And of course while the college board may choose to cap SAT scores to within 3 standard deviations of the mean, that doesn't mean there AREN'T people who fall well outside that range.
I haven't spent enough time studying the details of current holographic disc technology to know how it's handled. I'm just pointing out that holographic medium have more inbuilt potential for data redundancy than the surface data-only pitted optical discs we've been using for so long.
Also, it's not exactly new technology. InPhase Technologies + their Tapestry project have been around for at least half a decade. http://www.inphase-technologies.com/
holographic data storage is fractal in nature, meaning if you make a hologram of a car and then snap it in half you won't end up with 2 holograms of half a car each, you'll end up with 2 holograms of a full with half the resolution as the original.
Methinks this would be good for data-redundancy in other applications as well
I should note that I'm not arguing that a game isn't worth more than a movie, I'm just pointing out that the price ratio isn't quite as close as you might think.
buying candy and popcorn and Soda at the theater is a horrible idea, because it's outrageously priced. Buying a ticket for your date is a good idea, but that would be like buying a second copy of the game for her to play, so the ratio of movie-price/game-price stays pretty close.
Your rocket history is sadly uninformed. I'd like to see your source for claiming that the UK and US already had missile technology. Our rocket program was the result of hijacking as many German scientists as we could at the end of the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_paperclip
My first reaction to seeing this was "wow, that would make a fairly disturbing April Fool's Joke" and then my second reaction was "crap....wrong time of year"
A new PowerBook hmm? It's clear you're well informed on the subject of Apple computers, given that a "new" PowerBook has to be at LEAST 3 years old at this point.
It's z80. The 82, 85, 86 had to be hacked via a hex-edited backup file before it could be made to run assembly. The 81 only just not had exploits discovered to allow it to run assembly. The 83 didn't officially support it, but send(9prgmname was a sort of backdoor that allowed it. The 68K series is a little bit different story, but the differences in versions between hardware/firmware (my 68K terminology isn't quite up to speed), even in the same model make running assembly a pain in the arse. Look up "ghostbuster" (or something like that) on ticalc.org to see what I mean.
No, but I get newsletters from Christian missionaries who can't even tell us what city they're in because they're afraid of getting arrested, and I know quite a few Iranian college students who've filled me in on the situation back home.
As a long time member of the TI community, I have to say that I'm glad Slashdot is covering this. TI consistently works against the enthusiast community, and this is blatantly obvious in their new Nspire line of calculators. The 83+/84+ line has been their one concession to sanctioned assembly programming, and they still threaten legal action against anyone who starts delving into operating system stuff.
What's far more concerning about this plan then the "what if it fails" factor is the "what if it works" factor. One of the few things that terrifies me more than a nuke going off in a US city is the possibility of a nuke being vaporized in the upper atmosphere above US soil. Instead of killing a few million people, we render hundreds of thousands of square miles of land sterile for the next million years.
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And of course while the college board may choose to cap SAT scores to within 3 standard deviations of the mean, that doesn't mean there AREN'T people who fall well outside that range.
You're pretty blatantly missing Jules Verne, Orson Scott Card, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey.
I *think they're stll trying to do removable storage, but they're targeting the enterprise data backup market (i.e., competing with tape drives)
There've been what, 5 or 6 announcements of "a month left of The Pirate Bay" or "2 weeks left of The Pirate Bay" so far this year?
I haven't spent enough time studying the details of current holographic disc technology to know how it's handled. I'm just pointing out that holographic medium have more inbuilt potential for data redundancy than the surface data-only pitted optical discs we've been using for so long. Also, it's not exactly new technology. InPhase Technologies + their Tapestry project have been around for at least half a decade. http://www.inphase-technologies.com/
meh, sorry, that should have been a response to the GP.
holographic data storage is fractal in nature, meaning if you make a hologram of a car and then snap it in half you won't end up with 2 holograms of half a car each, you'll end up with 2 holograms of a full with half the resolution as the original. Methinks this would be good for data-redundancy in other applications as well
spark gap transmitter.
No. It's not an extra thing you need to write code for, because it won't do anything at all unless you the developer ask it to step in.
iirc the story correctly, it wasn't a "spontaneous reboot," it was a "crap, I can't use my Zune" sort of issue.
I should note that I'm not arguing that a game isn't worth more than a movie, I'm just pointing out that the price ratio isn't quite as close as you might think.
buying candy and popcorn and Soda at the theater is a horrible idea, because it's outrageously priced. Buying a ticket for your date is a good idea, but that would be like buying a second copy of the game for her to play, so the ratio of movie-price/game-price stays pretty close.
Didn't those all die, at the same instant due to a software bug?
Who spends $15 to go to the movies? All the theaters here are $8.75 for a ticket, or less if you have a student id and go on an off night.
and I always thought "if you can't read my code you just aren't 1337 enough" was the proper rule of thumb for software development.
Your rocket history is sadly uninformed. I'd like to see your source for claiming that the UK and US already had missile technology. Our rocket program was the result of hijacking as many German scientists as we could at the end of the war. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_paperclip
My first reaction to seeing this was "wow, that would make a fairly disturbing April Fool's Joke" and then my second reaction was "crap....wrong time of year"
A new PowerBook hmm? It's clear you're well informed on the subject of Apple computers, given that a "new" PowerBook has to be at LEAST 3 years old at this point.
It's z80. The 82, 85, 86 had to be hacked via a hex-edited backup file before it could be made to run assembly. The 81 only just not had exploits discovered to allow it to run assembly. The 83 didn't officially support it, but send(9prgmname was a sort of backdoor that allowed it. The 68K series is a little bit different story, but the differences in versions between hardware/firmware (my 68K terminology isn't quite up to speed), even in the same model make running assembly a pain in the arse. Look up "ghostbuster" (or something like that) on ticalc.org to see what I mean.
No, but I get newsletters from Christian missionaries who can't even tell us what city they're in because they're afraid of getting arrested, and I know quite a few Iranian college students who've filled me in on the situation back home.
As a long time member of the TI community, I have to say that I'm glad Slashdot is covering this. TI consistently works against the enthusiast community, and this is blatantly obvious in their new Nspire line of calculators. The 83+/84+ line has been their one concession to sanctioned assembly programming, and they still threaten legal action against anyone who starts delving into operating system stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Iran#Current_situation So much for state protected.
Mauve alert is damn scary. Or didn't you know? Mauve is the universally recognized color for danger.
What's far more concerning about this plan then the "what if it fails" factor is the "what if it works" factor. One of the few things that terrifies me more than a nuke going off in a US city is the possibility of a nuke being vaporized in the upper atmosphere above US soil. Instead of killing a few million people, we render hundreds of thousands of square miles of land sterile for the next million years.
I'm more worried about THEM then silly little colonies like this one.