Yes, but if you were "rebuilt" on a particle level, no matter how long you'd be destroyed/dead, it seems logical to me that you should be in the exact health as you were when you were destroyed".
There's the problem right there though, it's not the same particles, the result on the other end is NOT you, it's a duplicate.
About the only way I ever see any sort of teleportation ever succeeding is to cause the existing particles that you're made up of to shift to a higher engery state (think mattergy), encapsulated in some sort of field, and the bubble containing you pushed/pulled somewhere else. I've only come accross it once before, but I read an article that subatomic particles can travel anywhere almost instantaniously (slipstream?).
I've played guitar on and off since early high school, started in our jazz band my sophomore year, and one of the biggest problems I had before I got my nady wireless was that people were tripping over cables or not watching where they were putting their music stands down. Not sure how much stress a firewire cable using fiber optics can take, but I know for a fact that my copper cables got stretched and bent and kinked all the time.
But that would give you immortality (so long as you keep your brain safe).
Um not exactly.. It would be a duplicate copy, but not you. It would just have your memories. Now, if you could link the two brains and just transfer the running "program" of who you are over to the other "processor" without halting or forking, then I'd consider it immortality since it's the same memories, genetics, and for lack of a better word "soul".
The HP AlphaServer SC system at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico ranks as the two most powerful supercomputers in the United States and numbers two and three on the worldwide list with its partitioned systems.
I should know, I helped build the thing and keep it running.
Only individuals (and legal entities) can have rights.
States rights is really a farce since states, like the fed only get powers (privileges which are solely granted by consent of the governed). "All powers not expressly granted to the federal government are reserved by the states."
I'm sick of idiot high school government teachers diluting the meaning of right.
The bill of rights were introduced to address shortcommings in the original draft of the constitution that neglected to mention that the citizens of this nation have rights that shall not be taken away.
And if you actually read the section of the constitution.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the free state; The right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged.
Let's analyze that. First, please note that there is a ';' in the middle of the paragraph, making it a composite of multiple sentences. Meaning that it really reads "A well regulated militia is needed. The People have a right to keep and bear arms which shall not be abridged." Second, as I've already stated, everywhere the word RIGHT is mentioned, it applies solely to individuals (and legal entities which are considered to be individuals)
Government does not have a RIGHT to pass laws, they have the POWER to do so. Government does not have a RIGHT to regulate the yelling of 'fire' in a crowded theater, they have the POWER to do so.
The worst part of all this is that revisionists determined to undermine the fundamental rights of this nations citizens' are constantly rewriting textbooks to intentionally blur the distintion between individual rights and government powers.
Last I played eq, and it's been a little while since they screwed up the billing and I just cancelled since they kept billing at under the $12.95 each month and I wasn't able to use the account.
People were handing out gear in newbie zones. You don't need a higher level char of your own to get twinked. Some people in the game have more plats than they can spend and just work up their trade skills for armor creation or whatnot and just hand out the stuff, or practice new item creation spells.
This won't prevent twinking. I personally feel it's just to sop more money out of people willing to be duped.
Too bad they're over paid, under work and for the most part unionized. I wish I had that kind of job security for the next 18 years.
And too bad some people in the private sector are underpaid, over worked, non-unionized, and have little to no job security.
But there are downsides as well as perks, depending on what agency and where it's at, you'll have to endure a complete and comprehensive background check possibly with polygraph, undergo routine searches upon entry into the facilities, constantly have to put up with mini background checks every few years, lots of paperwork to verify where you've been if you've visited a foreign country ever, being unable to leave this country for a vacation in another country without getting permission first, and a general lack of accountability by higher ups since a lot of what happens is considered to be behind closed doors without witnesses and/or a matter of national security.
And my company just contracts with them, I go through some of that same stuff.
If someone sold you a secondhand car that worked -despite- having the seats replaced by the previous owner, would you be angry that the car dealer no longer allowes you to drive the car?
