Considering that the moon has minerals very rich in Titanium on the surface (So much so that it's significant...) and that the industrial byproduct of the extraction of the Titanium from said minerals is Oxygen, I'd say that there's metals up there- usable ones. http://www.permanent.com/l-minera.htm
Also worth noting is that there's enough He3 up there trapped in the regolith that can be easily and controllably fused into other isotopes and elements to be bothered with mining it out of the surface as well. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_0006 30.html
Not everything is QUITE as the detractors of the space program would have you to believe it to be.
Certain areas are blacked out on the satellite view, quite a bit less creative than the fuzzing an overlaying of the roof images in the instances you give. Anyone in the area would know what the blacked out images were- and all it'd take would be someone physically going there to find out if they weren't a local.
You might as well put a sign on the damn imagery: "Terrorists strike HERE!"
I wish they'd at least be creative like stitching in surrounding countryside or somesuch so it's not so obvious that they're covering up for this sort of thing out of National Security requirements.
At one point in time, I was an avid amateur photographer- as in attempting to do the artistic style of photography. Saying no monochrome printing is a crock of crap- I would have a problem printing anything artistic that I'd tried with a pro-grade camera. So would my wife, who currently DOES do all kinds of shots and regularly gets spectacular shots with her measly 4Mp camera. I can't imagine what they'd do to the both of us with 8Mp prints.
This is a null argument. Media Player's not critical. The moment you said this, you lost any points- it's only critical because "consumers expect...", it doesn't keep the machine from running. It doesn't keep you from surfing the Internet (though some content won't show...). It doesn't keep a word processor or spreadsheet from working. IE's a little better of an analogy about needing a given component, but why would you embed into the OS heart such a component as MS has done. Technically, HTML is HTML. If you're using HTML content for your help system, any browser, so long as it is there in the MIME type listings for HTML rendering, should suffice. But you need IE for this stuff, the way MS has done it. Therein lies the rub.
You won't have to worry about endianness issues between the OS platforms.
Also worth noting is that it's going to help Linux adoption overall as largely the same frameworks are in use for producing Linux games as MacOS X games- the endianness issues, etc. make it more difficult.
Now, it really WILL be pretty much the same thing when you make a game port for one or the other- it's just a recompile away... I like that.
Discussing the relative merits of AltiVec versus SSE/SSE2 is details. And you couldn't be further from the truth on this one.
SSE/SSE2 happen to be a hack on top of the x86 architechture, pure and simple. You pay a performance penalty when you switch into that mode of operation.
AltiVec is part of the PPC architechture and is designed into the beast in a non-hackish manner.
For picture manipulation work or certain classes of mathematics operations, AltiVec is going to be better than anything else- because it's better and more efficient.
As for the rest, you'd be off on that as well- x86 architechtures don't truly outperform the PPC architechture except in the case of the Opteron versions of the Athlon64 architechture. What has always hampered the overall performance of Apple apps versus PC ones has more been the overhead of the Apple OS than anything else. A LinuxPPC machine is faster than a comparable x86 machine, but costs quite a bit more so you don't see people buying them for that purpose.
In the case of a VLIW machine, theoretically, it's a fast beast- but you have to have a good compiler of whatever type (JIT of x86 or Java, Native Code, etc...) to actually see the full advantage of the architechture. Currently, most of these compilers produce less than optimal results so they end up not showing their true potential.
I don't consider the IP anonyminity to be the most useful feature (it's nice all the same, but any app could and would stand on it's own without it...)- it's the NAT tunneling. One of the biggest things about BitTorrent that's holding it back is that it requires a lot of work (yes, it IS that) to deal with NAT unless you're completely in charge of all portions of the network until you hit a routable address. Right now, BitTorrent will not work for you if your ISP NATs your access. It only works for those people who happen to have routable addresses- which is dialup and anyone with a fixed routable IP on broadband that has control of thier own NAT firewall. Rodi's claiming that they tunnel through the firewall NAT and allow all potential participants to join in the swarm. Looking at his source code, it looks similar to the stuff they did for STUN that's used with SIP. Not a bad idea, really- and it should be there in BitTorrent (And it should have been there on day one, in my not so humble opinion...).
