A team has already crossed the Atlantic using a small radio model plane. The one from the story is really much of a threat but yes it could be possible. I am not going to loose a lot of sleep over it right now.
Yes CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Heck I think that reducing the output of CO2 is a good thing. No one doubts that CO2 will act as a greenhouse gas. The question that is being debated is not if CO2 can capture IR. The question that is being debated is if the current warming caused by the increase in CO2? There is a lot of evidence that the output of the sun is higher now than in the last century. There have been warm periods in that past warmer than what we have now. There was a time when Greenland was actually green and you could grow wine grapes in the UK. What is up for debate are questions like. Is this a normal warming trend? Man made or not what will the effects be. BTW several predictions about the results of global warming have been changed. What if it is a combination of man made and natural causes. Yes these things are questions that need to be looked into honestly and openly. If you shout down people that question then...
Possible. It could be because Linux and the BSDs already work and are much farther along so people would rather work on Linux. Or it could be that Linux gets a lot of commercial support and those companies pay developers to work on Linux. Google, SGI, Intel, Red Hat, Novell, and IBM come to mind. Or it could be that Hurd doesn't offer enough improvement over Linux to make it that exciting. You can download Hurd now if you want and try it out.
Actually I would bet that no working ASATs are left. The first stage was a SRAM. The SRAM was removed from service because of ageing problems. The solid fuel was cracking... Also the ASAT couldn't reach geosync so it wasn't useful for taking out most communications satellites.
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I don't think that Qemu has any hot keys so it might work out for you. Even if does get the source and turn them off:)
Not a chance... No one ever got fired for buying IBM I mean Microsoft. They are the standard and the largest software company in the world so their stuff has to work. If it fails it was because IT messed up.
This post has nothing to do with facts, just reality. And not they are not the same thing.
Does any one know of a program that will take an open office document and create a text file from it? That would be a good step in the right direction. At least as far as searching the contents.
Many drives already have a read cache in ram. The drive electronics figure out what to cache and what not to. Sata, EIDE, and SCSI drives all have some kind of microcontroler that may handle the cache. Since the samsung site only seems to work with IE and I only have Firefox and Opera on my Linux box I have to guess.
Then it would fall back to VOR/DME and then ILS. If the jammed that then fall back to LORAN to get you within range of the ILS. If they jammed that then the inertial navigation system could get you close enough to the airport for the ILS to take over. So then you would need to carry a jammer that could take out VOR/DME, LORAN, ILS, GPS, and the satellite link. As a final backup you could put very high power spread spectrum microwave systems and the secure airports to provide landing data. Also I doubt that you could jam any of those from inside the aircraft. The antennas are located on the top of the plane and GPS is in the microwave range. It is totally line of site. You can not see the top of the airplane from the cabin and the leads can be easily shielded. In other words it is a lot easier to say that you can jam the system then actually jam the system. Impossible? Nothing is Impossible. Really unlikly? Yes it is.
Not likely. A simple fail safe would be for the plane to auto land at the nearest secure airport. Most GPSs have a find nearest airport function. In case of an emergency you press a button and the GPS will find the nearest air port an plot a course to it. Simple solution if the feature is activated and the signal is jammed it flies to nearest secure air port and the transponder goes to a special code that informs them of the situation. Not all that hard to plan around.
You see that is part of the problem. Why lean one way or the other? Why not look at all the candidates and then vote for the individual? My democratic senator wants the Navy to keep a carrier in service that they want to retire. Why? It is based in my state. He claims that it is to keep America safe. Saying you hate one party of the other is just dumb. Odds are their are members of the party you hate that you agree with and members of your own party that you do not. And what it does is separates us on party lines. In a way it is a lot like racism. I hate it when people talk about red states and blue states as well. Of course trying to get people to exercise judgment, good manners, and open mindedness on slashdot is a windmill I have tried got fight before.
IBM isn't long gone. They just don't do PCs and laptops anymore. They still have a large range of servers, mid-range, and mainframes. And their service is very good. I can tell you that the company I work for shipped out at least a thousand IBM Thinkpads. There service was much better then other companies we dealt with. It pain us when sold off the Thinkpad line.
