Re:Impact on the environment (and the ground)
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Going Up?
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Carbon nanotubes==incredibly strong.
I don't think that it should be too much trouble to piggy back a maglev rail to the ribbon, then top the ladder with a large solar array. Heck, if you design the station at the top right, you could use the rail to launch stuff way out into space, instead of just getting it to the top of the tower.
Affixing the rail to the ladder might be a bit difficult, as I suspect that punching bolts or rivets through the ribbon would seriously damage its structural integrity, but that's just an engineering problem.
It seems to me that most people who play video games do it to escape. We don't want real life to be like this (well, sometimes), we want to leave the duldrum, mundane existence for a little while.
If that is falling blocks to be stacked in a certain order, or fraggin' a thousand in online deathmatch, it doesn't matter. I've played many more hours of tetris than probably any other game except solitare (universal availabilty principle), and yet I don't compulsively stack things in my physical environment, nor do I play solitare with real cards when they are in front of me.
TV is way worse than VGs, and is probably not that bad as an advanced from of cultural memory. The media that presents that memory should not be blamed, but instead, the culture should be examined. There is a reason. It's terribly apparent, and video games are merely symptomatic.
Damn good book. The image of the fleet of ships pouring out of a GSV of maybe 10KM length sent my mind a whirl. (I can't seem to recal if that was from Excession or player of games)..
Have you read any of his other works (the non scifi stuff) like Wasp Factory or Road Crew (??)?
I always wondered why star trek wasn't more like that.
Thanks for the link.. I'll get too it later in the day.
What about sourcing issues as well. As I understand it, when building a cluster, the software that you run has to to either be custom or custom modified in order to take advantage of the cluster. With linux/OSS this seems like it wouldn't be too much of a problem, as (providing the requisite skill is available) you could 'simply' modify existing aplications.
However, with Windows and windows software you often do not have that option. Is the management of processes entirely handled at the OS level? It seems like that might be somewhat inefficent, as opposed to having the program handle at least part of the management. If not, are there ANY aplications that are designed for a Microsoft clustering environment?
Stainless is harder to work in someways, easier in others.
For example, if you have a chunk of carbon steel, and you want to cut a shape into it with an abrasive, it is probably going to lose it's temper due to the heat (temper like is defined at the bottom of this page, not like angry) Don Fogg Custom knives .. check out his forged, folded knives also! they are sweet, yet bitterly priced.
Stainless steel has a much higher resistance to the loss of temper due to the heat generated in it's grinding or machining. Stainless is also much less likely to have carbon burn off when under high heat.
However, Stainless in it's many forms requires a much more tightly controlled Quenching and heat treating process in order to maximize it's properties.
Stainless is good for dishwashers. Not for knives. and especially not for swords.
Re:.NET good, not evil
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What is .NET?
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The biggest problem I see with.NET is that the apps that get created with it will only run on Windows servers.
I think that this is in refference to the programing language c#, which is a component of MS.net, right?
ximian is working on a linux port of.net right now. Currently they are up to version 0.8. Looks like new versions of Gnome will be written for mono, at some point. Of course, if you'd read/. in the past weeks, you would know that. You can read up on it or offer your assistance at Go mono
They are identifiable because we're surrounded by trace elements, and smelting processes don't remove these trace impurities.
In addition, they keep samples of most every run of powder ever produced so that in the case that powder residue is found at a crime scene, they can run a spectographic analysis and figure out where the powder was manufactured.
I have heard that most explosives and substances that could be used to produce explosives (certain fertilizers, etc) in the US are tagged with a with a chemical compound. Not sure if it's true, though.
Yeah, but the problem I've had hasn't been with the dsl service itself, it's been with these little companies with ideas that sound great (and even great service), untill said little company goes tits up bankrupt, and then demands my 'free' modem back at my cost for shipping (I know the modem wasn't really free, but that was only clear in the very small print).
If I'm thinking tech, I like to be at my computer or whatever I am thinking about (Battlebots, ussually), so I guess I have to say that I preffer ebooks/online books for technical reading. I've carried numerous heavy tomes with them animals on them to and from work, and in all honesty, I would find it easier if they were either on my webserver or somewhere universally accessible (palm, whatever). I find that I very rarely read them in transit or when I am not at the pc.
