Did I miss the 30 days of using Vista article, or has no one lasted that long yet?
People keep getting out to 28 or 29 days and then Microsoft issues an automatic set of patches that removes Vista "features" and totally invalidates their notes, so they have to start over.
Yeah, I never understood the appeal of Ubuntu and am diehard Fedora. The sudo business was very odd to me. You can run a command as root by using "sudo", but you enter your *own password? What gives?
Sudo gives you root access for the purpose immediately at hand, and then takes you back to your account. It lets you get in, get out, and not have your fanny hanging out there on the net in admin mode for someone to burn you.
That was my view for my first 25 years of life, the next 15 have been quite a bit different. If we have a genetic disposition to need God, why is atheism more common among the young people that I have known and still know?
Because sometimes the genetic disposition to define oneself in a rebellious foreground against a parental background temporarily outweighs the disposition to need God.
Provided that humans still exist 500 years from now, there will still be poor illiterate people, regardless of what planet or plane of existence we live in then.
Except that in 2507 "illiterate" will be defined as a person who does not have a biochip brain implant to give them access to the Matrix. Or a person who has the implant but changed their mind so many times that Windows Genuine Advantage detected a crossed threshold, yanked their licence, and dumped them off the net until they call Redmond over a land line and explain.
RIAA admits they got the idea for this business model from SCO Group. You give SCO $699 USD, and they give you a piece of paper that says your install of Ubuntu is totally free of their intellectual property. Never mind that your spouse took the same CD you burned from the same.ISO from the same FTP mirror, until she gives them $699 SCO cannot certify that her install of Ubunto is totally free of their intellectual property.
They don't "sweep an area", they park their vans outside houses which are in their database as not having a license around the time the residents are coming home from work. I'm not sure how technically effective the vans are, probably just more scare tactics to prompt you into getting a license.
The EC has examined 1,500 pages of information about the protocols, and concluded that they 'lack significant innovation'.
Microsoft's patent number 6,727,830, "Time based hardware button for application launch," issued on April 27, 2004:
A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed. A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.
Wooooo, innovative! In other words, Microsoft just patented the method by which a windows manager will select an icon if you single click it, but launch the application associated with the icon if you double-click it. All your WMs belong to Redmond.
To do so he became the biggest bastard ever to live and kept humanity totally enslaved for many thousands of years. He waited until AI could navigate as well as humans in FTL ships, and for ships that were invisible then let himself be killed. Once his grip was released BOOM! There goes the neighborhood.
Which, of course, was a precient allegory for what happened when Frank Herbert himself died and released his grip on the Duniverse. His no-talent son hooked up with a Star Wars novel hack and started writing "Dune: The Phantom Menace" and "Dune: Attack of the Gholas" and "Dune Revenge of the Slig" and there goes the neighborhood.
That might mean long lives, smaller space-adapted bodies, or purely digital beings, transmitted via a series of relays placed by robotic probes.
Even if strong-AI is true and you can model a mind with a really fancy piece of software, I think there's a sort of Heisenberg effect there, where the process of digging all your memories and habits out will either 1) destroy your brain, or 2) drive you nuts.
"Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself...
Type "GPS" and "wireless" into Google. A map is a kind of electronic document that is "a scale larger than the device itself".
After billions of years the human race is all over the galaxy, few billion years later and its all over the universe. And then what? We cling on for dear life as we exploit the last few sources of energy as black holes swallow up any traces of our fantastic achievements.
We can exploit the fact that there is an imbalance between matter and anti-matter in our universe, with matter totally dominating. Just as you can flip a Flatland quarter from heads to tails by a 180 degree rotation through the third dimension, you can flip a left shoe into a right shoe by a 180 degree rotation through the fourth dimension, and every particle in that rotated shoe will have opposite spin and charge...in other words, it will be an antimatter shoe. Put the two shoes together in a closet and you'll release far more energy than it took to do the flip trick. This can give us another few billion years. Of course, the result will eventually be a universe where matter and anti-matter are thoroughly mixed, and if you grab any quantity and try your flip trick the result will be indistinguishable from what you started with. But this will give us the time we need to think of something else.
