The V-1 actually used a pulsejet, not a ramjet. Pulsejets have been built that work when stationary (some R/C aircraft use them as a substitute for a turbojet or ducted fan), and their maximum speed (Wikipedia says the V-1 reached 390mph) is about that at which many ramjet designs start working.
Exchange administration and planning isn't rocket science.
I wouldn't have made the comparison myself, but now that you have made it, let me make an analogy: NASA pulled off some absolutely incredible projects while their budgetary planning consisted of "Budget? BUDGET? We gotta beat the Russians!"
If your corporate priorities have drifted as far as the United States' priorities have since then, your budget planning team (read: your executives, good luck firing them) will probably similarly prioritize your mail system.
it's not outrageous to build a system that can maintain that. Mirror it internally in the server and then replicate it offsite somewhere.
It is outrageous if you have to back up Exchange. Exchange's backup API is based around doing full backups of the entire information store, then perhaps doing incremental backups of the transaction logs. You'd have to be insane to use the incremental backups - if you had to restore a week's worth of transaction logs, it could take a day or longer to play them all back. So instead, mail administrators keep the entire information store down to a size they can reliably do a full backup of daily. As for replication for Exchange, go ahead and price out the third-party software out there. You won't like what you see.
Storage space is cheap. Buy lots of it.
Fast, reliable storage space (usually RAID10 arrays of SCSI disks) still isn't. If you try and spread the disk throughput load across more machines, you spend a lot more money on Windows Server and Exchange Enterprise Edition licenses, and you may have to build out your server room a bit more too.
Currently the only way to get a reliable Exchange/Outlook setup with large mailboxes for a reasonable number of employees is to spend a lot more money than you thought you had to. That means companies are sticking with suboptimal setups, pissing off their employees, and that's the point the article is trying to address.
Hence the reason why fully community-based projects are not suited for mission-critical applications
I'd revise that to say that any piece of software is not suited for a mission-critical application until it has already been developed, released, and tested by the people who will be depending on it.
If your critical mission is on hold because you are desperately waiting for some code to ship, you have done quite the disservice to your mission.
Unless you're somewhere with exceptionally cheap electric power (the Pacific Northwest, for example), or somewhere with unusually expensive gas, gas heating is about half the cost of electric.
That's true even in the Pacific Northwest, since natural gas prices went up so much recently. Here's the numbers from Puget Sound Energy from when I last checked this about a year ago:
Electricity: $0.0201 per megajoule
Natural gas: $0.0107 per megajoule
Now, if you have a heat pump with a Coefficient of Performance (COP) of 4, meaning it moves four times the heat energy it uses, you can move a megajoule of heat for $0.0050. Heat pumps use electricity, they require a vent to the outside (or coolant pipes to the outside for a split unit), they do air conditioning as well, they are more expensive to install, and they have a pretty decent number of parts which can potentially fail.
One really nice thing about natural gas is that a gas fireplace and hot water heater work when the power is out (it was out for four days here since last Thursday as crews from as far away as Kansas repaired severe storm damage). Of course, the Pacific Northwest also has earthquakes, and a major quake could potentially leave you without natural gas for days or weeks.
Interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing some references on this, if you happen to have them handy.
If you replace the term IP with another term without fixing the underlying problems, the new term will simply take on the same meaning as the other.
This is also true. However, I believe that the people who are promoting the term do have a (for the most part subconscious) agenda (no, it's not a conspiracy, merely infectuous - I'd compare it to the recent tendency to use passive speech to tell half truths, or the tendancy for people to call other people "resources").
Talking to a person about the words they are using is an opportunity for them to think, "Hey, not everybody out there sees things the way I do, and I might be stepping on some toes." And if they were curious about the law in the first place, they might appreciate you making it a bit more accessible to them.
Trademarks, service marks, and specific designs, trade secrets, and proprietary processes are parts of IP, too, and they are not meant to be time-limited.
Trademarks expire when you stop using the mark for trade. The rest of the list isn't strongly protected by law, nor should it be.
