Actually, Linux and Free Software in general promotes things like code reuse, and software that 'converges' rather than software where the business model dictates that the code base should be thrown away and replaced every few years. As such, we might need to see the Linux Desktop as part of the solution. The idea I am getting at is that the Slackware and Mozilla Suite I was using ten years ago might be sufficient to use today, and that the improvements made in it might be convergent, rather than just a fume-chasing exercize to produce an 'easy to use' software environment to compete with Microsoft and Apple. In a way it's ridiculous that I can't still be communicating effectively on Slashdot using the Pentium 75 that I was a decade ago. The 4 gigs of RAM and screaming multicore 64-bit environment I am presently using is really overkill.
Except, even in places like Slashdot, there are code monkeys wanting to have 'their' fingerprint in the codebase, and their features added. So everything gets slower, requires more hardware and memory, etc. In my perfect world scenario, new software would run faster, and better, on the same old hardware.
Perhaps we need to help advance these other civilizations.
Unfortunately, that is often criticized as 'cultural genocide,' even in instances where most of the population of said civilizations want the advancements once they are presented with the opportunity.
gasoline is highly flammable, but not in liquid form. It has to be converted to vapor, which is not an easy all-at-once process. The 'exploding cars' you see on those cop chase stories don't happen in real life.
Whereas a charged capacitor, so long as it's of any use (meaning one that doesn't have a high internal resistance that limits instantaneous discharge) can discharge all of it's energy nearly as quickly as the discharge path allows, and any plain metal bridge serves as an instantaneous maximum discharge path.
True, but I can already see the 'after-market power booster kits' that would crop up. So every clank-clank motorhead moron is now digging into the sealed metal box and trying to 'supercharge' the nuclear reactor.
No, we need to continue to let the tweaks do things like put LED illuminated cables in their PC's with transparent cases, etc, not have the same sort of tweaks fooling with mini nuclear reactors.
Gasoline is relatively inert, until mixed with the proper amount of air, the function which a carburetor or fuel injection system performs. You can snuff out a lit match in gasoline, as long as the fumes haven't been allowed to build up significantly. This is why gasoline as a fuel is so safe compared to many of the proposed alternatives, such as the looming disaster that hydrogen fuel poses.
what would likely be several Farads of high voltage
The term you are looking for is coulombs of energy. The coulombs in a charged capacitor is C x V, or the capacitance times the voltage the capacitor is charged to. Coulombs can also be expressed in terms of I x T, or the time at which a discharge at a specific current will take.
These two figures kind of define capacitance, and it gives you a handy way of figuring out the (theoretical) amount of discharge current versus time a charged capacitor of known value will deliver. It's also an offbeat way of measuring the value of a capacitor (charge to known voltage, measure coulombs you get from a full discharge by integrating time x current.)
Let's make it a point to revisit this when the results are in, I'm looking forward to rubbing your face in it.
Sounds good. But no, I am not up for visiting the fantasy world (the Maddog/Huffyton/DemogoguesUnderground/DailyChaos world) that you live in, so it will need to be visitation in the real world. You go there sometimes, I hope.
Every version of NT 4.0 is on the official Windows NT disk. There may be 'truncated' third party versions of the NT 4.0 CD. Mine is a Compaq OEM version, and every NT 3.x version I have ever seen also includes the alternative architectures.
I have installed the i386, Alpha, and PPC versions of NT 4.0 off that single CD.
In the sense that they can and it sounds like they will be actively working to break third-party connectivity. When a protocol is unpublished and hence proprietary, that's what an entity gets to do. If it works for them, and doesn't explode in their face. Which we all hope it will.
But howling with fury at the way things stand is not a productive use of time.
However, their service could be much better when it would be open. Like e-mail is open.
You picked a rather lousy example of 'open.' Email is so open that it's a spam center and that makes it significantly less useful than it could be. Twitter probably wouldn't even have come into existence if people could rely on email as being more secure and spam-free.
