Having an idea that works in the market is incredible luck. There are lots of really great ideas that fall flat in the market.
Hell, really - if you measure the odds, just being comfortably off is mostly luck - luck in being born in a place where you can make a decent salary, and get a decent eduction. Over 80% of the human population lives in absolute, grinding poverty. So just the luck of being born in a country where you are free to pursue your ideas is pretty lucky to start with.
Take Bill Gates - if he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, with all the contacts his parents had - say he was born to a car mechanic and janitor for parents, where would he be right now? Possibly a manager at a major software firm if he was lucky enough to get a decent education - pulling down a good salary, but certainly not a multi billionaire.
It depends. Not all lasers emit a collimated beam without a lens. For example, laser diodes are highly divergent - something like 30 degrees. To get a nice, narrow traditional laser beam with a laser diode, you need a lens.
Now the gamma laser may well be highly collimated without any additional focusing. But we don't know that for a laser that's not been built and is only theoretically posssible!
The fusion reaction in an H-bomb is contained, or it wouldn't occur at all. It's just not contained for very long, that's all. The type of confinement in an H-bomb is called "inertial confinment".
Fission's the same: the nuclear reaction can only take place while the critical mass remains assembled. By the time the nuke is actually destroying stuff (including things as close as the bomb casing), the reaction is already over. Much of a bomb's efficiency is related to how long you can keep the critical mass assembled, or the fusion reaction confined. This is why the Nagasaki bomb was much more powerful than Hiroshima: a better way of keeping the critical mass assembled, leading to more of the fissile material fissioning.
My Sony TV (a high end model when I bought it - back in my student days, with my house mate) is 13 years old. The picture quality is still excellent. I have no intention of replacing it. I have digital satellite (this is in Britain, I only bother with the Freeview channels, I don't have a subscription to anything). However, my digital satellite box spends most of its time as a radio for BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music.
The Sony TV is also great for retrocomputer use for my collection of Sinclair Spectrums and a BBC Micro (the picture quality from the latter with the RGB cable is excellent).
If only the Unix vendors really HAD rested on their laurels - they didn't - the Unix family squabbled amongst itself and in doing so failed to notice Windows taking a huge chunk of their market share in servers, and Linux taking the other huge chunk of their server market share - until it was far too late and they were either going bust, taken over, or forced to exit the market.
The whole thing about SCOX is almost just the internicine squabbling continuing in what's left of the Unix-alike community, which has been cursed with this sort of thing for at least two decades.
Hm. Another article deserving of the tag 'wishfulthinking'.
According to TFA, the defendent *still* doesn't have the copyrights to the songs, even if the registrations are wrong - in that case, the registered copyright is still to record companies. Who are probably RIAA members. If this case fails, the defendent can just be sued again by the registered rights holders. I don't see then name "Jammie Thomas" as the rights holder under either columns in TFA.
Sounds like you worked for EV1Servers (formerly Rackshack) - your description matches them almost exactly, including the power outage while working on a UPS.
EV1Servers gained some notoriety a couple of years back by being hoodwinked by SCO into buying a "Linux license". They sold out to ThePlanet about a year ago.
However, how can it possibly said that a format with tags like "formatLikeWord95" - which are completely meaningless, be "superb"? OOXML doesn't need FUD to discredit it - just the existence of formatLikeWord95 is bad enough.
Cell phones (at least GSM ones) *will* intefere with aircraft radios very readily. I've experienced it first hand - we were just intercepting the localiser (the horizontal component of an instrument landing system) when the pilot's cell phone started to ring as he'd forgotten to turn it off. It was his first ever night time instrument approach in the clouds for real.
As soon as his phone went off, the audio was obliterated by a very loud "B B BIP B B BIP B B BIP B B BIP BRRRRRRRRR" (which you will be familiar with if you have a GSM phone as they intefere with a lot of things) - which meant we were unable to hear any ATC instructions. Fortunately, I could take the controls and continue the approach while my friend found his phone and turned it off. However, if he had been alone in the aircraft it would have been extremely distracting, and it would have been quite easy to miss an ATC instruction.
People are much much more willing to co-operate and follow orders like this if the consequences of not doing so are being bombed back into the Stone Age!
I suspect your vision isn't quite as good as you think it is - get it checked out by an optician before you kill someone on the roads. Also, you should still be using your headlights on streetlit roads (so anyone with defective vision who couldn't see your green truck would still see its lights).
While low pressure sodium lighting results in monochromatic vision, I've never had any trouble whatsoever seeing objects of any colour. They also emit at the wavelength that human vision is the most sensitive. If I can see objects of all colours, if you have good vision, then so should you.
Low pressure sodium lights are also much more efficient - they are the most efficient lights we have. Added to that they emit light at the wavelengths that human vision is most sensitive, boosting their effective efficiency since you need fewer watts still for the same apparent brightness. No other lighting comes even close to low pressure sodium (SOX) for efficiency. High pressure sodium (SON) is the nearest, but IIRC only has 2/3rds of the efficiency.
