Why impossible? It seems pretty easy, just force the autopilot on and to fly in circles. The hijackers can't aim the plane at targets, they can at worst crash it which they could with or without the measure. Otherwise they give up and fly away from the denied zone.
Later on this week my airship is scheduled to dock in the United States, and my high school and childhood friend has invited me to dinner to ask for, among other important things, my guidance on crafting new copyright legislation. Did I mention my friend is the President of the United States? After dinner I will take him and his wife on a scenic airship ride over to Camp David, followed by a visit to the Cheneys. (My Dad and Dick grew up together and spent a lot of time hunting together. My Dad would have been 75 today). What should I tell them?
It doesn't necessarily need to be that compatible. Even for developers, it might be useful if their code hand-optimized for x86 can be reused in some mobile version of their app. Porting things to ARM is not easy if you want to keep the performance; there might not be any floating point support, some instructions might cause exceptions and be emulated by the OS, etc.
Also, it seems that the Atom chips provide a lot more performance than even the fastest ARM systems. Maybe we'll see more mobile devices which provide a user experience better than like swimming in molasses.
Maybe this is a good place for an offtopic question about measuring power consumption of in-circuit components. Are there any caveats with simultaneously monitoring potential difference across power leads, and current through them? I guess the component could also steal power through signal lines...
Tube amps have this funny cult status because they produce sound that is "warm" or somehow otherwise liked by users. So I was not totally surprised to see an alarm clock with vacuum tubes in a local store. What did surprise me was that the store was a CVS, and the clock cost $10--then I realized the tubes were fake, and lit up by LEDs. Blah.
I was thinking of the 800, which doesn't have a keyboard. But it still looks like the other points stand! As for programmability and apps, well yes, that pretty much describes most existing computing devices.
I note that you didn't answer what *you* are going to *use* it for. Carry it in your pocket and customize it all day?:)
This argument keeps coming up that we should forgive people because the thing they did was just "something stupid" and a "long time ago." However, the thing about those "stupid" acts is that, in absence of other sources of evidence about what a person is like, they are very good indicators indeed. How many sheep do you need to see a wolf slaughter before you will stop giving it the benefit of the doubt?
The problem is you don't have millions of dollars to give them so they can keep the company operating. I'm sure they hate the Windows idea too, but if it's that or no more OLPC...
Yeah, a price like "keeping the company running." Or do you have some other clever way to pay all the employees and costs? I'm surprised they stayed up this long, I've no idea where they got the money.
The motivation for widespread parallel programming seems to be that there is this upcoming glut of multicore PC chips that will get wasted if we all don't start writing concurrent programs. But is that really true? Most programs don't get any speedup from parallelization; at best a UI/core split helps the responsiveness of an app. Chances are a SMP OS would be able to reap most of the available gain.
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Because the hot air created by the project diffuses into the atmosphere, as gases are wont to do, so the project's proportions become planetary.
I am with you! Graphics is for chumps!
... and they want their idea back!
Why impossible? It seems pretty easy, just force the autopilot on and to fly in circles. The hijackers can't aim the plane at targets, they can at worst crash it which they could with or without the measure. Otherwise they give up and fly away from the denied zone.
I know, someone should create a WoW fork for nice people... they could call it DikuWoW *rimshot*
I object to your characterization you insensitive clod!
Later on this week my airship is scheduled to dock in the United States, and my high school and childhood friend has invited me to dinner to ask for, among other important things, my guidance on crafting new copyright legislation. Did I mention my friend is the President of the United States? After dinner I will take him and his wife on a scenic airship ride over to Camp David, followed by a visit to the Cheneys. (My Dad and Dick grew up together and spent a lot of time hunting together. My Dad would have been 75 today). What should I tell them?
Come on, you know you want to live dangerously! 13 tons of sodium is just freaking cool.
I don't mind the stainless steel. I do love that they call a 10 foot diameter, 26 ton sphere "miniature" :)
How can you be sure you didn't just imagine that post? The book/movie could still turn out something totally different.
Yeah, you better not!
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It doesn't necessarily need to be that compatible. Even for developers, it might be useful if their code hand-optimized for x86 can be reused in some mobile version of their app. Porting things to ARM is not easy if you want to keep the performance; there might not be any floating point support, some instructions might cause exceptions and be emulated by the OS, etc.
Also, it seems that the Atom chips provide a lot more performance than even the fastest ARM systems. Maybe we'll see more mobile devices which provide a user experience better than like swimming in molasses.
I send 5 messages a month at $0.50 a piece. The unlimited plan costs $30 per month. Who is the complete idiot again?
What if they can't convince Bruce Willis to come along?
Maybe this is a good place for an offtopic question about measuring power consumption of in-circuit components. Are there any caveats with simultaneously monitoring potential difference across power leads, and current through them? I guess the component could also steal power through signal lines...
Tube amps have this funny cult status because they produce sound that is "warm" or somehow otherwise liked by users. So I was not totally surprised to see an alarm clock with vacuum tubes in a local store. What did surprise me was that the store was a CVS, and the clock cost $10--then I realized the tubes were fake, and lit up by LEDs. Blah.
I was thinking of the 800, which doesn't have a keyboard. But it still looks like the other points stand! As for programmability and apps, well yes, that pretty much describes most existing computing devices.
:)
I note that you didn't answer what *you* are going to *use* it for. Carry it in your pocket and customize it all day?
This argument keeps coming up that we should forgive people because the thing they did was just "something stupid" and a "long time ago." However, the thing about those "stupid" acts is that, in absence of other sources of evidence about what a person is like, they are very good indicators indeed. How many sheep do you need to see a wolf slaughter before you will stop giving it the benefit of the doubt?
The problem is you don't have millions of dollars to give them so they can keep the company operating. I'm sure they hate the Windows idea too, but if it's that or no more OLPC...
What the heck will you do with the 810? No phone, no keyboard, lousy battery life, lousy distro... any ideas?
Yeah, a price like "keeping the company running." Or do you have some other clever way to pay all the employees and costs? I'm surprised they stayed up this long, I've no idea where they got the money.
The motivation for widespread parallel programming seems to be that there is this upcoming glut of multicore PC chips that will get wasted if we all don't start writing concurrent programs. But is that really true? Most programs don't get any speedup from parallelization; at best a UI/core split helps the responsiveness of an app. Chances are a SMP OS would be able to reap most of the available gain.
Nobody will tell Darl about POSIX, or the poor guy will have a heart attack of litigation-happy joy!
Good points, and don't forget the upcoming turbodiesel hybrid/econoboxes with ~50 mpg figures!