No but if someone sold you a car in which the seatbelts had been removed and replaced with packing twine, most states (in the US) would not allow you to drive on the roads, and a manufacturer would be obligated to report it if it came in for service.
Doesn't mean that the car doesn't run fine, just that the original warrenty has been voided, and it's no longer certified to meet safety regulations.
When my company (Compaq Federal LLC a Hewlett packard company) sends me around the country I typically have the following on my person or as carry-on:
laptop, pair of cat-5 cables, netgear 5 port switch, pair of ipaq usb wireless adapters, linksys pcmcia wireless adapter, my ipaq with backpacks, cf memory/adapter cards, mini flashlight, keys with remote for avalanche, ink pens, small screwdriver, allen wrench, cdroms both blank and copies of my games/software, music cds, my cd-player, headsets, spare contact lenses, glasses for when I rest my eyes from the contacts, bottle of aspirin, light change of clothes, static grounding strap, lanyards/badges, quick snack for my hypoglycemia if the airline doesn't do meal service, books, pocket change, wallet, drum key and guitar picks, listerine pocket pack (hey who knows I might meet a cute waitress or airline attendant), steel toed shoes, pager, spare batteries, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple things.
I got through security just fine, just took a while and the attendant made a crack about the people behind me not expecting to get stuck behind MacGuyver.
[Wow. You're part of a real, live militia that's protecting this country.]
Please re-read that part about "a free state". I don't recall it saying "a free federal nation"
I'm so sick and tired of people who flunked their government class (this usually means the teachers who are teaching it today). Anywhere there is the word RIGHT it applies solely to an individual (or legal entity, which has watered down rights because it isn't a person), the government does not have rights, states do not have rights. The federal government has POWERS expressly GRANTED by the CONSENT of the governed. The states RESERVE those POWERS not EXCLUSIVELY GRANTED to the fed.
I have nothing against licensed handgun ownership Something that's licensed isn't a right.
The ability to speak what you want when you want should not be licensed. (and don't point out the clear and present danger thing, a word like a gun can cause death to innocents in certain situations, most law abiding citizens don't murder people by yelling fire in a crowded theater, just like most law abiding citizens who own guns either hunt or target shoot. And each occurance should be handled on a case by case basis.) One of the main reasons I don't like politically correct BS is that hardly anyone stands up for what they believe anymore for fear of being a target of a discrimination suit.
The ability to defend yourself and your loved ones from some psycho or crook breaking into your home should not be licensed.
The ability to get a job based on your own merits should not be licensed (or artificially manipulated).
Also, for the record, an AR-15 is not anti-tank, it is a semi-automatic rifle, that in some states, provided you pay the proper ATF taxes and get a class 3 arms license (might be wrong on which class or if it's needed for only dealer or not) can be a full auto. Anything larger than a certain calibur, 50-cal I think is classified as a destructive device and is either not permitted or does require special licensing, I believe most anti-tank weaponry falls into that catagory. Furthermore, depending on where you are, you can also own a tank, however the barrel must be plugged, the firing mechanism disabled, and the vehicle weight cannot exceed 40 tons. In England, if you've got a normal driver's license you can own and operate a tank on the city streets unless they've changed that within the past year.
That being free state of US right? Actually it was written so that the fed couldn't ride roughshod over the states. Or are you forgetting that the US military protects the "overall" US, and not an individual state when that state objects to something decreed by the fed.
Could you count that again? This time not counting COPA/CIPA as many of those bill's supporters were probably roped in on the premise of protecting children from being victimized in/"by exposure to" kiddy porn. Unlike DMCA/CBDTPA which are written solely for the benefit of media giants/etc, I think that while written wrong/overbroad CIPA/COPA may have had good intentions behind it.
Though as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
As far as being consumer friendly, I'd see how many of each voted for DMCA/P2P piracy/CBDTPA before deciding that.
The Q system was under bid in 2000, the project started construction before Bush was in office, the goal is to simulate a nuclear explosion in order to help maintain our current (let me repeat that, current) stockpile without having to detonate one to find out if it still works right. Considering that this reduces nuclear testing, most anti-nuke advocates should be happy.