Where I live, at about 2am, most of the streetlights get turned off. This is presumably to save money rather than for light pollution issues.
It would be nice if they had kept low pressure sodium lights, too (easier to filter out, and in any case, low pressure sodium is a lot more efficient than the "more modern" high pressure sodium lights. Low pressure sodium is by far the most efficient light source ever invented).
Your first request is incompatible with all the other requests. All things remaining equal, faster clock equals more heat. The more transistors you have, the more heat.
CMOS uses power when it switches states (when it's quiescent, it uses nothing but a very tiny leakage current). The faster you make CMOS switch, the more heat it generates. You can't get away from that. You can mitigate it with lower voltages, but you then run into other significant engineering problems, and the CPU cores are already running at very low voltages.
The heat problem can only be mitigated, and not solved. Well, it can be solved - use a slower CPU.
Sun seem to have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde personality when it comes to Free software - one moment, they are trying to destroy some of it, and the next moment, they are doing something positively great and beneficial (such as moving Java to the GPL).
Depending on the characteristics of the supercapacitor, they can be even more dangerous. Capacitors generally can discharge at incredibly high rates. With the high energy density of an ultracapacitor, the effects will be spectacular.
OK, how exactly would a flight plan have helped? Do you understand what a VFR flight plan does and doesn't do? What, exactly, would you put on this flight plan for a meandering search for lakebeds?
People who have lots of hours flying have told you a VFR flight plan is not particularly useful. Yet, as a non-pilot, you think that not filing some paperwork you don't actually understand is stupid? That's supremely arrogant of you, not to mention ignorant. Before you say "common sense", common sense is often wrong. Common sense once said the earth was flat.
Not carrying a couple of day's water when flying over the desert is "inadvisable", and possibly even stupid. Not filing a flight plan with the FSS is neither here nor there, no matter how much the mass media asserts that it is. Or how much you, a non pilot, asserts that it is. (Think for a moment: how accurate is the mass media with computer or internet related issues? Do you think they are any better with aviation?)
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The Isle of Man is not part of the European Union.
Well, I suppose it beats the Mickey Mouse's ear that Caldera had.
I prefer a Madras curry. It's probably cheaper, probably just as effective, and it's a good meal.
It's unstable and it hangs X.org. I disabled it within half an hour of trying it.
Having an idea that works in the market is incredible luck. There are lots of really great ideas that fall flat in the market.
Hell, really - if you measure the odds, just being comfortably off is mostly luck - luck in being born in a place where you can make a decent salary, and get a decent eduction. Over 80% of the human population lives in absolute, grinding poverty. So just the luck of being born in a country where you are free to pursue your ideas is pretty lucky to start with.
Take Bill Gates - if he wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, with all the contacts his parents had - say he was born to a car mechanic and janitor for parents, where would he be right now? Possibly a manager at a major software firm if he was lucky enough to get a decent education - pulling down a good salary, but certainly not a multi billionaire.
It depends. Not all lasers emit a collimated beam without a lens. For example, laser diodes are highly divergent - something like 30 degrees. To get a nice, narrow traditional laser beam with a laser diode, you need a lens.
Now the gamma laser may well be highly collimated without any additional focusing. But we don't know that for a laser that's not been built and is only theoretically posssible!
Gasp! Gasp! GASP!
The fusion reaction in an H-bomb is contained, or it wouldn't occur at all. It's just not contained for very long, that's all. The type of confinement in an H-bomb is called "inertial confinment".
Fission's the same: the nuclear reaction can only take place while the critical mass remains assembled. By the time the nuke is actually destroying stuff (including things as close as the bomb casing), the reaction is already over. Much of a bomb's efficiency is related to how long you can keep the critical mass assembled, or the fusion reaction confined. This is why the Nagasaki bomb was much more powerful than Hiroshima: a better way of keeping the critical mass assembled, leading to more of the fissile material fissioning.
My Sony TV (a high end model when I bought it - back in my student days, with my house mate) is 13 years old. The picture quality is still excellent. I have no intention of replacing it. I have digital satellite (this is in Britain, I only bother with the Freeview channels, I don't have a subscription to anything). However, my digital satellite box spends most of its time as a radio for BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music.
The Sony TV is also great for retrocomputer use for my collection of Sinclair Spectrums and a BBC Micro (the picture quality from the latter with the RGB cable is excellent).
If only the Unix vendors really HAD rested on their laurels - they didn't - the Unix family squabbled amongst itself and in doing so failed to notice Windows taking a huge chunk of their market share in servers, and Linux taking the other huge chunk of their server market share - until it was far too late and they were either going bust, taken over, or forced to exit the market.
The whole thing about SCOX is almost just the internicine squabbling continuing in what's left of the Unix-alike community, which has been cursed with this sort of thing for at least two decades.
I thought wireless was Ethernet, too. So ethernet is going to make ethernet obsolete? Umm?
Wifi is ethernet, it's just ethernet over wireless instead of ethernet over wires.
Hm. Another article deserving of the tag 'wishfulthinking'.