Once they die, it's understood that the idea is no longer tied to its creator, but rather ceded to all of humanity. Incidentally, many of the prominent thinkers who inspired the Framers of the US Constitution spoke tangentially to that issue.
Then why did those framers decide on a 14 year term?
The philosophy of IP is that people are entitled to protection of novel ideas, especially because there are those whose livelihood depends on the creation of ideas, and without protection, artists, musicians, and small software developers alike would not be able to have those jobs.
Artists, musicians, small software developers, etc. do not sell ideas. They sell works. And the philosophy in the US constitution is that people are so entitled especially to promote the arts and sciences - that is, society as a whole gets something out of it as well.
If society no longer benefits, we are obligated to abandon the entitlement.
No one needs any incentive to come up with an idea. The real effort, that deserves an opportunity for reward, is the act of turning that idea into a work.
Further, there is absolutely nothing to the theory of Intellectual Property that denies the existence of public domain
True. What's denied is the acknowledgement of indebtedness to the public domain and the obligation to give back to it.
you're attacking IP when you really mean to criticize copyright law.
You were talking about the present. I was talking about the future.
Criticism of the term itself is pointless and misdirected. There's nothing wrong with the corpus of Intellectual Property, conceptually speaking.
Yes there is. Using the term means that more executives will use it as well. And the more they use it, the more they start to believe in the philosophy of Intellectual Property. That is, that ideas can be owned - contrast to works can be protected temporarily. It's a subtle difference, but one that can be very detrimental to our culture. Culture requires a rich public domain to foster new ideas - Intellectual Property conveniently forgets about that.
That philosophy gave us the DMCA and DRM, and if we don't counter it, it won't stop there.
I'd like to confirm this will actually stop these potentially problematic microwave "emissions" or whatever they are?
Make an RF power meter. It's easy. Take a piece of cable with two wires and bend a 1/4 wave length of the end of each wire to make a dipole antenna. Take the other end of the cable and place a diode in series with one of the two wires. After the diode, connect a small capacitor to both wires. Attach both wires to a digital voltmeter (that can display millivolts). There. You've now made what is essentially an untuned crystal radio set with a VU meter instead of headphones. Now turn the voltmeter on and start impersonating Egon Spengler.
For a wicked cool demonstration of this, take apart a dead hard drive and rip the seek head magnets out. Keep the magnets bolted to each other if you can, and then drop a nickel or a piece of a metal floppy disk's dust shield through the slot where the seek head would normally fit. It'll fall slow enough for you to turn the magnet upside down and let it fall the other way.
The link above says they already use it on roller coasters.
Besides, we're talking about replacing all current energy generation, not just the portion of that generation done using oil.
Liquid hydrocarbons have some very important properties - they are easily transportable, quickly transferrable, and quite energy dense. While I expect to see plugin hybrids become more popular, I don't see road vehicles weaning themselves entirely from liquid hydrocarbons anytime soon.
Those benefits are not factors in supplying power to my house. You pay roughly five to ten times as much money (per megajoule) to fill up your car as you do to power your house. Why are you so willing to do that? There absolutely is a dichotomy here.
Terrestrial solar power takes a great deal of land.
Solar power towers produce roughly half a megawatt per acre of constant, dispatchable power (Solar Two produced 10MW with a 20-acre heliostat array). Total US energy consumption is roughly 3.3 terawatts. Dividing gets you 6.6 million acres, a chunk of land less than half the size of the Mojave.
Of course, no single source of power will ever supply the entire US, and people will distribute these things where the sun is good and the power is needed.
We don't have nearly enough arable land in the whole world to produce enough biodiesel to satisfy world energy demand
Speaking of oil, the US has one trillion barrels of it locked away in shale oil deposits, in the same places they keep digging up all those dinosaur bones. Like all the other things we're discussing, it was previously too expensive to warrant much attention.
I probably could have saved him the trip by assuring him that I knew the "Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot" necessary for efficient voice transmission of MAC addresses over the phone.
Once I was fixing someone's Windows machine and saw that the DNS domain name was set to "sierratangotangolimanovember1.wa.home.com". I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything at that particular moment.
