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If you can connect two computers together across the office and run them as if you had the two processors in one box, this is a big leap for distributed computing. The main problem today with distributed computing is that the network is the bottleneck, so you can only run tasks that can be easily broken into small chunks. You therefore cant use software designed for the big 64 way IBM Big Iron, because all their processors are on the same bus so you dont have to split stuff up, the processors talk to each other realtime. 10G ethernet allows you to string 64 cheap boxes together and run them as if all the processors were on the same bus, so you can run all that nuclear explosion simulation or weather simulation software that youve always wanted to but couldnt find the spare $10M to buy a supercomputer. Id wager that apples Xserve will be one of the first widely available computers to run 10G (you could get 1G from them like 2 years ago) Imagine a beowulf cluster of those....;-)
After taking the grad class "Satellite dynamics and control" I feel im qualified to answer this question. In order to fully control a satellite such as the space station, you only need 3 gyroscopes for three axis control (X,Y,Z). And in a tight situation you could get away with two if they were in the right position (to do a 3-1-3 rotation for example) The other two gyroscopes are there to give you more control authority, and more torquing power, but if two of them fail, youll still be able to control how the station is oriented. The reason why its taking them a year to replace the thing is because they are essentially replacing a backup. If they lose another gyroscope they will definetly pick up the timetable, and if they lost two more they would have to abandon station until they could get it fixed.
Its ok when they misspel something in the body, I can understand that, but in the headline? Somone should have previewed before they posted. Unless Gnoogle is a new gogle ripoff that i havent heard of.
At the university of Maryland this semester, I took a class that had the task of designing a lunar base. We considered using magnetic fields too, until the professor told us the story of a class he had a few years ago that tried to go to jupiter. They wanted to use a magnetic field too, using a superconducting magnetic loop. The ship -HAS- to be torodial (donut shaped) because the ener4getic protons are repelled by the field but attracted to the poles of the magnet. When the professor asked if they had any backup in case the superconductivity failed, the answer was "We dont need to worry about that, because if the superconductivity fails the energy that will be released will vaporize the entire spaceship." To answe your question about how much power it needs, you need cryogenic cooling equipment that is able to maintain liquid nitrogen temperatures for the entire mission duration. If the system fails, your ship goes poof.
Radiation is really a bugbear though. Martian atmosphere provides some protection, and its assumed that if you were establishing a premanent base, you would cover your habitat in enough dirt so that radiation would be at earthlike levels or better. Then just dont go out on EVA during solar flares and youll be ok. Martian atmosphere is enough to protect against cosmic rays and normal levels of solar proton flux, which is the biggest problem for free space radiation. Just build shelters and youll be fine.
Except that read the article, it says he can use latent fingerprints. Fingerprints are on everything. Somone who works at a restaurant could make a goldmine with latent fingerprints. All you need is some powder and some tape and you can get all the prints you want from anywhere peoples hands come in contact with a smooth surface.
If lunar tides cease to exist, ocean temperatures will likely equalize a little (less water movement at all), and so winds will become less intense
This is wrong, but only because youve got a bigger problem. When the tides cease to exist, it means that the earth is rotating much much slower than it is now, say once every 28 days (or longer, the moons orbital period is getting longer too) This means that for 14 days any point on the earths surface is in sunlight. The reason we have decent temperate weather around here is because every 12 hours the earth cools back down. The equilibrium temperature at the earths orbital radius is 121 degrees C. The longer we stay in the sun the more likely the oceans will boil off. Not to mention the extremely cold temperatures that will occur on the night side of the planet. As the oceans boil on one side of the planet they will recondense on the dark side, which would be pretty cool to watch, but would eventually scour the planet smooth due to massively increased erosion.
The 280R has dual redundant power supplies, can have up to 4 CPUs, gigabytes more memory, is SCSI-based, and, since it's
5RU, has a ton more expandability.
Lets see, if suns server is 5U, then with Xserve you can have 10 proecessors and 20 drive bays in the same space that the sun is taking up. Thats not expandable at all.
While we want to business with these countries, lack of protections makes it nearly impossible. At least under the rules and structure of Capitalism.
Pure capitalism has only one rule, supply and demand. Somone needs to take a course on economics. In a true lassiz faire free market economy, there are no rules and regulations. The market for products drives the price. if somone can produce something for cheaper and people are willing to buy it, it will get made. This is what is happening in Russia and China. Entrepreneurs are able to manufacture CD's with software on them for cheaper than the original manufacturers can. These entrepreneurs also dont need to pay R&d costs for the software, so they get an additional savings. Its like generic goods. I could buy Kleenex, or i could buy generic facial tissue. Yes generic facial tissue is a little rough around the edges, but it performs exactly the same function as kleenex does, at a cheaper price. Thats Capitalism.
