They are, but they are not unrealistic expectations of what computers could have achived by the 1990's, based upon the best ideas of experts in the 1960's.
It's not the authors fault that these expectations turned out to be optimistic, any more than they can be blamed that the space race collapsed after the Apollo program, and we don't actually have a moon base.
When you write fiction which is trying to accuratly show the future, you have to make some guesses about what might happen. This is very different to fiction based in the present.
True, but the majority of current Psion devices are based upon the ARM 7100 running at relativly low speeds (16Mhz-36Mhz depending on the model). The Series 7 does have a StrongARM at 133Mhz, but like all similar devices, the typical use is the processor stalled as much as possible to conserve battery power. Running high MHz chips to emulate the dragonball doesn't seem like efficent usage of resources.
It will be interesting to know how they intend to have software to run on either platform.
Palm has a 680x0 family CPU, while Psion is ARM CPU.
Psion does have it's interpted OPL language, which could be used to write cross-platform software, but it's a little limited for writing advanced applications.
The appendixes of the "Rocheworld" series by Dr Robert L. Forward et al contain a detailed description of how a driven lightsail would work, including deceleration using the same lasers as acceleration.
What's happened to comments past 200 on the busy stories?
"Princeton Prof Advocates Euthanizing Handicapped Babies", "Microsoft Clarifies Linux Myths","Congressman Advocates Breaking-Up a Guilty MS", and "New iMac Rolled Out" all have EXACTLY 200 messages, and don't save new comments.
As Unix is a trademark, all that is required to be called "Unix" is permission from the trademark holder.
The Trademark holder is the Open group, and they say Unix is anything which implements their specification. This includes many different Unixes, including IBM's OS/390 which is not derived in any way from from AT&T code. Heck, IF NT passed the tests, they'd allow it to be called Unix.
Linux is not currently a certified under any of the Unix standards, but I belive that Caldera has applied for Unix95 certification.
Actually the Clan McDonald is having serious problems with some sort of fast food restarurant over this issue. Seems that the fast food place doesn't like having other businesses trade under the name McDolands or even use the prefix "Mc".
That's the only magnetic spinning disks available for CF, but smaller sizes (from 5Mb to 80Mb) are available as flash disks. You can create & destroy files on a flash disk just like on a magnetic disk, except they take much less power.
Depending on which country you happen to live in, there is a 6 to 7 year variation between the ratings of these films. Are 13 year olds somehow different in Spain than they are in Sweden? I don't think so, it's all got to do with the attitude of those doing the rating, and the culture they live in.
I imagine he limited himself to those languages that the principal developers of Perl have experience in. There is nothing worse than trying to learn a new language to develop a major project. By the end of the project, you realize that you made several mistakes in the early stages which have locked you into undesirable outcomes.
I disagree. Call any help line number, and after a short time, the answer comes back "reinstall windows". This is worsened by Microsoft, as in this quote from the article " What surprised me most was what happened when I tried to upgrade my installation of Windows 2000 Professional to Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The installation program told me I couldn't do it. I had to wipe the disk and start from scratch.". Not only is it a reinstall, it's a hard reinstall.
I've never ever had to reinstall a Unix box just because it's having problems. Almost every OS upgrade I've ever done I've done without loosing the data. Those rare upgrades where that's not possible, that's because I've been changing the filesystem - ie a GOOD reason.
Unfortunatly for your theory, the speed of light is a fundemental constant of the universe. It's not possible for it to vary without it making fundemental changes to the behviour of the universe and these changes would be very easy to detect.
BTW, as for "not proven". Nothing in science is proven. It's all theories which explain what we observe. If we observe something which isn't explained by the current theory, then someone will make up a new theory. At the moment at least, all observations are consistant with Einstein's theories.
The optics were good, but they didn't have any image enhancement. That means that they were sharp, but they don't have the sensitivity of a modern scope.
I'm still waiting for the person to come forward with a worthwhile reasone why he needs a domain that is one of the seven words.
