Yeah! Not burning oil and not carrying a weapons on the streets *must* be a sign of terrorism! Damn those Japanese terrorists! To bad the US is tied up with invading Iraq. Next, they should put their sights on a new Japanese occupation to stop them. You can't even leave the country for a few decades before they start being a threat again!
But the gasses that are extracted from the cold water has once been absorbed by the water, and probably will again. It's not like pumping up oil or digging up coal and then burning it. The carbon's that are released into the atmosphere when doing that are absorbed at a much lower rate than we are pumping up new. My guess is that this at least is less of a burden for the environment than burning fossil fuel for power... And since you get drinking water too, which you don't get while burning oil, this is perfect for isolated islands. Probably less so for densly populated areas with very high power consumtion like the US or europe.
Naah... Go to a Mac retailer and ask to try out one, drop it, test it. Go to *another* retailer, drop one, test it. And so on... I bet you'll be very popular. =)
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8600 Mbps is about 860MB/s. That's about 20 times the writespeed availible in high performance drives. So if you build a large enough raidstack, you'll handle it. The big trouble is having a computer that can handle it. Most of todays systems is having trouble keeping up with even 1000 Mbps ethernet due to a combination of bus, tcp/ip stack, os and driver trouble. But with the speed of which hardware gets faster, I'll say that by the time this standard gets implemented in practice, you'll have a computer, os and harddrive that can handle it. =) And you'll probably have a whole network, or a couple of them, connected to that speed. It will most likely be implemented at the internet backbone long before you get that kind of access at home or at your regular company.
Giants in the communication industry fighting giants in the movie industry? That might be an interesting battle. What is more important for US exports? Computer and communication tech or movies? (As with everything else in the states, the winner will be the one most important economicaly. All other concerns are secondary.)
One time is luck. If it survives being dropped from 1 - 1.5 meters onto asfalt or concrete a few times (say four or five), I'll agree that it's sturdy.:)
Hehe, regarding sturdy laptops (Or rather: Being lucky with your standard laptop) A friend of mine got mad at his laptop at work, slammed close the lid, dropped it on the floor, stood on it with both feet and shouted at it a few times. It still worked afterwards, without any errors. =) On the other hand, we had other laps of the same brand and model that would crap out if you even lifted it in only one corner. =/
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Hmm... Well, people could stop protesting. But since people generaly have a desire to tell other people their oppinion, preferably loud, they'll probably not stop. The news *could* stop airing the protests. But since conflict makes big profit they'll probably not stop either.
What people in the US *should* do is to remember if the goverment listened to their oppinions at the next election for a president.:) Actually, they should consider if Bush is someone they want to represent the US at all... He is *not* a good image for the US. I wonder who writes his speaches. The one where he gave Hussein 48 hours to get out of Iraq was really laughable. =) Argh! I'm getting off topic here... Better stop. I'm tired. Ranting... I'll be quiet now.
Of course... And any such innovation would lower my gas bill too. =)
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But you can't expect people to *not* protest and try to stop an invasion, just because they might hurt the feelings of the people who are going to be ordered to execute the invasion... I mean... If they succeed in stopping the invasion, the troops won't *have* to risk their lives. Right?
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Wouldn't be surprised if you're right. Not many countries would silently accept an occupation by a hostile force. If Iraq had invaded the US (not very likely, but if) I don't think the Americans would have accepted this without a fight.
But the troops won't "have" to stay there... They only need to keep Iraq under occupation if the US want to control the oil. But since that's one of the bigger reasons for the war anyway, that's probably what'll happen.
Is gasoline expensive in the US? I thought it was dirt cheap there! You should try paying around $3.7/gallon, like we do in sweden... And this has nothing to do with the US war threats. It's been like this for years... Once the US invasion of Iraq is underway, the price'll probably skyrocket.:/ Luckily, I drive a diesel. That's "only" about $3.2/gallon. =)
I think it would work in most of the world. The exception being the US, where many people seem to have an abnormal fear of having anyone being able to identify them by other means than fingerprint or dna-sample. But this would not be connected to your identity in any other way than that it's you who carry the card. The card has a unique id and can be traced to you if you bought it with you creditcard. But it is in no way less anonymous than, say, a plastic card with a magnetic strip on the back. So it might work in the US too.
