How often are we gonna hear about this thing. It's the 21st of January and I swear I've heard about fuel cells in one form or another 5 times already. Is there gonna be a fuel cell catagory soon? Are we gonna get fuel cell posts ever other week? Are they gonna be the SAME THING over and over again? Don't get me wrong, fuel cells are cool and all, but I would much rather read more posts on the next Star Wars movie or Lord of the Rings rather than read yet another post about the Coleman Powermate...
Opera is the best browser period! I've used it with linux and windows and it's still a little odd to say, but it works and looks BETTER in linux than windows. If I ever get a job again i'd actually pay the bastard...it's that good!
what are you talking about? 5GHz is just a couple of years away...Moore's (joke) law is that processor speed doubles every year...this year we're at 1GHz..next year 2GHz...year after that 4GHz...after that 8GHz
looks to me like 5 GHz is only about 3 or 4 years away. How fast do you want this stuff?
How long before the next KDE project is ameriKa online? KOL? This is just wrong...AOL on my linux box? bad enough with aim but now the rest? GOOD NIGHT!
Hey...I read some something about with Muon catylised fuson that they were able to get hydrogen to fuse when it's cold...like frozen cold. I also wonder if it's possible to combine a fusor (electrostatic) type reactor and muons to up the reaction rate.
Cold fusion may or may not work, however there is more than magentic containment. Try electrostatic. You could build a small (very ineffcient) fusion reator in you garage. They do away with using 'hot' plamsa and just go for ionized hydrogen being accelerated towards the middle of the reator. It works like a champ. And depending on the design of the reactor you can directly convert the energy released by the fusion reactions to (high voltage) DC (electricity).
Um...why do they keep saying this. They've been saying fusion power is 10 to 20 years away since the begining of nuclear power. Make them stop. Make them unable to say that fusion is XX years away until they have a power plant up and running.
Now the major distros can fork off a SELinux product. Just think about "NSA Secured Linux" or some such...IBM is probably gonna be all over this. Between the security enhancemnts and new file systems...i may finally have to live on the bleeding edge when the 2.5 serries comes out....
I have an uncle that worked for a company for 20 years. Then one day in the late 80's they laid him off. Six months later they came begging him to come back. He declined. They burned him pretty bad with their show of disrespect.
Why do companies expect loyalty from us workers when they show absolutley no loyalty in return?
Anyway, I suspect a similar outcome with this turn of events. Who wants to make a wager as to how long before HP starts begging these guys to come back?
mmmm... it's like walking around in germany and running across some gold coated chocolate, and realising that the MRE chocolate bars you're used to just aren't gonna cut it anymore...
I would suggest sending more than just an email. One member of congress already said he would only respond to snail mail because of all the ?spam? he was recieving (can't find the particulars of that one though...)
I'm sure that a few other people can find plenty of coherent well thought out reasons why this won't work and is generally a bad a thing...
10^4 Amps and 1 MegaVolt. That's a lot of power. Watts = Amps times Volts. 10000A times 1000000V equals 10000000000 Watts. 10 GW in a fraction of a second. In the text h mentions vaporization of the superconducting coating. I bet.
Who is Microsoft trying to sell.NET to? It can't be ordinary consumers, because if everything is going to brought down off of the internet they'll have to contend with the fact that most users still use odinary dial up internet access. And will continue to do so for MANY years to come.
Not only that but they REFUSE to pay more for speedier internet access. I use my mom as an example. She ordered a second line specifically for dial up internet access. She has cable. Here in the Denver metro area cable is provided by AT&T. He phone service is AT&T. She could get cable modem service for $40/month but instead gets the second line for $10/month with $4/month dial up access with AT&T worldnet. She is content.
I personally can't live without my cable modem service. But this.NET stuff is going to REQUIRE some sort of broadband access to be useful at all, but most of this great country of ours still can't get any kind of broadband. In this area sometimes you can get DSL and cable service, sometimes you can get one or the other, a lot of time you can't get either for whatever reason.
I have a friend that couldn't even get basic cable in his area because "there's nothing but poor people in your area, why would we have cable in your area when there's no money there". That was when it was still TCI, not sure what the current attitude is toward Central City nowaways...still full of welfare cases though...
My point is, I guess, that until everybody and I mean everybody, has broadband this netpc or.NET or whatever, is not going to fly too well.
And it takes time to change infrastructure. Here in Colorado US West was sued for taking, sometimes, up to a YEAR to get BASIC PHONE SERVICE to new houses. Upgrading the old infrastucture in the old US West 14 state region just might be put on the back burner until they can deal with more basic issues
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This is getting better than new kernal posts, every new Cringley article is getting put up here.
t this thread needs is an appropriate Mark Twain quote:
So, um, how do you use this combo maser/laser beam to do soemthing usefull?
Yes you did miss the joke. Go watch Star Trek IV, this will give you the cultural reference to 'get' the joke.
How often are we gonna hear about this thing. It's the 21st of January and I swear I've heard about fuel cells in one form or another 5 times already. Is there gonna be a fuel cell catagory soon? Are we gonna get fuel cell posts ever other week? Are they gonna be the SAME THING over and over again? Don't get me wrong, fuel cells are cool and all, but I would much rather read more posts on the next Star Wars movie or Lord of the Rings rather than read yet another post about the Coleman Powermate...
Gee I hope someone has figured out a way to safely transport and fill GASOLINE or we'll be playing with fire.
Gee I hope someone has figured out a way to safely transort and fill DEISEL or we'll be playing with fire.
