I used to spend many happy hours reading quarantined files of various foms
If some of those buggers had read some of the MS APi's there could have been some real problems out there. It was hard to resist the temptation to improve on them sometimes.
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"If you turn the clock back, even to say 1985 with Margaret Thatcher in all her pomp. We can still see free university education for all (with student grants) a nationalised rail service and the average working family being able to afford a decent home or at the very least rent one. Not to mention a much higher rate of top tax than now. And now we've arrived at a situation that anyone who fights for these things is a dangerous Marxist."
Just to be really annoying here - just got the new touchscreen for the Pi. With a usb charger last about 5hrs as a tablet! Got a 1TB wifi drive (probably as secure as a w10 install!!!!!!) in pocket and a wireless gaming keyboard in the other for typing*. Get to the office and a decent monitor and keyboard/mouse and its actually quite usable (well its mounted in the box the touchscreen came in so not too weatherproof. *the keyboard flips out on the box lid its cool for now.,,,).
I've got over a terraflop of CPU/GPU at home now but I dont really need that 99.99% of the time - thought I may if can learn this bloody Flash supernova simulation software proper like - but even MS office doesnt need that kind of power.
How about lighter???The thing is making them thinner makes them heavier - or much more fragile. That extra 1/2 inch means another metre of dropping resistance and makes fuck all difference once its in that designer backpack,
Oh and means less RSI when typing on the kitchen table too...
It looks to me like an impact crater - there are the characteristic sprays of debris in three different directions but its weird as it looks like whatever hit was moving relatively slowly - and possibly by a train of connected objects - the first (few?) melting a lake of nitrogen and the later one(s) sploshing it out of the crater as mostly waves not spray - possibly taking large nitrogenbergs and depositing them as mountains?
We've got a lot evidence from Doggerland (fnar fnar) but my hunch is that people hung around estuaries where it is easy to grow crops in the mud after spring floods and most of the evidence of them was washed away every year and the stuff that wasn't would be buried under further silt deposits from the still running rivers, assuming winter storms didnt bash the living shit out of it.
I say this as someone who is still trying to drink every last whisky made on earth. Several times if need be.
Interesting advertising experiment but having discovered the differences between 'exactly the same barrels' stored in exactly the same way for 15 years are more than enough to keep me amused I'll leave it to those with more money than sense.
@Stevie 'Bah' double blind testing of whisky is a great idea. I think 1/2 barrel of cask strength 42 year old laphroaig should stop our eyes working!
I'd say that, as NoSQL is desperately scrabbling to get SQL build in the people who NoSQL are slowly learning about databases and realising that they are re-inventing the wheel. The sort of data-mining I've seen has always been possible with SQL or (in Posix case) just from the command line. NoSQL - like many computer innovations is realising that it has to do the things that it was created to avoid doing.
You canne break the laws of mathematics captain.
Crouton is fairly easy to use to install a linux - havent shelled out for a chrome book yet (next time my uncle comes over from the us I might get him to bring me one) but those I know say that the linuxes run well on them - with effectively limitless apps for free even if you do have to compile some stuff.
I like it! One I got to entertain the kids is now a wireless extender so people in the outbuilding can access the internet without access to my domestic network - for about half the price of a commercial unit. Another is now a music processor providing several thousand pounds worth of music effects/processing in a not very easy to use wobbly interface and I'm using another to teach the local primary academy IT teacher how to do IT.
Still waiting for the kids to show much interest but perhaps now computers are more common than transistors were when I was a kid perhaps we do need a generation of Sys-Admins, perhaps crontabs to them are the flashing lights on a bistable that made my friends wet themselves.....
I live in the sticks and there are about 5 roundabouts in a 20 mile radius of me. Frequently we get things called traffic jams four or five cars long which are invariably caused by four cars at the entrance to the roundabouts all politely waiting for someone else to go.
The reason behind the lobes is the star has a magnetic field and the interaction with that and the ionised gasses expelled produces lobes. The companion star merely stabilises the systems rotation*. Stars without companions can spin 'erratically' and can produce what appear to be shells.
Google planetary nebulae and enjoy the pics...
*well it can help with the magnetic field generation.
Horses for courses - there is some mileage to be had from NoSQL but in the end you have to suck the data out of it into a 'proper' database if you want to do SQL.
My main complaint is that once you rely on the NoSQL its tends to get in the way of actually organising your data properly. And I mean really get in the way.
but that would take you out of the office for at least 3 months or so every few years, cost more than your salary and make you highly employable elsewhere.
And for god sakes keep passwords in the safe. But dont let anyone know the combination!
There may be more hydrogen in a litre of petrol than a litre of liquid hydrogen but there is more useable energy in the liquid hydrogen: your lucky to get 30% of the energy in the fuel in normal driving whereas a fuel cell can offer over 90% return.
400 miles on a tank? The tank may currently cost 1/3 of the vehicle but in mass production will be fantastically less. If someone finally works out how to make graphene in bits bigger than a postage stamp it wont be a problem.
400 miles in the car in the article seems transportable. And, believe it or not, is a lot safer than petrol in case of a crash - the hydrogen just rises up and burns away from the accident rather than frying the occupants like yesterdays plane crash.
Its relatively easy to generate hydrogen. Mass produced wind power (we could stick a few kw on each house for around £500 if we invested in mass production) can provide the majority of our electrical needs and excess generation can be converted into H2 and stored locally for vehicle and windless days.
In response to tojb: well yes and no. My daughter uses a 7" tab with a plug in keyboard/mousepad jobbie and the two cost about £80 altogether and perform pretty well. Without the keyboard you have full multitouch for stuff.
Its not a full sized computer by any means but its more than usable for the school work at the moment and I dare say will be for a while.
Not bothered with it myself normally 10% is neither here nor there for me.
What I am intrigued with is - is there any intelligent feedback in the setups? Presumably now Intel are on board with overclocking they can rapidly work out why it fails and provide software tests to allow every last drop of umph out of a chip possible by testing the bits most likely to fail at varying temperatures etc.
I could be asking my grandmother if she knows how to suck eggs but every overclocker I've met just ramps it up until it fails and then backs off. And then wonders about subtle little things that crop up from time to time.
A custom overclocker testing program that call home would be good for Intel in the long run.