What prevents this particular generation of earth inhabitants from feeling meaningless? If you don't believe in any afterlife, then aren't we here on Earth only to father the next generation?
Unless you want to be a mother.::rimshot::
But you can get to Epsilon Eridani in about a century by the following method proposed by Robert L. Forward:
Build a solar-powered launch laser at Mercury using local materials.
Build a starship with two detachable reflective light sails in concentric rings.
Proceed to within a few thousand AU of E. Eri
Detach large outer ring, allow Mercury laser to fling it ahead on the flight path, use the reflection back from this sail to decelerate starship to a full rest.
Use thrusters to navigate to planet within habitable zone of E. Eri.
I don't mean to put down people who are (for a refreshing change) taking a long-term, big picture view, but I think that there are more commonplace disasters we need to worry about, like earthquakes and tsunamis, which involve more boring, mundane solutions, like good building codes, tsunami warning networks, tsunami evacuation sirens, and flood control.
This is a case where the law of the numerous small is a comfort. Back in the 90's on the Art Bell show there was a nutcase who kept talking about a mega-earthquake that was going to raise Atlantis and sink the Rocky Mountains at the same time, and he even sold post-earthquake maps. An earthquake big enough to do that would involve the release of enough energy to melt the crust of North America. It would be a spike in the probability distribution of shakers. Before we see a Magnitude 12 earthquake it stands to reason we'd see a dozen or so magnitude 11 ones, and hundreds of mag 10's. And before we get smacked by a 20 megaton asteroid we ought to get smacked by a dozen 2 megatonners, and hundreds of 200 kilotonners.
I live in Phoenix. I'll have costal property to retire on without moving to Florida! The glass is way better than half full! Come on, baby needs a new beach!!!!!!
Wow, for centuries inventors of perpetual Carnot Engines have been stymied by the same problem: waste heat. Now all you need is a hand wave, some Insta-Nano, and voila! And any secondary waste heat generated by the nano is just that much more fuel. Better sell your petroleum stocks now.
If we determined in 2029 that it was going to hit in 2036, our governments probably wouldn't be able to get their shit together quickly enough to do anything.
Besides Congress passing a non-binding resolution condemning the asteroid, if it hits the Pacific, it's gonna throw a lot of water vapor into the stratosphere, and water vapor is a greenhouse gas. That means the Kyoto II countries are going to have to move their 2020 --> 2050 CO2 reduction benchmarks from 15% to maybe 20% or even 25%, and we might have to look at maybe somebody possibly broaching the subject with China that, golly, you're the world's lone economic superpower now, do you think maybe we could bump your status out of "developing nation" and let you join the big boys who don't need waivers?
Guy at my $ORKPLACE has MSN set as his homepage. Whenever he needs to browse a website, he opens IE, types "google" into the MSN search box and hits ENTER. Once at Google, he searches for whatever it is he is looking for.
This is exactly like sitting in a Yugo as it is dropped straight down into a Mustang convertable, and then busting out the windshield of the Yugo so you can shift.
The problem with coal-generated electrical power lies not only with the pollution and co2 emissions--it's wasteful as well, since roughly half the energy stored in the coal simply goes up the stack at the generating plant.
Well, then, if you insist on all the negative vibes, then we should abandon research into solar energy too, since silicon arrays have a lower albedo than the Earth's average of 0.39, and this will result in man-made climate change if implemented on a large scale. Roughly two-thirds of the energy stored in the sunlight simply goes to heating up the array instead of knocking electrons down to wire to your local substation.
An even bigger issue is how Microsoft has lifted man kind...The PC would not exist without them...
Nonsense, if Micro$oft never bought the CPM rip-off 86-DOS and renamed it "PC-DOS 1.0" Gary Kildall at Digital Research would have just marked CPM directly to IBM and today we'd all be running GEM XP.
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Did I miss the 30 days of using Vista article, or has no one lasted that long yet?
People keep getting out to 28 or 29 days and then Microsoft issues an automatic set of patches that removes Vista "features" and totally invalidates their notes, so they have to start over.
