A VM should just be treated as just another Platform! It's a virtual CPU, and instruction set architecture. Taking this further, a language and a set of libraries packaged with a VM should also be considered a Platform just as Windows XP or Ubuntu 7.10 is a Platform. This is precisely why Java version hell exists! You should not update platforms willy-nilly. You should not take a platform and bundle it with an application! If you are smart, you should either make everything supremely backwards compatible (Windows) or supremely upgradeable (Debian based Linux) or make a clean (and well organized) break that provides dramatic benefits (Mac OS X).
Sun didn't get it. Dot-Net got it because they were able to use hindsight to fill in the gaps where Sun didn't. The truth is, VMs and portable languages don't make operating systems irrelevant. They just (partially) virtualize the OS on top of the native one. The sooner VM language people realize this, and all of the pitfalls, the sooner things will get better! (Many already get things right. Python and Ruby seem to get this.)
It's hard to beat the energy & power density of internal combustion engines. Since there is no air, your propellant is heavier, since you'd need to carry the oxidizer, but I suspect that you'd still have an advantage in range. In The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin has proposed internal combustion Mars rovers that could use CO2 as an oxidizer. (I forget what the fuel is, but it can be made from methane derived from local CO2 and hydrogen.) Also, in the book The Rocket Company an automaker funds a trip to the moon where they use a modified SUV carrying its own oxidizer.
I once worked at a company with a bad CIO who had a lot of the attributes described in the article. One time, he was following a link from a company website to another that had an nntp:// link that opened up a Usenet group in Outlook on his PC. He responded with internal ravings about "Why is this negative crap on OUR CORPORATE WEBSITE!?"
Yes, we had a CIO that couldn't distinguish between NNTP and HTTP and couldn't tell the difference between Internet Explorer and Outlook.
Another option -- just make DRAM that drains all of its memory cells to ground when the power goes off. Every bit of DRAM is just a tiny capacitor, so this would erase the whole chip in an instant. If you could arrange for this to happen, then the DRAM would be be erased, unless you somehow supplied your own power to the DRAM chips.
You could use a capacitor to power this mechanism instead of a battery. It wouldn't need to last very long -- just long enough to scramble the RAM on power-down. It would be more reliable than a battery.
Time to turn in your geek cred. There's a lot of references to many things, some of which are pretty high-minded cultural references. There's also very artful and clever references to comics, games, sci-fi, movies, anime, and concepts like the singularity.
He could've made this even greener by incorporating a small bird or monkey whose job it was to crank this to the top. This way, the people of the world are motivated to preserve wildlife so that they can read novels at night.
They are like Zeolites. For mobile applications, they're going to need a lot better than 83X. More like 1000X. This might be useful for stationary applications, however.
Did I say that was it's greatest attribute? Nope. But it's a very good indicator of integrity of design and good architecture. There's probably some good OO going on in there. Watch the video, and you'll see what I mean.
Haiku is an example of code reuse par-excellence! You can get a normal desktop footprint into something like 60 megabytes. (Not one of these cut-down small footprint distros.) It's how an object-oriented multimedia operating system should be done.
Space Elevators going up to geosynchronous orbit aren't needed, so carbon nanotubes aren't needed either. We could build a Space Pier - which is a series of towers 100km tall with an accelerator on the top - out of pressurized cylindrical columns made out of boron. (The linked article talks about diamondoid materials, but other researchers have looked into more conventional materials which would allow us to build towers 100km high.) Also, Robert Zubrin has looked into a Hypersonic Skyhook which doesn't extend all the way to the ground or out to geosynch. However, it's a lot easier to design and build a SSTO or TSTO craft that can acheive 100km altitude and 4 or 5 km/s delta-v, as opposed to 8.5 km/s needed for low earth orbit. It is rumored that Burt Rutan's White Knight Two is designed to also launch a higher performance rocket plane that could acheive this. (In addition to the Space Ship Two space tourism craft.)
Yes, we need liquid chemical fuels in Aviation. Liquid fuels are also useful wherever you need high power density in a portable form. I would guess that about 10% to 15% of current vehicular and power-tool use will continue to be based on internal combustion. But we should be able to sustain that using biofuels.
