This is exactly how all the people considering this intend to do it. The problem is that the strength of cable required to support its own weight for that distance is huge. It has been determined that a ribbon shaped like a giant flat golf tee (can't think of a better description) will be best.
In short, your plan is the same as the best plan that mankind has so far, but we still don't have a suitable material to make the cable from.
Justin. (Incidentally, geostat tends to be much higher than 100 clicks (qv 'Low Earth Orbit').)
Your information is good, but your maths is rubbish. If *all* companies only sold the bandwidth they had, on a rolling period, then the US would not be erased from the Internet - whatever the fuck that means - do you measure bandwidth in tubes by any chance?
It would mean that people were offered what they could actually get, rather than total lies about instantaneous speeds which are never fulfilled.
What the fuck does that have to do with Jerry Seinfeld? 'They appear on the same show' is quite irrelevent compared to 'they have different names and faces'.
The trajectories are actually chaotic, although roughly linear (well, elliptic) around the earth. As the bits also orbit around the moon, the ISS itself, and each other, there is no possible way to accurately predict their location in the future - the error margins will grow with time until a new and precise observation is made.
If you showed me a baby that was roaring like a lion, or a lion that cried with a sound like my son, I might well stop still and think for a while too. Especially if I was in dim light or unable to see clearly for some reason.
It doesn't show that chickes are stupid, but that they didn't know what to do with conflicting information. We humans have extremely good vision, and will almost certainly go with whatever the eyes say (heh... the 'eye's have it... heh), but chickens' vision is less acute so they would be confused.
If I'm a network admin, I don't want some jack hole dual-booting anything on my network. He doesn't need a Linux partition on his workstation.
Well, you say that, but it's a jolly sweeping statement. I want exactly that, and this system is not built to permit it. I develop for Solaris, but use corporate tools on Windows.
Takes me back to the old days when you couldn't install Windows without it dumbly overwriting the MBR and screwing your Linux boot process. Anyone would think that MS don't want you dual booting, and write their software not necessarily to make it harder, but certainly with no interest in making it easier!
Now, remind me, who is trusting and what is trusted? Clearly I am not trusted to decide to if I want to dual boot, whether I am a network admin or not.
Well, it's worked out exactly like that for the Gitmo inmates, so I'm looking forward to seeing people in grey suits over there next to the ones in orange.
Another weakness is that methods can't be declared to allow/disallow the return of 'null' values to be detected at compile-time.
This is my biggest single whinge about Java. It would be an immensely useful keyword: "notnull".
The second biggest is the facility to 'nullify' an object. I'd like to be able to say to the vm 'you should be able to gc this right now, and if you can't (because someone else has its reference) please throw an exception'. That'd help fix programmed memory leaks in no time.
1) Security. 2) Not giving money to The Man (unless you buy support and The Man is Mark Shuttleworth). 3) Solidity. 4) Predictable interface (ever thought about how un-predictable Windows behaviour is since you learned it?) 5) Earning your geek badge. 6) Better out-of-the-box driver compatibility than Windows. 7) A change is as good as a rest. 8) Still having the money you didn't give to The Man.
(1), (3) you won't actuall notice, (4) you will.
But you don't know what else is out there till you try. Try a Mac, try Ubuntu, try Solaris/X86, try an IBM/3090 block mode mainframe;-)
Not to mention a blatant physics error*, good on him, give him a/. gold star;-)
Justin. * "sending signals too far into the depths of space" - see 'inverse square law' and 'size of solar system', not to mention 'microwave background'
in case anyone claims that ODF doesn't have the same sort of problem
FFS, ODF isn't a fast-track ('multiply implemented and widespread') standard. It's perfectly acceptable for a proposed standard to be ahead of current implementations - it's only proposed after all. Implementations should be expect to be playing catch-up.
OOXML on the other hand is claimed to be already implemented and widespread and thus eligible for fast track. So it is a big deal if it turns out it isn't. Not to mention that you're selectively pointing out that the transitional version nearly works, blithely ignoring the fact (in the same blog) that strict is well fucked. So the strict version of the 'standard' should be thrown out even harder that then the transitional.
I'm beginning to wonder if this concept is just too hard to grasp for many slashdotters or if there're just too many people drinking Norway brand Kool-aid.
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This is exactly how all the people considering this intend to do it. The problem is that the strength of cable required to support its own weight for that distance is huge. It has been determined that a ribbon shaped like a giant flat golf tee (can't think of a better description) will be best.
In short, your plan is the same as the best plan that mankind has so far, but we still don't have a suitable material to make the cable from.
Justin.
(Incidentally, geostat tends to be much higher than 100 clicks (qv 'Low Earth Orbit').)
So the encryptor has paid the Patent Tax for the encoder, and thus the decoder should/must be free for the user.
I like your thinking. Now, sadly, all we need is a test case , a small army of lawyers and a substantial amount of cash. Oh.
Paging Mr Shuttleworth...!
Justin.
Your information is good, but your maths is rubbish. If *all* companies only sold the bandwidth they had, on a rolling period, then the US would not be erased from the Internet - whatever the fuck that means - do you measure bandwidth in tubes by any chance?
