Less seriously I think they mean "If your web page is already in our cache, and is being served normally from a C64 in Afghanistan which is currently being slashdotted, it could, possibly, be 5x faster, or even more!"
Why ? Setup a manufacturing plant for cheap RETURN vehicles on the surface, or for metals, just smelt large amounts togethor into something a booster and some orbital control units can be strapped on.
The lunar resources could probably be used to create some ceramics or something to use as a rough heat shield (these return vehicles wouldn't need to be manned). And if you can't smelt the ore on the moon you could probably build a strong container for it loose from those same resources.
The only real problem is launch fuel, more precisely getting it there - but with the moons low gravity it wouldn't require much so you could just run monthly fuel drops up to the moon if you can't manufacture it there.
The key is that the initial setup cost will be astronomical, but providing manfacture of required return vehicle goods is performed on the moon the on-going costs would be much much smaller.
The reality of running a graphical environment (word processor, web browsing) is that you are going to need a reasonable amount of memory. 64M is about the minimum that runs with any acceptable level of performance.
Sigh, the bloat these days is abominable.
I started using GUI's with C64 GEOS, in 64K of RAM, I could use GEOWrite and GEOPaint just fine.
Then I went to an Amiga where I could use a full multi-tasking desktop system in 512K of RAM with no hard drive. In my later Amiga 3000 with 12 meg ram and a little harddrive space I had a completely functional system that I routinely used to browse the web, email, use usenet, desktop publish, render graphics and a myriad of other things.
My first Linux box was an old 486 DX4/100 with 12meg RAM and a 2 gig hard drive, I ran a full X system on that, with KDE no less.
Anyway, my point is, that you shouldn't need all these heavy requirements if all you want to do is use Office type software, send/read email and browse the web - let's face it, that's what people do most of the time.
Now to help with the question at hand, maybe Small Linux would be a good place to start.
Overnet, the sucessor to Edonkey is my client of choice at the moment, I was using KazaaLite under a VMWare windows install but I dropped that a month or so ago and just use Overnet under Linux now.
Actually, aren't there a few Energias left, or did the Russians dispose of them all? They have enough lift to put the parts into ISS' orbit. The big problem is assembly. Soyuz lacks the EVA features of the Shuttle, and the ISS needs a crew of six to support construction (it takes three people just to keep the systems up and running.)
There is/was at least one complete Energia, Buran 1.01 was sitting on it until it got damaged/destroyed in the roof cave in at Baikonur. I am reasonably sure that there are Energia rocket motors somewhere in storage. Anyway, they certainly could build an Energia with enough money, hell one of those things could probably lift the entire station in a couple of lifts - they are GRUNTY!
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Dunno about in Australia, but here in NZ we introduced polymer notes a few years ago, and they sure aint paper, damed tuff stuff - sure as hell can't tear it.
Add to that the fact that humans are occasionally born with gills to this day, and it begins to make more sense.
While that would undoubtably be cool, do you have any evidence of this, I did a quick google and all I could see were a few refutations of this from some christian site which referenced a tabloid article.
Or will it DEMAND KRAFT CHEESE when you
bought that slab of american for 1.4$ per pound?
No, remember this is the Microsoft house of the future, so I'm afraid both your Kraft and American brand cheese will be incompatible, only quality full cream Microsoft cheese will interoperate with your Microsoft Kitchen Bench, Microsoft Knife and Microsoft Cutting Board. Also ensure you read the EULA on that cheese wrapper and hold the correct number of Microsoft Seat licences for your dinner guests.
No. The most likely explanation is that the memory is "implanted", not intentionally, when you were young you probably heard, or had a conversation about said car, maybe saw a picture, maybe your mother pointed out a car saying something like "that's just like the car that mummy drove when you were still inside". From that point your mind took over filling in blanks, you didn't intend to create a memory, it just happend.
A persons mind can play some pretty freaky tricks, I don't doubt for a minute that you legitimately "remember" driving in that car, it really is truely a memory for you, however, that memory does not likely reflect reality, it feels real though.
Now, if we could intentionally implant designer memories, that would be soo cool, eg "I remember that trip I took to Mars so vivedly":-)
Of course, there are other less plausible explanations, but given the physical limitations of your unborn childs mind, and the fact that the only link an unborn child has with it's mother is nutritional (there is no mind-link), the less plausible explanations are exceedingly less plausible.
To remember something, you generally either need to know what you are trying to remember or need a prompt of some sort (a word, a smell, a place, anything can be a prompt really - you'll just get that "aha, I remember this" feeling and memories from around that period will reveal themselves).
