Yeah, but momentum conservation becomes a major problem when the plane launches something (the BB) that weighs a significant fraction of its weight at high velocity.
You'd almost have to shoot another BB out the back of the plane to keep from stalling out.
That's exactly how I deal with websites that require an email address for some lame reason! (Like the RealPlayer registration) Sure! I live in 90210 and my email address is support@real.com. Send me _ALL_ your newsletters.
With the abundance of bandwidth available on cable, I don't think we'll need to switch to fiber to the home any time soon. This may be interesting as a replacement for T1 Lines to businesses and such, but nobody is going to pay the huge expense of running fiber to a neighborhood for at least another 5 years.
There are other significant expenses apart from packaging related to making fiber-optic NICs compatible with long-haul or telecom systems. It's great that packaging may get cheaper, but that's only part of the expense. It's still not cheap to make a fast, high-power 1.55 or 1.3 micron laser. Also, Laser output power changes (a lot!) as temperature changes, so a package to drive a telecom laser requires an integrated photodetector and feed-back circuit to keep the output power somewhat constant.
Finally, if you're going to make things reasonably cheap (say by using WDM to multiplex several neighbors onto a single pair of fibers), you'll need each neighbor's NIC operate on a specific, narrow wavelength. This makes the price of the laser even more expensive (since conventional semiconductor laser wavelength changes significantly with temperature). This requires closely temperature-controled packaging or use of a less temperature-dependent semiconductor heterostructure for the active region of the lasers (such as quantum-dots).
Basically, we're not going to see these in the _home_ any time soon. Maybe in the office or as a back-bone for local DSL connections.
Let's not forget that OS/2 was competing as a workstation O/S, not as a server O/S. Things are a lot different when there are IT people available to manage things, and it's pretty clear to a lot of people that microsoft has a bad reputation when it comes to security and reliabilty.
Loved the new commercials, and think it's a good thing that IBM is backing Linux.
Not really. With the old 10-2 ethernet standard, Coax could only handle 10Mb/sec. When you stop to consider the sheer magnitude of information which the cable company transmits to your house, it becomes clear that a single coaxial cable can handle a heck of a lot more information than that (80 channels of streaming, UNCOMPRESSED video with three audio channels each).
For a quick (bar napkin) calculation:
If each pixel in a video screen were a one or a zero, we're up to ~150Mb/sec already. Figuring 44kHz stereo for all of the audio channels adds another 10Mb/sec.
Realistically, one could encode at least three bits of information (Red, Green, Blue) for each pixel and there's a lot more than 80 channels available. Comcast just uses some of the unused bandwidth for internet connections.
AFAIK, real DVDs use two layers and two sides. The DVD RAMS presently only use one layer, two sides. A real DVD, therefore, stores twice as much (20ish GB).
This protocol works on the same principle of the script-kiddie who hacks into several machines in a series fashion. Each time he hacks into a new computer and telnets out, his original source becomes one step harder to trace, but it's never really impossible. Essentially, this protocol would continuously mask the previous step in the route. To trace it, one must obtain logs from each router (one at a time) back along the the packet route. It would be tedious, but not impossible. It is worth mentioning, however, that the routing would not necessarily be any more complecated than the present IPV4 routing. With support for the protocol (and a public/private key pair) for each router, it could be routed along the shortest path.
Well, then if the RIAA defeats Napster, all those affected by VBScript viri should file a class-action against Microsoft. They could use the Napster case as precedence.
What is it with VBScript and viruses lately? I wish I could say that I'm reluctant to jump on the anti-MS badwagon, but I'm not. It just seems like all of the recent computer "Pathogens" have been targeted at Micro$oft products.
Clear impoication: MS VBScript implements poor or no security. It's nice that there's a scripting language, but more time should have been spent ensuring that its use would not be a threat to users.
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Yeah, but momentum conservation becomes a major problem when the plane launches something (the BB) that weighs a significant fraction of its weight at high velocity.
You'd almost have to shoot another BB out the back of the plane to keep from stalling out.
They do have a "Hunter" line of UAVs.
