Your great grand parents may very well have had a Coriolis clock on the mantel piece. Those devices extract a tiny amount of energy from the earth's rotation using a horizontally rotating pendulum so you never need to wind them - you just give the clock a slight shake to get it going and balance it carefully using a built-in spirit level and set screws. My grand parents had one. These are very delicate things of course and the effect is not useful for powering anything more than a jewel bearing clock, but that should teach you to never to say never, let alone shout it.
The only(?) perpetual motion machines that can be built on a small scale are coriolis machines. Way back in the 19th and early 20th centuries is was a fad to build perpetual clocks with horizontally rotating pendulums that stole energy from the earth's rotation to power themselves. The amount of power extracted is very small though and requires careful leveling of the clock. Also, they won't work in the tropics or at the poles. They only work in intermediate latitudes.
People who can count their money are not really rich. There are several people in Europe who cannot realistically count their wealth. The British Queen for example owns enormous tracts of land, the value of which can only be guessed.
The large MS customers - governments, military, fortune 500s - have spoken and told them that they want a 'full service'. MS should support everything in the data centre, like IBM does. MS eventually listened and is beginning to do that.
Fly a craft trillions of miles, then crash due to an imperial to metric conversion error.
The fact is, that they were aiming for Betelgeuse and only came here due to a navigation mistake...
That is what the answering machine is for. Ever since junk calls became prolific years ago, everybody I know got an answering machine and when we call each other, we just leave messages. There is almost no interactive phone chatting going on.
Yup, I need the ability to run Win 2003 Server on a VM and the only way I could make that work was with VMware. Win 2003 crashes Qemu and Virtual Box and needs a special processor for Xen.
One funny I found with VMware Server is that it cannot run RedHat RHEL version 5. The install proceeds partly then screws up.
Each and every VM system has a bunch of quirks, so one has to try the lot to find a good one for your purpose.
Stack problems, memory management problems, interrupt problems and so on. Many of these bugs will not cause an immediate exception or crash but may look like software bugs, for example a stack problem causing a return to the wrong address.
I guess MS Windows users will simply blame Microsoft's sloppy code, when it isn't even their fault...
South Africa makes most of its liquid petroleum from coal. The same process is also used to convert tar from the Canadian tar sands into liquids. The petroleum industry calls is 'cracking' or 'fractionating' reactors. The process dates back to the 2nd war. Google for 'Fisher-Tropsch', 'Sasol' and 'Syncrude'.
Actually, the Roman emperors (Nero and others) already figured out how to turn people (especially religious freaks) into fuel, almost 2000 years ago...
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Your great grand parents may very well have had a Coriolis clock on the mantel piece. Those devices extract a tiny amount of energy from the earth's rotation using a horizontally rotating pendulum so you never need to wind them - you just give the clock a slight shake to get it going and balance it carefully using a built-in spirit level and set screws. My grand parents had one. These are very delicate things of course and the effect is not useful for powering anything more than a jewel bearing clock, but that should teach you to never to say never, let alone shout it.
The only(?) perpetual motion machines that can be built on a small scale are coriolis machines. Way back in the 19th and early 20th centuries is was a fad to build perpetual clocks with horizontally rotating pendulums that stole energy from the earth's rotation to power themselves. The amount of power extracted is very small though and requires careful leveling of the clock. Also, they won't work in the tropics or at the poles. They only work in intermediate latitudes.
Doesn't Reader's Digest hold a patent on 'condensed books'?
Hmm, if he fully encloses the fan and adds a vacuum pump, then the fan will spin much easier and his forward speed will be pretty much the same...
Actually the original Bowflex exercise machine used to do a good job at hacking people to pieces...
People who can count their money are not really rich. There are several people in Europe who cannot realistically count their wealth. The British Queen for example owns enormous tracts of land, the value of which can only be guessed.
Two buffaloes don't make a stampede... not quite, no...
only old people do music file sharing...
The large MS customers - governments, military, fortune 500s - have spoken and told them that they want a 'full service'. MS should support everything in the data centre, like IBM does. MS eventually listened and is beginning to do that.
I'll be really neurotic when my shopping trolley blue screens on me...
An OnStar hack would be fun...
Fly a craft trillions of miles, then crash due to an imperial to metric conversion error. The fact is, that they were aiming for Betelgeuse and only came here due to a navigation mistake...
You do know that Ubuntu will mail you a disk for free, don't you?
Well, only really old fogeys will have enough money to visit the space hotel and they will probably want to play bingo...
He would have been negligent if he didn't talk to MS. In the end, he probably made the correct decision.
That is what the answering machine is for. Ever since junk calls became prolific years ago, everybody I know got an answering machine and when we call each other, we just leave messages. There is almost no interactive phone chatting going on.
So, why do you get so many calls from the Police? ;)
I haven't seen Cisco jump to run Vista on their Firewall Machines. So, maybe, just maybe, they had a reason to stick to *nix.
Yup, I need the ability to run Win 2003 Server on a VM and the only way I could make that work was with VMware. Win 2003 crashes Qemu and Virtual Box and needs a special processor for Xen.
One funny I found with VMware Server is that it cannot run RedHat RHEL version 5. The install proceeds partly then screws up.
Each and every VM system has a bunch of quirks, so one has to try the lot to find a good one for your purpose.
Stack problems, memory management problems, interrupt problems and so on. Many of these bugs will not cause an immediate exception or crash but may look like software bugs, for example a stack problem causing a return to the wrong address.
I guess MS Windows users will simply blame Microsoft's sloppy code, when it isn't even their fault...
Xen only works with specific hardware which I don't have. Sooooo, back to VMware.
South Africa makes most of its liquid petroleum from coal. The same process is also used to convert tar from the Canadian tar sands into liquids. The petroleum industry calls is 'cracking' or 'fractionating' reactors. The process dates back to the 2nd war. Google for 'Fisher-Tropsch', 'Sasol' and 'Syncrude'.
Actually, the Roman emperors (Nero and others) already figured out how to turn people (especially religious freaks) into fuel, almost 2000 years ago...
A US fighter pilot has accidentally shot down a LEO satellite some years ago with a regular air to air missile.
Once space junk does become a real problem, we'll just make stronger satellites that can get hammered and survive.