360 I can believe (it's not even x86 - it's PowerPC), but not the original.
Being PowerPC wouldn't matter. Windows NT has run on the PowerPC architecture since NT 4.0. I've personally run the PPC port of NT 4.0 (it was a just-because kind of thing. I've still never installed the MIPS port, but have run every other NT 4 port.
Microsoft has a very cross-platform capable codebase.
The important thing is that there be full exposure. Breitbart has publicly stated that he is in favor of the investigation. It was Weenie who wanted to do nothing about it and write it off as 'a prank' until quite recently. Even if it were a prank by a member of his family or someone else close to him, a full investigation is warranted. Even, actually, if it exonerates Breitbart and takes Weenie down.
When I attended college in the early 1980's the small private college I enrolled in used our Social Security Numbers as our student ID. I am not sure how they've cleaned that mess up....
What is the measurable radiation of bluetooth? I imagine it is significantly reduced from that of a cellular transceiver that is communicating over a mile or more of distance. But it still warrants consideration.
But it also means that we currently have two entire generations that will all develop brain cancer around age 30. I imagine that would be a touch devastating to the first world countries.
Not really. It sounds like a selection process to me. It's easy to fall into the habit of thinking 'fuck off and die' when you see people driving or walking with a cellphone wedged permanently to their face.
There will be a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing cancer wards filled with that sort of people. I wonder if they'll have to put extra cell towers near the hospices?
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Actually, Linux and Free Software in general promotes things like code reuse, and software that 'converges' rather than software where the business model dictates that the code base should be thrown away and replaced every few years. As such, we might need to see the Linux Desktop as part of the solution. The idea I am getting at is that the Slackware and Mozilla Suite I was using ten years ago might be sufficient to use today, and that the improvements made in it might be convergent, rather than just a fume-chasing exercize to produce an 'easy to use' software environment to compete with Microsoft and Apple. In a way it's ridiculous that I can't still be communicating effectively on Slashdot using the Pentium 75 that I was a decade ago. The 4 gigs of RAM and screaming multicore 64-bit environment I am presently using is really overkill.
Except, even in places like Slashdot, there are code monkeys wanting to have 'their' fingerprint in the codebase, and their features added. So everything gets slower, requires more hardware and memory, etc. In my perfect world scenario, new software would run faster, and better, on the same old hardware.
Perhaps we need to help advance these other civilizations.
Unfortunately, that is often criticized as 'cultural genocide,' even in instances where most of the population of said civilizations want the advancements once they are presented with the opportunity.
Okay, dude. Whatever. Your hero fessed up today. Here's a towel to wipe the egg off your face.
Being as I just downloaded a torrent of OSX to try installing in VirtualBox, you just scared the fuck out of me.
hmmm, except black people. I'm pretty sure there were many slaves ... (jabber snipped)
The first American killed as a soldier in the Revolutiuonary War, Crispus Attucks was a black man.
To clarify, watts are not a valid measure of a charge of energy. The energy in a capacitor is it's charge, which is measured in coulombs.
a tank of highly flammable liquid
gasoline is highly flammable, but not in liquid form. It has to be converted to vapor, which is not an easy all-at-once process. The 'exploding cars' you see on those cop chase stories don't happen in real life.
Whereas a charged capacitor, so long as it's of any use (meaning one that doesn't have a high internal resistance that limits instantaneous discharge) can discharge all of it's energy nearly as quickly as the discharge path allows, and any plain metal bridge serves as an instantaneous maximum discharge path.
True, but I can already see the 'after-market power booster kits' that would crop up. So every clank-clank motorhead moron is now digging into the sealed metal box and trying to 'supercharge' the nuclear reactor.
No, we need to continue to let the tweaks do things like put LED illuminated cables in their PC's with transparent cases, etc, not have the same sort of tweaks fooling with mini nuclear reactors.
