Gasoline takes more energy to produce than you can get from it. That energy just came from the sun a million (?) years ago. Gasoline is a means by which we can transfer solar energy to our cars without sail-ssized solar panels.
Consider ethanol as a means to store energy from nuclear, solar, wind, tidal, hydro or other clean energy sources and transport it to your auto's engine.
I'd like to see ethanol compared to chemical batteries, fuel cells or others on an basis of efficency & cost.
IIRC the brain gets a higher resolution from the eyes by moving the eye about minutely and combining the information into a better image. If you make several sub-pixel shifts you can see more?
A radar centered system has one point of failure, the radar (of course there is redundancy). 500 aircraft actively transmitting these signals means 500 points of failure. OTOH a failure of one GPS unit means one untracked aircraft. When the power on an aircraft is lost radar would still be required to see where it crashed, private pilots may not be able to afford the transmitters. Seems like a great idea but I doubt we will se radar completely replaced. Personaly I am of the belife that if you have 2 completely different systems that you depend upon your chances of survival are that much better.
DGPS uses an additional reciver which gathers data from ground based transmitters. The satalite system with the addition of a dgps recever is far more accurate. GPS w/ SA was 30 meters, GPS after SA was about 10 meters (from personal expierence) and DGPS after SA seemed to be about a meter accurate. Of course you need to be within range of a DGPS transmitter, but these could be installed near airports, where the accuracy really matters.
Biological structures are built from a small set of predetermined parts, they are just very, very small parts. Given enough processing power a computer could do the same. These walking robots would be comperable to a simple protein or some such (I am not a big bio guy). This will probably be the way nano sized components will be developed, then a programmer / engineer will combine smaller evolved components (motor, sensor, logic bits, power sources) into more usefull systems.
It alleges that some of those breaches include building a site that could not be accessed with version 4.0 of AOL's software.
How about sueing AOL for not following standards. Maybe aol is and the rest of the world isn't, but arn't specs like HTML here for a reason? Ther is NO GOOD REASON to have to aim website development at multiple browsers.
The problem in an earlier pre release was thet the card (agp 3000) simply wasnt initialized (as the second card in a dual head setup) in the 4.0 release the driver crashed, I think it was a "worked" right after compile, but I could repeatedly crash it by dragging windows from one head to the other. Wether this was an ATI, tdfx, xinerama or other issue I dont know, but I went back to the memory leak filled (Lets see windows perform this good with an app using 150% of its ram!) 4.0 as opposed to the crashing 4.0.1
I know the 4.0 voodoo3 support was broken, but it was not a hard fix (well it was more of a hack, but it works for now).. Unfortunatly I deleted the modified source for more space for pr0n.
I am no expert, but everything absorbs radiation in some wavelengths or may emit energy at certain wavelengths (Ever put various chemicals in flame in chem class?) By examining the wavelengths absorbed or emited by a cloud of gas or what have you one can determine what it is. The rules of physics are the same everywhere, if the absorbtion or emmision wavelengths seen in the radio telescope are the same as they are here on earth its a safe bet that its the same chemical.
To answer the first question, it is a massive cloud of the same molecules, not just one.
the thing is that often they don't seem to realise this themselves, and get caught up in poor legalese.
Very true. I don't ever say "This is what is legal," I say "This is what I belive is right."
I wish I could have trust in our legal system to make the former approach the latter with time (if what I think is right is the opinion of many, of course.)
It is my opinion that the normal people hold the most important position in any such system, I also think that, in general, we tend to do a crappy job. (this last bit is my opinion, I am not trying to convince anyone of that).
First off, regarding computer literacy, I dont think it is right for people to have to become computer literate. WE, the programmers, have a responsibility to make computers people literate.
A writer using a word processor, for example, shouldn't care one bit if he can get the source code, or have to figure out how to make the pronter work. He should be able to open it, type it up, print it, Email it, whatever without needing to ask any questions.
As far as computers in school goes requiring them is a bad idea, especialy if the students' parents will bear the financial burden. Simply encouraging them is worse, giving the advantage only to those who can afford them.
