This still cannot be a "certified" application and I guess the future lies between:
automatic pilot (there are some ongoing studies concerning self-assembling car-trains in France and maybe elsewhere, for what I know)
the train pilot system which consist of a sensor that has to be manually activated every few seconds otherwise the train artificial brain concludes the driver is not available and stops.
In a country where the average monthly salary is about $240, buying the latest album for $15 is a grotesque luxury, let alone spending $600 on Adobe Photoshop or a similar computer program.'
Adobe relocalize their prog unit in asia in order to make more profit on their 600$ soft but the coders are so badly paid that they cannot afford these softs so they copy these...
I guess it's one another evidence that deloc is finally hurting more the home country than it's benefitting.
We all are more than one thing. Bill Gates has programmed but had he been a programmer, he would have kept improving his art instead of becoming a manager and a negociator. So well, he "was also"...
It's just a skript kiddie who think he'll impress even more with such FUD... Reminds me of a spam which I got which content was : "get a capable emailer". Of course, had I had one, I'd have gotten some ad for penis enlargement pills... So, I just dumped the mail and as I am on OSX, I don't have vir[iuse]* either...
OS/2 Warp came with an extra CD containing an integrated suite, IBM Works, written in Rexx, it was quick and functional so I guess it's a decent language given what they did with.
Ihad one which I resold because of its autonomy (this might make somebody laugh but it's still my main problems with PDA:low autonomy). How will this one work ?
BTW, my Zaurus also lacked OSX support which made it useless because if you have such a PDA, you might want to work on it and ultimately sync it with a desktop...
So : When will Sharp produce a SyncML-enabled PDA ?
OK, this was slashdotted but I eventually got through and it answered some other questions...
Here's the text for the less lucky people...
Oct. 14, 2004 |
Science and Tech New propulsion concept could make 90-day Mars round trip possible FROM:Vince Stricherzvinces@u.washington.edu206-543-2580 John Carscadden, University of Washington
In this artist's conception, a plasma station (lower left) applies a
magnetized beam of ionized plasma to a spacecraft bound for Jupiter.
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the
University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for
astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent
fixture in space.
In fact, with magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or mag-beam,
quick trips to distant parts of the solar system could become routine,
said Robert Winglee, a UW Earth and space sciences professor who is
leading the project.
Currently, using conventional technology and adjusting for the
orbits of both the Earth and Mars around the sun, it would take
astronauts about 2.5 years to travel to Mars, conduct their scientific
mission and return.
"We're trying to get to Mars and back in 90 days," Winglee
said. "Our philosophy is that, if it's going to take two-and-a-half
years, the chances of a successful mission are pretty low."
Mag-beam is one of 12 proposals that this month began
receiving support from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Institute for Advanced Concepts. Each gets $75,000 for
a six-month study to validate the concept and identify challenges in
developing it. Projects that make it through that phase are eligible
for as much as $400,000 more over two years.
Under the mag-beam concept, a space-based station would
generate a stream of magnetized ions that would interact with a
magnetic sail on a spacecraft and propel it through the solar system at
high speeds that increase with the size of the plasma beam. Winglee
estimates that a control nozzle 32 meters wide would generate a plasma
beam capable of propelling a spacecraft at 11.7 kilometers per second.
That translates to more than 26,000 miles an hour or more than 625,000
miles a day.
Mars is an average of 48 million miles from Earth, though the
distance can vary greatly depending on where the two planets are in
their orbits around the sun. At that distance, a spacecraft traveling
625,000 miles a day would take more than 76 days to get to the red
planet. But Winglee is working on ways to devise even greater speeds so
the round trip could be accomplished in three months.
But to make such high speeds practical, another plasma unit
must be stationed on a platform at the other end of the trip to apply
brakes to the spacecraft.
"Rather than a spacecraft having to carry these big powerful propulsion units, you can have much smaller payloads," he said.
Winglee envisions units being placed around the solar system by
missions already planned by NASA. One could be used as an integral part
of a research mission to Jupiter, for instance, and then left in orbit
there when the mission is completed. Units placed farther out in the
solar system would use nuclear power to create the ionized plasma;
those closer to the sun would be able to use electricity generated by
solar panels.
The mag-beam concept grew out of an earlier effort Winglee led
to develop a system called mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion. In
that system, a plasma bubble would be created around a spacecraft and
sail on the solar wind. The mag-beam concept removes reliance on the
solar wind, replacing it with a plasma beam that can be controlled for
strength and direction.
A few years ago, there were some [astr|cosm]onauts that were highly trained to resist until a year in space so that they could fly to Mars. Now the technology evolved to the point of making their effort less worthy...
BTW, I wonder if this propulsion could be of some use on Earth ?
Yes, I am sure I could boot linux installed on an iPod connected to a PC... The distro in itself looks interesting, though and this, despite some weird choices : Apache ? Who needs this on a key ??? I thought they only meant to provide an X server and a few apps... some kind of "palm like" mini env.
Everyday we hear about Fallujah being bombed, maybe you changed the name because the Arab have prior art on carpet making but it's still what it's called, Mr Anonymous.
Excuse me, but unless there's actually an evidence, I don't see North Korea as a threat. What we have here is an increasing hype against them like there has been before the US carpet bombed Iraq. And you're just showing everybody how receptive you are to war so that, if enough people like you show up, there won't need to be much more hype to just proceed with the strategic installation of more armed forces in SE Asia.
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What languages are you learning, mein Herr ? Maybe I could help...
A story about a young shepard : "Panurge" who was bored and decided to repeatedly run to the village, crying about a wolf eating his sheeps. Every time, the villagers would come but see nothing so at the end, when the wolf comes for real, he repeat his tragedy and nobody goes while his sheeps get eaten. Hence this neologism.
