Posts by Daniel Evans 190 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2008
Seeing as so many have said that these won't appear anywhere on your normal packet:
How hard would it be to code an app, that when taking input from your local system also takes note of the the MAC address of your PC (there's a number of command line prompts that can show this afaik, so could not an app invisibly call one of these, or similar?), or even of your whole network, and then send them back to Google as, say, plaintext, to be cross-referenced?
Why anyone cares what A Level Comp Sci students do. Don't you do Maths or similar at A Level, and then do Comp Sci/Programming at Uni, in order to prove you're not a complete idiot who calls a spreadsheet macro a program, and can instead actually do programming? Not as bad as the "Computer Game Programming" courses, mind.
Wonder if they'd rather capture the O2, and then sell it off bottled (for hospitals, oxyacetylene torches, etc.) - might make a few pennies on the side. Plenty of O2 hanging around in the atmosphere to nab for combusting your CH4 (assuming Gas plants do actually use bog-standard air for combustion, ofc.).
On the linked "77 million btu in kilowatt hours / 12" search, one comparison given is that this is "1/6 the average yearly US single-family hoome electricity use" - implying that the energy use is half the quoted government figure - so closer to 940kWh per month.
Which basically places the Zenergy house at 3 times a similarly-sized house, rather than the 1-and-a-half that the govt figures show. Depends on whether you trust Wolfram Alpha or the US Government more, and quite how much you want to bash the Zenergy house!
Offhand, I don't know how many docking ports compatible with the Space Shuttle the ISS has - it may only be one. However, I'd have thought that it would be preferred to leave said docking ports open for (possible) future use - if anyone does feel like using US tech, of course (afaik everyone else uses the Russian ports?).
If they're so worried about changing something breaking apps (or vice versa), why have they waited so long? As far as I can tell, there's been umpteen iPhone types - and I'm forever hearing someone moan that the latest iPhone OS update crippled their jailbroken iPhone. However, I've yet to hear any big moan about a change to the OS/iPhone version breaking any app, or being broken by an app?
Wasn't there something in the news a while ago about illegal sites being hidden behind legitimate ones (I forget if it was child porn or otherwise), either with or without the knowledge of the website owner? You'd have a field day if, say, someone hid a site in www.amazon.co.uk/illegalbadstuff/, with all the legitimate traffic to/from the domain (and I believe the level of snoopery required to check if someone was going to that exact directory would piss off a lot of people).
Then you have the whole "did you intentionally go there or was it an accident"? Say www.amazob.co.uk one, and plenty of people get on to this by making typos (admittedly it's a very badly hidden site...).
Then of course there's the problem of proxies/public PCs, actually indexing all these sites, etc...
128 bit isn't needed at all, seeing as 64 bit isn't just twice as large as 32 bit, it's ten billion times bigger. The main problem with 32 bit seems to have been the cap on memory at 4GB - 64 bit goes up to [quite a bloody lot] of memory, and I doubt you or I will need that much soon.
I'd've thought it would be such small quantities it wouldn't be a huge hassle for the sun. Chucking Earth at it might have slightly more effect, though.
I believe the major problem with "chuck it at space/the sun/the aliens" is in fact the minor issues we seem to have with getting rockets up there without delays, fireworks displays or other problems - as easy a solution as it would be to have a few tons of spent reactor rods falling into the deep of the Atlantic, the greens would probably shout, scream and bitch a lot.
Well, more than usual.
Surely they would have needed an actual recording from said cameras to put on the loop anyway? If camera X is overlooking a river, you might wonder why it's showing a park instead, etc., so you assume the cameras would all have needed to work at some point to record those pre-recordings.
It does, and various other Communist states have supported private industry at points in their lifetimes (I believe Hungary was supportive of it, for one). Every so often, a communist government realises that peasants aren't too motivated when asked to work 14 hours a day in state-owned factories for a pittance (which was, in part, why the Soviet economy was, in short, a piece of shit).
Anyway, you can blame private companies for stuff, and the communists always need more things to blame.
The link to the Dida supported filetypes includes:
"Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack"
Which, just to double check that this does exactly what you'd think it does, allows you to:
"Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007."
And the blurb at the top states:
"Students must ensure that the contents of their eportfolio can be read by software in the toolkit."
So since this entry toolkit allows moderators to open, edit and save word documents - what the FUCK is Edexcel on about?
Have you ever tried reading the Edexcel course instructions?
Our IT teachers saw the light halfway through the course and switched to another board - at least we knew what to do.
But even on the Edexcel course everything was in M$ formats - and I've yet to see a single school system which doesn't require you to use M$ Office formats for everything.
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