One nautical mile is one second (1/60th degree) of declination at the equator.
Similarly you can tie the 360 degrees in a circle to the length of a year. Remember it was the "holy men" (and women in some cultures) who originally calculated all this. Their main charge was to determine when to plant crops and such.
Now if you want to talk about decimal circles then we have radians.
I am still a newbie Linux user who has not throughly researched BSD. Is BSD multiprocessor? I my guess is that it is. Isn't MacOS-X based on BSD? I KNOW BSD runs on the x86 platform. Could MacOS fill the gap for a desktop multi-processor platform?
Since I'm broke on this I would appreciate the best $0.02 I can borrow to rub together.
How about putting a significant amount of RAM on the die with the 2 (4 or 8) processors? From my understanding of space and volume it should be possible to put at least 256 MB on the die with 2 processors in an L3 or similar arrangement. Yes the complexity is higher but the overall speed of the system would increase much by having a significant amount of RAM at (or near) chip speed.
This coupled with about 1 GB of system RAM would (hopefully) provide superior performance.
As a side note, I guess my next box will be SMP, I like SMP machines!
Um...recompile the kernel? Are they going to make it so you HAVE to use the included Linux binary with no other way around? Wouldn't that be a GPL violation?
Since people have complained that Palm Desktop isn't always great, working in the palm environment on their PC may be an improvement. Then just sync the PC environment with the desktop, and hotsync the handheld. Or better still, write an application that allows a palm environment to hotsync with another palm environment and do away with Palm desktop entirely.
There are some fair wordprocessors and such for palm already, so this may be a good option of some very lightweight PC's that are coming out.
I remember some Voice recognition software (from Creative Labs?) on the 386 platform. It wasn't very good, took hours to configure, and was a pain in the royal @$$. It was something at least. One of my profs ranted about it from time to time. He even had a demo set up that would type in an almost 1337 manner it was so bad at spelling and word-selection.
It was amusing. What was more amusing was that he kept this ancient computer for only one reason. This software package!
I am having the same lifestyle problems. I am sure I still can leg 500lbs(for reps), but I'd probably regret it the next day. I would be happy if I could do the bar(40 lbs) for bench reps. On the other hand, I can wear blue jeans. From when I started swim team till just a few years ago I could only wear pleated slacks because of the extra muscle! Choice of wardrobe is in some ways worthwile, but being able to lift small cars was a cool thing.
I second the need for the time between images per the photographer. Since the unmodified images are supposedly posted the time may be able to be found.
Motorboats produce significantly less wake on plane than when moving slowly.
Ultimately there is not enough information about the setup to make any conclusion.
I am a fairly recent Linux user. I have been having a lot of difficulties with the configuration of my machine. That I am running a slightly antique and non-standard configuration probably does not help. I used Linux in college so I could X-term over to the Sun workstations in the engineering lab and do my homework, but then I graduated and had little use for my computer in any manner except as a game machine. In fact it sat gathering dust and I used my wife's better, newer machine (AMD K6-2 300 w 128MB ram).
Her machine met with heat death and chips falling off the M-board. Very sad.
In any hoot I dug out my machine and started playing with it. I found that the new games wouldn't run on it (but they do on my wife's new laptop I usually never see) and that Win2k was becoming less capable of keeping up with even surfing on the internet.
Since I had my machine up and going now, I downloaded Slackware 10.0. Slackware was my choice because when I was in school, it was the choice of my classmates who played with Linux. It was also recomended by my co-workers at the helpdesk, some of whom were manageing networks for small business in the area running Red Hat, Suse, and Slackware.
Just to note I was running a P133 for most of my college and got the dual P-Pro just before graduating.
My biggest difficulty is in configuring various services for using this machine as a desktop machine with intent on software developing capacity. I do not need Apache (and successfully turned it off) or many other services that are running and eating up my seemingly precious processor clock cycles. I am finding little information on the services I SHOULD be running for MY situation. I also have a hard time learning what services that are running are doing.