Ill wait until it has tricorder-like capabilities. Sure its great to have a ppt presentation on your cell phone, but what if you need to scan for alien life forms, detect neutrino emissions, or tell if somone has a tribble lodged in their -*Radio Edit*-? Plus tricorders have more blinking lights on them, so you cant go wrong with that.
Thats funny, I live in Washington DC, which, last time i checked was within the United States. The metro in DC rocks. I can get wherever i want to go without a car. In fact I spent probably 30 bucks on gas in the last year.
The following is translated -almost- verbatim from an Onion book i have at home. Is science being taught in our schools? Asks the great news-paper "The Onion", instument of the rich, pacifier of the poor, americas finest news source, on its July 20, 1925 front page. "Scopes monkey trial raises troubling question: IS SCIENCE BEING TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS? Should children be exposed to facts? are reason and empirical evidence suitable school subjects?"
Clearly the answer to thes questions is no, as a man who holds that the welfare of the country takes precedence over any other human concern, I must stand firmly against the teaching of Science in our schools. This Science has already caused turmoil among the god-fearing readers of Slashdot, americas second finest, and most accurate, news source These peoples had no wish to know that they, as human creatures, may have descended from apes. What if Science were to champion other truths, provable and real, which people do not want to hear? For example, god forbid, what if Linux were proven by Science, to be superior to any version of Windows? The peoples reaction would cause division and conflict in our nation, nay, in our world, that would doubtless outweigh any benefits of the actual Scientific discovery. Should we teach our children facts? No, I say, a thousand time no! As they grow into tomorrows farmers, housewives, mill workers, and microsoft executives, facts are the last things they will need. Manners, subservience, above all, obedience! To speak only when spoken to, to standardize on one platform, and to not cause trouble! These are the principles upon which our educational system was founded. Why in the name of god should we replace it with a system that actually encourages the ignorant man to ask questions? A good citizen does nothing of the sort. He is content with the reasons he is given by his betters.
Humanitys noblest heroes were not men who cared about facts. They were men who stood up for what they believed in, to hell with facts! To hell with any truth not their own! Our most cherished heroes would fight to the death, bludgeoning their enemies repeatedly, wholly uninterested in whether they were right or wrong. Once something is accepted as true, it should be true forever. This noble ideal, with its emphasis on unquestioning acceptance and obedience to authority, is what we should teach our children. It is the rock upon which we have built our government, our religion, and our American way of life, and it is the very ideal that science seeks to thwart with its new "discoveries" and impersonal ledgers of "facts".
Learning! Why should we provide our citizens with learning? Does learning mathematics aid a man who will spend the rest of his life smelting iron in a foundry? Does knowing that man comes from apes, if he indeed does, which seems to be the subject of some debate, change the lot of the farmwife who spends her years shuttling barefoot between the birthing-bed and the milking-stool, as is proper? I say it does not. Furthermore, it fills the brains of children with useless facts which does not help them become better American Citizens. Does a fact have any inherent moral value? Does Science? We know that science allowed the Germans to develop the mustard gas,the motor-gun, and techno music. Has religion ever been used in such a fashion? With the exception of the holy hand grenade of antioch, no.
Is it possible that we, with our motorcars, and aero-planes, powered by our internal-combustion engines, have already started us down a slippery slope of our destruction. We were not content to stay with time honored steam, to travel in our dignified trains and coach-and-fours, but we can take action now, before ape worshipping scientists turn us one against the other. We must cease our march of progress now, and there is no better way to achieve this than to keep the hellborn demon Science, and his diabolical Facts, from coming into contact with our children.
The response to this would be for eff to draft a bill repealing all copyright and trademark laws, and then barter it down to something workable, like the repeal of the DMCA or the disney copyright act.
No, it has to be a delorean, because its made out of stainless steel, which is more durable and can stand stresses better than anything else cars are made out of. Unless you built a titanium ferrari.
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Yeah, like OS X, nobodys using that!
