I've read my post after I wrote it, and it came out a bit harsh. I was pretty tired of reading about bush's nuclear plan, too fed up with his views on pollution and How the US uses all the influence it has got whenever it can (at least it seems like that)
My post was way to short, and I only told you my opinion, not my reasons.
But: I was replying to a post defending GWB's decision, so... I basically don't care...
you saved our asses twice in one century? how? I agree about the second world war, If it hadn't been for the us the germans would be a bit harder to beat.
But what makes you think that you got involved in ww2 just to save us? Why didn't you join in before Pearl Harbour?
If for instance Norway and Sweden started a war, why the hell should you get involved in that war?
And I also believe the war on eco-terrorism is just as important as the war on terror.
What are the us doing to help reducing the amount of pollutiuon we produce? Why aren't the US trying to clear up internal problems before "helping the world".
actually, how can you say that another government is worse than your own. Unless you've stayed with that government for an extended length of time.
In my personal opinion (probably just as well founded as your oppinion) one of the countries I absolutely would hate living in is the US. Quite a lot of norwegians think this way. Quite a few europeans as well.
Your president is not exactly well regarded in Europe, and he is not getting very much support over here.
Actually the problem seems too be more of a "The US don't give a fuck about the rest of the world".
Quite a lot of europeans don't like the typical "stupid amarican", I'm not trying to say that all americans are stupid or anything, but please take a good look at your president..
I only read through the article pretty breifly, and a lot of cool stuff was presented. However, how on earth are they going to be able to rewrite using the millipede thingy?
I agree that beaming the energy down from a sattelite seems to be a stupid idea, however I do not think your idea would work much better, though. Think about all the pollution in the cities, the dust would cover the arrays, and we would have to hire a lot of people to clean the arrays.
Space however is rather infinite, so if the sattelites could beam from afar it could work. However, the radiation from the stars gets a lot lower the further away we get from them, and it is still extremely expensive to send stuff into space.
Why on earth do we not concentrate on energy saving instead of producing more and more energy?
actually, when you think about it, there is _a_lot_ of work done for free, not only in the computer business, but also in sports, community work etc.
Why on earth don't you think that there exist people out there that are willing to help other people? just because you don't want to do something for free (oooh... your time is valuable) doesn't mean that I won't do something like that.
So where's the quality control in these 'open' encyclopaedias? They're only as good as the information they contain, and if you let any old fool write stuff for them without any editing or quality control then they're useless.
If you are referring to my post, both of the services I mentioned has got quality control. A supervisor have to accept each entry, and the poster has got to modify his entry until it seems apropriate to add it to the database.
I was trying to include something about quality control, but I guess I forgot it. Stupid me.;)
Encyclopedias are extremely expensive to write, and when you buy the great big paper edition you have to pay a fortune. I guess that the Internet edition was not developed without cost as well.
Britannica never said that they would keep the service free, did they? I seem to recall that they were saying that it would be free in the beginning, and after a few years they would either start charging, or live by income from advertisers (as most of you probably know, only a few sites are able to survive only with income from advertisers.)
I do not think that we will see a lot of free encyclopedias on the net, before we get some kind of open encyclopedia where the users post the information. something like everything2.com. H2G2 has got some potential as well, but it is probably to humorous.
There is probably a lot more encyclopedia projects going on, but I can not seem to recall any of them.
If there's no liquid on the surface of Mars, water or otherwise, then what is this stuff?.
That sure did look like a fake to me...what is all that shade doing there? Is it supposed to be clouds or something? I'm no image expert, but I did not really get any new knowledge from that picture
I just downloaded and installed it.. looks very nice so far, great installer, no problems encountered so far (I am using mandrake 8.0 on my desktop).
Haven't tried it on my debian box, but I doubt that it will work, as it was not listed as a supported platform.
Anyway, I'll try it for a few days, and maybe post my opinions
what? when did lasers start travel in a straigth line? my lasre pointer certainly sends out a cone shaped light (It is really easy to see when you aim at a target about 100 metres away).
And what is all this about having to send a beam the size of a planet?
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I thought that we had enough problems with discovering meteorites close to the earth, not to mention the fact that we have never really seen a planet outside of our solar system. It should be a lot easier to detect a laser beam directed directly towards the earth, than spotting a planet, but wouldn't we have to depend on the fact that the other civilization know that we are right here, and that we are able to pick up their signals?