The AA and AAA cell standards are for 1.5V, based on Alkaline cells. The only cell chemistries likely to spontaneously, erm, "vent with flame" are Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer. You don't see those cells in AA or AAA form factors, and here's why: They have a voltage of 3.7V per cell. Putting a 3.7V cell in place of a 1.5V one is very likely to make your device go poof. Also, Lithium cells must be charged in a very controlled manner, with a number of protection circuits. For safety, these must be integrated along with the cells into the battery case before it is sold. In other words, each product's battery is a tailored design, not designed to interoperate with any other product.
It would be possible to make cells in a few standardized form factors with builtin protection circuitry (which would, in addition, have to handle being placed in series with other cells of varying charge status and age) but that form factor would need to be incompatible with the old dry cell standards to prevent accidents. Because of this circuitry, such cells would likely remain very expensive (in comparison with NiMH cells) and designers would not relish having to limit their products design to accomodate the standard sizes.
I do not think that computer has serial, only parallel. (Can't tell for sure, but I assume the port next to the DVI is VGA/HD-15, not serial.)
It is a VGA port. There are no external serial connectors, but the motherboard has two serial port headers. Pin 1 on the first serial port is used for the IR receiver.
It just came in yesterday afternoon, so I haven't had time to get everything running on it yet, however there are a couple things worth commenting on:
I talked to Andy, the guy who apparently is LinuxTechToys, a bit before buying the system. He was very helpful in clarifying questions the website created. When I asked him if my old MatrixOrbital VFD2041 display would fit in the case, that was all the prompting he needed to make me custom mounting brackets for it.
The system came packed in one inch of low-density foam in a cardboard box about half an inch too narrow. As a result, the FedEx ground trip from California to Washington left a sizable dent on the right side of the case, possibly from the slimline CD to IDE adapter which was packaged alongside. I was able to pound this out with a hammer, a block of wood, and some gaffer's tape without any damage to the paint, so no biggie.
Everything is a very tight fit. I had purchased a Samsung SN-S082D DVD burner for this system. I don't know if this drive is slightly larger than any of the others, but using the included IDE adapter, there was literally about a millimeter of space between the back of the floppy power connector's plastic tab and the front of the power supply - not enough room for the other side of the connector. I worked around this by grabbing an old fan power connector and soldering GND and 5V wires directly to the IDE adapter circuit board. (I needed to make one of these anyway for my VFD2041 anyway.) The 40-pin IDE cable rests snugly on the power supply, and I'm glad that power supply isn't a millimeter higher. There's a capacitor on the motherboard partially blocking the VFD2041's serial port, but that's OK because I only need pins 3 and 5 connected, it's the bottom row of pins that's obscured, and appropriately-sized wires will friction-fit into a female DE9 connector.
My first message from the system was from Asus's BIOS, which said something like: "USB overcurrent detected. Locate and unplug USB device. System will shut down in 10 seconds." The IR receiver draws its 5V from one of the USB headers on the motherboard - I'm glad they chose this location instead of directly from the power supply, otherwise I could have let the magic smoke out of something. With the IR receiver circuit board screwed in to place between the VFD2041's mounting bracket and the case, there's enough pressure to cause the very end of that 5V line to make contact with the mounting bracket. I removed the IR receiver, covered the entire receiver circuit board in electrical tape, tucked it in next to the VFD, and taped it in place. Problem solved.
The SN-S082D's tray is, at 13.8mm-ish, slightly wider than the acrylic front panel cutout. I had to sand the front panel quite a bit to get smooth operation. 100-grit sandpaper left the edges considerably smoother than before - they must have been CNC milled and left at that.
I do not have a dB meter or the appropriate room to verify their 14dB claim, however the system has a total of four fans (CPU, power supply, and two case fans) and the only noise I could identify after powering on was from the CPU fan (which is the stock AMD fan). The BIOS does a good job of spinning these only as fast as they need to go.
Debian Etch Beta 3 boots just fine on it, however I plan to netboot it (which the BIOS supports) so it'll take me a bit longer to get everything installed.
Bottom line - the system works, they will go the extra mile for you, but be prepared to put more time into it than you think you'll need.
