The basic mistake this article makes is assuming that once u have 1 PC u dont need another. My personal experience has led me to think of Computers as consummables rather than assets. I have had to change computers every 3 years and so when I consider buying a computer I just divide its cost by 36 and think of it as a monthly consumption item like toilet paper!
This has just been the argument against Open Source. People accuse Microsoft of treating its users as Beta testers by releasing half baked solutions. But here RH is treating its users as the programmers. "There's a problem Oh but u have the source Why not write a patch". At leat Microsoft bothers to hire programmers if not BVeta testers but it seems RH doesnt hire anybody except spokespeople to write Open (Source) letters to Slashdot. This is precisely the kind of attitude which is pulling back Linux. Bcoz if u build an OS only for the Hackers that is all u gonna get and believe there are a lot more users than hackers out there
So next we will have a worm which sends off mail to everybody in your Outlook Address Book Saying I love Microsoft Products,Linux Sucks and Bill Gates was the best thing to happen to computers since Charles Babbage
The irony is it would serve everyone right for using MS Outlook in the first place
Thats the point of the article . As in this case the power plant would be in your living room the advantages of AC over long distance no longer applies.
Incidentally due to the development of HVDC(High Voltage DC) it is now more economical to send dc over really long distances.
The advantage of AC is really in that the voltage can be stepped up or down very easily and not in long distances as after a certain distance all the available power in AC gets used up as the driving current and there is actually nothing left for the energy transfer current. This is because along with resistance power lines also have capacitance and inductance. So I say go DC
This is old news and Space.com has had this for almost a week now
Given that in my opinion a orbiter rover pair would have been much better and the orbiter could have asted as a relayfor the rover.
I think the reason NASA is doing this is that rovers capture the publics imagination much more effectively and NASA needs to do that right now to get its funding from a new administration
When u say that VLIW has not been tried out yet u r speaking about the situation last yr when VLIW only existed in textbooks( where incidentally it has been for more than a decade).
But with the successful launch of Transmeta's Crusoe which does software emulation of the x86 and uses a VLIW processor VLIW is here to stay
Incidentally in my opinion if we HAVE to have backward compatibility why not have it in software and not on the die?
The very reason we keep going to MArs is that we do not know what life on Mars is like. How then can the MArs society caim to simulate life on mars? I think this is nothing more than a publicity stunt( caant even be called training as the people in the dome are not the ones going to MArs anyway) to drum up support for Mars exploration in which case I support it completely as I am a strong believer that we have to go to other planets if Mankind is to fulfill its destiny But even if the cause is noble I think its a bit flashy to make unsubstantiated claims . It might backfire and Congress might even cut funding by saying if we can simulate it we dont need to go....
This is a classic case of what happens when laws are sought to be implemented in retrospect . Disney had no idea that the govt was going to sset 13 as the cut off age . What if the govt had set it at 12 then Disney's actions in collecting info about a 12 and half yr old would have been legal but now they are illegal Go figure
Even people from other cultures cant connect with anime . I live in India and I find the Japanese anime series on Cartoon Network pretty sickening not that a number of the movies shows and series on Star arent sickening for that matter.(e.g Oprah is totally sickening but then its a free society anyone can watch anything even if its pukingly bad) Coming back to yr point about anime the same applies but thats not such a big problem here at least coz nobody in India likes to watch them anyway I don't really see who would find such things interesting but then again even B movies get audiences..........
Sure cities make their weather,they make their own complete environment They even make their own environmental disaster and hell even their own laws for environment protectation. Not that any of these are predictable except for maybe the laws which fail to work on a very reliable and regular basis in factt 100% of the time
U know even if there are only 6 billion people in the world most people I know have 5 or 6 different homepages(unmaintained of course) and companies may have 100's of sites so it doesnt have to be that every 6th person in the world has a website)
Where are they going to get the capacity from? AFAIK the net has millions if not a billion sites and to store such a large no of sites would take a horribly large no of raid arrays. Also the net is dynamic and always changing . By the time they finish taking napshot of the net half the sites would have changed and btw what frequency is the best? This seems like an Augean Stable kind of task
Well regarding the unlimited range of laser I was more interested in what is cheaper . At least I thought refuelling stations would be better. After all I can build a car with a 5000 gallon gas tank but I prefer Shell;)
1>has Nasa perfected the method of how to keep the beam always on the sail and keep it focussed over long distances.
2>is the sail material capable of taking the heat over long periods of time?
3> wouldnt it be better to spread the whole energy over the whole sail by varying the pt at which the beam hits the sail
4> Does NASA propose a series of refuelling stations along common space routes which will boost spacecraft on their journey. As soon as a spacecraft goes out of range of a boosting station the next one will start beaming to it
5>What will the beam do to any spacecraft coming in its way close to the source (Whoooosh!!!)
Crashing was just a way of putting it . What is of more concern is that NASA has a limited Deep Space network which is used in turns to control various spacecraft. This network has till now never ever tried to control two spacecraft at the same time and if something goes wrong with Galileo it could hog the network and Cassini could go out of contact.Also their control signals (which are very strong as they have to be to reach Earth) could interfere with each other as obviously such a joint mission was not in the original mission specs and they have not been designed keeping this in mind
On behalf of the great federation of social insects and all the ants and bees of the Universe I strongly object to your potrayal of Cockraches as the only race superior to man hence implying that man is superior to us.You shall be hearing from our lawyers unless we see an appology in this space
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I mean after all assuming everyone has a computer people will still need to upgrade every 3 years and new PC sales will always be there.
The basic mistake this article makes is assuming that once u have 1 PC u dont need another. My personal experience has led me to think of Computers as consummables rather than assets. I have had to change computers every 3 years and so when I consider buying a computer I just divide its cost by 36 and think of it as a monthly consumption item like toilet paper!
