A better solution (I think) for the future is to install remote control systems in all aircrafts. That way, if the pilot is identified not to be the original pilot - that is, the pilot is a hi-jacker - through fingerprint identification control built in into the stick, then the air traffic control could take control of the plane and land it on an airport. That way you wouldn't have to shoot down an airplane filled with hundreds of innocent people, and have a high risk that the wreckage would fall onto populated areas.
If you make a mistake in a proof, then you will go over both the proof and the program, which means that you will discover that the proof is faulty, and correct the proof. If you have no proof at all, then you can't say with 100% certainty whether or not the program works (unless it's "Hello world"). It all boils down to redundancy, similar to N-version programming, where you implement N (N>=3) version of a program (implementation techniques should differ as much as possible). Then run these N version in parallell, and when they do not agree with each other, they take a vote. Hopefully only a minority of these versions are wrong.
Sounds like a (difficult) version of "Robots":-) Do you remember that game (Crobots and Jrobots are two variants)? You're supposed to write the software for a robot that runs around and A) scans for other robots, and when they find them B) shoot them, until your robot is the only one still standing.
Yes, probably not easy at all to do. It's probably good that they have the help of CASPER.
The last thing you want is people going into research scientists in order to make money. Let's just say that would attract the wrong sort of person.:)
I don't agree with that - do you mean that if someone got no pay at all (or had to pay for it), it would attract the right sorts of persons? I agree that the freedom aspect of it is attractive to the right persons, but that is just one part. If you would also throw in good money into it, it would be a greater incentive. Also, if the researcher gets more money, then the whole department probably has more money (since it can afford a higher salary). Therefore, the department probably has a larger hardware-budget. Larger hardware-budget means more fun (especially since the right persons knows how to use that money in the right way).
I was just wondering - why fly downstream from the comet and subjecting DS1 to the shower of particles, when you could approach it from upstream (put DS1 between the comet and the sun). The primary purpose is to get pictures of the nucleus, not the coma, right? So - let DS1 slowly drift towards the nucleus, and steer it by looking at the whole of the coma and centering on it (we know the nucleus is in the middle, because we've placed DS1 approximately in the middle between the sun and the coma). This allows as much time and small adjustments (saving fuel) as possible, getting DS1 as close to the nucleus as possible.
When this is done, continue past the nucleus into the comp and try to get a closeup picture or two of the coma before being blown to smithereens by the particles.
There are three reasons that companies presents new products - money, money, and money.
Merlin puts higher requirements on the hardware, which means that you can install Pocket PC 2002 on your handheld, but only use half of the new features. So what are you going to do then? Buy a new handheld of course! Microsoft scratches Compaqs back, and Compaq scratches back...:-)
Tom, aged nine, runs into the bathroom just as his much older sister steps out of the shower. Fast as a snake she wraps a towel around her and shouts:
- What are you doing? Don't you know how to knock?
- Can't you take your towel off for me, please?
The sister gets angrier and says
- Are you crazy? No - I'm not going to take off my towel for you!
- Please, I have to check something. Besides, I've seen you naked lots of times, so it's not something new for me.
- Ok, ok...
The sister sighs and takes off her towel.
- There - are you happy?
Tom lets out a sigh of relief:
- Phew... My friend Jack said that you got dick this weekend.
I know what this is all about, and Stephen King also knew it a long time ago: it's the Tommyknockers! Think about it: the teeth start falling out, aliens are involved, and all of a sudden there are lots of people that can do these extremely advanced technological stuff. The next thing that will happen is that the astronauts start stealing a lot of dogs and hook them up to ISS, instead of using solar panels... Don't say I didn't warn you!
To me, "widely available" means that the Supreme Court said to themselves "are we going to think this through" and came either to the conclusion "no, we are too lazy - leave it up to others to decide, and then we'll use their decision as definition of 'widely available'", or they were in a hurry to a particular case stopped right away. Seems like it is not thoroughly thought through either way... Either way, this decision will sooner or later be killed, and then all of the work gone into this by the Supreme Court, other justice instances, police et cetera is thrown out the window.
