Actually, I wonder what this sentence means exactly?
"thousands of nuclear plants"? The hell if average Joe (or even average geek Joe) know what are the risk of living near even one. This is just meant to be scary, it doesn't really give an idea for the danger.
For a start, the danger living near a nuclear plant depends on the technology of the plant, and on the people that operate it. Even then, it might not be as dangerous as most people think.
I'll wait till someone less afraid of the word "nuclear" come with his one study.
Because movies are... fictions? Essentially build on the scenarist's need to wright a plot. And for that matter, popular disbelief in technology is a huge factor in what people are willing to believe in a movie. And popular beliefs or disbeliefs aren't exactly build on solid scientific bases...
That said, I think that choosing a password you leave on every thing you touch isn't a good idea.
I'm not sure you can patent the alphabet. Patent are for methods and process, aren't they? for alphabet, you can have copyright or maybe trademark (thought for trademarking, you have to actually trade something, and it doesn't prevent the use of it for an other product, unless your well known.)
I patent metaphors... I'm sure that fall in the patent box.
Clearly, I wasn't expressing myself good enough, I was implying you could always have two or more set of bookmarks, cookies and stuffs. One with no porn sites for example. ( why porn? we're on/., aren't we? ) And an other with all your favorites flash games, hacking stuffs, torrents, and whatever you wouldn't dare looking at at work. (like porn, yes...)
A FPGA is a little more than that. Some of thoses gates are connected and so you have clocks (yes, with an 's'), latch (baaaad!!!), flip flop, memory cells and sometimes even a reel cpu in it(but it is uncommon).
As for Verilog, it is a programming language. Just because it can describe hardware with it don't disqualify it. You can do the same things with C and VHDL. It's just a matter of compiler.
For the same reason we send rover to Mars instead of just looking at the planet from above with satellites I suppose...
I bet it wouldn't cost a single million dollar to build the rover (sending it to the moon could be an other matter thought. And I mean sending it so it can work once arrived. Craters don't count here... But maybe you can group some stuff in the rocket to divide the cost.)
Anyway, if the hydrogen is under the surface, rover won't do the job. The Dumb mass can do it and is much cheaper so...
But there is still a question : Why doing things simple when you can do them complicated?
Just because you use nuclear power to make crystals doesn't mean you cannot use nuclear power for anything else. That's really doesn't seems like a closed circle to me.
When someone talk about 1l, without mention of temperature or pressure, I think you can safely assume that they are about 300 K and 1000 hP... For some reason, the 1l make more sens for people when you speak about gazes, and they would understand kelvin or pascal, or why it is important.
Slashdot Mirror
... beta.
They will bring malware, but also games, and better hardware support...
I'll kill anyone trying to get norton on linux, but I would kill to have more games natives for linux.
The good, the bad... Damn!
Actually, I wonder what this sentence means exactly?
"thousands of nuclear plants"? The hell if average Joe (or even average geek Joe) know what are the risk of living near even one. This is just meant to be scary, it doesn't really give an idea for the danger.
For a start, the danger living near a nuclear plant depends on the technology of the plant, and on the people that operate it. Even then, it might not be as dangerous as most people think.
I'll wait till someone less afraid of the word "nuclear" come with his one study.
Did they say female virgins? cause if not, I bet you can find 72 there on slashdot.
I wonder witch ISO is the standard for corruption...
That is why I said I don't want a password I let on anything I touch (like the computer itself).
Because movies are... fictions? Essentially build on the scenarist's need to wright a plot. And for that matter, popular disbelief in technology is a huge factor in what people are willing to believe in a movie. And popular beliefs or disbeliefs aren't exactly build on solid scientific bases...
That said, I think that choosing a password you leave on every thing you touch isn't a good idea.
I'm not sure you can patent the alphabet. Patent are for methods and process, aren't they? for alphabet, you can have copyright or maybe trademark (thought for trademarking, you have to actually trade something, and it doesn't prevent the use of it for an other product, unless your well known.)
I patent metaphors... I'm sure that fall in the patent box.
Clearly, I wasn't expressing myself good enough, I was implying you could always have two or more set of bookmarks, cookies and stuffs. One with no porn sites for example. ( why porn? we're on /., aren't we? ) And an other with all your favorites flash games, hacking stuffs, torrents, and whatever you wouldn't dare looking at at work. (like porn, yes...)
I don't really see the problem with this address bar... Is it because some find it embarrassing when it show the porn website they look?
;)
It's not that bad if you type fast enough.
But what will restrain you to ONE individual browsing experience?
The problem is that it is the standard contract. So if you want to do money with it, you have to sell the rights.
I'd rather see contract with an exclusivity, witch doesn't take the copyrights away from the author.
And that's why copyright is wrong. If anything, copyright should belongs to authors.
Remind me to laugh loudly the next time a publisher say "think of the author".
A FPGA is a little more than that. Some of thoses gates are connected and so you have clocks (yes, with an 's'), latch (baaaad!!!), flip flop, memory cells and sometimes even a reel cpu in it(but it is uncommon).
As for Verilog, it is a programming language. Just because it can describe hardware with it don't disqualify it. You can do the same things with C and VHDL. It's just a matter of compiler.
Actually, I was wondering myself.
I can speculate, from the other language he know, maybe it was 68k? (ARM doesn't seems old enough...)
It doesn't really matter I guess, but what would be a geek without curiosity?
Assembly is still widely used in embedded systems. C is good, but sometimes it's just simpler in good old assembly.
Sounds like somethings Dr Evil would say.
Veritech are good and all, but I prefer Gundam : at list, the characters don't sing most of the time.
Nice try, but the forty second is mine. ^^
I think the answer to that question is "why not?".
This is not the droid the /.ers are looking for...
I wonder what Sunsurfing would be like... I bet forward loop would be a lot easier.
I've always been into catamaran anyway.
For the same reason we send rover to Mars instead of just looking at the planet from above with satellites I suppose...
I bet it wouldn't cost a single million dollar to build the rover (sending it to the moon could be an other matter thought. And I mean sending it so it can work once arrived. Craters don't count here... But maybe you can group some stuff in the rocket to divide the cost.)
Anyway, if the hydrogen is under the surface, rover won't do the job. The Dumb mass can do it and is much cheaper so...
But there is still a question : Why doing things simple when you can do them complicated?
Just because you use nuclear power to make crystals doesn't mean you cannot use nuclear power for anything else. That's really doesn't seems like a closed circle to me.
When someone talk about 1l, without mention of temperature or pressure, I think you can safely assume that they are about 300 K and 1000 hP... For some reason, the 1l make more sens for people when you speak about gazes, and they would understand kelvin or pascal, or why it is important.