In theoretical CS classes, we learned all about it, it's not exactly news.
The thing is, it's simpler to manufacture binary logic than ternary.
So, no big deal really... the choices were made some time ago.
Next step: quantum computing.
They say in the BBC article that the US first achieved the supersonic combustion bit a few weeks ago. But, IIRC, the russians tested a ScramJet a while back, also from a rocket - and succeeded. Of course, poor funding probably delayed/cut further research, which is a shame - they're excellent at experimental (vs. theoretical, simulated) research.
I don't have references, unfortunately... but I'm sure google might provide some...
And let's not forget, ramjets have been in use for quite a while - again, the russians being in advance on the west, check out their air-to-air missiles.
Anyone reminded of those supercavitation torpedoes? Yet another area where those "technologically backward" russians are by far more advanced than the west...
Wow, they managed to get opt-in through instead of opt-out. This is definitely a breakthrough. I sure lobbied however I could for this, but didn't believe they'd go the consumer's way. Now, if only they do the same for *all* spam, and do it so that the consumer's country's law is applied (not the sender's), and we're all set.
Can't imagine though that those chinese spammers will stop, law or not law...
To those crying out about free speech: it's my right not to have to pay (connection time, my time etc) to get sth. I don't want, spammers shouldn't have the right to steal my (and ISP's) resources, and so yes, this is a good thing.
Btw. spam (except for opt-in) is already forbidden in Austria.
This is good. Otherwise we'd only have NASA reaching into space, and let's face it, NASA's been dragging their feet(which have been shackled by congress).
What are you talking about? Haven't you heard about all the efforts from Europe (does Ariane ring a bell?), China, India, Israel etc? Russia is also still existing. NASA is by no means alone in the space business... far from it - after all Europe with Ariane has over 50% of the commercial launch market.
In a german book on experimental planes, I've read
the claim that the X-15 was tested with auxiliary
fuel tanks fixed to its underside, and that with
that additional burn time for its rocket engine,
it reached Mach 8. Does anyone have any insights
on this?
The WP article also claims that the SR-71
Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing plane. If
memory serves, the XB-70 Valkyrie had a better
design for high speeds, and could maintain them
more efficiently than the Blackbird. I wonder
where aviation'd be if they had continued testing
and improving the XB-70...
So IBM, who's been greatly supporting Linux etc., brings out a new tech - and M$ thanks them by not
supporting it? This smells very fishy to me, looks
more like M$ is trying to punish IBM. Guess it's
yet another maneuver by them to hurt competitors,
and it should be brought to the attention of
whoever's working the antitrust case against M$.
I've got several computers at home, each one with
tons of cables I'd love to get rid of - Bluetooth
would be just the thing. IEEE 802 something for
the networking part, Bluetooth to interconnect the
devices, adios serial, parallel, scsi, keyboard
etc. cables. There are still some technical problems? They'll be worked out, no doubt. I
certainly trust Big Blue more to get this done
than M$. I'd love to get to use this tech. Good
thing I won't have to wait for M$...
I've seen some comments as how M$ wouldn't want
to bring out sth that wasn't (yet) working - BS.
They've got tons of resources, and if they only
just wanted to, I bet they could have something
pretty nice up & running quite soon. I've seen
quite some incompetence in IT departments, but I
cannot imagine M$ not to have at least some cool
geeks around.
Funny how the first few posters seem to think that this would affect the recycling of parts, when actually the goal would be to be able to seperate different kinds of materials, thereby to allow reusing them instead of just burning or throwing away a strange mix of stuff, which has its own kinds of negative impact on the environment.
Being able to cleanly separate the layers of a circuit board is currently one of the biggest obstacles in recycling electronics.
Remember, you don't want to reuse 8088's or somesuch, but the raw materials.
Don't deny them the same legal process anyone else is entitled to
IIRC MS themselves asked for the case to be brought to the supreme court. So, there can be no talk about denying them anything.
I am just sad that this is going to take that much more time in which MS is going to wreak havoc on the IT industry. They do have a track history for that, and disrespect of court's orders etc.
No idea about the patents... but, had you read
the article, you'd have seen that the idea goes
back much farther than that Donald Duck story...
For better insight into the matter of space
elevators, you might want to read the mars
trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, on how such a
thing would be built, an on what the consequences
of its downfall would be. Of course there's
ACC's books, the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F.
Hamilton etc. which use the theme.
