bare minimum card based on it's 8390 ethernet controller could be constructed. Then everyone else copied it too. I don't think it was done for compatibility reasons, it just saved you doing design work. It was also pretty sucky in terms of throughput and CPU usage.
The Workplace Safety people in Australia are currently running a series of ads along the lines of a manager asking a factory worker to do dangerous tasks, eg
"We're running behind schedule, could you use the machine with the broken guard? You'll probably get your hair tangled in it, leaving you horribly disfigured for life".
or
"We need this stuff shipped out tonight, could get in that forklift and grab the crates from the highest shelf. It will probably tip over and you'll break your neck".
I was reminded of those ads when I saw this article...
"Okay guys... the safety concerns that lead to us shutting down this nuclear plant still remain, but we really need those isotopes, so we need you all to get back to work. Hope you aren't planning on having any more kids..."
i wonder if being in the relaxed state of unconsciousness would make any difference to the injuries sustained when you hit the ground... as you probably would be in a fall from a high enough altitude
Not quite as silly as you might think. In rural locations, it is quite possible that the power failure is very local (eg a possum climbed up the pole the night before and cooked a fuse (and itself)), and the power company won't know about it unless you tell them. Phoning up a neighbor is a reasonable thing to do in that case.
This used to happen all the time at my mums place. The outage would affect her and the weekend house across the road (who would most likely be away). The neighbor up the hill would be a good indicator to it being a possum induced fuse failure or something more widespread.
Ditto for a failure in your fusebox. If everyone else has power and you don't, there isn't much use calling the power company... I know most people reading this would have a tripped breaker fixed in a few seconds, but maybe your grandmother wouldn't know how to, and in fact she might still have fuse wire instead of a resettable breaker.
Even for the mail server case, a user in a remote branch who hasn't received any email all morning would probably ask if the server was down before bothering you with their specific issue. Of course a good helpdesk would put up a recorded message in that case eg 'We are currently experiencing problems with our email server, we expect the problem to be fixed in xxx minutes'.
I'm sorry, this is just ignorant. "Anything that is radioactive" cannot be used as a power source for a nuclear reactor. You can't just throw a radioactive hammer into a reactor core and have it function as fuel.
Dammit... and there was me thinking that they could just the employees for fuel after they'd absorbed 'company' radiation.
A soft drink machine was invented that would complain if people kicked it or tried to tilt it. So it got kicked and tilted more than any other.
Some cars, when parked, ask people to move away if they get too close, so people deliberately get close and try and taunt it.
A new digital media format is released, with a claim to being uncrackable, so it gets cracked very quickly.
So logically, what happens when a robot gets invented that's sole claim to fame is that it won't fall over, even if kicked?
And now we find that even a robot who's sole purpose is to play the violin is going to get kicked too, just to see what happens...
I think i'll invent a line of robots who's sole purpose is to whack you over the head with a cardboard tube if you kick them or other robots over, or just generally abuse technology for your own amusement. Then i'll release version 2 which features a crowbar instead of a cardboard tube. I'll make a fortune selling them as guards for kick-overable robots, vending machines, cars, and DVD's.
Perhaps this is how the pyramids were built... hardly any effort involved at all, they just waited until the wind was behind them and coaxed the rocks into their location with some slippery mud...
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CGI? Has there ever been a test case on that?
Windows EventID 9582: The virtual memory necessary to run your Exchange server is fragmented in such a way that performance may be affected. It is highly recommended that you restart all Exchange services to correct this issue.
It happens quite a bit actually.
You don't.
Well... this is one way of finding out.
I think Red Dwarf touched on this idea. Soccer teams were starting to put on players who had obviously been genetically enhanced, so they booted them out into their own league, which buried normal Soccer in a year, and only ended when one of the countries (Scotland?) put on a player who was a 8ft wide hunk of flesh, completely obscuring the goal (but still failed to qualify for the third round)
We use L/100km in Australia too, but I think a lot of people here have a fair idea of what mpg figure is good vs what is bad. What year did you guys start using decimal? When I was at university I owned a '63 Morris 850 (Mini), which got about 40mpg.
Up until about a month ago my current car (2002 Ford Falcon Ute)'s computer said it got 11.2L/100km, and I do probably 75% highway travel @ ~110km/h. Now it has started saying it's getting around 9.5-10L/100km, but the amount and type of driving i'm doing hasn't changed... so i'm not sure if I trust it, especially as the fuel gauge will periodically spontaneously say the tank is completely empty.
Preview first dammit...
Well... it could be that the 'crash' or 'reboot' propagates at the speed of light. So some part of the universe has already crashed and the crash just hasn't reached us yet.
That being said, it's a fairly safe bet that anything to do with physics probably happens inside a supernova (every possible particle created, however fleetingly), so if a few supernovae haven't triggered the destruction of the universe I think we're pretty safe.