Gee I hope someone has figured out a way to safely transport and fill PROPANE or we'll be playing with fire.
Gee I hope someone has figured out a way to safely transport and fill BUTANE or we'll be playing with fire.
Gee I hope someone has figured out a way to safely transport and fill NATURAL GAS or we'll be playing with fire.
Can anybody think of any other fuels in common use today that we can add to this?
Opera is the best browser period! I've used it with linux and windows and it's still a little odd to say, but it works and looks BETTER in linux than windows. If I ever get a job again i'd actually pay the bastard...it's that good!
I got it to work in IE5.0....no wait...this is Opera 5 identifying itself as IE5...never mind. :-P
One word...
SCHWEET!
what are you talking about? 5GHz is just a couple of years away...Moore's (joke) law is that processor speed doubles every year...this year we're at 1GHz..next year 2GHz...year after that 4GHz...after that 8GHz
looks to me like 5 GHz is only about 3 or 4 years away. How fast do you want this stuff?
How long before the next KDE project is ameriKa online? KOL? This is just wrong...AOL on my linux box? bad enough with aim but now the rest? GOOD NIGHT!
I do believe Zorak said best when he said, "ALRIGHT! SMACKDOWN!". Let's see the geeks lay some of that smackdown on M$....
Hey...I read some something about with Muon catylised fuson that they were able to get hydrogen to fuse when it's cold...like frozen cold. I also wonder if it's possible to combine a fusor (electrostatic) type reactor and muons to up the reaction rate.
You can apparently even buy a working (fusor type) fusion reactor from EADS
Cold fusion may or may not work, however there is more than magentic containment. Try electrostatic. You could build a small (very ineffcient) fusion reator in you garage. They do away with using 'hot' plamsa and just go for ionized hydrogen being accelerated towards the middle of the reator. It works like a champ. And depending on the design of the reactor you can directly convert the energy released by the fusion reactions to (high voltage) DC (electricity).
More info at fusor.net
Um...why do they keep saying this. They've been saying fusion power is 10 to 20 years away since the begining of nuclear power. Make them stop. Make them unable to say that fusion is XX years away until they have a power plant up and running.
Now the major distros can fork off a SELinux product. Just think about "NSA Secured Linux" or some such...IBM is probably gonna be all over this. Between the security enhancemnts and new file systems...i may finally have to live on the bleeding edge when the 2.5 serries comes out....
If a couple of crazies take over a plane and crash it into a high rise by weilding steak knives, they won't be made illegal either.
"You'll see it under Christmas trees or powering your Christmas trees by the end of the year," Ballard's Harris said.
Great, now all packaging will read "Hydrogen not included"
I have an uncle that worked for a company for 20 years. Then one day in the late 80's they laid him off. Six months later they came begging him to come back. He declined. They burned him pretty bad with their show of disrespect.
Why do companies expect loyalty from us workers when they show absolutley no loyalty in return?
Anyway, I suspect a similar outcome with this turn of events. Who wants to make a wager as to how long before HP starts begging these guys to come back?
mmmm... it's like walking around in germany and running across some gold coated chocolate, and realising that the MRE chocolate bars you're used to just aren't gonna cut it anymore...
Here's where you can write your representative (House): http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Here's some tips on contacting your congresspeople: (both house and senate) http://nch.ari.net/advocate.html
From congress.gov's faq : http://thomas.loc.gov/tfaqs/02.htm (How can I communicate with a Member of Congress )
I would suggest sending more than just an email. One member of congress already said he would only respond to snail mail because of all the ?spam? he was recieving (can't find the particulars of that one though...)
I'm sure that a few other people can find plenty of coherent well thought out reasons why this won't work and is generally a bad a thing...
10^4 Amps and 1 MegaVolt. That's a lot of power. Watts = Amps times Volts. 10000A times 1000000V equals 10000000000 Watts. 10 GW in a fraction of a second. In the text h mentions vaporization of the superconducting coating. I bet.
Who is Microsoft trying to sell .NET to? It can't be ordinary consumers, because if everything is going to brought down off of the internet they'll have to contend with the fact that most users still use odinary dial up internet access. And will continue to do so for MANY years to come.
Not only that but they REFUSE to pay more for speedier internet access. I use my mom as an example. She ordered a second line specifically for dial up internet access. She has cable. Here in the Denver metro area cable is provided by AT&T. He phone service is AT&T. She could get cable modem service for $40/month but instead gets the second line for $10/month with $4/month dial up access with AT&T worldnet. She is content.
I personally can't live without my cable modem service. But this .NET stuff is going to REQUIRE some sort of broadband access to be useful at all, but most of this great country of ours still can't get any kind of broadband. In this area sometimes you can get DSL and cable service, sometimes you can get one or the other, a lot of time you can't get either for whatever reason.
I have a friend that couldn't even get basic cable in his area because "there's nothing but poor people in your area, why would we have cable in your area when there's no money there". That was when it was still TCI, not sure what the current attitude is toward Central City nowaways...still full of welfare cases though...
My point is, I guess, that until everybody and I mean everybody, has broadband this netpc or .NET or whatever, is not going to fly too well.
And it takes time to change infrastructure. Here in Colorado US West was sued for taking, sometimes, up to a YEAR to get BASIC PHONE SERVICE to new houses. Upgrading the old infrastucture in the old US West 14 state region just might be put on the back burner until they can deal with more basic issues
That's great now I'd like to see a UNIVAC on a chip like they did with ENIAC
(http://www.ee.upenn.edu/~jan/eniacproj.html)