Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents.
And yet it has never done anything about that. It hasn't sued all the distros to stop the operating system. They did use the claim for a bit of FUDdery, but that is not being a patent troll.
They claimed Linux violates their property which may have the effect of scaring off potential users, how is that nothing?
You make a big ring surrounding the planet, and when it is completed you can remove the support pillars so that it floats. Then maybe you could make a transformer by winding a conductor around it...
Mars is a good candidate because you don't have as much terrain sticking up in the air.
I was thinking of this because of a silicon based explosive that I was under the impression (wrong impression), was compressed and a powerful explosive. It is not compressed, just extremely cold and when exposed to liquid oxygen, releases a lot of energy.
Still pretty interesting:
An accidental explosion in a German physics lab has led to the identification of a superpowerful explosive. The substance - an exotic form of silicon - releases seven times as much energy as TNT, and explodes a million times faster.
I think if it were possible to disrupt the lattice holding a diamond together that that energy could be unleashed with the diamond decomposing into normal carbon? Maybe this stuff (or some yet discovered stuff) isn't nearly as stable...
I've seen those small solar yard lights using some kind of polycarbonate like stuff 'protecting' the silicon - it becomes milky white & powdery with exposure to the sun in just a few years.. And... I picked up this 70W/20V panel on ebay once that worked for a while until the sticky plastic backing wrinkled up (which wreaked havoc on the delicate layer of silicon it was supposed to protect).
So yeah, they can and will make crappy solar panels. Although that really doesn't change the fact that solar panels could potentially last for hundreds of years with a little effort, they are still very delicate.
I know people like to say 'its the current that kills', but how does this apply here? If I touch a live wire, nothing is going to happen to me unless/until I ground - from that point the shock I receive will be a circuit and will have a certain amount of resistance.. If the voltage is double, then won't twice the current flow through that part of the body?
I'm not saying he is right but Einstein would not have got very far with General Relativity if his argument had been "I'm Einstein and you all know from my 1905 papers that I'm really smart so this must be right too.".
I'd like to think he would have managed somehow without his MIT degree or whatever, like for instance, by presenting his theory instead of asking people to believe it.
How are you going to trust the enamel on the wire after a short, and how do you splice thick copper wire repeatedly (even once) and have anywhere near the same number of turns - you have to get it back in the canister..
Because it's spooled up - when it burns you're going to have discolored/salvageable stripes along the length, thick bumpy kinks everywhere. I think it would take an awful long time and resources just to to make hacked up ork transformers. Time better spent making new ones.
All panels will need glass and frame, even $2,3,../watt ones (assuming they didn't achieve $1/watt by neglecting to calculate the rest of the manufacturing cost!). Some people just mount them flat on their roof - this is why the price per watt is such an important factor, they need to become cheap enough to justify using twice as many to double the output instead of using complex mounts/trackers.
A million cores running at one instruction per second generates 1 MIPS, so does a single core running at a million instructions per second.
You will use less die real estate and less power with a general-purpose processor designed for the second case than you will with an FPGA that implements the first case...
That's why I clicked on this article right there - why not have a 1MHz gigacore cpu?
It's just not a good idea. I can see that you value efficiency and find waste distasteful. However, you are just not considering the situation carefully...
Well, consider how much refined materials cost in space, what is wrong with sending it to the moon or to Mars? Somebody might want a bolt or some wire one day, aboard whatever ideal craft they follow up with.
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Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents.
And yet it has never done anything about that. It hasn't sued all the distros to stop the operating system. They did use the claim for a bit of FUDdery, but that is not being a patent troll.
They claimed Linux violates their property which may have the effect of scaring off potential users, how is that nothing?
You make a big ring surrounding the planet, and when it is completed you can remove the support pillars so that it floats. Then maybe you could make a transformer by winding a conductor around it... Mars is a good candidate because you don't have as much terrain sticking up in the air.