Yeah, I never understood the appeal of Ubuntu and am diehard Fedora. The sudo business was very odd to me. You can run a command as root by using "sudo", but you enter your *own password? What gives?
Sudo gives you root access for the purpose immediately at hand, and then takes you back to your account. It lets you get in, get out, and not have your fanny hanging out there on the net in admin mode for someone to burn you.
That was my view for my first 25 years of life, the next 15 have been quite a bit different. If we have a genetic disposition to need God, why is atheism more common among the young people that I have known and still know?
Because sometimes the genetic disposition to define oneself in a rebellious foreground against a parental background temporarily outweighs the disposition to need God.
Its obviously due to those SUV type 6 wheel drive Rover vehicles causing the damage on Mars. You have all heard how evil they are.
Because they're American. EUtopian rovers would be "red" and Mars-friendly, if they can ever get one to work.
Provided that humans still exist 500 years from now, there will still be poor illiterate people, regardless of what planet or plane of existence we live in then.
Except that in 2507 "illiterate" will be defined as a person who does not have a biochip brain implant to give them access to the Matrix. Or a person who has the implant but changed their mind so many times that Windows Genuine Advantage detected a crossed threshold, yanked their licence, and dumped them off the net until they call Redmond over a land line and explain.
In space, he will be able to throw his chair
The article is about Steve Hawking, not Steve Ballmer.
RIAA admits they got the idea for this business model from SCO Group. You give SCO $699 USD, and they give you a piece of paper that says your install of Ubuntu is totally free of their intellectual property. Never mind that your spouse took the same CD you burned from the same .ISO from the same FTP mirror, until she gives them $699 SCO cannot certify that her install of Ubunto is totally free of their intellectual property.
They don't "sweep an area", they park their vans outside houses which are in their database as not having a license around the time the residents are coming home from work. I'm not sure how technically effective the vans are, probably just more scare tactics to prompt you into getting a license.
In Old Blighty, TV watches YOU.
I'm afraid this will open up a half-adder gap with the Deep South. In Alabama, it's illegal to play dominoes on Sunday. (www.dumblaws.com)
The EC has examined 1,500 pages of information about the protocols, and concluded that they 'lack significant innovation'.
Microsoft's patent number 6,727,830, "Time based hardware button for application launch," issued on April 27, 2004:
A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device. Alternative application functions are launched based on the length of time an application button is pressed. A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click.
Wooooo, innovative! In other words, Microsoft just patented the method by which a windows manager will select an icon if you single click it, but launch the application associated with the icon if you double-click it. All your WMs belong to Redmond.
To do so he became the biggest bastard ever to live and kept humanity totally enslaved for many thousands of years. He waited until AI could navigate as well as humans in FTL ships, and for ships that were invisible then let himself be killed. Once his grip was released BOOM! There goes the neighborhood.
Which, of course, was a precient allegory for what happened when Frank Herbert himself died and released his grip on the Duniverse. His no-talent son hooked up with a Star Wars novel hack and started writing "Dune: The Phantom Menace" and "Dune: Attack of the Gholas" and "Dune Revenge of the Slig" and there goes the neighborhood.
That might mean long lives, smaller space-adapted bodies, or purely digital beings, transmitted via a series of relays placed by robotic probes.
Even if strong-AI is true and you can model a mind with a really fancy piece of software, I think there's a sort of Heisenberg effect there, where the process of digging all your memories and habits out will either 1) destroy your brain, or 2) drive you nuts.
So what exactly is the temperature at which e-books burn?
The laser in my DVD burner doesn't have a corresponding black-body temperature.
"Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself...
Type "GPS" and "wireless" into Google. A map is a kind of electronic document that is "a scale larger than the device itself".
Am I the only one who has trouble getting jis in their keyboard ? Any solutions
Put one of those latex things over the keyboard or your Willie.
