pseudo digital wheel clocks of the 1970's where momevent was driven by an AC 60 cycle motor to spin wheels around, who's accuracy greatly depended on the frequency delivered by the local power grid. Ok, absolutly inaccurate in many cases, absoltuly variable on grids who delivered lower requencies during high peek times, higher frequencies at night so your clocks were not totally off.
I don't know about 1970's but grid frequencies are nowadays (at least here in Europe) usually synchronized with an atomic clock somewhere, it can still vary a lot temporarily, but on a long term, electrical grid and and clock using it would be very accurate indeed.
quartz != digital... in fact use of quartz predates the idea of a digital watch...
It predates silicon and computers but even the first quartz clock of 1927 did use electrical circuit to count the vibrations.
Quartz, powered by a battery so it vibrates, replaces the spring, but it is still analog.
If it would replace a spring and oscillate at same frequencies as spring, perhaps - but it's too fast, it needs to be divided and it's divided digitally, which is then used to drive a stepper motor or equivalent that powers the gear train. Lot of analog parts in there, but the most important part of a clock is digital.
It (Accutron) used a very small tuning fork, vibrated by an electromagnet. The vibration (like a quartz watch) is then used to power the gear.
Yes, very remarkable piece of mechanical engineering - but it proves the point nicely, those accutrons have tuning fork with frequency of few hundred hertz, and even then are very delicate and precise - to built something that could operate with a typical quartz crystal that oscillates over 100 times faster than the tuning fork in those would be night impossible. Maybe it can be done with nanotechnology some day, but not now.
Chronometer can be fully mechanical (like the Hamilton Chronometer from the U.S. Navy, circa 1946, I have in my office) but the designation means it meets some minimum level of qualtiy (normally that the watch does not vary more then +- 1 sec in x number of days or months)
I didn't claim they can't, just that there wasn't any full mechanical chronometers in that specific model line.
2 months ago? You would have known, and SHOULD have known a year ago if you'd bothered to check.
People who deploy production boxes just need to know that kind of things. RedHat introduced the 12-month life cycle for RHL line with release of Red Hat Linux 8. That's 15 months ago.
There was a big article and outcry at/. too, about a year ago.
Any particular reasons you don't want to purchase support from Progeny or one of the other companies that offer it?
RedHat told, right from the beginning, when they released RH9 that it would not be supported for much more than a year.
The "many people who just adopted it" knew that. They still decided to go ahead, and NOW they are bitching about support going away? Maybe you should have considered it before the switch.
Anyway, Progeny is offering support for same cost RH did and Fedora Legacy is going to push security updates and other critical bugfixes, so what do you lose?
ID Software has made plenty of technically advanced first person shooters, but after the original Doom, not one of them has been a good game.
Maybe there's something wrong with me but lousy plots, "shoot everything that moves, and shoot anyway if it doesn't" -gameplay and bad, repetitive map design just doesn't make me feel urge to upgrade my PC. I'd rather play something with a compelling storyline and gameplay than "ooh! pretty" that lacks everything else.
Now, they have been great technology demo, and base for other people to build the really good games and mods, and I guess they're at least somewhat playable in multiplayer mode.
Please note: id Software has NOT supplied a release date for this title. We will provide a date as soon as one is announced. Pricing listed is an estimate and is subject to change.
So anyone who has some specific date marked is just guessing.
You might want to reconfigure your Zope, getting ASCII garbage instead of video in Mozilla because your webmaster can't even figure out what mime types are for isn't a good sign. And while you're it, consider releasing it in non-wmv format.
Anyway, looks a nice gadget, but something like that REALLY needs a hard drive version.
Looks are subjective, though. I'd say it almost looks better than iPod... what's so pretty about plain silver rectangle?
Looks aside, the form factor is certainly much better, rounded square like that fits on palm MUCH better than longish iPod-lookalikes (=everything else out there), and it's even got a grip.
I've also heard it really beats the crap out of iPod when it comes to sound quality.