//but, fundamentally, the student must have some degree of knowledge of the basics of what he's doing to know that the answer that comes out of the box is the one he wants//
Sadly, about 5-6 years ago, I was taking mechanical engineering at a school in michigan, my peers had all programmed their TI-80's with all the formulas they'd need on the exam, up to the point of the calculator asking them what numbers they had, and what numbers they wanted.
Want to find how much stress it'd take to bend a certain alloy up to a certain degree? No problem, give the calculator the metal stress factor (provided on the test), the amount of deformation, and it'd spit out how much stress it would take.
I didn't mention any of this to the instructor, perhaps I should have, I didn't use the calculator, and subsequently had one of the lower scoring tests. And I wonder, what would happen the day their careers are on the line and they don't have their calculators?
This was a large part of what made me switch to computers; that and I found calculating statics and strengths of materials, and thermodynamics weren't really that interesting to me.
Example: DeCSS is legal in France. If I post DeCSS on a US server and this server is a mirror of a French server, does French law and "backup copy" laws apply to the US site as well?
No? Then this decision is nothing more than US protecting its huge mega-corporation. Yes? Then free speech is really better protected.
Just my US$0.02... =)
If I had mod points I think your post would be going down.
The cases aren't even remotely similar and you're trying to compare apples to windows(oranges).
Since it's terribly difficult to send a backup copy of a physical item over the internet, your comments really don't apply.
Furthermore as I've mentioned in another post, yahoo isn't doing the selling of the items, they are hosting a forum where others can sell. Basically the french court system (and perhaps their police agencies as well) don't want to take responsibility for the purchaces made by their own citizens and instead of tracking and arresting them they have to blame someone else.
If someone was sending death threats to you over/. do you think/. could be held responsible for hosting the forum? Is it their fault for running the site?
2) Yahoo tries to sell software to anyone world wide (including the French) via French and American hosted websites
False, yahoo isn't selling software:P or anything for that matter since it's merely hosting an auction forumn where others can sell stuff.
3) This broke French law
Also false, as I stated above, yahoo isn't selling anything, they are hosting a forumn where others sell. Since they aren't the ones selling, I fail to see how they violate the law of selling. The fact that the french are suing the medium instead of the individuals is disturbing since they are trying to hold guilty an innocent bystander. In this case it's like yahoo owns a building, they tell people to bring stuff there to sell. And yet rather than going after the people who bring stuff to the building, they go after the building's owner who wasn't necessarily involved. They'd probably have a problem going after citizens here since the citizens could claim they put the item up for internal american consumption. It looks like they want yahoo's assets for their own purposes. Why else would you sue yahoo and not the people who actually buy/sell the stuff?
4) They were charged since they operated on French soil.
Care to prove that the auctions.yahoo.com webserver is physically in france? If the french don't like an american website they should be the ones to censor it on their end. If they were smart they'd monitor the aution site, and arrest their own citizens that buy the stuff rather than try to take the assets of a company based in another country for failure to comply with the technically/politically/econimically infeasable.
Because the expansion slot is CF and their own hard drive design is PCMCIA. The microdrive will fit but theirs wont.
BAH, JPL has been working on this for a while.
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The jet propulsion labs is into mark III of their matter/anti-matter reactor, they've already designed anti-matter "pods" for storage (they like to use star trek terminology)
other than having a problem with producing the anti-matter, they've discovered that the reaction process isn't always so clean. and that isotopes of various materials are produced, the radiation generated also seems to have a tendancy to reduce the structural integrity of whatever is re-inforcing the reactor.