KineticEnergyInJoules = 1/2 * MassInKilograms * VelocityInMetersPerSecond ^ 2. If you want to accelerate a cruise ship (100,000,000kg) using 40 gallons of gas (500,000,000 joules of energy), you'll do no better than 3.16 meters/second. Probably more like 1.5 m/s because of engine inefficiencies and such.
Actually, that's exactly what it's called -- a ground-effect airplane or a ground-effect aircraft. The advantages are there
The showstopper disadvantage to ground effect craft are that any practically-sized ground effect craft must operate at an altitude of less than half the wingspan of the plane, in other words, at an altitude where it may be struck by a freak wave or rogue wave. So, they can't safely be used on the open ocean. Russia did use Ekranoplans in the Caspian and Black seas - they were cheap to run and could haul incredible loads.
Safety is, of course, not a showstopper for military uses, and flying in ground effect avoids ground-based radar detection.
Especially given the fact that most CPU usage is less than 18% when calcualting parity for RAID 5
CPU usage is 100% when calculating anything. In fact, at any given time, CPU usage is either 0% or 100%. It's either doing something or it's not. Same with network links - an ethernet card is either transmitting a packet, or it's not. It's only when you average these things out over periods of time that you see percentages like 18%. In the meantime, your other processes wait until the interrupt handler finishes or the scheduler gets to them. A 100% idle system is not merely 122% as responsive as an 82% idle system. Also, as another poster mentioned, software RAID5 may potentially be slower for reasons other than the CPU.
BTW, regarding one of your other posts, I own an old 3ware 6410, which you allege is software RAID, and I distinctly remember going into its BIOS to create and initialize its RAID5 array. The Linux 3ware driver source is public - show us the part where it does the parity calculations.
(who wants to spend 12 hours a week backing up to tape?)
Consider using rdiff-backup to automate syncing to an external hard drive.
2) Create and enforce real responsibility of credit providers and credit bureaus.
Easy. Just make libelous statements on a credit report... libel. You lost your earnest money because you couldn't get a home loan because you allegedly signed up for a credit card, maxed it out, and never repaid it? You get passed up for a job because a car purchased in your name got repossessed? You prove it, you sue the credit bureaus, you win treble damages.
Suddenly, credit bureaus would require a lot more proof before dinging your credit score, and they'd promptly correct their mistakes.
Increased dihedral really doesn't affect pitch stability, only roll stability. Dangling the weight like a pendulum below the aircraft isn't very effective either, you'd end up fighting phugoid oscillations. Normally, the key for pitch stability is to have your center of gravity in front of your center of (wing lift) pressure. Such a configuration would cause the plane to nose dive like a lawn dart if it had no tail or canard. An unswept flying wing avoids this, essentially, by building the tail into the back of the wing, using what's called a reflex airfoil, which is curved up slightly in the back. You can see this in Opensky's pictures. This severely reduces lift compared to a typical airfoil, but unless you have an onboard computer flying the thing, it's the only way to prevent it from flying like this.
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The V-1 actually used a pulsejet, not a ramjet. Pulsejets have been built that work when stationary (some R/C aircraft use them as a substitute for a turbojet or ducted fan), and their maximum speed (Wikipedia says the V-1 reached 390mph) is about that at which many ramjet designs start working.
I wouldn't have made the comparison myself, but now that you have made it, let me make an analogy: NASA pulled off some absolutely incredible projects while their budgetary planning consisted of "Budget? BUDGET? We gotta beat the Russians!"
If your corporate priorities have drifted as far as the United States' priorities have since then, your budget planning team (read: your executives, good luck firing them) will probably similarly prioritize your mail system.
It is outrageous if you have to back up Exchange. Exchange's backup API is based around doing full backups of the entire information store, then perhaps doing incremental backups of the transaction logs. You'd have to be insane to use the incremental backups - if you had to restore a week's worth of transaction logs, it could take a day or longer to play them all back. So instead, mail administrators keep the entire information store down to a size they can reliably do a full backup of daily. As for replication for Exchange, go ahead and price out the third-party software out there. You won't like what you see.