No matter what kind of transmission ET is using he will have to hope that we are able to pick up the signals. For how long have we been able to pick up that kind of signals, fifty years, maybe. I don't think that the aliens would bother to communicate with such a primitive rase as the humans.
how long is it going to take the military to jump on this to make bigger, more explosive weapons?
Are you quite sure that the big weapon manufacturers are not doing this already? My guess (well, no need to guess, really) is that they are already doing this. If there is anybody with good funding, it has to be the weapon manufacturers.
on the other hand, wouldn't it bee cool if the big drug cartells tried to develop a new pipe, that burns all the weed you want in a perfect way...;)
umm... It would be extremely hard (I have no experience with assembly for mac, though) to port assembly code from x86 to another platform.
Also, the article says that the MP3 that is enbcoded is over 7 minutes long, and encoded with 320 kbps. I can't really see that your comparison does any good (and mp3enc is not that much slower, I think I used about 30-40 seconds to encode a song last time I used it P3-500)
Microsoft helping to develop open-source software? What is happening to the world?
Well, anyway: was there ever any doubt that.net would be ported to other operating systems? Microsoft certainly want linux users to use microsoft software, espesially as the numbers of linux and *BSD users are increasing. I would not expect the linux.net implementation to match the windows version, though.
I think Crete and Santorini are a considerably better bet if you're looking for the origins of the Atlantis myth.
The Santorini/Crete is actually one of the most likely answers to the stories of Atlantis, both theese Islands once had some of the most important ports in the mediterraninan (how on earth is that spelled?). The Islands were very rich, and they had some of the most up-to-date technology of that time.
Unfortunately Santorini blew up, and killed all of the Islands inhbitants. I guess that all the sailors that were going to Santorini got kind of surprised when they realised that Santorini had dissapeared (well almost) and killed of most of Crete as well..
Santorini might also be responsible for drowning the Egyptian army that tried to catch Moses as well. Not that I am to interrested in religion, though.
Now... what's the aspect ratio... umm... the article doesn't say. So... Let's say the horizontal resolution is 4096, then the vertical could be 2246.
4096*2249=9199616. Close enough for government work.... But... We just don't know. That, my fellow Slashdotter, is why "megapixel" is annoying.
You're right, the article does use megapixel in a annoying way, but it does give a hint about the resolution. The article claimed that it was possible to playback 16 dvd's in 720x480. Assumin that they use a 4x4 grid the resolution would be 2880x1920. Hovever this is not nearly 9.2 megapixel, so we have to add a border of about 100 pixels on each side of every dvd area with about 100 pixels.
new screen parameters 3700x2500. Close enough for me. This is pure guesswork, though
umm... looks like most of the hardware is pretty normal stuff, so It should not be a real problem to get linux working on it, or what?
the motherboard and video card might be pretty strange, though. Even though it is based on the Intel 810, it might be reduced in size and functionality. However I've never heard about this company before, and I would be pretty surprised if they had gotten microsoft to adapt w2k to this toy.
My _guess_ is that it should be pretty easy to set linux up on this box. However, that should not be the main reason for buying one of theese units.
well.. anyway, I actually think my Ipaq with linux is way cooler than this rather large box without screen.
I kinda like the idea of "intelligent" space probes, but I thought that most of the sattelites/probes in space today relied on input to provide a decent output. After all what this little probe does is to get some input from it's surroundings, and then try to avoid it in decent way. Are every single one of the probes we use today controlled from the ground? sounds pretty unadvanced to me, it is certainly not a sencond to late to invent a probe that is able to fly on it's own.
However it is not very strange that it has taken some time to "invent" an intelligent space-probe, as it require quite a bit of power to work. And as everybody knows the space is full of radiation, and chips don't adjust too well to radiation. You need a pretty powerfull computer to calculate distances, analysing images and control every instrument on board.
Anybody tried using the G3 in space yet? I seem to recall reading something about a plan to use a bunch of them, but I can't recall if anybody has done it yet.
Sorry about my bad english, but it is not my native language.
Personally I don't mind the pc 100 sdram, I just thought that it was strange that they released something that they soon would claim to be the most powerful thing out there.