It would mean that people were offered what they could actually get, rather than total lies about instantaneous speeds which are never fulfilled.
Justin.
What the fuck does that have to do with Jerry Seinfeld? 'They appear on the same show' is quite irrelevent compared to 'they have different names and faces'.
The trajectories are actually chaotic, although roughly linear (well, elliptic) around the earth. As the bits also orbit around the moon, the ISS itself, and each other, there is no possible way to accurately predict their location in the future - the error margins will grow with time until a new and precise observation is made.
Q.V. The three-body problem, and, more generally, the n-body problem (same page).
Justin.
That could be done by just inserting values in the database. No cloning required.
Please take this idle shit off the RSS feed.
Ta muchly,
Justin.
If you showed me a baby that was roaring like a lion, or a lion that cried with a sound like my son, I might well stop still and think for a while too. Especially if I was in dim light or unable to see clearly for some reason.
It doesn't show that chickes are stupid, but that they didn't know what to do with conflicting information. We humans have extremely good vision, and will almost certainly go with whatever the eyes say (heh... the 'eye's have it... heh), but chickens' vision is less acute so they would be confused.
Justin.
Low only by six-digitters' standards.
Personally I find that the three and four-digitters are getting pretty slow now...
Justin.
Assuming overnight use is more like a third that (usage peaks in day/evening) suggests a store of half a kw * 8 hours = 4kJ might do.
That's about a tenth the gp - your one-fifth estimate is not bad at all!
So the balloon of hydrogen would be about 1.1 metre cubed. I can prolly find space for that in the roof.
Justin.
Well, you say that, but it's a jolly sweeping statement. I want exactly that, and this system is not built to permit it. I develop for Solaris, but use corporate tools on Windows.
Takes me back to the old days when you couldn't install Windows without it dumbly overwriting the MBR and screwing your Linux boot process. Anyone would think that MS don't want you dual booting, and write their software not necessarily to make it harder, but certainly with no interest in making it easier!
Now, remind me, who is trusting and what is trusted? Clearly I am not trusted to decide to if I want to dual boot, whether I am a network admin or not.
Justin.
So anything on a ballistic trajectory is fine, but US citizens better not stay at any Space Hotels!
So both the submitter *and* the /. editor failed to read the submission?
"The internet hates censorship, and finds ways to route around it"
Dunno who said it, but your post demonstrates it really well.
Justin.
Yeah, but who actually expected a law named after a farting noise to be taken seriously..?
So 'offer it to your local Physic dept' with a hint to look at UofNovaDragon' is a jolly good suggestion.
Well, it's worked out exactly like that for the Gitmo inmates, so I'm looking forward to seeing people in grey suits over there next to the ones in orange.
Sauce for the goose, etc.
Justin.
Ahem. I think all of those were matter. That observation therefore tells you nothing about antimatter.
I wait with bated breath for the discovery of anti-light, by the way ;-)
Justin.
This is my biggest single whinge about Java. It would be an immensely useful keyword: "notnull".
The second biggest is the facility to 'nullify' an object. I'd like to be able to say to the vm 'you should be able to gc this right now, and if you can't (because someone else has its reference) please throw an exception'. That'd help fix programmed memory leaks in no time.
Justin.
Sadly, no.
The poor, armless sharks are also poor, arm-controlling-neuron-less sharks.
They will just have to make do with traditional head-mounted lasers.
Justin.
1) Security.
;-)
2) Not giving money to The Man (unless you buy support and The Man is Mark Shuttleworth).
3) Solidity.
4) Predictable interface (ever thought about how un-predictable Windows behaviour is since you learned it?)
5) Earning your geek badge.
6) Better out-of-the-box driver compatibility than Windows.
7) A change is as good as a rest.
8) Still having the money you didn't give to The Man.
(1), (3) you won't actuall notice, (4) you will.
But you don't know what else is out there till you try. Try a Mac, try Ubuntu, try Solaris/X86, try an IBM/3090 block mode mainframe
Just try.
Justin.
So what part of "No 'Find the Sausage' jokes" did you not understand?
And what illiterate dickhead modded you Insightful?
(God, I hate teenagers.)
J.
Not to mention a blatant physics error*, good on him, give him a /. gold star ;-)
Justin.
* "sending signals too far into the depths of space" - see 'inverse square law' and 'size of solar system', not to mention 'microwave background'
FFS, ODF isn't a fast-track ('multiply implemented and widespread') standard. It's perfectly acceptable for a proposed standard to be ahead of current implementations - it's only proposed after all. Implementations should be expect to be playing catch-up.
OOXML on the other hand is claimed to be already implemented and widespread and thus eligible for fast track. So it is a big deal if it turns out it isn't. Not to mention that you're selectively pointing out that the transitional version nearly works, blithely ignoring the fact (in the same blog) that strict is well fucked. So the strict version of the 'standard' should be thrown out even harder that then the transitional.
I'm beginning to wonder if this concept is just too hard to grasp for many slashdotters or if there're just too many people drinking Norway brand Kool-aid.
Justin.
Maybe he meant to put a . in front of the 528? ;-)