Instead it sounds like either it's taking a long time to get the data or it's timing out in some fashion.
Agreed, but what's the difference? It ain't workin', and I don't feel like finding out if it will recover within some time or not. Since the root explorer has so many UI functions, if it's hung there's not much you can do, especially since any newly started explorers will hang too.
Yup. Happens to me every few days. It is also caused by working with too many (slow) network shares on a WAN (at least XP doesn't BSOD like Win2k in this case.)
Easy fix: Ctrl-Alt-Del, go into Task Manager, kill all explorer.exe and iexplore.exe processes, then File/Run explorer.exe.
For a hundred years or more, America has been at the forefront of scientific research and development.
It was for a couple decades, starting in the 1940s, precisely for the reasons you mention earlier. The less the US is viewed as a bastion of democracy and freedom, the fewer gifted people will come here because it gives them a better chance than at home.
I *have* to patent this amazing molecule I just discovered in my bathroom. I determined the chemical structure to be H2O. There doesn't seem to be any claim on it in the USPTO database.
Wouldn't that require an operating system that didn't suck?
No. With enough marketing $$$ you can even sell a product that sucks. Windows for example. And there are lots of other products (not all of them from Microsoft) that come to mind.
The more "socialist" democratic countries score more towards the top of the industrialized nations while the more capitalist countries are further down the list. Economic power != standard of living.
Agree 100%. By 30 I was getting fat, my back was bothering me and I had no enegry.
Now I'm 46 and in better shape than at any point in my life before. Probably in better shape than you kiddo:P
You probably expect some exercise machine or miracle supplement spam now. Sorry to disappoint.:) Hey, you're a nerd, you are capable of learning, right? Buy a few books on nutrition and exercise and get a gym membership. Prepay for 3 years, that'll give you the best rate available. Maybe they'll even throw in a few personal trainer hours.
Yeah! They have plenty of people, and plenty of bicycles. All you need is a stand to support the bike with a gear that connects the chain to the flywheel. 100 W per person, for 4 hours per day, that's 146 kWh per year, or 146 TWh for a billion people. Roughly the equivalent of 20 large power plants.
Who needs oil or nuclear, anyway?
one of the self-replicating dna got swallowed by a little oil droplet
Basic fallacy here: Phenotype vs. genotype.
How would this event have created the DNA/RNA code for its offspring to re-build or regenerate that oil droplet?
No, the ability to build a cell wall must have evolved just like everything else. Only if you have two replicating entities (mitochondria, chloroplasts...) fusion or symbiosis becomes a possibility. Or if genetic code itself is transferred (plasmids, viruses.)
1. Use company with ruined reputation as umbrella 2. Establish novel MLM system 3. Get endorsements from local politicians 4. Sell SCOX shares at a slight premium 5. Profit!
OMG!
The earth is not flat! It is not at the center of the universe! And now evolution! Where will this all end?
What's next? The earth is older than 6,000 years? Man is not an image of God? The bible is a fable? Maybe, gasp, there is no god?
This is going to be a long protracted retreat. Sigh. Interesting how much momentum memes have, from the Mayflower to today.
Hmm, they managed to screw up a solid foundation (NT) before. It's what they put on top of it that's terminally flawed. Putting Windows APIs on top of a Unix core wouldn't help. They'd have to give up much of the backward compatibility to their legacy junk. Not going to happen.
You forgot our sense for electricity - it's just less sensitive than a shark's because of that insulation layer we carry around (commonly known as skin.) Insert a paper clip into the next outlet if you don't believe me. If that doesn't convince you, try a few 100 V DC from a capacitor in your TV. I did as a kid. Quite an experience I'll tell ya.
You missed one thing. The rate at which they are traveling seems to be accelerating as well.
For no good reason (Quintessence? Negative energy density? Changing fundamental constants? Oh come on.) So it might well be that the universe starts to decelerate on a whim in a couple billion years.
We take data that is based on somewhat shaky/recent theories and has large error bars, build more theory on top of it, and extrapolate the fate of the universe from it. Yeah it's fun, some of it is even good science, but you need to take it with a grain of salt. Just check how old the latest theories are and how long cosmological theories lasted on average during the last century. Once we have one that survived for a couple of decades I'll take it seriously (which probably means the current ones would have to outlast me...)
The Big Bang looks like it's pretty much established, but I can't help viewing things as slightly esoteric starting with Inflation. Ad hoc theories grafted on top of something elegant to match the data usually means we're missing the big picture.
