at first, a site with a good design can pretty well scale from 1024x768 upwards without any minor deflections if the designer of the site has done a good job and the html monkeys have built it up right. usual layouts scale pretty well (for example slashdot itself).
the most important thing about choosing the right sizes for images and frames ofcourse depends from the audience. if you are planning a gaming site for quake3 fanatics you can be pretty sure that they don't expect anything less than 1024x768 and up.
if you are building a site for grandmothers and grandfathers who still use a 15" screen or a site meant to be used from public internet access points like libraries of universitys, you definetly need to scale down.
if you are creating an attractive site which should get money from some kind of sponsors who hope to sell stuff with the help of your site, you have to consider that people who would be rich enough to buy stuff from your sponsors can almost certainly buy themselves a screen of 1024x768. ofcourse it would be nice to show stuff to poor people who can't afford big screens, but if they are not your "expected audience" then why should you give a tiny little webpage in the topleft corner of the screen to the main audience that you expect ? just because some granny refuses to buy herself a 17" normal crt display ?
I personally am very mad at sites that contain a lot of data but since they were designed by poor designers and built for screen like 800x600 it's a hell to read them in the top left corner of your screen:( sometimes i even have to switch the resolutions to see anything at all.
If you expect your site to be around after 5 years from now, i'd suggest to go at least for 1024x768. otherwise you'll be "deprecated".
atm. i for an example am sitting behind a 1280x1024@85Hz screen and i don't even consider myself rich in any dimension.
the dude looks like a perfect employee for microsoft ?
their apps alter the data and the specs on the run as needed and who would be a better supervisor for these kind of apps developement than the man that has a doctor degree in altering/manufacturing data ?
----
as from the academical view, i'd draw all kind of academical titles from a "scientist" like that and condemn him to hell. seriously, such dudes do more harm than good in anything that thay touch. go to microsoft! destroy the evil thing.
kid : "Hey dad, what's that wierd thing in my burger instead of normal beef ?" dad: "It's tux, a penguin, the linux mascott, and we will have to eat it now cause it's cheaper and more reliable and is licenced under GPL, make sure you publish it later after you have altered it."
americans seeme to have been seriously brainwashed...
wtf did u guys lose in iraq ? if you are the "freeing" the nation then why in the bloody hell are is the "freed" nation shooting at you with guns.
what did you lose into arabic states from where now the bin laden haunts you ? if you hadn't gone there, the 2 towers in NY would still be up and thousands of your bloody citizens would still be alive.
if some politicians wouldn't have sent their troops there to harras the saudis i think everybody would be much happier right now.
as for gods & religion : i believe in chemistry and physics, sounds a lot more reasonable than the "god-thang".
if it's nt 4.0 then as far as i can remember the thing didn't support USB ports.
so the captain won't able to take naughty pictures of girls picked up "in the war" and load them from their cameras to the mainframe ?
and what is the crew supposed to do with their iPod's ?
this boat seems like a lot of wasted money. they could have built a small hovercraft with linux on it for much less $.
and it would be almost as radar transparent as the swedish NT ship which will probably be "invisible" cause you can't really find it under water after a windows-virus-torpedo has rammed the boat.
do they have EMP reflection/covering systems of any kind or can a pen sized EMP bomb take out the whole ship under 1 second ?:)
so we have a "simple" way to create opengl demos ?
what's the point of an opengl application if it can't have threads nor can it have shared variables between the threads. how can you wait for a network packet (for example a opengl game that uses the net) and at the same time draw frames ? well ofcourse until some "limit" you can have one thread doing both. But losing network packets because your game can't render on the screen fast enough is a death of a netgame.
php doesn't have threads and never will i think. they'd probably would have to rewrite most of the code to make it work.
it's like you are building a house but are "forgetting" that it should have a roof, electricity and water support. ofcourse the livingroom will be easy to create with 3 lines but missing the rest it has no point.
good luck anyway with it, it looks like a great util for creating opengl demos and movies which would be quite a hell to write in C from the beginning to the end.
you have the right ideas but the wrong attitude. rpm itself can be compromised too , so there is no guarantee whatsoever what it can show and what in reality exists.
no matter what solutions the people will "invent" the case remains the same that every powerline running around and every working screen in any office creates a huge amount of heat every day. so we should better look for a way to stop using the electricity as we know at all.