Fast, reliable storage space (usually RAID10 arrays of SCSI disks) still isn't. If you try and spread the disk throughput load across more machines, you spend a lot more money on Windows Server and Exchange Enterprise Edition licenses, and you may have to build out your server room a bit more too.
Currently the only way to get a reliable Exchange/Outlook setup with large mailboxes for a reasonable number of employees is to spend a lot more money than you thought you had to. That means companies are sticking with suboptimal setups, pissing off their employees, and that's the point the article is trying to address.
I'd revise that to say that any piece of software is not suited for a mission-critical application until it has already been developed, released, and tested by the people who will be depending on it.
If your critical mission is on hold because you are desperately waiting for some code to ship, you have done quite the disservice to your mission.
That's true even in the Pacific Northwest, since natural gas prices went up so much recently. Here's the numbers from Puget Sound Energy from when I last checked this about a year ago:
- Electricity: $0.0201 per megajoule
- Natural gas: $0.0107 per megajoule
Now, if you have a heat pump with a Coefficient of Performance (COP) of 4, meaning it moves four times the heat energy it uses, you can move a megajoule of heat for $0.0050. Heat pumps use electricity, they require a vent to the outside (or coolant pipes to the outside for a split unit), they do air conditioning as well, they are more expensive to install, and they have a pretty decent number of parts which can potentially fail.One really nice thing about natural gas is that a gas fireplace and hot water heater work when the power is out (it was out for four days here since last Thursday as crews from as far away as Kansas repaired severe storm damage). Of course, the Pacific Northwest also has earthquakes, and a major quake could potentially leave you without natural gas for days or weeks.
Interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing some references on this, if you happen to have them handy.
This is also true. However, I believe that the people who are promoting the term do have a (for the most part subconscious) agenda (no, it's not a conspiracy, merely infectuous - I'd compare it to the recent tendency to use passive speech to tell half truths, or the tendancy for people to call other people "resources").
Talking to a person about the words they are using is an opportunity for them to think, "Hey, not everybody out there sees things the way I do, and I might be stepping on some toes." And if they were curious about the law in the first place, they might appreciate you making it a bit more accessible to them.
Trademarks expire when you stop using the mark for trade. The rest of the list isn't strongly protected by law, nor should it be.
Then why did those framers decide on a 14 year term?
Artists, musicians, small software developers, etc. do not sell ideas. They sell works. And the philosophy in the US constitution is that people are so entitled especially to promote the arts and sciences - that is, society as a whole gets something out of it as well. If society no longer benefits, we are obligated to abandon the entitlement.
No one needs any incentive to come up with an idea. The real effort, that deserves an opportunity for reward, is the act of turning that idea into a work.
True. What's denied is the acknowledgement of indebtedness to the public domain and the obligation to give back to it.
You were talking about the present. I was talking about the future.
Yes there is. Using the term means that more executives will use it as well. And the more they use it, the more they start to believe in the philosophy of Intellectual Property. That is, that ideas can be owned - contrast to works can be protected temporarily. It's a subtle difference, but one that can be very detrimental to our culture. Culture requires a rich public domain to foster new ideas - Intellectual Property conveniently forgets about that.
That philosophy gave us the DMCA and DRM, and if we don't counter it, it won't stop there.
Make an RF power meter. It's easy. Take a piece of cable with two wires and bend a 1/4 wave length of the end of each wire to make a dipole antenna. Take the other end of the cable and place a diode in series with one of the two wires. After the diode, connect a small capacitor to both wires. Attach both wires to a digital voltmeter (that can display millivolts). There. You've now made what is essentially an untuned crystal radio set with a VU meter instead of headphones. Now turn the voltmeter on and start impersonating Egon Spengler.
"Here. Here's electricity and an electric range."
"I can't switch to that! Elephant shit COOKS MY FOOD!"
Even simpler actually - slide just about any piece of metal between strong magnets.
For a wicked cool demonstration of this, take apart a dead hard drive and rip the seek head magnets out. Keep the magnets bolted to each other if you can, and then drop a nickel or a piece of a metal floppy disk's dust shield through the slot where the seek head would normally fit. It'll fall slow enough for you to turn the magnet upside down and let it fall the other way.