This technology is several years old, so it is not that new, but perhaps it is just now being installed and used? Look at Millivision's site, and click on the link on handheld scanners. Another example is a similar product from a company called Trex Enterprises.
Hmmm... Robert Goddard's rockets were designed as Walker's - the nozzle placed at the top, with the fuel tank below, and they worked quite fine (for that time)... As long as you have control of what's up and down (preferrably a hopefully failsafe N-version system consisting of a combination of hardware [gyro] and software [computer together with radio triangulation]), then you can steer in the correct direction. Or blow up the rocket in case it starts pointing towards your neighbour - what do I know... Anyways - I think it doesn't matter very much if the engine is located at the top or the bottom - it's a design issue, but there could be other problems, like the wear that would result from the engines exhaust flowing over the other parts of the rocket - THAT could be a problem...
Another thing that is important is security. The FAQ says that communication between Ganymedes clients and servers is not encrypted. A very rudimentary encryption (e.g. supplying a MD5 checksum based on parameters together with a secret word) would be nice, and the option of letting the users implement their own encryption (open-sourced of course!), would be even nicer.
I think you have to be careful pointing out exactly who should be responsible for taking care of the old computers. If I buy a computer from Dell, IBM or similar, then I can easily point who should take care of it. What if I buy the parts separately? A processor from AMD, memory from Viking, and so on - who is responsible then? I think that it's stupid to put the responsibility on the companies, because sometimes you can't point out one single company, and sometimes they are gone when you want to recycle your computer... I think that the government should put a small tax on computer purchases, and then the government pays a recycling company once it is time to retire your old computer.
This is probably great for you since you say it is, but may I suggest just a little bit of caution? By hanging upside down, you increase the blood pressure in your head, and if you have are nearsighted, then you may have a tendency to have a loosely attached retina. If you have a loosely attached retina, and increase your blood pressure (e.g. by hanging upside down, or exercising), then it may fall off, and that is not so nice... This requires eye surgery, where they weld your retina back into place with a laser.
You are probably not in the risk zone since you've already done this for so long, but remember to be careful...
The ice at that location is one of the clearest materials on earth, which is the reason that they picked that location. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the ice is so clear partly because of the high pressure one mile down, and partly because of the pureness - it is almost only H2O.
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I did a search in the Koran, and could not find the first sentence (the hour will come...), but I did find the second one (and kill them...).
A better solution (I think) for the future is to install remote control systems in all aircrafts. That way, if the pilot is identified not to be the original pilot - that is, the pilot is a hi-jacker - through fingerprint identification control built in into the stick, then the air traffic control could take control of the plane and land it on an airport. That way you wouldn't have to shoot down an airplane filled with hundreds of innocent people, and have a high risk that the wreckage would fall onto populated areas.
If you make a mistake in a proof, then you will go over both the proof and the program, which means that you will discover that the proof is faulty, and correct the proof. If you have no proof at all, then you can't say with 100% certainty whether or not the program works (unless it's "Hello world"). It all boils down to redundancy, similar to N-version programming, where you implement N (N>=3) version of a program (implementation techniques should differ as much as possible). Then run these N version in parallell, and when they do not agree with each other, they take a vote. Hopefully only a minority of these versions are wrong.
Yes, probably not easy at all to do. It's probably good that they have the help of CASPER.
I don't agree with that - do you mean that if someone got no pay at all (or had to pay for it), it would attract the right sorts of persons? I agree that the freedom aspect of it is attractive to the right persons, but that is just one part. If you would also throw in good money into it, it would be a greater incentive. Also, if the researcher gets more money, then the whole department probably has more money (since it can afford a higher salary). Therefore, the department probably has a larger hardware-budget. Larger hardware-budget means more fun (especially since the right persons knows how to use that money in the right way).
When this is done, continue past the nucleus into the comp and try to get a closeup picture or two of the coma before being blown to smithereens by the particles.
There are three reasons that companies presents new products - money, money, and money.
