I'd sooner run Solaris or Digital Unix on their native hardware - at least that way, all that power will be put to use! Linux just doesn't scale well beyond the workstation market yet.
While this is cool, I'm sorry - Linux isn't quite "up there" yet. Show me some hardcore applications that use this (nevermind Linux itself) under Linux...
Their description sure sounds interesting, for "chemestry..."
"Now the tip pulls one phenyl close to
another; they are not yet chemically bonded, though: pulling on one phenyl does not bring the other one along. Finally, another splash
of electrons from the tip effectively welds the two phenyls together; proof that binding occurs is that when one phenyl is pulled with the
tip, the other comes along for the ride..."
If you're in a country oustside of those two unions, you're still home free. Countries that have little or no views about "cybercrime" such as cracking and piracy - remain uneffected.
Forgot to mention... Jamie writes, "Mercury mirrors do not, however, make good replacements for general-purpose
telescopes. They only point straight up; they'll never do long exposures or see
anything outside their latitude. I'm a little surprised the article doesn't emphasize this. "
Umm, since when are mirrors responsible for exposures in the first place? That's a function of whatever imaging equipment you hook up to the telescope (i.e. camera) and not the mirror, or the telescope itself.
Also, normal telescopes don't "see anything outside their lattitude" either. Last time I checked, they don't move any more than mercury-based mirrors do.;>
Jamie writes, "Mercury mirrors do not, however, make good replacements for general-purpose
telescopes. They only point straight up; they'll never do long exposures or see
anything outside their latitude. I'm a little surprised the article doesn't emphasize this."
Yeah, maybe on Earth... Mercury mirrors could be applied in space, as well. You just need a method to control the "film" of mercury that you're using as the mirror - where "up" and "down" have no meaning.
XFree at the time did not support the #9 card I had. XiG beat XFree to the punch. It worked out of the box, worked very well - and the speed was much faster than XFree.
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I'd sooner run Solaris or Digital Unix on their native hardware - at least that way, all that power will be put to use! Linux just doesn't scale well beyond the workstation market yet.
While this is cool, I'm sorry - Linux isn't quite "up there" yet. Show me some hardcore applications that use this (nevermind Linux itself) under Linux...
Same thing with Sun and their boxen...
Sheesh. "Hey look, Linux learned a new trick today everyone!"
Just moderate anything down that speaks out against how lame Slashdot is... Censorship? Sellout? You be the judge!
On the page that announces/discusses the UltraSPARC III you'll see that the image shown to the right is an UltraSPARC II! (do a view image)
D'ohhhhh!
"Now the tip pulls one phenyl close to another; they are not yet chemically bonded, though: pulling on one phenyl does not bring the other one along. Finally, another splash of electrons from the tip effectively welds the two phenyls together; proof that binding occurs is that when one phenyl is pulled with the tip, the other comes along for the ride..."
Oh, my. Look at those little electrons go!
Ooooh, that's scary and proprietary!
Go on, go...
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I really Gaim! It's chock full of wholesome goodness and meets 95% of your chat needs.
Dyson sphere maybe... Or Daystrom - even "Esther" rings a bell for some reason.
I don't know, but every time I hear the name "Esther Dyson" I think of Star Trek (original series) for some reason...
If you're in a country oustside of those two unions, you're still home free. Countries that have little or no views about "cybercrime" such as cracking and piracy - remain uneffected.
But if you wanted to, sure - have a diaphragm that opens once per revolution.
Right - contain the mercury in a dish of some sort that is spun like a centrifuge... The faster the spin, the more concave the "mirror" becomes...
No no - they were gonna release the stuff to the public - not actually publish the book. Remember?
What happened to the Columbine book(s) material that you were going to release?
You don't have to rotate the whole thing...
Umm, since when are mirrors responsible for exposures in the first place? That's a function of whatever imaging equipment you hook up to the telescope (i.e. camera) and not the mirror, or the telescope itself.
Also, normal telescopes don't "see anything outside their lattitude" either. Last time I checked, they don't move any more than mercury-based mirrors do. ;>
Yeah, maybe on Earth... Mercury mirrors could be applied in space, as well. You just need a method to control the "film" of mercury that you're using as the mirror - where "up" and "down" have no meaning.
Commie Slashmeat bastards!
God forbid you should mention CPUs in a CPU-oriented thread!
Sun rises with new generation of servers and introduces the UltraSPARC III Wednesday
Enjoy!
This is about CPUs, just like this Transmeta article!
It worked THEN, when I NEEDED it to!
XFree at the time did not support the #9 card I had. XiG beat XFree to the punch. It worked out of the box, worked very well - and the speed was much faster than XFree.
Re-read the review.