Hey! What's wrong with slashdot today? How come there aren't a couple of hundreds of "First posts" here? =/
On to my real post... Somebody will have to start a underground/independent game label, just like some people do in the record industry when they get fed up with the big labels crappy attitude towards alternative music.
On that 320MB/s bus you can attach 15 drives. And yes, there are cabinets that actually allow you to do just that. Where I used to work we had a serious bottleneck in our RAID stacks. We had 14 drives on two 160MB/s scsi busses. When doing RAID, that's bad since every write had to send data to 5 drives. Increasing to four 160MB/s busses and splitting the raidsets amoung as many busses as possible helped, but there is still a bottleneck. A modern drive can have a sustainend read speed of almost 60MB/s. That's 900MB/s if you put 15 of them in a rack! And large raidsets connected to busy servers could probably create quit some saturation on such a bus too.
Yeah! Come on everone! Lets hammer the slashdotted sites! That'll fix the problem. Honestly. Promise! =) *looks serious*
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Hmm... I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. A national id card is not a threat to privacy. I've had my national id card since I was about 15 years old. (You need to be able to prove your age and who you are if you want to drive a moped or withdraw money from the bank, etc.) And our driverslicence work as a national id. But don't you have some kind of id number already? How else can you uniqely identify yourself if there are hundreds or thousands of people in your country with exactly the same name as yours? =/
On the other hand, if they start rf taging the id and start tracking your movement and such with it, then you can start talking about privacy issues. =/ But isn't your visa or mastercard a better choice for monitoring movement? =)
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--paranoid mode: on--
Yeah... Everyone knows they're evil. But how do we know that they haven't placed rfid's in all products, money, plastic cards, etc allready? =/ They're smart. They wouldn't tell us before doing something like this. We probably get tagged as soon as we're born.
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Why not simply put them on stickers that you can put on the box or on the thing itsels, or on those little paper tags with size and brand that always are attached to clothes? That way you could physicaly remove the tag once you're home. There is absolutely *no* reason what so ever to put the rfid in the product itself!
Yeah! Throw them out of school, kick them in the face and then leave them to bleed! *Mouahahaha* (No, I don't hate spammers. Promise! =)
Seriously, people who relay spam *on purpose* should be punished hard. And people who sell lists of e-mail addresses. And people who send spam. *kill, grrrr!*
Yeah, it takes a while to get an XP installation the way you want it. But once there you have an OS that is more stable and userfriendly than 2000. You'll notice this when you've use XP for a year or so and then suddenly are seated in front of a 2000 machine again. There things you miss are small, but it's the small things that make an OS great or lousy. Ok, there are lots and lots of small things that nag me about XP too, like not being able to work in a window without it popping up to the front, not being able to start applications in different resolutions on it's own screen and a thousand other things. But it *is* the best OS microsoft has released, once the idiotic "features" has been removed.
Actually, what they should do for their next version is having a setting for what kind of user you are in the installation.
Newbie: All out automation, help files, etc. Avarage: Some automation regarding advanced stuff, select what get's installed to some extent. (Like choosing *not* to install moviemaker, msn and other idiotic stuff) Expert: No automation, *All* programs user selectable, Possibility to *not* install the graphic fluff (animations when copying and stuff like that)
Sometimes Linux is "proven" to have higher TCO, sometimes Windows. It mostly comes down to who ordered the research. =)
But one of the reasons for Linux to have a high TCO even though it is free is that the avarage person knows *a lot* less about Linux/Unix than Windows. If you start using Linux at schools, you'll have a whole generation of people who suddenly have a lot of experiance in Linux. That's why most smart corporations give free or dirt cheap licences to universities and colleges. If all new engineers are already trained at a certain developing tool, it makes sense to buy a licence of that when hireing new engineers. Same thing will apply here. If lots of people are used to using Linux as a platform, they will probably *use* Linux as a platform when starting a new project.
Well... As long as the US do the same in the other direction, it's ok by me. But I'd think that the average US citizen would scream and shout if any foreign state requested personal info about him/her when going abroad. =)
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Not burning oil and not carrying a weapons on the streets *must* be a sign of terrorism!
Damn those Japanese terrorists!
To bad the US is tied up with invading Iraq.
Next, they should put their sights on a new Japanese occupation to stop them. You can't even leave the country for a few decades before they start being a threat again!