I agree with other posters gripe about lack of mass-storage drive, though - it REALLY lessens the devices usefulness as a portable hard drive if you need to install Rio Taxi on every machine. The java software isn't optimal either because ethernet is only available trough dock and who would drag that around all the time?
They're supposedly working on something, hopefully whatever they come up with is good....
Another big problem is lack of carrying case, and remote too. Oh yeah, and the 40gb model would be very welcome...
However, those are minor, and there's only one big problem with this machine - they don't sell it here. I want one, damnit! And I want it at US prices, not 50% inflated.
Even though there is no sun, the earth is still warmed internally and that may be enough to have an atmosphere (albeit a cold one) in certain areas. Plate tectonics would still be active and there would still be volcanic regions.
Guess there could be some kind of gas pockets around geothermal and volcanic regions, but nothing even remotely resembling the atmosphere we have today - and probably not one that could support life, even if it weren't so cold that breathing would freeze your lungs.
Life still might take place at the bottom of the oceans where organisms feed off the chemicals rather than have to rely on photsynthesis.
Probably. Bit like what is theorized to happen on Europa.
Humans would have to move underground. The limiting factor probably being a reliable food source (the only thing that brings our nuclear subs to the surface).
Plants and animals can probably be dismissed as a food sources right away - they'd take way too much space and energy from an underground city very limited in both respects. Some kind of hydrophonics tanks could be used to grow edible algae and/or fungi...
All in all, the situation and technology required would rather closely remind ones that would be needed to sustain an independent base on moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Time would, indeed, be a great limiting factor if this happened without significant advanced warnings, and if it happened without any signs at all, it might very well be too late, few people in very optimal locations might survive for some time but some kind of organized movement would be necessary for long-term survival. If governments of the world happen to have big "vaults" in case of nuclear war, some of them might be good enough for even this, and plans to quickly man those when catasprophe hits, there could be some hope.
Yeah, I notice the "direction". It's same it has always been, and very simple one: KDE people are simply louder.
All Linux apps able to use KIO Slaves
GNOME VFS has been usable to all Linux app trough LUFS for over YEAR, now KDE folks finally manage something similar and they start yelling about it like the world is about to end.
Of course, this was stupid then - and is still stupid with KIO, totally backwards. KIO and GNOME VFS should use the generic LUFS/FUSE, and not otherway around.
Also, this OO.o unification thing was developed by a RedHat employee for GTK, there is also a win32 version. KDE zealots obviously didn't bother to mention anything about that in the article, nah, they want it to seem like they did it and are only ones to have it.
GPS is passive, it's not "tracking you" in any way if you don't put constantly active transmitter to it.
That information stays within your personal system, unless you want otherwise and ask it to do something that requires sending location to outside network or person. Why would you do that when you step into your bathroom to take a crap?
No, the original submitter didn't have any point at all.
Except to spread his conspiracy theory.
NASA obviously COULD have sent a lousy 3-color digital camera into Mars, but gladly they opted for much better solution. 3-color CCD would've had 3 times less resolution.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If you lived next to a nuclear plant and had a sufficient number of cooperating humans, then you might make a stab at it. Or maybe if you lived near an area that had a lot of geothermal energy available -- yellowstone and iceland come to mind.
Unless your nuclear plant or geothermal area would be in a sealed, warmed, VERY deep cave - no, I don't think so.
The problem as I see it is the oceans would freeze over and there would be nothing but ice.
The biggest problem is not oceans, or water - atmosphere would freeze. Fast. Nothing left but a big lump of oxygen and nitrogen ice and then it's all vacuum.
The earth would radiate the warmth it has to outer space rather quickly - so it would get down to -150F quickly.
-150F? Why would it stay that high without Sun? Pluto has average surface temperature of under 50 degrees kelvin, and though it's far, it's still in the solar system, totally without a star would be colder still.
But legs are a great and very energy efficient form of transport when you don't have roads.
Good luck climbing over a barrier few times your size with wheels. Tracks work bit better but even they aren't anywhere as good as legs, especially if you're small.
