AMD, with their decreasing market share, should use open, or at least widespread, standards such as OpenGL or DirectX. Remember AMD's alternative to NVidia's CUDA? I think it was called Fire- something or something-stream... that really went well. If AMD opens up a new front here, and Mantle has any success at all, NVidia will retaliate by creating their own API, and guess how many people will use Mantle then.
mtgox has a trade volume of about 17k BTC per day [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html], so you can assume that those 30k BTCs are about as much as is traded in one day. I don't have an economics degree, and I am proud of not having one, but I assume that, would an entity put this many BTCs on the market at a single time, the market value would collapse by about 70%, and take a week to recover.
If every single miner refuses to process transactions from/to that address, the bitcoins would indeed be frozen in place. If, however, only one miner decided to process the transaction, it would be confirmed as soon as that miner solves a block. As the number of miners who refuse to confirm the transaction appraoches 100%, the confirmation time would thus approach to inifinity. However, miners who refuse to process the transaction wouldn't get the transaction fee that the FBI decided to pay, so in the end greed will win.
That's not true. In school, all Germans learn how the nazis were horribly evil and killed all the jews and how we have to give free submarines to Israel to make up for it.
Also, George Orwell wrote in 1944:
It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.
Define 'fascist'. I've heard all sorts of people use 'fascist' to negatively describe all sorts of things. While surely the german govt are the same kind of right-wing assholes that can be found all over the world ("we need to censor the internet because of terrorism and child porn!"), we have a whole load of laws against 'nazi' stuff. Outing yourself as a 'nazi' will mean that you immediately lose all reputation and carreer opportunities. you will be sent to jail for using swastikas, playing the horst-wessel lied, denying the holocaust or anything that might make foreigners think that germans are nazis. can you believe that world war II computer games are mostly sold with swastikas replaced by plus signs in germany? On the other hand, right-wing ideologies are well tolerated IF you don't use any 'old-style' nazi symbols as the aforementioned, while there are extended programs against all kinds of left-wing groups. tl;dr news at 11: Politicians are a bunch of liars, and there's _nothing_ you can do about it.
Your velocity relative to the frame itself is undefined. However, your velocity relative to any point in the frame is very well defined. Usually, you use the velocity relative to your current position in the frame.
That's a common misconception. In fact, pulling an object upwards the elevator will enact a specific impulse of about 5km/s, westwards, onto the elevator, felt as coriolis force. However, that impulse can simply be transferred to the earth by anchoring it (think some kind of swimming oil rig in the ocean. You just need to put the elevator's center of gravity slightly above geostationary altitude and the constant pull will keep the cable tense. Pulling stuff up and down the elevator will then put the cable into oscillations, which can even be controlled to avoid space debris.
Unfortunately, my source is only a german-language podcast by ESA (http://raumzeit-podcast.de/2013/07/05/rz054-space-elevator/); however, all my following statements are backed by it. You can spin a rope of carbon-nanotubes; once you manage to create single molecules that are a few centimeters long, the rope's strength will be in the same order of a single molecule. Centimeter-long nanotubes can very well be created with current technology; however, no reasearch team has real interest in it, because they are rather focused on the electronics applications (imagine an even flatter iphone as opposed to a lousy space elevator!) However, with such a spun carbon-nanotube rope, the required diameter-at-geostationary-altitude-to-diameter-at-end ratio would be 4:1. With this rope, a 1-ton payload elevator rope would weigh only 30 tons, well within the launch capacity of the Falcon Heavy. From then on, the elevator could be used to construct itself, until capable of thousands of tons of payload.
Definitely. Even with today's technology, it's possible to shoot down a satellite. There are few things more vulnerable than spacecraft. You don't even need orbital velocity; hell, with more modern electronics/software, even a german 1942 V2 rocket could destroy the International Space Station (or any spacecrat in low orbit for that matter). Due to radiation constraints, elysium would most certainly be built in low orbit.