But the gasses that are extracted from the cold water has once been absorbed by the water, and probably will again.
It's not like pumping up oil or digging up coal and then burning it. The carbon's that are released into the atmosphere when doing that are absorbed at a much lower rate than we are pumping up new.
My guess is that this at least is less of a burden for the environment than burning fossil fuel for power...
And since you get drinking water too, which you don't get while burning oil, this is perfect for isolated islands.
Probably less so for densly populated areas with very high power consumtion like the US or europe.
Naah... Go to a Mac retailer and ask to try out one, drop it, test it.
Go to *another* retailer, drop one, test it.
And so on...
I bet you'll be very popular. =)
8600 Mbps is about 860MB/s.
That's about 20 times the writespeed availible in high performance drives.
So if you build a large enough raidstack, you'll handle it.
The big trouble is having a computer that can handle it.
Most of todays systems is having trouble keeping up with even 1000 Mbps ethernet due to a combination of bus, tcp/ip stack, os and driver trouble.
But with the speed of which hardware gets faster, I'll say that by the time this standard gets implemented in practice, you'll have a computer, os and harddrive that can handle it. =)
And you'll probably have a whole network, or a couple of them, connected to that speed. It will most likely be implemented at the internet backbone long before you get that kind of access at home or at your regular company.
Giants in the communication industry fighting giants in the movie industry?
That might be an interesting battle.
What is more important for US exports? Computer and communication tech or movies?
(As with everything else in the states, the winner will be the one most important economicaly. All other concerns are secondary.)
One time is luck. :)
If it survives being dropped from 1 - 1.5 meters onto asfalt or concrete a few times (say four or five), I'll agree that it's sturdy.
Hehe, regarding sturdy laptops (Or rather: Being lucky with your standard laptop)
A friend of mine got mad at his laptop at work, slammed close the lid, dropped it on the floor, stood on it with both feet and shouted at it a few times.
It still worked afterwards, without any errors. =)
On the other hand, we had other laps of the same brand and model that would crap out if you even lifted it in only one corner. =/
Hmm...
:)
Well, people could stop protesting.
But since people generaly have a desire to tell other people their oppinion, preferably loud, they'll probably not stop.
The news *could* stop airing the protests.
But since conflict makes big profit they'll probably not stop either.
What people in the US *should* do is to remember if the goverment listened to their oppinions at the next election for a president.
Actually, they should consider if Bush is someone they want to represent the US at all... He is *not* a good image for the US. I wonder who writes his speaches.
The one where he gave Hussein 48 hours to get out of Iraq was really laughable. =)
Argh! I'm getting off topic here... Better stop. I'm tired. Ranting...
I'll be quiet now.
Of course...
And any such innovation would lower my gas bill too. =)
But you can't expect people to *not* protest and try to stop an invasion, just because they might hurt the feelings of the people who are going to be ordered to execute the invasion...
I mean... If they succeed in stopping the invasion, the troops won't *have* to risk their lives. Right?
Wouldn't be surprised if you're right.
Not many countries would silently accept an occupation by a hostile force.
If Iraq had invaded the US (not very likely, but if) I don't think the Americans would have accepted this without a fight.
But the troops won't "have" to stay there...
They only need to keep Iraq under occupation if the US want to control the oil.
But since that's one of the bigger reasons for the war anyway, that's probably what'll happen.
Is gasoline expensive in the US? :/
I thought it was dirt cheap there!
You should try paying around $3.7/gallon, like we do in sweden...
And this has nothing to do with the US war threats. It's been like this for years...
Once the US invasion of Iraq is underway, the price'll probably skyrocket.
Luckily, I drive a diesel. That's "only" about $3.2/gallon. =)
I think it would work in most of the world.
The exception being the US, where many people seem to have an abnormal fear of having anyone being able to identify them by other means than fingerprint or dna-sample.
But this would not be connected to your identity in any other way than that it's you who carry the card.
The card has a unique id and can be traced to you if you bought it with you creditcard.
But it is in no way less anonymous than, say, a plastic card with a magnetic strip on the back.
So it might work in the US too.
Hey! What's wrong with slashdot today? How come there aren't a couple of hundreds of "First posts" here? =/
On to my real post...
Somebody will have to start a underground/independent game label, just like some people do in the record industry when they get fed up with the big labels crappy attitude towards alternative music.