The link above says they already use it on roller coasters.
Liquid hydrocarbons have some very important properties - they are easily transportable, quickly transferrable, and quite energy dense. While I expect to see plugin hybrids become more popular, I don't see road vehicles weaning themselves entirely from liquid hydrocarbons anytime soon.
Those benefits are not factors in supplying power to my house. You pay roughly five to ten times as much money (per megajoule) to fill up your car as you do to power your house. Why are you so willing to do that? There absolutely is a dichotomy here.
Solar power towers produce roughly half a megawatt per acre of constant, dispatchable power (Solar Two produced 10MW with a 20-acre heliostat array). Total US energy consumption is roughly 3.3 terawatts. Dividing gets you 6.6 million acres, a chunk of land less than half the size of the Mojave.
Of course, no single source of power will ever supply the entire US, and people will distribute these things where the sun is good and the power is needed.
Who needs arable land? We can grow algae in salt water under the same desert sun, in quantities necessary to replace oil.
Speaking of oil, the US has one trillion barrels of it locked away in shale oil deposits, in the same places they keep digging up all those dinosaur bones. Like all the other things we're discussing, it was previously too expensive to warrant much attention.
Once I was fixing someone's Windows machine and saw that the DNS domain name was set to "sierratangotangolimanovember1.wa.home.com". I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything at that particular moment.
It doesn't.
The AA and AAA cell standards are for 1.5V, based on Alkaline cells. The only cell chemistries likely to spontaneously, erm, "vent with flame" are Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer. You don't see those cells in AA or AAA form factors, and here's why: They have a voltage of 3.7V per cell. Putting a 3.7V cell in place of a 1.5V one is very likely to make your device go poof. Also, Lithium cells must be charged in a very controlled manner, with a number of protection circuits. For safety, these must be integrated along with the cells into the battery case before it is sold. In other words, each product's battery is a tailored design, not designed to interoperate with any other product.
It would be possible to make cells in a few standardized form factors with builtin protection circuitry (which would, in addition, have to handle being placed in series with other cells of varying charge status and age) but that form factor would need to be incompatible with the old dry cell standards to prevent accidents. Because of this circuitry, such cells would likely remain very expensive (in comparison with NiMH cells) and designers would not relish having to limit their products design to accomodate the standard sizes.It is a VGA port. There are no external serial connectors, but the motherboard has two serial port headers. Pin 1 on the first serial port is used for the IR receiver.
I talked to Andy, the guy who apparently is LinuxTechToys, a bit before buying the system. He was very helpful in clarifying questions the website created. When I asked him if my old MatrixOrbital VFD2041 display would fit in the case, that was all the prompting he needed to make me custom mounting brackets for it.
The system came packed in one inch of low-density foam in a cardboard box about half an inch too narrow. As a result, the FedEx ground trip from California to Washington left a sizable dent on the right side of the case, possibly from the slimline CD to IDE adapter which was packaged alongside. I was able to pound this out with a hammer, a block of wood, and some gaffer's tape without any damage to the paint, so no biggie.
Everything is a very tight fit. I had purchased a Samsung SN-S082D DVD burner for this system. I don't know if this drive is slightly larger than any of the others, but using the included IDE adapter, there was literally about a millimeter of space between the back of the floppy power connector's plastic tab and the front of the power supply - not enough room for the other side of the connector. I worked around this by grabbing an old fan power connector and soldering GND and 5V wires directly to the IDE adapter circuit board. (I needed to make one of these anyway for my VFD2041 anyway.) The 40-pin IDE cable rests snugly on the power supply, and I'm glad that power supply isn't a millimeter higher. There's a capacitor on the motherboard partially blocking the VFD2041's serial port, but that's OK because I only need pins 3 and 5 connected, it's the bottom row of pins that's obscured, and appropriately-sized wires will friction-fit into a female DE9 connector.
