Quote from Section 750.219a of the Michigan Compiled law: "(a) "Telecommunications" and "telecommunications service" mean any service lawfully provided for a charge or compensation to facilitate the origination, transmission, retransmission, emission, or reception of signs, data, images, signals, writings, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any telecommunications system by any method, including, but not limited to, electronic, electromagnetic, magnetic, optical, photo-optical, digital, or analog technologies. "
Note: This means that any sort of comminication is defined as a "telecommunications service" If I give you a book, I have just provided you with a telco service. So, not only does this stomp on Web-related things, it also applies to that flyer you pinned to the public posting board while noone was looking.
Personally, I'm waiting for the amusing day when the graphics card in my machine is more powerful than the 'main' processor. Would we then consider the 'processor' to be the GLU and the rest is just the support chipset?
Is there a good rule of thumb for balancing flavor? There are a lot of things that we wouldn't necessarily think of combining in outr foods that turn out to be suprisingly good. (IE: squeezing lime juice into your spicy mexican)
The logistics of supplying power to such a maglev system would be slightly insane. Florida has daily rain, coupled with the heat, that will corrode coils and short stuff out. Not to mention the hurricanes.
Oh yeah, let's not forget the couple 'o fusion reactors that'll be needed to power the sucker.
Interesting that they want to use HP engines. Last I checked, these were smaller engines used simply for course correction. (aren't the OMS engines on the Shuttle hydrogen peroxide?) The logistics of a directed hypergolic reaction outside of the microgravity of space must be an interesting on as well. (How they plan to get enough of the stuff to take off....)
FOr that matter, I don't see any plans for an orbital insertion vehical/stage. The site isn't very clear on the business plan.
For anyone who hasn't realized it yet, we are currently in the golden age of information.
The ability of the common man to transfer data around the world is phenomenal right now. People can share media instantly. Transfer speeds are headed through the roof. More important though, is the fact that the governments of the world are not yet fully able to monitor and control this information. The internet is a wild and untamed beast that allows all sorts of politically 'sketchy' people to communicate. As soon as the goverments have build up the infrastructure to control the 'net, they will clamp everyone down. It's not a matter of 'if' but 'when'.
Enjoy the freedom while you have it. It may not be around much longer.
Re:Kicking it off course by a few mm takes 1000 ye
on
Tilting at Asteroids
·
· Score: 1
Don't forget there are other forces in play. IE: gravity. If you slow down an orbiting object, it will shrink it's orbit. If you speed an object up, it will expand it's orbit. In this way, other modifications may be made to the trajectory of the object.
Re:Why go from 32 to 64? Why not jump to 128?
on
PowerPC Goes 64 bit
·
· Score: 1
Because We aren't even using the 64 bit processors that we do have. SPARC stations have 64 bit processors, but nobody has written Solaris for 64 bits. Half the bitspace goes unused. It's rather a shame, but at the moment, few applications even need the space. MS Whistler (Microsoft's 64-bit OS)is still banging around in development and has been for several years. The Itanium's are found few and far between. 64-bit isn't widely used yet because the applications just aren't demanding it yet. Developing a 128-bit proc would be an extreme waste of processor die space. With the current software, 3/4 of the bitspace would lie dormant.
This has to be mandated due to what I call the "Chicken-and-egg" phenomenon.
People will not purchase HDTV's (or the recievers) if there are no HD broadcast stations.
Copmanies will not fund HD broadcast stations if there aren't enough HD sets to broadcast to. (HD advertising space is fairly worthless at the moment, due to the microscopic customer impression base)
So, in order to get the entire infrastructure moving, the govt mandated the change. This means that by 2007 the HD advertising space will be fully active - hence, companies who want to take advantage of it will want to have HD transmitters online. The infrastructure builds itself.
Now what I have seen in the previous replies is indicative of the fact that the real breakthrough is not being pronounced well enough.
I am sure most people have seen the displays at stores (usually batteries) where there appears to be a bright bead of flourescent light coming from an unknown source. If you look on the top of the stand/display you see a clear plexiglass-like surface, the edges of which give off the intense light. The plexi channels the light from the room into its two inner-mirrored surfaces and thereby concentrates the light into the thin bead comprising the outer edge. The same thing is happening with these fibers. However, they are round and not flat. Same material, same premise.