After billions of years the human race is all over the galaxy, few billion years later and its all over the universe. And then what? We cling on for dear life as we exploit the last few sources of energy as black holes swallow up any traces of our fantastic achievements. We can exploit the fact that there is an imbalance between matter and anti-matter in our universe, with matter totally dominating. Just as you can flip a Flatland quarter from heads to tails by a 180 degree rotation through the third dimension, you can flip a left shoe into a right shoe by a 180 degree rotation through the fourth dimension, and every particle in that rotated shoe will have opposite spin and charge...in other words, it will be an antimatter shoe. Put the two shoes together in a closet and you'll release far more energy than it took to do the flip trick. This can give us another few billion years. Of course, the result will eventually be a universe where matter and anti-matter are thoroughly mixed, and if you grab any quantity and try your flip trick the result will be indistinguishable from what you started with. But this will give us the time we need to think of something else.
Unless you want to be a mother.
But you can get to Epsilon Eridani in about a century by the following method proposed by Robert L. Forward:
I don't mean to put down people who are (for a refreshing change) taking a long-term, big picture view, but I think that there are more commonplace disasters we need to worry about, like earthquakes and tsunamis, which involve more boring, mundane solutions, like good building codes, tsunami warning networks, tsunami evacuation sirens, and flood control.
This is a case where the law of the numerous small is a comfort. Back in the 90's on the Art Bell show there was a nutcase who kept talking about a mega-earthquake that was going to raise Atlantis and sink the Rocky Mountains at the same time, and he even sold post-earthquake maps. An earthquake big enough to do that would involve the release of enough energy to melt the crust of North America. It would be a spike in the probability distribution of shakers. Before we see a Magnitude 12 earthquake it stands to reason we'd see a dozen or so magnitude 11 ones, and hundreds of mag 10's. And before we get smacked by a 20 megaton asteroid we ought to get smacked by a dozen 2 megatonners, and hundreds of 200 kilotonners.
I live in Phoenix. I'll have costal property to retire on without moving to Florida! The glass is way better than half full! Come on, baby needs a new beach!!!!!!
Obviously Lex Luthor is driving this asteroid.
Wow, for centuries inventors of perpetual Carnot Engines have been stymied by the same problem: waste heat. Now all you need is a hand wave, some Insta-Nano, and voila! And any secondary waste heat generated by the nano is just that much more fuel. Better sell your petroleum stocks now.
If we determined in 2029 that it was going to hit in 2036, our governments probably wouldn't be able to get their shit together quickly enough to do anything.
Besides Congress passing a non-binding resolution condemning the asteroid, if it hits the Pacific, it's gonna throw a lot of water vapor into the stratosphere, and water vapor is a greenhouse gas. That means the Kyoto II countries are going to have to move their 2020 --> 2050 CO2 reduction benchmarks from 15% to maybe 20% or even 25%, and we might have to look at maybe somebody possibly broaching the subject with China that, golly, you're the world's lone economic superpower now, do you think maybe we could bump your status out of "developing nation" and let you join the big boys who don't need waivers?
Guy at my $ORKPLACE has MSN set as his homepage. Whenever he needs to browse a website, he opens IE, types "google" into the MSN search box and hits ENTER. Once at Google, he searches for whatever it is he is looking for.
This is exactly like sitting in a Yugo as it is dropped straight down into a Mustang convertable, and then busting out the windshield of the Yugo so you can shift.
The problem with coal-generated electrical power lies not only with the pollution and co2 emissions--it's wasteful as well, since roughly half the energy stored in the coal simply goes up the stack at the generating plant.
Well, then, if you insist on all the negative vibes, then we should abandon research into solar energy too, since silicon arrays have a lower albedo than the Earth's average of 0.39, and this will result in man-made climate change if implemented on a large scale. Roughly two-thirds of the energy stored in the sunlight simply goes to heating up the array instead of knocking electrons down to wire to your local substation.
So now we're gonna have to burn more coal (which pollutes more than nuclear) to power this.
Ah, yes, but America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. The whole idea is to wean America off the Saudia Arabia of oil, which is Saudi Arabia.
An even bigger issue is how Microsoft has lifted man kind...The PC would not exist without them...
Nonsense, if Micro$oft never bought the CPM rip-off 86-DOS and renamed it "PC-DOS 1.0" Gary Kildall at Digital Research would have just marked CPM directly to IBM and today we'd all be running GEM XP.