The reasons not to computerize schools go beyond simple financial reasons. For example my late high school years and early college years were a struggle in learning to write legibly after years of typing everything. Anyone who relies on tech. knows what a pain it is to show up at a math exam without your TI-89 to integrate for you. Technology needs to be a force enriching our life, not a crutch we cant gey by without.
Finaly, coming from the perspective of a teacher, people learn differently. I was working through a problem for a program (on paper) and my best friend came by with her watercolor set. After explaining the problem to her (she is NOT what you'd call a coputer person, hates them) she proceded to reinvent Dijkstra's algorithm on my paper, rendered in watercolor. People work differently, and in my experience as a CS person the more interesting ones don't have much use fo computers.
Would anyone who can't think in a way compatable with computers be classified as Learning Disabled?
The/. peice said there was source available? Is it [insert open source lisence here]??? Thats my favorite part of open source? Why did they drop the project? Maybe pressure from another company, whatever. An open source project only stops when there is no one left willing to work on it. If the developers and maintainers quit and you really want to see this happen download the latest snapshot of the source, throw it into cvs somewhere, grab some friends and CODE!.
I'm sorry, but comments like this go to far. You have probably never been lynched as an African-American... And as I Non-African-American I can assure you I have never done that to anyone.
You miss the point. He is saying that the compiler should generatt optimizations as good as hand coded assembler FROM easy to maintain languages like java and c/c++.
Well, I am currently working on a lightweight Linux BBS software, which will support little more than doors. All the other old BBS functionality is available on the 'Net, but muds just dont have the warm feeling I get from lord
Seems to me that it will be easier to write a translator from your native language to a very well defined and documented intermediate language than trying to understand the fine details of a non-native language.
Is this what happens inside the head of a bi-lingual person? (This is posed as a question to any readers who might be)
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Gasoline takes more energy to produce than you can get from it. That energy just came from the sun a million (?) years ago. Gasoline is a means by which we can transfer solar energy to our cars without sail-ssized solar panels.
Consider ethanol as a means to store energy from nuclear, solar, wind, tidal, hydro or other clean energy sources and transport it to your auto's engine.
I'd like to see ethanol compared to chemical batteries, fuel cells or others on an basis of efficency & cost.
IIRC the brain gets a higher resolution from the eyes by moving the eye about minutely and combining the information into a better image. If you make several sub-pixel shifts you can see more?
A radar centered system has one point of failure, the radar (of course there is redundancy). 500 aircraft actively transmitting these signals means 500 points of failure. OTOH a failure of one GPS unit means one untracked aircraft. When the power on an aircraft is lost radar would still be required to see where it crashed, private pilots may not be able to afford the transmitters. Seems like a great idea but I doubt we will se radar completely replaced. Personaly I am of the belife that if you have 2 completely different systems that you depend upon your chances of survival are that much better.
DGPS uses an additional reciver which gathers data from ground based transmitters. The satalite system with the addition of a dgps recever is far more accurate. GPS w/ SA was 30 meters, GPS after SA was about 10 meters (from personal expierence) and DGPS after SA seemed to be about a meter accurate. Of course you need to be within range of a DGPS transmitter, but these could be installed near airports, where the accuracy really matters.
The FILE_ID.DIZ will get the job done.
Biological structures are built from a small set of predetermined parts, they are just very, very small parts. Given enough processing power a computer could do the same. These walking robots would be comperable to a simple protein or some such (I am not a big bio guy). This will probably be the way nano sized components will be developed, then a programmer / engineer will combine smaller evolved components (motor, sensor, logic bits, power sources) into more usefull systems.
How about sueing AOL for not following standards. Maybe aol is and the rest of the world isn't, but arn't specs like HTML here for a reason? Ther is NO GOOD REASON to have to aim website development at multiple browsers.
