Average speeds over a lap may be slower in F1 then with indycars racing on ovals, but only because F1 reaces of courses that actually require driving. Head to head, an F1 car will leave an indycar in the dust (the difference isn't so much speed and acceleration, but handling and especially braking).
Sauber are not going to beat Ferrari, they are, more or less, Ferrari's B team, running with last years Ferrari engine and gearboxes.
Schumacher is a genius, but it is about time that he put his foot down and demanded that the team get a second driver of close to his caliber, so we can see some actual racing. Ferrari's clear 1, 2 strategy may be working, but the lack of excitement has hurt F1 to the point where it is hurting both Ferrari and Schumacher himself as well.
Also, as it seems I was the last/.er to learn last time, the Hindenburg was caused by the doping material which was rocket fuel (and photo's of the time exaggerated the look of the explosion).
The thing is though, you are never actually the last person here to learn something. In fact, I think one needs to formulate some sort of law that no matter how many times something is pointed out, only a minority of the people here will know it, and one of them will get a +5 for explaining it next time.
Thus every X-Prize story has to have somebody explain that to actually orbit the earth, it isn't enough to get above the atmosphere, you also need a shitload of speed to keep you from falling straight down. And every story about airships, starting from God knows when, has to contain somebody explaining that it wasn't the hydrogen that ignited on the Hindeberg. You are welcome to your +5...
"Why can't you be more like your brother John, Harold? Simulating bloody massarcres and building amateur ICBMs: that's normal! The viagra adds in the neighbors mailboxes have to stop!"
I had plastic surgery to my face (the removal of six ugly moles) in return for doing some SEO (nothing unethical, just getting the right search terms in the right places) to the surgeons homepage that brought it into the first place on most search engines when one searched for "breast enlargement" (in the local language).
The ratio is going to change with orbit level. Higher orbits require less velocity, so as you get higher the "trick" shifts toward the altitude when you higher, and toward velocity when you go low.
Scientology: Will work briefly with its appeal to science and reason
"Science and reason"? Xenu the space emperor and measuring your souls satisfaction with an oversensitive lie detector. I think I am missing something here.
That's what - two and a half work days a year? I spend more paid time then that reading slashdot - per week! (And that isn't exactly making the world a better place.)
I've got an idea, let's shape the readers like some weird half dead cat, and then give away a million readers and start suing people who actually use them!
From reading your description, it doesn't seem like Phatbot is a worm at all, but rather a trojan worse / remote administration tool. If all the guy did was write a trojan horse, and there is no evidence that he himself has been using it on other peoples machines, then he should not be under arrest. Source code is speech, right?
Bets are, that on The New Slashdot (tm) - you know, the one where stories about DMCA attacks are full of attacks against the coders rather than the company (Apple!) - this story will be full of people commending a the arrest of this guy for nothing other than writing software...
Given that the "bigbruin" guy submitted it himself, it is more like: "Why annoy two hundred thousand people with an advertisement/review if your site can't even handle the traffic."
The real question is about Taco: Were there no better stories then this today??? How lousy were the rejected ones?
You could always just (as I presume they will) slowly restrict operations as effeciencies wear down. (Nah, stay here today, charge batteries for a trip tomorrow)
The problem is that at some point the panels are not generating enough energy to keep the rovers hot over night, so the internal temperature of the components cannot be maintained at their operational level, and then NASA expects that they will start having component failures.
As a European just let me say: You could not be more right.
The moocher and freeloader cleptocracies are bleeding Europe dry, all the more so for countries (like Sweden) where it is the most prevalent. Check out the direction of Sweden in every indicator of national wealth during the last thirty years. Now have a look at indicators of crime rate (long overtaken the US), health, employment, and the number of large Swedish companies that were founded in the last 50 years (try none!).
It is unfortunate. What the credit card companies have done is increased the prices of goods 2-3% across the board. Considering that some retail businesses are only going to see 15-30% margin after expenses, that is significant.
There is a pretty compelling argument that the expenses involved in handeling cash are greater than those 2-3%.
Fine. Goodbye American locked-down computer. Welcome Chinese non-TCPA alternative.
Goodbye Internet access, which will require that your computer authenticates itself as correctly TCPA user hostile.
And even if you do find an ISP that will let you online, goodbye web content, since webpages will consist of encrypted content that only TCPA can read.
Goodbye IM access (they are currently breaking third party clients for "security reasons" every other month. With TCPA in place they will do it ones and for all).