I assume they mean to say that it can fly through an open window. If it could crash through a closed window, I'd be REALLY impressed.
1. Do they know they're monitored? ;)
2. What if they type the alphabet then copy and paste one character at a time?
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" It's the funniest word I think I've ever seen.
At least OpenOffice doesn't come with that F'ing paperclip!
This is so far off topic . . . .
That's exactly how I deal with websites that require an email address for some lame reason! (Like the RealPlayer registration) Sure! I live in 90210 and my email address is support@real.com. Send me _ALL_ your newsletters.
With the abundance of bandwidth available on cable, I don't think we'll need to switch to fiber to the home any time soon. This may be interesting as a replacement for T1 Lines to businesses and such, but nobody is going to pay the huge expense of running fiber to a neighborhood for at least another 5 years.
There are other significant expenses apart from packaging related to making fiber-optic NICs compatible with long-haul or telecom systems. It's great that packaging may get cheaper, but that's only part of the expense. It's still not cheap to make a fast, high-power 1.55 or 1.3 micron laser. Also, Laser output power changes (a lot!) as temperature changes, so a package to drive a telecom laser requires an integrated photodetector and feed-back circuit to keep the output power somewhat constant.
Finally, if you're going to make things reasonably cheap (say by using WDM to multiplex several neighbors onto a single pair of fibers), you'll need each neighbor's NIC operate on a specific, narrow wavelength. This makes the price of the laser even more expensive (since conventional semiconductor laser wavelength changes significantly with temperature). This requires closely temperature-controled packaging or use of a less temperature-dependent semiconductor heterostructure for the active region of the lasers (such as quantum-dots).
Basically, we're not going to see these in the _home_ any time soon. Maybe in the office or as a back-bone for local DSL connections.
Let's not forget that OS/2 was competing as a workstation O/S, not as a server O/S. Things are a lot different when there are IT people available to manage things, and it's pretty clear to a lot of people that microsoft has a bad reputation when it comes to security and reliabilty.
Loved the new commercials, and think it's a good thing that IBM is backing Linux.
Not really. With the old 10-2 ethernet standard, Coax could only handle 10Mb/sec. When you stop to consider the sheer magnitude of information which the cable company transmits to your house, it becomes clear that a single coaxial cable can handle a heck of a lot more information than that (80 channels of streaming, UNCOMPRESSED video with three audio channels each).
For a quick (bar napkin) calculation:
If each pixel in a video screen were a one or a zero, we're up to ~150Mb/sec already. Figuring 44kHz stereo for all of the audio channels adds another 10Mb/sec.
Realistically, one could encode at least three bits of information (Red, Green, Blue) for each pixel and there's a lot more than 80 channels available. Comcast just uses some of the unused bandwidth for internet connections.
AFAIK, real DVDs use two layers and two sides. The DVD RAMS presently only use one layer, two sides. A real DVD, therefore, stores twice as much (20ish GB).
This protocol works on the same principle of the script-kiddie who hacks into several machines in a series fashion. Each time he hacks into a new computer and telnets out, his original source becomes one step harder to trace, but it's never really impossible.
Essentially, this protocol would continuously mask the previous step in the route. To trace it, one must obtain logs from each router (one at a time) back along the the packet route. It would be tedious, but not impossible.
It is worth mentioning, however, that the routing would not necessarily be any more complecated than the present IPV4 routing. With support for the protocol (and a public/private key pair) for each router, it could be routed along the shortest path.
But wait! You didn't "purchase" the software, you "licensed" it. What would the price be to "purchase" all rights to WinZip?
- Carl
Well, then if the RIAA defeats Napster, all those affected by VBScript viri should file a class-action against Microsoft. They could use the Napster case as precedence.
I should have known better than to click that link in my office.
What is it with VBScript and viruses lately? I wish I could say that I'm reluctant to jump on the anti-MS badwagon, but I'm not. It just seems like all of the recent computer "Pathogens" have been targeted at Micro$oft products.
Clear impoication: MS VBScript implements poor or no security. It's nice that there's a scripting language, but more time should have been spent ensuring that its use would not be a threat to users.
-- Carl