The problem in an earlier pre release was thet the card (agp 3000) simply wasnt initialized (as the second card in a dual head setup) in the 4.0 release the driver crashed, I think it was a "worked" right after compile, but I could repeatedly crash it by dragging windows from one head to the other. Wether this was an ATI, tdfx, xinerama or other issue I dont know, but I went back to the memory leak filled (Lets see windows perform this good with an app using 150% of its ram!) 4.0 as opposed to the crashing 4.0.1
I know the 4.0 voodoo3 support was broken, but it was not a hard fix (well it was more of a hack, but it works for now).. Unfortunatly I deleted the modified source for more space for pr0n.
To answer the first question, it is a massive cloud of the same molecules, not just one.
But wouldnt it be even better if we could develop applications and network protocols that would garantee privacy?
The ideal, as I see it, would be a system that could garantee anonymity, or definate identifacation, in secure or insecure comunication.
Very true. I don't ever say "This is what is legal," I say "This is what I belive is right."
I wish I could have trust in our legal system to make the former approach the latter with time (if what I think is right is the opinion of many, of course.)
It is my opinion that the normal people hold the most important position in any such system, I also think that, in general, we tend to do a crappy job. (this last bit is my opinion, I am not trying to convince anyone of that).
The "./ IANAL crowd" is the most important group to listen to because they represent a general morality, not a legal interpertation.
The law is only right when the majority supports it, and the lawyers and music industry are far from a majority.
First off, regarding computer literacy, I dont think it is right for people to have to become computer literate. WE, the programmers, have a responsibility to make computers people literate.
A writer using a word processor, for example, shouldn't care one bit if he can get the source code, or have to figure out how to make the pronter work. He should be able to open it, type it up, print it, Email it, whatever without needing to ask any questions.
As far as computers in school goes requiring them is a bad idea, especialy if the students' parents will bear the financial burden. Simply encouraging them is worse, giving the advantage only to those who can afford them.
The reasons not to computerize schools go beyond simple financial reasons. For example my late high school years and early college years were a struggle in learning to write legibly after years of typing everything. Anyone who relies on tech. knows what a pain it is to show up at a math exam without your TI-89 to integrate for you. Technology needs to be a force enriching our life, not a crutch we cant gey by without.
Finaly, coming from the perspective of a teacher, people learn differently. I was working through a problem for a program (on paper) and my best friend came by with her watercolor set. After explaining the problem to her (she is NOT what you'd call a coputer person, hates them) she proceded to reinvent Dijkstra's algorithm on my paper, rendered in watercolor. People work differently, and in my experience as a CS person the more interesting ones don't have much use fo computers.
Would anyone who can't think in a way compatable with computers be classified as Learning Disabled?
telnet://lord.doa.org
Please only join if you're a serious player :)
_Bill
CSH, RIT
The /. peice said there was source available? Is it [insert open source lisence here]??? Thats my favorite part of open source? Why did they drop the project? Maybe pressure from another company, whatever. An open source project only stops when there is no one left willing to work on it. If the developers and maintainers quit and you really want to see this happen download the latest snapshot of the source, throw it into cvs somewhere, grab some friends and CODE!.
The bottom line is that it's dangerous when the consumer, me, has exactly one choice for who to go to for [pruduct].
I'm sorry, but comments like this go to far.
You have probably never been lynched as an African-American...
And as I Non-African-American I can assure you I have never done that to anyone.
You miss the point. He is saying that the compiler should generatt optimizations as good as hand coded assembler FROM easy to maintain languages like java and c/c++.
This is just great. Commercialism starts leaking
off the earth and begins to polute the solar
system.
Well, I am currently working on a lightweight
Linux BBS software, which will support little
more than doors. All the other old BBS functionality
is available on the 'Net, but muds just dont have
the warm feeling I get from lord
http://lord.doa.org (Offline until 12/1/99)
Just about everything.
When I was 17, 2 years ago in fact, I didn't kill anyone.
In fact, I never even tried. See, I knew the difference between real and pretend.
Didn't Mr. Rogers cover that subject well enough?
Is this what happens inside the head of a bi-lingual person? (This is posed as a question to any readers who might be)
This isn't new.