Domain names aren't in American English. Why should fuck.com be unnacceptable, but chalice.com acceptable? The former is a swear word in english, but not in French, the latter is the opposite.
Like painting our battleships neon pink with zebra stripes (!!) to "psyche-out" the enemy (whuh??).
Actually, Dazzle paint was from the first world war, not the second. Here is an example of the Olympic, Titanic's sister, in Dazzle paint. The reason was nothing to do with psyching out the enemy, but to make it hard for the U boats to count the number of ships in a conviy, or identify the the individual ships.
As far as I can tell, it was quite an effective technique in the pre-radar times, both the above picture, and the ones referenced on this page do make it hard to tell how many ships are in the picture. I can certainly imagine that with primative optics through a WW1 periscope it made a difference.
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As stated previously, once these features are deemed to be ready for general release, Corel will make the source code available under an Open Source licence, the terms of which will be disclosed at a later date.
Seems reasonable to me, though we should watch for the terms.
Actually Sellar's not playing Kong has many explinations
The 'offical' explination is that Sellar's broke his leg.
Another explination is that he couldn't get the right accent
Which is the right explination? Who can tell. I will note that if an actor is injured, then the insurance company will pay for refilming of any scenes with the actor, while if the actor quits or is fired, they won't. Read anything you like into that.
TCP contains sequence numbers, which are incremented by the number of octets in the packet. This is used as part of the recovery from lost or duplicated packets, but they start at a 'random' number, and it's normal for them to roll over, so you can transmit an infinite number of bytes over the same connection.
There is a time frame where the same sequence number shouldn't be reused, so that gives an limit on the number of bytes which can be transmitted in a single time period (2GB/2 hours seems to ring a bell with me), but if it's slower than that, then you can go on forever.
Once the probe is launched, the most dangerous time is when it's manouvering - an engine can blow up, or disorient the probe so it looses contact with it's base stations, so the distance isn't really relevent at all, it's more to do with the number of course corrections required.
Obviously, it requires a much more precise heading to get into orbit around a planet than to simply flyby, and consequently the Martian probes require more course corrections than the Voyager probes did.
Also, and this factor cannot be forgotten, Voyager dates from NASA's "rich" time, when they could spend billions of dollars on a probe. These modern probes have had an order of magnitude less money spend on them. This means less redudancy, less testing, and therefore less reliablity.
Pluto is again the furthest planet out. It passed outside of Neptune's orbit last year.
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It's not the authors fault that these expectations turned out to be optimistic, any more than they can be blamed that the space race collapsed after the Apollo program, and we don't actually have a moon base.
When you write fiction which is trying to accuratly show the future, you have to make some guesses about what might happen. This is very different to fiction based in the present.
True, but the majority of current Psion devices are based upon the ARM 7100 running at relativly low speeds (16Mhz-36Mhz depending on the model). The Series 7 does have a StrongARM at 133Mhz, but like all similar devices, the typical use is the processor stalled as much as possible to conserve battery power. Running high MHz chips to emulate the dragonball doesn't seem like efficent usage of resources.
Palm has a 680x0 family CPU, while Psion is ARM CPU.
Psion does have it's interpted OPL language, which could be used to write cross-platform software, but it's a little limited for writing advanced applications.
Of course, one time pads aren't even breakable by brute force. The only hope if something is encrypted by OTP is that the random numbers are flawed.
I think you've got a very weird definition of "most people"
The appendixes of the "Rocheworld" series by Dr Robert L. Forward et al contain a detailed description of how a driven lightsail would work, including deceleration using the same lasers as acceleration.
"Princeton Prof Advocates Euthanizing Handicapped Babies", "Microsoft Clarifies Linux Myths","Congressman Advocates Breaking-Up a Guilty MS", and "New iMac Rolled Out" all have EXACTLY 200 messages, and don't save new comments.
The Trademark holder is the Open group, and they say Unix is anything which implements their specification. This includes many different Unixes, including IBM's OS/390 which is not derived in any way from from AT&T code. Heck, IF NT passed the tests, they'd allow it to be called Unix.