This is frusterating. I am learning slowly. It took me probably 2 weeks to learn that Xorg is based on XF86 but is also a seperate fork. Both forks aparently looking at advancements the other makes to help improve both sets. I still cannot get the wheel to work on my new Logitech optical mouse!
But I am now ranting.
Since I want to re-enter the engineering field, and lack money, (due to being in sales in a less than steller economy,) I am learning skills I thought I was supposed to have been taught. I have Pascal code for Runga-Kutta, Taylor method, and probably 3 other numeric integration method. I was never taught how to do anything other than crunch numbers with a computer! To remedy this a bit I am learning ANSI C as a starting point.
Please don't devalue my choice in text but I am using C Programming in easy steps by Mike McGrath, published by Barnes & Noble. I am finding it helpful, and understandable. I am loosing interest in what I do after a bit, so I am getting only one or two pages read and worked a day. I figure I'll finish this by the new year. Maybe then I will be able to apply some of the Finite Modeling methods I studied to projects I am interested in such as boat hull design.
If any of you are working on your Linear Algebra and lack interest or understanding of application, look up FEM methods and see what it is used for. No, this is not the only use, but it is a powerful use.
Back to the Linux box. I have caused everything to crash through my own intervention as root, and even as user. I have bought some books, downloaded some server management texts, did multiple searches of the internet. The most I have learned is really from the Info files and Man pages already on my machine. I have the August '94 version of O'Reily's Unix in a nutshell (bought in '95) and 4th edition of Linux in a nutshell published in '03 (bought a few weeks ago). These do much to aid my search for answers, but are partially accountable for most of my partial system crashes (due to not having the full _spelled_out_ answer). I still am learning, and I DO get mor
Sounds like my High School photo editor's car, a Yugo, stick shift. I would (alone) lift the BACK wheels off the ground to get past the parking brake. Then I would walk his car to a new parking spot while the engine was going pft...pft...
I'll admit to being on swimming/diving team and being able to leg press more than the car weighed at the time (I was leg pressing around 1200 lbs for reps.Shamefully my bench press was less than 10% that.)
It was lots of fun fun seeing him...(scratching head)"I know I parked here...Why is my car over there!" pointing behind a school bus 50 feet away!
The gag got old after quite quick. The second time I moved his car I was witnessed by some football players on the news staff. His car would be anywhere other than where he left it! At least they had the decency to not put it in the third floor stairwell as my Dad (and several of his friends) did to someone's Bug when HE was in high school!
I'll take a temporary increased risk of a severe heart attack to sure death or paralysis. That may be just me, but I also plan to never have more nerve damage done than I already have. Not having full feeling in a few fingertips because of a drift-fence post is unpleasent, but tolerable (sliced through 2 fingers to the bone). Not having any ability to move on my own would be a fate worse than death I think. Phil
I'm giving it a shot. At 1AM there are very few people I can call to try it with though.
Do you know if updating my roaming will affect these settings? They (verizion) say to dial into their system to update at least monthly. I usually do so about every 3 months. No, I do not get better reception in general, but I have noticed some coverage holes (dropped call at N-milepost on hour long commute) dissapear after an update.
Or "Can you hear..." sorry, could't resist.
On a more serious side, I used to own a Samsung cell, but have since replaced it with a Morotolla. I have spoken to several different salespeople for cell phones because I cannot get reception on the new motorola phone inside building with lots of metal...such as grocery stores (lots of steel fixtures, not to mention canned goods)or the local marine equipment store. With the Samsung phone I had little to no problems at these locations.
BUT
There's always a but. I am told that my crapy reception phone has better sound quality on the other end than the phone I could talk on anywhere!
At lest the Motorola does not reach Canada from Port Clinton, Ohio. Nasty roaming.
A traveler, fleeing a tiger who was chasing him, ran till he came to the edge of a cliff. There he caught hold of a thick vine, and swung himself over the edge. Above him the tiger snarled. Below him he heard another snarl, and behold, there was another tiger, peering up at him.... Then in front of him on the cliffside he saw a luscious bunch of grapes. Holding onto the vine with one hand, he reached and picked a grape with the other.
