I've always thought of using one's mind is like a muscle.
I aggree
Rely on PDAs, paper and pencil, string on the fingers too much, and what does your memory have to exercise it?
But isn't using these thing more like using a tool? i.e. couldn't I still use the same amount of mental effort and get a lot more done? Rather than using my bare hands to dig a hole I could use a shovel and dig more/bigger holes instead of just digging the same hole without as much effort.
IIRC, the industry standard is 4 or 6, so this would be a new (and likely expensive) manufacturing process that may require new tooling to produce in bulk.
Not likley, I dont know about the pc motherboard market specifically but in other fields of electronics manufacturing it isn't terribly uncommon to have 6, 8, or more layers to a pcb. It may be a little more tricky for somthing the size of a full ATX mobo but it's not uncommon. It shouldn't be teribly expensive in production quantities either (~$20 per board in ten-thousand quantities at a guess).
You can dead-reckon only if you're traveling from a known posistion in a known direction in a straight line at a constant velocity.
Not true. In the past few years there have been some really impressive advances in solid-state accelerometer technologies. With a few good accelerometers and a fast DSP you can achieve very accurate intertial navigation.
Sega would have done just fine selling dreamcasts if hadn't been for all those thousands of thieving bastards installing Linux and NetBSD on them.
</SARCASM>
Yikes! So that any twent-five year olds who look prepubescent aren't allowed to pursue a career in porn if they want to? Sounds kind of funny but it really is disturbing.
I'll be damned if I want to be "protected" like a child just because I might look like one.
If this "virtual kiddie porn" is a purley fictional representation of nonexistant children how the hell do you determine wether or not they are underage? The creator could simply claim that he was drawing people who looked young or something - right? No one has a bith certificate for Lara Croft do they?
A train may produce 10 or 20 times more waste than a car (I don't know the exact figures), but it can carry 50 times as many people, so it's more efficient that way. I'd
much rather use public transport than drive, but I'm not given the chance due to the UK's incredibly short-sighted transport policy.
I aggree that public mass transportation is the way to go for efficient travel in/between urban areas. Remeber though that virtually all trains (and a lot of busses) anymore are electric or diesel/electric hybrids. I was just defending the viewpoint that there is still a lot of room for improvement in personal transportation as well.
There are many places in the world where mass transit simply will not work - it is absolutley dependant on a minimum population density. Adoption of alternative propulsion systems for personal transportation is still critical to reducing pollution.
Understood. My point was that my lights are on, my fridge is cold, and my computer is running - there must be some surplus power left over from what it takes to build power plants. I'm fairly certain that we haven't just been shuffling around the same electricity for the past 150 years. It's not exactly a zero sum game (at least until you look at the universe as a whole and then we're are just working towards heat death or somthing).
The problem with electric cars is that you have to haul the extra deadweight that the battery, generator and traction motors are.
You mean somthing like hauling around a fuel tank, engine, transmission, exhaust system, and bigger brakes (regenerative braking reduces the size of the standard friction brakes required)? Dead weight like that?
Essentially, any use of electricity you induced by
building the power plant. In that equation, it is unceartin wether building it takes less power then it could produce given its lifespan.
Ummm right... Then just where the hell is all this electricity (aside from CA right now)coming from?
But if knowledge like this is placed into the public domain we are basically giving away the fruits of
our labors, and this is in no way consistent with the sensible capitalist policies that has seen our nation outstrip the rest of the world in every way that counts.
Did I really just see you warn the slashdot readership of the danger of giving away the fruits of their labors? I feel I should remind you that you are in the midst of the nets' greatest concentration of people who believe that information should be free for all and frequently do give away their work. How many times have you seen "information wants to be free" here? The irony astounds me.
SCSI is superior to IDE in all other ways (speed, access time, capacity, latency
etc )
You forgot the one that decides most consumers - Price.
Also many of those factors have nothing to do with the interface used, SCSI is usally just the first to benefit from technological improvements in manufacturing that eventually get applied to IDE as well.
