So you are basically saying that in this country you cannot make fun of your government and your country?
And you are talking about freedom of speech?
In my country we publicly (read 'on TV') make fun of our government in countless occasions and AFAIK nobody ever had any problem with that. It's fun, and sometimes necessary.
From the article: "With 100 transistors, each containing one of these electrons, you could have the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around," Yablonovitch said. "And why stop with 100 transistors?"
Of course, because with 101 transistors you could store as many Library of Congress as there are electrons in the visible universe on a disk the size of 2 square hogs for a duration of up to 3.4256 parsecs.
Unfortunately, it will take up to as many (1/98742) of year as it took in seconds for Apollo 11 to reach the moon from the launch pad to design such a hard-drive.
Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
I RTFA (however, I'm not new here!) and it seems all the other five studies were about observation only missions. This one is the only one to propose an actual 'impact'.
It's definitively more exciting but I wonder if it's not too hard to make such a millions miles away 'bull's eye'. 500 m in diameter is pretty small at this distance...
I saw this documentary yesterday and I was both shocked and impressed. I even cried a lot.
It's the only way to do that in the US. A documentary must be very shocking for people to care about. This doesn't work like that in Europ.
This decision from Michael Moore is not surprising as he has always said that his goal is to touch as many people as possible. I think he simply doesn't care about the money.
Besides that, I think the documentary raises some points while I think Michael Moore goes too far in some others. But this movie definitely deserves its Golden Palm.
Please, go there, watch it. Give it a chance.
Oh and I'm French and I'm living in the US so I'm ready to be modded down and insulted.
I'm really looking for an OLAP implementation on PostgreSQL... It's getting more an more important but it's still not there!
I made my company switch from SQL Server to PostgreSQL but now I have to export data every day from PostgreSQL to SQL Server just to get my OLAP reports!
As soon as OLAP is there I'll definitely get rid of SQL Server.
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4.97096954 1/8s of a mile = 1 kilometer = 3 280.8399 feet.
Ok I understand now. I feel much better. :)
Thanks.
So you are basically saying that in this country you cannot make fun of your government and your country?
And you are talking about freedom of speech?
In my country we publicly (read 'on TV') make fun of our government in countless occasions and AFAIK nobody ever had any problem with that. It's fun, and sometimes necessary.
Thank you.
This has been discussed again and again on slashdot. That's why I put it there, some people could prove you it is also a time unit.
From the article:
"With 100 transistors, each containing one of these electrons, you could have the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around," Yablonovitch said. "And why stop with 100 transistors?"
Of course, because with 101 transistors you could store as many Library of Congress as there are electrons in the visible universe on a disk the size of 2 square hogs for a duration of up to 3.4256 parsecs.
Unfortunately, it will take up to as many (1/98742) of year as it took in seconds for Apollo 11 to reach the moon from the launch pad to design such a hard-drive.
Why is it scientists always use weird units? I have absolutely no clue of what "the implicit information storage that corresponds to all of the hard disks made in the world this year, multiplied by the number of years the universe has been around" actually represents in bytes.
[Insert a joke about Bruce Willis crashing on an asteroid at 10 km/s here]
I RTFA (however, I'm not new here!) and it seems all the other five studies were about observation only missions. This one is the only one to propose an actual 'impact'.
It's definitively more exciting but I wonder if it's not too hard to make such a millions miles away 'bull's eye'. 500 m in diameter is pretty small at this distance...
Maybe they named it in reference to Tennessee Williams?
Tennessee Williams
I see no "France and so on" in these accusations.
So it seems the parent poster was incorrect.
What exact UN Security Council resolution did "France, Russia, Germany and so on" break?
I saw this documentary yesterday and I was both shocked and impressed. I even cried a lot.
It's the only way to do that in the US. A documentary must be very shocking for people to care about. This doesn't work like that in Europ.
This decision from Michael Moore is not surprising as he has always said that his goal is to touch as many people as possible. I think he simply doesn't care about the money.
Besides that, I think the documentary raises some points while I think Michael Moore goes too far in some others. But this movie definitely deserves its Golden Palm.
Please, go there, watch it. Give it a chance.
Oh and I'm French and I'm living in the US so I'm ready to be modded down and insulted.
I'm really looking for an OLAP implementation on PostgreSQL... It's getting more an more important but it's still not there!
I made my company switch from SQL Server to PostgreSQL but now I have to export data every day from PostgreSQL to SQL Server just to get my OLAP reports!
As soon as OLAP is there I'll definitely get rid of SQL Server.
GPS is not accurate enough for some critical operations like automated boats and trains.
And IIRC GPS is less accurate in Europ than in US.
It's a win-win scenario because Galileo will greatly improve GPS accuracy and Galileo will benefit from the experience of the GPS system.
Too bad it took so long to reach an agreement and too bad the US never stopped to criticize a project that they are finally supporting.
Civilian airplanes commonly have backup systems. In an Airbus or Boeing you have maybe 3 radios, 3 control systems, 3 computers, etc.
Even better, the backup is not designed by the same people than the main unit so the design errors are unlikely to reproduce on both systems.
That gives a very high safety record.
The server only allows very small HTML pages and pictures, but it is able to support an unlimited amount of simultaneous connections.
You shouldn't have said that here. We are about to brute test this 'unlimited amount of simultaneous connections' thing.
There's plenty of room in space. Make them cheap and light and send them in space.
What would happen to my paypal account and the money on it if I die tomorrow?
Easy, you can store it in an autocad file.
Just design the thing in autocad telling it what material must be used for each part and then transfer the file to the mini factory.
...they may find the lost first page of the Bible.
The one where's written this text:
"All the characters and facts explained in this book are fictive."
Let's do the maths.
:)
:)
Assuming what you call "trillions" means 1 trillion.
That's 1 000 000 000 000 pages.
One microsecond/page means 1 000 000 000 000 / 1 000 000 total seconds for the whole thing.
That's 1 000 000 seconds or 277.8 hours or 11 days and a half.
If your 486 laptop can stay on batteries for 11 days and half then I would like to know what kind of battery you use
Ok, that was a nerdie post, you can mod me down now
"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
Actually almost the whole World is anti-Bush, not anti-American.
Russians found liquid water on Mars!
http://www.libo.ru
I'm surprised nobody yet did a joke about this flying object being Beagle2 that is just still bouncing on the Mars surface...