Unless we find these potentially impossible devices we'll NEVER be able to zip around the universe the way Captain Kirk did. And even boring old slower-than-light space travel is much harder than we expected.
The Wright Brothers conquered the air. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. But they both had examples to follow, and it was a whole mess of engineering. The Wright Brothers knew that heavier-than-air flight was possible; they only had to watch birds do it. A lot of engineering work built a contraption with enough lift and power and control to safely carry a person.
Faster-than-sound travel was quite possible; bullets did it all the time. Again, engineering got the wings thin enough and the engines strong enough.
Spaceflight was made possible by overcoming the known hurdles: flying higher (with the consequent loss of air pressure) and faster (engines, controls, and braking).
There is no example of faster-than-light travel to imitate, to engineer into something capable of carrying people. There are no observations pointing to problems in general relativity; we do not have anomolous observations of Mercury's orbit (or wondering where the sun gets the energy that it radiates) suggesting that gravity isn't what Einstein described. Except for the fact that 1-A supernovas are brighter than they ought to be...
It doesn't. There were 36-bit machines. There were others. 8, 16, and 32-bit computers have just been the most popular.
You could get 64-bit computers 5 years ago, they were just expensive. The economies of scale are what make x86 architecture so cheap. Intel put the engineering effort into Itanium, instead of a 48-bit architecture.
You should blame Bush and his Enron-approved appointee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And also blame Pete Wilson for setting up such a flawed "deregulated" system.
Davis's choices were to pay for the power, or have the lights stay out.
I've heard it said before that federal taxation is unconstitutional
You're hearing from folks that don't know what they're talking about.
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
You ought to be able to buy Ray-o-vac alkaline AAs for $.50 each, if you shop carefully. The price premium for Energizer and Duracell are hard to justify. So you'd have to use the rechargables four times, and have each charge last as long as an alkaline battery, to break even.
I bought a cheap charge with 4 AA NiMH cells from a camera store; on closeout for half price ($10, IIRC). Two of the cells won't hold a charge.
But then, when SCO distributed "their code" as part of a work derived from a GPL-protected work, they agreed to the GPL. I don't see how SCO can get out of this one.
I'm an old-school Mac user (since I wrote my thesis on a Mac Plus with MacWrite and MacDraw and scissors and tape...) I am not afraid of MacOS X. I choose to save my money. MacOS 9 works well enough for now, and I can save the $129, which is 10% of the cost of a nice new machine. And I don't have to upgrade any other software, or buy a new scanner.
Where is the information against global warming? All the Bush Administration is doing is suppressing a truth that is uncomfortable to them (that man has made enough CO2 to change climates).
Don't get me wrong, I want to see companies that knowingly fuck over the consumer get their comeuppance, but at the same time, throwing out this ruling would open the floodgates for millions of lawsuits over the smallest infractions that a lawyer could find a scientist to support.
The examples in the report were all cases on the hairy edge of the evidence. A company develops a drug, goes through the rigerous testing process required by the FDA, receives the FDA's approval, and markets the drug. Then a case or two turn up where the drug has had a nasty side effect. Someone goes blind. And sues. There isn't enough epidemiological evidence (yet) to say that the new drug caused the side effect.
The problem is that our Judicial System is designed to come to an answer in a case. Then it is decided, and the parties cannot come back and revisit the case as science provides more evidence. Sometimes the court case and the scientific case do not get decided the same way.
I am an example. I bought a $300 office suite because I had been able to use a pirated copy. It was so easy to use, and so well integrated, that I was glad to support the vendor.
I am not sure that the name "office suite" had even been invented at that point in time, because the software was AppleWorks for the Apple II, and I bought the copy around 1985.
LaserDiscs started out with an analog FM-encoding of the video signal, so (if the disc is clean) it's studio-broadcast quality. Either 30 minutes/side with effects (CAV, or constant-angular-velocity; disc spins 30 times per second), or 60 minutes/side without (CLV, or constant-linear-velocity; disc slows down as the track gets to the outside, fitting more info on the disc without losing quality--but effect like freeze-frame, fast-forward with video, and slo-motion, didn't work).
Later (before I bought my LD player around 1989) they got digital sound tracks, and digital buffers to get CAV-like effects for the CLV discs.
In 1999 and 2000, the deficit was a surplus. So the deficit/GDP ratio was the other sign.
