Re: "The Ashley Madison files – are people really this stupid?"
Sue the company? It will go into Chap11 and fritter away any assets.
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It really depends on what the Things are. Most of them wont need anything as powerful as the current Linux kernel - you'd be amazed what you can do with a PIC.
As for things with slightly more demand if this Micro:bit thing works - well there's room for a kernel on that IIRC. Then it may not be long before someone makes a SOC of the Pi and that is more powerful than the average desktop of just a few years ago.
Re using guns. Its reasonably economically viable to use a supergun to launch supplies into space, if as pointed out you do it up the side of a huge mountain (or mountain range) near the equator. The Andes is probably OK - the odd earthquake might cause the odd problem but the barrel could be relatively cheap and easy to repair if you dont go for silly pressures and accelerations. You could easily get the bits of a much larger rocket up there and then put them together. Fuel would be relatively easy.
You dont buy an Apple device and then do personal responsibility. People pay through the nose so that other people take care of the complicated stuff.
I know that sounds glib but that's why a lot of people by Apple - they believe its so tied down they cant hurt themselves.
I taught myself to type on my mums old typewriter when I was about 17 to around 70wpm. Went to big school and spent hours typing in punch cards at about 70cpm. Then got to work on a PDP11 with some form of stock keyboard for a while. Once in the real world DECVT100 terminals. Back to around 70wpm but then started using all sorts of obscure custom keyboards and slowed down to around 30wpm - which is quite good for coding! And as for tablets and phones...
However I think it was learning APL that ruined my typing for good!
Wonder if I could find a vt100 keyboard and type more of this shit....
I worked on some mixed bipolar and GaAs stuff 25 years ago. It seemed clear then that the optical stuff was always going to be on the periphery and not the core - the wavelength of the light being used being a major problem. The transistors involved here are pretty huge compared to modern devices. Make the light shorter wavelength and you've got serious problems of photons tunneling through several neighbouring devices - at these scales everything's see-through.
As the man said - might be useful doing some switching/encoding in the data centre but not really.
produced a poster showing how (men I think) were at different temperatures in the work environment.
I find most offices too hot. I feel woozy. When I used to smoke popping out for a fag improved ones efficiency enormously. I used to think its was the fags!
Our school was also freezing in winter - but got pretty good results. When I've been to pick the kids up and get there early they all look half asleep in their warm cozy classrooms.
If you can transmit from a RaspberryPi then i would have thought you could make a receiver with one which would be low cost (compared with the retro shit everywhere) that could stream happily round the home - assuming it doesnt just gurgle like all the dabs I've tried.
Low cost DAB is here - so give it two weeks and a new format will pop up to cream the listeners.
Thank Cthulthu for the internet so we dont have to buy this shit.
below 4C water starts to expand and effectively forces itself out of the ground where the cold air freezes it immediately creating spikes and mounds and all sorts of crazy things. I have a feeling that is all that is going on here - other than the fungus creating wood with a sponge like structure.
I'm inclined to think the relatively flat bit is an impact crater - there appears to be its ejecta to the 'east' and 'south' and I'm wondering if the mountains are in fact large lumps of ice that were deposited by a kind of tidal wave that was washed out of the crater.
I'm guessing whatever hit it came in relatively slowly so it was all a mud bath splash rather than lots of vaporization.
Errr wrong again. A recent study suggested that whales actually modify their environment too - by pooing at the surface. They bring nutrients up from the depths and fertilise the surface waters. When there were 2 million or so blue whales and god knows how many others fertilising the surface waters there must have been plankton blooms aplenty - and the fish to eat them. If we hadn't nearly wiped out the whales we would probably have an order of magnitude more fish to safely slap on our plates.
Why worry about the machinery when it comes to terrists? Its probably the easiest thing to take out - I dont think terrorist were thought of when it was built but taking out just one of the gates at the right time would cause a huge amount of damage and be nigh on impossible to stop.