Its difficult to get politicians from different countries to agree
on anything. Getting the USA and Europe to agree is hard enough,
but expecting Russia and the Far East to agree on a global copyright
law, seems incredible to me. I bet these meetings will continue though
as the politicians get regular payed for holidays and the expenses of
all copyright vested interests.
Its quite gamble, leaving a company without a product for any length of
time, it could be the end of them. However there Model S is a big
step ahead of any other electric vehicle around, look at the specs:
300 Miles per charge
Quick charge in 45 minutes
0-60 Mph in 5.6 seconds
Seats 5 adults and 2 children.
Half the price of the roadstar, 50,000
.
All that and it still has a funky looking shape.
Given much lower price and the better performance
it seem worth cancelling the roadstar. Telsa cars
are still to expensive though, $20,000 is a good
price for a high range, family car, and Telsa's model S
is two and a half times that. I hope they are
sucessful, then the economies of scale with move
the price of there cars, down to the price of ordinary
cars. Replace petrol in cars, is the key step to reducing
global warming.
Years of work have gone in Ares I,5 and the capsules. Yes is
was just a bigger Apollo with more modern components, but
if its cancelled and NASA have to restart then those years and
dollars are gone, any moon or mars mission is setback at
least 5 years. But as Phil said, these are just rumours, we
don't yet know what will happen to NASA.
I've used the same programming mechanism and it works
but its not learning or anything close. They create a
neural network for each robot brain, then wipe the brain
if it doesn't work well enough, and breed from the ones
that work well. The population of robots learn by
evolution, but each individual one, can't learn at all.
Real animal and people of course can learn, and
learn well, in there own lifetimes. So this learn
mechanism is far inferer to natural brains.
Actually there are suspected to be more brown drawfs, failed
stars with not enough gas for fusion , in the galaxy than there
will be normal stars. If thats so they should be many (tens) brown
drawfs within ten light years of us. Brown drawfs of course are
so very dim, that its very difficult to spot them at all. But
UKIRT is any all sky survey that will take years to complete, and
we can expect them to find a lot more brown drawfs.
Can't see this being any use for replacing WI-FI in a room, it might just
bounce into the hallwall, but its not going though closed doors. Radio WI-FI
happily connects the whole house, plus the garden. The optical network
would connect one room, and if you lucky an nearby room though open
doors. I could imagine the optical wireless to an alternative for a large
open plan office, especially if each office area was on a different network,
other than that radio waves and wires will continue to rule.
And if i want a reverse polish calculator, i would have installed FORTH.
I would guess from the text, that extcalc was the best. They could
have spared more than one line for each of 7 programs.
Both these devices seem to be coming of ages, they were off mentioned
in sci-fi. I really think they may replace the keyboard and mouse for most
applications soon. They doesn't seem to be a electric pencil or stylish
to go with touchscreen yet, and that would make some sense, particular
if you could use it as a cursor for a distance as well as up close, and it
good have the equivalent of mouse buttons on it.
Except acting young again, does mean they stem cells
will have lost any genetic damage, that occurred though
aging. Perphaps some day though medicine will be
able to produce truely young stem cells, but that would
require checking that the DNA hasn't mutated from the
orignal young cell line.
All these Stealth Fighters, are going to give
Air Traffic Control a lot of fun. Look forward to
see a lot a crashes, they is a downside of
planes being invisible, they can't see each
other until they hit each other.
Well to NIF, looks like there'll get there pellets to fuse, as orders. However
that doesn't mean this will be a practicle power source. They have made
no effort to construct something that can extract the power from the
fusing deuterium tritium pellets, and ever if they did, the efficiency of the
lasers is so obsurdly low, that I doubt this Laser fusion will ever be
practicle. By contrast, ITER, keeps the fusion plasma at constant temperature,
it has much more chance of extracting useful work out of the fusion process.
The privacy problem does run deep, not only those the remote DNS server, will both the source and destination servers. The allow
them to monitor every web page lookup you've every done.
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The censorship problem also runs deep, into not just the remote website or a countries filewall that can block web addresses,
its also any DNS server along the way.
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The plus side for the proposal is the speed of the system, when your primary local DNS service doesn't have the right address, the
next DNS server in the chain, can be choose to be nearer your computer. But this doesn't help very much in most cases.
.
Really this proposal is the oposite to where we should take DNS. DNS need more security more privacy, we need a protocol
that obscures the source and destination to everydroppers, which find the right chain server, when the DNS server doesn't have
the correct address, but can no nothing about source and destination at the same time. Its a tough order, and needs some very
completed encryption technology.
The whole future of Literature, is up for grabs here. So we
need a good legal settlement. I haven't yet read enough
about the google book settlement to understand it well enough
yet, so I don't know well if it is what Ms Le Guinn says is apt.