If you try to just restore memories you are more than likely making them up (not that you realise you are making them up).
I would say it's unlikely that anybody remembers anything from around age 3 - they may think they do but it's more likely the memories have been implanted (nothing conspiritorious, just a purely natural thing for memories to be "implanted" unintentionally). Reason is simply that a childs brain takes a good long while to develop - long term storage isn't high on the agenda.
I hope the poster doesn't take your answer seriously. There is nowhere near enough information given to make ANY sort of judgement on how long it is going to take to do anything let alone finish it. We don't even know what the system is supposed to DO (asides probably something to do with mapping).
How do you know what the system you are interfacing with looks like, what protocols you're going to have to use, maybe you have to invent them, maybe you're gonna have to figure out some communication method between them.
Perhaps there is a framework for buiulding the GUI already there meaning programming takes 2 weeks, or maybe you have to do everything from scratch and programming is going to take a year.
As for the database, you don't know anything about the data - can't even begin to imagine where you got 2 weeks from.
Vendor : Look at it's sleek lines, it's a real goer this one.
Client : Looks like a bit of an old bomb to me.
CIA : Down on the ground everybody !
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There's no way (that I can think of) to simulate accelerating to 60+ mph in 5 seconds.
What about a centrifuge kind of arrangement only spinning about the horizontal axis instead of vertical ? It probably wouldn't have to spin fast as the AV would fill in the blanks for your mind.
(windows-centric because IIRC there is no Linux QT player):
QT is a format not a codec, there are definatly QT players for Linux, wether there are codec versions for your favorite codec is another matter. For what it's worth though, mplayer can play pretty much anything including QT using sorenson codecs via the windows DLL's.
While he (Richard) himself said that the Wrights flew before him, the little evidence seems to point to the opposite and that Pearse had a more ambitious definition of flight than he achieved. (He is said to have not accepted anything less than a machine that would allow him to fly to town and back as a flying machine, which accounts for his denial).
It's unlikely we'll ever conclusively know, whomever was first though, it was damn close, and considering that Richard lived in a small rural farming community in New Zealand, miles from anywhere, and had to do everything himself, I think he takes the ingenuity prize, he was a true genius, unrecognized until well after his death.
Start by getting xawtv to work for your setup. I don't know anything about the ATI cards, I just use a bt848 based tuner card with the bttv drivers in the kernel.
If you get xawtv going then just follow the directions that come with MythTV to install it, use apt-get install to install everything as you go (eg "apt-get install mysql-server") and you shouldn't have too much trouble. You might also try the debian packages of mythtv (instructions on thier website) but I think they need the Unstable distribution (or maybe Testing).
MythTV is soooo much better than Freevo at the moment it's not funny.
I just set up MythTV here at home in New Zealand, took me a day including writing an html scraper to get local listings. I can now pause, rewind etc live tv, schedule recordings, tell it to record all of "this" show on any channel, when I get another TV card I'll even be able to do picture in picture.
If I'm watching TV when a recording is scheduled it warns me and asks if I'd like to cancel the recording, watch while it's recording or stop watching and let it record. I can watch recordings while it is recording something else.
NZ doesn't have any commercially available PVR systems, MythTV is a completely wonderful replacement.
The only thing lacking is a good way of archiving those recordings you like to CD. It would be solved if mplayer/encoder could read the modified Nuppel format of MythTV.
Prior to installing Myth (which ISN'T hard, just apt-get everything you need and away you go, there are even deb's for it now) I tried Freevo, but I found it slow, buggy and, well, it' doesn't realy do a whole lot yet. Maybe in a year, but right now, MythTV is better.
I don't see why not, insurance is just a matter of statistics.
Let's say your average satellite costs, I dunno, 10 million dollars, and we take your 92% success rate.
For an insurance company to cover the payouts for that 8% of satellites that fail, it's gonna have to charge you (10000000/92) around $109000 (one hundred and nine thousand), even if we multipled that by 10 because insurance companies want lots of money that's only just over a million bucks.
So you can see that a small percentage of the total cost can cover you in the case of a problem, and the insurance companies can make a mint:-)
Of course, it all depends on the insurance company insuring enough satellite launches to make it viable for them, the more launches they insue, the closer the premium can come to the 10000000/92 mark.
I'd imagine something so specific as that would only be stolen to order. Probably a buyer already lined up or employed the bad guys to steal it for them.
I do not want to sound Trollish, but SETI is a complete waste of time, IMHO. I believe the aliens do not use radio waves for communication for the sole reason that radio waves are just too slow.