In the USA the freedom of the government and of businesses to discriminate is limited to criteria other than those put forth in the law (a bank can refuse you a loan because you are an obnoxious asshole but not because you are black). This limits the abilty of anyone to infringe the rights of anyone else. My rights begin where everyone elses end. The KKK has every right to hate black people but they don't have the right to throw them out of their business just for being black. If you exercise your right to tell me to take a flying leap at rolling donut that doesn't put me under any obligation to do so.
I believe that Yahoo! has every right to decide for themselves wether or not to host auctions of hate group memorabilia, and I have the right to view it or not as I choose.
The important thing to remeber is that there are no rights without tradeoffs. The First Amendment simply draws the line further in favor of publishers than people who want to be published. Clearly "Ebony" has no obligation to publish letters from the KKK and "Soldier of Fortune" doesn't have to print articles from Mothers against handguns.
The government can't give you the "right" to a reasonably priced ticket without taking away the travel company's right to charge what they want.
No, but they can give you the right to not have to pay more for the ticket just because the airline doesn't like you (ie you are black, female, muslim, short, old, democrat, etc... ).
Actually only the dedicated server for half-life was ported. I run one and it's a helluva lot more robust than trying to run a server on Windows 98.
I hear HL runs under wine pretty well though.
Disks are large enough now to include, say, postgres with the distribution. So config file editors would just need to be able to read
postgres files.
Remember though, a lot of linux installs aren't going into desktops w/ 45GB drives. There are lots of embedded linux systems coming out that boot from flash/rom/etc. that really don't have the extra space for a postgress db and necessary apps for manipulating it.
My two cents.
Good point. I guess the only way to find out is to try it.
My thinking was that people are subjed to 9 months of (low G like) neutral buoyancy before they're born but as far as I know nobody has much experience with functioning in the sharp gravitational gradients and twisting forces inherant to this form of artificial gravity.
You'll get some really weird effects if you do this on too small a scale though.
Running anti-spinward will cause you to lose weight and running spinward will cause you to gain weight.
Coriolis forces will cause everything to want to spin in the diredtion of the ships rotation (I think).
Things will fall in curves, etc...
Actually people do make part-by-part reproductions of vehicles all the time. There are several small motorcycle manufacturers that build bikes entirley from aftermarket Harley-Davidson parts - thus making Harleys with no Harley parts. The biggest such manufacturer is Big Dog Motorcycles (http://www.bigdogmotorcycles.com). I haven't heard of any lawsuits against them yet.
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I aggree
But isn't using these thing more like using a tool? i.e. couldn't I still use the same amount of mental effort and get a lot more done? Rather than using my bare hands to dig a hole I could use a shovel and dig more/bigger holes instead of just digging the same hole without as much effort.
Not likley, I dont know about the pc motherboard market specifically but in other fields of electronics manufacturing it isn't terribly uncommon to have 6, 8, or more layers to a pcb. It may be a little more tricky for somthing the size of a full ATX mobo but it's not uncommon. It shouldn't be teribly expensive in production quantities either (~$20 per board in ten-thousand quantities at a guess).
Actually, that kind of situation may result in only unintelligent sadists (or the really patriotic)wanting to be cops... I hope it's not that bad yet.
Not true. In the past few years there have been some really impressive advances in solid-state accelerometer technologies. With a few good accelerometers and a fast DSP you can achieve very accurate intertial navigation.
doh, should be http://lhl.linuxgames.com
You should check out The Linux Half-Life Page. Very good instructions on running HL under wine in OpenGL mode.
Sega would have done just fine selling dreamcasts if hadn't been for all those thousands of thieving bastards installing Linux and NetBSD on them.
</SARCASM>
Yikes! So that any twent-five year olds who look prepubescent aren't allowed to pursue a career in porn if they want to? Sounds kind of funny but it really is disturbing.
I'll be damned if I want to be "protected" like a child just because I might look like one.
If this "virtual kiddie porn" is a purley fictional representation of nonexistant children how the hell do you determine wether or not they are underage? The creator could simply claim that he was drawing people who looked young or something - right? No one has a bith certificate for Lara Croft do they?