In the case of BitTorrent, you have to actually set up port-forwards for the clients doing downloads. If you're a business and you've got employees needing those ISO downloads, either you put up the port-forwards, or hope someone sets up a Rodi tracker, etc. and have it work automagically for them.
It's not just about anonymity- it's as much about NAT tunneling; something that I would have hoped the BitTorrent author would have given some thought about. For even legal P2P to work, it must account for situations like NAT because it's pretty much the norm, not the exception- and so far, they've not considered that sort of thing in a serious manner until now.
Or, the other way around... Treating a pointer like it was an int. There's several games that will be some time in coming to AMD64 mode on Linux because of that...
It seems that the management under Carly was doing just fine in that regard without the capable assistance of Compaq. They successfully turned themselves into a mediocre clone of Compaq with printer sales. Once they were a force to be reckoned with on instrumentation, Calculators, PDAs, Printers, and of course, computers. With good old Carly at the helm they became an also-ran well before the "merger" with Compaq- the merger just finished the job she started.
..that you can obtain a PC for $299 with an Athlon CPU from Fry's, it's really, really friggin' stupid of Microsoft to do this sort of thing...
That price of XP comprises the cost of the machine at this point, less a monitor. Keep on doin' stupid stuff Billy-boy, all it does is make Open Source stuff look all that much better as an option.
If your Representative happened to vote yes on this abomination, you should do the same as you ought to with the Senators. They shouldn't be holding office any longer if they can't honor their Oath; they swore to uphold the Constitution when they took office- voting for this travesty isn't doing that.
It's against the Constitution and if ANY of these Senators knew about this, whether voting would have made them look bad or not, they should be removed from office as they have failed to uphold their Oath of Office at this point.
It's NOT going to be cheap. Though I wouldn't expect that you'd need a pint of this stuff to achieve your desired cooling system. I'd think you could use something along the lines of about 200-400g of the alloy and get a decent cooling system. Not cheap, by any stretch of the imagination, but it could allow you to quietly air-cool some hot CPU or GPU all the same.
...that a CPU would cook at 100 deg C. Most of them are rated to about 150-160 deg F. The reason why one uses water is that it's cheaper than the alternatives, has the highest heat capacity and specific heat for the amount of trouble you have to go through to use it.
Nice idea, but it won't work out the way you think it will- the water will heat up to the failure point of the CPU before ever hitting the boiling point- unless you lower the vapor pressure of the system, and then you've got issues with that as well. (The reason that you don't see water based refrigeration systems is not that water's a bad refrigerant- it's just that it's swept volume is exponentially higher than Freons, etc. posssess.)
One almost as bad as the Cadmium. Worse yet, you have to maintain 136 deg F or hotter or it solidifies. Galinstan's about the only one that's liquid at room temp and is non-toxic and boils at around 2000 deg F.
It wets the surfaces of anything, including glass and plastic, but stuff like Gallium Oxide. A thin coating of GaO2 is present in the new non-mercury thermometers so you can actually read them.
All in all, it's obnoxious, but it's not anywhere near as bad as NaK alloys or liquid Na- there's a good reason why they abandoned that stuff as it'd attack almost anything in existence in short term. Same goes for Mercury- save that it's pretty damn toxic in addition to being an aggressive metal.
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It's open source and the Apple compiler is GCC. Just recompile the fixed version from source.
Google, you're all about Linux- why can't ya come up with a Linux (and a MacOS X) version, hm?
...and then adding them back that is the problem.
Considering that the moon has minerals very rich in Titanium on the surface (So much so that it's significant...) and that the industrial byproduct of the extraction of the Titanium from said minerals is Oxygen, I'd say that there's metals up there- usable ones. http://www.permanent.com/l-minera.htm
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Also worth noting is that there's enough He3 up there trapped in the regolith that can be easily and controllably fused into other isotopes and elements to be bothered with mining it out of the surface as well. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_000
Not everything is QUITE as the detractors of the space program would have you to believe it to be.
