If the recoil has the energy of the projected laser but in the opposite direction, the way a bullet gun's recoil does, how is it not enough to notice? The lasers in this article, including the hypothesized portable version, pack quite a wallop.
I'm surprised that hot chips don't already include a layer of microfluidics right inside the package. People have been dealing with overheating chips inefficiently for years. There's clearly an opportunity to sell chips with fluid cooling built right into them.
I think eventually buildings will have fluid cooling systems attached to heat sinks for all kinds of purposes. Geothermal heat pumps already are popular for making heating and cooling up to 4x as powerful as the electricity powering them (instead of typical efficiency under 100%). Refrigerators and clothes dryers could also benefit in efficiency by routing their relocated heat into a fluid through a heat sink. Computers, TVs, and other electronic devices all could run more efficiently connected to a shared heat sink circuit, while avoiding heating air during hot seasons that uses energy to be cooled back down.
Ultimately, we'll have to find a way to consume the waste heat instead of just move it "away", or suffer the fate of Larry Niven's Puppeteer Homeworld. But in the meantime, we can do a lot better job managing it with the tech we've already got, with a few tweaks and more widespread application.
The Mayan/Aztec/Inca/etc "2012" date is just their calendar's version of "Y2K". Their symbols for time are repeated circles, so they have to repeat somewhere. Nobody takes any other ancient Western Hemisphere religious prophecy seriously at all, even those that actually prophecy something other than the inevitable form the symbols will take on some day.
People are so afraid of a world they don't understand, that they refuse to understand, that plenty of us can be scared into overreacting to anything, no matter how paranoid and unreal.
Ever since I upgraded my P4/Intel-845-motherboard to Koala, GNOME or the X server has been crashing several times a day. The mouse still moves the cursor, but nothing can be clicked, no keyboard presses have any effect. I can telnet into the box, but the screen gets no updates. Stopping and/or restarting gdm has no effect (the scripts report OK). No errors in the console, or in dmesg.
I can't wait for GNOME 3 to fix this. I haven't even seen anyone else reporting it, and none of the updates since the Koala release have fixed it.
FreeCreditReport.com is a total scam. It's not free - you have to pay to get the report. But everyone's entitled to a free credit report once a year anyway, direct from the reporting corps, under US credit laws.
I've got a lot of money myself. I earned it, in that I worked to get it, and I might not have if I weren't both good and lucky. I pay more to support the system that keeps it coming to me. And I deal with lots of people richer than me, and I see that they're more lucky than good as the scale goes higher. The billionaires aren't thousands of times better than the millionaires. They're luckier. And they should pay more to keep the $billions flowing.
OTOH, you don't have much money. You're not that lucky, and you're probably not that good. You don't know much about it, so you'll speak in principle about what is different in practice. But you're working to keep those so much luckier than you, so much better off, even richer than if they were paying their way.
Put down the Ayn Rand for a while and find out about the nonfiction world you live in. Then watch out for your self interest, not the self interest of those you wish you were.
This exclusive market sounds like an excellent place to levy a 25% Federal sales tax.
Most of those qualifying assets come from TARP and other government handouts. The rest are all enabled by the US government protecting the "capitalism" that collects that kind of money in individuals' hands: socialism for the rich. And all of it is protected from other taxes by an army of lawyers and offshore tax shelters.
Give these rich people a toy exchange as bait for them to pay their way in supporting the government that makes their riches possible.
The compiled executables are completely native binaries, so it's not like a managed code language where the compiler generates bytecode for a virtual machine.
Android, Google's OS for small/mobile devices (eg. netbooks and mobile "phones"), runs a virtual machine called "Dalvik". Android is programmed in Java source code, which is compiled into bytecode that is not Java, but specific to Dalvik. Dalvik is not a stack architecture like most virtual (and real) CPUs, but is instead a register architecture, which is more parallel.
I'm surprised that Google is releasing a whole new language that is not targeting Dalvik with generated bytecode. Especially since Go is designed for parallelism. And also since they've got Rob Pike, who helped invent Unix and its programming environment (C) that go hand in hand. Pike also devised the Limbo language, which is a bytecode generator.
Go really seems like a half measure. I wonder why they bothered.
I'm looking forward to someone unlocking the reader SW from its Linux-driven dedicated HW. I'd like my webcam to read my books and magazines to me at home.
I know, but why does that separate system actively suppress regeneration? I don't see what environment factor selected for that trait to succeed and perpetuate. What evolutionary advantage does the suppression trait give?