I aggree that public mass transportation is the way to go for efficient travel in/between urban areas. Remeber though that virtually all trains (and a lot of busses) anymore are electric or diesel/electric hybrids. I was just defending the viewpoint that there is still a lot of room for improvement in personal transportation as well.
There are many places in the world where mass transit simply will not work - it is absolutley dependant on a minimum population density. Adoption of alternative propulsion systems for personal transportation is still critical to reducing pollution.
Understood. My point was that my lights are on, my fridge is cold, and my computer is running - there must be some surplus power left over from what it takes to build power plants. I'm fairly certain that we haven't just been shuffling around the same electricity for the past 150 years. It's not exactly a zero sum game (at least until you look at the universe as a whole and then we're are just working towards heat death or somthing).
The problem with electric cars is that you have to haul the extra deadweight that the battery, generator and traction motors are.
You mean somthing like hauling around a fuel tank, engine, transmission, exhaust system, and bigger brakes (regenerative braking reduces the size of the standard friction brakes required)? Dead weight like that?
Essentially, any use of electricity you induced by building the power plant. In that equation, it is unceartin wether building it takes less power then it could produce given its lifespan.
Ummm right... Then just where the hell is all this electricity (aside from CA right now)coming from?
Did I really just see you warn the slashdot readership of the danger of giving away the fruits of their labors? I feel I should remind you that you are in the midst of the nets' greatest concentration of people who believe that information should be free for all and frequently do give away their work. How many times have you seen "information wants to be free" here? The irony astounds me.
Wouldn't everyone have been better off if they had just included a USB-->Ethernet adapter for people without a NIC already in their pc?
It would have accomplished the same thing and not left non-MS users in the cold.
SCSI is superior to IDE in all other ways (speed, access time, capacity, latency etc )
You forgot the one that decides most consumers - Price.
Also many of those factors have nothing to do with the interface used, SCSI is usally just the first to benefit from technological improvements in manufacturing that eventually get applied to IDE as well.
In the USA the freedom of the government and of businesses to discriminate is limited to criteria other than those put forth in the law (a bank can refuse you a loan because you are an obnoxious asshole but not because you are black). This limits the abilty of anyone to infringe the rights of anyone else. My rights begin where everyone elses end. The KKK has every right to hate black people but they don't have the right to throw them out of their business just for being black. If you exercise your right to tell me to take a flying leap at rolling donut that doesn't put me under any obligation to do so.
I believe that Yahoo! has every right to decide for themselves wether or not to host auctions of hate group memorabilia, and I have the right to view it or not as I choose.
The important thing to remeber is that there are no rights without tradeoffs. The First Amendment simply draws the line further in favor of publishers than people who want to be published. Clearly "Ebony" has no obligation to publish letters from the KKK and "Soldier of Fortune" doesn't have to print articles from Mothers against handguns.
Actually only the dedicated server for half-life was ported. I run one and it's a helluva lot more robust than trying to run a server on Windows 98. I hear HL runs under wine pretty well though.
You forgot antimatter, that one turned out to be a real pain in the ass.
Good point. I guess the only way to find out is to try it.
My thinking was that people are subjed to 9 months of (low G like) neutral buoyancy before they're born but as far as I know nobody has much experience with functioning in the sharp gravitational gradients and twisting forces inherant to this form of artificial gravity.
You'll get some really weird effects if you do this on too small a scale though.
Running anti-spinward will cause you to lose weight and running spinward will cause you to gain weight.
Coriolis forces will cause everything to want to spin in the diredtion of the ships rotation (I think).
Things will fall in curves, etc...
Actually people do make part-by-part reproductions of vehicles all the time. There are several small motorcycle manufacturers that build bikes entirley from aftermarket Harley-Davidson parts - thus making Harleys with no Harley parts. The biggest such manufacturer is Big Dog Motorcycles (http://www.bigdogmotorcycles.com). I haven't heard of any lawsuits against them yet.