Even though i live on the other side of the world and was hence unable to attend or be a part of the competition, i was able to catch the (albeit too short) cnn spot. The thing that impressed me the most was the aspect of the competition where the teams were thrown together the had to work in unison to achieve a single goal. Here they learn their most valuable lessons in co-operation, the benefits of which far outweigh the significant engineering skills obtained
Ive also been using mandrake for a while.
The easiest way to upgrade the big guys
i.e kde2.1.1 is to skip the rpm upgrade command.
just uninstall kde ignoring any errors and replace it with fresh mdk packages. load upyour old.kde directory and it will work in no time
Interestingly many developed nations are already suffering from salinisation. This occurs when the water table floods due to unrestrained irrigation. The resulting rise in the water table forces salts to the surface making land useless for farming. In fact 1/3 of all californian agriculture is underthreat from salinisation. Thus these varieties of crops will enable this land to become productive again
No its rubbish for drilling at sea
The water deflects the laser
Modern oil rigs are either permanently attached to the sea bed or float, with the drill bits connected to the sea bed. To pump the oil, the rig sends down another pipe to meet with the sea bed connection. Gyroscopes keep the thing stable
This system seems cool, but there is a number of catches
Firstly conventional drilling technology employs fixed drill bits, which use water and suction to remove rock debris. This system has no such facility for that.
Also it is very difficult to drill down and then sideways, as is common with current methods. Without this facility, the oil rig or platform is useless once the oil below has been used up
Conventional drilling also places a pipe as the bit moves forward, cementing the drill hole. With this system the hole must be "burned" and then a pipe forced down. This process will negate any speed gains in the actual drilling
balloons are in the stratosphere i.e they move
satellites are in geostationary orbit i.e they don't move relative to the earths rotation. You need to know where the object routing the signals is in order to do this, and balloons just don't cut it
For a start it is far to easy to counter. Do you think a major corporation or dictator will roll over after you deface their website? Any form of protest needs to be both uniform and solid as a rock - People power in the philipines comes to mind. It also needs to hit the targets in the pocket. Hacking website or server does neither.
Intel realise that they are no longer the kings of the chip game. With their recent P4 release being a total failure, it is only a matter of time before AMD takes over their current position in the market. Releasing this kind of "news" only shows that they are simply trying to play the pr game, rather than actually focusing on proper R and D like AMD and Transmeta
But the majority (75% of world population) would notice little or no effect. These are people forgotten by the "tech revolution". Their day to day struggle is finding clean water, not debugging lines of code. People seem to forget that only 1% of the world owns a computer, and computer reliant services (eg. telephone, water treatment) would go largely untouched, as again these services reach a desperate few.
Living in a third world country I see this everyday. This event would probably bring a mild blessing- hopefully the western world would see it as a chance to redirect its goals
Programming is Logic
Crytography is based on Mathematics so it only makes sense that it is based on mathematical methods
Human logic and trains of thought can't be equated into mathematic equations.
Do you even program at all?
NB. When you get round to writing the formula that will knock out an OS in perfect time, first off with no bugs, I will send you a check for everything I own. Until then shove your head up your troll ass
Many robot researchers have done research with these phototropic robots, emulating ecosystems to see how these robots behave. These phototropic robots are the "herbivores" with predators that "feed" off them by seeking them out and placing them in a pen where they are rewarded with energy. The interesting thing is that all of this happens without powerful microproccessors and thousands of lines of control code.
*Looks like an interesting alternative to satellites for certain observations.*
This balloon is a pretty poor alternative for most applications that satellites can do.
Weather Observation Firstly to view a wide area the vechicle needs to be high. This balloon would not travel high enough to view a decent area
SpyingWhat good is a balloon that goes where ever it pleases and has a radar signature the size of a concrete building
Communications Again no point- The balloon's direction can't be controled, so its no good for a relay node.
Space observationThe platform is too unstable, since it still flies in the albeit thin atmosphere. You would need some pretty snazy gyroscopes to stabilise any sort of space monitoring equipment.
Perhaps the one thing this device is good for is environmental monitoring in the stratosphere
Satellite for web gaming is possibly worse than your current 28.8k modem.
The key with online gaming is not bandwidth but latency. The packets you are sending are not particularly big, but they need to go fast. Take this example- Say you are playing a game with good net code (eg Tribes) on a 56k modem in the US on a server in Europe. If you then switch to a T1 line, your latency would not improve significantly-the signal still has to travel physically around the world. (Light circles the earth in 200ms, so in transmission the lowest ping to europe would be 100ms. Then we have to include latency around the computer, and the "last mile."
Satellite, while having good bandwidth, will probably have such bad latency that you can forget upbout any online games (including cards at msn gaming). The signal first has to travel up to the sat from your house. Given atmospheric signals, some of it will be lost and will be have to sent again. It then has to travel down to a microwave dish in europe, again with more signal losses. From there it has to route itself around various diseperate telecoms networks. The round trip in simple distance is probably greater than your 28.2k modem,and hence latency is greater.
If you need any more discouragement to get satellite internet- the bird is probably owned by microsoft.
Probably the best way to improve your latency would be to buy a 56k modem and find a very local isp who hosts a server of your favourite game. My Isp is in my suburb and has this arrangement.
Actually both the US and the Russians currently possess TMD. Under the Anti Balistic Missile treaty, both sides are allowed one emplacement of ABMs. The Russkies have one site protecting Moscow, and the US has one site protecting minutemans in virginia
No, the mathematics would still hold true.
It's the physics that might not. What do you base this assumption on? Mathematics is not absolute, rather it applies in our own situation. It is quite possible that current mathmatics would not be useful at a singularity. eg how would sin function in 6 dimensions?
Yeah
I can think of no better way to distribute an OTP than by broadcasting it to anyone with a sat reciever a telescope and a good physics book. Give me a break.