(Read about all this in the back of star trek book, an addenum written by one of the scientists working on the engine design. Quite informative, was next generation #50 'dyson sphere', anyhow the radiation makes nearby materials brittle, which means that the reactor must be distant from the rest of the ship.:P that'd suck)
Before this idea, the jpl was working on a project called orion, which was a nuclear rocket booster. (featured in the movie deep impact)
I recall a time when I was still in high school, and this wasn't all that long ago. Seven-eight years tops, my father's hours were switched around so that he'd be unable to take a qualification test because the union rep wanted a promotion and it's likely my father was more qualified for the position. This rep also held onto most bad reports he tried to get submitted to the "fair" union. Unions are a joke. Look at UPS, when they went on strike, throughput on fed-ex and the post office more than doubled to the point where they could barely handle all the packages. When airlines go on strike it's detrimental to us all. We lose perishable goods if they aren't stored, we lose time waiting for our new servers or needed software, the marketing and sales people can never get where they need to be in order to sell the product.
Nobody should have the power to totally stop commerce and services other companies and people depend upon for their livelyhood.
Some cell phones are IRDA compliant. Barring this, you'd most likely need either a C/F sleeve or a PCMCIA sleeve and a C/F adapter, go to mobileplanet.com and look up CMDA modems. Or perhaps one of the other cellular modem types depending upon where you live and what type of service is available. For myself I'd need to pick up a socket communications C/F card that plugs into my startac and does CMDA. That said, I'm not sure how many of the modems work with linux.
My understanding of the power problem running linux on an iPaq is that the deep-sleep mode was broken in the linux kernel. When you press the on/off button again in CE it doesn't really turn the device off. It just shuts the screen off and hibernates. Shutting it off completely via the switch on the bottom wouldn't be too productive if you constantly lost data and settings. *shrug*
Comparisons between an iPaq and a Palm is like comparing apples to oranges. Now I've never had a palm, never cared for them, but I've not seen someone running a color palm constantly playing games or music. All of which wears the battery down. Usually I leave my backlight off most of the time which greatly extends the life.
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You've been watching 'total recall' haven't you?
Yes, but if you were "rebuilt" on a particle level, no matter how long you'd be destroyed/dead, it seems logical to me that you should be in the exact health as you were when you were destroyed".
There's the problem right there though, it's not the same particles, the result on the other end is NOT you, it's a duplicate.
About the only way I ever see any sort of teleportation ever succeeding is to cause the existing particles that you're made up of to shift to a higher engery state (think mattergy), encapsulated in some sort of field, and the bubble containing you pushed/pulled somewhere else. I've only come accross it once before, but I read an article that subatomic particles can travel anywhere almost instantaniously (slipstream?).
Using professional-grade glass optical fiber
I've played guitar on and off since early high school, started in our jazz band my sophomore year, and one of the biggest problems I had before I got my nady wireless was that people were tripping over cables or not watching where they were putting their music stands down. Not sure how much stress a firewire cable using fiber optics can take, but I know for a fact that my copper cables got stretched and bent and kinked all the time.
But that would give you immortality (so long as you keep your brain safe).
Um not exactly..
It would be a duplicate copy, but not you. It would just have your memories. Now, if you could link the two brains and just transfer the running "program" of who you are over to the other "processor" without halting or forking, then I'd consider it immortality since it's the same memories, genetics, and for lack of a better word "soul".
The HP AlphaServer SC system at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico ranks as the two most powerful supercomputers in the United States and numbers two and three on the worldwide list with its partitioned systems.
I should know, I helped build the thing and keep it running.
Only individuals (and legal entities) can have rights.
States rights is really a farce since states, like the fed only get powers (privileges which are solely granted by consent of the governed). "All powers not expressly granted to the federal government are reserved by the states."
I'm sick of idiot high school government teachers diluting the meaning of right.
The bill of rights were introduced to address shortcommings in the original draft of the constitution that neglected to mention that the citizens of this nation have rights that shall not be taken away.
And if you actually read the section of the constitution.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the free state; The right to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged.
Let's analyze that. First, please note that there is a ';' in the middle of the paragraph, making it a composite of multiple sentences. Meaning that it really reads "A well regulated militia is needed. The People have a right to keep and bear arms which shall not be abridged."