I can understand her position as a Author. Clearly Authors need
to be paid otherwise the profession would disappear as we know
it. If Google opens up all or most literature to be free to all, the
professional author will be much poorer. I'd hate Authorship
to be supposed by corperations with hidden agenders or
product placement. Still a world wide free library is great is
it not, for learn and the education of the populus. A google
library would do much to push the world from the writing
in the paper medium to the electronic media.
On-line stalking usually means the crime of tracking down
a users in physically reality. In WoW in will mean (especially
on PvP servers), high level players, griefers and those
we grudges, following round low level players, and killing
them repeatly as our newbies try to build up there
equipment, and complete PvE missions.
Could pass, isn't good enough. If they do pass such a bill,
Iceland might offer a useful data center for boardline data
(which types?), but I doubt that alone would make it
worthwhile offer a transnational data center. For most
companies, all they need, is good response to service
the equipment they Co-locate they, and easy-access.
Iceland is so remote that access would almost be
only by the internet, and not physical. I think Iceland
will have to grow they're own local internet companies
to get they data center used. But perphaps I'm wrong.
Shes probably sensible to play something other than the game soundtrack, the game
soundtrack is likely threatening, and written for boys. WoW doesn't have a very good
soundtrack anyway, i also find it distracting, and its also much to repeative.
Spirit's already run much longer than we thought it would. If this is
the end of it, then we've had our value out of it. Looking at its
design though its clear, NASA have never watched robot wars. Spirit
was built more for science than for robustness, lacking self right
mechanism or any special moves to get it out of being stuck.
that ending a project that took over 15 years and over
a hundred shuttle launches, less than 5 years after
we finished building it, would be a stupid waste of
money. Now the ISS is up there and complete, (couple
more launches to go), we should milk it for every use
we can get out of it, it cost enough, its unique, and
new space station isn't going to happen soon.
Tides and Currents will pull the gun out of position. Leaks and Salt
water corrosion will damage the steel barrel. The projectile starts
that much lower, so needs that much more energy to make it into
space. The easiest way to build a gun or gas or electromagnetic launch
system that needs a barrel, would be to have the high end on a small
mountain near the equator, and the low end on the ground.
Getting the whole of an office to play games after hours, adding
mindless repeativitive (but enjoyable) gaming, on top of mindless
repeative work. Offers managers the chance of reducing independent
thought, having employees in the office for longer, and giving them
a escapism in place of any more expensive bonuses (like pay rises),
sounds like a management win to me.
There's been no big clamour for new top level domains most of us
have lived with the available ones for years. But licensing a load
more TLD gives domain registories a chance to sell a lot more
domains, many of them just extra names for existing sites. So
registories make a lot of cash.
Thats on ubuntu, might not be elsewhere. No its isn't fixed on the current ubuntu. So don't
use ext4 on ubuntu servers. Your.cpio or whatever other giga plus files might disappear.
Ugh, I would have guessed that shift would be top precendence like
exponention. Glad you posted that, it will stop some future bugs
from me. I would make the excuse that i'm program java more than
C. But precendece ordering is the same in Java.
So the paper are now complaining that tax payers where ripped off because
governments brought enough vacine/anti-virials for the worst case. But thats
exactly what government should do, and of course the public wants to be
safe from what could have been a world wide pandemic. The money isn't
entirely wasted, the medinces where general to many flu types, and for
as long as the stock pile stays in could condition we'll be safe from
newer pandemics. The best viriogist, the WHO and made there prediction,
and for once we where prepared. We where lucky the flu wasn't more
virilant, and we also showed that we could prepare for a pandemic given
six to nine months warning.
I do blame IT at least partially, a business IT center, might well see the wisdom
of data encryption everywhere, but competing against this is, how easy it
is to recover lost data (damaged disk, lost passwords or encyrption keys), plus
the add complexity of managing the system. If it was built into windows i'm
sure many more companies would us it. It is built into linux, but not exactly
visable, or well known. Better support in OS would i'm sure make encryption
much more commonly used.
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300 Miles per charge
Quick charge in 45 minutes
0-60 Mph in 5.6 seconds
Seats 5 adults and 2 children.
Half the price of the roadstar, 50,000
.
All that and it still has a funky looking shape.
Given much lower price and the better performance it seem worth cancelling the roadstar. Telsa cars are still to expensive though, $20,000 is a good price for a high range, family car, and Telsa's model S is two and a half times that. I hope they are sucessful, then the economies of scale with move the price of there cars, down to the price of ordinary cars. Replace petrol in cars, is the key step to reducing global warming.
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The censorship problem also runs deep, into not just the remote website or a countries filewall that can block web addresses, its also any DNS server along the way.
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The plus side for the proposal is the speed of the system, when your primary local DNS service doesn't have the right address, the next DNS server in the chain, can be choose to be nearer your computer. But this doesn't help very much in most cases.
.
Really this proposal is the oposite to where we should take DNS. DNS need more security more privacy, we need a protocol that obscures the source and destination to everydroppers, which find the right chain server, when the DNS server doesn't have the correct address, but can no nothing about source and destination at the same time. Its a tough order, and needs some very completed encryption technology.
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