Gasoline is relatively inert, until mixed with the proper amount of air, the function which a carburetor or fuel injection system performs. You can snuff out a lit match in gasoline, as long as the fumes haven't been allowed to build up significantly. This is why gasoline as a fuel is so safe compared to many of the proposed alternatives, such as the looming disaster that hydrogen fuel poses.
what would likely be several Farads of high voltage
The term you are looking for is coulombs of energy. The coulombs in a charged capacitor is C x V, or the capacitance times the voltage the capacitor is charged to. Coulombs can also be expressed in terms of I x T, or the time at which a discharge at a specific current will take.
These two figures kind of define capacitance, and it gives you a handy way of figuring out the (theoretical) amount of discharge current versus time a charged capacitor of known value will deliver. It's also an offbeat way of measuring the value of a capacitor (charge to known voltage, measure coulombs you get from a full discharge by integrating time x current.)
Lightening not needed. This will result in exploding body panels if they're hit by a raccoon.
Innit funny how all those "ruffians" seem to be wearing expensive combat boots from Bates and Rocky?
They're trustafarians.
Let's make it a point to revisit this when the results are in, I'm looking forward to rubbing your face in it.
Sounds good. But no, I am not up for visiting the fantasy world (the Maddog/Huffyton/DemogoguesUnderground/DailyChaos world) that you live in, so it will need to be visitation in the real world. You go there sometimes, I hope.
Every version of NT 4.0 is on the official Windows NT disk. There may be 'truncated' third party versions of the NT 4.0 CD. Mine is a Compaq OEM version, and every NT 3.x version I have ever seen also includes the alternative architectures.
I have installed the i386, Alpha, and PPC versions of NT 4.0 off that single CD.
In the sense that they can and it sounds like they will be actively working to break third-party connectivity. When a protocol is unpublished and hence proprietary, that's what an entity gets to do. If it works for them, and doesn't explode in their face. Which we all hope it will.
But howling with fury at the way things stand is not a productive use of time.
However, their service could be much better when it would be open. Like e-mail is open.
You picked a rather lousy example of 'open.' Email is so open that it's a spam center and that makes it significantly less useful than it could be. Twitter probably wouldn't even have come into existence if people could rely on email as being more secure and spam-free.
360 I can believe (it's not even x86 - it's PowerPC), but not the original.
Being PowerPC wouldn't matter. Windows NT has run on the PowerPC architecture since NT 4.0. I've personally run the PPC port of NT 4.0 (it was a just-because kind of thing. I've still never installed the MIPS port, but have run every other NT 4 port.
Microsoft has a very cross-platform capable codebase.
If your company puts stuff in the cloud, then there is no reason to even sign the statement of acceptance for their offer of employment.
The important thing is that there be full exposure. Breitbart has publicly stated that he is in favor of the investigation. It was Weenie who wanted to do nothing about it and write it off as 'a prank' until quite recently. Even if it were a prank by a member of his family or someone else close to him, a full investigation is warranted. Even, actually, if it exonerates Breitbart and takes Weenie down.
When I attended college in the early 1980's the small private college I enrolled in used our Social Security Numbers as our student ID. I am not sure how they've cleaned that mess up....
It does now, because you entered your name there.
That's the downside of those 'identity search' sites.
You make being rich seem almost dirty when you put it that way. heh.
What is the measurable radiation of bluetooth? I imagine it is significantly reduced from that of a cellular transceiver that is communicating over a mile or more of distance. But it still warrants consideration.
Do you hold a TV Transmitter, an AM/FM transmitter, or a satellite up to your face for a measurable percentage of the time each day?
But it also means that we currently have two entire generations that will all develop brain cancer around age 30. I imagine that would be a touch devastating to the first world countries.
Not really. It sounds like a selection process to me. It's easy to fall into the habit of thinking 'fuck off and die' when you see people driving or walking with a cellphone wedged permanently to their face.
There will be a certain amount of satisfaction in seeing cancer wards filled with that sort of people. I wonder if they'll have to put extra cell towers near the hospices?