I also wouldn't think that heating computer components up to 430F will do them a lot of good!
I wonder if instead, they're talking of recycling the materials that make some of the components as opposed to recycling working components? It's hard to tell from the article. I'm not sure how economically feasible this would be either.
Do any computer manufacturers actually try to build recyclable computers at present? perhaps current computers are hard to recycle becuase they're not designed to be recycled and having such a glue available may help strat such a design process off?
However, it leaves out a *TON*. Like, what technology are they going to use to DO data mining? What
database will run this monster? Which OS will it run on?
Well, as the guy is part of the Microsoft Research Team, I'd guess Whistler Version 7 running Access 2050:)
.. as you can throw enough storage space at the problem. Just having a giant stockpile of data isn't going to be of much use (except for archival purposes) unless we also have efficient access to the data onsite (we don't want to send Terrabytes over the newtwork) and have the correct tools to allow different datasets to be compared and correlated. The possibilities for doing large scale data comparisons or comparing a wide range of wavelength datasets is surely what is most interesting here and the major point for having an online store (as opposed to data archive). I wonder what research tools are proposed?
How much has Djikstra's algorithm changed in the last 4 years? Floyd's? What about dynamic programming in general? Integer
programming? Let's go even simpler - how much has recursion changed in the last 4 years? Or even object oriented programming? What
about regular expressions or formal language specification methods like EBNF? What about the various bit operations, like shifting, and,
or, two's complement, and what they're good for? How has the basic maths behind perspective transforms changed recently? What about
the major standard Unix development tools, like gcc, make, and cvs?
And how often does a prospective employer look for these items on your CV as opposed to looking for experience in the latest and greatest programming language? Write down your list of know-hows but say you learnt them programming in PASCAL and what's the betting the less experienced JAVA guy gets the job?:)
Perhaps if the UN had invited a few Third World countries to send in some impartial observers, there wouldn't have been so much ballot rigging and election fraud in the US;-)
Don't some States have laws against citizens being bombarded with multiple copies of unsolicited e-mail. How does this tie in with Cajunnet's open admission of resending out the same mail to "customers"?
And does this legislature have anything to say about the ISPs that support the sending of spam?
Yes, this is a serious problem on a server. For a desktop client, the computer is idle most of the time so it has plenty
of chance to sync, and the fsck passes 99% of the time. But your support costs will still go up, and your help desk
will spend a lot of time saying, "No, don't reboot the machine, no, don't turn it off, yes, you can leave it on all
weekend." Anybody that turns off a desktop machine here, regardless of OS, gets a stern warning from
management, since the desktop people have a habit of pushing out updates via Tivoli over the weekends or at night.
For the really stupid users, try disconnecting the power button.
And so the energy costs for your company, who now have 500 PCs that have to be left on all night when before they were switched off, suddenly rises significantly too!
Today the RIAA announced their new scheme for preventing copying of CDs. Each CD purchased will be uniquely scrambled so that the listener hears only the words "The RIAA says Fuck You!" repeatedly.
However, those who have purchased the CD legally will be supplied with a unique set of ear plugs (or one plug for mono recordings) matched to that individual CD which, when worn, will electronically decode the scrambled signal into the original music.
A spokesman for the RIAA said, "although the plugs are each about the size of a softball... a small softball mind you... and add about $100 to the price of the CD, we are sure that the consumer will see this as a very convenient method to protect our obscene profit margin."
Meanwhile, the United Conglomeration of E-Publishers has expressed interested in adapting the idea to electronic publishing, requiring that readers purchase a special set of decoding glasses for each online publication they wish to read. This scheme should go into production very shoSlashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says
...or just another promo for Dialpad? After all, the last half of the letter is just another push for their product. Maybe we'll see a rush of companies sending "apologies" with attached adverts!
Information about the user will be gathered from a varierty of sources (Motorola, CueCat database, Double-Click, Slashdot profiles, etc.). Credit card information will be obtained from Western Union or any other readily available online source.
Feeding this information through an artificial neural network trained on a catalogue will produce a list of the items the user would have most likely purchased had they ever bothered to visit the online site where the items are for sale.
These items are then automatically sent to the user and his/her credit card is debited accordingly, thus providing a convenient online shopping experience without the bother of even starting the browser.
You can't "see" the event horizon. The event horizon is where light can no longer escape and by definition puts
out no light. All you would see is a black hole in space -- hence the name "black hole." If you see something fall
into a black hole, you would't see it actually hit the event horizon; it would merely keep falling in more and more
slowly.
Wouldn't the object also grow dimmer and dimmer, as we're getting the same amount of reflected light back in a longer and longer interval? I've never seen this described anywhere - you always end up with a body "frozen" at the event horizon, but presumably there isn't still light bouncimng off it - and we only see it by reflected light. I would have thought it got too dark to see long before it "froze"
No animal to date has ever demonstrated the ability to learn or use syntactic constructions.
Take a peek at Koko the Gorilla.. It certainly sounds like she is using words in an original manner that would imply she understands concepts behind the words.
Today the Outbacks hammered the Jets in a 592-0 win, the highest ever in Superbowl History.
Bruce Billabong, the 12 foot, 650-lb quaterback said, "Well, mate, we coulda gone for more, but there weren't none of the other team left standing, like, and we didn't think it woulda been sporting to continue".
Meanwhile, NBA player Bruce Billabong II has racked up a record 500 points with his novel technique of dropping the ball into the basket.
So Mattel sticks some software on my PC (without my knowledge) that sends PGP encrypted information over the network.