Just note that, while they are spec'd at 30,000 to 50,000 start/stop cycles, non-laptop drives are not designed for this kind of stress (and, believe me, it's a lot of stress for the head without ramp load.)
Since very few people run desktop and server drives with frequent start/stops, manufacturers have little experience with it. It's one of those specs like MTBF that's pretty theoretical, and, worse, impossible to prove unless you run a large population with frequent start/stops, since there's no field data. Yes, manufacturers run CSS tests in the lab, but those are not under real life conditions (e.g. they are run with one CSS per minute to get the test over with.) Hence it is quite possible that there are skeletons in the closet that nobody has found.
I wouldn't do it. Assuming 10% of the spec (3,000 or 5,000) is a safe bet, you would get there pretty soon. I've seen more problems with start/stop than I care to remember.
Well, sounds like Griffin in one of those damn godless liberals.
"Open scientific inquiry," Hrrmmph! This is a *government* organization, dammit! You say what the President says!
"Science is respected and protected and highly valued by the administration..."
That's incorrect. He should have said "*Some* science..." Like I.D. and such.
Let's see how long Griffin will keep his job...
Yeah, just me being cynical.
RP
I read his lectures, and even though I don't pretend to understand the math fully, it makes [some] sense.
He may be right or wrong, but he has a theory which makes predictions that can be experimentally falsified.
He even proposes a couple of experiments, and it sounds like he's pleading with astronomers to make those observations. Some of his cosmological hypotheses are far out, but the GTR effect seems eminently measurable. If (big if) is it verified, we can look at some of the further claims.
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I, personally, am happy with my 8080.
And you're safe from viruses and worms under CP/M!
WordStar is probably more stable than Word too...
Instead it sounds like either it's taking a long time to get the data or it's timing out in some fashion.
Agreed, but what's the difference? It ain't workin', and I don't feel like finding out if it will recover within some time or not. Since the root explorer has so many UI functions, if it's hung there's not much you can do, especially since any newly started explorers will hang too.
to the point where the system is apparently hung.
Yup. Happens to me every few days. It is also caused by working with too many (slow) network shares on a WAN (at least XP doesn't BSOD like Win2k in this case.)
Easy fix: Ctrl-Alt-Del, go into Task Manager, kill all explorer.exe and iexplore.exe processes, then File/Run explorer.exe.
For a hundred years or more, America has been at the forefront of scientific research and development.
It was for a couple decades, starting in the 1940s, precisely for the reasons you mention earlier. The less the US is viewed as a bastion of democracy and freedom, the fewer gifted people will come here because it gives them a better chance than at home.
I *have* to patent this amazing molecule I just discovered in my bathroom. I determined the chemical structure to be H2O. There doesn't seem to be any claim on it in the USPTO database.
So what? The slack is taken up by other countries when they see they can get a competitive advantage.
Why do they think that every site in the world is subject to US law?
Or do they think that only US pr0n is harmful to minors?
Sigh.
Wouldn't that require an operating system that didn't suck?
No. With enough marketing $$$ you can even sell a product that sucks. Windows for example. And there are lots of other products (not all of them from Microsoft) that come to mind.
What's wrong with 6'6" women? Sorry, couldn't resist.
d ex.
But on the topic, check out the UN's Human Development Index at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_In
Norway is #1 in the world, Canada #5, Sweden #6, and the US #10.
The more "socialist" democratic countries score more towards the top of the industrialized nations while the more capitalist countries are further down the list.
Economic power != standard of living.
Agree 100%. By 30 I was getting fat, my back was bothering me and I had no enegry.
:P
:) Hey, you're a nerd, you are capable of learning, right? Buy a few books on nutrition and exercise and get a gym membership. Prepay for 3 years, that'll give you the best rate available. Maybe they'll even throw in a few personal trainer hours.
Now I'm 46 and in better shape than at any point in my life before. Probably in better shape than you kiddo
You probably expect some exercise machine or miracle supplement spam now. Sorry to disappoint.
RP
They could spin the disks up in China
Yeah! They have plenty of people, and plenty of bicycles. All you need is a stand to support the bike with a gear that connects the chain to the flywheel. 100 W per person, for 4 hours per day, that's 146 kWh per year, or 146 TWh for a billion people. Roughly the equivalent of 20 large power plants.