Second, as I've already stated, everywhere the word RIGHT is mentioned, it applies solely to individuals (and legal entities which are considered to be individuals)
Government does not have a RIGHT to pass laws, they have the POWER to do so. Government does not have a RIGHT to regulate the yelling of 'fire' in a crowded theater, they have the POWER to do so.
The worst part of all this is that revisionists determined to undermine the fundamental rights of this nations citizens' are constantly rewriting textbooks to intentionally blur the distintion between individual rights and government powers.
Last I played eq, and it's been a little while since they screwed up the billing and I just cancelled since they kept billing at under the $12.95 each month and I wasn't able to use the account.
People were handing out gear in newbie zones. You don't need a higher level char of your own to get twinked. Some people in the game have more plats than they can spend and just work up their trade skills for armor creation or whatnot and just hand out the stuff, or practice new item creation spells.
This won't prevent twinking. I personally feel it's just to sop more money out of people willing to be duped.
Too bad they're over paid, under work and for the most part unionized. I wish I had that kind of job security for the next 18 years.
And too bad some people in the private sector are underpaid, over worked, non-unionized, and have little to no job security.
But there are downsides as well as perks, depending on what agency and where it's at, you'll have to endure a complete and comprehensive background check possibly with polygraph, undergo routine searches upon entry into the facilities, constantly have to put up with mini background checks every few years, lots of paperwork to verify where you've been if you've visited a foreign country ever, being unable to leave this country for a vacation in another country without getting permission first, and a general lack of accountability by higher ups since a lot of what happens is considered to be behind closed doors without witnesses and/or a matter of national security.
And my company just contracts with them, I go through some of that same stuff.
If someone sold you a secondhand car that worked -despite- having the seats replaced by the previous owner, would you be angry that the car dealer no longer allowes you to drive the car?
No but if someone sold you a car in which the seatbelts had been removed and replaced with packing twine, most states (in the US) would not allow you to drive on the roads, and a manufacturer would be obligated to report it if it came in for service.
Doesn't mean that the car doesn't run fine, just that the original warrenty has been voided, and it's no longer certified to meet safety regulations.
When my company (Compaq Federal LLC a Hewlett packard company) sends me around the country I typically have the following on my person or as carry-on:
laptop, pair of cat-5 cables, netgear 5 port switch, pair of ipaq usb wireless adapters, linksys pcmcia wireless adapter, my ipaq with backpacks, cf memory/adapter cards, mini flashlight, keys with remote for avalanche, ink pens, small screwdriver, allen wrench, cdroms both blank and copies of my games/software, music cds, my cd-player, headsets, spare contact lenses, glasses for when I rest my eyes from the contacts, bottle of aspirin, light change of clothes, static grounding strap, lanyards/badges, quick snack for my hypoglycemia if the airline doesn't do meal service, books, pocket change, wallet, drum key and guitar picks, listerine pocket pack (hey who knows I might meet a cute waitress or airline attendant), steel toed shoes, pager, spare batteries, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple things.
I got through security just fine, just took a while and the attendant made a crack about the people behind me not expecting to get stuck behind MacGuyver.
[Wow. You're part of a real, live militia that's protecting this country.]
Please re-read that part about "a free state".
I don't recall it saying "a free federal nation"
I'm so sick and tired of people who flunked their government class (this usually means the teachers who are teaching it today). Anywhere there is the word RIGHT it applies solely to an individual (or legal entity, which has watered down rights because it isn't a person), the government does not have rights, states do not have rights. The federal government has POWERS expressly GRANTED by the CONSENT of the governed. The states RESERVE those POWERS not EXCLUSIVELY GRANTED to the fed.
I have nothing against licensed handgun ownership
Something that's licensed isn't a right.
The ability to speak what you want when you want should not be licensed. (and don't point out the clear and present danger thing, a word like a gun can cause death to innocents in certain situations, most law abiding citizens don't murder people by yelling fire in a crowded theater, just like most law abiding citizens who own guns either hunt or target shoot. And each occurance should be handled on a case by case basis.) One of the main reasons I don't like politically correct BS is that hardly anyone stands up for what they believe anymore for fear of being a target of a discrimination suit.
