It seems like making space elevators readily available to many countries would be a bad idea. (Specifically, I mean when the review mentioned that the space elevator could be used to produce other space elevators for sale to other countries.)
What would Saddam Hussein do with one? He would likely send a huge bomb up into geosynchronous orbit, then have it drop on the US. Possibilities like this make me glad that we're developing the missle shield program (initially known as "Star Wars" during the Reagan era.) When Clinton took office, he discontinued it, but it is going forward with Dubya in office...
The same students have lost the use of their middle fingers due to only having one mouse button. This is believed to be advantageous considering the typical use of the middle finger by elementary school students.
I agree... and the hardware list could actually be a good thing. Microsoft could compile databases of who uses what hardware, so they know the percentages of people who use certain brands. It seems like this information would be extremely useful in knowing what types of machines to test Beta software on in the future.
The team hopes to begin human trials by the middle of next year, following the completion of animal tests. Trials have been successfully conducted on cadavers.
Unfortunately, none of the human patients survived the procedure.:P
Moore's Law has never really been a hard and fast law. It's more of a rule of thumb... I've read a few books that mention it, and some of them even disagree on the time period in which the double takes place. Some say a year, while some say 18 months. I've also seen articles which claim as a part of "Moore's Law" that the prices also cut in half.
Defying Moore's Law isn't like defying gravity. We know that at some point, miniturization will no longer be possible. It's hard to double the number of transistors in one space when they're on the atomic level. Do you think we could do that in 18 months?
Apparently the author of the article has never heard of the history button in IE.
That reminds me of an article I once read on IE 5 in which the author said "I wish the favorites were available via a drop-down menu like in Netscape." Sheesh...
Just because you're technologically averse doesn't mean that cell phones didn't change the world...
If I refused to own a television, could we discount TV? How about if we find a cure for cancer? If I never get cancer, does it fail to revolutionize the world???
That's nice... I wonder if the drivers support the 1st generation TiVos (since that's what I have.) I actually bought a mounting kit, and "upgraded" my 30-hour Sony TiVo to a 90-hour one.
The second generation TiVo has been around for quite some time (months even), and it does not have broadband support. Unless they'll be selling hardware upgrades (which is doubtful considering the warranty situation), you'll probably have to get a third generation TiVo.
Why do we only see news of this on the BBC page? I've not once seen mention of second or third moons on MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other online news places. I'm starting to consider the BBC as the National Enquirer of online news.
That sounds an awful lot to me like a headset walkie talkie. I guess the benefit is that it's Voice-over-ip. Other than that, it's not that big of a deal...
"Version Fatigue" sounds like a politically correct term for whiny complainers. Bug fixes are a good thing. If Apache finds a bug in their HTTPD, I want them to fix it now instead of waiting because they feel they might hurt my feelings...
Oh wow! Maybe one day when this technology is mature, we'll be able to store files on our "homespace". What??? Morpheus, Kazaa, and Bearshare already do this?
Ok.. so, it's interactive. So is IRC. Anyone played Tanks???
I'm sure that this will eventually turn into something meaningful, but right now it's of little interest. Let me know when it's 3d...
Speaking of misinformed... South Africa is not "predominately encompassed by people of the white pigment". Please don't think that I'm trying to make this a racial thing, because I'm not. South Africa is controlled by the white minority... get your facts straight.
Yeah.. they made a movie about this. Anyone happen to see Juraissic Park??? Before we know it, they'll be cloning dinosaurs and raptors will take over the earth...
The URL had an extra space in it (which must have been added by slashdot, as I copied/pasted straight from IE.) I just redid this, and Slashdot broke it again (but using HTML the link part works.) Here it is whole:
Slashdot Mirror
It seems like making space elevators readily available to many countries would be a bad idea. (Specifically, I mean when the review mentioned that the space elevator could be used to produce other space elevators for sale to other countries.)
What would Saddam Hussein do with one? He would likely send a huge bomb up into geosynchronous orbit, then have it drop on the US. Possibilities like this make me glad that we're developing the missle shield program (initially known as "Star Wars" during the Reagan era.) When Clinton took office, he discontinued it, but it is going forward with Dubya in office...