Certain areas are blacked out on the satellite view, quite a bit less creative than the fuzzing an overlaying of the roof images in the instances you give. Anyone in the area would know what the blacked out images were- and all it'd take would be someone physically going there to find out if they weren't a local.
You might as well put a sign on the damn imagery: "Terrorists strike HERE!"
I wish they'd at least be creative like stitching in surrounding countryside or somesuch so it's not so obvious that they're covering up for this sort of thing out of National Security requirements.
At one point in time, I was an avid amateur photographer- as in attempting to do the artistic style of photography. Saying no monochrome printing is a crock of crap- I would have a problem printing anything artistic that I'd tried with a pro-grade camera. So would my wife, who currently DOES do all kinds of shots and regularly gets spectacular shots with her measly 4Mp camera. I can't imagine what they'd do to the both of us with 8Mp prints.
Even in a case-by-case basis, it's an issue.
This is a null argument. Media Player's not critical. The moment you said this, you lost any points- it's only critical because "consumers expect...", it doesn't keep the machine from running. It doesn't keep you from surfing the Internet (though some content won't show...). It doesn't keep a word processor or spreadsheet from working. IE's a little better of an analogy about needing a given component, but why would you embed into the OS heart such a component as MS has done. Technically, HTML is HTML. If you're using HTML content for your help system, any browser, so long as it is there in the MIME type listings for HTML rendering, should suffice. But you need IE for this stuff, the way MS has done it. Therein lies the rub.
You won't have to worry about endianness issues between the OS platforms.
Also worth noting is that it's going to help Linux adoption overall as largely the same frameworks are in use for producing Linux games as MacOS X games- the endianness issues, etc. make it more difficult.
Now, it really WILL be pretty much the same thing when you make a game port for one or the other- it's just a recompile away... I like that.
Discussing the relative merits of AltiVec versus SSE/SSE2 is details. And you couldn't be further from the truth on this one.
SSE/SSE2 happen to be a hack on top of the x86 architechture, pure and simple. You pay a performance penalty when you switch into that mode of operation.
AltiVec is part of the PPC architechture and is designed into the beast in a non-hackish manner.
For picture manipulation work or certain classes of mathematics operations, AltiVec is going to be better than anything else- because it's better and more efficient.
As for the rest, you'd be off on that as well- x86 architechtures don't truly outperform the PPC architechture except in the case of the Opteron versions of the Athlon64 architechture. What has always hampered the overall performance of Apple apps versus PC ones has more been the overhead of the Apple OS than anything else. A LinuxPPC machine is faster than a comparable x86 machine, but costs quite a bit more so you don't see people buying them for that purpose.
In the case of a VLIW machine, theoretically, it's a fast beast- but you have to have a good compiler of whatever type (JIT of x86 or Java, Native Code, etc...) to actually see the full advantage of the architechture. Currently, most of these compilers produce less than optimal results so they end up not showing their true potential.
I don't consider the IP anonyminity to be the most useful feature (it's nice all the same, but any app could and would stand on it's own without it...)- it's the NAT tunneling. One of the biggest things about BitTorrent that's holding it back is that it requires a lot of work (yes, it IS that) to deal with NAT unless you're completely in charge of all portions of the network until you hit a routable address. Right now, BitTorrent will not work for you if your ISP NATs your access. It only works for those people who happen to have routable addresses- which is dialup and anyone with a fixed routable IP on broadband that has control of thier own NAT firewall. Rodi's claiming that they tunnel through the firewall NAT and allow all potential participants to join in the swarm. Looking at his source code, it looks similar to the stuff they did for STUN that's used with SIP. Not a bad idea, really- and it should be there in BitTorrent (And it should have been there on day one, in my not so humble opinion...).
