You have to be kidding... The Nazgul are going to not only rape the corpse, but go after the families, salt the earth, and in general, make sure that no one else is stupid enough to do this sort of thing again. IBM could have bought SCO out of petty cash...
I'd think that as ungainly as this thing is, maybe it's a first step towards Stephenson's Smart Wheels. The biggest problem with them was getting actuators that react fast enough. Electro-magnetic actuators certainly feel like the right approach. Think of heads flying back and forth in a disk drive...
Actually, putting a BIG ground based scope on the moon would be a huge advantage. Whether they get their heads out of their butts and actually do this is another matter, of course. In the meantime, Hubble needs to be serviced.
If you factor in the cost of launching those materials into orbit for infrastructure development (Solar Power Satellites, manufacturing plants, etc.) with chemical rockets, you'll find that the $$/Kg ratio looks a LOT more attractive. Besides, We need those materiels on the ground for now.
Well, there are a LOT of reasons to go back to the moon, from mining and He3 collection, to a stable RF isolated place to listen to the universe with radio telescopes, to having a 1/6 G environment that means building and launching craft from Luna will be many times cheaper ( a space elevator on the moon to Lunar orbit won't be nearly as tall as one here on earth (we desperately need one here)or using nuclear or chemical rockets... All of these things, both economic and scientific, mean that the moon is a Great place to build a base and eventually a community. It is truly the jumping off point for the Solar System. Mars may hold scientific curiosity, but what does it mean to getting even further out? Building the craft to explore the Solar System (and eventually exploit resources out there) can't be done from the surface of the Earth. Just too damned expensive.
Looks like an application of the Coanda Effect... High volume low pressure fluid pulls working fluid through a nozzle. There was a huge article about it in Analog a number of years back. As I recall, the author used it as a pump as well as a jet engine (both water and air). For air, he used propane instead of steam and just lit it up. The burning propane pulled air in through the front end quite handily.
Don't forget thet the pure Si substrate in a chip is an electrical insulator. You want to have the highest possible resistance in the insulator to prevent electron migration in the doped areas of the chip.
I wonder if the representatives who are sponsoring these bills could be charged with accepting bribes? After all the US Government is supposed to be Of the people, By the people, and FOR the people. There is NO mention of commercial eneterprises in the Constitution. Any lawyers out there have a view on this?
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Ok, where is the Dentist?
This kind of thing should have been anticipated. Software patents are Evil. At least Linux won't be impacted.
Ah yes, the Danny Dunn books... Actually, for juveniles, they were rather better done with *real* science, instead of this Jimmy Neutron crap.
Soon we can do away with stupid things like elevators..
You have to be kidding... The Nazgul are going to not only rape the corpse, but go after the families, salt the earth, and in general, make sure that no one else is stupid enough to do this sort of thing again. IBM could have bought SCO out of petty cash...
By the way FP
This is a very good thing, now I can afford a mac ;-)
Well, Radio Shack, is actually Tandy, Inc. Sooo...
TI works for this too
I'd think that as ungainly as this thing is, maybe it's a first step towards Stephenson's Smart Wheels. The biggest problem with them was getting actuators that react fast enough. Electro-magnetic actuators certainly feel like the right approach. Think of heads flying back and forth in a disk drive...
Actually, putting a BIG ground based scope on the moon would be a huge advantage. Whether they get their heads out of their butts and actually do this is another matter, of course. In the meantime, Hubble needs to be serviced.
If only they'd develop native versions....
FP?
Gee, the extra registers might come in handy....
It is being done.... See the scaled composite web site for info on their *Manned* test flights.
If you factor in the cost of launching those materials into orbit for infrastructure development (Solar Power Satellites, manufacturing plants, etc.) with chemical rockets, you'll find that the $$/Kg ratio looks a LOT more attractive. Besides, We need those materiels on the ground for now.
2038 is when the 32 bit integer which holds unix time rolls over. 64 bit solutions are coming :-)
Actually, there is always the Opteron 1XX processors, which is the same thing, and that line will be socket 940 for quite a while.
Well, there are a LOT of reasons to go back to the moon, from mining and He3 collection, to a stable RF isolated place to listen to the universe with radio telescopes, to having a 1/6 G environment that means building and launching craft from Luna will be many times cheaper ( a space elevator on the moon to Lunar orbit won't be nearly as tall as one here on earth (we desperately need one here)or using nuclear or chemical rockets... All of these things, both economic and scientific, mean that the moon is a Great place to build a base and eventually a community. It is truly the jumping off point for the Solar System. Mars may hold scientific curiosity, but what does it mean to getting even further out? Building the craft to explore the Solar System (and eventually exploit resources out there) can't be done from the surface of the Earth. Just too damned expensive.
Looks like an application of the Coanda Effect... High volume low pressure fluid pulls working fluid through a nozzle. There was a huge article about it in Analog a number of years back. As I recall, the author used it as a pump as well as a jet engine (both water and air). For air, he used propane instead of steam and just lit it up. The burning propane pulled air in through the front end quite handily.
Don't forget thet the pure Si substrate in a chip is an electrical insulator. You want to have the highest possible resistance in the insulator to prevent electron migration in the doped areas of the chip.
RIT's Computer Science House has had one of these for years... see http://www.csh.rit.edu/projects/drink
I believe the best way to Open "Clippy" is with a K-Bar knife...
I wonder if the representatives who are sponsoring these bills could be charged with accepting bribes? After all the US Government is supposed to be Of the people, By the people, and FOR the people. There is NO mention of commercial eneterprises in the Constitution. Any lawyers out there have a view on this?
Actually it reminded me a great deal, of a great book by David R Palmer... Emergence