But we evolved muscles and all the other tissues that regenerate. I don't see why nerves coming with an active system to interfere with their regeneration would give an evolutionary advantage that would conduct that trait into dominance in our species, or in vertebrates in general. I don't see how suppressing one's own nerve regeneration makes one any more likely to reproduce than just letting regeneration happen would. Indeed, the opposite seems true, as for any tissue, yet evidently evolution selected for suppression.
As for threesomes (and moresomes), they were indeed the norm, as favored by evolution, though probably not in the ratio you prefer with your girlfriend. Monogamy brought other advantages fairly recently, once human evolution proceeded in a context where social advantages could outweigh forces of nature. Of course humans will achieve benefits through actual "intelligent design" of our own survival than did the unguided evolution that brought us here. But I'm interested in how the former boss of our fate gave us this counterintuitive set of traits.
Warehouses routinely use three or four sensors to maintain a 3D image of every stored item's position and tag#. Those sensors, for thousands of cubic meters, are each about a meter long, or smaller.
The box on which I upgraded to U9.10 from U9.4, a P4 Intel mobo w/ integrated graphics, crashes GNOME (but not the kernel) after 2-6 hours running Firefox, Evolution and a few Nautilus folder windows. I suspect its 512MB RAM, but I haven't probed it over the LAN to see what's left up and in what condition. I'm hoping the next few days/weeks see patches that get it to a real stable condition on such extremely common HW.
The problem with GPS on each pet is that the device is expensive, and needs power. What about RFID tags on the pets, and a single central RFID sensor tracking them? Maybe just tracking whether the tags are within range, if 3D position is beyond the capability of the cheap sensor. Pets travel in packs together, so this "swarm" tech could work on them.
The RFIDs don't need power, and they're cheap enough to just replace when a pet loses or damages a collar. If the central RFID sensor is cheap enough, this could be a popular solution. If it can attach to a cellphone, the GPS in the phone and its wireless networking (3G, WiFi, Bluetooth) could keep the swarm on the Internet.
Is the RFID gear available to use for this purpose?
Did they authorize that execrable Will Smith I, Robot movie? If so, their "authorization" means nothing, except to copyright lawyers.
Which to the rest of us should clearly signal the abomination that is copyright law. Because the power to keep something like I, Robot exclusive to their authorized merchandizers, prohibited to anyone else (who might make something good of it) has absolutely nothing to do with "rights", and everything to do with the most inexcusable exploitation of art by commerce.
Once someone's copyable work has become folk art, the author cannot be the exclusive authority controlling it. The author is no longer the main source of its value when the work is valuable for its encoding in the culture that so many other people are perpetuating. The original US copyright term of 14 years after publication got it right for books: after a human generation (about 14 years in 1800), there is no longer any excuse to compromise the people's rights to free expression against protection of profits by a government minted monopoly. This case shows how badly wrong it's now gone, on books written and copyrighted several generations ago.
No, you're wrong. I worked for Apple in the 1990s, while the registration was in effect. Code registration was necessary to avoid collisions, which would mess up a desktop by crossing the two apps with their data. Sure, someone could pick their own code, but that was playing dice with the desktop universe. Apple used to deny the registration to some apps the company didn't like.
Central registration of unique codes isn't always authoritarian. But Apple used it to be. Meanwhile, Windows used a much larger namespace, 128 bit GUIDs, for the same purpose, which was better suited to their open app landscape.
Instead of posting inflammatory accusations, Anonymous Coward, why not just disagree, and get proven wrong without looking like a jerk?
What makes you believe they were "fooled"? Those people are professionals, highly informed, with lots of people telling them "don't be fooled" and why. Meanwhile they're getting bribed by the people who benefit from the way things went.
I'd need some evidence to believe their failures, that continue today despite overwhelming evidence of why it's wrong, are due to ignorance or foolishness instead of knowing bribery.
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If the recoil has the energy of the projected laser but in the opposite direction, the way a bullet gun's recoil does, how is it not enough to notice? The lasers in this article, including the hypothesized portable version, pack quite a wallop.
Can this card render HD 1080p@30FPS? What's the puniest Pentium that can deliver that HD data to it fast enough from a SATA drive?
And is there a Linux driver?
Does firing a laser bring recoil opposite the laser's direction with the energy equal to that in the laser, the way firing a bullet does?