In the case of BitTorrent, you have to actually set up port-forwards for the clients doing downloads. If you're a business and you've got employees needing those ISO downloads, either you put up the port-forwards, or hope someone sets up a Rodi tracker, etc. and have it work automagically for them.
It's not just about anonymity- it's as much about NAT tunneling; something that I would have hoped the BitTorrent author would have given some thought about. For even legal P2P to work, it must account for situations like NAT because it's pretty much the norm, not the exception- and so far, they've not considered that sort of thing in a serious manner until now.
...and looks good on a Lawyer?
A rottweiller.
Or, the other way around... Treating a pointer like it was an int. There's several games that will be some time in coming to AMD64 mode on Linux because of that...
...that you needed to download updates, etc. you probably had hardware that wasn't officially supported under RH 8.0 to begin with.
Something about listed hardware and OSes runs through my mind right at the moment...Oh yeah...
"You shouldn't expect anything that is not on the list to work."
It seems that the management under Carly was doing just fine in that regard without the capable assistance of Compaq. They successfully turned themselves into a mediocre clone of Compaq with printer sales. Once they were a force to be reckoned with on instrumentation, Calculators, PDAs, Printers, and of course, computers. With good old Carly at the helm they became an also-ran well before the "merger" with Compaq- the merger just finished the job she started.
It's a single-wire waveguide- and power lines purportedly make nifty G-line runs at 802.11 frequencies...
While Corridor makes it sound like they came up with it, calling it E-Lines, the whole concept has been around for decades- and I'm surprised that someone didn't try this earlier because it DOES work as advertised.
..that you can obtain a PC for $299 with an Athlon CPU from Fry's, it's really, really friggin' stupid of Microsoft to do this sort of thing...
That price of XP comprises the cost of the machine at this point, less a monitor. Keep on doin' stupid stuff Billy-boy, all it does is make Open Source stuff look all that much better as an option.
And I plan on doing that VERY THING.
I propose to go one step further...
If your Representative happened to vote yes on this abomination, you should do the same as you ought to with the Senators. They shouldn't be holding office any longer if they can't honor their Oath; they swore to uphold the Constitution when they took office- voting for this travesty isn't doing that.
...and Nazi Germany...
It's against the Constitution and if ANY of these Senators knew about this, whether voting would have made them look bad or not, they should be removed from office as they have failed to uphold their Oath of Office at this point.
Do NOT say "Lucas" and "TV Special" in the same sentence- the reality warping effects are almost too much to bear...
It's NOT going to be cheap. Though I wouldn't expect that you'd need a pint of this stuff to achieve your desired cooling system. I'd think you could use something along the lines of about 200-400g of the alloy and get a decent cooling system. Not cheap, by any stretch of the imagination, but it could allow you to quietly air-cool some hot CPU or GPU all the same.
...that a CPU would cook at 100 deg C. Most of them are rated to about 150-160 deg F. The reason why one uses water is that it's cheaper than the alternatives, has the highest heat capacity and specific heat for the amount of trouble you have to go through to use it.
Nice idea, but it won't work out the way you think it will- the water will heat up to the failure point of the CPU before ever hitting the boiling point- unless you lower the vapor pressure of the system, and then you've got issues with that as well. (The reason that you don't see water based refrigeration systems is not that water's a bad refrigerant- it's just that it's swept volume is exponentially higher than Freons, etc. posssess.)
One almost as bad as the Cadmium. Worse yet, you have to maintain 136 deg F or hotter or it solidifies. Galinstan's about the only one that's liquid at room temp and is non-toxic and boils at around 2000 deg F.
It wets the surfaces of anything, including glass and plastic, but stuff like Gallium Oxide. A thin coating of GaO2 is present in the new non-mercury thermometers so you can actually read them.
All in all, it's obnoxious, but it's not anywhere near as bad as NaK alloys or liquid Na- there's a good reason why they abandoned that stuff as it'd attack almost anything in existence in short term. Same goes for Mercury- save that it's pretty damn toxic in addition to being an aggressive metal.