Using a space elevator, enormous structures in space would not only be a lot cheaper to launch (in the range of a few dollars per kg), but also a lot easier to build - no longer would spacecraft need to instantly work when launched, nor would they need to absorb the launch vehicle's g-forces. All fundamental issues are solved (carbon nanotubes of the required length have been created, the orbital mechanics math works out etc.). If we had the will, like we had when we landed on the mun, we could probably finish an 100-ton-per-day elevator by the end of the decade, for maybe $1 trillion.
Self-replicating technology is incredibly hard to build. Self-replicating technology needs to be at least able to build computers, for which it requires a semi-conductor factory, requiring extremely precise optics, all kinds of lasers, etc, which in turn require dozens of different elements, some of them rare-earth, which in turn need to be chemically extracted from the asteroid or even bred in nuclear reactors if too scarce.
Take a look at this paper http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/ReproJBISJuly1980.htm for a 440-ton machine (or rather swarm of machines) capable of reproducing once every 500 years under the conditions of a gas giant moon such as Ganymede, under the assumption that He3-Deuterium fusion technology is available for power.
PWM frequencies are usually chosen as a trade-off: Too low frequencies mean flickering, audible noises, and, depending on the application, larger caps/coils. Too high frequencies mean higher CMOS switching losses, and RF signals emissions which may violate regulations. The WLAN frequency was chosen as the resonance frequency of water because due to absorption that frequency is basically useless, so nobody really wanted it.
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AMD, with their decreasing market share, should use open, or at least widespread, standards such as OpenGL or DirectX.
Remember AMD's alternative to NVidia's CUDA? I think it was called Fire- something or something-stream... that really went well.
If AMD opens up a new front here, and Mantle has any success at all, NVidia will retaliate by creating their own API, and guess how many people will use Mantle then.
Maybe even a lot faster than a week - most bitcoin traders are greedy bastards and will immediately recognize the opportunity to buy cheap stock.
mtgox has a trade volume of about 17k BTC per day [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html], so you can assume that those 30k BTCs are about as much as is traded in one day. I don't have an economics degree, and I am proud of not having one, but I assume that, would an entity put this many BTCs on the market at a single time, the market value would collapse by about 70%, and take a week to recover.
is where I stopped reading.
Except that gold is a speculative bubble as well.
Only a much slower, much larger one.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that trisquel ships its software in binary form. The important thing is that sourcecode is available.
The problem tha the FSF has with most laptops are proprietary firmware blobs, such as the BIOS, proprietary-driver-only WIFI cards, and so on.
How would that work? IMHO, exactly 100% of miners would need to get together.
If every single miner refuses to process transactions from/to that address, the bitcoins would indeed be frozen in place.
If, however, only one miner decided to process the transaction, it would be confirmed as soon as that miner solves a block. As the number of miners who refuse to confirm the transaction appraoches 100%, the confirmation time would thus approach to inifinity.
However, miners who refuse to process the transaction wouldn't get the transaction fee that the FBI decided to pay, so in the end greed will win.
That's not true. In school, all Germans learn how the nazis were horribly evil and killed all the jews and how we have to give free submarines to Israel to make up for it.
Also, George Orwell wrote in 1944:
It would seem that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox hunting, bullfighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley's broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else.
Define 'fascist'. I've heard all sorts of people use 'fascist' to negatively describe all sorts of things. While surely the german govt are the same kind of right-wing assholes that can be found all over the world ("we need to censor the internet because of terrorism and child porn!"), we have a whole load of laws against 'nazi' stuff. Outing yourself as a 'nazi' will mean that you immediately lose all reputation and carreer opportunities. you will be sent to jail for using swastikas, playing the horst-wessel lied, denying the holocaust or anything that might make foreigners think that germans are nazis. can you believe that world war II computer games are mostly sold with swastikas replaced by plus signs in germany? On the other hand, right-wing ideologies are well tolerated IF you don't use any 'old-style' nazi symbols as the aforementioned, while there are extended programs against all kinds of left-wing groups. tl;dr news at 11: Politicians are a bunch of liars, and there's _nothing_ you can do about it.