More telling than deficit/GDP, is debt/GDP. It goes up dramatically after things like the Civil War, WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the 1980s, and the 2000s.
And some other dates, for completeness: Apple releases LISA product -- January, 1983 Microsoft preannounces Windows -- Fall, 1983 Apple releases Macintosh -- January, 1984 Microsoft releases Windows -- Fall, 1985
That, and the U.S. Government's antitrust lawsuit against IBM. Buying PC-DOS from Microsoft was thought to have been a no-no, and fuel for the DOJ's case.
Good thing you put "Library of Congress" in there. 'cause if you have 4 Lines of Code filling up that 80 GB Hard Drive, you need to use way more carriage returns...
I have a Series 2 TiVo (60 hours), and Time Warner Digital Cable. They get along fine. The TiVo has an IR sender that it uses to change the channels on the cable box.
I put in a splitter, so the cable feed goes into the TV as well, so I can watch one (analog) channel, while TiVo records programming from the cable box (analog, digital, premium, it doesn't matter).
Eventually, there will be standards for Digital Cable (didn't they just get approved?), so that future consumer electronics boxes can "tune" the digital channels as well. It would be great if they could tune subscribed premium and PPV channels as well.
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The Wright Brothers conquered the air. Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. But they both had examples to follow, and it was a whole mess of engineering. The Wright Brothers knew that heavier-than-air flight was possible; they only had to watch birds do it. A lot of engineering work built a contraption with enough lift and power and control to safely carry a person.
Faster-than-sound travel was quite possible; bullets did it all the time. Again, engineering got the wings thin enough and the engines strong enough.
Spaceflight was made possible by overcoming the known hurdles: flying higher (with the consequent loss of air pressure) and faster (engines, controls, and braking).
There is no example of faster-than-light travel to imitate, to engineer into something capable of carrying people. There are no observations pointing to problems in general relativity; we do not have anomolous observations of Mercury's orbit (or wondering where the sun gets the energy that it radiates) suggesting that gravity isn't what Einstein described. Except for the fact that 1-A supernovas are brighter than they ought to be...
This post's parent hits the nail on the head.
The best of Sci-Fi (or SF; I don't keep track) inspires the reader towards a better future, to reach out to something more.
Do you mean Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari?
It doesn't. There were 36-bit machines. There were others. 8, 16, and 32-bit computers have just been the most popular.
You could get 64-bit computers 5 years ago, they were just expensive. The economies of scale are what make x86 architecture so cheap. Intel put the engineering effort into Itanium, instead of a 48-bit architecture.
$2000, at store.apple.com
You should blame Bush and his Enron-approved appointee to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And also blame Pete Wilson for setting up such a flawed "deregulated" system.
Davis's choices were to pay for the power, or have the lights stay out.
You're hearing from folks that don't know what they're talking about.
You ought to be able to buy Ray-o-vac alkaline AAs for $.50 each, if you shop carefully. The price premium for Energizer and Duracell are hard to justify. So you'd have to use the rechargables four times, and have each charge last as long as an alkaline battery, to break even.
I bought a cheap charge with 4 AA NiMH cells from a camera store; on closeout for half price ($10, IIRC). Two of the cells won't hold a charge.
But then, when SCO distributed "their code" as part of a work derived from a GPL-protected work, they agreed to the GPL. I don't see how SCO can get out of this one.
I'm an old-school Mac user (since I wrote my thesis on a Mac Plus with MacWrite and MacDraw and scissors and tape...) I am not afraid of MacOS X. I choose to save my money. MacOS 9 works well enough for now, and I can save the $129, which is 10% of the cost of a nice new machine. And I don't have to upgrade any other software, or buy a new scanner.
Where is the information against global warming? All the Bush Administration is doing is suppressing a truth that is uncomfortable to them (that man has made enough CO2 to change climates).
Wrong. Dow-Corning, the subsidiary owned by Dow Checical and Corning, filed for bankruptcy.
And it looks to me like junk science did it in.
The examples in the report were all cases on the hairy edge of the evidence. A company develops a drug, goes through the rigerous testing process required by the FDA, receives the FDA's approval, and markets the drug. Then a case or two turn up where the drug has had a nasty side effect. Someone goes blind. And sues. There isn't enough epidemiological evidence (yet) to say that the new drug caused the side effect.
