I think the big use would be commercial transport. Ships are slow too but are used for transport because they are so cheap. If airships can be made cheap enough, they could replace trucks.
Couldn't quantum teleportation (paralell with some form of classical communication like the internet) be used as an uneavesdroppable communication channel?
TFA talks about paving the way to a future manned mission so I assume that the capability of sending big and massive things to Mars has is a goal in itself.
Most parallel problems tend to fall into a small set of categories, and I see no problem with abstracting them away. There are many libraries already that handle the threading for you.
Formula has already done a lot in the development of efficient cars. There's a big difference between combustion engines, so even a mostly combustion-based race could promote emission reduction. And electric cars are important because once they become widely affordable our biggest dependance on fossil fuels will cease to exist. Switching to all nuclear will only require the political will.
It's not necessarily only because of regulations, sometimes efficiency is an advantage in itself. Fuel is weight, and refueling is time, therefore fuel efficiency is a must if you want to win. Not to mention KERS which practically makes all F1 cars hybrids.
The author seems to confuse open source with copyleft. Open source is not a legal thing. And a ban on redistribution of derivative works doesn't mean that it's useless. Knowing the source code of a piece of software is important if you want to use it for any security-sensitive work or if you want to implement some modifications of your own (which you don't intend to distribute). It's not unheard of even that a developer company only gives the source code to their paying costumers.
The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3, in San Francisco at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect. The news conference will be an update about first use of the rover's full array of analytical instruments to investigate a drift of sandy soil. One class of substances Curiosity is checking for is organic compounds -- carbon-containing chemicals that can be ingredients for life. At this point in the mission, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.
They could already remove themselves with robots.txt if they wanted to. I bet if Google removed them they would sue it for unfair competition. This is nothing more than extortion.
Which is why she has even less chance of understanding it. If she had to go into a soft science instead of a real one chances are that she is bad at math, technology and critical thinking, all of which are a necessity to understand hackers.
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You are also free to kill someone you just have to face the consequences afterwards.
Stop trying to regulate the Internet! The idiots who use Facebook deserve to be tracked.
Maybe they think that they still lose less than by letting their Asian manufacturers copy their technology.
I think the big use would be commercial transport. Ships are slow too but are used for transport because they are so cheap. If airships can be made cheap enough, they could replace trucks.
Couldn't quantum teleportation (paralell with some form of classical communication like the internet) be used as an uneavesdroppable communication channel?
The real worry is offline radicalization.
And that's why there are no patent wars between smartphone companies. Oh, wait...
Shooting random volunteers on a one-way trip to Mars so they can Make a reality there? Sounds like a scam to me.
Also, brain disease.
TFA talks about paving the way to a future manned mission so I assume that the capability of sending big and massive things to Mars has is a goal in itself.
It doesn't work the way you think it does.
Most parallel problems tend to fall into a small set of categories, and I see no problem with abstracting them away. There are many libraries already that handle the threading for you.
Formula has already done a lot in the development of efficient cars. There's a big difference between combustion engines, so even a mostly combustion-based race could promote emission reduction. And electric cars are important because once they become widely affordable our biggest dependance on fossil fuels will cease to exist. Switching to all nuclear will only require the political will.
It's not necessarily only because of regulations, sometimes efficiency is an advantage in itself. Fuel is weight, and refueling is time, therefore fuel efficiency is a must if you want to win. Not to mention KERS which practically makes all F1 cars hybrids.
You don't get the difference between showing fake violence and actually torturing someone to death?
Welcome to the Web, a medium based on hyperlinks!
The author seems to confuse open source with copyleft. Open source is not a legal thing. And a ban on redistribution of derivative works doesn't mean that it's useless. Knowing the source code of a piece of software is important if you want to use it for any security-sensitive work or if you want to implement some modifications of your own (which you don't intend to distribute). It's not unheard of even that a developer company only gives the source code to their paying costumers.
Not necessarily. You can keep people alive while at the same time ban them from breeding.
Well, FPGAs can do this better already.
Giving radioactive materials to the general populace can be dangerous. There are bad people out there.
From NASA:
That pic is obviously shopped.
They could already remove themselves with robots.txt if they wanted to. I bet if Google removed them they would sue it for unfair competition. This is nothing more than extortion.
Which is why she has even less chance of understanding it. If she had to go into a soft science instead of a real one chances are that she is bad at math, technology and critical thinking, all of which are a necessity to understand hackers.
Having an IT staff for a program this big is pretty much a necessity which they should have thought of before launching it.