Because these are very low thrust engines, they can't hold a candle to gravitational forces. Where they shine in interplanetary and stationkeeping (orbit and orientation) applications.
Guess you don't have the One Tolkein Ring network...
What's with the overly dramatic names? 'Stormreach'
C'mon, nobody calls anyplace by such names. How about Mulchburg, Fnord's Crossing or The Monks (Munchen/Munich).
I can just see someone trucking around in these mythical worlds, assigning names to places:
"Let's see, there's woods, lots of mud, some peasants, a mouldy old keep with a demented vassel and his family. What should it be called... hmm... Mulchburg? Nah... Les Deux Oaks? Nah... how about... Thunder Valley. Yeah, that'll look nice on a brochure to attract adventurers. maybe we could build a theme park with rides and stuff..."
Is JAVA the new UNIX? It's still useful sometimes somewhere somehow but most people tend to forget/ignore its existence.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Denmark, a graduate student is thinking "...I like Java, but not Sun's dictatorial stance on it... I think I'll come up with my own and call it Lava... (Pronounced "LooVa")
They should have focused on how it will *GROW* the economy by creating $75 Billion in new jobs and infrastructure.
Sorry, Charlie, but this administration couldn't give two bits for anything in silicon. It's all about petroleum, otherwise Michael Dell would be Secretary of Commerce.
Whatever you think you believe about this crop of economic vandals being pro-business you can just forget it, like any small business which has been infinitely more screwed by the oil price maniupulation than any jump in minimum wage or healthcare premium.
Swainson's not kidding, there. Especially when a company does something really boneheaded, people don't forget, and they don't even forgive. (I think maybe people feel like forgiveness is for other humans, not for corporations.)
My favorite (or actually least favorite) is when something goes wrong, you get it sorted and the damage was minor, yet the end users remember it forever, while overlooking everything that's gone right, or actually outstanding.
Then, based upon these selective memories they elect to dump the package, re-equip, re-engineer, retrain and the cost of some errors is nearly incalculable and inevitable in any transition. But they'll gladly do it to get away from that one sour memory.
The irony was when a senior administrator set a highly accelerated time-line, which resulted in many, many long nights of work without break, then when the inevitable happened, and it was a grand cock-up, they shrugged it off.
Happened about 9 years ago and still gets me steamed. Stupid twit.
That's not to say these won't have a place, because I do think they could very well serve the purpose for which they're being manufactured.
And as a matter of course, you may find developers catering to these little boxes, whether its some way to add new software, games, or cater to whatever browser is on them.
Anything of which there are a million or more sounds like a market, no?
The CEO of the company that makes product A, when he finds out that product B will be sold for much less than his, says that product B is no good. What a surprise!
I'm surprised all the battery makers haven't jumped on the badwagon, saying hand crank is no way to run anything and solar power is impractical, now if you'll just look at these lovely Duracells...
But Barrett said similar schemes in the past elsewhere in the world had failed and users would not be satisfied with the new machine's limited range of programs.
Sounds like the Itanium, so I guess he should know.
"It turns out what people are looking for is something is something that has the full functionality of a PC," he said. "Reprogrammable to run all the applications of a grown up PC... not dependent on servers in the sky to deliver content and capability to them, not dependent for hand cranks for power."
Yeah and PDA and programmable cell phones would never sell.
He said Intel was also expanding an IT teacher training scheme it says has already reached three million schoolteachers worldwide to Sri Lanka, and praised local projects aimed at producing computer literacy. Some 90 percent of Sri Lankans were literate but only 10 percent computer literate, he said.
I think they call that the Save 10% off your next purchase of an Intel PC, forever locking you into our architecture plan.
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
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Im sure a large group of people on slashdot would also like to see Microsoft be brought down by their TrackChanges feature also. This is a horribly bad joke and I doubt anyone is going to find it funny....
They may be. Corporations may shelve Microsoft because it keeps evidence against them.
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Yes, but which body done it?