How delicious!
Zen Buddhist Parable
Almost as good as antigrav! This is quoted from the Indiana section of his flight log
I looked at the engine pictures on the website. I think most of us have had a chance to look through some technical books on mechanical systems (computers, cars, steam turbines, boats...) and find that the best line drawings are either CAD output or hand drawn. I have seen some Clymer marine outdrive manuals and (even worse) some books on knot tying that used photo manipulation to get the images. They suck.
In the images, the lines generated of the engine compartment via both methods leave a lot to be desired. The multi-flash method is better, but lacks flat surface detail (such as where hoses end and thermostat housing begins). From the two techniques shown some very good illustrations could be made with some intelligent overlaying. (Oh wait, that would mean someone would have to THINK about the illustration!)
On the other hand the age old methods of halftoning and lithography are very good for technical illustration. Clear line art is still recomended for many assemblies.
I think that use of this type of digital camera and processing will greatly aid the world of technical document writers. I am glad that I do not generate the garbage that I see written, and wish that colleges would require more writing classes for engineers (This is coming from an engineer who failed English 101 the first time!)
The engine looks strangely like a Chrysler LeBarron or Omni, but that may be my imagination. Inline 4 cylinder engines are very similar no matter who built them. Kinda like 2 stroke outboard (boat) engines under 25 HP.
Could you please post screenshots of your configuration BEFORE you go onto your epic quest? If you are willing to play gunia pig and DO get fragged we would like to know what the settings were before the experiment.
You know...
Scientific Method
Repeatability of results.
Also please include what your internet provider is, and if you have any proxy setting, personal firewalls, home network router....EVERYTHING. I don't care to repeat the experiment, I am learning Slackware now, but I may find this infor helpful for other people I know. Thanks for bravely volunteering yourself, your pride and your hardware.
When I was a university student, the school had a site liscence for Norton Antivirus. As a student you could install it free of charge, and it would LiveUpdate as well to stay current. In fact LiveUpdate was just out and a new good thing. The key was that having a defense against a "majority" of malware as seen by most was not enough. Users still required education on what was causing their problems. Most users did not want the time to learn about security on their machine. This meant that people were hacking other boxes on campus, people were setting up malicious websites on their own machines, people were setting up malicious websites using university resources. (my favorite was a java script "Click here for a good time" and it would try to format the harddrive!!)
The university then started a newsletter that all tech support staff, department heads and administrative staff were supposed to subscribe to. This newsletter would detail technology happenings on campus, planned outages, maintence, a short security blurb, calls open/closed/pending, a blurb about not opening attachments unless you know the source, and much else.
There were always some warnings about attachments and security on the internet.
Several one-shot free classes were set up for all people at the university. Show up, learn about WHY you don't surf porn. Learn why all these things that were "bad" are considered such.
After about 2 years of this the major problems with viruses and infected attachments started noticabling dropping off to the point of very few calls were about a virus type issue..only a few a week instead of a few a day. Then I graduated.
I understand that most tech staff cannot schedule resources like a university can, but having a tech newsletter for an organization is good, as well as having tech instruction to the low level usere who don't see anything other than a magic box of fun!
Having books like this is an obvious good thing, and I may consider going and getting a copy even though I am not doing tech support anymore.
New laws on the Fed. level prevent resident doctors and doctors from working more than 80 hour weeks on a 4 week moving average. Old laws state that a doctor is only allowed to be on 24 hours, then cannot accept new paitents. Said doc must leave after 36 hours though. Now with coding, while death is not a likely outcome for the paitent, rebooting works on computers, not many humans. Productivity obviouly suffers when the "employee" is too worn out to function properly. Phil Please don't mod as "redundant" find something more interesting to mod this down please.