I'm surprised that hot chips don't already include a layer of microfluidics right inside the package. People have been dealing with overheating chips inefficiently for years. There's clearly an opportunity to sell chips with fluid cooling built right into them.
I think eventually buildings will have fluid cooling systems attached to heat sinks for all kinds of purposes. Geothermal heat pumps already are popular for making heating and cooling up to 4x as powerful as the electricity powering them (instead of typical efficiency under 100%). Refrigerators and clothes dryers could also benefit in efficiency by routing their relocated heat into a fluid through a heat sink. Computers, TVs, and other electronic devices all could run more efficiently connected to a shared heat sink circuit, while avoiding heating air during hot seasons that uses energy to be cooled back down.
Ultimately, we'll have to find a way to consume the waste heat instead of just move it "away", or suffer the fate of Larry Niven's Puppeteer Homeworld. But in the meantime, we can do a lot better job managing it with the tech we've already got, with a few tweaks and more widespread application.
The Mayan/Aztec/Inca/etc "2012" date is just their calendar's version of "Y2K". Their symbols for time are repeated circles, so they have to repeat somewhere. Nobody takes any other ancient Western Hemisphere religious prophecy seriously at all, even those that actually prophecy something other than the inevitable form the symbols will take on some day.
People are so afraid of a world they don't understand, that they refuse to understand, that plenty of us can be scared into overreacting to anything, no matter how paranoid and unreal.
I hope this cheap and easy way to display where land mines are hidden is enough to stop people from using landmines altogether.
Google can just pay them a $million each to come back. Or $1.5 million. Google's a lot richer than Mark Cuban is.
If Google pays them a $million to come back, then it's certainly worth it.
Ever since I upgraded my P4/Intel-845-motherboard to Koala, GNOME or the X server has been crashing several times a day. The mouse still moves the cursor, but nothing can be clicked, no keyboard presses have any effect. I can telnet into the box, but the screen gets no updates. Stopping and/or restarting gdm has no effect (the scripts report OK). No errors in the console, or in dmesg.
I can't wait for GNOME 3 to fix this. I haven't even seen anyone else reporting it, and none of the updates since the Koala release have fixed it.
What will fix this?
FreeCreditReport.com is a total scam. It's not free - you have to pay to get the report. But everyone's entitled to a free credit report once a year anyway, direct from the reporting corps, under US credit laws.
And now that scam has funded this evil precedent.
Goddamn the lawyers.
No, not in principle. But in practice, yes.
I've got a lot of money myself. I earned it, in that I worked to get it, and I might not have if I weren't both good and lucky. I pay more to support the system that keeps it coming to me. And I deal with lots of people richer than me, and I see that they're more lucky than good as the scale goes higher. The billionaires aren't thousands of times better than the millionaires. They're luckier. And they should pay more to keep the $billions flowing.
OTOH, you don't have much money. You're not that lucky, and you're probably not that good. You don't know much about it, so you'll speak in principle about what is different in practice. But you're working to keep those so much luckier than you, so much better off, even richer than if they were paying their way.
Put down the Ayn Rand for a while and find out about the nonfiction world you live in. Then watch out for your self interest, not the self interest of those you wish you were.
This exclusive market sounds like an excellent place to levy a 25% Federal sales tax.
Most of those qualifying assets come from TARP and other government handouts. The rest are all enabled by the US government protecting the "capitalism" that collects that kind of money in individuals' hands: socialism for the rich. And all of it is protected from other taxes by an army of lawyers and offshore tax shelters.
Give these rich people a toy exchange as bait for them to pay their way in supporting the government that makes their riches possible.
Android, Google's OS for small/mobile devices (eg. netbooks and mobile "phones"), runs a virtual machine called "Dalvik". Android is programmed in Java source code, which is compiled into bytecode that is not Java, but specific to Dalvik. Dalvik is not a stack architecture like most virtual (and real) CPUs, but is instead a register architecture, which is more parallel.
I'm surprised that Google is releasing a whole new language that is not targeting Dalvik with generated bytecode. Especially since Go is designed for parallelism. And also since they've got Rob Pike, who helped invent Unix and its programming environment (C) that go hand in hand. Pike also devised the Limbo language, which is a bytecode generator.
Go really seems like a half measure. I wonder why they bothered.
I'm looking forward to someone unlocking the reader SW from its Linux-driven dedicated HW. I'd like my webcam to read my books and magazines to me at home.