I am in no way a fan of rambus memory, as I don't see the speed gains they claim, I only thought it was rather strange. There is no way I would shell out 4-6 times the amount of money for receiving a minimal speed gain.
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I've read my post after I wrote it, and it came out a bit harsh. I was pretty tired of reading about bush's nuclear plan, too fed up with his views on pollution and How the US uses all the influence it has got whenever it can (at least it seems like that)
My post was way to short, and I only told you my opinion, not my reasons.
But: I was replying to a post defending GWB's decision, so... I basically don't care...
you saved our asses twice in one century? how? I agree about the second world war, If it hadn't been for the us the germans would be a bit harder to beat.
But what makes you think that you got involved in ww2 just to save us? Why didn't you join in before Pearl Harbour?
If for instance Norway and Sweden started a war, why the hell should you get involved in that war?
And I also believe the war on eco-terrorism is just as important as the war on terror.
What are the us doing to help reducing the amount of pollutiuon we produce? Why aren't the US trying to clear up internal problems before "helping the world".
actually, how can you say that another government is worse than your own. Unless you've stayed with that government for an extended length of time.
In my personal opinion (probably just as well founded as your oppinion) one of the countries I absolutely would hate living in is the US. Quite a lot of norwegians think this way. Quite a few europeans as well.
Your president is not exactly well regarded in Europe, and he is not getting very much support over here.
so, in other words you accept that the israeli forces are attacking kids under 10 years old?
If your family had lived in onbe place and suddenly got kicked out by the jews (that is what is happening to the palestinians) would you fight back?
If your country was occupied by a people that call themselves "sons of god" would you not object?
When nobody is willing to sell your group any weapons, would you not go out and make them?
In most of Europe, certainly in scandinavia, most news articles kinda support the palestinians.
If the palestinians stopped throwing stones nothing would happen, they would still get kicked out of their homes and country.
Actually the problem seems too be more of a "The US don't give a fuck about the rest of the world".
Quite a lot of europeans don't like the typical "stupid amarican", I'm not trying to say that all americans are stupid or anything, but please take a good look at your president..
I only read through the article pretty breifly, and a lot of cool stuff was presented. However, how on earth are they going to be able to rewrite using the millipede thingy?
webcam webcam!
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I'd really like to see that!
On the other had it might look a bit strange..
I agree that beaming the energy down from a sattelite seems to be a stupid idea, however I do not think your idea would work much better, though. Think about all the pollution in the cities, the dust would cover the arrays, and we would have to hire a lot of people to clean the arrays.
Space however is rather infinite, so if the sattelites could beam from afar it could work. However, the radiation from the stars gets a lot lower the further away we get from them, and it is still extremely expensive to send stuff into space.
Why on earth do we not concentrate on energy saving instead of producing more and more energy?
I don't think anybody would be able to play chess the day after they've eaten shrooms. BAD after effects, but a very very cool trip.
actually, when you think about it, there is _a_lot_ of work done for free, not only in the computer business, but also in sports, community work etc.
Why on earth don't you think that there exist people out there that are willing to help other people? just because you don't want to do something for free (oooh... your time is valuable) doesn't mean that I won't do something like that.
I was trying to include something about quality control, but I guess I forgot it. Stupid me.
Encyclopedias are extremely expensive to write, and when you buy the great big paper edition you have to pay a fortune. I guess that the Internet edition was not developed without cost as well.
Britannica never said that they would keep the service free, did they? I seem to recall that they were saying that it would be free in the beginning, and after a few years they would either start charging, or live by income from advertisers (as most of you probably know, only a few sites are able to survive only with income from advertisers.)
I do not think that we will see a lot of free encyclopedias on the net, before we get some kind of open encyclopedia where the users post the information.
something like everything2.com. H2G2 has got some potential as well, but it is probably to humorous.
There is probably a lot more encyclopedia projects going on, but I can not seem to recall any of them.
I just downloaded and installed it..
looks very nice so far, great installer, no problems encountered so far (I am using mandrake 8.0 on my desktop).
Haven't tried it on my debian box, but I doubt that it will work, as it was not listed as a supported platform.
Anyway, I'll try it for a few days, and maybe post my opinions
what? when did lasers start travel in a straigth line? my lasre pointer certainly sends out a cone shaped light (It is really easy to see when you aim at a target about 100 metres away).
And what is all this about having to send a beam the size of a planet?
