Posts by Chemist

Re: Some peoples heads are so far up their A.......ndroids!

"These non desktop solutions are not computers in the desktop sense"

Can't help but agree with that ! ( must be equivalent to a NULL statement )

Re: Pushing Water Uphill @AC 10:17

"That I wear my pants inside out to get an extra days wear out of them?"

Save water - use recursion !

"The companies are aligning their engineering, technical, and testing teams to harden Linux and Windows as part of the re-upped deal."

You seem to have missed this bit !

Re: Fragmentation can be a good thing in this case

"trying to do the same on an old Dell laptop"

always try a Live CD if installing on 'new' hardware. That should show up any major problems ( if any)

Re: You mean, above and beyond

"There is binary blobs in the kernel "

Care to enumerate.

"Dogbert's Mission Statement Generator"

I ACTUALLY worked in a department in a company that believed ( the company that is) in dept. mission statements. The Dept. ( a VERY cynical bunch) generated their's by Dogbert's excellent site and either nobody noticed or nobody dared notice in the suits dept.

Re: sudo echo $'The Register on Pi-Lite' > /dev/ttyAMA0

"The $ is only needed because of the ' '"

Sorry about that , that's nonsense, IF you put $ in you NEED ' '

Re: PRISM Aware

"I guess the NSA aren't even pretending to hide any more.."

Open SOURCE !

Re: It's your data they want

"And switch to LibreOffice. A Java-based office suite that runs on all platforms."

Just to pint out that OO/LO is NOT Java-based - it just uses Java fro some activities and one of the project aims is the elimination of Java

From : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/system-requirements/

"For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required. Java is notably required for Base."

Re: Revolutionise what?

"no need for expensive and dangerous explosive projectiles"

Depends what the target is. A conventional shell with proximity fuse could destroy a target that you didn't hit - this is the likely scenario given the range, however with a railgun a soft-bodied target might simply be holed and without any significant mass to deliver the kinetic energy to it would be like a rifle-bullet hitting tissue paper unless it hit something heavy or vital.

Anyone know what the likely velocity is at ~300kms ??

Re: Slow and steady

"Erm. you know BB10 was already completely hacked, right? http://www.secunia.com/advisories/53778"

That'd be along with every other system using the below versions Adobe Flash then - and you really should use "potentially"

"Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in the following products and versions:

* Adobe Flash Player versions 11.5.502.135 and prior for Windows

* Adobe Flash Player versions 11.5.502.136 and prior for Macintosh

* Adobe Flash Player versions 11.2.202.258 and prior for Linux

* Adobe Flash Player versions 11.1.115.34 and prior for Android 4.x

* Adobe Flash Player versions 11.1.111.29 and prior for Android 3.x and 2.x

* Adobe AIR versions 3.5.0.880 and prior for Windows

* Adobe AIR versions 3.5.0.890 and prior for Macintosh

* Adobe AIR version 3.5.0.880 for Android

* Adobe AIR version 3.5.0.880 SDK and Adobe AIR version 3.5.0.890 SDK

"

Re: Snapshot of windows in my life

"So why are Linux desktops doing similar big re-vamps"

a) Not all of them are.

b) If you don't like a particular desktop you can either customize it or change it for one of several others.

with MS now WYSIWYG but not in a good way.

Re: Search?

"doesn't have a funny key with four-square flag"

Almost all my keyboards ( except for some wonderful original 286 IBMs) have this but it doesn't do anything useful ( I always use Linux), mind if I was using Windows I guess it would be even more useless

Re: Windows 7?

"Time for the Henry Ford quote again: "If I made what my customers wanted, I'd be making faster horses.""

Difference is that HIS customers bought the product

Re: HS2

"What benefit? HS2 goes nowhere near Manchester."

What !

HS2 - love it or loath it is intended to run from London - Birmingham and then branch to Manchester and Leeds. The (eye-watering) costs are in the news currently.

Re: Cool

"rather unpleasant if we have a few hundred kilograms of antimatter depart containment inside of the Earth's magnetosphere"

It's an antimatter catalyzed process. It's supposed to only require <micrograms of antiprotons

Re: Alternative to Windows?

"Hi AC, you obviously have bad vibes with Linux"

He's RICHTO/TheVogon just trolling - does it all the time, often as AC.

Re: Electric racing vehicles

"All that's needed is a cheap method of extracting the universe's most abundant element from a source - sea water probably."

Depends what you mean by cheap. You still need a source of energy at least equivalent to the energy that you are going to get back by 'burning' the hydrogen. And that assumes a method of generating hydrogen at high efficiency and that hopefully doesn't involve carbon. Electrolysis doesn't look too good at the moment even with a lot of development.

Storage and distribution of hydrogen is still a big issue.

Re: Couple of questions

"Who says it was an app?"

As the link in the article states :-

"Recently, an Android application came to us for analysis"

Re: Lucas Electric Vehicles,1980s called, your sodium-sulphur battery experience is needed

"Are you confusing hydrogen sulphide?"

NO, I'm a chemist - hydrogen sulfide IS VERY toxic but sulfur dioxide is also toxic at the 10 ppm kind of level. One of the major hazards of carbon disulfide, a extremely flammable solvent is the rapid production of sulfur dioxide during a fire. Although many materials are more toxic than sulfur dioxide the fact that 32 g of sulfur can produce 22.4L of sulfur dioxide which is still toxic when diluted with ~ 2 million litres of air would concern me.

"Ebola is a retrovirus,"

As indeed is AIDS

Re: Perhaps a little research ?

I think it's perfectly reasonable to research an area, any area, before diving in. To just suggest that the command-line is needed to install a package on Linux without actually knowing that it isn't just shows a kind of arrogance.

Re: jumping ship

"When average Consumer Joe goes looking for a printer... and doesn't see anything about Linux Support on the printer box... then as far as they are rightfully concerned.... that printer does NOT support Linux."

The average consumer isn't likely to care because they will have purchased a computer with Windows already installed as do the vast majority - partly because they don't know anything else and partly because it's nigh impossible to buy one with Linux already installed.

Anyone, like me, who assemble their own boxes are far more likely to know about Linux and also check the the suitability of peripherals.

As to Photoshop - if what you want to do is a little level or curve adjustment, resize, crop and sharpening of photos and/or RAW conversion then there are plenty of programs available for Linux including several using 16 bits/plane and I don't mean GIMP.

"Depreciation of the battery is factored into the headline rate of the electricity."

That's what I'm saying - but many people will think that they'll be paying cost of electricity + garage profit. However the depreciation charge will be the majority of the bill.

Re: Fuming

"somehow you think an astronauts "real work......."

I'm amazed that a Vogon doesn't know about working in space, mind they are a right bunch of bureaucrats.

Re: Growing market...

I read it as "carved out zilch in tablets"