According to TFA, the defendent *still* doesn't have the copyrights to the songs, even if the registrations are wrong - in that case, the registered copyright is still to record companies. Who are probably RIAA members. If this case fails, the defendent can just be sued again by the registered rights holders. I don't see then name "Jammie Thomas" as the rights holder under either columns in TFA.
Sounds like you worked for EV1Servers (formerly Rackshack) - your description matches them almost exactly, including the power outage while working on a UPS.
EV1Servers gained some notoriety a couple of years back by being hoodwinked by SCO into buying a "Linux license". They sold out to ThePlanet about a year ago.
However, how can it possibly said that a format with tags like "formatLikeWord95" - which are completely meaningless, be "superb"? OOXML doesn't need FUD to discredit it - just the existence of formatLikeWord95 is bad enough.
Cell phones (at least GSM ones) *will* intefere with aircraft radios very readily. I've experienced it first hand - we were just intercepting the localiser (the horizontal component of an instrument landing system) when the pilot's cell phone started to ring as he'd forgotten to turn it off. It was his first ever night time instrument approach in the clouds for real.
As soon as his phone went off, the audio was obliterated by a very loud "B B BIP B B BIP B B BIP B B BIP BRRRRRRRRR" (which you will be familiar with if you have a GSM phone as they intefere with a lot of things) - which meant we were unable to hear any ATC instructions. Fortunately, I could take the controls and continue the approach while my friend found his phone and turned it off. However, if he had been alone in the aircraft it would have been extremely distracting, and it would have been quite easy to miss an ATC instruction.
It didn't intefere with the nav radios though.
People are much much more willing to co-operate and follow orders like this if the consequences of not doing so are being bombed back into the Stone Age!
I suspect your vision isn't quite as good as you think it is - get it checked out by an optician before you kill someone on the roads. Also, you should still be using your headlights on streetlit roads (so anyone with defective vision who couldn't see your green truck would still see its lights).
While low pressure sodium lighting results in monochromatic vision, I've never had any trouble whatsoever seeing objects of any colour. They also emit at the wavelength that human vision is the most sensitive. If I can see objects of all colours, if you have good vision, then so should you.
Low pressure sodium lights are also much more efficient - they are the most efficient lights we have. Added to that they emit light at the wavelengths that human vision is most sensitive, boosting their effective efficiency since you need fewer watts still for the same apparent brightness. No other lighting comes even close to low pressure sodium (SOX) for efficiency. High pressure sodium (SON) is the nearest, but IIRC only has 2/3rds of the efficiency.
Where I live, at about 2am, most of the streetlights get turned off. This is presumably to save money rather than for light pollution issues.
It would be nice if they had kept low pressure sodium lights, too (easier to filter out, and in any case, low pressure sodium is a lot more efficient than the "more modern" high pressure sodium lights. Low pressure sodium is by far the most efficient light source ever invented).
Your first request is incompatible with all the other requests. All things remaining equal, faster clock equals more heat. The more transistors you have, the more heat.
CMOS uses power when it switches states (when it's quiescent, it uses nothing but a very tiny leakage current). The faster you make CMOS switch, the more heat it generates. You can't get away from that. You can mitigate it with lower voltages, but you then run into other significant engineering problems, and the CPU cores are already running at very low voltages.
The heat problem can only be mitigated, and not solved. Well, it can be solved - use a slower CPU.
It might have had something to do with Federico Faggin designing both the 8080 _and_ the Z80.
Incidentally, Zilog still make the Z80 both in its 'classic' form and several newer microcontroller versions.
Yes. They supported SCO.
Sun seem to have a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde personality when it comes to Free software - one moment, they are trying to destroy some of it, and the next moment, they are doing something positively great and beneficial (such as moving Java to the GPL).
The first thought that came into my mind was Davross.
Po-210 initiators have not been used in nukes for decades - the initiators are now electronic. (Po-210 has a rather short half-life).
Depending on the characteristics of the supercapacitor, they can be even more dangerous. Capacitors generally can discharge at incredibly high rates. With the high energy density of an ultracapacitor, the effects will be spectacular.
If you want to see what just a few nanofarads of charge can do, take a look at a Tesla coil, or perhaps this - the Destruct-o-Tron: http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/destructotron.html
OK, how exactly would a flight plan have helped? Do you understand what a VFR flight plan does and doesn't do? What, exactly, would you put on this flight plan for a meandering search for lakebeds?
People who have lots of hours flying have told you a VFR flight plan is not particularly useful. Yet, as a non-pilot, you think that not filing some paperwork you don't actually understand is stupid? That's supremely arrogant of you, not to mention ignorant. Before you say "common sense", common sense is often wrong. Common sense once said the earth was flat.
Not carrying a couple of day's water when flying over the desert is "inadvisable", and possibly even stupid. Not filing a flight plan with the FSS is neither here nor there, no matter how much the mass media asserts that it is. Or how much you, a non pilot, asserts that it is. (Think for a moment: how accurate is the mass media with computer or internet related issues? Do you think they are any better with aviation?)