Karthikeyan KC

Transcending | OST, Electro house

Tron: Legacy – Derezzed | Daft Punk

I geek out every time listening to this. :D Daft Punk nailed this!

Awesome! I used to change wallpapers manually (mostly F22 Raptors and F117 Nighthawks and some COD wallpapers), but now I am happy with Bing desktop. :) Changes every hour, mostly landscapes from scenaries. For my Lumia, Baconit does a great job loading wallpapers from subreddits of your choice.

I noticed the same in mine (Home). Inactive window color changes, but not the active one. Dark grey is fine for me anyway :) . I guess the registry might’ve been patched in a recent update.

I would love a reboot of Sneakers and Accepted. And talking about reboots, Colossus: The Forbin Project is a masterpiece too.

Tucked away in a secret location in the Rockies, Dr. Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) has developed a massive computer system, dubbed “Colossus,” that is supposed to ensure the nation’s safety against nuclear attack. But when Colossus connects to a similar Russian computer, “Guardian,” the intelligent machines begin conducting a private dialog. Nervous as to what they might be plotting, Forbin severs the connection, only to have Colossus threaten a nuclear attack if the link isn’t restored.

This movie’s depiction of AI is way ahead of its time. Worth watching it before the reboot.

These are so far my favorite movies of all time:

• Stargate
• K-Pax
• Gattaca
• Moon
• Pi
• Primer
• Waking Life
• Contact
• Back To the Future Trilogy
• The Martian
• Toy Story Trilogy
• Frequency
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Robocop
• Interstellar
• Avatar
• District 9
• Iron Man and the entire MCU
• Blade Runner
• X-Men
• Jurassic Park and Jurassic World
• Real Steel
• Inception
• Terminator (Please don’t watch Salvation! It’s an abomination!)
• The Dark Knight Trilogy
• The Matrix Trilogy

And of course, Serenity! It holds a special place with Stargate! I left Star Trek and Star Wars in this. I have a mixed love for the individual episodes, and it would eventually form another interesting list.  :)

Wait… Soft? You mean matte? Okay. Here is the thing, LCD screens come in two different types.

• Glossy
• Matte

Your old LCD might be a glossy one and that’s why it shows everything a little brighter and more vibrant. Probably your new laptop might have a matte screen. Matte screens usually have an anti-glare coating to prevent any annoying reflections. And hence the warmish perception. You will get used to it. Indeed, less blue light is actually good for your eyes.

It appears just white.

I really have no idea what you are referring to. Could you be more specific? If you are talking about the display temperature, then a laptop LCD probably would not have any settings for that. Maybe you can try checking your integrated GPU’s control panel. If not, maybe it’s the LCD backlight. Different models have a different LED backlight and it may vary.

I agree. Unfortunately, that is the only available solution to stop the updates. As far as the UserVoice thing is concerned, I don’t think Microsoft is going to pay heed to it! I tried reaching out to the global escalation team and all they could do was get a formal feedback from me and close the case.

I assume you have Windows 10 Home. For some crazy reason, Microsoft has removed the option for Home editions. I myself had this issue and the only way I could stop the updates are by disabling the windows update service thread.

Method 1 (If you are using a Wi-Fi connection)

Set your Wi-Fi connection to metered.

Settings > Network & Internet > Advanced options > Set as metered connection

Method 2 (If you are not using Wi-Fi)

As Ethernet connections cannot be set as metered (another design flaw), the only option is to disable the windows update service.

Go to search and type “services.msc”. Now select Windows Update and click on stop. Once the service stops, right-click on the windows update service and set the startup type to disabled.

However, remember that you will be missing the critical windows updates forever. To update again, set the startup type to automatic and start the service. Also, disabling this might affect the windows store experience. Hope it helps!

It does make sense about the second law of thermodynamics. When I look the universe with Copenhagen interpretation, the universe is probabistic and I get why we consider the quantum interactions are random. But we don’t know for sure that quantum mechanics is complete. Say if we could measure the position of an electron at a certain time, every theory and principle fails. So that makes the ‘true randomness’ a ‘not sure if it’s truly a randomness’ right? Yes, it’s kind of a near hypothetical case. I guess it would be a true feat of exploration at that time. Hope this timeline favors that.

Sorry for a very delayed response. Curiosity is actually growing and we don’t have a lot of members yet. Thanks for being patient and not bumping the thread. :) Anyways, I’ll give you a basic answer.

Determination of the bond-angle mainly involves spectroscopy where the molecules absorb electromagnetic radiation and vibrates in a different state than normal. By analyzing the spectra, chemists determine the angles. The other technique used is VSEPR. A simple definition of this theory is that it works under the assumption that the atoms in any molecule will arrange themselves to a certain geometrical structure so that the repulsion between them is kept to a minimum.

But as far as I know, the common method used to find the structure of a crystal lattice, is x-ray crystallography. With this method, the molecular structure of a crystal can be rendered from the diffraction pattern caused by passing the x-rays through the crystal. The method used to determine the bond angles is precisely called as single crystal crystallography.

In addition to these models, complex molecules would involve computational determinations usings simulations using fourier transforms.

I am really not that into chemistry, but I guess this will help you to start reading some in-depth explanations on Wikipedia or other articles while you wait for a professional answer from someone who is really into organic chemistry.

I was right. :) Or I will be… This is the current composite stitch of the images from Ceres. The spots are much brighter. To add, here is a video of the topography of the Occator crater:

The bright spots have an albedo higher than that of the Ceres, four times I guess! So mostly, it should be one of the hypotheses scientists at NASA already have (I believe it’s the ice) or something artificially interesting. I’d really go crazy if that’s an artificial stuff. We’ll have to wait for a closer analysis from Dawn. Sit tight.. Farhan :) Dawn is getting closer to Ceres…

There are a lot of factors to consider before using a whole plane parachute systems. The aircraft in the picture is a small one. For the size of that Cirrus aircraft, a 40 kg safety equipment is a viable safety option. But when you scale it to a big commercial airplane like a 737, you’ll have to scale the chute and add more heavy parts to it. It would also require more parachutes and deploying explosives and rockets. We are dealing with a big plane that’s cruising at higher speeds at higher altitudes. Which means that you will have to deploy the parachutes faster at high speeds. Also, the airplane structure should be capable of withstanding such heavy loads induced by the sudden deceleration. This ultimately requires more heavy stuffs, which eventually reduces the plane’s payload – the passengers. Overall result is that a complex whole plane parachute system wouldn’t be that practical and economic for the airlines due to the reduced payload and increased maintenance costs. Moreover, most of the air-emergencies occur only while landing and takeoff. So it wouldn’t be a wise choice to put parachutes that could only help the airplane while cruising.

As @CoolnClever suggested, speeding up the nuclear fusion in the core by adding mass to the star is a good way to begin with your efforts to put out the star. But if you could remove the mass from the star, you won’t need any of your ‘extinguishing material’ to put it out. As you keep on removing the mass from the surface, the density of the core reduces and at a certain point there won’t be any fusion happening at all.