flintstones style mechanical komputers and parrot voice recorders ? tipping you c++ apps with a hammer, nail and a stone plate ? sounds great:)
just from the realistic physics calculated view : we are all gonna die if we don't stop wasting energy like we do now (why the heck do i have to type this text here from a machine that consumes about 250w every hour ?, i could make 3l water boil with this energy in less than an hour:S)
inventorying old comupter stuff is always hard for me, i can't let go of things althrough i can forsee that won't ever use them again. like for an example i believe i still have an 8inch floppy disk from the 80-s back at my home. these were massive items:)
as for book keeping over the computer stuff that you own, i believe a good shelf system in the attic is one of the best choices. as for companies, i think they should give up the old hardware to opensource programmers who are quite often in need for any item that can read a floppy and execute vim&gcc.
PS. if anybody has a usable(pentium2 or alike) old Laptop around which he doesn't need, i'd be glad to take it away:)
agreed, i'm sure transmeta is actually doing what they should have done ages ago. but it's a good effort anyway:)
besides it won't help the wind0ws users much, i'm sure their bloody mailclient outlook will find a workaround how to execute whatever wherever without asking about executing it from whomever.
as from the historical view (who was first) german is really some screwed up swedish and not the other way around.
anyway, what's the language flamebite about, getting negative modpoints or just making people who want to read tech specific comments scroll around more ?
basically i don't think that covering luxemburg or andorra or sri lanka would be a great deal nor an investment. they have hightech around them 24/7 anyway, these waves of net won't disturb anyone.
but as they are quite big exceptions they obviously don't count as a "country" in your context.
basically you got tv-signals and radio-signals around you the whole day (except if you dive into the sea), and they don't seem to disturb you, do they ?
i think i'll have barrel of beer when australia gets it's whole land area covered with wireless:p as for estonia, i'm here and i'm for sure not sitting in the wireless enabled area right now, too bad:(
you can't possibly write every api that exists into a wrapper in qt or can you ?
let's say you wan't to use ncurses api, are you really going to implement it (or at least a frontend) in qt ?
basically if you need to use libraries that qt doesn't contain you have to worry about memory usage.
anyway, this is not the global point.
qt is FAR away from where java is now.
it isn't even meant to be a java replacement, but as an C++ alternative to it.
still i can't imagine why should i switch from java to c++ when developing huge enterprise applications that will run god knows where on god knows which databases and so on.
i can't expect my client to compile every kind of source i send to him.
but i can expect that he can copy one war file into the right directory.
excuse me for the following expression: qt vs java ? WTF ? this is like comparing a ford vs. titanic. java is much more than some simple thread/socket apis and visual components.
java has technologies from j2me to j2ee including huge transactioning clusters which work with thousands of clients. show me an qt based application server like jboss. there are none.
so how could you POSSIBLY compare these things ?
java runs anywhere from sun to x86, you don't have to compile anything if you switch the platform.
with qt you have to. that's the trouble most users don't want to take.
java can work in a cluster where machines are ranged x86's to ultrasparcs and Apple's G4's. Qt isn't able to do it. so.. what's the case ?
it's hard to write a memory leaking application in java (i know it can be done, i have seen some "java programmers"
who are experts on it, but usually it doesn't happen), every forgotten free() or a typo in a c/c++ program can cause you memory leaks. it's very hard to get a segmentation fault in java, in the opposite of that you get a catchable exception which you can handle as you like, as in c i belive everyone reading this forum has opened the bloody gdb and looked "where the f do i go wrong here... ?".
gush. who ever wrote the article should be ashamed a bit. there is absolutely no point in the whole thing whatsoever.
you may define one define that qt the standard of c++ as j2sdk is for java, but you couldn't obviously compare a c++
library to the whole java business.
i agree that php & bigtime enterprise software have nothing incommon at the time being.
php has no business with enterprise software until it has no real security model nor a backward compatible language nor a threading model. not even thinking of application servers that interract on the language level like java's or sharing massive amount of data between threads so they would be synchronized and desynchronized as needed.
php has a long way to go. i must admit that the php5 is a big step in the right direction. but what use is a big step if after the upgrade all old oop scripts will cease to work ?
the originally chosen quickpad seems like 25 years old technology to me too,
really just get a cheap palm with a keyboard or a nice small 12" laptop, the quickpad thing seems like a pointless waste of money. and also the quickpad won't be compatible with anything coming out in the next 5 years.