Western civilization is 2000 years old? More like 200. We've borrowed lots of things from Romans and "ancient" Greek, but we aren't them.
As you point, human beings have been around for a long time, but for most of that there have been very few of us and those have been spread widely in smallish tribes. The current accoplishments date back to rise of agriculture perhaps 10000 years ago, which led to more people living in a same place for long time, which led to cooperation, which led to...
There's nothing arrogant in presuming that few thousand tribes with 10 members that don't ever meet - or if they happen to do, probably try to kill each other - can't accomplish same feats as thousands or millions of people living together and working for common goals.
And if there has been something like current level of technology before, where are the ruins of those people? Why are there still natural resources, advanced civilization would've used them just as fast as we are doing now? Where and why did the precursors themselves vanish if they were so good?
Well, students have been cheating with calculators for decades, and with other means long before that. It's nothing new. And it won't go away, whatever you do.
Yes, it's possible, yes it's harder to prevent or notice than a crib, but hey, at least the pupils are resourceful, even if it's not the area of expertise they're doing test about for. <g>
Besides, it's realistic... school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, and there are no "cheating" restictions there.
48 GX is a truly amazing piece of hardware, and the fact that a second hand one still costs around $100 is a damn solid evidence of that - it's over ten years old! All the other devices that old have been dusting in garbage bins for years, but these just keeps going.
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pseudo digital wheel clocks of the 1970's where momevent was driven by an AC 60 cycle motor to spin wheels around, who's accuracy greatly depended on the frequency delivered by the local power grid. Ok, absolutly inaccurate in many cases, absoltuly variable on grids who delivered lower requencies during high peek times, higher frequencies at night so your clocks were not totally off.
I don't know about 1970's but grid frequencies are nowadays (at least here in Europe) usually synchronized with an atomic clock somewhere, it can still vary a lot temporarily, but on a long term, electrical grid and and clock using it would be very accurate indeed.
quartz != digital... in fact use of quartz predates the idea of a digital watch...
It predates silicon and computers but even the first quartz clock of 1927 did use electrical circuit to count the vibrations.
Quartz, powered by a battery so it vibrates, replaces the spring, but it is still analog.
If it would replace a spring and oscillate at same frequencies as spring, perhaps - but it's too fast, it needs to be divided and it's divided digitally, which is then used to drive a stepper motor or equivalent that powers the gear train. Lot of analog parts in there, but the most important part of a clock is digital.
It (Accutron) used a very small tuning fork, vibrated by an electromagnet. The vibration (like a quartz watch) is then used to power the gear.
Yes, very remarkable piece of mechanical engineering - but it proves the point nicely, those accutrons have tuning fork with frequency of few hundred hertz, and even then are very delicate and precise - to built something that could operate with a typical quartz crystal that oscillates over 100 times faster than the tuning fork in those would be night impossible. Maybe it can be done with nanotechnology some day, but not now.
Chronometer can be fully mechanical (like the Hamilton Chronometer from the U.S. Navy, circa 1946, I have in my office) but the designation means it meets some minimum level of qualtiy (normally that the watch does not vary more then +- 1 sec in x number of days or months)
I didn't claim they can't, just that there wasn't any full mechanical chronometers in that specific model line.
There's no Movado Digital Watch for a reason.
Try telling that to them. Vast majority of those Movado watches and all they've labeled "chronometers" (eg. the most accurate ones) are digital.
Quartz clocks to be precise, the fact it has analog hands instead of LCD doesn't tell you shit about the inner workings of a timepiece.
2 months ago? You would have known, and SHOULD have known a year ago if you'd bothered to check.
/. too, about a year ago.
People who deploy production boxes just need to know that kind of things. RedHat introduced the 12-month life cycle for RHL line with release of Red Hat Linux 8. That's 15 months ago.
There was a big article and outcry at
Any particular reasons you don't want to purchase support from Progeny or one of the other companies that offer it?
RedHat told, right from the beginning, when they released RH9 that it would not be supported for much more than a year.