The original article is simply a statement of the fact that ANY industrial process in our current economy uses lots of fossil fuels. So just about anything you do is going to result in carbon emissions. Duh. But there is no reason why 85% of the uses of fossil fuels couldn't be replaced by something else or reduced through recycling. See The Methanol Economy for one possible alternative.
In a plausible future where all of out industrial processes have been changed to reduce carbon emissions, there won't be carbon emissions. In the present, where everything we do causes them, there are. Uh, Yeah!
More bragging: she's also petite, hot, and a Stanford graduate. I highly recommend that the single and non-African American portion of Slashdot date black women. Statistics from dating sites indicate that lots of people eliminate them from their preferences. Well, there's lots of smart and hot black women out there.
That, and take up some form of couples dancing. And hygiene. Confidence. Yada yada...
To know if I want to f*ck her, I need to know what she looks like in low-riser pants with her navel showing. (Or less clothing than that.) But in any case, I've had a girlfriend for over a year, so wanting to anything her is kinda academic.
Something that would help, is my NISC architecture. The Null Instruction Set Computer architecture. Not only does this architecture facilitate the lowering of the chip's voltage, you can also lower (or raise) the clock speed arbitrarily. The processor's clock speed can even be set to zero for the ultimate in power saving!
(In addition, you can increase the number of dies on a wafer, practically arbitrarily!)
I started developing the NISC architecture as an undergrad. I originally envisioned a NISC architecture as a {NOP} Instruction Set Computer. However, in an inspired moment, I realized that I could reduce the instruction set count by 1. (A savings of 100%!)
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A VM should just be treated as just another Platform! It's a virtual CPU, and instruction set architecture. Taking this further, a language and a set of libraries packaged with a VM should also be considered a Platform just as Windows XP or Ubuntu 7.10 is a Platform. This is precisely why Java version hell exists! You should not update platforms willy-nilly. You should not take a platform and bundle it with an application! If you are smart, you should either make everything supremely backwards compatible (Windows) or supremely upgradeable (Debian based Linux) or make a clean (and well organized) break that provides dramatic benefits (Mac OS X).
Sun didn't get it. Dot-Net got it because they were able to use hindsight to fill in the gaps where Sun didn't. The truth is, VMs and portable languages don't make operating systems irrelevant. They just (partially) virtualize the OS on top of the native one. The sooner VM language people realize this, and all of the pitfalls, the sooner things will get better! (Many already get things right. Python and Ruby seem to get this.)
It's hard to beat the energy & power density of internal combustion engines. Since there is no air, your propellant is heavier, since you'd need to carry the oxidizer, but I suspect that you'd still have an advantage in range. In The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin has proposed internal combustion Mars rovers that could use CO2 as an oxidizer. (I forget what the fuel is, but it can be made from methane derived from local CO2 and hydrogen.) Also, in the book The Rocket Company an automaker funds a trip to the moon where they use a modified SUV carrying its own oxidizer.
The licensing should be low-cost and go to a research company, to fund more cool inventions!
I once worked at a company with a bad CIO who had a lot of the attributes described in the article. One time, he was following a link from a company website to another that had an nntp:// link that opened up a Usenet group in Outlook on his PC. He responded with internal ravings about "Why is this negative crap on OUR CORPORATE WEBSITE!?"
Yes, we had a CIO that couldn't distinguish between NNTP and HTTP and couldn't tell the difference between Internet Explorer and Outlook.
Another option -- just make DRAM that drains all of its memory cells to ground when the power goes off. Every bit of DRAM is just a tiny capacitor, so this would erase the whole chip in an instant. If you could arrange for this to happen, then the DRAM would be be erased, unless you somehow supplied your own power to the DRAM chips.
You could use a capacitor to power this mechanism instead of a battery. It wouldn't need to last very long -- just long enough to scramble the RAM on power-down. It would be more reliable than a battery.
As if just looking at the folks who play these games isn't warning enough. Oh, wait. They never go out so we can see them!
(Former Eve Online player here!)
