If it would have existed, that would be amazing.. How on earth are they going to power the thing? It's nice to make it small, but to let it swim up against the bloodstream I don't think a 'nanobattery' will do. And then we're not yet talking about transmitting images!
I'd love to be proven wrong, but my engineering gut feeling tells me it cannot be done.
You know what would be really cool? A robot platform that is designed to hold a mini-itx motherboard. Like a casing on wheels, but better designed than I would design a casing on wheels;-).
What do you expect? Most journalists don't have a clue about science (just a few days ago I read "a 10.000km^2 radius" - what genius wrote that?). And even if they do, they need their articles to be read. That means they have to keep it simple and sensational.
Sigh.. I'm really starting to dislike joe average..
That's not the whole story. There IS a connection between mental state and sickness. This isn't new; the immune system's strength can be measured by counting the white blood cells. It turns out that people who are depressed or stressed have less of them. Being unemployed also has a negative effect.
The immune system is incredibly complex, an parts of it are regulated through the brain. So it shouldn't be surprising that your mood can influence it. Another example: if you look at statistics of people's deaths relative to their date of birth, you'll see there is a dip right before the birthday and a rise right after. It seems people are able to postpone their deaths a couple of days by will of thought when they have something to look forward to.
(I got all this from a book I read, "The sickening mind")
FTA:
Makes use of copy-on-write; rather than overwriting old data with new data, it writes new data to a new location and then overwrites the pointer to the old data Wouldn't that pose a problem for mmap?
I had a great time reading this book, especially the part about recursion. I wrote a program to draw a ruler recursively and some fractals. It's really not as boring as you think.
But if he knows C, that is a good candidate to teach them the algorithms with. There's a great book I read 10 years ago: Algorithms in C by Robert Sedgewick. You should really check it out. I mean it, if you're not an experienced programmer (as I was 10 years ago), it will really open pandora's box. Linked lists, pointers, recursive algorithms, it all becomes clear. I really recommend it.
I disagree. I thought that the reason those photo's are forbidden was becauce you'd need to abuse children to make such photo's. If you just draw something on your computer, you're not harming anyone. Sure it's sick, but is that a crime?
And don't forget, all arabs are terrorists! Don't forget to give them obvious, dirty looks full of awareness of their terroristic descent, when you happen to see one. Is it hate week already? Great!
I consider that quite an arrogant attitude. Whenever possible, the company should listen to the customer's needs, not the other way around..
Maybe the best solution is to provide a live CD with the software on it, and if you have troubles, test it with the live CD. If it works there, it's a local problem. If not, call tech support. Because, even with a supported distribution, I can still install extra software and/or mess things up. There's no difference really.
I understand this might be convenient/safe for the company, but for the customer it's rather annoying if your system runs e.g. debian and the package is only for red hat. What do you do? Make the switch? Use VMware? Search for another product? And then the irritation kicks in: why aren't there any Debian packages? It's both Linux! Give me my software!
So at least make it available for all distro's, and let the user choose, even if there isn't any official support. Even then, try to help them if they call in. Most of the time it won't have anything to do with the distribution. As I said, it should work, there's no need to port your software between different Linux distributions.
Ok. Just take a look at http://www.gnuarm.com/. There are binaries for the gcc compiler targetting the ARM processor. Nowhere I see a distribution, just install and go. Just remember that all these distributions are quite similar, and as long as you don't depend on shared libraries, it should work. Especially something like a compiler.
what distribution do you expect to be supported for a build environment?"
Simple: Any. There isn't a reason why it shouldn't work on all distro's. I assume your SDK compiles with gcc and runs on an embedded target, so it would be more meaningful to support a compiler version than an OS. Or am I missing something?
All particles move around in a soup of Higgs particles and thus acquire the appearance of being massive due to their interactions with this Higgs-soup.
How would that be possible? I thought that this Higgs particle was highly unstable and decays almost immediately. So where does the soup come from?
Interesting you mention that. Before the first moonlandings, there was a similar concern: there was a theory that the soil consisted of such a fine dust that it had properties similar to a liquid, and that anything landing on it would just sink. Arthur C. Clarke even wrote a novel exploring this idea: "A fall of moondust". A nice read, but of course a bit outdated.
