Yes, because if they did, they'd be really, really slow.
Actually this wouldn't be so bad!
The speed of processors have incresased a LOT lately, but seemingly at the price of reliability. I don't need a 3Ghz processor, few people do! I'd love to see them take time to make there current processors much more reliable and cooler.
As I'm sure anyone with infrared equipment will know, it dosen't travel around objects very well. So I can't see this being useful indoors.
Outdoors as a point-to-point link, it's a bit more useful. But may fail because of the same reason. A light rain or snow shower could probably block one of these links.
If I understand correcty, the accepted one is that Mars's gravity well is too shallow to hold on to an atmosphere of anything lighter than carbon dioxide over geologic time (which among other things means that any terraforming won't be permanent, and that we aren't likely to find *much* water underground).
I used to think this to, but Titan has even less gravity than Mars yet keeps an atmosphere that is about 50% thicker than Earths.
... Dr Paul Murdin, of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. 'On Mars, when its magnetic field failed permanently billions of years ago, it led to its atmosphere being boiled off.'
Whoa.. steady on there Dr.Murdin! That's quite a brave thing to say as if it's a fact. That's just on theory, and an interesting one to, but you cannot prove this yet. I'm sure there are lots of other reasons why Mars atmosphere is the way it is now.
'On Earth, it will heat up the upper atmosphere and send ripples round the world with enormous, unpredictable effects on the climate.'
Arh! I think it will make some lovely daytime aurora, and generally play havoc with electrical equipment.
Mars is exposed to this kind of solar radiation, but it's atmosphere stays fairly chilly! The only solar radiation that seems to affect its temperature is the infra-red kind.
I'm willing to bet this article is nothing more than pre-hype for the movie The Core.
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You can get a trailer and theme music for it here.
Yes, because if they did, they'd be really, really slow.
Actually this wouldn't be so bad!
The speed of processors have incresased a LOT lately, but seemingly at the price of reliability. I don't need a 3Ghz processor, few people do! I'd love to see them take time to make there current processors much more reliable and cooler.
My first computer, the C64 runs at a massive 1Mhz, only about 3 times faster than this machine.
:)
Commodore released the 64 in 1982, this puts it at 20 years of age. That's 30 years between these two machines. When did Moore make that law again?
Yikes, imagine what the computer world will be like in 30 years time! Assuming MS haven't screwed it up for everyone.
You seem to have done your homework :)
So a quick question: Have you seen Linux or no-OS laptop's that have a trackerball for a mouse? I can't stand those square pad things.
I wouldn't like to be a bug hitting *that* windscreen.
Yep! :)
.. we can forgive CmdrTaco! I'm really excited about this next movie to!
It was covered on Slashdot back then to.
Well it's Sunday
"... the rainforest of the entertainment business ecosystem will collapse."
That sounds oddly fimiliar.
Bill G: Lukas I am your father.
George L: Woo-hoo!
I think they're going to need bigger incisions...
Nah! Didn't you ever see the Innerspace documentary?
I hope those theves get there library cards taken of them and a 90p fine for each day they didn't return the book.
Vibrating Suit
I mis-read the topic of your post the first time.
Horrible mental image I have now.
Bah!
I've never read the book, so maybe someone who has could explain this..
Why where the spiders always leaving in a row just after each attack. Why where they there in the first place?
Did I miss something?
I wonder if a similar technique could be used in the browser. Automatically block images or popups based on previous ones you have blocked.
Now that would be very nifty!
CDs degrade after a few plays? never heard of that, got a link?
Yea, any Britney Spears CD.
Infact, those begin to degrade during delivery.
Most new music already degrades after a few plays.
Strange how they missed that. The stories are getting oddly pro-Microsoft lately.
As I'm sure anyone with infrared equipment will know, it dosen't travel around objects very well. So I can't see this being useful indoors.
Outdoors as a point-to-point link, it's a bit more useful. But may fail because of the same reason. A light rain or snow shower could probably block one of these links.
If I understand correcty, the accepted one is that Mars's gravity well is too shallow to hold on to an atmosphere of anything lighter than carbon dioxide over geologic time (which among other things means that any terraforming won't be permanent, and that we aren't likely to find *much* water underground).
I used to think this to, but Titan has even less gravity than Mars yet keeps an atmosphere that is about 50% thicker than Earths.
... Dr Paul Murdin, of the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. 'On Mars, when its magnetic field failed permanently billions of years ago, it led to its atmosphere being boiled off.'
.. steady on there Dr.Murdin! That's quite a brave thing to say as if it's a fact. That's just on theory, and an interesting one to, but you cannot prove this yet. I'm sure there are lots of other reasons why Mars atmosphere is the way it is now.
Whoa
'On Earth, it will heat up the upper atmosphere and send ripples round the world with enormous, unpredictable effects on the climate.'
Arh! I think it will make some lovely daytime aurora, and generally play havoc with electrical equipment.
Mars is exposed to this kind of solar radiation, but it's atmosphere stays fairly chilly! The only solar radiation that seems to affect its temperature is the infra-red kind.
I'm willing to bet this article is nothing more than pre-hype for the movie The Core.
Guess it's the old MS effect.
Thanks for the overview, and the link!
I haven't seen these patients but they do seem rather vague.
plugins, applets, activeX controls and other similar technology
Unless it's specifically tied to Internet Explorer, then these could cover a huge amount of programs.
Can someone correct me if I'm wrong please!
Banner adverts really lower my impression of a website ... *ahem*
Here on Slashdot nobody makes typos.
Many do, however, have a unique text based 'accent'...
I never said I could spell.
I failed the English exam twice. Now I post on Slashdot.
The USA won WWII.
No they didn't! They helped end it. The alliance won the war. (that includes the United States).
Anyways, this is massivly off-topic.
Why should the West be forced to subsidize cultures and nations that produce no tangible benefits to humanity?
Do us all a favour, keep going west. You'll eventually find an ocean. Just keep going...