Let's take the number of people who actually coded the Linux kernel and for each of them, determine how long they coded. Also add the number of people who tested it and reported some bug or requested new features... In the end, compare these values with what it costed companies such as Sun, Apple or Microsoft and you'll get its actual cost... But now, I totally follow your point when it comes to its price.
I indeed wrote such as Abiword (with a link which should have been toward this site). I used Abiword under both BeOS and OSX where these fit nicely. Anyway I do not use it intensively as I now work using the Latex port for OSX link, link and link...
What have your experiences been with OpenOffice.org over the past four years?
I carefully considered its monolithism and decided to use lighter tools such as Abiword...
But I am glad that OOo exists because it's still a nice Free Trojan when it comes to infiltrating corporations with Free Software, so, Happy Birthday, OOo !!!
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Lol
No, but it's the reason I dropped the Zaurus and the Powerbook until we get some decent machines:)
Kind of an obsession... Maybe because I recently read about fuel cells and there's still nothing showing up.
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Battery life up to three hours, depending on usage
What If I surf while listening to mp3 ? I only get around 10 minutes autonomy ?
No Way !!!
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This was not mentioned in the parent post. BTW, if you're sooooo well informed, you'd be a good white boy (would you call me a nigger, were you not that manichean ?) if you answered my point about its autonomy...
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In a country where the average monthly salary is about $240, buying the latest album for $15 is a grotesque luxury, let alone spending $600 on Adobe Photoshop or a similar computer program.'
Adobe relocalize their prog unit in asia in order to make more profit on their 600$ soft but the coders are so badly paid that they cannot afford these softs so they copy these...
I guess it's one another evidence that deloc is finally hurting more the home country than it's benefitting.
The game Doom was also developed on NeXT.
Kudos to Jean-Marie Hullot, who contributed to this by designing "Interface Builder" !
We all are more than one thing.
Bill Gates has programmed but had he been a programmer, he would have kept improving his art instead of becoming a manager and a negociator.
So well, he "was also"...
Bill Gates was a negociator, not a programmer, that's why the other could in no way have become him.
It's just a skript kiddie who think he'll impress even more with such FUD...
Reminds me of a spam which I got which content was : "get a capable emailer".
Of course, had I had one, I'd have gotten some ad for penis enlargement pills...
So, I just dumped the mail and as I am on OSX, I don't have vir[iuse]* either...
OS/2 Warp came with an extra CD containing an integrated suite, IBM Works, written in Rexx, it was quick and functional so I guess it's a decent language given what they did with.
Ihad one which I resold because of its autonomy (this might make somebody laugh but it's still my main problems with PDA :low autonomy).
How will this one work ?
BTW, my Zaurus also lacked OSX support which made it useless because if you have such a PDA, you might want to work on it and ultimately sync it with a desktop...
So : When will Sharp produce a SyncML-enabled PDA ?
A few years ago, there were some [astr|cosm]onauts that were highly trained to resist until a year in space so that they could fly to Mars.
Now the technology evolved to the point of making their effort less worthy...
BTW, I wonder if this propulsion could be of some use on Earth ?
Yes, I am sure I could boot linux installed on an iPod connected to a PC...
The distro in itself looks interesting, though and this, despite some weird choices : Apache ?
Who needs this on a key ???
I thought they only meant to provide an X server and a few apps... some kind of "palm like" mini env.
Looks like the MP3 player from Virgin that got discussed here.
Everyday we hear about Fallujah being bombed, maybe you changed the name because the Arab have prior art on carpet making but it's still what it's called, Mr Anonymous.
Nope, these were crackers.
I guess they got eaten at Kim's apero.
Excuse me, but unless there's actually an evidence, I don't see North Korea as a threat. What we have here is an increasing hype against them like there has been before the US carpet bombed Iraq.
And you're just showing everybody how receptive you are to war so that, if enough people like you show up, there won't need to be much more hype to just proceed with the strategic installation of more armed forces in SE Asia.
What languages are you learning, mein Herr ?
Maybe I could help...
A story about a young shepard : "Panurge" who was bored and decided to repeatedly run to the village, crying about a wolf eating his sheeps.
Every time, the villagers would come but see nothing so at the end, when the wolf comes for real, he repeat his tragedy and nobody goes while his sheeps get eaten.
Hence this neologism.
Let's take the number of people who actually coded the Linux kernel and for each of them, determine how long they coded.
Also add the number of people who tested it and reported some bug or requested new features...
In the end, compare these values with what it costed companies such as Sun, Apple or Microsoft and you'll get its actual cost...
But now, I totally follow your point when it comes to its price.
Not XP home, then ?
Would have been cheaper...
I indeed wrote such as Abiword (with a link which should have been toward this site).
I used Abiword under both BeOS and OSX where these fit nicely.
Anyway I do not use it intensively as I now work using the Latex port for OSX link, link and link...
What have your experiences been with OpenOffice.org over the past four years?
I carefully considered its monolithism and decided to use lighter tools such as Abiword...
But I am glad that OOo exists because it's still a nice Free Trojan when it comes to infiltrating corporations with Free Software, so, Happy Birthday, OOo !!!
Lol
:)
No, but it's the reason I dropped the Zaurus and the Powerbook until we get some decent machines
Kind of an obsession... Maybe because I recently read about fuel cells and there's still nothing showing up.
Battery life up to three hours, depending on usage
What If I surf while listening to mp3 ?
I only get around 10 minutes autonomy ?
No Way !!!
This was not mentioned in the parent post.
BTW, if you're sooooo well informed, you'd be a good white boy (would you call me a nigger, were you not that manichean ?) if you answered my point about its autonomy...