"Even a car will always land hard on its front wheels (if you're lucky) or its nose" Always is a bad word. I remember a custom stunt car they build with a big honking wing in the back. It created enough down-force on the back of the car to cause it to land on it's rear wheels. Of course that wasn't your standard car:) However you are correct any car/truck/or bus leaving a ramp will start to drop nose first as soon as the front of the vehicle leaves the ramp. Motorcycles and bicycles get around the problem by the rider shifting his weight and or using the engine or brakes to adjust the angle.
Actually ARM has some new cars with FPUs and DSPs now http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM1020E.html. One has to wonder just how many ARM cores you could put on a single die at 90nm? Just think about an 8 or 16 core system with are good NVidia or ATI graphics chip running some flavor of Unix. You could use USB to connect drives and printers to it as well. Of course the ideal system would have sixty four sixty four bit cores and 64 gigs of memory:) Back to reality that is one thing I do wonder about. Why didn't the OLPC project use an ARM or MIPs cpu instead of an X86. Both are better low power cpus than the X86.
Been there and done that and it just doesn't work. Kaypro and Zenith both offered PCs that let you swap out CPU cards. I have a great poster in my office for the Kaypo PC that says "The End of Obsolescence". It wasn't The problem is that the upgrades tended to cost as much as a new computer.
You have a smaller potental market and the cost for the new CPU board is so close to a new motherboard it just isn't worth it. Then you add the improvements in memory systems and as you can see it just doesn't work out.
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Limiting to just 10 is silly.
What about
Summer Games?
Combat?
Pong?
But two big thumbs up for Star Raiders!
A team has already crossed the Atlantic using a small radio model plane. The one from the story is really much of a threat but yes it could be possible. I am not going to loose a lot of sleep over it right now.
Yes CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Heck I think that reducing the output of CO2 is a good thing. No one doubts that CO2 will act as a greenhouse gas.
The question that is being debated is not if CO2 can capture IR. The question that is being debated is if the current warming caused by the increase in CO2?
There is a lot of evidence that the output of the sun is higher now than in the last century. There have been warm periods in that past warmer than what we have now. There was a time when Greenland was actually green and you could grow wine grapes in the UK.
What is up for debate are questions like. Is this a normal warming trend? Man made or not what will the effects be. BTW several predictions about the results of global warming have been changed. What if it is a combination of man made and natural causes.
Yes these things are questions that need to be looked into honestly and openly. If you shout down people that question then...
QEMU supports MIPS, Arm, and SPARC. You could at least test under Linux and probably BSD for all of them.
Possible. It could be because Linux and the BSDs already work and are much farther along so people would rather work on Linux.
Or it could be that Linux gets a lot of commercial support and those companies pay developers to work on Linux. Google, SGI, Intel, Red Hat, Novell, and IBM come to mind.
Or it could be that Hurd doesn't offer enough improvement over Linux to make it that exciting.
You can download Hurd now if you want and try it out.
Actually I would bet that no working ASATs are left. The first stage was a SRAM. The SRAM was removed from service because of ageing problems. The solid fuel was cracking...
Also the ASAT couldn't reach geosync so it wasn't useful for taking out most communications satellites.
I don't think that Qemu has any hot keys so it might work out for you.
Even if does get the source and turn them off:)
Maybe not. IT has a budget. If they don't use all that budget then next year they get less money. Money is power.
Not a chance... No one ever got fired for buying IBM I mean Microsoft.
They are the standard and the largest software company in the world so their stuff has to work. If it fails it was because IT messed up.
This post has nothing to do with facts, just reality.
And not they are not the same thing.
Does any one know of a program that will take an open office document and create a text file from it?
That would be a good step in the right direction. At least as far as searching the contents.
"So they get 50mpg?"
Or they don't provide anywhere near the improvement the specs claim.
Nope it is two megs. X.org is pretty big but there are smaller x servers available.
Anyone can get Linux running in 2 gigabytes of space.