There already has been a game about waiting in lines: Postal 2. Though you have a lot more optionshow to deal with the situation.
Your velocity relative to the frame itself is undefined. However, your velocity relative to any point in the frame is very well defined. Usually, you use the velocity relative to your current position in the frame.
That was not specified in the article, and depends on where you are, but I'll assume the earth-fixed rotating reference frame.
Do you have reliable sources for that number?
I always thought iOS devices were powered by the immortal soul of Steve Jobs and cutting-edge round corners. They are worse off than I thought.
Also, %s/nokia/microsoft/g
The Dilemma of complaining that everybody is complaining... You have to complain yourself.
Are you allowed to share exactly _how much_ your regional ISP had to pay for one TB of traffic? Because I'd really like to know.
That's a common misconception.
In fact, pulling an object upwards the elevator will enact a specific impulse of about 5km/s, westwards, onto the elevator, felt as coriolis force.
However, that impulse can simply be transferred to the earth by anchoring it (think some kind of swimming oil rig in the ocean.
You just need to put the elevator's center of gravity slightly above geostationary altitude and the constant pull will keep the cable tense.
Pulling stuff up and down the elevator will then put the cable into oscillations, which can even be controlled to avoid space debris.
Unfortunately, my source is only a german-language podcast by ESA (http://raumzeit-podcast.de/2013/07/05/rz054-space-elevator/); however, all my following statements are backed by it.
You can spin a rope of carbon-nanotubes; once you manage to create single molecules that are a few centimeters long, the rope's strength will be in the same order of a single molecule.
Centimeter-long nanotubes can very well be created with current technology; however, no reasearch team has real interest in it, because they are rather focused on the electronics applications (imagine an even flatter iphone as opposed to a lousy space elevator!)
However, with such a spun carbon-nanotube rope, the required diameter-at-geostationary-altitude-to-diameter-at-end ratio would be 4:1.
With this rope, a 1-ton payload elevator rope would weigh only 30 tons, well within the launch capacity of the Falcon Heavy.
From then on, the elevator could be used to construct itself, until capable of thousands of tons of payload.
Definitely. Even with today's technology, it's possible to shoot down a satellite. There are few things more vulnerable than spacecraft. You don't even need orbital velocity; hell, with more modern electronics/software, even a german 1942 V2 rocket could destroy the International Space Station (or any spacecrat in low orbit for that matter).
Due to radiation constraints, elysium would most certainly be built in low orbit.
Using a space elevator, enormous structures in space would not only be a lot cheaper to launch (in the range of a few dollars per kg), but also a lot easier to build - no longer would spacecraft need to instantly work when launched, nor would they need to absorb the launch vehicle's g-forces.
All fundamental issues are solved (carbon nanotubes of the required length have been created, the orbital mechanics math works out etc.). If we had the will, like we had when we landed on the mun, we could probably finish an 100-ton-per-day elevator by the end of the decade, for maybe $1 trillion.
Self-replicating technology is incredibly hard to build. Self-replicating technology needs to be at least able to build computers, for which it requires a semi-conductor factory, requiring extremely precise optics, all kinds of lasers, etc, which in turn require dozens of different elements, some of them rare-earth, which in turn need to be chemically extracted from the asteroid or even bred in nuclear reactors if too scarce.
Take a look at this paper http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/ReproJBISJuly1980.htm for a 440-ton machine (or rather swarm of machines) capable of reproducing once every 500 years under the conditions of a gas giant moon such as Ganymede, under the assumption that He3-Deuterium fusion technology is available for power.
PWM frequencies are usually chosen as a trade-off: Too low frequencies mean flickering, audible noises, and, depending on the application, larger caps/coils. Too high frequencies mean higher CMOS switching losses, and RF signals emissions which may violate regulations.
The WLAN frequency was chosen as the resonance frequency of water because due to absorption that frequency is basically useless, so nobody really wanted it.
I can only recommend you to read this: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html