Since this is way into the future, storage space may not become an issue, each planet (or moon) system could have a repository mirror of every other page. And throughout the day the system would continue to update its mirror of every page within. This doesn't work of course with dynamic content or email, but for mostly static pages, it might be the fastest way to serve content.
the only use of flywheel tech ive seen that made it beyond the research stage was a UPS system. It used a massive weight spinning at extraordinary speeds to store the energy in case of a power loss. For safety it was spec'd to be buried outside below grade since it weighed around 90kg and spun at an angular velocity of a few hundred kph.
You'd need something similar to that to provide the kind of energy needed to accelerate and power an automobile at a reasonable rate.
why risk a reputation of stability on hardware configs they havent tested well? This way they can build and sell x86 machines with hardware configs they know WILL work stable.
The JDC you download from sun (and every other major implementation that I know of) has no way for the programmer to decide when to collect, or methods for guaranteeing collection time. These two are crucial for any real-time system that wants to make use of garbage collection.
It quickly becomes a big problem too. Such as do you let some kind of subsystem decide when to collect (and thus complicate timing rules for time-critical apps), or in-line the code into every module? When you start in-lining it you begin to lose the main reason for garbage collection, which is to remove memory management from the programmer's error-prone human nature.
I don't know what the java designers were thinking, but probably it was that real-time precision is a small segment and not the market they were targetting, and thus went with the easier to implement, easier on the programmer style of GC.
Honestly, 'modern' GC's aren't terribly different from the older types except they let you choose when to collect and how long to let it collect for. And every implementation has a way of determining which memory to reclaim which varies from one to another...
The garbage collector in java is an asynchronous type. This means while it is running its collection procedures (which can begin at any time, there is no way for the programmer to control this), processing of the program code halts.
I had a professor which demonstrated the problem of this in a simple example. Suppose you are designing a robot which can climb and descend stairs. It must monitor sensors and adjust angles of its joints appropriately to go down (quite difficult, really). Now suppose the GC runs halfway through the middle of a step. All processing stops, gravity takes over, robot falls down.
Same goes for avionics systems, if you're landing a plane, you don't want your HUD display to suddenly freeze as you're descending at several meters per second. You'll descend straight into the ground.
Hence the reason java puts a clause in its license about no use in safety-critical applications.
is the idea that the engine controls (or any other drivetrain subsystem) would be running on anything but a dedicated device chock full of proven code.
Maybe the gimmicky interface parts run windows CE (this volvo car isnt all that new, i remember reading about it a long time ago), but either way the crucial components would never be left to something that centralized.
I'll copy and paste what I wrote in another post...
I first noticed the problem in early february, when morpheus was still fasttrack. I would type in a search for anything (to test, I tried something really common, like our friends Metallica), and after a few moments it would return 'no results found'. This was frustrating so I went to morpheus's tech chat room (which was full of kids who didnt know their ass from a mouse but were supposedly 'volunteers') and asked around. Though everyone of them had had numerous people from texas coming in and complaining.
I went and downloaded an online port checker which connects to a server, which then tries to connect to you to test and see if your ISP is blocking a specific port. It reported that the usual suspects like 80, 21 and SMTP were blocked - but also the port that fasttrack uses.
I did some more digging and found others who had reported the problem. One guy said he had good luck by disabling file sharing. I tried this, and yes, it did work most of the time.
I called RR's support and got the run around, passed between different departments. When I told them I had gotten a port scan that told me they were blocking, I was given the usual spiel about how port scans were against the TOS, blah blah blah... idiots. I gave up on them.
Nowadays I use kazaa lite with file sharing disabled. Usually I can download 1 to 5 files before searches and downloads stop functioning. If you wait a while it seems to release the block.
I live in austin. Here's what I've discovered through trial and error and trying to cut through rr's stonewalling support.
I first noticed the problem in early february, when morpheus was still fasttrack. I would type in a search for anything (to test, I tried something really common, like our friends Metallica), and after a few moments it would return 'no results found'. This was frustrating so I went to morpheus's tech chat room (which was full of kids who didnt know their ass from a mouse but were supposedly 'volunteers') and asked around. Though everyone of them had had numerous people from texas coming in and complaining.
I went and downloaded an online port checker which connects to a server, which then tries to connect to you to test and see if your ISP is blocking a specific port. It reported that the usual suspects like 80, 21 and SMTP were blocked - but also the port that fasttrack uses.
I did some more digging and found others who had reported the problem. One guy said he had good luck by disabling file sharing. I tried this, and yes, it did work most of the time.
I called RR's support and got the run around, passed between different departments. When I told them I had gotten a port scan that told me they were blocking, I was given the usual spiel about how port scans were against the TOS, blah blah blah... idiots. I gave up on them.
Nowadays I use kazaa lite with file sharing disabled. Usually I can download 1 to 5 files before searches and downloads stop functioning. If you wait a while it seems to release the block.
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what is 'valuable' is totally dependent on your view. I can go read my grandfather's letters home to europe (and theirs back) to get a feel for how things were decades ago.