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Even though i live on the other side of the world and was hence unable to attend or be a part of the competition, i was able to catch the (albeit too short) cnn spot. The thing that impressed me the most was the aspect of the competition where the teams were thrown together the had to work in unison to achieve a single goal. Here they learn their most valuable lessons in co-operation, the benefits of which far outweigh the significant engineering skills obtained
Ive also been using mandrake for a while. The easiest way to upgrade the big guys i.e kde2.1.1 is to skip the rpm upgrade command. just uninstall kde ignoring any errors and replace it with fresh mdk packages. load upyour old .kde directory and it will work in no time
They could have used NASAs brillant own invention velcro
Reason = It doesn't exist.
If any one wants the true story of Stalingrad read Cornelius Ryan's version. Riviting
Interestingly many developed nations are already suffering from salinisation. This occurs when the water table floods due to unrestrained irrigation. The resulting rise in the water table forces salts to the surface making land useless for farming. In fact 1/3 of all californian agriculture is underthreat from salinisation. Thus these varieties of crops will enable this land to become productive again
No its rubbish for drilling at sea
The water deflects the laser Modern oil rigs are either permanently attached to the sea bed or float, with the drill bits connected to the sea bed. To pump the oil, the rig sends down another pipe to meet with the sea bed connection. Gyroscopes keep the thing stable
Firstly conventional drilling technology employs fixed drill bits, which use water and suction to remove rock debris. This system has no such facility for that.
Also it is very difficult to drill down and then sideways, as is common with current methods. Without this facility, the oil rig or platform is useless once the oil below has been used up
Conventional drilling also places a pipe as the bit moves forward, cementing the drill hole. With this system the hole must be "burned" and then a pipe forced down. This process will negate any speed gains in the actual drilling
Since Chapter 7 is the new buzzword, anyone know how i can pick up some cheap computer gear from a failing dot-com
balloons are in the stratosphere i.e they move
satellites are in geostationary orbit i.e they don't move relative to the earths rotation. You need to know where the object routing the signals is in order to do this, and balloons just don't cut it
For a start it is far to easy to counter. Do you think a major corporation or dictator will roll over after you deface their website? Any form of protest needs to be both uniform and solid as a rock - People power in the philipines comes to mind. It also needs to hit the targets in the pocket. Hacking website or server does neither.
Intel realise that they are no longer the kings of the chip game. With their recent P4 release being a total failure, it is only a matter of time before AMD takes over their current position in the market. Releasing this kind of "news" only shows that they are simply trying to play the pr game, rather than actually focusing on proper R and D like AMD and Transmeta
Living in a third world country I see this everyday. This event would probably bring a mild blessing- hopefully the western world would see it as a chance to redirect its goals
Crytography is based on Mathematics so it only makes sense that it is based on mathematical methods
Human logic and trains of thought can't be equated into mathematic equations.
Do you even program at all?
NB. When you get round to writing the formula that will knock out an OS in perfect time, first off with no bugs, I will send you a check for everything I own. Until then shove your head up your troll ass
linux (lin - ix) ogg vorbis (ogg vo-rr-biss)
make
make install
and to uninstall- make clean
Cross platform and always better than rpm or apt
This balloon is a pretty poor alternative for most applications that satellites can do.
Weather Observation Firstly to view a wide area the vechicle needs to be high. This balloon would not travel high enough to view a decent area
SpyingWhat good is a balloon that goes where ever it pleases and has a radar signature the size of a concrete building
Communications Again no point- The balloon's direction can't be controled, so its no good for a relay node.
Space observationThe platform is too unstable, since it still flies in the albeit thin atmosphere. You would need some pretty snazy gyroscopes to stabilise any sort of space monitoring equipment.
Perhaps the one thing this device is good for is environmental monitoring in the stratosphere
The key with online gaming is not bandwidth but latency. The packets you are sending are not particularly big, but they need to go fast. Take this example- Say you are playing a game with good net code (eg Tribes) on a 56k modem in the US on a server in Europe. If you then switch to a T1 line, your latency would not improve significantly-the signal still has to travel physically around the world. (Light circles the earth in 200ms, so in transmission the lowest ping to europe would be 100ms. Then we have to include latency around the computer, and the "last mile."
Satellite, while having good bandwidth, will probably have such bad latency that you can forget upbout any online games (including cards at msn gaming). The signal first has to travel up to the sat from your house. Given atmospheric signals, some of it will be lost and will be have to sent again. It then has to travel down to a microwave dish in europe, again with more signal losses. From there it has to route itself around various diseperate telecoms networks. The round trip in simple distance is probably greater than your 28.2k modem,and hence latency is greater.
If you need any more discouragement to get satellite internet- the bird is probably owned by microsoft.
Probably the best way to improve your latency would be to buy a 56k modem and find a very local isp who hosts a server of your favourite game. My Isp is in my suburb and has this arrangement.
often when a government finds a spy they will feed him or her false information. Its a common task
BUZZZ
sorry but no dice. The correct answer is Theater Missile Defense dipshit
Actually both the US and the Russians currently possess TMD. Under the Anti Balistic Missile treaty, both sides are allowed one emplacement of ABMs. The Russkies have one site protecting Moscow, and the US has one site protecting minutemans in virginia
No, the mathematics would still hold true. It's the physics that might not.
What do you base this assumption on? Mathematics is not absolute, rather it applies in our own situation. It is quite possible that current mathmatics would not be useful at a singularity. eg how would sin function in 6 dimensions?
Yeah I can think of no better way to distribute an OTP than by broadcasting it to anyone with a sat reciever a telescope and a good physics book. Give me a break.
The worlds fastest desktop PC has just been made obsolete within days of its introduction. This is not big news. It probably happens every week