I think everyone is supporting better than 4000 kbps now: 4000 Kbps=4Mbps
If you can connect two computers together across the office and run them as if you had the two processors in one box, this is a big leap for distributed computing. The main problem today with distributed computing is that the network is the bottleneck, so you can only run tasks that can be easily broken into small chunks. You therefore cant use software designed for the big 64 way IBM Big Iron, because all their processors are on the same bus so you dont have to split stuff up, the processors talk to each other realtime. 10G ethernet allows you to string 64 cheap boxes together and run them as if all the processors were on the same bus, so you can run all that nuclear explosion simulation or weather simulation software that youve always wanted to but couldnt find the spare $10M to buy a supercomputer. Id wager that apples Xserve will be one of the first widely available computers to run 10G (you could get 1G from them like 2 years ago) Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.... ;-)
Yeah, except that you cant destroy the world trade center by hijacking a train. They tend to do badly off road.
After taking the grad class "Satellite dynamics and control" I feel im qualified to answer this question. In order to fully control a satellite such as the space station, you only need 3 gyroscopes for three axis control (X,Y,Z). And in a tight situation you could get away with two if they were in the right position (to do a 3-1-3 rotation for example) The other two gyroscopes are there to give you more control authority, and more torquing power, but if two of them fail, youll still be able to control how the station is oriented. The reason why its taking them a year to replace the thing is because they are essentially replacing a backup. If they lose another gyroscope they will definetly pick up the timetable, and if they lost two more they would have to abandon station until they could get it fixed.
Mesa say yousa not worry so much bout speakin chinese, worry more bout speakin english
-Jar Jar
Its ok when they misspel something in the body, I can understand that, but in the headline? Somone should have previewed before they posted. Unless Gnoogle is a new gogle ripoff that i havent heard of.
Except in Delaware, which has No Usury laws. Which is why there are alot of banks and credit card companies based in delaware.
At the university of Maryland this semester, I took a class that had the task of designing a lunar base. We considered using magnetic fields too, until the professor told us the story of a class he had a few years ago that tried to go to jupiter. They wanted to use a magnetic field too, using a superconducting magnetic loop. The ship -HAS- to be torodial (donut shaped) because the ener4getic protons are repelled by the field but attracted to the poles of the magnet. When the professor asked if they had any backup in case the superconductivity failed, the answer was "We dont need to worry about that, because if the superconductivity fails the energy that will be released will vaporize the entire spaceship." To answe your question about how much power it needs, you need cryogenic cooling equipment that is able to maintain liquid nitrogen temperatures for the entire mission duration. If the system fails, your ship goes poof.
Radiation is really a bugbear though. Martian atmosphere provides some protection, and its assumed that if you were establishing a premanent base, you would cover your habitat in enough dirt so that radiation would be at earthlike levels or better. Then just dont go out on EVA during solar flares and youll be ok. Martian atmosphere is enough to protect against cosmic rays and normal levels of solar proton flux, which is the biggest problem for free space radiation. Just build shelters and youll be fine.
www.marssociety.org Check out operation Congress. Sure looks like a lobbying effort to me.
Except that read the article, it says he can use latent fingerprints. Fingerprints are on everything. Somone who works at a restaurant could make a goldmine with latent fingerprints. All you need is some powder and some tape and you can get all the prints you want from anywhere peoples hands come in contact with a smooth surface.
This is wrong, but only because youve got a bigger problem. When the tides cease to exist, it means that the earth is rotating much much slower than it is now, say once every 28 days (or longer, the moons orbital period is getting longer too) This means that for 14 days any point on the earths surface is in sunlight. The reason we have decent temperate weather around here is because every 12 hours the earth cools back down. The equilibrium temperature at the earths orbital radius is 121 degrees C. The longer we stay in the sun the more likely the oceans will boil off. Not to mention the extremely cold temperatures that will occur on the night side of the planet. As the oceans boil on one side of the planet they will recondense on the dark side, which would be pretty cool to watch, but would eventually scour the planet smooth due to massively increased erosion.
5RU, has a ton more expandability.
Lets see, if suns server is 5U, then with Xserve you can have 10 proecessors and 20 drive bays in the same space that the sun is taking up. Thats not expandable at all.
Read David Brin's Uplift Series, All about making Monkeys and gorillas and dolphins smarter than they actually are.
Slashdotters defending Microsoft? And getting Modded up for doing so? Have I stepped into Bizarro world when nobody was looking?
Don't you mean Jar-Jar?