I don't want to rent Ebooks, though. I want ot buy them. And I want free updates. And I still want my fiction in the old rag form. I've spent hours in the past couple of days reading Dune again, and no eye strain. If I tried to do that with my crt (I know, someone will say 'I don't get monitor burn..' your display is probably better than mine.. get over it).. well, I think my eyes would bleed.
As for content, cover fairly narrow topics with a high degree of focusm and don't make mistakes that I am going to catch. If it's a technical book, make sure that the code example that are supposed to compile do. I've had too many agravating evenings with various language books (from which I have learn most of my '31337' skills) busting my ass trying to figure out what I did wrong, only to find out that my refference was flawed.
In addition, it could be much worse if it were just ma bell out there now. At the time they split it up into the baby bells, the telephony market was still emerging. They had no idea how far it would go.
How far is software going to go? How much of that do you want Microsoft to be responsible for?
I guess that part of the problem I see. I don't think that Microsoft feels or expresses any responsiblity to it's users or the community.. or much at all sans the pocket books of it's shareholders.
That's not what I want on my desktop.
It feels kind of obvious (IMVHO) why Miguel wants to use mono/.NET for gnome. He's been spending far too much time programing Mono. When you get that deep into a task, it starts to take over the rest of your life, perhaps sometimes into areas where it should not.
For example.. how many begining, enthusiastic java students have you known/known of who want to write the new ubergame/web browser/P2P filesharing server in, of course, Java. It's just eagerness. It wears off.
That the plebian masses don't want it. If everybody used it, eventually broadcast Tv would die (no commercials to pay for it), and what was left would either be a subscription based model (cable) with higher prices (since you still have ads with cable, hence loss of revenue for the provider) or 'product placement' adverts integrated within the programs themselves, which I find FAR more annoying than traditional commercials. Also possible are those damn 'bugs' that come on screen during programs (you know, history channel is horrible about them).
Probably what we'll end up with is combination of all of the above. Advertising works better when the consumer is unaware that they are being infected with the meme (IE when the defenses are down due to invovlement in a racey scene in sex in the city)..
I can just see the Trojan Man showing up in the middle of my favorite PPV.
except for the fact that he has some serious reservations as indicated by this quote (in refference to Sun Chairman Scott Mcnealy and Suns forays into the software market)
"He always wonders if I'm mad at him for going into competitive markets, and the answer is no, because I don't think they stand a chance. Bless their heart, it's not what they do well. I think it's going to be really hard for an open standards company like that to get deep into the software business."
But it would be really humiliating for them to be in the business of selling a clone of AMD's design; it would mark them as a follower rather than a leader.
http://designtechnica.com/article.php?sid=990
in the field of innovation AMD is at the top of the heap in the processor market (at least as measured by the number of patents issued)..
AMD has lead intel in number of patents for the last 3 years, this year ranking 14th with 1090 patents, behind companies like IBM(3,453), Sony(1,392), and Lucent (1119).. Intel was ranked 18 in 2001 with 811 patents.
Not really that related though. There isn't anything in this discovery that is specifically going to allow us to do those thing, but it certainly helps to facilitate the process.
I'm not overly big on honesty, but if you are concerned about destroying your documents so that the department of justice/whoever can't get ahold of them, then your company has problems. It will catch up to you eventually, regardless of the destruction of documentation.
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Carbon nanotubes==incredibly strong.
I don't think that it should be too much trouble to piggy back a maglev rail to the ribbon, then top the ladder with a large solar array. Heck, if you design the station at the top right, you could use the rail to launch stuff way out into space, instead of just getting it to the top of the tower.
Affixing the rail to the ladder might be a bit difficult, as I suspect that punching bolts or rivets through the ribbon would seriously damage its structural integrity, but that's just an engineering problem.
josh
It seems to me that most people who play video games do it to escape. We don't want real life to be like this (well, sometimes), we want to leave the duldrum, mundane existence for a little while.
If that is falling blocks to be stacked in a certain order, or fraggin' a thousand in online deathmatch, it doesn't matter. I've played many more hours of tetris than probably any other game except solitare (universal availabilty principle), and yet I don't compulsively stack things in my physical environment, nor do I play solitare with real cards when they are in front of me.