The problem is that our Judicial System is designed to come to an answer in a case. Then it is decided, and the parties cannot come back and revisit the case as science provides more evidence. Sometimes the court case and the scientific case do not get decided the same way.
I do not have a solution to this problem.
Dean Kamen doesn't think so.
I am an example. I bought a $300 office suite because I had been able to use a pirated copy. It was so easy to use, and so well integrated, that I was glad to support the vendor.
I am not sure that the name "office suite" had even been invented at that point in time, because the software was AppleWorks for the Apple II, and I bought the copy around 1985.
LaserDiscs started out with an analog FM-encoding of the video signal, so (if the disc is clean) it's studio-broadcast quality. Either 30 minutes/side with effects (CAV, or constant-angular-velocity; disc spins 30 times per second), or 60 minutes/side without (CLV, or constant-linear-velocity; disc slows down as the track gets to the outside, fitting more info on the disc without losing quality--but effect like freeze-frame, fast-forward with video, and slo-motion, didn't work).
Later (before I bought my LD player around 1989) they got digital sound tracks, and digital buffers to get CAV-like effects for the CLV discs.
In 1999 and 2000, the deficit was a surplus. So the deficit/GDP ratio was the other sign.
More telling than deficit/GDP, is debt/GDP. It goes up dramatically after things like the Civil War, WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, the 1980s, and the 2000s.
Apple sued Franklin, and Orange, and the rest, because they copied and resold Apple's copyrighted ROMs.
Lets put some dates with the events.
MS sees "VisiON" -- Fall 1982
Apple sees Xerox PARC Smalltalk -- 1979
And some other dates, for completeness:
Apple releases LISA product -- January, 1983
Microsoft preannounces Windows -- Fall, 1983
Apple releases Macintosh -- January, 1984
Microsoft releases Windows -- Fall, 1985
That, and the U.S. Government's antitrust lawsuit against IBM. Buying PC-DOS from Microsoft was thought to have been a no-no, and fuel for the DOJ's case.
It's in the article.
Test 1: Cinema 4D-XL
PPC G4 Dual 1.42 GHz 33 seconds
Pentium IV 3.0GHz 30 seconds
PPC 970 1.4 GHz 29 seconds
PPC 970 Dual 1.8 GHz 18 seconds
Test 2: Photoshop Actions
PPC G4 Dual 1.42 GHz 73 seconds
Pentium IV 3.0GHz 58 seconds
PPC 970 1.4 GHz 50 seconds
PPC 970 Dual 1.8 GHz 24 seconds
Test 3: Bryce 5
PPC G4 Dual 1.42 GHz 21 seconds
Pentium IV 3.0GHz 16 seconds
PPC 970 1.4 GHz 16 seconds
PPC 970 Dual 1.8 GHz 7 seconds
Let me use altavista, and some long ago high-school german:
Whoever, during their lifetime, did well on earth
will become, after death, an angel
The view from heaven asks you
why one cannot see you
Only if the clouds were to go to sleep
Could one see us in heaven
we have fear and are alone
God knows I do not want to be an angel
They live behind sunshine
separately from us infinitely far
they must hold onto the stars (completely firm) so that they don't fall out of the sky
Only if the clouds were to go to sleep
Could one see us in heaven
We have fear and are alone
God knows I do not want to be an angel
Only if the clouds were to go to sleep
Could one see us in heaven
we have fear and are alone
God knows I do not want to be an angel
It's as easy to blame the reduction in taxes on Capital Gains.
The double-taxation on dividends was always presented in my Social Studies classes as the price of reducing risk by incorporating.
The "slash taxes that the wealthy pay; increase taxes on the future generation and that low-income folks pay" crowd is ignoring this.
Good thing you put "Library of Congress" in there. 'cause if you have 4 Lines of Code filling up that 80 GB Hard Drive, you need to use way more carriage returns...
I have a Series 2 TiVo (60 hours), and Time Warner Digital Cable. They get along fine. The TiVo has an IR sender that it uses to change the channels on the cable box.
I put in a splitter, so the cable feed goes into the TV as well, so I can watch one (analog) channel, while TiVo records programming from the cable box (analog, digital, premium, it doesn't matter).
Eventually, there will be standards for Digital Cable (didn't they just get approved?), so that future consumer electronics boxes can "tune" the digital channels as well. It would be great if they could tune subscribed premium and PPV channels as well.