And if they had failed within that time, NASA could have made a warranty claim, but to do so they would have had to return the unit to the manufacturer.
I am sure the name "wiki' predates any Hawaiin bus system. (My mother had an Auntie Wiki, thpugh it was by marrige only, I can't claim any Maori ancestry)
In 1840 the tribal chiefs of Aoteoroa signed the Treaty of with the British crown. The Sovereign at that time was Queen Victoria, who the Maori refered to as Wikitoria. That name became very popular for girls, many of whom were nicknamed "Wiki"
Its 4600 light years away. If there was intelligent life there, they are just finding out who won the trojan war, they don't know about Barack Obama yet.
There mught be some alien microoganism clinging to the debris, that could clot all your blood in seconds (unless you're a wino with an ulcer taking asprin...)
"Shutdown time is no big deal because you can go grab a snack while the computer shutsdown. You don't have to wait."
Thats fine if you only shutdown when you're going to lunch, quitting work for the day etc. However in thw real world (of windows) your computer needs to restart after installing a new program, updating the virus scanner atc.
"As for startup time, back in the days of floppy-based OSes like the IBM or Commodore Amiga, it only took 5 seconds to go from turn-on to a CLI or Workbench interface. Even faster with a hard drive."
That depended on the complexity of your startup-sequence It actually got slower with the early hard drives since you had to boot from a floppy first, nd the mount the harddrive, and then assign system directories to thost on the hard drive and execute the rest of the startup-sequence from there. Of ciurse it got better when kickstart 1.3 and auto booting hard drive controllers came out. My initial boot times were always slower since I copied sytem files to a recoverable ram disk but subsequent reboots were a lot quicker. (especially if I was using the C= ramdrive.device - you could reboot from that in a couple of seconds.
"temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space"
How can you have something that is 100 times colder than space. I think that space runs at about -270 C, so to be 100 times colder it would have to be -2700 C. I thought absolute zero was -273.15 C at which point all movement is stopped, so how do you get a temperature below that?
Australia is the worlds biggest island. (although sometimes "Australasia" is refered to as a continent. (Australia and the pacific Islands) OZ is also refered to by those of us who live 'across the ditch' as The West Island.)
Are they actively persuing pirates in Antarctica too? I thought the penguins ran linux (and I am sure the government research stations at the south pole all have licensed copies of Windows and Office)
But seriously wouldnt it be more logical to have the next vesion be IPv8 since IPv4 uses 4 bytes (32bits) per address and IPv6 is 6 bytes (48 bits) and all recently made computers have 64 bit CPU - so storing and manupulation the address would be the same overhead whether it is IPv6 or IPv8
And its good promotion for the upgrade (put a V* in your computer, or
It could be sponsored by the vegetable juice company (could of had a V8)
"unfortunately, we're talking about an unelected bureaucrat, not a real Czar."
The real Czars weren't elected either...
Cue the "In (pre) soviet Russia " jokes..
I believe the term Czar (later spelt Tsar) comes from the name Caesar - which orriginally was the given name of the first Roman emperor (Gaius Julius), and only became a 'Title' when adopted by his Nephew (Gaius Octavius - AKA Augustus)
Is there any point, with a 32bit OS, in having a swapfile bigger than 4 gigabytes?
I just (today) installed a new hard drive, 1 Terabyte, so I moved the swapfile to that drive, but kept it the same size.(2 gigabytes) I have 3 gigabytes of RAM
Were Unicorns mentioned in the Bible before Noah? (The Irish Rovers song doesn't count)
Anyway I think that the Slashdot usage of the term "Creationism" should be replaced by the phrase "Young Earth Creationism" (YEC for short)
There are people of many Faiths that believe in Creation and a Creator, but that the Creation event was many (billions) of years ago, not 4004BC, and that the cosmos and the creatures therin have evolved over that (long) time.
Solar power obviously. The station at the top of the elevator is nearly always in sunlight. The elevator car could also have solar panels, or draw power from the cable.
The problem for the Japanese is that a space elevator has to be on the equator - Japan is too far north.
Slashdot Mirror
"They were guaranteed to work for 90 days."
And if they had failed within that time, NASA could have made a warranty claim, but to do so they would have had to return the unit to the manufacturer.
I agree, something set after TNG, DS9 and Voyager. Oh and the ship doesnt have to be called Enterprise.
Obviously there are practical problems in mounting an array of PV cells on a bicycle, but a tricycle would be better.
However I think that a better idea would be batteries powering the vehicle, andstations where you park them, with PV cells on the roof.
