Dear customers, the current rather low DRAM prices are not enough for our greed. Therefore they need to be higher. Of course we can't just out of the blue do that, hence we are doing this false flag operation to provide a plausible excuse for the artificial scarcity which will lead at least temporarily to higher prices.
the large grid was - as the article says - not for better efficiency but in order to avoid the energy-beam weapon thing. by design the power beamed down spreads out a lot and thus requires such a large collector.
how exactly can it "revolutionize disaster relief" when it needs an almost 40km^2 (6-8km in diameter) receiver array on the ground to get the power beamed from the satellite. Disaster relief means fast deployment. How fast can you deploy a 40km^2 grid on the ground?
not even mentioning the fact that if you had 40km^2 of land you could just set solar panels there and do the thing for yourself with much less energy losses.
there's no such thing as courtesy in such matters. just because the site happens to be english doesn't mean all nationalities have to use whatever units or symbols you use in countries of anglosaxon influence. get over your empire dreams.
plus your post was completely wrong. It's not "just a few european countries use . as a thousand separator". ALL european countries use it, with the exception of UK. It's actually quite the contrary, it's just a few countries who use , as a thousand separator.
just because you are dumb enough to imagine of a future where 100mbit is less than necessary, doesn't mean there are or there can be no new applications. I guess you still have just 640k of ram in your computer eh?
you are pretending to be dumb. guns make belligerent people WAY MORE DANGEROUS than they would be if they had no guns. Also guns have the tendency to turn people from cowards into thugs.
i like node, and yes the biggest + for node is its easy asynchronous networking capabilities. It's just that i think it should work strictly as a backend and not try to also be yet another http server for which you would need to re-implement session management etc. etc.
it's trying to be both a backend language and a HTTP server. like being both a chef and a waiter. Why would anyone want to re-implement a full fledged http server and pass through all the difficulties and ironing out bugs that commercial http servers went through ( apache/nginx ). IMHO it should just act like PHP and all other backend languages do and not try to do everything, leaving page serving to real web servers. It's just that they (joyent) are trying to sell ( "evangelize" ) their solution as better when it's not.
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no, nomatter how i try to visit the http site it always redirects me to the secure one (https)
uses the obselete since a decade RC4 as the encryption algorithm for its httpS.
Dear customers, the current rather low DRAM prices are not enough for our greed. Therefore they need to be higher. Of course we can't just out of the blue do that, hence we are doing this false flag operation to provide a plausible excuse for the artificial scarcity which will lead at least temporarily to higher prices.
/tinfoil hat off.
Sincerely ( pun intended ) yours,
CEO of Hynix
Chun Sun Chan.
therefore we should allow chemical weapons ?
don't pretend to be dumb, it's the low cost, scale and easiness of chem/bio which makes them so awful.
the large grid was - as the article says - not for better efficiency but in order to avoid the energy-beam weapon thing. by design the power beamed down spreads out a lot and thus requires such a large collector.
how exactly can it "revolutionize disaster relief" when it needs an almost 40km^2 (6-8km in diameter) receiver array on the ground to get the power beamed from the satellite. Disaster relief means fast deployment. How fast can you deploy a 40km^2 grid on the ground?
not even mentioning the fact that if you had 40km^2 of land you could just set solar panels there and do the thing for yourself with much less energy losses.
there's no such thing as courtesy in such matters. just because the site happens to be english doesn't mean all nationalities have to use whatever units or symbols you use in countries of anglosaxon influence. get over your empire dreams.
plus your post was completely wrong. It's not "just a few european countries use . as a thousand separator". ALL european countries use it, with the exception of UK. It's actually quite the contrary, it's just a few countries who use , as a thousand separator.
see the map and educate yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
, as a thousand separator? WTF, not everybody is english or american, the world does not revolve around you.
dr brown is that you ?
no, it's a device for people who do not follow the previous slashdot articles and the joke some may make by combining both articles.
you mean like unix was a "cloud" OS and you could connect via dumb terminals to it?
mod this up. didn't know gates was supporting such barbaric medieval practices.
too bad this displays as a square in firefox in the title bar.
just because you are dumb enough to imagine of a future where 100mbit is less than necessary, doesn't mean there are or there can be no new applications. I guess you still have just 640k of ram in your computer eh?
Agreed! But this time let's make it a truly intelligent* design, shall we?
*no appendix for example.
...women! Excellent news for crossdressers. Bad news for religious fundamentalists of the middle east *wink* *wink*.
exactly. "i got butthurt therefore i pointed out a spelling error". epic fail.
A University Of Sarcasm Diploma.
HERECY! GOD DID NOT CREATE ANY OTHER FIRST HUMANS BESIDE ADAM AND EVE.
on a side note, the imagination of religious nutjobs in order to avoid embarrassment, always amazes me.
you are pretending to be dumb. guns make belligerent people WAY MORE DANGEROUS than they would be if they had no guns. Also guns have the tendency to turn people from cowards into thugs.
Linux is catching up with windows. 20 more years to go! yay!
wasn't drone enough? is anyone aware of manned drones?
i like node, and yes the biggest + for node is its easy asynchronous networking capabilities. It's just that i think it should work strictly as a backend and not try to also be yet another http server for which you would need to re-implement session management etc. etc.
it's trying to be both a backend language and a HTTP server. like being both a chef and a waiter. Why would anyone want to re-implement a full fledged http server and pass through all the difficulties and ironing out bugs that commercial http servers went through ( apache/nginx ). IMHO it should just act like PHP and all other backend languages do and not try to do everything, leaving page serving to real web servers. It's just that they (joyent) are trying to sell ( "evangelize" ) their solution as better when it's not.