The CME of 2012 missed us by 5 days. This was estimated to be approximately the same as the 1859 solar storm. Lifted from Wiki==> "Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some telegraph systems continued to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies." If we don't protect our power grid and electronics with Faraday Cages we are in for a serious butt whipping. The Russians still use vacuum tubes on military aircraft for CME/EMP immunity. It's not a matter of if, but when.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:48 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: 64-bit App Store requirement You think that is crazy, I just watched a commercial where you can take a stylus and hand write what you want, which is then converted to computer text. I have a much simpler, economically and environmentally superior way to accomplish this. It involves taking old wood scraps, smashing and pulverizing them, then mixing them with water and bleach and flattening the result out into great big sheets to dry. After that we can cut them up, and put some really dark thick dye into little tubes with a tiny ball bearing at the end, and then scrape the bearing over the slices of bleached wood pulp! I agree there are some disadvantages, but it will be extremely cheap, universally compatible, multi lingual, and extremely resistant to shock, loss of power, storage failure and electromagnetic pulses. Bob S On Oct 28, 2014, at 06:47 , Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com<mailto:pmb...@gmail.com>> wrote: The idea that the same UI will work well on a little 5" phone screen and a 42" monitor is crazy. If Apple does this I will seriously consider moving to Linux. It used to be that Apple made stoves that you could just turn on and cook with, but increasingly they are making stoves that choose your cooking temperature and time for you and have hidden knobs the size of pushpins if you want to do anything different. It will take a really bad move on their part for me to go to a system where in order to cook dinner I have to collect the firewood, build a grill, and amass a collection of thermometers, but they look as if they might be getting there. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