This has just been the argument against Open Source. People accuse Microsoft of treating its users as Beta testers by releasing half baked solutions. But here RH is treating its users as the programmers. "There's a problem Oh but u have the source Why not write a patch". At leat Microsoft bothers to hire programmers if not BVeta testers but it seems RH doesnt hire anybody except spokespeople to write Open (Source) letters to Slashdot. This is precisely the kind of attitude which is pulling back Linux. Bcoz if u build an OS only for the Hackers that is all u gonna get and believe there are a lot more users than hackers out there
So next we will have a worm which sends off mail to everybody in your Outlook Address Book Saying I love Microsoft Products ,Linux Sucks and Bill Gates was the best thing to happen to computers since Charles Babbage
The irony is it would serve everyone right for using MS Outlook in the first place
Thats the point of the article . As in this case the power plant would be in your living room the advantages of AC over long distance no longer applies. Incidentally due to the development of HVDC(High Voltage DC) it is now more economical to send dc over really long distances. The advantage of AC is really in that the voltage can be stepped up or down very easily and not in long distances as after a certain distance all the available power in AC gets used up as the driving current and there is actually nothing left for the energy transfer current. This is because along with resistance power lines also have capacitance and inductance. So I say go DC
or some other Third World country. Most First World Appliances are energy efficient
This is old news and Space.com has had this for almost a week now Given that in my opinion a orbiter rover pair would have been much better and the orbiter could have asted as a relayfor the rover. I think the reason NASA is doing this is that rovers capture the publics imagination much more effectively and NASA needs to do that right now to get its funding from a new administration
When u say that VLIW has not been tried out yet u r speaking about the situation last yr when VLIW only existed in textbooks( where incidentally it has been for more than a decade). But with the successful launch of Transmeta's Crusoe which does software emulation of the x86 and uses a VLIW processor VLIW is here to stay Incidentally in my opinion if we HAVE to have backward compatibility why not have it in software and not on the die?
Can u provide the link to stark please?
The very reason we keep going to MArs is that we do not know what life on Mars is like. How then can the MArs society caim to simulate life on mars? I think this is nothing more than a publicity stunt( caant even be called training as the people in the dome are not the ones going to MArs anyway) to drum up support for Mars exploration in which case I support it completely as I am a strong believer that we have to go to other planets if Mankind is to fulfill its destiny But even if the cause is noble I think its a bit flashy to make unsubstantiated claims . It might backfire and Congress might even cut funding by saying if we can simulate it we dont need to go....
Seems its me who screwd up. Thanks for correcting me
This is a classic case of what happens when laws are sought to be implemented in retrospect . Disney had no idea that the govt was going to sset 13 as the cut off age . What if the govt had set it at 12 then Disney's actions in collecting info about a 12 and half yr old would have been legal but now they are illegal Go figure
Even people from other cultures cant connect with anime . I live in India and I find the Japanese anime series on Cartoon Network pretty sickening not that a number of the movies shows and series on Star arent sickening for that matter.(e.g Oprah is totally sickening but then its a free society anyone can watch anything even if its pukingly bad) Coming back to yr point about anime the same applies but thats not such a big problem here at least coz nobody in India likes to watch them anyway I don't really see who would find such things interesting but then again even B movies get audiences..........
Excuse me but as far as I understand a hovercraft could do the same job at a much cheaper cost.
A logAlog everywhere and the FBI search for Mitnick in there
Sure cities make their weather,they make their own complete environment They even make their own environmental disaster and hell even their own laws for environment protectation. Not that any of these are predictable except for maybe the laws which fail to work on a very reliable and regular basis in factt 100% of the time
U know even if there are only 6 billion people in the world most people I know have 5 or 6 different homepages(unmaintained of course) and companies may have 100's of sites so it doesnt have to be that every 6th person in the world has a website)
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Wont robots just increase the traffic on the net humongously and lead to a massive and perpetual case of Slashdot effect?
Where are they going to get the capacity from? AFAIK the net has millions if not a billion sites and to store such a large no of sites would take a horribly large no of raid arrays. Also the net is dynamic and always changing . By the time they finish taking napshot of the net half the sites would have changed and btw what frequency is the best? This seems like an Augean Stable kind of task
Well regarding the unlimited range of laser I was more interested in what is cheaper . At least I thought refuelling stations would be better. After all I can build a car with a 5000 gallon gas tank but I prefer Shell;)
The press reease was a bit sketchy on a few pts:
1>has Nasa perfected the method of how to keep the beam always on the sail and keep it focussed over long distances.
2>is the sail material capable of taking the heat over long periods of time?
3> wouldnt it be better to spread the whole energy over the whole sail by varying the pt at which the beam hits the sail
4> Does NASA propose a series of refuelling stations along common space routes which will boost spacecraft on their journey. As soon as a spacecraft goes out of range of a boosting station the next one will start beaming to it
5>What will the beam do to any spacecraft coming in its way close to the source (Whoooosh!!!)
Crashing was just a way of putting it . What is of more concern is that NASA has a limited Deep Space network which is used in turns to control various spacecraft. This network has till now never ever tried to control two spacecraft at the same time and if something goes wrong with Galileo it could hog the network and Cassini could go out of contact .Also their control signals (which are very strong as they have to be to reach Earth) could interfere with each other as obviously such a joint mission was not in the original mission specs and they have not been designed keeping this in mind
This is meant to be a reply to the Government coverup posting about cockroaches Sorryyyyyy!!
On behalf of the great federation of social insects and all the ants and bees of the Universe I strongly object to your potrayal of Cockraches as the only race superior to man hence implying that man is superior to us.You shall be hearing from our lawyers unless we see an appology in this space