OK, one of the articles states that the "Break Even Point" for sending energy vs physical data is around 10^14 bits of data. With this in mind, and text being ASCII as 7 bit, or binary as 8 bit (easier math for me at least) that is 1.25x10^13 charcters. Lets assume a 5 charcter average word ( I know this is slightly small, six and a half is probably better, but close, again easy math.) This gives 2.5x10^12 words that can be used. If I remember my History and english classes (been a few years) a typical page is around 300 to 500 words. Again, lets be easy with the math and use 500. This gives 5x10^9 pages of info. I remember most of my textbooks cecking in at around 1500 pages so we have a whole library (3.33x10^6) of books that can be transmitted toa location for the approximate price of shipping those books. How about we choose a few good texts that explain our learning and run with that. The data needed to convey intelligence and civilizatin is much less than a whole library. On the other hand without a whole library to sift though who is going to make sure the picture is fair and balanced... lets touch that when they are ready to visit.
It still remains for Slashdot to clarify, for the future, what their exact stance is on copyright issues. Who [owns] posts here, and what does "ownership" refer to? I have faith that they will answer these questions too, and that most Slashdot users will be happy with their answers.
Ownership of a post means (to me) that the idea is owned by the person who writes it, and is really more of a statement of responsibility to the poster, for having proper information, structure etc., as well as a statement of responsibility to whomever looks at the post so they know who wrote it. This would mean to me that if it is used in a different format that there would need to be a direct citation of where the idea came from. This would probably be a citaton to the history on/. and a statement in the printed text.
I look at some of these games and the average suggested price of many are over $50!! This isn't flamebait, but my opinion, I am not able to pay more than about $25 for ANY game, or for that matter any software in general. I am a student, and on a budget. The end result of this is I get a game that's been out for a while and everybody else has mastered it already, I get my A** kicked a few dozen times at it, then I am a competitive player, if I play networked, or I play the scenarios and then decide I don't want to play any further. In this case I pass the game on to one of my friends, lock, stock and barrel. This is my opinion, there are laws against being killed for having one.
Slashdot Mirror
One nautical mile is one second (1/60th degree) of declination at the equator.
Similarly you can tie the 360 degrees in a circle to the length of a year. Remember it was the "holy men" (and women in some cultures) who originally calculated all this. Their main charge was to determine when to plant crops and such.
Now if you want to talk about decimal circles then we have radians.
What we really need is a base PI system of counting! Then we can really blow stuff up!
Phil
I am still a newbie Linux user who has not throughly researched BSD. Is BSD multiprocessor? I my guess is that it is. Isn't MacOS-X based on BSD? I KNOW BSD runs on the x86 platform. Could MacOS fill the gap for a desktop multi-processor platform?
Since I'm broke on this I would appreciate the best $0.02 I can borrow to rub together.
Phil
How about putting a significant amount of RAM on the die with the 2 (4 or 8) processors? From my understanding of space and volume it should be possible to put at least 256 MB on the die with 2 processors in an L3 or similar arrangement. Yes the complexity is higher but the overall speed of the system would increase much by having a significant amount of RAM at (or near) chip speed.
This coupled with about 1 GB of system RAM would (hopefully) provide superior performance.
As a side note, I guess my next box will be SMP, I like SMP machines!
Phil
Too late. The images are tanked already!
Um...recompile the kernel? Are they going to make it so you HAVE to use the included Linux binary with no other way around? Wouldn't that be a GPL violation?
Since people have complained that Palm Desktop isn't always great, working in the palm environment on their PC may be an improvement. Then just sync the PC environment with the desktop, and hotsync the handheld. Or better still, write an application that allows a palm environment to hotsync with another palm environment and do away with Palm desktop entirely.
There are some fair wordprocessors and such for palm already, so this may be a good option of some very lightweight PC's that are coming out.
Phil
So instead of "startx" I can type "startpalm" or something like that?
If the processor is emulated, then would it run on a PC that the Linux kernel is compiled correctly?
Other than development I am not sure if this is usefull though.
Phil
I remember some Voice recognition software (from Creative Labs?) on the 386 platform. It wasn't very good, took hours to configure, and was a pain in the royal @$$. It was something at least. One of my profs ranted about it from time to time. He even had a demo set up that would type in an almost 1337 manner it was so bad at spelling and word-selection.