Will my grandchildren be able to read my emails to my parents? Nope.
Journals are especially valuable to the future historian...
For that matter, how does the DMCA inhibit progress on its face? Where is the historical record that shows congress wanted to inhibit progress through its passage?
The Supreme Court isnt in the business of striking down bad laws. They strike down unconstitutional laws. Bad laws are the duty of citizens and their legislature to take care of.
it's actually a form of very stiff linen. I believe the actual composition and process for making it is a secret, but its not 'paper' in the usual sense.
You can wash a bill many times before it becomes unusable. they're designed that way.
The original civilization game had you go look up a symbol from the pages of the manual (which was pretty thick..it would've cost an arm and a leg to copy) every once in awhile
Back in the early 90s alot of games used the 'look on page so-and-so in the manual and complete the phrase' method of protection.
copyright came about when the printing press became cheap enough to mass produce quantities.
magazines got their articles from indepedent authors and paid them accordingly. however, some unscrupulous editors would steal articles from other magazines and not compensate the authors. as such, these magazines could charge cheaper prices and would outsell those legitimate magazines that did pay their authors.
Who got screwed? The author. This is why copyright exists, and why it will not go away and why it should not go away.
You completely ignored the magazine article author, which is the principal form of most writers' income.
his theatre troup was mainly supported by the wealthy. Yes, the poor 'groundlings' could watch his shows, but they did not provide the bulk of revenue required to support him.
And further, much of his revenue came from live shows. How is one supposed to use that with a medium that does not lend itself to live performance? Such as books or articles.
Back in my junior year of high school (about 5 years ago or so now) they installed the first LANs and school-wide internet in all the labs.
At the same time they began offering a digital art class which was basically just adobe photoshop and illustrator, of course the teacher teaching this didn't know anything about either (nor much about computers in general).
So in our off time in the class we installed Quake2 and would play on the LAN. After about a month of watching us blow each other into gibs, the teacher decided that said game was too violent and so on and that we should find something else to do.
Our solution: Set the weapons to 'middle' handedness, which effectively removed the gun from the screen. We told her we were playing 'tag'. Once while watching over my shoulder I gibbed a friend and she even commented 'oh, did you tag him?'
She never had a problem with it, so long as the gun wasn't visible.
I recall reading an article about one of the early space tester guys who went up 100,000 feet or so in a balloon and then sky dived back (setting the world's record for that as well). Apparently he had a leak in one of his gloves and his hand swelled up a great deal at the height.
all the electronics in spacecraft are typically customized versions of existing ones, mainly to protect from radiation, extreme error correction and other things.
A P4 wouldnt last more than a few minutes in a space environment. Single bit errors galore on something as susceptible as that..
so far, c++ code hasnt been very portable among different compilers (even different versions of the same compiler... i've got plenty of textbook code around that compiles under the g++ 2.x series, but not g++ 3)
They all don't properly implement different parts of the standard, which leads to all sorts of cross platform issues.
It's about time someone has done something about it. EDG is no small name in the compiler world either..
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Since this is way into the future, storage space may not become an issue, each planet (or moon) system could have a repository mirror of every other page. And throughout the day the system would continue to update its mirror of every page within. This doesn't work of course with dynamic content or email, but for mostly static pages, it might be the fastest way to serve content.
You'd need something similar to that to provide the kind of energy needed to accelerate and power an automobile at a reasonable rate.
why risk a reputation of stability on hardware configs they havent tested well? This way they can build and sell x86 machines with hardware configs they know WILL work stable.
It quickly becomes a big problem too. Such as do you let some kind of subsystem decide when to collect (and thus complicate timing rules for time-critical apps), or in-line the code into every module? When you start in-lining it you begin to lose the main reason for garbage collection, which is to remove memory management from the programmer's error-prone human nature.
I don't know what the java designers were thinking, but probably it was that real-time precision is a small segment and not the market they were targetting, and thus went with the easier to implement, easier on the programmer style of GC.
Honestly, 'modern' GC's aren't terribly different from the older types except they let you choose when to collect and how long to let it collect for. And every implementation has a way of determining which memory to reclaim which varies from one to another...
The garbage collector in java is an asynchronous type. This means while it is running its collection procedures (which can begin at any time, there is no way for the programmer to control this), processing of the program code halts.
I had a professor which demonstrated the problem of this in a simple example. Suppose you are designing a robot which can climb and descend stairs. It must monitor sensors and adjust angles of its joints appropriately to go down (quite difficult, really). Now suppose the GC runs halfway through the middle of a step. All processing stops, gravity takes over, robot falls down.
Same goes for avionics systems, if you're landing a plane, you don't want your HUD display to suddenly freeze as you're descending at several meters per second. You'll descend straight into the ground.
Hence the reason java puts a clause in its license about no use in safety-critical applications.
Maybe the gimmicky interface parts run windows CE (this volvo car isnt all that new, i remember reading about it a long time ago), but either way the crucial components would never be left to something that centralized.