Many drives already have a read cache in ram. The drive electronics figure out what to cache and what not to. Sata, EIDE, and SCSI drives all have some kind of microcontroler that may handle the cache. Since the samsung site only seems to work with IE and I only have Firefox and Opera on my Linux box I have to guess.
They probaby use a SATA interface so no driver other than one for you SATA controler will be needed.
Then it would fall back to VOR/DME and then ILS.
If the jammed that then fall back to LORAN to get you within range of the ILS.
If they jammed that then the inertial navigation system could get you close enough to the airport for the ILS to take over.
So then you would need to carry a jammer that could take out VOR/DME, LORAN, ILS, GPS, and the satellite link.
As a final backup you could put very high power spread spectrum microwave systems and the secure airports to provide landing data.
Also I doubt that you could jam any of those from inside the aircraft. The antennas are located on the top of the plane and GPS is in the microwave range. It is totally line of site. You can not see the top of the airplane from the cabin and the leads can be easily shielded.
In other words it is a lot easier to say that you can jam the system then actually jam the system.
Impossible? Nothing is Impossible. Really unlikly? Yes it is.
Not likely. A simple fail safe would be for the plane to auto land at the nearest secure airport. Most GPSs have a find nearest airport function. In case of an emergency you press a button and the GPS will find the nearest air port an plot a course to it. Simple solution if the feature is activated and the signal is jammed it flies to nearest secure air port and the transponder goes to a special code that informs them of the situation.
Not all that hard to plan around.
You see that is part of the problem.
Why lean one way or the other? Why not look at all the candidates and then vote for the individual?
My democratic senator wants the Navy to keep a carrier in service that they want to retire. Why? It is based in my state. He claims that it is to keep America safe.
Saying you hate one party of the other is just dumb. Odds are their are members of the party you hate that you agree with and members of your own party that you do not.
And what it does is separates us on party lines.
In a way it is a lot like racism.
I hate it when people talk about red states and blue states as well.
Of course trying to get people to exercise judgment, good manners, and open mindedness on slashdot is a windmill I have tried got fight before.
IBM isn't long gone. They just don't do PCs and laptops anymore. They still have a large range of servers, mid-range, and mainframes. And their service is very good.
I can tell you that the company I work for shipped out at least a thousand IBM Thinkpads. There service was much better then other companies we dealt with. It pain us when sold off the Thinkpad line.
Thank you for proving my point. The Democratic members of congress ALSO VOTED for the DMCA.
I would love to see this payola was reported on the record companies taxes and to the stock holders.
And Clinton signed the DMCA. Please both parties have been tools of the the entertainment industry forever.
Please find me someone that isn't.
If I remember correctly there are only three. I think the electro-weak force was unified a few years ago.
"Even a car will always land hard on its front wheels (if you're lucky) or its nose" :)
Always is a bad word. I remember a custom stunt car they build with a big honking wing in the back. It created enough down-force on the back of the car to cause it to land on it's rear wheels. Of course that wasn't your standard car
However you are correct any car/truck/or bus leaving a ramp will start to drop nose first as soon as the front of the vehicle leaves the ramp. Motorcycles and bicycles get around the problem by the rider shifting his weight and or using the engine or brakes to adjust the angle.
Actually ARM has some new cars with FPUs and DSPs now http://www.arm.com/products/CPUs/ARM1020E.html. One has to wonder just how many ARM cores you could put on a single die at 90nm? Just think about an 8 or 16 core system with are good NVidia or ATI graphics chip running some flavor of Unix. You could use USB to connect drives and printers to it as well. Of course the ideal system would have sixty four sixty four bit cores and 64 gigs of memory :)
Back to reality that is one thing I do wonder about. Why didn't the OLPC project use an ARM or MIPs cpu instead of an X86. Both are better low power cpus than the X86.
Been there and done that and it just doesn't work.
Kaypro and Zenith both offered PCs that let you swap out CPU cards. I have a great poster in my office for the Kaypo PC that says "The End of Obsolescence". It wasn't
The problem is that the upgrades tended to cost as much as a new computer.
You have a smaller potental market and the cost for the new CPU board is so close to a new motherboard it just isn't worth it.
Then you add the improvements in memory systems and as you can see it just doesn't work out.