Goodbye email access (Bill Gates is talking about using "trusted" mail agents to stop spam).
Goodbye computer gaming (TCPA "trusted" clients to stop cheating).
The promise of nano-manufacturing puts into perspective a lot of the issues we face with copyright of information today. Will the motor companies become the next RIAA when it is possible to make a perfect copy of any car? What will Coca-Cola say when I can nano-replicate coke from water and hydrocarbons?
I can almost imagine a future a where we could have unlimited resources, but the necessary machines are forced by law to be user hostile monsters extorting fees from the user anytime something they make comes close to a perpetually copyrighted object.
Or will people finally realize that when the means of production are endless, human means of invention drive themselves?
Don't be surprised when Apple suddenly becomes one of the biggest supporters of "trusted" computing, and introduces a palladium technology of their own. And all the Mac zealots who were busy telling us before why Apple DRM was good, while Microsoft DRM was bad, will come back to tell us why Mac Palladium is good.
I'm not saying the coders here are doing something wrong because they are pushing Apple in that direction: if we self censor ourselves to appease the DRM monglers, then we are where they wants us anyways. Apple picked sides in this battle, and for all the bullshit their fans are feeding us about "nice" DRM, the side they chose leads only one way. Goodbye user controlled computer. Welcome Palladium controlled user.
If these new Palms are based on Intel ARM chips, does that mean that there is a possibility of getting linux running on them? Are there any attempts underway?
It doesn't rip it on the fly, it encodes it on the fly. Big difference (thousands of CD-ROMs???)
More importantly, has anybody tried this? I found it many months ago, but I am loath to send my credit card data to a semi-shady Russian site, and I am worried that credit card records could be used to go after people who used the site when it (inevitably) gets shut down eventually. What do people think?
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Average speeds over a lap may be slower in F1 then with indycars racing on ovals, but only because F1 reaces of courses that actually require driving. Head to head, an F1 car will leave an indycar in the dust (the difference isn't so much speed and acceleration, but handling and especially braking).
Sauber are not going to beat Ferrari, they are, more or less, Ferrari's B team, running with last years Ferrari engine and gearboxes.
Schumacher is a genius, but it is about time that he put his foot down and demanded that the team get a second driver of close to his caliber, so we can see some actual racing. Ferrari's clear 1, 2 strategy may be working, but the lack of excitement has hurt F1 to the point where it is hurting both Ferrari and Schumacher himself as well.
(a) Wait for the next new processor technology to hit Slashdot.
(b) Build a Beowulf cluster of those.
Also, as it seems I was the last /.er to learn last time, the Hindenburg was caused by the doping material which was rocket fuel (and photo's of the time exaggerated the look of the explosion).
The thing is though, you are never actually the last person here to learn something. In fact, I think one needs to formulate some sort of law that no matter how many times something is pointed out, only a minority of the people here will know it, and one of them will get a +5 for explaining it next time.
Thus every X-Prize story has to have somebody explain that to actually orbit the earth, it isn't enough to get above the atmosphere, you also need a shitload of speed to keep you from falling straight down. And every story about airships, starting from God knows when, has to contain somebody explaining that it wasn't the hydrogen that ignited on the Hindeberg. You are welcome to your +5...
"Why can't you be more like your brother John, Harold? Simulating bloody massarcres and building amateur ICBMs: that's normal! The viagra adds in the neighbors mailboxes have to stop!"
I had plastic surgery to my face (the removal of six ugly moles) in return for doing some SEO (nothing unethical, just getting the right search terms in the right places) to the surgeons homepage that brought it into the first place on most search engines when one searched for "breast enlargement" (in the local language).
I think that beats your bone bending...
So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
Actually, the closest perfect number to you ID is 132049. Not that close.
The ratio is going to change with orbit level. Higher orbits require less velocity, so as you get higher the "trick" shifts toward the altitude when you higher, and toward velocity when you go low.
There is no easy way to orbit, in other ways.
No, LEO starts at around 200 miles (above 300 km). And the altitude is only half the trick to orbit, the other is speed...
Scientology: Will work briefly with its appeal to science and reason
"Science and reason"? Xenu the space emperor and measuring your souls satisfaction with an oversensitive lie detector. I think I am missing something here.
But the guy wasn't arrested for running Winny, he was arrested for writing it, so your argument is a complete strawman.