The "many people who just adopted it" knew that. They still decided to go ahead, and NOW they are bitching about support going away? Maybe you should have considered it before the switch.
Anyway, Progeny is offering support for same cost RH did and Fedora Legacy is going to push security updates and other critical bugfixes, so what do you lose?
Stupid? Maybe generally, but it's not stupid from intels point of view.
They know their CPU's perform badly and have to rely on misleading MHz numbers to keep ignorant consumers buying.
BatMUD fills my mmorpg needs quite nicely.
Single player game suggestions are welcome, though.
We don't know that yet.
ID Software has made plenty of technically advanced first person shooters, but after the original Doom, not one of them has been a good game.
Maybe there's something wrong with me but lousy plots, "shoot everything that moves, and shoot anyway if it doesn't" -gameplay and bad, repetitive map design just doesn't make me feel urge to upgrade my PC. I'd rather play something with a compelling storyline and gameplay than "ooh! pretty" that lacks everything else.
Now, they have been great technology demo, and base for other people to build the really good games and mods, and I guess they're at least somewhat playable in multiplayer mode.
Both stores linked from doom3.com state that:
Please note: id Software has NOT supplied a release date for this title. We will provide a date as soon as one is announced. Pricing listed is an estimate and is subject to change.
So anyone who has some specific date marked is just guessing.
What's the big deal anyway? It's just a game.
You might want to reconfigure your Zope, getting ASCII garbage instead of video in Mozilla because your webmaster can't even figure out what mime types are for isn't a good sign. And while you're it, consider releasing it in non-wmv format.
Anyway, looks a nice gadget, but something like that REALLY needs a hard drive version.
Looks are subjective, though. I'd say it almost looks better than iPod... what's so pretty about plain silver rectangle?
Looks aside, the form factor is certainly much better, rounded square like that fits on palm MUCH better than longish iPod-lookalikes (=everything else out there), and it's even got a grip.
I've also heard it really beats the crap out of iPod when it comes to sound quality.
I agree with other posters gripe about lack of mass-storage drive, though - it REALLY lessens the devices usefulness as a portable hard drive if you need to install Rio Taxi on every machine. The java software isn't optimal either because ethernet is only available trough dock and who would drag that around all the time?
They're supposedly working on something, hopefully whatever they come up with is good....
Another big problem is lack of carrying case, and remote too. Oh yeah, and the 40gb model would be very welcome...
However, those are minor, and there's only one big problem with this machine - they don't sell it here. I want one, damnit! And I want it at US prices, not 50% inflated.
Even though there is no sun, the earth is still warmed internally and that may be enough to have an atmosphere (albeit a cold one) in certain areas. Plate tectonics would still be active and there would still be volcanic regions.
Guess there could be some kind of gas pockets around geothermal and volcanic regions, but nothing even remotely resembling the atmosphere we have today - and probably not one that could support life, even if it weren't so cold that breathing would freeze your lungs.
Life still might take place at the bottom of the oceans where organisms feed off the chemicals rather than have to rely on photsynthesis.
Probably. Bit like what is theorized to happen on Europa.
Humans would have to move underground. The limiting factor probably being a reliable food source (the only thing that brings our nuclear subs to the surface).
Plants and animals can probably be dismissed as a food sources right away - they'd take way too much space and energy from an underground city very limited in both respects. Some kind of hydrophonics tanks could be used to grow edible algae and/or fungi...
All in all, the situation and technology required would rather closely remind ones that would be needed to sustain an independent base on moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Time would, indeed, be a great limiting factor if this happened without significant advanced warnings, and if it happened without any signs at all, it might very well be too late, few people in very optimal locations might survive for some time but some kind of organized movement would be necessary for long-term survival. If governments of the world happen to have big "vaults" in case of nuclear war, some of them might be good enough for even this, and plans to quickly man those when catasprophe hits, there could be some hope.
Yeah, I notice the "direction". It's same it has always been, and very simple one: KDE people are simply louder.
All Linux apps able to use KIO Slaves
GNOME VFS has been usable to all Linux app trough LUFS for over YEAR, now KDE folks finally manage something similar and they start yelling about it like the world is about to end.