We can already guess the why, which goes something like this:
Damn what the research tells you! We've got a lot of money riding on this and I'm not going to see my stock options or year-end bonus dragged down by a bunch of words.
(A similar thing happened at Intel years ago, but I don't think it lead to very many heart attacks.)
The application you are attempting to execute is extremely suspicious and should be discarded immediately as it has been found to contain x86-64 (AMD64) instructions.
Seriously, why don't they work with Microsoft to do some kind of checksum and bonk the load when it fails?
This 'small chip' smells like something which would persistently degrade memory performance. Why would that
be more acceptable than an operating system or BIOS which would block root-kits, i.e. you can only touch this file, this partition, etc,
as logged in as root. Oh, right, on Windows processes may run under root authority and be co-opted.
Gee, seems like it's been 20 years since DEC fixed those bugs in RSTS/E
Well, I guess that they won't be that far below the poverty line.
The good thing is you can be below the poverty line and still afford it. Unlike a certain Redmond, Washington company, whose products I can't come close to justifying the expense of so do without.
"Today, the.eu top-level domain opens for registration.
Handled by EURid, the launch will be divided into two phases: A two-month 'Sunrise,'
during which only the holders of certain 'prior rights' will be allowed to register their names,
Heard all about this on the BBC. Three phases, actually.
For two months from 7 December, only registered trademarks, public bodies, company names and some other rights holders can apply.
A second phase will begin on 2 February, when companies with other rights such as unregistered trademarks, trade names or company names can begin to apply.
Registration will open to all starting from April.
and the following 'Land Rush,' where registrations will be open to everyone.
So finally the long-awaited pan-European TLD launches. The big question now is, will EURid's
systems be able to handle the load?"
The load of indifference? The big question remains whether it will see large acceptance like.com
<sarcasm> As you can see
all the.us addresses (where I work actually uses one) were widely adopted instead of.com </sarcasm>
Most likely everyone who already has a.com,.de,.uk,.fr,.ch,.es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves
and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like
some kind of tax.
...that they are crapping their pants at the state of linux acceptance in india, and the widespread use of the operating system independant programming language java.
So it's really just a massive bribe?
Like: "We'll invest a piddly 1.7B USD in your country, to encourage acceptance, by developers."
Sure, can't miss. Apple pumped a lot of money into public schools 25 years ago and the Apple brand name was established. But... 25 years later they have a minor share of the market.
More like Microsoft will start sheadding headcount in Redmond over the next few years.
i get so choked up when bill gives away hundreds of millions of dollars for aids and malaria and stuff. i get so choked up, not because it's a great humanitarian effort, but because he's sucked up such a mountain of wealth and now their profit margins will likely increase.
'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council.
The panicking and running around with hands in the air, shouting "the sky is falling"?
I can begin to tell how many authors I've ripped off by reading their entire tomes on-line, snippet by snippet in Google search results.
I haven't.
On the contrary, like Langdon alludes, I hear or see something, pop a few words into Google to do a search, next thing you know my
bookshelf, real oak(!), is jamb packed with books.
What do they really want, poverty and security through obscurity?
the new zork times book review shall not quote, nor say bad words about my book, in cold oatmeal or i shall sue
Microsoft Entertainment/Internet Operations: Losses in the billions
Google have every right to be worried. With the losses these two titans amass, they could well suck up a lot
of advertising revenue on the way to losing record billions.
hello, this is microsoft support, press 1 to refinance your mortgage, 2 for MSN help, 3 for pills that enhance
your bedtime experience, 4 for office help, 5 to see if you are an instant winner of the tw/msn lottery, 6 for xbox help,
7 to register a microsoft product over the phone
or stay on the line to hear nagamo mazoomba, former vice president of internal standards group, request your help in getting
$43,675,00 out of a bank account in the caymans.
so unless you're fatty fat fat, a lush, or do whatever the hell a person would have to do to have too much iron in their blood, it won't help you much as the article implies.
