Some years ago a friend of mine dropped my new Motorola i830 in a pot of baked beans.
O__O
It survived and kept working for almost 3 years, though I had antenna issues towards the end. Sprint extended my contract on me, so when it ended I switched.
That might be acceptable for running one link. You'll need one $170 adapter for each end of each cable. Wiring the entire house that way would be pretty darn expensive.
Coming from a different point than conservative or liberal - NASA has always been a huge waste of money and ought to be deprecated. Getting private industry into the act is a good thing, in my opinion, although I'm not so sanguine about government subsidies. Also, while low Earth orbit may not be as grand a vision as going to the Moon, or Mars, or the asteroid belt, it's a good starting place of all of the above; let's get some infrastructure up there and we'll be able to go wherever we want.
...But what exactly are they planning to accomplish with a supercomputer? What exactly are they looking for? Can they somehow brute-force search different models looking for ones that work?
And why can't they use a cloud instead? LiAir@Home FTW!
Dropping all formats that Windows play by default is IMO a bad decision. It may make the CCCP Project more popular and spur more people to install Quicktime (yuck), but it'll also drive away lots of inexperienced users.
Unless the payload were rather small, I can't see the gun surviving the force required. Larger payloads are desirable, since the square-cubed law means more inertia compared to air resistance and higher velocity on leaving the atmosphere; but too big and the gun go boom.
Further, you're still going to need a booster rocket to get the payload to orbit - and I can't see any rocket design that would survive that sort of acceleration.
Forget launching humans into space, I can't see how they'll successfully launch anything.
From what I remember, they think someone submerged in water could stand up to 50 gravities of acceleration. The gun design is 3600 ft long and the design muzzle velocity is 13,000 MPH. I'm going to make the unreasonable assumption that acceleration is constant, just to get a rough estimate of the G force.
s = 3600 ft ~= 1100 M v = 13,000 MPH ~= 5800 M/s
s = 1/2 v t, t ~= 0.374 s s = 1/2 a t^2, a ~= 15,700 M/s^2
Or over 1500 gravities.
Uhm. Either my calcs are off, or that is WAY too much force.
It's likely most of the overhead in Facebook's server farm is database-related and not PHP-related, meaning switching to C++ would not help much. Also, depending on what tasks the PHP codeebase is performing, one can write binary libraries to speed up critical portions of the operation, improving performance to near-total-binary without reducing maintainability. I wouldn't be surprised if the people at Face book were already aware of this.
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What error does the "women's underwear" icon stand for?
Some years ago a friend of mine dropped my new Motorola i830 in a pot of baked beans.
O__O
It survived and kept working for almost 3 years, though I had antenna issues towards the end. Sprint extended my contract on me, so when it ended I switched.
Why do you think I put the word in quotes? :-P
A mirror of the site is now up, with partial content available and the rest being transferred.
Wikileaks may not be mirroring Cryptome.org in its entirety yet, but they are hosting the "offending" material. Download and redistribute!
And this is the actual video file; shift-click to download.
Can you say, Streisand effect?
I knew you could...
Doesn't wash, either way the flight speed is too low.
It's been a lot less fight since Ubuntu 8. Give 'er another try.
That might be acceptable for running one link. You'll need one $170 adapter for each end of each cable. Wiring the entire house that way would be pretty darn expensive.
O NOEZ! I is an evil iPhone hacker and can no longer spend money on appz in the appz store! Now I can only get pirate appz for free! O WO IZ MI!
Yup, I bought the Astak EZ Reader because of its price, open design, memory options and PDF reading capability. I was not disappointed.
Coming from a different point than conservative or liberal - NASA has always been a huge waste of money and ought to be deprecated. Getting private industry into the act is a good thing, in my opinion, although I'm not so sanguine about government subsidies. Also, while low Earth orbit may not be as grand a vision as going to the Moon, or Mars, or the asteroid belt, it's a good starting place of all of the above; let's get some infrastructure up there and we'll be able to go wherever we want.
All it takes is for one management-type to keep a 100-page report on her shelf to blow your entire savings for the year.
...But what exactly are they planning to accomplish with a supercomputer? What exactly are they looking for? Can they somehow brute-force search different models looking for ones that work?
And why can't they use a cloud instead? LiAir@Home FTW!
Hey you! Open source developer! This is your chance! Post the name of your project and pretend you posted the original question!
Dropping all formats that Windows play by default is IMO a bad decision. It may make the CCCP Project more popular and spur more people to install Quicktime (yuck), but it'll also drive away lots of inexperienced users.
4chan. [shudder]
Yeah, but... 1500 gravities?
Unless the payload were rather small, I can't see the gun surviving the force required. Larger payloads are desirable, since the square-cubed law means more inertia compared to air resistance and higher velocity on leaving the atmosphere; but too big and the gun go boom.
Further, you're still going to need a booster rocket to get the payload to orbit - and I can't see any rocket design that would survive that sort of acceleration.
Forget launching humans into space, I can't see how they'll successfully launch anything.
From what I remember, they think someone submerged in water could stand up to 50 gravities of acceleration. The gun design is 3600 ft long and the design muzzle velocity is 13,000 MPH. I'm going to make the unreasonable assumption that acceleration is constant, just to get a rough estimate of the G force.
s = 3600 ft ~= 1100 M
v = 13,000 MPH ~= 5800 M/s
s = 1/2 v t, t ~= 0.374 s
s = 1/2 a t^2, a ~= 15,700 M/s^2
Or over 1500 gravities.
Uhm. Either my calcs are off, or that is WAY too much force.
OK, the moons themselves are much older...
Oh really? How do you know? Until they were observed, they might have been indeterminate. Paging Schrodinger!
I think Google means having hardware YOU OWN be open. Their servers are their own property.
So... What will GM be using for diesel engines? I'd thought their Duramax engines were V8s.
Although performance is no better, the new chip sips power. That will lead to longer life or cheaper batteries. Win.
A good manager will still be a good manager at 9pm. A bad manager not only will still be a bad manager at 9pm, but he'll feel obligated to be there.
It's likely most of the overhead in Facebook's server farm is database-related and not PHP-related, meaning switching to C++ would not help much. Also, depending on what tasks the PHP codeebase is performing, one can write binary libraries to speed up critical portions of the operation, improving performance to near-total-binary without reducing maintainability. I wouldn't be surprised if the people at Face book were already aware of this.