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If it would have existed, that would be amazing.. How on earth are they going to power the thing? It's nice to make it small, but to let it swim up against the bloodstream I don't think a 'nanobattery' will do. And then we're not yet talking about transmitting images!
I'd love to be proven wrong, but my engineering gut feeling tells me it cannot be done.
I recently read about the Kessler syndrome. Interesting theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Syndrome
worst case scenario: end of the world
prepare for the worst: try and get some end-of-the world-petty-sex
So long, suckers!
You know what would be really cool? A robot platform that is designed to hold a mini-itx motherboard. Like a casing on wheels, but better designed than I would design a casing on wheels ;-).
You mean minipax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Peace
If ReiserFS uses a magic value somewhere, I suggest it to be changed to 0xDEADBABE.
What do you expect? Most journalists don't have a clue about science (just a few days ago I read "a 10.000km^2 radius" - what genius wrote that?). And even if they do, they need their articles to be read. That means they have to keep it simple and sensational.
Sigh.. I'm really starting to dislike joe average..
That's not the whole story. There IS a connection between mental state and sickness. This isn't new; the immune system's strength can be measured by counting the white blood cells. It turns out that people who are depressed or stressed have less of them. Being unemployed also has a negative effect.
The immune system is incredibly complex, an parts of it are regulated through the brain. So it shouldn't be surprising that your mood can influence it. Another example: if you look at statistics of people's deaths relative to their date of birth, you'll see there is a dip right before the birthday and a rise right after. It seems people are able to postpone their deaths a couple of days by will of thought when they have something to look forward to.
(I got all this from a book I read, "The sickening mind")
I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to find myself a nice blonde and use that as my line.
I had a great time reading this book, especially the part about recursion. I wrote a program to draw a ruler recursively and some fractals. It's really not as boring as you think.
But if he knows C, that is a good candidate to teach them the algorithms with. There's a great book I read 10 years ago: Algorithms in C by Robert Sedgewick. You should really check it out. I mean it, if you're not an experienced programmer (as I was 10 years ago), it will really open pandora's box. Linked lists, pointers, recursive algorithms, it all becomes clear. I really recommend it.
I disagree. I thought that the reason those photo's are forbidden was becauce you'd need to abuse children to make such photo's. If you just draw something on your computer, you're not harming anyone. Sure it's sick, but is that a crime?
clickety-click, brother!
"It's not a bug, it's.. uhm.. Innovation! That's it!"
I consider that quite an arrogant attitude. Whenever possible, the company should listen to the customer's needs, not the other way around..
Maybe the best solution is to provide a live CD with the software on it, and if you have troubles, test it with the live CD. If it works there, it's a local problem. If not, call tech support. Because, even with a supported distribution, I can still install extra software and/or mess things up. There's no difference really.
I understand this might be convenient/safe for the company, but for the customer it's rather annoying if your system runs e.g. debian and the package is only for red hat. What do you do? Make the switch? Use VMware? Search for another product? And then the irritation kicks in: why aren't there any Debian packages? It's both Linux! Give me my software!
So at least make it available for all distro's, and let the user choose, even if there isn't any official support. Even then, try to help them if they call in. Most of the time it won't have anything to do with the distribution. As I said, it should work, there's no need to port your software between different Linux distributions.
Ok. Just take a look at http://www.gnuarm.com/. There are binaries for the gcc compiler targetting the ARM processor. Nowhere I see a distribution, just install and go. Just remember that all these distributions are quite similar, and as long as you don't depend on shared libraries, it should work. Especially something like a compiler.
Simple: Any. There isn't a reason why it shouldn't work on all distro's. I assume your SDK compiles with gcc and runs on an embedded target, so it would be more meaningful to support a compiler version than an OS. Or am I missing something?
At least the battery doesn't have its own suitcase anymore..
How would that be possible? I thought that this Higgs particle was highly unstable and decays almost immediately. So where does the soup come from?
NB: I'm no expert.
Interesting you mention that. Before the first moonlandings, there was a similar concern: there was a theory that the soil consisted of such a fine dust that it had properties similar to a liquid, and that anything landing on it would just sink. Arthur C. Clarke even wrote a novel exploring this idea: "A fall of moondust". A nice read, but of course a bit outdated.
Yeah, that was the dupe of this article.