It was amusing. What was more amusing was that he kept this ancient computer for only one reason. This software package!
Phil
I am having the same lifestyle problems. I am sure I still can leg 500lbs(for reps), but I'd probably regret it the next day. I would be happy if I could do the bar(40 lbs) for bench reps. On the other hand, I can wear blue jeans. From when I started swim team till just a few years ago I could only wear pleated slacks because of the extra muscle! Choice of wardrobe is in some ways worthwile, but being able to lift small cars was a cool thing.
Phil
I second the need for the time between images per the photographer. Since the unmodified images are supposedly posted the time may be able to be found.
Motorboats produce significantly less wake on plane than when moving slowly.
Ultimately there is not enough information about the setup to make any conclusion.
Phil
I think that is one of the few arguments I have heard in support of Konqueror.
I know the feeling. Windows is almost too easy.
I am a fairly recent Linux user. I have been having a lot of difficulties with the configuration of my machine. That I am running a slightly antique and non-standard configuration probably does not help. I used Linux in college so I could X-term over to the Sun workstations in the engineering lab and do my homework, but then I graduated and had little use for my computer in any manner except as a game machine. In fact it sat gathering dust and I used my wife's better, newer machine (AMD K6-2 300 w 128MB ram).
Her machine met with heat death and chips falling off the M-board. Very sad.
In any hoot I dug out my machine and started playing with it. I found that the new games wouldn't run on it (but they do on my wife's new laptop I usually never see) and that Win2k was becoming less capable of keeping up with even surfing on the internet.
Since I had my machine up and going now, I downloaded Slackware 10.0. Slackware was my choice because when I was in school, it was the choice of my classmates who played with Linux. It was also recomended by my co-workers at the helpdesk, some of whom were manageing networks for small business in the area running Red Hat, Suse, and Slackware.
Just to note I was running a P133 for most of my college and got the dual P-Pro just before graduating.
My biggest difficulty is in configuring various services for using this machine as a desktop machine with intent on software developing capacity. I do not need Apache (and successfully turned it off) or many other services that are running and eating up my seemingly precious processor clock cycles. I am finding little information on the services I SHOULD be running for MY situation. I also have a hard time learning what services that are running are doing.
This is frusterating. I am learning slowly. It took me probably 2 weeks to learn that Xorg is based on XF86 but is also a seperate fork. Both forks aparently looking at advancements the other makes to help improve both sets. I still cannot get the wheel to work on my new Logitech optical mouse!
But I am now ranting.
Since I want to re-enter the engineering field, and lack money, (due to being in sales in a less than steller economy,) I am learning skills I thought I was supposed to have been taught. I have Pascal code for Runga-Kutta, Taylor method, and probably 3 other numeric integration method. I was never taught how to do anything other than crunch numbers with a computer! To remedy this a bit I am learning ANSI C as a starting point.
Please don't devalue my choice in text but I am using C Programming in easy steps by Mike McGrath, published by Barnes & Noble. I am finding it helpful, and understandable. I am loosing interest in what I do after a bit, so I am getting only one or two pages read and worked a day. I figure I'll finish this by the new year. Maybe then I will be able to apply some of the Finite Modeling methods I studied to projects I am interested in such as boat hull design.
If any of you are working on your Linear Algebra and lack interest or understanding of application, look up FEM methods and see what it is used for. No, this is not the only use, but it is a powerful use.
Back to the Linux box. I have caused everything to crash through my own intervention as root, and even as user. I have bought some books, downloaded some server management texts, did multiple searches of the internet. The most I have learned is really from the Info files and Man pages already on my machine. I have the August '94 version of O'Reily's Unix in a nutshell (bought in '95) and 4th edition of Linux in a nutshell published in '03 (bought a few weeks ago). These do much to aid my search for answers, but are partially accountable for most of my partial system crashes (due to not having the full _spelled_out_ answer). I still am learning, and I DO get mor
Sounds like my High School photo editor's car, a Yugo, stick shift. I would (alone) lift the BACK wheels off the ground to get past the parking brake. Then I would walk his car to a new parking spot while the engine was going pft...pft...