TV is way worse than VGs, and is probably not that bad as an advanced from of cultural memory. The media that presents that memory should not be blamed, but instead, the culture should be examined. There is a reason. It's terribly apparent, and video games are merely symptomatic.
Damn good book. The image of the fleet of ships pouring out of a GSV of maybe 10KM length sent my mind a whirl. (I can't seem to recal if that was from Excession or player of games)..
Have you read any of his other works (the non scifi stuff) like Wasp Factory or Road Crew (??)?
I always wondered why star trek wasn't more like that.
Thanks for the link.. I'll get too it later in the day.
Sounds like a sick snack, don't it.
here's a link to Globular Cluster NGC6397
Can you find the pulsar? *grin*
Photo taken from the Hubble, circa 1994.
We can be sure that modern proteins didn't just happen by accident
How can we be sure of that? I can see a semilogical porcess that could lead up to modern life that occured by accident.
Dig your user name btw.. what Banks book is that from? Exession?
No, dude.
The Fly.
Much, Much worse.
What about sourcing issues as well. As I understand it, when building a cluster, the software that you run has to to either be custom or custom modified in order to take advantage of the cluster. With linux/OSS this seems like it wouldn't be too much of a problem, as (providing the requisite skill is available) you could 'simply' modify existing aplications.
However, with Windows and windows software you often do not have that option. Is the management of processes entirely handled at the OS level? It seems like that might be somewhat inefficent, as opposed to having the program handle at least part of the management. If not, are there ANY aplications that are designed for a Microsoft clustering environment?
Hence, job I don't like.
Maybe when the tech around portland picks back up, I'll go back into my feild, but at this point, I inspect buildings. There is no more boring job.
I hate micro machines.
I hate it when some goob posts this same lame comment about childrens toys every time MEMs come up.
IBM, maybe. But they made thier own mistakes, and seem to be coping with them just fine.
Novel?
No. Thier platform RAN on MS-DOS until version 5. It was even pretty stable.
nobody I know gets both scifi and comedy central...
that is completely lame.
If I could watch battle bots, southpark and uh... whatever is on Scifi.. Hey.. wait a minute here.. I don't really like anything on Scifi..
I guess most of thier programing is just so much badly serialized pulp that I'd just rather read a book (dead tree variety).
Stainless is harder to work in someways, easier in others.
.. check out his forged, folded knives also! they are sweet, yet bitterly priced.
For example, if you have a chunk of carbon steel, and you want to cut a shape into it with an abrasive, it is probably going to lose it's temper due to the heat (temper like is defined at the bottom of this page, not like angry) Don Fogg Custom knives
Stainless steel has a much higher resistance to the loss of temper due to the heat generated in it's grinding or machining. Stainless is also much less likely to have carbon burn off when under high heat.
However, Stainless in it's many forms requires a much more tightly controlled Quenching and heat treating process in order to maximize it's properties.
Stainless is good for dishwashers. Not for knives. and especially not for swords.
The biggest problem I see with .NET is that the apps that get created with it will only run on Windows servers.
.net, right?
.net right now. Currently they are up to version 0.8. Looks like new versions of Gnome will be written for mono, at some point. Of course, if you'd read /. in the past weeks, you would know that. You can read up on it or offer your assistance at Go mono
I think that this is in refference to the programing language c#, which is a component of MS
ximian is working on a linux port of
and here are Miguel de Icaza's comments concerning Gnome and mono.
They are identifiable because we're surrounded by trace elements, and smelting processes don't remove these trace impurities.
In addition, they keep samples of most every run of powder ever produced so that in the case that powder residue is found at a crime scene, they can run a spectographic analysis and figure out where the powder was manufactured.
I have heard that most explosives and substances that could be used to produce explosives (certain fertilizers, etc) in the US are tagged with a with a chemical compound. Not sure if it's true, though.
Yeah, but the problem I've had hasn't been with the dsl service itself, it's been with these little companies with ideas that sound great (and even great service), untill said little company goes tits up bankrupt, and then demands my 'free' modem back at my cost for shipping (I know the modem wasn't really free, but that was only clear in the very small print).
Hmm..
