Yeah, because we all want to run 3 applications that'll eat up the CPU at the same time. Thats a function that could have EASILY be[sic] left out for Win95. It doesn't need scheduling support for it's[sic] GUI.
If people buy Vista to get DX10 it's a win for Microsoft. If people are discouraged from using Microsoft's gaming competititor, the PC, it's a win for Microsoft. So it's not stupid at all.
Your mention of photons gives me an idea, though. If you wanted electrical power from the body,
it would probably be much easier to make a luminescent power source biocompatible than a more direct electrical
one, and also probably more efficient. The efficiency of firefly tails
is apparently 90%, and the light is reasonably hot and a good match for GaAsP single gap cells, so maybe 70% for
the whole device.
There is the slight snag that fireflies are suspected to not be mammals, so you might need a bit of genetic
engineering before trying any transplants. Still, nothing our fine Mad Scientists can't take in
their stride.
Fortunately it seems unlikely they'll be able to make this stick. Nowadays, at last, there's some degree of choice of broadband providers for most people in the UK. In fact, usually more choices for ISP than there are television companies. So who needs who most ? If my ISP won't do BBC, it's not likely I'll be dropping the BBC for some other station. I'll be dropping the ISP.
The trouble is, you will need to hide the details of the final destination from the ISP, which means doing your own routing. Which means passing the data round the network more and using even more bandwidth. If you intend doing it at the endpoints, like TOR, several times more.
IIRC the word "time" as used in "exponential time" etc. actually means the amount of work done, so any NP-complete problem can be solved in reasonable real time if you have exponential resources to throw at it. Which is what this optical solution does, with N^N photons. There may be some interesting techniques involved, but it's still basically "assume a big enough computer....".
You've just given me a fabulous idea. It involves Paris Hilton, a Republican cubicle, Britney Spears, a Democrat cubicle, some tubing, and a couple of buckets. It is guaranteed to give the correct vote by the only measure that everyone agrees is fair and right. (although it still has the problem of keeping backdoor exploits to a minimum)
WHY NOT replace the human element, at least as a target?
Well, for a start, if you don't appear on the battlefield, why would your enemy bother fighting you there? They know where your country is, it makes much more sense to kill you at home instead.
This is absurd to concern oneself with anyway since the death rate for commercial air travel is around 0.14 per billion miles. The death rate for automobile travel is 11,350% higher.
If I die, the fact that I've travelled a large distance in the process will hardly be much of a consolation.
Replacing deaths/mile by deaths/hour gives figures far less different.
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30. Which of these do scientists think is moving away from the origin of the big bang ?
A GalaxiesB The vacuum
C Other universes
D Ultrasound
There may be scientists who believe C, but the rest are garbage.
Yeah, because we all want to run 3 applications that'll eat up the CPU at the same time. Thats a function that could have EASILY be[sic] left out for Win95. It doesn't need scheduling support for it's[sic] GUI.
If people buy Vista to get DX10 it's a win for Microsoft. If people are discouraged from using Microsoft's gaming competititor, the PC, it's a win for Microsoft. So it's not stupid at all.
Mars is one big beach, so peroxided organisms are to be expected.
Your mention of photons gives me an idea, though. If you wanted electrical power from the body, it would probably be much easier to make a luminescent power source biocompatible than a more direct electrical one, and also probably more efficient. The efficiency of firefly tails is apparently 90%, and the light is reasonably hot and a good match for GaAsP single gap cells, so maybe 70% for the whole device.
There is the slight snag that fireflies are suspected to not be mammals, so you might need a bit of genetic engineering before trying any transplants. Still, nothing our fine Mad Scientists can't take in their stride.
About 60%
And what is the efficiency of driving those proteins with mechanical force to produce energy?About zero.
Can that energy be harvested as electrons or photonsYes, but it's zero :-)
...and a perfectly rigid lead actor.
"You're dumped and your stuff is in the garden." What's so hard about that ?
Oh, And Another Thing...
If the ISPs were really concerned about the bandwidth usage of TV-like services, then why didn't they just turn on multicast ?
Fortunately it seems unlikely they'll be able to make this stick. Nowadays, at last, there's some degree of choice of broadband providers for most people in the UK. In fact, usually more choices for ISP than there are television companies. So who needs who most ? If my ISP won't do BBC, it's not likely I'll be dropping the BBC for some other station. I'll be dropping the ISP.
The trouble is, you will need to hide the details of the final destination from the ISP, which means doing your own routing. Which means passing the data round the network more and using even more bandwidth. If you intend doing it at the endpoints, like TOR, several times more.
Unfortunately, despite his claims to the contrary, he doesn't have a high enough AQ. You need an AQ of 160 to be a MIT-licenced developer.
Theo de Raadt has an AQ of 285.
I think you'll find that the Windows desktop will not run on the Linux kernel. So the confusion would seem to be yours.
Worst. Haiku. Ever.
This was originally reported on climateaudit. Currently slashdotted, but cached by google:
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Or to put it a little more excitingly, solving a 26 step problem with 12um photons will take somewhere in the region of 25 megatons.
Which means you would probably have to be pretty desperate for sales.
IIRC the word "time" as used in "exponential time" etc. actually means the amount of work done,
so any NP-complete problem can be solved in reasonable real time if you have exponential resources to throw at it. Which is what this optical solution does, with N^N photons. There may be some interesting techniques involved, but it's still basically "assume a big enough computer....".
You've just given me a fabulous idea. It involves Paris Hilton, a Republican cubicle, Britney Spears, a Democrat cubicle, some tubing, and a couple of buckets. It is guaranteed to give the correct vote by the only measure that everyone agrees is fair and right. (although it still has the problem of keeping backdoor exploits to a minimum)
Judge rules that written agreement to sell constitutes contract, but on the internet.
News for nerds indeed.
Well, for a start, if you don't appear on the battlefield, why would your enemy bother fighting you there? They know where your country is, it makes much more sense to kill you at home instead.
No, the important thing is that they were Unix. Even in 1990 the market for usability disasters was just not that big.
Well no, not like a virus.
I say Solanum lycopersicum. Which fully demonstrates my superiority, I think.
Where did you get the idea that I spend more time in cars than in the air ?
If I die, the fact that I've travelled a large distance in the process will hardly be much of a consolation.
Replacing deaths/mile by deaths/hour gives figures far less different.