I'll admit to being on swimming/diving team and being able to leg press more than the car weighed at the time (I was leg pressing around 1200 lbs for reps.Shamefully my bench press was less than 10% that.)
It was lots of fun fun seeing him...(scratching head)"I know I parked here...Why is my car over there!" pointing behind a school bus 50 feet away!
The gag got old after quite quick. The second time I moved his car I was witnessed by some football players on the news staff. His car would be anywhere other than where he left it! At least they had the decency to not put it in the third floor stairwell as my Dad (and several of his friends) did to someone's Bug when HE was in high school!
Phil
Maybe, but I think you are thinking of propolyne glycol. It is an alternative to Ethylene Glycol as an antifreese agent.
I'll take a temporary increased risk of a severe heart attack to sure death or paralysis. That may be just me, but I also plan to never have more nerve damage done than I already have. Not having full feeling in a few fingertips because of a drift-fence post is unpleasent, but tolerable (sliced through 2 fingers to the bone). Not having any ability to move on my own would be a fate worse than death I think.
Phil
I'm giving it a shot. At 1AM there are very few people I can call to try it with though.
Do you know if updating my roaming will affect these settings? They (verizion) say to dial into their system to update at least monthly. I usually do so about every 3 months. No, I do not get better reception in general, but I have noticed some coverage holes (dropped call at N-milepost on hour long commute) dissapear after an update.
Thanks
Phil
Missing "P" there. Try CRAPPY. I was too busy checking this new thing called HTML that I just learned and forgot the spelling.
Phil
Or "Can you hear..." sorry, could't resist.
On a more serious side, I used to own a Samsung cell, but have since replaced it with a Morotolla. I have spoken to several different salespeople for cell phones because I cannot get reception on the new motorola phone inside building with lots of metal...such as grocery stores (lots of steel fixtures, not to mention canned goods)or the local marine equipment store. With the Samsung phone I had little to no problems at these locations.
BUT
There's always a but. I am told that my crapy reception phone has better sound quality on the other end than the phone I could talk on anywhere!
At lest the Motorola does not reach Canada from Port Clinton, Ohio. Nasty roaming.
I looked at the engine pictures on the website. I think most of us have had a chance to look through some technical books on mechanical systems (computers, cars, steam turbines, boats...) and find that the best line drawings are either CAD output or hand drawn. I have seen some Clymer marine outdrive manuals and (even worse) some books on knot tying that used photo manipulation to get the images. They suck.
In the images, the lines generated of the engine compartment via both methods leave a lot to be desired. The multi-flash method is better, but lacks flat surface detail (such as where hoses end and thermostat housing begins). From the two techniques shown some very good illustrations could be made with some intelligent overlaying. (Oh wait, that would mean someone would have to THINK about the illustration!)
On the other hand the age old methods of halftoning and lithography are very good for technical illustration. Clear line art is still recomended for many assemblies.
I think that use of this type of digital camera and processing will greatly aid the world of technical document writers. I am glad that I do not generate the garbage that I see written, and wish that colleges would require more writing classes for engineers (This is coming from an engineer who failed English 101 the first time!)
The engine looks strangely like a Chrysler LeBarron or Omni, but that may be my imagination. Inline 4 cylinder engines are very similar no matter who built them. Kinda like 2 stroke outboard (boat) engines under 25 HP.
Phil
Could you please post screenshots of your configuration BEFORE you go onto your epic quest? If you are willing to play gunia pig and DO get fragged we would like to know what the settings were before the experiment.
You know...
Scientific Method
Repeatability of results.
Also please include what your internet provider is, and if you have any proxy setting, personal firewalls, home network router....EVERYTHING.
I don't care to repeat the experiment, I am learning Slackware now, but I may find this infor helpful for other people I know.
Thanks for bravely volunteering yourself, your pride and your hardware.
