Good of you to mention Piers Anthony. I can't decide if 'Hollywood' would be able to portray what i would like to see... the Xanth series. It could be such a wonderfull premise for a movie trilogy, but i have the feeling it would go the way of the made-for-tv 'Alice in Wonderland'. Don't get me wrong, i thought they did a wonderfull job with that, but following the same methodology with lesser-know stories such as Xanth, i don't think we would find the same dedication to quality. I just don't want to trust them with my entire jr-high fantasy.
If you're the nerdy-math type, O'Reilly's Perl Algorithm book has some interesting math algorithms you can try proving. Number theory and such. (along with just about all other algorithm categorys...) The problems suggested there may lead to other math questions you could find elsewhere. With this book, you would not only be running them, (which may get old,) but you're given enough info to create and test your own.
exactly. I agree with most of what is mentioned here, but the point is not to turn linux into windows, it is to CONVERT the windows users to linux as easily as possible. make the installers as easy as possible. help them get started. The rest is up to them. I think RedHat is in the right direction, as we speak, they have almost automatic installers. Make 'Wizards,' but don't force us to use them as windows often does.
With the decoder openly available, the proposed compression sceme is; its up to everyone else to do the encoding. But i see and agree with your point. The company is trying to gain the support of the open source environment, without truely adhereing to it's philosophies.
Citrix is pretty slick, but still more clunky than X, and quite expensive, but it's more of a GUI terminal than X because ALL the processing is on the server. IMO, the ONLY cool windows thingey... (don't get me wrong, i still hate windows more than the next guy...) PS... i just like the idea of full desktops on your Palm w/ Citrix ICA!
Thank You for bringing this up! I was under the impression that building the magnetic structures was not the problem, but getting those materials to retain the magnetic properties and orientation was. Am i wrong?
i think you've found your source of heat when you mentioned the lack of 'light superconductors'... as seems to be the case with this, (please forgive my lack of understanding) but the heat would mostly come from circuits outside of the Josephson junctions.
I especially like your comment about aol, comp, etc. causing the downfall of intelligent forums. I though I was the only one who couldn't stand those "It's like, in your face, pow" commercials referring to 'surfing the web'. You don't like crowds, you don't like morons, I agree.:)
There is a great book by Art Bell (am radio host) and Whitley Streiber (author: "Communion" and others, host of am radio program 'dreamland') called "The Comming Global Superstorm" that brings up almost all of those points in an open-minded manner. They mereley suggest the possibility of those effects leading to a Global Superstorm, and explore the possibility of this having happened in the past. A lot of it seemed far-fetched, (admited by the authors) but fun and facinating none-the-less. Check it out:)
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... or slashdot might slashdot slashduh... :)
(but they'd like it, id' bring their hits up over 5/day)
Good of you to mention Piers Anthony. I can't decide if 'Hollywood' would be able to portray what i would like to see... the Xanth series. It could be such a wonderfull premise for a movie trilogy, but i have the feeling it would go the way of the made-for-tv 'Alice in Wonderland'. Don't get me wrong, i thought they did a wonderfull job with that, but following the same methodology with lesser-know stories such as Xanth, i don't think we would find the same dedication to quality. I just don't want to trust them with my entire jr-high fantasy.
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an old quote, but nonetheless true :)
I think it said 88,000 miles long, 1/3 the distance to the moon. :)
I certainly hope that no-one in here has agreed to that license!
If you're the nerdy-math type, O'Reilly's Perl Algorithm book has some interesting math algorithms you can try proving. Number theory and such. (along with just about all other algorithm categorys...) The problems suggested there may lead to other math questions you could find elsewhere. With this book, you would not only be running them, (which may get old,) but you're given enough info to create and test your own.
HEHEHE they already got the link to the robots on the front page! (or is that what you're pointing out? :)
exactly. I agree with most of what is mentioned here, but the point is not to turn linux into windows, it is to CONVERT the windows users to linux as easily as possible. make the installers as easy as possible. help them get started. The rest is up to them. I think RedHat is in the right direction, as we speak, they have almost automatic installers. Make 'Wizards,' but don't force us to use them as windows often does.
With the decoder openly available, the proposed compression sceme is; its up to everyone else to do the encoding. But i see and agree with your point. The company is trying to gain the support of the open source environment, without truely adhereing to it's philosophies.
That would be in an effort to keep the switches solid state, correct?
I agree! They're out making crappy movies while the country needs them! :)
Citrix is pretty slick, but still more clunky than X, and quite expensive, but it's more of a GUI terminal than X because ALL the processing is on the server. IMO, the ONLY cool windows thingey... (don't get me wrong, i still hate windows more than the next guy...) PS... i just like the idea of full desktops on your Palm w/ Citrix ICA!
I Agree... there was nothing in the article that said it could be don AT ALL right now, with respect to reading and writing.
Thank You for bringing this up! I was under the impression that building the magnetic structures was not the problem, but getting those materials to retain the magnetic properties and orientation was. Am i wrong?
What about carbon nanotubes? they seem like the perfect single-electron superconductor to me...
i think you've found your source of heat when you mentioned the lack of 'light superconductors'... as seems to be the case with this, (please forgive my lack of understanding) but the heat would mostly come from circuits outside of the Josephson junctions.
Sure, we've got web pages sitting on print servers and routers for config, why not interplanetary probes? :)
I especially like your comment about aol, comp, etc. causing the downfall of intelligent forums. I though I was the only one who couldn't stand those "It's like, in your face, pow" commercials referring to 'surfing the web'. You don't like crowds, you don't like morons, I agree. :)
There is a great book by Art Bell (am radio host) and Whitley Streiber (author: "Communion" and others, host of am radio program 'dreamland') called "The Comming Global Superstorm" that brings up almost all of those points in an open-minded manner. They mereley suggest the possibility of those effects leading to a Global Superstorm, and explore the possibility of this having happened in the past. A lot of it seemed far-fetched, (admited by the authors) but fun and facinating none-the-less. Check it out :)