Well, that seems like a whole lot of bandwidth. A whole city's worth of people retrieving their favorite music from their home servers will use a lot of bandwidth. Well, as long as everyone is paying for their own use then we may get some interesting applications falling out of so much bandwidth.
Toshiba has provided some info about its IR hardware. This was mentioned in several places, and you can find mention of it in the Linux IrDA Diary. (Search for Toshiba)
But the crustal plates of Mars seem to have frozen. There probably is no volcanic heat (I forget the word for geothermal when not on Earth) to be tapped. I suppose we could drop enough asteroids to melt it down again...
How long until someone parks old ships every 200 miles between Hawaii and major continents? How much income could they get from running the only gas and food service for the next 200 miles?
As the Skycar web pages mention, 15 MPG at 350 MPH. 10 gallons to go 150 miles, 20 gallons to go 300 miles. And you'll have gone those 300 miles in less than an hour. OK, now think about how often you have to go 100 miles away. How often are you going to have to go more than 300 miles? I don't know the cruising range, but if it is 300-600 miles, you'll still be able to go a great distance even if you have to refuel every hour or two. At 3,000 miles you'll run out of continent. Ten hours. Are five or ten landings in one day too much to hop across the country in a day, when you've already devoted ten hours to the trip?
This is better. 80 MPH, 2 inches apart. That is a train. And the drivers get to pay for it directly, without requiring an organization to operate a transport system.
Or maybe you'd prefer an automated taxi system. But it won't work on regular roads, although I like the small elevated tracks and 4-passenger vehicles being prepared for the Chicago suburb.
Remember, these are smart cars you are talking about. If one has a problem, it will try to pull over without slamming on the brakes. The other smart cars will be talking to each other and using radar. Even if there is a road obstruction or a car which stops suddenly, the other cars will be using the brakes faster than the human will (and perhaps driving around the problem, particularly if the vehicles ahead pointed it out).
Not 600 MPH. 350 MPH. Not two jets. Eight in the 4-passenger, 4 in 2-passenger, 2 in pilot-only. Ducted fans, like a Harrier. VTOL, then the ducts rotate and allow most of the thrust to go rearward. It is under FAA control, so the licensed pilot has to follow helicopter/VTOL/STOL rules.
I do wonder why their liability hasn't allowed them to try real test flights on the 2-seater. Or maybe the 2-seater does not have the two parachutes which the 4-seater has?
At hardware and auto parts stores you can get solderless connectors which tap a wire into an existing wire. You can use two of them to add a wire which connects the wires for pin 14 and a neighboring wire. They're usually blue plastic with a metal tab which you push into the two wires. Faster than soldering and can be removed for maintenance.
Indeed. The advantage would be in gaining new equipment for use in other applications. Fortunately you could get an old 286/386 for $100 to replace your museum piece.
It then becomes a matter of whether the $15K of gear is worth the expense of $100 plus time to copy old application into new old computer.
On the announced date, the license is now available on the download link. I am not a lawyer, but I see that it does require that the source code of a product be available. So alterations of the original will be available.
There also is a clause about patent licenses. Some parts of the program are covered by patents, and the license allows use of the patented features in this program but revokes the license on source code for patented features which is removed from this program. So we can improve this program, but there are restrictions on using some of this code in other programs.
As already mentioned, one may be a moderator one day and not the next. Maybe he only knows about what moderation is like because he was one a month ago. (Yup, if I was mentioning whether I am a moderator today or not I would first become an AC...)
Another problem with one computer in every classroom is that the students simply can not use it.
The teachers try to fill the day with teaching -- a student can't easily use the computer when the teacher is talking and asking questions. When there is time to work on assignments, there is not enough time for all students to use the computer.
And even if all students could use the computer, with 6 hours and 20 students, each student gets 20 minutes a day. (Yes, I'm using numbers which tend to be worse in real life...)
XFS has "Attributes" which can be attached to inodes. Apparently they're user defined. Maybe Linux use of XFS can reserve certain values for ACL or Capabilities use. Yes, we have to deal with verification...but that's already an issue with networked drives, clusters, and trusting any disk mount.
I liked that the original link in the/. article produced an article about Clinton's gun control efforts. Nothing in the article about Clinton controlling nuclear devices...
Nah, it did not produce useful power. If it did, the application to construct a reactor would have been forwarded to the state utility regulatory commission, and action by them would have taken too long...:-)
An MS Windows user already has a gun pointed at his data and gets enough suffering from GPF, BSOD, and the system being incapacitated due to damage caused by installing applications.
They think all computers are supposed to behave this way.
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Well, that seems like a whole lot of bandwidth. A whole city's worth of people retrieving their favorite music from their home servers will use a lot of bandwidth. Well, as long as everyone is paying for their own use then we may get some interesting applications falling out of so much bandwidth.