Phil
When I was a university student, the school had a site liscence for Norton Antivirus. As a student you could install it free of charge, and it would LiveUpdate as well to stay current. In fact LiveUpdate was just out and a new good thing. The key was that having a defense against a "majority" of malware as seen by most was not enough. Users still required education on what was causing their problems. Most users did not want the time to learn about security on their machine. This meant that people were hacking other boxes on campus, people were setting up malicious websites on their own machines, people were setting up malicious websites using university resources. (my favorite was a java script "Click here for a good time" and it would try to format the harddrive!!)
The university then started a newsletter that all tech support staff, department heads and administrative staff were supposed to subscribe to. This newsletter would detail technology happenings on campus, planned outages, maintence, a short security blurb, calls open/closed/pending, a blurb about not opening attachments unless you know the source, and much else.
There were always some warnings about attachments and security on the internet.
Several one-shot free classes were set up for all people at the university. Show up, learn about WHY you don't surf porn. Learn why all these things that were "bad" are considered such.
After about 2 years of this the major problems with viruses and infected attachments started noticabling dropping off to the point of very few calls were about a virus type issue..only a few a week instead of a few a day. Then I graduated.
I understand that most tech staff cannot schedule resources like a university can, but having a tech newsletter for an organization is good, as well as having tech instruction to the low level usere who don't see anything other than a magic box of fun!
Having books like this is an obvious good thing, and I may consider going and getting a copy even though I am not doing tech support anymore.
Phil
New laws on the Fed. level prevent resident doctors and doctors from working more than 80 hour weeks on a 4 week moving average. Old laws state that a doctor is only allowed to be on 24 hours, then cannot accept new paitents. Said doc must leave after 36 hours though.
Now with coding, while death is not a likely outcome for the paitent, rebooting works on computers, not many humans. Productivity obviouly suffers when the "employee" is too worn out to function properly.
Phil
Please don't mod as "redundant" find something more interesting to mod this down please.
OK, one of the articles states that the "Break Even Point" for sending energy vs physical data is around 10^14 bits of data. With this in mind, and text being ASCII as 7 bit, or binary as 8 bit (easier math for me at least) that is 1.25x10^13 charcters. Lets assume a 5 charcter average word ( I know this is slightly small, six and a half is probably better, but close, again easy math.) This gives 2.5x10^12 words that can be used. If I remember my History and english classes (been a few years) a typical page is around 300 to 500 words. Again, lets be easy with the math and use 500. This gives 5x10^9 pages of info. I remember most of my textbooks cecking in at around 1500 pages so we have a whole library (3.33x10^6) of books that can be transmitted toa location for the approximate price of shipping those books. How about we choose a few good texts that explain our learning and run with that. The data needed to convey intelligence and civilizatin is much less than a whole library.
On the other hand without a whole library to sift though who is going to make sure the picture is fair and balanced... lets touch that when they are ready to visit.
Hope this picture helps a bit
Phil
It still remains for Slashdot to clarify, for the future, what their exact stance is on copyright issues. Who [owns] posts here, and what does "ownership" refer to? I have faith that they will answer these questions too, and that most Slashdot users will be happy with their answers.
Ownership of a post means (to me) that the idea is owned by the person who writes it, and is really more of a statement of responsibility to the poster, for having proper information, structure etc., as well as a statement of responsibility to whomever looks at the post so they know who wrote it. This would mean to me that if it is used in a different format that there would need to be a direct citation of where the idea came from. This would probably be a citaton to the history on
I look at some of these games and the average suggested price of many are over $50!!
This isn't flamebait, but my opinion, I am not able to pay more than about $25 for ANY game, or for that matter any software in general. I am a student, and on a budget. The end result of this is I get a game that's been out for a while and everybody else has mastered it already, I get my A** kicked a few dozen times at it, then I am a competitive player, if I play networked, or I play the scenarios and then decide I don't want to play any further. In this case I pass the game on to one of my friends, lock, stock and barrel.
This is my opinion, there are laws against being killed for having one.