I would start reading the articles as well, but I have to spent some time creating the appearance that I am working...
That's what - two and a half work days a year? I spend more paid time then that reading slashdot - per week! (And that isn't exactly making the world a better place.)
I've got an idea, let's shape the readers like some weird half dead cat, and then give away a million readers and start suing people who actually use them!
From reading your description, it doesn't seem like Phatbot is a worm at all, but rather a trojan worse / remote administration tool. If all the guy did was write a trojan horse, and there is no evidence that he himself has been using it on other peoples machines, then he should not be under arrest. Source code is speech, right?
Bets are, that on The New Slashdot (tm) - you know, the one where stories about DMCA attacks are full of attacks against the coders rather than the company (Apple!) - this story will be full of people commending a the arrest of this guy for nothing other than writing software...
Given that the "bigbruin" guy submitted it himself, it is more like: "Why annoy two hundred thousand people with an advertisement/review if your site can't even handle the traffic."
The real question is about Taco: Were there no better stories then this today??? How lousy were the rejected ones?
You could always just (as I presume they will) slowly restrict operations as effeciencies wear down. (Nah, stay here today, charge batteries for a trip tomorrow)
The problem is that at some point the panels are not generating enough energy to keep the rovers hot over night, so the internal temperature of the components cannot be maintained at their operational level, and then NASA expects that they will start having component failures.
The Vikings were not pirates, they were traders. They just had their own methods of breaking down trade barriers and confronting protectionism.
In a sense, the Vikings were the original free trade lobbyists.
As a European just let me say: You could not be more right.
The moocher and freeloader cleptocracies are bleeding Europe dry, all the more so for countries (like Sweden) where it is the most prevalent. Check out the direction of Sweden in every indicator of national wealth during the last thirty years. Now have a look at indicators of crime rate (long overtaken the US), health, employment, and the number of large Swedish companies that were founded in the last 50 years (try none!).
It is unfortunate. What the credit card companies have done is increased the prices of goods 2-3% across the board. Considering that some retail businesses are only going to see 15-30% margin after expenses, that is significant.
There is a pretty compelling argument that the expenses involved in handeling cash are greater than those 2-3%.
Fine. Goodbye American locked-down computer. Welcome Chinese non-TCPA alternative.
Goodbye Internet access, which will require that your computer authenticates itself as correctly TCPA user hostile.
And even if you do find an ISP that will let you online, goodbye web content, since webpages will consist of encrypted content that only TCPA can read.
Goodbye IM access (they are currently breaking third party clients for "security reasons" every other month. With TCPA in place they will do it ones and for all).
Goodbye email access (Bill Gates is talking about using "trusted" mail agents to stop spam).
Goodbye computer gaming (TCPA "trusted" clients to stop cheating).
Goodbye reading Microsoft Office documents.
The promise of nano-manufacturing puts into perspective a lot of the issues we face with copyright of information today. Will the motor companies become the next RIAA when it is possible to make a perfect copy of any car? What will Coca-Cola say when I can nano-replicate coke from water and hydrocarbons?
I can almost imagine a future a where we could have unlimited resources, but the necessary machines are forced by law to be user hostile monsters extorting fees from the user anytime something they make comes close to a perpetually copyrighted object.
Or will people finally realize that when the means of production are endless, human means of invention drive themselves?
For better or for worse, DRM is a battle that content providers will lose
No they won't.
Don't be surprised when Apple suddenly becomes one of the biggest supporters of "trusted" computing, and introduces a palladium technology of their own. And all the Mac zealots who were busy telling us before why Apple DRM was good, while Microsoft DRM was bad, will come back to tell us why Mac Palladium is good.
I'm not saying the coders here are doing something wrong because they are pushing Apple in that direction: if we self censor ourselves to appease the DRM monglers, then we are where they wants us anyways. Apple picked sides in this battle, and for all the bullshit their fans are feeding us about "nice" DRM, the side they chose leads only one way. Goodbye user controlled computer. Welcome Palladium controlled user.
If these new Palms are based on Intel ARM chips, does that mean that there is a possibility of getting linux running on them? Are there any attempts underway?
It doesn't rip it on the fly, it encodes it on the fly. Big difference (thousands of CD-ROMs???)
More importantly, has anybody tried this? I found it many months ago, but I am loath to send my credit card data to a semi-shady Russian site, and I am worried that credit card records could be used to go after people who used the site when it (inevitably) gets shut down eventually. What do people think?