Bah. That'll teach you. They've been warning you for years about the perils of 4 bit encryption!
And don't just go and move to 5 bit encryption, i'm sure that that'll be broken any year now. I'd suggest starting at 8 bit, with a plan to move to 16 bit in 18 months or so.
btw, if this technology has a doubling time trend like Moore's law, does that mean they'll double the number of bits every x months, or add a new bit every x months? I need to know so I can plan my move to 32 bit encryption...
I'm not quite sure why such a product doesn't exist yet... about 10 years ago I figured that the sex doll people would be building in a microphone and speaker and making a deal with the sex phone line people to give the doll a voice. It would be a great revenue model... charge $xxx for the doll up front, and then $xxx/minute to get a real girl (or a guy with a girly sounding voice) on the other end of the phone too.
In fact these days i'm sure they could figure out a way of putting 'grope sensors' on the doll and hooking it up to the internet, so the person on the other end knows what you are currently up to and can provide appropriate feedback.
Or maybe such a product already exists...
I'm sure you could rig it so that it would blow up on queue, or even vent some fake smoke or something... but the third time it happens in a meeting just after the last of the donuts has gone it might start to look a bit suspicious...
As they say, mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets...
That's almost how it happened. Novell used National Semiconductors sample design for how a bare minimum card based on it's 8390 ethernet controller could be constructed. Then everyone else copied it too. I don't think it was done for compatibility reasons, it just saved you doing design work. It was also pretty sucky in terms of throughput and CPU usage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NE2000
where are you? and what should I search youtube for? (eg what is your countries work safety dept called?) :)
The Workplace Safety people in Australia are currently running a series of ads along the lines of a manager asking a factory worker to do dangerous tasks, eg
"We're running behind schedule, could you use the machine with the broken guard? You'll probably get your hair tangled in it, leaving you horribly disfigured for life".
or
"We need this stuff shipped out tonight, could get in that forklift and grab the crates from the highest shelf. It will probably tip over and you'll break your neck".
I was reminded of those ads when I saw this article...
"Okay guys... the safety concerns that lead to us shutting down this nuclear plant still remain, but we really need those isotopes, so we need you all to get back to work. Hope you aren't planning on having any more kids..."
Scientists are easily surprised. It's not that strange.
i wonder if being in the relaxed state of unconsciousness would make any difference to the injuries sustained when you hit the ground... as you probably would be in a fall from a high enough altitude
Not quite as silly as you might think. In rural locations, it is quite possible that the power failure is very local (eg a possum climbed up the pole the night before and cooked a fuse (and itself)), and the power company won't know about it unless you tell them. Phoning up a neighbor is a reasonable thing to do in that case.
This used to happen all the time at my mums place. The outage would affect her and the weekend house across the road (who would most likely be away). The neighbor up the hill would be a good indicator to it being a possum induced fuse failure or something more widespread.
Ditto for a failure in your fusebox. If everyone else has power and you don't, there isn't much use calling the power company... I know most people reading this would have a tripped breaker fixed in a few seconds, but maybe your grandmother wouldn't know how to, and in fact she might still have fuse wire instead of a resettable breaker.
Even for the mail server case, a user in a remote branch who hasn't received any email all morning would probably ask if the server was down before bothering you with their specific issue. Of course a good helpdesk would put up a recorded message in that case eg 'We are currently experiencing problems with our email server, we expect the problem to be fixed in xxx minutes'.
Dammit... and there was me thinking that they could just the employees for fuel after they'd absorbed 'company' radiation.
Had the washing machine cleansed the memory stick of all your pr0n?
A soft drink machine was invented that would complain if people kicked it or tried to tilt it. So it got kicked and tilted more than any other.
Some cars, when parked, ask people to move away if they get too close, so people deliberately get close and try and taunt it.
A new digital media format is released, with a claim to being uncrackable, so it gets cracked very quickly.
So logically, what happens when a robot gets invented that's sole claim to fame is that it won't fall over, even if kicked?
And now we find that even a robot who's sole purpose is to play the violin is going to get kicked too, just to see what happens...
I think i'll invent a line of robots who's sole purpose is to whack you over the head with a cardboard tube if you kick them or other robots over, or just generally abuse technology for your own amusement. Then i'll release version 2 which features a crowbar instead of a cardboard tube. I'll make a fortune selling them as guards for kick-overable robots, vending machines, cars, and DVD's.
Any Futurama fan will also know that Bender's brain is a 6502, as revealed by the 'F Ray' in 'Fry and the Slurm Factory'
Now that would be justice!
Well actually it wouldn't... but it would be funny.
Perhaps this is how the pyramids were built... hardly any effort involved at all, they just waited until the wind was behind them and coaxed the rocks into their location with some slippery mud...
If Sony ever announces a similar project in my backyard, I'm moving!
I am at a loss as to which Douglas Adams quote is appropriate here...