The ability to defend yourself and your loved ones from some psycho or crook breaking into your home should not be licensed.
The ability to get a job based on your own merits should not be licensed (or artificially manipulated).
Also, for the record, an AR-15 is not anti-tank, it is a semi-automatic rifle, that in some states, provided you pay the proper ATF taxes and get a class 3 arms license (might be wrong on which class or if it's needed for only dealer or not) can be a full auto. Anything larger than a certain calibur, 50-cal I think is classified as a destructive device and is either not permitted or does require special licensing, I believe most anti-tank weaponry falls into that catagory.
Furthermore, depending on where you are, you can also own a tank, however the barrel must be plugged, the firing mechanism disabled, and the vehicle weight cannot exceed 40 tons. In England, if you've got a normal driver's license you can own and operate a tank on the city streets unless they've changed that within the past year.
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That being free state of US right? Actually it was written so that the fed couldn't ride roughshod over the states. Or are you forgetting that the US military protects the "overall" US, and not an individual state when that state objects to something decreed by the fed.
Thanks for posting the breakdown, that's a lot more informative than the original parent post.
Mod parent up!
Could you count that again? This time not counting COPA/CIPA as many of those bill's supporters were probably roped in on the premise of protecting children from being victimized in/"by exposure to" kiddy porn. Unlike DMCA/CBDTPA which are written solely for the benefit of media giants/etc, I think that while written wrong/overbroad CIPA/COPA may have had good intentions behind it.
Though as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
As far as being consumer friendly, I'd see how many of each voted for DMCA/P2P piracy/CBDTPA before deciding that.
Which supercomputing guys? The LANL folks who buy the system, the HP/Compaq guys who design the system, or the HP/Compaq guys who build the system?
The Q system was under bid in 2000, the project started construction before Bush was in office, the goal is to simulate a nuclear explosion in order to help maintain our current (let me repeat that, current) stockpile without having to detonate one to find out if it still works right. Considering that this reduces nuclear testing, most anti-nuke advocates should be happy.
//but, fundamentally, the student must have some degree of knowledge of the basics of what he's doing to know that the answer that comes out of the box is the one he wants//
Sadly, about 5-6 years ago, I was taking mechanical engineering at a school in michigan, my peers had all programmed their TI-80's with all the formulas they'd need on the exam, up to the point of the calculator asking them what numbers they had, and what numbers they wanted.
Want to find how much stress it'd take to bend a certain alloy up to a certain degree?
No problem, give the calculator the metal stress factor (provided on the test), the amount of deformation, and it'd spit out how much stress it would take.
I didn't mention any of this to the instructor, perhaps I should have, I didn't use the calculator, and subsequently had one of the lower scoring tests. And I wonder, what would happen the day their careers are on the line and they don't have their calculators?
This was a large part of what made me switch to computers; that and I found calculating statics and strengths of materials, and thermodynamics weren't really that interesting to me.
Does it apply in reverse?
Example: DeCSS is legal in France. If I post DeCSS on a US server and this server is a mirror of a French server, does French law and "backup copy" laws apply to the US site as well?
No? Then this decision is nothing more than US protecting its huge mega-corporation. Yes? Then free speech is really better protected.
Just my US$0.02... =)
If I had mod points I think your post would be going down.
The cases aren't even remotely similar and you're trying to compare apples to windows(oranges).
Since it's terribly difficult to send a backup copy of a physical item over the internet, your comments really don't apply.
Furthermore as I've mentioned in another post, yahoo isn't doing the selling of the items, they are hosting a forum where others can sell. Basically the french court system (and perhaps their police agencies as well) don't want to take responsibility for the purchaces made by their own citizens and instead of tracking and arresting them they have to blame someone else.
If someone was sending death threats to you over
NO, absolutely not!