The same students have lost the use of their middle fingers due to only having one mouse button. This is believed to be advantageous considering the typical use of the middle finger by elementary school students.
If the monsters were pretty, we'd call them "elves". :P
I agree... and the hardware list could actually be a good thing. Microsoft could compile databases of who uses what hardware, so they know the percentages of people who use certain brands. It seems like this information would be extremely useful in knowing what types of machines to test Beta software on in the future.
(I believe it was Dilbert who said:)
Shift happens...
The team hopes to begin human trials by the middle of next year, following the completion of animal tests. Trials have been successfully conducted on cadavers.
:P
Unfortunately, none of the human patients survived the procedure.
Moore's Law has never really been a hard and fast law. It's more of a rule of thumb... I've read a few books that mention it, and some of them even disagree on the time period in which the double takes place. Some say a year, while some say 18 months. I've also seen articles which claim as a part of "Moore's Law" that the prices also cut in half.
Defying Moore's Law isn't like defying gravity. We know that at some point, miniturization will no longer be possible. It's hard to double the number of transistors in one space when they're on the atomic level. Do you think we could do that in 18 months?
Apparently the author of the article has never heard of the history button in IE.
That reminds me of an article I once read on IE 5 in which the author said "I wish the favorites were available via a drop-down menu like in Netscape." Sheesh...
Just because you're technologically averse doesn't mean that cell phones didn't change the world...
If I refused to own a television, could we discount TV? How about if we find a cure for cancer? If I never get cancer, does it fail to revolutionize the world???
That's nice... I wonder if the drivers support the 1st generation TiVos (since that's what I have.) I actually bought a mounting kit, and "upgraded" my 30-hour Sony TiVo to a 90-hour one.
The second generation TiVo has been around for quite some time (months even), and it does not have broadband support. Unless they'll be selling hardware upgrades (which is doubtful considering the warranty situation), you'll probably have to get a third generation TiVo.
Of course, that's not to stop you from getting the Turbonet Ethernet Adapter Board for your TiVo from The 9th Tee.
When confronted by big, snarling dogs, I'd much prefer intelligent demons to daemons. After all, you need something equally big and scary.
Why do we only see news of this on the BBC page? I've not once seen mention of second or third moons on MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other online news places. I'm starting to consider the BBC as the National Enquirer of online news.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-948497.html
That's a good one... mod that one up please!
I consider http://apple.slashdot.org/ to be an egg... a lot of people don't know about it.
That sounds an awful lot to me like a headset walkie talkie. I guess the benefit is that it's Voice-over-ip. Other than that, it's not that big of a deal...
News.com had a link that points to related stories, in case you want the bigger picture.
Located here, it contains a story from May 2002 (when they were first getting the technology ready).
Ok.. that makes more sense to me. I guess I just misread it... :)
"Version Fatigue" sounds like a politically correct term for whiny complainers. Bug fixes are a good thing. If Apache finds a bug in their HTTPD, I want them to fix it now instead of waiting because they feel they might hurt my feelings...
I'm all about PHP and mySQL, but 3d skills evade me...
Oh wow! Maybe one day when this technology is mature, we'll be able to store files on our "homespace". What??? Morpheus, Kazaa, and Bearshare already do this?
Ok.. so, it's interactive. So is IRC. Anyone played Tanks???
I'm sure that this will eventually turn into something meaningful, but right now it's of little interest. Let me know when it's 3d...
Speaking of misinformed... South Africa is not "predominately encompassed by people of the white pigment". Please don't think that I'm trying to make this a racial thing, because I'm not. South Africa is controlled by the white minority... get your facts straight.
Yeah.. they made a movie about this. Anyone happen to see Juraissic Park??? Before we know it, they'll be cloning dinosaurs and raptors will take over the earth...
The URL had an extra space in it (which must have been added by slashdot, as I copied/pasted straight from IE.) I just redid this, and Slashdot broke it again (but using HTML the link part works.) Here it is whole:
. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-023.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default