Of course, this was stupid then - and is still stupid with KIO, totally backwards. KIO and GNOME VFS should use the generic LUFS/FUSE, and not otherway around.
Also, this OO.o unification thing was developed by a RedHat employee for GTK, there is also a win32 version. KDE zealots obviously didn't bother to mention anything about that in the article, nah, they want it to seem like they did it and are only ones to have it.
Are there gtk+2 builds of Mozilla Seamonkey?
Yes, but they aren't natively themed.
GPS is passive, it's not "tracking you" in any way if you don't put constantly active transmitter to it.
That information stays within your personal system, unless you want otherwise and ask it to do something that requires sending location to outside network or person. Why would you do that when you step into your bathroom to take a crap?
No, the original submitter didn't have any point at all.
Except to spread his conspiracy theory.
NASA obviously COULD have sent a lousy 3-color digital camera into Mars, but gladly they opted for much better solution. 3-color CCD would've had 3 times less resolution.
Well, for a conspiracy theorist having enough cognitive skills to allow any kind of writing at all is quite an accomplishment.
yeah, I was thinking the same thing. If you lived next to a nuclear plant and had a sufficient number of cooperating humans, then you might make a stab at it.
Or maybe if you lived near an area that had a lot of geothermal energy available -- yellowstone and iceland come to mind.
Unless your nuclear plant or geothermal area would be in a sealed, warmed, VERY deep cave - no, I don't think so.
The problem as I see it is the oceans would freeze over and there would be nothing but ice.
The biggest problem is not oceans, or water - atmosphere would freeze. Fast. Nothing left but a big lump of oxygen and nitrogen ice and then it's all vacuum.
The earth would radiate the warmth it has to outer space rather quickly - so it would get down to -150F quickly.
-150F? Why would it stay that high without Sun? Pluto has average surface temperature of under 50 degrees kelvin, and though it's far, it's still in the solar system, totally without a star would be colder still.
That doesn't work on GTK2 any more, though.
It's probably the best way to assigning keyboard shortcuts ever invented, why the hell did they remove it?
But legs are a great and very energy efficient form of transport when you don't have roads.
Good luck climbing over a barrier few times your size with wheels. Tracks work bit better but even they aren't anywhere as good as legs, especially if you're small.
Well, sure, no war would be best option.
But if there must be war, having mostly robots fight in it instead of humans, the inevitable suffering is greatly reduced.
Western civilization is 2000 years old? More like 200. We've borrowed lots of things from Romans and "ancient" Greek, but we aren't them.
...
As you point, human beings have been around for a long time, but for most of that there have been very few of us and those have been spread widely in smallish tribes. The current accoplishments date back to rise of agriculture perhaps 10000 years ago, which led to more people living in a same place for long time, which led to cooperation, which led to
There's nothing arrogant in presuming that few thousand tribes with 10 members that don't ever meet - or if they happen to do, probably try to kill each other - can't accomplish same feats as thousands or millions of people living together and working for common goals.
And if there has been something like current level of technology before, where are the ruins of those people? Why are there still natural resources, advanced civilization would've used them just as fast as we are doing now? Where and why did the precursors themselves vanish if they were so good?
Well, students have been cheating with calculators for decades, and with other means long before that. It's nothing new. And it won't go away, whatever you do.
Yes, it's possible, yes it's harder to prevent or notice than a crib, but hey, at least the pupils are resourceful, even if it's not the area of expertise they're doing test about for. <g>
Besides, it's realistic... school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, and there are no "cheating" restictions there.
This should be modded as Insightful, not funny...
48 GX is a truly amazing piece of hardware, and the fact that a second hand one still costs around $100 is a damn solid evidence of that - it's over ten years old! All the other devices that old have been dusting in garbage bins for years, but these just keeps going.
Why do you think we don't see lots and lots of 20 30 and 40 GB hard drive players?
We don't?
Open your eyes, those things are popping up everywhere at a tremendous rate.