I first noticed the problem in early february, when morpheus was still fasttrack. I would type in a search for anything (to test, I tried something really common, like our friends Metallica), and after a few moments it would return 'no results found'. This was frustrating so I went to morpheus's tech chat room (which was full of kids who didnt know their ass from a mouse but were supposedly 'volunteers') and asked around. Though everyone of them had had numerous people from texas coming in and complaining.
I went and downloaded an online port checker which connects to a server, which then tries to connect to you to test and see if your ISP is blocking a specific port. It reported that the usual suspects like 80, 21 and SMTP were blocked - but also the port that fasttrack uses.
I did some more digging and found others who had reported the problem. One guy said he had good luck by disabling file sharing. I tried this, and yes, it did work most of the time.
I called RR's support and got the run around, passed between different departments. When I told them I had gotten a port scan that told me they were blocking, I was given the usual spiel about how port scans were against the TOS, blah blah blah... idiots. I gave up on them.
Nowadays I use kazaa lite with file sharing disabled. Usually I can download 1 to 5 files before searches and downloads stop functioning. If you wait a while it seems to release the block.
I first noticed the problem in early february, when morpheus was still fasttrack. I would type in a search for anything (to test, I tried something really common, like our friends Metallica), and after a few moments it would return 'no results found'. This was frustrating so I went to morpheus's tech chat room (which was full of kids who didnt know their ass from a mouse but were supposedly 'volunteers') and asked around. Though everyone of them had had numerous people from texas coming in and complaining.
I went and downloaded an online port checker which connects to a server, which then tries to connect to you to test and see if your ISP is blocking a specific port. It reported that the usual suspects like 80, 21 and SMTP were blocked - but also the port that fasttrack uses.
I did some more digging and found others who had reported the problem. One guy said he had good luck by disabling file sharing. I tried this, and yes, it did work most of the time.
I called RR's support and got the run around, passed between different departments. When I told them I had gotten a port scan that told me they were blocking, I was given the usual spiel about how port scans were against the TOS, blah blah blah... idiots. I gave up on them.
Nowadays I use kazaa lite with file sharing disabled. Usually I can download 1 to 5 files before searches and downloads stop functioning. If you wait a while it seems to release the block.
Will my grandchildren be able to read my emails to my parents? Nope.
Journals are especially valuable to the future historian...
For that matter, how does the DMCA inhibit progress on its face? Where is the historical record that shows congress wanted to inhibit progress through its passage?
The Supreme Court isnt in the business of striking down bad laws. They strike down unconstitutional laws. Bad laws are the duty of citizens and their legislature to take care of.
You can wash a bill many times before it becomes unusable. they're designed that way.
Same with that guy who said there was only a market for 10 computers in the entire world. At that point in time, it was fairly accurate.
Back in the early 90s alot of games used the 'look on page so-and-so in the manual and complete the phrase' method of protection.
I'm sure the phrase has been around even longer than that.
This is a message bearing laser beam composed of billions of photons.
go watch star wars again and them come back and complain about the mpaa.
magazines got their articles from indepedent authors and paid them accordingly. however, some unscrupulous editors would steal articles from other magazines and not compensate the authors. as such, these magazines could charge cheaper prices and would outsell those legitimate magazines that did pay their authors.
Who got screwed? The author. This is why copyright exists, and why it will not go away and why it should not go away.
You completely ignored the magazine article author, which is the principal form of most writers' income.
And further, much of his revenue came from live shows. How is one supposed to use that with a medium that does not lend itself to live performance? Such as books or articles.
So unless we want 'art' to become merely the realm of the fabulously wealthy, copyright is indeed a good idea.
At the same time they began offering a digital art class which was basically just adobe photoshop and illustrator, of course the teacher teaching this didn't know anything about either (nor much about computers in general).
So in our off time in the class we installed Quake2 and would play on the LAN. After about a month of watching us blow each other into gibs, the teacher decided that said game was too violent and so on and that we should find something else to do.
Our solution: Set the weapons to 'middle' handedness, which effectively removed the gun from the screen. We told her we were playing 'tag'. Once while watching over my shoulder I gibbed a friend and she even commented 'oh, did you tag him?'
She never had a problem with it, so long as the gun wasn't visible.
I recall reading an article about one of the early space tester guys who went up 100,000 feet or so in a balloon and then sky dived back (setting the world's record for that as well). Apparently he had a leak in one of his gloves and his hand swelled up a great deal at the height.
the military has been using simulations for a long time now. it's how most 3D environment work got developed in the 70s and 80s.
Supreme Court rules that using a law using 'community standards' does not mean its automatically unconstitutional.
That's it. They then sent the case back to the lower court to try unconstitutionality on other merits.
This was a very limited ruling, and the government is still barred from enforcing the law.
This isn't much of a news story...
A P4 wouldnt last more than a few minutes in a space environment. Single bit errors galore on something as susceptible as that..
They all don't properly implement different parts of the standard, which leads to all sorts of cross platform issues.
It's about time someone has done something about it. EDG is no small name in the compiler world either..