Time to turn in your geek cred. There's a lot of references to many things, some of which are pretty high-minded cultural references. There's also very artful and clever references to comics, games, sci-fi, movies, anime, and concepts like the singularity.
Hint: the thing being tripped on isn't acid.
He could've made this even greener by incorporating a small bird or monkey whose job it was to crank this to the top. This way, the people of the world are motivated to preserve wildlife so that they can read novels at night.
They are like Zeolites. For mobile applications, they're going to need a lot better than 83X. More like 1000X. This might be useful for stationary applications, however.
Rush, I can fix it! I have just the thing to fix your problem. It's called a "Rootkit." We'll install it right away!
Did I say that was it's greatest attribute? Nope. But it's a very good indicator of integrity of design and good architecture. There's probably some good OO going on in there. Watch the video, and you'll see what I mean.
Haiku is an example of code reuse par-excellence! You can get a normal desktop footprint into something like 60 megabytes. (Not one of these cut-down small footprint distros.) It's how an object-oriented multimedia operating system should be done.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=236331448076587879
Haiku is damn cool
The One OS that follows
Don't Repeat Yourself
Space Elevators going up to geosynchronous orbit aren't needed, so carbon nanotubes aren't needed either. We could build a Space Pier - which is a series of towers 100km tall with an accelerator on the top - out of pressurized cylindrical columns made out of boron. (The linked article talks about diamondoid materials, but other researchers have looked into more conventional materials which would allow us to build towers 100km high.) Also, Robert Zubrin has looked into a Hypersonic Skyhook which doesn't extend all the way to the ground or out to geosynch. However, it's a lot easier to design and build a SSTO or TSTO craft that can acheive 100km altitude and 4 or 5 km/s delta-v, as opposed to 8.5 km/s needed for low earth orbit. It is rumored that Burt Rutan's White Knight Two is designed to also launch a higher performance rocket plane that could acheive this. (In addition to the Space Ship Two space tourism craft.)
Yes, we need liquid chemical fuels in Aviation. Liquid fuels are also useful wherever you need high power density in a portable form. I would guess that about 10% to 15% of current vehicular and power-tool use will continue to be based on internal combustion. But we should be able to sustain that using biofuels.
The original article is simply a statement of the fact that ANY industrial process in our current economy uses lots of fossil fuels. So just about anything you do is going to result in carbon emissions. Duh. But there is no reason why 85% of the uses of fossil fuels couldn't be replaced by something else or reduced through recycling. See The Methanol Economy for one possible alternative.
In a plausible future where all of out industrial processes have been changed to reduce carbon emissions, there won't be carbon emissions. In the present, where everything we do causes them, there are. Uh, Yeah!
How about just swap a fraction of it?
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1319
Sarcos is way cool! We could have a tethered mecha in real life with their technology.
More bragging: she's also petite, hot, and a Stanford graduate. I highly recommend that the single and non-African American portion of Slashdot date black women. Statistics from dating sites indicate that lots of people eliminate them from their preferences. Well, there's lots of smart and hot black women out there.
That, and take up some form of couples dancing. And hygiene. Confidence. Yada yada...
I doubt you look that good!
To know if I want to f*ck her, I need to know what she looks like in low-riser pants with her navel showing. (Or less clothing than that.) But in any case, I've had a girlfriend for over a year, so wanting to anything her is kinda academic.
Lots of guys playing games with buxom female characters with the physics implemented for bouncing boobies.
She's quite pretty in the face. Makes me want to cuddle her!
Something that would help, is my NISC architecture. The Null Instruction Set Computer architecture. Not only does this architecture facilitate the lowering of the chip's voltage, you can also lower (or raise) the clock speed arbitrarily. The processor's clock speed can even be set to zero for the ultimate in power saving!
(In addition, you can increase the number of dies on a wafer, practically arbitrarily!)
I started developing the NISC architecture as an undergrad. I originally envisioned a NISC architecture as a {NOP} Instruction Set Computer. However, in an inspired moment, I realized that I could reduce the instruction set count by 1. (A savings of 100%!)
Passenger service might not work, but there is a proven market for rapid package delivery. No need to develop new propulsion systems for this, though.