Why should they not ? If ET is at a similar or lesser technology level to ourselves then radio wave is the best they have. And if they are at a greater tech level, it seems plausible that they had to pass through a time when they only knew about radio transmission and like us spewed copious amounts of it into the galaxy from thier planet(s).
SETI isn't necessarily looking for a "Greetings People Of Earth" message, more likely they would find an innocuous radio level broadcast akin to a radio or television show:-)
I don't find her particularly attractive either, however Tracey Needham who starred in Jag before Catherine Bell is one nice looking gal, and she starred n VR.5 as well - can't get much geekier than virtual reality!
Well, I would say Richard Pearse bet the Wright brothers to it, but there is insufficient evidence to sway an American from the view point.
What I can tell you though is that the europeans did NOT develop ailerons, that was Richard Pearse in a small farming community of New Zealand, Waitohi.
Man, I think I must have been using Linux for too long, I read that title as that the game is being released for the "Console", I had visions of little ascii space ships on the screen.
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My excess bandwidth charges (I get 10g included) mean that I pay around $100US per Gig (over the cap). $50US would be a god send.
Less seriously I think they mean "If your web page is already in our cache, and is being served normally from a C64 in Afghanistan which is currently being slashdotted, it could, possibly, be 5x faster, or even more!"
The lunar resources could probably be used to create some ceramics or something to use as a rough heat shield (these return vehicles wouldn't need to be manned). And if you can't smelt the ore on the moon you could probably build a strong container for it loose from those same resources.
The only real problem is launch fuel, more precisely getting it there - but with the moons low gravity it wouldn't require much so you could just run monthly fuel drops up to the moon if you can't manufacture it there.
The key is that the initial setup cost will be astronomical, but providing manfacture of required return vehicle goods is performed on the moon the on-going costs would be much much smaller.
Sigh, the bloat these days is abominable.
I started using GUI's with C64 GEOS, in 64K of RAM, I could use GEOWrite and GEOPaint just fine.
Then I went to an Amiga where I could use a full multi-tasking desktop system in 512K of RAM with no hard drive. In my later Amiga 3000 with 12 meg ram and a little harddrive space I had a completely functional system that I routinely used to browse the web, email, use usenet, desktop publish, render graphics and a myriad of other things.
My first Linux box was an old 486 DX4/100 with 12meg RAM and a 2 gig hard drive, I ran a full X system on that, with KDE no less.
Anyway, my point is, that you shouldn't need all these heavy requirements if all you want to do is use Office type software, send/read email and browse the web - let's face it, that's what people do most of the time.
Now to help with the question at hand, maybe Small Linux would be a good place to start.
Dunno about in Australia, but here in NZ we introduced polymer notes a few years ago, and they sure aint paper, damed tuff stuff - sure as hell can't tear it.
No, remember this is the Microsoft house of the future, so I'm afraid both your Kraft and American brand cheese will be incompatible, only quality full cream Microsoft cheese will interoperate with your Microsoft Kitchen Bench, Microsoft Knife and Microsoft Cutting Board. Also ensure you read the EULA on that cheese wrapper and hold the correct number of Microsoft Seat licences for your dinner guests.
No. The most likely explanation is that the memory is "implanted", not intentionally, when you were young you probably heard, or had a conversation about said car, maybe saw a picture, maybe your mother pointed out a car saying something like "that's just like the car that mummy drove when you were still inside". From that point your mind took over filling in blanks, you didn't intend to create a memory, it just happend.
:-)
A persons mind can play some pretty freaky tricks, I don't doubt for a minute that you legitimately "remember" driving in that car, it really is truely a memory for you, however, that memory does not likely reflect reality, it feels real though.
Now, if we could intentionally implant designer memories, that would be soo cool, eg "I remember that trip I took to Mars so vivedly"
Of course, there are other less plausible explanations, but given the physical limitations of your unborn childs mind, and the fact that the only link an unborn child has with it's mother is nutritional (there is no mind-link), the less plausible explanations are exceedingly less plausible.
To remember something, you generally either need to know what you are trying to remember or need a prompt of some sort (a word, a smell, a place, anything can be a prompt really - you'll just get that "aha, I remember this" feeling and memories from around that period will reveal themselves).
If you try to just restore memories you are more than likely making them up (not that you realise you are making them up).
I would say it's unlikely that anybody remembers anything from around age 3 - they may think they do but it's more likely the memories have been implanted (nothing conspiritorious, just a purely natural thing for memories to be "implanted" unintentionally). Reason is simply that a childs brain takes a good long while to develop - long term storage isn't high on the agenda.