Toshiba has provided some info about its IR hardware. This was mentioned in several places, and you can find mention of it in the Linux IrDA Diary. (Search for Toshiba)
But the crustal plates of Mars seem to have frozen. There probably is no volcanic heat (I forget the word for geothermal when not on Earth) to be tapped. I suppose we could drop enough asteroids to melt it down again...
How long until someone parks old ships every 200 miles between Hawaii and major continents? How much income could they get from running the only gas and food service for the next 200 miles?
As the Skycar web pages mention, 15 MPG at 350 MPH.
10 gallons to go 150 miles, 20 gallons to go 300 miles. And you'll have gone those 300 miles in less than an hour.
OK, now think about how often you have to go 100 miles away. How often are you going to have to go more than 300 miles?
I don't know the cruising range, but if it is 300-600 miles, you'll still be able to go a great distance even if you have to refuel every hour or two.
At 3,000 miles you'll run out of continent. Ten hours. Are five or ten landings in one day too much to hop across the country in a day, when you've already devoted ten hours to the trip?
Not 600 MPH. 350 MPH, 600 KPH.
15 MPG. Here are the specs.
And the drivers get to pay for it directly, without requiring an organization to operate a transport system.
Or maybe you'd prefer an automated taxi system. But it won't work on regular roads, although I like the small elevated tracks and 4-passenger vehicles being prepared for the Chicago suburb.
Remember, these are smart cars you are talking about. If one has a problem, it will try to pull over without slamming on the brakes. The other smart cars will be talking to each other and using radar. Even if there is a road obstruction or a car which stops suddenly, the other cars will be using the brakes faster than the human will (and perhaps driving around the problem, particularly if the vehicles ahead pointed it out).
Not two jets. Eight in the 4-passenger, 4 in 2-passenger, 2 in pilot-only.
Ducted fans, like a Harrier. VTOL, then the ducts rotate and allow most of the thrust to go rearward.
It is under FAA control, so the licensed pilot has to follow helicopter/VTOL/STOL rules.
Look at the Skycar webpage and read the FAQ.
I do wonder why their liability hasn't allowed them to try real test flights on the 2-seater. Or maybe the 2-seater does not have the two parachutes which the 4-seater has?
At hardware and auto parts stores you can get solderless connectors which tap a wire into an existing wire. You can use two of them to add a wire which connects the wires for pin 14 and a neighboring wire. They're usually blue plastic with a metal tab which you push into the two wires. Faster than soldering and can be removed for maintenance.
Maybe he has an ENIAC-on-a-chip.
It then becomes a matter of whether the $15K of gear is worth the expense of $100 plus time to copy old application into new old computer.
Not Katz. He said "oldest Slashdot reader". Katz only posts, he doesn't read what else has been posted... :-)
There also is a clause about patent licenses. Some parts of the program are covered by patents, and the license allows use of the patented features in this program but revokes the license on source code for patented features which is removed from this program. So we can improve this program, but there are restrictions on using some of this code in other programs.
So with that typo in the featured URL of the article, /. is /.'ing itself.
As already mentioned, one may be a moderator one day and not the next. Maybe he only knows about what moderation is like because he was one a month ago. (Yup, if I was mentioning whether I am a moderator today or not I would first become an AC...)
It is hard to measure how much benefit a school gains from software.
It is hard to measure the quality of software.
The teachers try to fill the day with teaching -- a student can't easily use the computer when the teacher is talking and asking questions. When there is time to work on assignments, there is not enough time for all students to use the computer.
And even if all students could use the computer, with 6 hours and 20 students, each student gets 20 minutes a day. (Yes, I'm using numbers which tend to be worse in real life...)
XFS has "Attributes" which can be attached to inodes. Apparently they're user defined. Maybe Linux use of XFS can reserve certain values for ACL or Capabilities use. Yes, we have to deal with verification...but that's already an issue with networked drives, clusters, and trusting any disk mount.
I liked that the original link in the /. article produced an article about Clinton's gun control efforts. Nothing in the article about Clinton controlling nuclear devices...
Nah, it did not produce useful power. If it did, the application to construct a reactor would have been forwarded to the state utility regulatory commission, and action by them would have taken too long... :-)
Not much like a real penguin?
Does real penguin taste fishy, gamey, or like chicken?
Ooooh..Aaaahhh...
Me, I was intrigued by Kicker.
What kind of "large file server" would need so many reboots that the Kicker is needed?
An MS Windows user already has a gun pointed at his data and gets enough suffering from GPF, BSOD, and the system being incapacitated due to damage caused by installing applications.
They think all computers are supposed to behave this way.