I am sure the name "wiki' predates any Hawaiin bus system. (My mother had an Auntie Wiki, thpugh it was by marrige only, I can't claim any Maori ancestry)
In 1840 the tribal chiefs of Aoteoroa signed the Treaty of with the British crown. The Sovereign at that time was Queen Victoria, who the Maori refered to as Wikitoria. That name became very popular for girls, many of whom were nicknamed "Wiki"
So if the Iphone had 100% reliability, then the Blackberry would have a 50% reliabilty. I don't think anyone would accept that kind of failure rate...
Its 4600 light years away. If there was intelligent life there, they are just finding out who won the trojan war, they don't know about Barack Obama yet.
There mught be some alien microoganism clinging to the debris, that could clot all your blood in seconds (unless you're a wino with an ulcer taking asprin...)
"And we stopped being a "colony" as of Federation... 1901"
Australia is part of the Federation?
Cool
Do they have Warp Drive?
"Shutdown time is no big deal because you can go grab a snack while the computer shutsdown. You don't have to wait."
Thats fine if you only shutdown when you're going to lunch, quitting work for the day etc. However in thw real world (of windows) your computer needs to restart after installing a new program, updating the virus scanner atc.
"As for startup time, back in the days of floppy-based OSes like the IBM or Commodore Amiga, it only took 5 seconds to go from turn-on to a CLI or Workbench interface. Even faster with a hard drive."
That depended on the complexity of your startup-sequence
It actually got slower with the early hard drives since you had to boot from a floppy first, nd the mount the harddrive, and then assign system directories to thost on the hard drive and execute the rest of the startup-sequence from there.
Of ciurse it got better when kickstart 1.3 and auto booting hard drive controllers came out. My initial boot times were always slower since I copied sytem files to a recoverable ram disk but subsequent reboots were a lot quicker. (especially if I was using the C= ramdrive.device - you could reboot from that in a couple of seconds.
The Ancients that created the Stargate didn't have a cure for baldness either...
"temperature about 100 times colder than intergalactic space"
How can you have something that is 100 times colder than space. I think that space runs at about -270 C, so to be 100 times colder it would have to be -2700 C. I thought absolute zero was -273.15 C at which point all movement is stopped, so how do you get a temperature below that?
Australia is the worlds biggest island. (although sometimes "Australasia" is refered to as a continent. (Australia and the pacific Islands) OZ is also refered to by those of us who live 'across the ditch' as The West Island.)
Are they actively persuing pirates in Antarctica too? I thought the penguins ran linux
(and I am sure the government research stations at the south pole all have licensed copies of Windows and Office)
The Space Age started on Oct 4, 1957
It hasn't ended yet. We (USA, Russia) still have people in orbit, and other countries (China, India) are getting involved.
The Prophet Muhammad revealed the Holy Q'uran around 622AD. Therefore its out of copyroght now. (Just like the Bible)
However I do think that the Holy Writings need to be treated with respect.
I plan ti skip IPv6 and wait for IPv7 :)
But seriously wouldnt it be more logical to have the next vesion be IPv8
since IPv4 uses 4 bytes (32bits) per address and IPv6 is 6 bytes (48 bits)
and all recently made computers have 64 bit CPU - so storing and manupulation the address would be the same overhead whether it is IPv6 or IPv8
And its good promotion for the upgrade (put a V* in your computer, or
It could be sponsored by the vegetable juice company (could of had a V8)
????
Profit
"unfortunately, we're talking about an unelected bureaucrat, not a real Czar."
The real Czars weren't elected either...
Cue the "In (pre) soviet Russia " jokes..
I believe the term Czar (later spelt Tsar) comes from the name Caesar - which orriginally was the given name of the first Roman emperor (Gaius Julius), and only became a 'Title' when adopted by his Nephew (Gaius Octavius - AKA Augustus)
National Geographic
Animal Planet
History International
Military Channel
BBC America
and of course
The Weather Channel
In space, no-ine cabhear you Buzz.
I am sure that knot theory would be useful to cosmologists studying string theory.
Is there any point, with a 32bit OS, in having a swapfile bigger than 4 gigabytes?
I just (today) installed a new hard drive, 1 Terabyte, so I moved the swapfile to that drive, but kept it the same size.(2 gigabytes)
I have 3 gigabytes of RAM
Were Unicorns mentioned in the Bible before Noah? (The Irish Rovers song doesn't count)
Anyway I think that the Slashdot usage of the term "Creationism" should be replaced by the phrase "Young Earth Creationism"
(YEC for short)
There are people of many Faiths that believe in Creation and a Creator, but that the Creation event was many (billions) of years ago, not 4004BC, and that the cosmos and the creatures therin have evolved over that (long) time.
Solar power obviously. The station at the top of the elevator is nearly always in sunlight. The elevator car could also have solar panels, or draw power from the cable.
The problem for the Japanese is that a space elevator has to be on the equator - Japan is too far north.
The big difference is that in space there is no opportunity to walk home.
orbiting stars that are totally unlike the sun?