Isn't Tellus Earths real name? =/
And isn't Tellus some kind of god? Hmm... Not sure.
Anyone?
Take a look at http://blackrhino.xrhino.com/
A debian-like 2.4 distribution for ps2. Requires the ps2linux kit though...
On that 320MB/s bus you can attach 15 drives.
And yes, there are cabinets that actually allow you to do just that.
Where I used to work we had a serious bottleneck in our RAID stacks.
We had 14 drives on two 160MB/s scsi busses.
When doing RAID, that's bad since every write had to send data to 5 drives.
Increasing to four 160MB/s busses and splitting the raidsets amoung as many busses as possible helped, but there is still a bottleneck.
A modern drive can have a sustainend read speed of almost 60MB/s.
That's 900MB/s if you put 15 of them in a rack!
And large raidsets connected to busy servers could probably create quit some saturation on such a bus too.
Yeah! Come on everone! Lets hammer the slashdotted sites!
That'll fix the problem. Honestly. Promise! =)
*looks serious*
Hmm... I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
A national id card is not a threat to privacy. I've had my national id card since I was about 15 years old. (You need to be able to prove your age and who you are if you want to drive a moped or withdraw money from the bank, etc.)
And our driverslicence work as a national id.
But don't you have some kind of id number already?
How else can you uniqely identify yourself if there are hundreds or thousands of people in your country with exactly the same name as yours? =/
On the other hand, if they start rf taging the id and start tracking your movement and such with it, then you can start talking about privacy issues. =/
But isn't your visa or mastercard a better choice for monitoring movement? =)
--paranoid mode: on--
Yeah... Everyone knows they're evil.
But how do we know that they haven't placed rfid's in all products, money, plastic cards, etc allready? =/
They're smart. They wouldn't tell us before doing something like this.
We probably get tagged as soon as we're born.
-- paranoid mode: off --
Why not simply put them on stickers that you can put on the box or on the thing itsels, or on those little paper tags with size and brand that always are attached to clothes?
That way you could physicaly remove the tag once you're home.
There is absolutely *no* reason what so ever to put the rfid in the product itself!
Yeah! Throw them out of school, kick them in the face and then leave them to bleed! *Mouahahaha*
(No, I don't hate spammers. Promise! =)
Seriously, people who relay spam *on purpose* should be punished hard.
And people who sell lists of e-mail addresses.
And people who send spam.
*kill, grrrr!*
Yeah, it takes a while to get an XP installation the way you want it.
But once there you have an OS that is more stable and userfriendly than 2000.
You'll notice this when you've use XP for a year or so and then suddenly are seated in front of a 2000 machine again.
There things you miss are small, but it's the small things that make an OS great or lousy.
Ok, there are lots and lots of small things that nag me about XP too, like not being able to work in a window without it popping up to the front, not being able to start applications in different resolutions on it's own screen and a thousand other things.
But it *is* the best OS microsoft has released, once the idiotic "features" has been removed.
Actually, what they should do for their next version is having a setting for what kind of user you are in the installation.
Newbie: All out automation, help files, etc.
Avarage: Some automation regarding advanced stuff, select what get's installed to some extent. (Like choosing *not* to install moviemaker, msn and other idiotic stuff)
Expert: No automation, *All* programs user selectable, Possibility to *not* install the graphic fluff (animations when copying and stuff like that)
Sometimes Linux is "proven" to have higher TCO, sometimes Windows.
It mostly comes down to who ordered the research. =)
But one of the reasons for Linux to have a high TCO even though it is free is that the avarage person knows *a lot* less about Linux/Unix than Windows.
If you start using Linux at schools, you'll have a whole generation of people who suddenly have a lot of experiance in Linux.
That's why most smart corporations give free or dirt cheap licences to universities and colleges.
If all new engineers are already trained at a certain developing tool, it makes sense to buy a licence of that when hireing new engineers.
Same thing will apply here. If lots of people are used to using Linux as a platform, they will probably *use* Linux as a platform when starting a new project.
Well... As long as the US do the same in the other direction, it's ok by me.
But I'd think that the average US citizen would scream and shout if any foreign state requested personal info about him/her when going abroad. =)
No... It's *not* backlight'ed.
It's frontlight'ed. Much worse than backlight but doesn't eat as much battery.