Seems to me that coffee, particularly small amounts of strong coffee, are another part of a mediterranean diet.
We've read about red wine, olive oil and a number of other foods, which seem to indicate your best bet to live long and enjoy dolce vita you should eat at italian, greek, southern french or southern spanish restaurants.
Really. It is quite difficult to pack in a cheeseburger, fries and coke after a decent meal. And that little cup of espresso was to help you regain your wits enough to totter on home with all that good food in you.
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How about through a semi-conductor so you can adjust burn rate with a slight bias adjustment? =)
that there's a 2N3055 Mach V Rev 1.2, mebbe they have an equivilent replacement at rocket shack
And Mr. Scot is no longer among us.
he did, however, live long and prosper
Guess you don't have the One Tolkein Ring network...
What's with the overly dramatic names? 'Stormreach'
C'mon, nobody calls anyplace by such names. How about Mulchburg, Fnord's Crossing or The Monks (Munchen/Munich).
I can just see someone trucking around in these mythical worlds, assigning names to places:
"Let's see, there's woods, lots of mud, some peasants, a mouldy old keep with a demented vassel and his family. What should it be called... hmm... Mulchburg? Nah... Les Deux Oaks? Nah... how about ... Thunder Valley. Yeah, that'll look nice on a brochure to attract adventurers. maybe we could build a theme park with rides and stuff..."
Meanwhile, somewhere in Denmark, a graduate student is thinking "...I like Java, but not Sun's dictatorial stance on it... I think I'll come up with my own and call it Lava... (Pronounced "LooVa")
Sorry, Charlie, but this administration couldn't give two bits for anything in silicon. It's all about petroleum, otherwise Michael Dell would be Secretary of Commerce.
Whatever you think you believe about this crop of economic vandals being pro-business you can just forget it, like any small business which has been infinitely more screwed by the oil price maniupulation than any jump in minimum wage or healthcare premium.
A mini-tech boom! Cisco will profit an anyone who makes switches which allow your old IPv4 stuff to communicate will make a fortune.
i'm applying for a patent on decaffeinated, low-fat, sodium free, left-handed wholly organic ipv6 veeblefetzers, axolotls and potrzebies
"Martha, dump your ImClone, now! Doug & Pete"
What I can't get used to, however, is the phone exploding. Talk about disposable...
My favorite (or actually least favorite) is when something goes wrong, you get it sorted and the damage was minor, yet the end users remember it forever, while overlooking everything that's gone right, or actually outstanding.
Then, based upon these selective memories they elect to dump the package, re-equip, re-engineer, retrain and the cost of some errors is nearly incalculable and inevitable in any transition. But they'll gladly do it to get away from that one sour memory.
The irony was when a senior administrator set a highly accelerated time-line, which resulted in many, many long nights of work without break, then when the inevitable happened, and it was a grand cock-up, they shrugged it off.
Happened about 9 years ago and still gets me steamed. Stupid twit.
Just a matter of time before some opportunist does thus:
My name is Ebou Nogamono and I need your help in retrieving 14,732 gold coins from Croesus' Vault...
And as a matter of course, you may find developers catering to these little boxes, whether its some way to add new software, games, or cater to whatever browser is on them.
Anything of which there are a million or more sounds like a market, no?
I'm surprised all the battery makers haven't jumped on the badwagon, saying hand crank is no way to run anything and solar power is impractical, now if you'll just look at these lovely Duracells...
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
They may be. Corporations may shelve Microsoft because it keeps evidence against them.
The bodies are buried in a landfill and the money is in the caymans^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HWe are an upstanding and honest company with great integrity
Yes, but which body done it?
We can already guess the why, which goes something like this:
(A similar thing happened at Intel years ago, but I don't think it lead to very many heart attacks.)Who watches the watchman, eh?
Probably a court appointed officer who watches Intel watch Microsoft.