An accidental explosion in a German physics lab has led to the identification of a superpowerful explosive. The substance - an exotic form of silicon - releases seven times as much energy as TNT, and explodes a million times faster.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1103-superpowerful-explosive-arrives-with-a-bang.html
cool stuff.
I think if it were possible to disrupt the lattice holding a diamond together that that energy could be unleashed with the diamond decomposing into normal carbon? Maybe this stuff (or some yet discovered stuff) isn't nearly as stable...
Then we all realise that mathematical illiteracy has just gone a step lower... Thanks edumacation system!
Does that mean math literacy has gone a step upwards?
I've seen those small solar yard lights using some kind of polycarbonate like stuff 'protecting' the silicon - it becomes milky white & powdery with exposure to the sun in just a few years.. And... I picked up this 70W/20V panel on ebay once that worked for a while until the sticky plastic backing wrinkled up (which wreaked havoc on the delicate layer of silicon it was supposed to protect). So yeah, they can and will make crappy solar panels. Although that really doesn't change the fact that solar panels could potentially last for hundreds of years with a little effort, they are still very delicate.
If you need the book for reference, then DRM will be an issue..
I know people like to say 'its the current that kills', but how does this apply here? If I touch a live wire, nothing is going to happen to me unless/until I ground - from that point the shock I receive will be a circuit and will have a certain amount of resistance.. If the voltage is double, then won't twice the current flow through that part of the body?
It's running GCC4.4.2 & linux-2.6.31. That's pretty hardcore.
oops, thats 4.4.1 gcc, but still..
It's running GCC4.4.2 & linux-2.6.31. That's pretty hardcore.
Dumps go stale
what about periodic dumps of an LTS wikipedia release.
or if Mooninites try to attack our bridges again.
I'm not saying he is right but Einstein would not have got very far with General Relativity if his argument had been "I'm Einstein and you all know from my 1905 papers that I'm really smart so this must be right too.".
I'd like to think he would have managed somehow without his MIT degree or whatever, like for instance, by presenting his theory instead of asking people to believe it.
Or maybe .pa or maybe even .penn or maybe even .hist or maybe even .bells or maybe even .revwar?
I really hate the Yellow Pages because of this.
How are you going to trust the enamel on the wire after a short, and how do you splice thick copper wire repeatedly (even once) and have anywhere near the same number of turns - you have to get it back in the canister.. Because it's spooled up - when it burns you're going to have discolored/salvageable stripes along the length, thick bumpy kinks everywhere. I think it would take an awful long time and resources just to to make hacked up ork transformers. Time better spent making new ones.
All panels will need glass and frame, even $2,3,../watt ones (assuming they didn't achieve $1/watt by neglecting to calculate the rest of the manufacturing cost!). Some people just mount them flat on their roof - this is why the price per watt is such an important factor, they need to become cheap enough to justify using twice as many to double the output instead of using complex mounts/trackers.
Worse than that - people are banned from wearing "obstructive headwear".
What about one of these?
Oh well, when I actually thought about solving a mathematical problem that needed hundreds of cycles... I realized why, lol.
A million cores running at one instruction per second generates 1 MIPS, so does a single core running at a million instructions per second.
You will use less die real estate and less power with a general-purpose processor designed for the second case than you will with an FPGA that implements the first case...
That's why I clicked on this article right there - why not have a 1MHz gigacore cpu?
Well, consider how much refined materials cost in space, what is wrong with sending it to the moon or to Mars? Somebody might want a bolt or some wire one day, aboard whatever ideal craft they follow up with.
I want to see the list of millions of apps.
While she may not be very bright (understatement anyone?) you have to admit that you would hit that.
I'd be thinking about Tina Fey though..
What 'directx 10 on xp' hack, I'm imagine. Where's the link?
The rotor is an electromagnet with a fixed resistance, so varying the voltage will increase the drag.
..and precisely zero edits of obscure text files.
What about obvious text files?