So much for the argument that nukes are better than oil because the fuel is less limited.
And how cheap is this ex-Soviet fuel, while it lasts? Shouldn't we count the cost to get them, which includes $TRILLIONS on the Cold War?
I got an iPhone to up my wireless coverage, AT&T. Now up yours.
I know, but why does that separate system actively suppress regeneration? I don't see what environment factor selected for that trait to succeed and perpetuate. What evolutionary advantage does the suppression trait give?
But we evolved muscles and all the other tissues that regenerate. I don't see why nerves coming with an active system to interfere with their regeneration would give an evolutionary advantage that would conduct that trait into dominance in our species, or in vertebrates in general. I don't see how suppressing one's own nerve regeneration makes one any more likely to reproduce than just letting regeneration happen would. Indeed, the opposite seems true, as for any tissue, yet evidently evolution selected for suppression.
As for threesomes (and moresomes), they were indeed the norm, as favored by evolution, though probably not in the ratio you prefer with your girlfriend. Monogamy brought other advantages fairly recently, once human evolution proceeded in a context where social advantages could outweigh forces of nature. Of course humans will achieve benefits through actual "intelligent design" of our own survival than did the unguided evolution that brought us here. But I'm interested in how the former boss of our fate gave us this counterintuitive set of traits.
What possible evolutionary advantage could come from the body interfering with its own nerves regenerating the way the rest of its tissues regenerate?
Warehouses routinely use three or four sensors to maintain a 3D image of every stored item's position and tag#. Those sensors, for thousands of cubic meters, are each about a meter long, or smaller.
The box on which I upgraded to U9.10 from U9.4, a P4 Intel mobo w/ integrated graphics, crashes GNOME (but not the kernel) after 2-6 hours running Firefox, Evolution and a few Nautilus folder windows. I suspect its 512MB RAM, but I haven't probed it over the LAN to see what's left up and in what condition. I'm hoping the next few days/weeks see patches that get it to a real stable condition on such extremely common HW.
The problem with GPS on each pet is that the device is expensive, and needs power. What about RFID tags on the pets, and a single central RFID sensor tracking them? Maybe just tracking whether the tags are within range, if 3D position is beyond the capability of the cheap sensor. Pets travel in packs together, so this "swarm" tech could work on them.
The RFIDs don't need power, and they're cheap enough to just replace when a pet loses or damages a collar. If the central RFID sensor is cheap enough, this could be a popular solution. If it can attach to a cellphone, the GPS in the phone and its wireless networking (3G, WiFi, Bluetooth) could keep the swarm on the Internet.
Is the RFID gear available to use for this purpose?
Did they authorize that execrable Will Smith I, Robot movie? If so, their "authorization" means nothing, except to copyright lawyers.
Which to the rest of us should clearly signal the abomination that is copyright law. Because the power to keep something like I, Robot exclusive to their authorized merchandizers, prohibited to anyone else (who might make something good of it) has absolutely nothing to do with "rights", and everything to do with the most inexcusable exploitation of art by commerce.
Once someone's copyable work has become folk art, the author cannot be the exclusive authority controlling it. The author is no longer the main source of its value when the work is valuable for its encoding in the culture that so many other people are perpetuating. The original US copyright term of 14 years after publication got it right for books: after a human generation (about 14 years in 1800), there is no longer any excuse to compromise the people's rights to free expression against protection of profits by a government minted monopoly. This case shows how badly wrong it's now gone, on books written and copyrighted several generations ago.
No, you're wrong. I worked for Apple in the 1990s, while the registration was in effect. Code registration was necessary to avoid collisions, which would mess up a desktop by crossing the two apps with their data. Sure, someone could pick their own code, but that was playing dice with the desktop universe. Apple used to deny the registration to some apps the company didn't like.
Central registration of unique codes isn't always authoritarian. But Apple used it to be. Meanwhile, Windows used a much larger namespace, 128 bit GUIDs, for the same purpose, which was better suited to their open app landscape.
Instead of posting inflammatory accusations, Anonymous Coward, why not just disagree, and get proven wrong without looking like a jerk?
What makes you believe they were "fooled"? Those people are professionals, highly informed, with lots of people telling them "don't be fooled" and why. Meanwhile they're getting bribed by the people who benefit from the way things went.
I'd need some evidence to believe their failures, that continue today despite overwhelming evidence of why it's wrong, are due to ignorance or foolishness instead of knowing bribery.