I think that by "sub-stellar body" they mean something not orbiting a star.
BTW as most of the exoplanets found so far orbit very close to their stars and so are rather hot ("hot jupiters") it is likely that this thing is cooler than most of them.
> Licensing for 3G and 2G and other cell phone chip hardware is expensive.
Phone chip hardware is expensive, full stop. Microwave rf is not bit-banging. It involves hairy analog circuitry using uncooperative exotic semiconductors.
I don't think you'd want to run Ubuntu with a full-blown Gnome desktop but it should do fine with Debian, a light-weight window manager, and a sensible selection of applications.
> Also, pencils do not produce significantly thicker lines when you apply more > pressure. You can draw a faint line, a regular line, and break the graphite, > but that's about it.
Yes, but the marketing guy who wrote the blurb doesn't know that as he is only a twenty-something and so has never used a pencil.
> I suppose the bell curve has to have two tails, and so the dumbest.05% of > the Internet is always going to be pretty dumb
Gullibility and stupidity are not the same thing. Stupid people who know and accept that they are not very smart can be quite hard to scam while moderately intelligent people with exaggerated ideas about their own abilities (for example, believing that they can always tell when someone is lying) can be real suckers.
No. Present geolocators look at your IP and conclude that you are in Europe. This will look at the first three octets of your IP and conclude the same thing.
> It's just that some countries can supply lithium at smaller prices.
But only slightly smaller. Lithium is fairly uniformly distributed throughout the Earth's crust. It is, of course, cheapest to mine it where the concentration is a bit higher than average, but as those concentrations are not all that high compared to the average the countries that own them aren't going to get rich from them. If they try to jack up the price whoever they are trying to hold up will just start mining it at home.
> Last I heard was lithium was a precious metal...
You last heard wrong. It goes for around $100/kg, less than 1/4 the price of silver.
>...50% of the world's sources were in one country (So Am).
Chile seems to currently have the largest proven reserves, but lithium is not very rare (similar in concentration in the Earth's crust to nickel and lead) and is widely distributed.
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> DC or BC are more than adequate...
But they (shudder, moan, recoil in fear) involve the *COMMAND* *LINE*!!!
> $ dc
And bc.
> If Jupiter would flying free through interstellar space with no star to
> orbit, it would be a brown dwarf.
No it wouldn't.
> I mean if Jupiter's surface temperature is below 200 degrees Celsius (and i
> bet it is)...
165K (defining "surface" as "1 bar pressure level")
> ...and since it's also a brown dwarf...
No it isn't.
A brown dwarf is not a star.
I think that by "sub-stellar body" they mean something not orbiting a star.
BTW as most of the exoplanets found so far orbit very close to their stars and so are rather hot ("hot jupiters") it is likely that this thing is cooler than most of them.
Why should it take more than a month to change such a policy?
> So, we firewall the network they are on and cross our fingers.
Hold on a minute. The network these $500k machines are on was not firewalled from day one?
> We got them to standardize on Chrome...
But did you get them to standardize on standards?
Simpler: "Don't break anything unless someone tells you to."
> OLPC are working on something like this, and ARM Powered OLPC laptop...
So Windows is going to be available on ARM?
+5 funny.
> Licensing for 3G and 2G and other cell phone chip hardware is expensive.
Phone chip hardware is expensive, full stop. Microwave rf is not bit-banging. It involves hairy analog circuitry using uncooperative exotic semiconductors.
You got that right.
> The Smart Q5/Q7 come with Ubuntu installed, and they have a similar speed
> (ARM) CPU.
How much RAM? What desktop?
I don't think you'd want to run Ubuntu with a full-blown Gnome desktop but it should do fine with Debian, a light-weight window manager, and a sensible selection of applications.
> Also, pencils do not produce significantly thicker lines when you apply more
> pressure. You can draw a faint line, a regular line, and break the graphite,
> but that's about it.
Yes, but the marketing guy who wrote the blurb doesn't know that as he is only a twenty-something and so has never used a pencil.
> I suppose the bell curve has to have two tails, and so the dumbest .05% of
> the Internet is always going to be pretty dumb
Gullibility and stupidity are not the same thing. Stupid people who know and accept that they are not very smart can be quite hard to scam while moderately intelligent people with exaggerated ideas about their own abilities (for example, believing that they can always tell when someone is lying) can be real suckers.
> I have some experience with stolen bikes in Belgium. If the cops find it,
> they will give it back.
I expect that's true most places. The cops have all the bikes they could possibly want.
Did complain to your elected officials? Talk to a lawyer?
> Will this be smart enough to do better?
No. Present geolocators look at your IP and conclude that you are in Europe. This will look at the first three octets of your IP and conclude the same thing.
> Why the fuck would anyone want to use Google for DNS, instead of something
> closer (e.g. either their ISP or even a box on their very own LAN)?
Because their ISP's DNS is crap and they are not competent to administer their own.
> It's just that some countries can supply lithium at smaller prices.
But only slightly smaller. Lithium is fairly uniformly distributed throughout the Earth's crust. It is, of course, cheapest to mine it where the concentration is a bit higher than average, but as those concentrations are not all that high compared to the average the countries that own them aren't going to get rich from them. If they try to jack up the price whoever they are trying to hold up will just start mining it at home.
> Last I heard was lithium was a precious metal...
You last heard wrong. It goes for around $100/kg, less than 1/4 the price of silver.
> ...50% of the world's sources were in one country (So Am).
Chile seems to currently have the largest proven reserves, but lithium is not very rare (similar in concentration in the Earth's crust to nickel and lead) and is widely distributed.
> Can the US Gov hold patents?
It can and does.