I guess I just want a su (or sudo) like command/mode for gui file managers so I don't
have to restart a new gui from the command prompt when I temporarly want root...
? what about opening a rootshell, setting DISPLAY
to:0, and starting that filemanager? No need to
restart your whole X11. Or is Nautilus *that*
different from everything else? You can of course create an alias or just a button executing all of that in one step instead of doing it by hand...
Funny how no-one seems to have mentioned
Demolition Man (ID implants)
or Peter F. Hamilton's Night Dawn Trilogy
(neural nanonics). X-Files, misc Cyberpunk
stuff (Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer) also
features implants, certainly there are many
more.
While I don't see implants as inherently bad
(replacements for nonfunctional sensors, like
ears and eyes would obviously be a good thing,
as well as devices allowing to control the
activity of muscles so as to overcome certain
handycaps), I'd hate to see a generalized
use of such ID chips. There's just too much
potential for abuse, with very little benefits.
Speed will not necessarily be the most important
factor, neither will be the tons of RAM that can
be addressed. *BUT* you'll get rid of the 2GB
file size limitation (ignoring that large-file-patch) of the 32bit-platforms. With
an eye on video and some server applications that's a big plus.
aren't they entitled to do do what they want with it?
I feel you got this the wrong way around. They go ahead and modify the contents of *your* post (sent from wherever by whatever means, not necessarily through deja) without asking first and present the modified version as yours, you have to actively prohibit them from doing so by using the (not-yet-implemented) header stuff. If there's such a thing as copyright, I'd see this as a clear violation.
If a Linux geek posted some rant about MicroSoft, do you think he'd appreciate his mention of MS linked to an MS ad?
For example, I'm fairly sure that StarOffice is built upon a Win32 compatibility library from Bristol. They can't GPL that.
Didn't StarDivision use their own library called StarView? If Sun bought this along with StarOffice, StarView might be in the deal as well as SO.
This would be rather interesting - a cross-platform GUI lib, for Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix plus formerly OS/2 (don't know if it's still supported). And it's been show to work rather well...
I'm sure people will tell me how much it sucks as compared with GTK or Qt, but do they support as many platforms?
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In theoretical CS classes, we learned all about it, it's not exactly news.
The thing is, it's simpler to manufacture binary logic than ternary.
So, no big deal really... the choices were made some time ago.
Next step: quantum computing.
They say in the BBC article that the US first achieved the supersonic combustion bit a few weeks ago. But, IIRC, the russians tested a ScramJet a while back, also from a rocket - and succeeded. Of course, poor funding probably delayed/cut further research, which is a shame - they're excellent at experimental (vs. theoretical, simulated) research.
I don't have references, unfortunately... but I'm sure google might provide some...
And let's not forget, ramjets have been in use for quite a while - again, the russians being in advance on the west, check out their air-to-air missiles.
Anyone reminded of those supercavitation torpedoes? Yet another area where those "technologically backward" russians are by far more advanced than the west...
Just how much brainwashing do we get?
Wow, they managed to get opt-in through instead of opt-out. This is definitely a breakthrough. I sure lobbied however I could for this, but didn't believe they'd go the consumer's way. Now, if only they do the same for *all* spam, and do it so that the consumer's country's law is applied (not the sender's), and we're all set.
Can't imagine though that those chinese spammers will stop, law or not law...
To those crying out about free speech: it's my right not to have to pay (connection time, my time etc) to get sth. I don't want, spammers shouldn't have the right to steal my (and ISP's) resources, and so yes, this is a good thing.
Btw. spam (except for opt-in) is already forbidden in Austria.
Where in BBC's article did you read anything
about video? This is an audio recording, *not*
video!
Then again, now that I think about it I can't think of a major anti-virus application for Linux. Can anyone suggest one?
I've come across AVP for Linux. Didn't really
test it yet, but it exists...
http://www.avp.ch/E/dlinux.htm
This is good. Otherwise we'd only have NASA reaching into space, and let's face it, NASA's been dragging their feet(which have been shackled by congress).
What are you talking about? Haven't you heard about all the efforts from Europe (does Ariane ring a bell?), China, India, Israel etc? Russia is also still existing. NASA is by no means alone in the space business... far from it - after all Europe with Ariane has over 50% of the commercial launch market.
I can't believe you got modded up so far.
I always see that Mach 6.7 record for the X-15.
In a german book on experimental planes, I've read the claim that the X-15 was tested with auxiliary fuel tanks fixed to its underside, and that with that additional burn time for its rocket engine, it reached Mach 8. Does anyone have any insights on this?