I hope the poster doesn't take your answer seriously. There is nowhere near enough information given to make ANY sort of judgement on how long it is going to take to do anything let alone finish it. We don't even know what the system is supposed to DO (asides probably something to do with mapping).
How do you know what the system you are interfacing with looks like, what protocols you're going to have to use, maybe you have to invent them, maybe you're gonna have to figure out some communication method between them.
Perhaps there is a framework for buiulding the GUI already there meaning programming takes 2 weeks, or maybe you have to do everything from scratch and programming is going to take a year.
As for the database, you don't know anything about the data - can't even begin to imagine where you got 2 weeks from.
Vendor : Look at it's sleek lines, it's a real goer this one. Client : Looks like a bit of an old bomb to me. CIA : Down on the ground everybody !
What about a centrifuge kind of arrangement only spinning about the horizontal axis instead of vertical ? It probably wouldn't have to spin fast as the AV would fill in the blanks for your mind.
While he (Richard) himself said that the Wrights flew before him, the little evidence seems to point to the opposite and that Pearse had a more ambitious definition of flight than he achieved. (He is said to have not accepted anything less than a machine that would allow him to fly to town and back as a flying machine, which accounts for his denial).
It's unlikely we'll ever conclusively know, whomever was first though, it was damn close, and considering that Richard lived in a small rural farming community in New Zealand, miles from anywhere, and had to do everything himself, I think he takes the ingenuity prize, he was a true genius, unrecognized until well after his death.
IIRC, his part was always CSM, but Mulder (and Scully?) referred to him as "Cancer Man".
Start by getting xawtv to work for your setup. I don't know anything about the ATI cards, I just use a bt848 based tuner card with the bttv drivers in the kernel.
If you get xawtv going then just follow the directions that come with MythTV to install it, use apt-get install to install everything as you go (eg "apt-get install mysql-server") and you shouldn't have too much trouble. You might also try the debian packages of mythtv (instructions on thier website) but I think they need the Unstable distribution (or maybe Testing).
MythTV is soooo much better than Freevo at the moment it's not funny.
I just set up MythTV here at home in New Zealand, took me a day including writing an html scraper to get local listings. I can now pause, rewind etc live tv, schedule recordings, tell it to record all of "this" show on any channel, when I get another TV card I'll even be able to do picture in picture.
If I'm watching TV when a recording is scheduled it warns me and asks if I'd like to cancel the recording, watch while it's recording or stop watching and let it record. I can watch recordings while it is recording something else.
NZ doesn't have any commercially available PVR systems, MythTV is a completely wonderful replacement.
The only thing lacking is a good way of archiving those recordings you like to CD. It would be solved if mplayer/encoder could read the modified Nuppel format of MythTV.
Prior to installing Myth (which ISN'T hard, just apt-get everything you need and away you go, there are even deb's for it now) I tried Freevo, but I found it slow, buggy and, well, it' doesn't realy do a whole lot yet. Maybe in a year, but right now, MythTV is better.
I don't see why not, insurance is just a matter of statistics.
:-)
Let's say your average satellite costs, I dunno, 10 million dollars, and we take your 92% success rate.
For an insurance company to cover the payouts for that 8% of satellites that fail, it's gonna have to charge you (10000000/92) around $109000 (one hundred and nine thousand), even if we multipled that by 10 because insurance companies want lots of money that's only just over a million bucks.
So you can see that a small percentage of the total cost can cover you in the case of a problem, and the insurance companies can make a mint
Of course, it all depends on the insurance company insuring enough satellite launches to make it viable for them, the more launches they insue, the closer the premium can come to the 10000000/92 mark.
I'd imagine something so specific as that would only be stolen to order. Probably a buyer already lined up or employed the bad guys to steal it for them.
Why should they not ? If ET is at a similar or lesser technology level to ourselves then radio wave is the best they have. And if they are at a greater tech level, it seems plausible that they had to pass through a time when they only knew about radio transmission and like us spewed copious amounts of it into the galaxy from thier planet(s).
SETI isn't necessarily looking for a "Greetings People Of Earth" message, more likely they would find an innocuous radio level broadcast akin to a radio or television show :-)
I don't find her particularly attractive either, however Tracey Needham who starred in Jag before Catherine Bell is one nice looking gal, and she starred n VR.5 as well - can't get much geekier than virtual reality!
What I can tell you though is that the europeans did NOT develop ailerons, that was Richard Pearse in a small farming community of New Zealand, Waitohi.
Man, I think I must have been using Linux for too long, I read that title as that the game is being released for the "Console", I had visions of little ascii space ships on the screen.