Pure capitalism has only one rule, supply and demand. Somone needs to take a course on economics. In a true lassiz faire free market economy, there are no rules and regulations. The market for products drives the price. if somone can produce something for cheaper and people are willing to buy it, it will get made. This is what is happening in Russia and China. Entrepreneurs are able to manufacture CD's with software on them for cheaper than the original manufacturers can. These entrepreneurs also dont need to pay R&d costs for the software, so they get an additional savings. Its like generic goods. I could buy Kleenex, or i could buy generic facial tissue. Yes generic facial tissue is a little rough around the edges, but it performs exactly the same function as kleenex does, at a cheaper price. Thats Capitalism.
Ill wait until it has tricorder-like capabilities. Sure its great to have a ppt presentation on your cell phone, but what if you need to scan for alien life forms, detect neutrino emissions, or tell if somone has a tribble lodged in their -*Radio Edit*-? Plus tricorders have more blinking lights on them, so you cant go wrong with that.
Thats funny, I live in Washington DC, which, last time i checked was within the United States. The metro in DC rocks. I can get wherever i want to go without a car. In fact I spent probably 30 bucks on gas in the last year.
The radius of the EARTH is 6378.1 km not the moon. The moons radius is 1734 Km (Vallado, fundamentals of astrodynamics and applications, 1997)
The following is translated -almost- verbatim from an Onion book i have at home.
Is science being taught in our schools?
Asks the great news-paper "The Onion", instument of the rich, pacifier of the poor, americas finest news source, on its July 20, 1925 front page. "Scopes monkey trial raises troubling question:
IS SCIENCE BEING TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS?
Should children be exposed to facts? are reason and empirical evidence suitable school subjects?"
Clearly the answer to thes questions is no, as a man who holds that the welfare of the country takes precedence over any other human concern, I must stand firmly against the teaching of Science in our schools. This Science has already caused turmoil among the god-fearing readers of Slashdot, americas second finest, and most accurate, news source These peoples had no wish to know that they, as human creatures, may have descended from apes. What if Science were to champion other truths, provable and real, which people do not want to hear? For example, god forbid, what if Linux were proven by Science, to be superior to any version of Windows? The peoples reaction would cause division and conflict in our nation, nay, in our world, that would doubtless outweigh any benefits of the actual Scientific discovery. Should we teach our children facts? No, I say, a thousand time no! As they grow into tomorrows farmers, housewives, mill workers, and microsoft executives, facts are the last things they will need. Manners, subservience, above all, obedience! To speak only when spoken to, to standardize on one platform, and to not cause trouble! These are the principles upon which our educational system was founded. Why in the name of god should we replace it with a system that actually encourages the ignorant man to ask questions? A good citizen does nothing of the sort. He is content with the reasons he is given by his betters.
Humanitys noblest heroes were not men who cared about facts. They were men who stood up for what they believed in, to hell with facts! To hell with any truth not their own! Our most cherished heroes would fight to the death, bludgeoning their enemies repeatedly, wholly uninterested in whether they were right or wrong. Once something is accepted as true, it should be true forever. This noble ideal, with its emphasis on unquestioning acceptance and obedience to authority, is what we should teach our children. It is the rock upon which we have built our government, our religion, and our American way of life, and it is the very ideal that science seeks to thwart with its new "discoveries" and impersonal ledgers of "facts".
Learning! Why should we provide our citizens with learning? Does learning mathematics aid a man who will spend the rest of his life smelting iron in a foundry? Does knowing that man comes from apes, if he indeed does, which seems to be the subject of some debate, change the lot of the farmwife who spends her years shuttling barefoot between the birthing-bed and the milking-stool, as is proper? I say it does not. Furthermore, it fills the brains of children with useless facts which does not help them become better American Citizens. Does a fact have any inherent moral value? Does Science? We know that science allowed the Germans to develop the mustard gas,the motor-gun, and techno music. Has religion ever been used in such a fashion? With the exception of the holy hand grenade of antioch, no.
Is it possible that we, with our motorcars, and aero-planes, powered by our internal-combustion engines, have already started us down a slippery slope of our destruction. We were not content to stay with time honored steam, to travel in our dignified trains and coach-and-fours, but we can take action now, before ape worshipping scientists turn us one against the other. We must cease our march of progress now, and there is no better way to achieve this than to keep the hellborn demon Science, and his diabolical Facts, from coming into contact with our children.
So this is like the second or third post, and the link is already slashdotted. Sigh. Mirrors anyone?
The response to this would be for eff to draft a bill repealing all copyright and trademark laws, and then barter it down to something workable, like the repeal of the DMCA or the disney copyright act.
No, it has to be a delorean, because its made out of stainless steel, which is more durable and can stand stresses better than anything else cars are made out of. Unless you built a titanium ferrari.