Linux is not currently a certified under any of the Unix standards, but I belive that Caldera has applied for Unix95 certification.
Actually the Clan McDonald is having serious problems with some sort of fast food restarurant over this issue. Seems that the fast food place doesn't like having other businesses trade under the name McDolands or even use the prefix "Mc".
That's the only magnetic spinning disks available for CF, but smaller sizes (from 5Mb to 80Mb) are available as flash disks. You can create & destroy files on a flash disk just like on a magnetic disk, except they take much less power.
The Psion 5mx mentioned above can support CF Flash disks of up to 80 Mb, and already has a python port.
Eyes Wide Shut: UK:18 / Finland:K-16 / Norway:15/ Sweden:11 /
Speed: Netherlands:12 / Norway:15 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15
Alien: France:-12 / Germany:16 / Norway:18
Depending on which country you happen to live in, there is a 6 to 7 year variation between the ratings of these films. Are 13 year olds somehow different in Spain than they are in Sweden? I don't think so, it's all got to do with the attitude of those doing the rating, and the culture they live in.
I imagine he limited himself to those languages that the principal developers of Perl have experience in. There is nothing worse than trying to learn a new language to develop a major project. By the end of the project, you realize that you made several mistakes in the early stages which have locked you into undesirable outcomes.
I've never ever had to reinstall a Unix box just because it's having problems. Almost every OS upgrade I've ever done I've done without loosing the data. Those rare upgrades where that's not possible, that's because I've been changing the filesystem - ie a GOOD reason.
BTW, as for "not proven". Nothing in science is proven. It's all theories which explain what we observe. If we observe something which isn't explained by the current theory, then someone will make up a new theory. At the moment at least, all observations are consistant with Einstein's theories.
The optics were good, but they didn't have any image enhancement. That means that they were sharp, but they don't have the sensitivity of a modern scope.
Domain names aren't in American English. Why should fuck.com be unnacceptable, but chalice.com acceptable? The former is a swear word in english, but not in French, the latter is the opposite.
How many technologies have been demo'd, and never shipped?
Actually, Dazzle paint was from the first world war, not the second. Here is an example of the Olympic, Titanic's sister, in Dazzle paint. The reason was nothing to do with psyching out the enemy, but to make it hard for the U boats to count the number of ships in a conviy, or identify the the individual ships.
As far as I can tell, it was quite an effective technique in the pre-radar times, both the above picture, and the ones referenced on this page do make it hard to tell how many ships are in the picture. I can certainly imagine that with primative optics through a WW1 periscope it made a difference.
Seems reasonable to me, though we should watch for the terms.
The 'offical' explination is that Sellar's broke his leg.
Another explination is that he couldn't get the right accent
Which is the right explination? Who can tell. I will note that if an actor is injured, then the insurance company will pay for refilming of any scenes with the actor, while if the actor quits or is fired, they won't. Read anything you like into that.
Probably it's not complete yet. Lab tests or something which takes time to get.
TCP contains sequence numbers, which are incremented by the number of octets in the packet. This is used as part of the recovery from lost or duplicated packets, but they start at a 'random' number, and it's normal for them to roll over, so you can transmit an infinite number of bytes over the same connection.
There is a time frame where the same sequence number shouldn't be reused, so that gives an limit on the number of bytes which can be transmitted in a single time period (2GB/2 hours seems to ring a bell with me), but if it's slower than that, then you can go on forever.
Obviously, it requires a much more precise heading to get into orbit around a planet than to simply flyby, and consequently the Martian probes require more course corrections than the Voyager probes did.
Also, and this factor cannot be forgotten, Voyager dates from NASA's "rich" time, when they could spend billions of dollars on a probe. These modern probes have had an order of magnitude less money spend on them. This means less redudancy, less testing, and therefore less reliablity.
Pluto is again the furthest planet out. It passed outside of Neptune's orbit last year.