My first message from the system was from Asus's BIOS, which said something like: "USB overcurrent detected. Locate and unplug USB device. System will shut down in 10 seconds." The IR receiver draws its 5V from one of the USB headers on the motherboard - I'm glad they chose this location instead of directly from the power supply, otherwise I could have let the magic smoke out of something. With the IR receiver circuit board screwed in to place between the VFD2041's mounting bracket and the case, there's enough pressure to cause the very end of that 5V line to make contact with the mounting bracket. I removed the IR receiver, covered the entire receiver circuit board in electrical tape, tucked it in next to the VFD, and taped it in place. Problem solved.
The SN-S082D's tray is, at 13.8mm-ish, slightly wider than the acrylic front panel cutout. I had to sand the front panel quite a bit to get smooth operation. 100-grit sandpaper left the edges considerably smoother than before - they must have been CNC milled and left at that.
I do not have a dB meter or the appropriate room to verify their 14dB claim, however the system has a total of four fans (CPU, power supply, and two case fans) and the only noise I could identify after powering on was from the CPU fan (which is the stock AMD fan). The BIOS does a good job of spinning these only as fast as they need to go.
Debian Etch Beta 3 boots just fine on it, however I plan to netboot it (which the BIOS supports) so it'll take me a bit longer to get everything installed.
Bottom line - the system works, they will go the extra mile for you, but be prepared to put more time into it than you think you'll need.
How does copyright law make it illegal for you to do something that does not involve copying anything?
KineticEnergyInJoules = 1/2 * MassInKilograms * VelocityInMetersPerSecond ^ 2. If you want to accelerate a cruise ship (100,000,000kg) using 40 gallons of gas (500,000,000 joules of energy), you'll do no better than 3.16 meters/second. Probably more like 1.5 m/s because of engine inefficiencies and such.
The showstopper disadvantage to ground effect craft are that any practically-sized ground effect craft must operate at an altitude of less than half the wingspan of the plane, in other words, at an altitude where it may be struck by a freak wave or rogue wave. So, they can't safely be used on the open ocean. Russia did use Ekranoplans in the Caspian and Black seas - they were cheap to run and could haul incredible loads.
Safety is, of course, not a showstopper for military uses, and flying in ground effect avoids ground-based radar detection.
The angle for 2 G's would be 60 degrees. The cosine of 60 degrees is .5.
CPU usage is 100% when calculating anything. In fact, at any given time, CPU usage is either 0% or 100%. It's either doing something or it's not. Same with network links - an ethernet card is either transmitting a packet, or it's not. It's only when you average these things out over periods of time that you see percentages like 18%. In the meantime, your other processes wait until the interrupt handler finishes or the scheduler gets to them. A 100% idle system is not merely 122% as responsive as an 82% idle system. Also, as another poster mentioned, software RAID5 may potentially be slower for reasons other than the CPU.
BTW, regarding one of your other posts, I own an old 3ware 6410, which you allege is software RAID, and I distinctly remember going into its BIOS to create and initialize its RAID5 array. The Linux 3ware driver source is public - show us the part where it does the parity calculations.
Consider using rdiff-backup to automate syncing to an external hard drive.
Easy. Just make libelous statements on a credit report... libel. You lost your earnest money because you couldn't get a home loan because you allegedly signed up for a credit card, maxed it out, and never repaid it? You get passed up for a job because a car purchased in your name got repossessed? You prove it, you sue the credit bureaus, you win treble damages.
Suddenly, credit bureaus would require a lot more proof before dinging your credit score, and they'd promptly correct their mistakes.
Increased dihedral really doesn't affect pitch stability, only roll stability. Dangling the weight like a pendulum below the aircraft isn't very effective either, you'd end up fighting phugoid oscillations. Normally, the key for pitch stability is to have your center of gravity in front of your center of (wing lift) pressure. Such a configuration would cause the plane to nose dive like a lawn dart if it had no tail or canard. An unswept flying wing avoids this, essentially, by building the tail into the back of the wing, using what's called a reflex airfoil, which is curved up slightly in the back. You can see this in Opensky's pictures. This severely reduces lift compared to a typical airfoil, but unless you have an onboard computer flying the thing, it's the only way to prevent it from flying like this.
No, the plan is to hand out a /48 even to dialup customers.