Or something like that
Wait until the internet is trained, or should I say controlled to restrict what passes, all in the name of security.
we'll just call it skynet
Seriously, why don't they work with Microsoft to do some kind of checksum and bonk the load when it fails? This 'small chip' smells like something which would persistently degrade memory performance. Why would that be more acceptable than an operating system or BIOS which would block root-kits, i.e. you can only touch this file, this partition, etc, as logged in as root. Oh, right, on Windows processes may run under root authority and be co-opted.
Gee, seems like it's been 20 years since DEC fixed those bugs in RSTS/E
The good thing is you can be below the poverty line and still afford it. Unlike a certain Redmond, Washington company, whose products I can't come close to justifying the expense of so do without.
In the ever hot battle to be included in the Oxford American Online Dictionary (login reqd.), Podcast beat out Lifehack and Rootkit (It will be added in 2006)
"Today, the
Heard all about this on the BBC. Three phases, actually.
and the following 'Land Rush,' where registrations will be open to everyone. So finally the long-awaited pan-European TLD launches. The big question now is, will EURid's systems be able to handle the load?"The load of indifference? The big question remains whether it will see large acceptance like .com
<sarcasm> As you can see
all the .us addresses (where I work actually uses one) were widely adopted instead of .com </sarcasm>
Most likely everyone who already has a .com, .de, .uk, .fr, .ch, .es, etc. tld will just be covering themselves
and redirect to their existing site and have to pick these up to fend off another opportunity for cyber-squatting. Smells almost like
some kind of tax.
Personally, wonder if I could get n.eu :)
In other news, 'PodCast' in the New Oxford American Dictionary.
microsoft announces...
So it's really just a massive bribe?
Like: "We'll invest a piddly 1.7B USD in your country, to encourage acceptance, by developers."
Sure, can't miss. Apple pumped a lot of money into public schools 25 years ago and the Apple brand name was established. But... 25 years later they have a minor share of the market.
More like Microsoft will start sheadding headcount in Redmond over the next few years.
i get so choked up when bill gives away hundreds of millions of dollars for aids and malaria and stuff. i get so choked up, not because it's a great humanitarian effort, but because he's sucked up such a mountain of wealth and now their profit margins will likely increase.
Next flights to the cheese factory leaving on all runways.
'This is unlikely to be sustainable for publishers in the longer term.', says Francisco Pinto Balsemao, head of the European Publishers Council.
The panicking and running around with hands in the air, shouting "the sky is falling"?
I can begin to tell how many authors I've ripped off by reading their entire tomes on-line, snippet by snippet in Google search results.
I haven't.
On the contrary, like Langdon alludes, I hear or see something, pop a few words into Google to do a search, next thing you know my bookshelf, real oak(!), is jamb packed with books.
What do they really want, poverty and security through obscurity?
the new zork times book review shall not quote, nor say bad words about my book, in cold oatmeal or i shall sue
In the words of Theodoric of Yorrick: "Nahhh..."
TW/AOL:Losses in the billions.
Microsoft Entertainment/Internet Operations: Losses in the billions
Google have every right to be worried. With the losses these two titans amass, they could well suck up a lot of advertising revenue on the way to losing record billions.
hello, this is microsoft support, press 1 to refinance your mortgage, 2 for MSN help, 3 for pills that enhance your bedtime experience, 4 for office help, 5 to see if you are an instant winner of the tw/msn lottery, 6 for xbox help, 7 to register a microsoft product over the phone or stay on the line to hear nagamo mazoomba, former vice president of internal standards group, request your help in getting $43,675,00 out of a bank account in the caymans.
Seems to me that coffee, particularly small amounts of strong coffee, are another part of a mediterranean diet.
We've read about red wine, olive oil and a number of other foods, which seem to indicate your best bet to live long and enjoy dolce vita you should eat at italian, greek, southern french or southern spanish restaurants.
Really. It is quite difficult to pack in a cheeseburger, fries and coke after a decent meal. And that little cup of espresso was to help you regain your wits enough to totter on home with all that good food in you.