If I'm thinking tech, I like to be at my computer or whatever I am thinking about (Battlebots, ussually), so I guess I have to say that I preffer ebooks/online books for technical reading. I've carried numerous heavy tomes with them animals on them to and from work, and in all honesty, I would find it easier if they were either on my webserver or somewhere universally accessible (palm, whatever). I find that I very rarely read them in transit or when I am not at the pc.
I don't want to rent Ebooks, though. I want ot buy them. And I want free updates. And I still want my fiction in the old rag form. I've spent hours in the past couple of days reading Dune again, and no eye strain. If I tried to do that with my crt (I know, someone will say 'I don't get monitor burn..' your display is probably better than mine.. get over it).. well, I think my eyes would bleed.
As for content, cover fairly narrow topics with a high degree of focusm and don't make mistakes that I am going to catch. If it's a technical book, make sure that the code example that are supposed to compile do. I've had too many agravating evenings with various language books (from which I have learn most of my '31337' skills) busting my ass trying to figure out what I did wrong, only to find out that my refference was flawed.
In addition, it could be much worse if it were just ma bell out there now. At the time they split it up into the baby bells, the telephony market was still emerging. They had no idea how far it would go.
How far is software going to go? How much of that do you want Microsoft to be responsible for?
I guess that part of the problem I see. I don't think that Microsoft feels or expresses any responsiblity to it's users or the community.. or much at all sans the pocket books of it's shareholders.
That's not what I want on my desktop.
It feels kind of obvious (IMVHO) why Miguel wants to use mono/.NET for gnome. He's been spending far too much time programing Mono. When you get that deep into a task, it starts to take over the rest of your life, perhaps sometimes into areas where it should not.
For example.. how many begining, enthusiastic java students have you known/known of who want to write the new ubergame/web browser/P2P filesharing server in, of course, Java. It's just eagerness. It wears off.
That the plebian masses don't want it. If everybody used it, eventually broadcast Tv would die (no commercials to pay for it), and what was left would either be a subscription based model (cable) with higher prices (since you still have ads with cable, hence loss of revenue for the provider) or 'product placement' adverts integrated within the programs themselves, which I find FAR more annoying than traditional commercials. Also possible are those damn 'bugs' that come on screen during programs (you know, history channel is horrible about them).
Probably what we'll end up with is combination of all of the above. Advertising works better when the consumer is unaware that they are being infected with the meme (IE when the defenses are down due to invovlement in a racey scene in sex in the city)..
I can just see the Trojan Man showing up in the middle of my favorite PPV.
Hmm..
Russians seem to do pretty good with carbon.. As far as I know they are the only ones giving DeBeers a run for thier moneywith artifical diamonds..
so, no russian bashing for me.. they have enough problems.
Plus, it's cool that scientists who are probably drasticaly underfunded are coming up with stuff that the US labs haven't.
except for the fact that he has some serious reservations as indicated by this quote (in refference to Sun Chairman Scott Mcnealy and Suns forays into the software market)
"He always wonders if I'm mad at him for going into competitive markets, and the answer is no, because I don't think they stand a chance. Bless their heart, it's not what they do well. I think it's going to be really hard for an open standards company like that to get deep into the software business."
Waitaminutehere!!!
I was only thinking about buying the uberrubersextoy! I didn't actually want it. Now I'm thinking about wanting my money back, you gouging bastards!
First we had an infinite number of monkeys with keyboards, now they have mice, too?
But it would be really humiliating for them to be in the business of selling a clone of AMD's design; it would mark them as a follower rather than a leader.
http://designtechnica.com/article.php?sid=990
in the field of innovation AMD is at the top of the heap in the processor market (at least as measured by the number of patents issued)..
AMD has lead intel in number of patents for the last 3 years, this year ranking 14th with 1090 patents, behind companies like IBM(3,453), Sony(1,392), and Lucent (1119).. Intel was ranked 18 in 2001 with 811 patents.
Not really that related though. There isn't anything in this discovery that is specifically going to allow us to do those thing, but it certainly helps to facilitate the process.
I'm not overly big on honesty, but if you are concerned about destroying your documents so that the department of justice/whoever can't get ahold of them, then your company has problems. It will catch up to you eventually, regardless of the destruction of documentation.