:-)
Merlin puts higher requirements on the hardware, which means that you can install Pocket PC 2002 on your handheld, but only use half of the new features. So what are you going to do then? Buy a new handheld of course! Microsoft scratches Compaqs back, and Compaq scratches back...
Tom, aged nine, runs into the bathroom just as his much older sister steps out of the shower. Fast as a snake she wraps a towel around her and shouts:
- What are you doing? Don't you know how to knock?
- Can't you take your towel off for me, please?
The sister gets angrier and says
- Are you crazy? No - I'm not going to take off my towel for you!
- Please, I have to check something. Besides, I've seen you naked lots of times, so it's not something new for me.
- Ok, ok...
The sister sighs and takes off her towel.
- There - are you happy?
Tom lets out a sigh of relief:
- Phew... My friend Jack said that you got dick this weekend.
I know what this is all about, and Stephen King also knew it a long time ago: it's the Tommyknockers! Think about it: the teeth start falling out, aliens are involved, and all of a sudden there are lots of people that can do these extremely advanced technological stuff. The next thing that will happen is that the astronauts start stealing a lot of dogs and hook them up to ISS, instead of using solar panels... Don't say I didn't warn you!
Why aren't more people starting to use lossless compression instead? My guess is that lossless is going to get a boost from this...
To me, "widely available" means that the Supreme Court said to themselves "are we going to think this through" and came either to the conclusion "no, we are too lazy - leave it up to others to decide, and then we'll use their decision as definition of 'widely available'", or they were in a hurry to a particular case stopped right away. Seems like it is not thoroughly thought through either way... Either way, this decision will sooner or later be killed, and then all of the work gone into this by the Supreme Court, other justice instances, police et cetera is thrown out the window.
This technology is several years old, so it is not that new, but perhaps it is just now being installed and used? Look at Millivision's site, and click on the link on handheld scanners. Another example is a similar product from a company called Trex Enterprises.
Hmmm... Robert Goddard's rockets were designed as Walker's - the nozzle placed at the top, with the fuel tank below, and they worked quite fine (for that time)... As long as you have control of what's up and down (preferrably a hopefully failsafe N-version system consisting of a combination of hardware [gyro] and software [computer together with radio triangulation]), then you can steer in the correct direction. Or blow up the rocket in case it starts pointing towards your neighbour - what do I know... Anyways - I think it doesn't matter very much if the engine is located at the top or the bottom - it's a design issue, but there could be other problems, like the wear that would result from the engines exhaust flowing over the other parts of the rocket - THAT could be a problem...
Another thing that is important is security. The FAQ says that communication between Ganymedes clients and servers is not encrypted. A very rudimentary encryption (e.g. supplying a MD5 checksum based on parameters together with a secret word) would be nice, and the option of letting the users implement their own encryption (open-sourced of course!), would be even nicer.
I think you have to be careful pointing out exactly who should be responsible for taking care of the old computers. If I buy a computer from Dell, IBM or similar, then I can easily point who should take care of it. What if I buy the parts separately? A processor from AMD, memory from Viking, and so on - who is responsible then? I think that it's stupid to put the responsibility on the companies, because sometimes you can't point out one single company, and sometimes they are gone when you want to recycle your computer... I think that the government should put a small tax on computer purchases, and then the government pays a recycling company once it is time to retire your old computer.
This is probably great for you since you say it is, but may I suggest just a little bit of caution? By hanging upside down, you increase the blood pressure in your head, and if you have are nearsighted, then you may have a tendency to have a loosely attached retina. If you have a loosely attached retina, and increase your blood pressure (e.g. by hanging upside down, or exercising), then it may fall off, and that is not so nice... This requires eye surgery, where they weld your retina back into place with a laser. You are probably not in the risk zone since you've already done this for so long, but remember to be careful...
The ice at that location is one of the clearest materials on earth, which is the reason that they picked that location. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the ice is so clear partly because of the high pressure one mile down, and partly because of the pureness - it is almost only H2O.