1) What Yahoo did is legal in the US
:P or anything for that matter since it's merely hosting an auction forumn where others can sell stuff.
True...
2) Yahoo tries to sell software to anyone world wide (including the French) via French and American hosted websites
False, yahoo isn't selling software
3) This broke French law
Also false, as I stated above, yahoo isn't selling anything, they are hosting a forumn where others sell. Since they aren't the ones selling, I fail to see how they violate the law of selling. The fact that the french are suing the medium instead of the individuals is disturbing since they are trying to hold guilty an innocent bystander. In this case it's like yahoo owns a building, they tell people to bring stuff there to sell. And yet rather than going after the people who bring stuff to the building, they go after the building's owner who wasn't necessarily involved. They'd probably have a problem going after citizens here since the citizens could claim they put the item up for internal american consumption. It looks like they want yahoo's assets for their own purposes. Why else would you sue yahoo and not the people who actually buy/sell the stuff?
4) They were charged since they operated on French soil.
Care to prove that the auctions.yahoo.com webserver is physically in france? If the french don't like an american website they should be the ones to censor it on their end. If they were smart they'd monitor the aution site, and arrest their own citizens that buy the stuff rather than try to take the assets of a company based in another country for failure to comply with the technically/politically/econimically infeasable.
Try again.
I'd suggest you take your own advice.
Because the expansion slot is CF and their own hard drive design is PCMCIA. The microdrive will fit but theirs wont.
The jet propulsion labs is into mark III of their matter/anti-matter reactor, they've already designed anti-matter "pods" for storage (they like to use star trek terminology)
:P that'd suck)
other than having a problem with producing the anti-matter, they've discovered that the reaction process isn't always so clean. and that isotopes of various materials are produced, the radiation generated also seems to have a tendancy to reduce the structural integrity of whatever is re-inforcing the reactor.
(Read about all this in the back of star trek book, an addenum written by one of the scientists working on the engine design. Quite informative, was next generation #50 'dyson sphere', anyhow the radiation makes nearby materials brittle, which means that the reactor must be distant from the rest of the ship.
Before this idea, the jpl was working on a project called orion, which was a nuclear rocket booster. (featured in the movie deep impact)
I doubt if I could have said it better myself.
I recall a time when I was still in high school, and this wasn't all that long ago. Seven-eight years tops, my father's hours were switched around so that he'd be unable to take a qualification test because the union rep wanted a promotion and it's likely my father was more qualified for the position. This rep also held onto most bad reports he tried to get submitted to the "fair" union. Unions are a joke. Look at UPS, when they went on strike, throughput on fed-ex and the post office more than doubled to the point where they could barely handle all the packages. When airlines go on strike it's detrimental to us all. We lose perishable goods if they aren't stored, we lose time waiting for our new servers or needed software, the marketing and sales people can never get where they need to be in order to sell the product.
Nobody should have the power to totally stop commerce and services other companies and people depend upon for their livelyhood.
I shall call him mini-taco
Some cell phones are IRDA compliant. Barring this, you'd most likely need either a C/F sleeve or a PCMCIA sleeve and a C/F adapter, go to mobileplanet.com and look up CMDA modems. Or perhaps one of the other cellular modem types depending upon where you live and what type of service is available. For myself I'd need to pick up a socket communications C/F card that plugs into my startac and does CMDA. That said, I'm not sure how many of the modems work with linux.
My understanding of the power problem running linux on an iPaq is that the deep-sleep mode was broken in the linux kernel. When you press the on/off button again in CE it doesn't really turn the device off. It just shuts the screen off and hibernates. Shutting it off completely via the switch on the bottom wouldn't be too productive if you constantly lost data and settings. *shrug* Comparisons between an iPaq and a Palm is like comparing apples to oranges. Now I've never had a palm, never cared for them, but I've not seen someone running a color palm constantly playing games or music. All of which wears the battery down. Usually I leave my backlight off most of the time which greatly extends the life.