The real breakthrough is that the man has been able to switch them on and off, making them usefull for such applications as displays. By placing three fibers of the base light colors (RGB) side-by-side, one would achive a pixel. Depending upon how small the switching package is, one could conceive a flat-screen. However, the more probable end-result for this technology is applications requiring a high-intensity display. i.e. Outdoor screens, projection, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Quote from Section 750.219a of the Michigan Compiled law:
"(a) "Telecommunications" and "telecommunications service" mean any service lawfully provided for a charge or compensation to facilitate the origination, transmission, retransmission, emission, or reception of signs, data, images, signals, writings, sounds, or other intelligence or equivalence of intelligence of any nature over any telecommunications system by any method, including, but not limited to, electronic, electromagnetic, magnetic, optical, photo-optical, digital, or analog technologies. "
Note: This means that any sort of comminication is defined as a "telecommunications service" If I give you a book, I have just provided you with a telco service. So, not only does this stomp on Web-related things, it also applies to that flyer you pinned to the public posting board while noone was looking.
Personally, I'm waiting for the amusing day when the graphics card in my machine is more powerful than the 'main' processor. Would we then consider the 'processor' to be the GLU and the rest is just the support chipset?
Heads up Intel!
Is there a good rule of thumb for balancing flavor? There are a lot of things that we wouldn't necessarily think of combining in outr foods that turn out to be suprisingly good. (IE: squeezing lime juice into your spicy mexican)
What is the science behind balancing flavor?
The logistics of supplying power to such a maglev system would be slightly insane. Florida has daily rain, coupled with the heat, that will corrode coils and short stuff out. Not to mention the hurricanes.
Oh yeah, let's not forget the couple 'o fusion reactors that'll be needed to power the sucker.
Interesting that they want to use HP engines. Last I checked, these were smaller engines used simply for course correction. (aren't the OMS engines on the Shuttle hydrogen peroxide?) The logistics of a directed hypergolic reaction outside of the microgravity of space must be an interesting on as well. (How they plan to get enough of the stuff to take off....)
FOr that matter, I don't see any plans for an orbital insertion vehical/stage. The site isn't very clear on the business plan.
For anyone who hasn't realized it yet, we are currently in the golden age of information.
The ability of the common man to transfer data around the world is phenomenal right now. People can share media instantly. Transfer speeds are headed through the roof. More important though, is the fact that the governments of the world are not yet fully able to monitor and control this information. The internet is a wild and untamed beast that allows all sorts of politically 'sketchy' people to communicate. As soon as the goverments have build up the infrastructure to control the 'net, they will clamp everyone down. It's not a matter of 'if' but 'when'.
Enjoy the freedom while you have it. It may not be around much longer.
Don't forget there are other forces in play. IE: gravity. If you slow down an orbiting object, it will shrink it's orbit. If you speed an object up, it will expand it's orbit.
In this way, other modifications may be made to the trajectory of the object.
Because We aren't even using the 64 bit processors that we do have. SPARC stations have 64 bit processors, but nobody has written Solaris for 64 bits. Half the bitspace goes unused. It's rather a shame, but at the moment, few applications even need the space.
MS Whistler (Microsoft's 64-bit OS)is still banging around in development and has been for several years. The Itanium's are found few and far between. 64-bit isn't widely used yet because the applications just aren't demanding it yet. Developing a 128-bit proc would be an extreme waste of processor die space. With the current software, 3/4 of the bitspace would lie dormant.
My question is:
Even if they manage to bring you back, chances are that they cannot make you immortal. You will eventually die. Again.
Why would anyone want to relive that?
This has to be mandated due to what I call the "Chicken-and-egg" phenomenon.
People will not purchase HDTV's (or the recievers) if there are no HD broadcast stations.
Copmanies will not fund HD broadcast stations if there aren't enough HD sets to broadcast to. (HD advertising space is fairly worthless at the moment, due to the microscopic customer impression base)
So, in order to get the entire infrastructure moving, the govt mandated the change. This means that by 2007 the HD advertising space will be fully active - hence, companies who want to take advantage of it will want to have HD transmitters online. The infrastructure builds itself.
Since divergence is less than one, the intensity will increase as compared to the orginal light.
Now what I have seen in the previous replies is indicative of the fact that the real breakthrough is not being pronounced well enough. I am sure most people have seen the displays at stores (usually batteries) where there appears to be a bright bead of flourescent light coming from an unknown source. If you look on the top of the stand/display you see a clear plexiglass-like surface, the edges of which give off the intense light. The plexi channels the light from the room into its two inner-mirrored surfaces and thereby concentrates the light into the thin bead comprising the outer edge. The same thing is happening with these fibers. However, they are round and not flat. Same material, same premise. The real breakthrough is that the man has been able to switch them on and off, making them usefull for such applications as displays. By placing three fibers of the base light colors (RGB) side-by-side, one would achive a pixel. Depending upon how small the switching package is, one could conceive a flat-screen. However, the more probable end-result for this technology is applications requiring a high-intensity display. i.e. Outdoor screens, projection, etc.