The UK government then passes their new law and the police decide that they need to have the key to decode all outgoing messages on my PC else I face a prison sentence.
I didn't even know Mattel was collecting the data, let alone what their PGP key is. What do I do?
Calling all "Tim"s - now is the time for us to stand up and be counted and create the.TIM TLD to be used exclusively by Tims. Surely there must be enough of us to push this through?:o)
How about for being able to fold windows back out of the way why working in another window.Unlike just iconising the window, you could still keep track of things happening in it, even if you couldn't really work in it.
At least if the text in it stopped scrolling you could tell that your program compilation was finished, which you couldn't tell in an iconised window except by opening it up again.
Also, if windows are really 3D, you could push them back into the screen to get them out of the way (they'd shrink smaller the further you pushed them back) and then drag them forward to the front of the screen to use them.
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Try NewsOne.Net
.. will the satellites come down in any specific areas or can we expect total global coverage?
I wonder if instead, they're talking of recycling the materials that make some of the components as opposed to recycling working components? It's hard to tell from the article. I'm not sure how economically feasible this would be either.
Do any computer manufacturers actually try to build recyclable computers at present? perhaps current computers are hard to recycle becuase they're not designed to be recycled and having such a glue available may help strat such a design process off?
Well, as the guy is part of the Microsoft Research Team, I'd guess Whistler Version 7 running Access 2050 :)
.. as you can throw enough storage space at the problem. Just having a giant stockpile of data isn't going to be of much use (except for archival purposes) unless we also have efficient access to the data onsite (we don't want to send Terrabytes over the newtwork) and have the correct tools to allow different datasets to be compared and correlated. The possibilities for doing large scale data comparisons or comparing a wide range of wavelength datasets is surely what is most interesting here and the major point for having an online store (as opposed to data archive). I wonder what research tools are proposed?
And how often does a prospective employer look for these items on your CV as opposed to looking for experience in the latest and greatest programming language? Write down your list of know-hows but say you learnt them programming in PASCAL and what's the betting the less experienced JAVA guy gets the job? :)
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Perhaps if the UN had invited a few Third World countries to send in some impartial observers, there wouldn't have been so much ballot rigging and election fraud in the US ;-)
And does this legislature have anything to say about the ISPs that support the sending of spam?
For the really stupid users, try disconnecting the power button.
And so the energy costs for your company, who now have 500 PCs that have to be left on all night when before they were switched off, suddenly rises significantly too!
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However, those who have purchased the CD legally will be supplied with a unique set of ear plugs (or one plug for mono recordings) matched to that individual CD which, when worn, will electronically decode the scrambled signal into the original music.
A spokesman for the RIAA said, "although the plugs are each about the size of a softball... a small softball mind you... and add about $100 to the price of the CD, we are sure that the consumer will see this as a very convenient method to protect our obscene profit margin."
Meanwhile, the United Conglomeration of E-Publishers has expressed interested in adapting the idea to electronic publishing, requiring that readers purchase a special set of decoding glasses for each online publication they wish to read. This scheme should go into production very shoSlashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says bugger off pirate Slashdot says
Information about the user will be gathered from a varierty of sources (Motorola, CueCat database, Double-Click, Slashdot profiles, etc.). Credit card information will be obtained from Western Union or any other readily available online source.
Feeding this information through an artificial neural network trained on a catalogue will produce a list of the items the user would have most likely purchased had they ever bothered to visit the online site where the items are for sale.
These items are then automatically sent to the user and his/her credit card is debited accordingly, thus providing a convenient online shopping experience without the bother of even starting the browser.
But on a small 160x160 screen - that could really make you go blind!
Or just get hold of the original athlete - enough DNA there to tag millions of articles, as long as you mince him up fine enough.... :)
Wouldn't the object also grow dimmer and dimmer, as we're getting the same amount of reflected light back in a longer and longer interval? I've never seen this described anywhere - you always end up with a body "frozen" at the event horizon, but presumably there isn't still light bouncimng off it - and we only see it by reflected light. I would have thought it got too dark to see long before it "froze"
But even using metric units, during my astrophysics degree, you had to face the problem of SI vs CGS units (Joules vs ergs, etc.).
Nothing's ever easy!
Use the string "computer museums" on any decent internet search engine and you'll find the answer to your question.
Take a peek at Koko the Gorilla.. It certainly sounds like she is using words in an original manner that would imply she understands concepts behind the words.
Unless your inside leg measurement is over 8 foot, that's gotta hurt!
Today the Outbacks hammered the Jets in a 592-0 win, the highest ever in Superbowl History.
Bruce Billabong, the 12 foot, 650-lb quaterback said, "Well, mate, we coulda gone for more, but there weren't none of the other team left standing, like, and we didn't think it woulda been sporting to continue".
Meanwhile, NBA player Bruce Billabong II has racked up a record 500 points with his novel technique of dropping the ball into the basket.
"This marks a complete reversal of policy for NASA", he stated, "Currently we crash our spacecraft at the start of the mission".
The UK government then passes their new law and the police decide that they need to have the key to decode all outgoing messages on my PC else I face a prison sentence.
I didn't even know Mattel was collecting the data, let alone what their PGP key is. What do I do?
P.S. Timmies and Timothies need not apply.
At least if the text in it stopped scrolling you could tell that your program compilation was finished, which you couldn't tell in an iconised window except by opening it up again.
Also, if windows are really 3D, you could push them back into the screen to get them out of the way (they'd shrink smaller the further you pushed them back) and then drag them forward to the front of the screen to use them.