I thought that we had enough problems with discovering meteorites close to the earth, not to mention the fact that we have never really seen a planet outside of our solar system.
It should be a lot easier to detect a laser beam directed directly towards the earth, than spotting a planet, but wouldn't we have to depend on the fact that the other civilization know that we are right here, and that we are able to pick up their signals?
No matter what kind of transmission ET is using he will have to hope that we are able to pick up the signals. For how long have we been able to pick up that kind of signals, fifty years, maybe. I don't think that the aliens would bother to communicate with such a primitive rase as the humans.
umm.. that was all for now. lunch time.
My guess (well, no need to guess, really) is that they are already doing this. If there is anybody with good funding, it has to be the weapon manufacturers.
on the other hand, wouldn't it bee cool if the big drug cartells tried to develop a new pipe, that burns all the weed you want in a perfect way...
umm... It would be extremely hard (I have no experience with assembly for mac, though) to port assembly code from x86 to another platform.
Also, the article says that the MP3 that is enbcoded is over 7 minutes long, and encoded with 320 kbps. I can't really see that your comparison does any good (and mp3enc is not that much slower, I think I used about 30-40 seconds to encode a song last time I used it P3-500)
Microsoft helping to develop open-source software? What is happening to the world?
.net would be ported to other operating systems? Microsoft certainly want linux users to use microsoft software, espesially as the numbers of linux and *BSD users are increasing. .net implementation to match the windows version, though.
Well, anyway: was there ever any doubt that
I would not expect the linux
The Santorini/Crete is actually one of the most likely answers to the stories of Atlantis, both theese Islands once had some of the most important ports in the mediterraninan (how on earth is that spelled?). The Islands were very rich, and they had some of the most up-to-date technology of that time.
Unfortunately Santorini blew up, and killed all of the Islands inhbitants. I guess that all the sailors that were going to Santorini got kind of surprised when they realised that Santorini had dissapeared (well almost) and killed of most of Crete as well..
Santorini might also be responsible for drowning the Egyptian army that tried to catch Moses as well. Not that I am to interrested in religion, though.
Sorry about my lousy english
I wish they would think about us folks out here just waiting for a screenshot of one of theese babies. ;)
You're right, the article does use megapixel in a annoying way, but it does give a hint about the resolution.
The article claimed that it was possible to playback 16 dvd's in 720x480. Assumin that they use a 4x4 grid the resolution would be 2880x1920. Hovever this is not nearly 9.2 megapixel, so we have to add a border of about 100 pixels on each side of every dvd area with about 100 pixels.
new screen parameters 3700x2500. Close enough for me. This is pure guesswork, though
umm... looks like most of the hardware is pretty normal stuff, so It should not be a real problem to get linux working on it, or what?
the motherboard and video card might be pretty strange, though. Even though it is based on the Intel 810, it might be reduced in size and functionality. However I've never heard about this company before, and I would be pretty surprised if they had gotten microsoft to adapt w2k to this toy.
My _guess_ is that it should be pretty easy to set linux up on this box. However, that should not be the main reason for buying one of theese units.
well.. anyway, I actually think my Ipaq with linux is way cooler than this rather large box without screen.
I kinda like the idea of "intelligent" space probes, but I thought that most of the sattelites/probes in space today relied on input to provide a decent output. After all what this little probe does is to get some input from it's surroundings, and then try to avoid it in decent way.
Are every single one of the probes we use today controlled from the ground? sounds pretty unadvanced to me, it is certainly not a sencond to late to invent a probe that is able to fly on it's own.
However it is not very strange that it has taken some time to "invent" an intelligent space-probe, as it require quite a bit of power to work. And as everybody knows the space is full of radiation, and chips don't adjust too well to radiation. You need a pretty powerfull computer to calculate distances, analysing images and control every instrument on board.
Anybody tried using the G3 in space yet? I seem to recall reading something about a plan to use a bunch of them, but I can't recall if anybody has done it yet.
Sorry about my bad english, but it is not my native language.
Personally I don't mind the pc 100 sdram, I just thought that it was strange that they released something that they soon would claim to be the most powerful thing out there.
I am in no way a fan of rambus memory, as I don't see the speed gains they claim, I only thought it was rather strange.
There is no way I would shell out 4-6 times the amount of money for receiving a minimal speed gain.
well, anyway..