The WP article also claims that the SR-71 Blackbird is the fastest air-breathing plane. If memory serves, the XB-70 Valkyrie had a better design for high speeds, and could maintain them more efficiently than the Blackbird. I wonder where aviation'd be if they had continued testing and improving the XB-70...
So IBM, who's been greatly supporting Linux etc., brings out a new tech - and M$ thanks them by not supporting it? This smells very fishy to me, looks more like M$ is trying to punish IBM. Guess it's yet another maneuver by them to hurt competitors, and it should be brought to the attention of whoever's working the antitrust case against M$.
I've got several computers at home, each one with tons of cables I'd love to get rid of - Bluetooth would be just the thing. IEEE 802 something for the networking part, Bluetooth to interconnect the devices, adios serial, parallel, scsi, keyboard etc. cables. There are still some technical problems? They'll be worked out, no doubt. I certainly trust Big Blue more to get this done than M$. I'd love to get to use this tech. Good thing I won't have to wait for M$...
I've seen some comments as how M$ wouldn't want to bring out sth that wasn't (yet) working - BS. They've got tons of resources, and if they only just wanted to, I bet they could have something pretty nice up & running quite soon. I've seen quite some incompetence in IT departments, but I cannot imagine M$ not to have at least some cool geeks around.
Funny how the first few posters seem to think that this would affect the recycling of parts, when actually the goal would be to be able to seperate different kinds of materials, thereby to allow reusing them instead of just burning or throwing away a strange mix of stuff, which has its own kinds of negative impact on the environment.
Being able to cleanly separate the layers of a circuit board is currently one of the biggest obstacles in recycling electronics.
Remember, you don't want to reuse 8088's or somesuch, but the raw materials.
So yes, I think this may be a big issue.
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IIRC MS themselves asked for the case to be brought to the supreme court. So, there can be no talk about denying them anything.
I am just sad that this is going to take that much more time in which MS is going to wreak havoc on the IT industry. They do have a track history for that, and disrespect of court's orders etc.
No idea about the patents... but, had you read the article, you'd have seen that the idea goes back much farther than that Donald Duck story...
For better insight into the matter of space elevators, you might want to read the mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, on how such a thing would be built, an on what the consequences of its downfall would be. Of course there's ACC's books, the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton etc. which use the theme.
? what about opening a rootshell, setting DISPLAY to :0, and starting that filemanager? No need to
restart your whole X11. Or is Nautilus *that*
different from everything else? You can of course create an alias or just a button executing all of that in one step instead of doing it by hand...
Funny how no-one seems to have mentioned Demolition Man (ID implants) or Peter F. Hamilton's Night Dawn Trilogy (neural nanonics). X-Files, misc Cyberpunk stuff (Johnny Mnemonic, Neuromancer) also features implants, certainly there are many more.
While I don't see implants as inherently bad (replacements for nonfunctional sensors, like ears and eyes would obviously be a good thing, as well as devices allowing to control the activity of muscles so as to overcome certain handycaps), I'd hate to see a generalized use of such ID chips. There's just too much potential for abuse, with very little benefits.
Speed will not necessarily be the most important factor, neither will be the tons of RAM that can be addressed.
*BUT* you'll get rid of the 2GB file size limitation (ignoring that large-file-patch) of the 32bit-platforms. With an eye on video and some server applications that's a big plus.
aren't they entitled to do do what they want with it?
I feel you got this the wrong way around. They go ahead and modify the contents of *your* post (sent from wherever by whatever means, not necessarily through deja) without asking first and present the modified version as yours, you have to actively prohibit them from doing so by using the (not-yet-implemented) header stuff. If there's such a thing as copyright, I'd see this as a clear violation.
If a Linux geek posted some rant about MicroSoft, do you think he'd appreciate his mention of MS linked to an MS ad?
My personal 2nd p0st to /.
For example, I'm fairly sure that StarOffice is built upon a Win32 compatibility library from Bristol. They can't GPL that.
Didn't StarDivision use their own library called StarView? If Sun bought this along with StarOffice, StarView might be in the deal as well as SO.
This would be rather interesting - a cross-platform GUI lib, for Windows, Mac, Linux/Unix plus formerly OS/2 (don't know if it's still supported). And it's been show to work rather well...
I'm sure people will tell me how much it sucks as compared with GTK or Qt, but do they support as many platforms?
My personal f1rst p0st to /.