Who needs oil or nuclear, anyway?
Basic fallacy here: Phenotype vs. genotype.
How would this event have created the DNA/RNA code for its offspring to re-build or regenerate that oil droplet?
No, the ability to build a cell wall must have evolved just like everything else. Only if you have two replicating entities (mitochondria, chloroplasts...) fusion or symbiosis becomes a possibility. Or if genetic code itself is transferred (plasmids, viruses.)
1. Use company with ruined reputation as umbrella
2. Establish novel MLM system
3. Get endorsements from local politicians
4. Sell SCOX shares at a slight premium
5. Profit!
Just watch out! Next they're going to patent the bit strings 0x4d 0x65 and 0x4d 0x45 (and 0x6d 0x65 too of course), then you're going to pay dearly!
(I typed "darly" first. Must have been a Freudian typo.)
OMG! The earth is not flat! It is not at the center of the universe! And now evolution! Where will this all end? What's next? The earth is older than 6,000 years? Man is not an image of God? The bible is a fable? Maybe, gasp, there is no god? This is going to be a long protracted retreat. Sigh. Interesting how much momentum memes have, from the Mayflower to today.
Hmm, they managed to screw up a solid foundation (NT) before. It's what they put on top of it that's terminally flawed. Putting Windows APIs on top of a Unix core wouldn't help. They'd have to give up much of the backward compatibility to their legacy junk. Not going to happen.
I heard of that... Isn't it called "paper"?
Go watch "Syriana". The country it plays in is either Saudi Arabia or the UAE.
14 orders of magnitude? Pretty close to the national debt, so it's not a big deal. What are you complaining about? Close enough.
You forgot our sense for electricity - it's just less sensitive than a shark's because of that insulation layer we carry around (commonly known as skin.) Insert a paper clip into the next outlet if you don't believe me. If that doesn't convince you, try a few 100 V DC from a capacitor in your TV. I did as a kid. Quite an experience I'll tell ya.
For no good reason (Quintessence? Negative energy density? Changing fundamental constants? Oh come on.) So it might well be that the universe starts to decelerate on a whim in a couple billion years.
We take data that is based on somewhat shaky/recent theories and has large error bars, build more theory on top of it, and extrapolate the fate of the universe from it. Yeah it's fun, some of it is even good science, but you need to take it with a grain of salt. Just check how old the latest theories are and how long cosmological theories lasted on average during the last century. Once we have one that survived for a couple of decades I'll take it seriously (which probably means the current ones would have to outlast me...)
The Big Bang looks like it's pretty much established, but I can't help viewing things as slightly esoteric starting with Inflation. Ad hoc theories grafted on top of something elegant to match the data usually means we're missing the big picture.
Just note that, while they are spec'd at 30,000 to 50,000 start/stop cycles, non-laptop drives are not designed for this kind of stress (and, believe me, it's a lot of stress for the head without ramp load.)
Since very few people run desktop and server drives with frequent start/stops, manufacturers have little experience with it. It's one of those specs like MTBF that's pretty theoretical, and, worse, impossible to prove unless you run a large population with frequent start/stops, since there's no field data. Yes, manufacturers run CSS tests in the lab, but those are not under real life conditions (e.g. they are run with one CSS per minute to get the test over with.) Hence it is quite possible that there are skeletons in the closet that nobody has found.
I wouldn't do it. Assuming 10% of the spec (3,000 or 5,000) is a safe bet, you would get there pretty soon. I've seen more problems with start/stop than I care to remember.
RP
Well, sounds like Griffin in one of those damn godless liberals. "Open scientific inquiry," Hrrmmph! This is a *government* organization, dammit! You say what the President says! "Science is respected and protected and highly valued by the administration..." That's incorrect. He should have said "*Some* science..." Like I.D. and such. Let's see how long Griffin will keep his job... Yeah, just me being cynical. RP
I read his lectures, and even though I don't pretend to understand the math fully, it makes [some] sense.
He may be right or wrong, but he has a theory which makes predictions that can be experimentally falsified.
He even proposes a couple of experiments, and it sounds like he's pleading with astronomers to make those observations.
Some of his cosmological hypotheses are far out, but the GTR effect seems eminently measurable. If (big if) is it verified, we can look at some of the further claims.
RP
but the law firm becomes poorer. No surprise here. If I publicly say "I like my job, but what my employer does is immoral" I'll get fired too.