don't collect old stuff like my grandpa did, you're just wasting your time and money with the quickpad. get a handheld or a small notebook.
the article writer seems to be quite a techie... but has anyone seen linux 7.1 yet ?
quote from the article
"Linux boxes that comes with dozens of manuals. In the end I was given an old Linux 7.1 box that was 15mm wider than the Windows XP box but otherwise the same depth and width."
while i'm lmao and rofl, you people should learn that linux != redhat:D
[ps. as i recall 7.1 was a freaking bugversion of redhat] [well have to wait some 20 years i think before kernel reaches such a version number:)]
dunno about you dudes over there but i live in the free europe:D so i don't have to worry about sco for a while anyway. besides, what's the hoax all about ? as i recall sco didn't win in court ? at least not yet? so what's the fuzz ?
i place my bets on linux, because atm. there is no new and shiny windows to see anywhere (xp is already old and buggy.) and even if sco wins anything in court, the code that it claims to have some rights on , can be rewritten in another way in a day or two, so they will loose any idea that they are holding on to with this hoaxing..
i wish my grandpa had taken a copyright on this: for(int i=0;i10;i++) {
###some looping here. }
would i be ritch then and have right to everyone from motorola up to microsoft ?
you could also add a "hacker" detection box to your net cable, it should be armed with scissors so any time when someone tries to hack you, it just cuts the network cable and everything will be ok:p.
ok seriously now, i think you should try to look at some system balancing e.g. if some of your services really need windows then a windows machine could do it but for the security of data keep the data on a shared network drive (on linux or bsd box). so if the windows machine goes down with a big whistle (believe me, it will go down "everything that boots up, must go down, especially when software is from microsoft"), the data will be safe:D.
ofcourse making all accesses to the shared drive authented in some way will make things more secure but also more slow... so.. the choice is yours...
just hacking any program on your current windows machine won't help you. windows is as vulnerable at the moment as it has always been, all virus detecters are 1 day behing the virus writers so the worm hits you before you get the cure and so you are f___ed.
i still don't understand why people use windows anyway:(
basically if something gets lost on the windows machine it doesn't really matter anyway (problably yet more viruses and spyware gets corrupter, oh dear eh ?)
anyway, i'm a bit techie and for calming down the people, there is no 50% extraspace in any hdd, really:)
just some wierd hoax brought up by people to make them ruin their hdd-s and buy some new ones:):)
[considering the work/software/configuration loss you will have whily trying this, it's cheaper to buy a new hdd]
you should consider investing some money into more ram, cause avoiding the swapping all the time will surely help the disk to stay longer in spindowns. nowaday the kernel can cache most of the files you use so the bigger ram the bigger cache you will have the less power it needs to spin
in our office we also noticed that the laptops coolers are spinning way to much e.g. trying to keep the machine as cold as possible, you can bring the temperature limits a bit up (ofcourse don't let the machine burn in hour hands:S), the ventilators use a lot of battery power so keeping them in spindown will help to save the battery life.
>do you know how many chinese dudes run around ? >about a billion ! >if you pile them all up into a huge mountain >the top will be in space (we need only 200 km to go, >every chinese man is about 1.5-1.7m of height, it makes >uh-oh , about 150 000 chinese dudes ?) so there would be >a minor loss only in their population:) , they have a >politics for loosing people count anyway...
no ok, seriously now, i actually am a deep friend of the space elevator idea too, only that i aint quite sure if it should be a long line from some mystic material which is attached to something very big and heavy object in space and would work like the 'elevators' in skiing sites in the mountains.
or should be it a large pipe which could "upload" stuff in itself ?
there was a movie i saw on tv, maybe even a serial where people used the inside explosion of a planet to travel on it, the explosion caused a big hole of vacuum which dragged all the objects near the holes into it and they flew out on the other side. physically i think it's not impossible... but probably the "method" would IRL just crush people to death in the flight. cool idea though..
Slashdot Mirror
nb. this is totally my personal opinion
:( sometimes i even have to switch the resolutions to see anything at all.
at first, a site with a good design can pretty well scale from 1024x768 upwards without any minor deflections if the designer of the site has done a good job and the html monkeys have built it up right. usual layouts scale pretty well (for example slashdot itself).
the most important thing about choosing the right sizes for images and frames ofcourse depends from the audience. if you are planning a gaming site for quake3 fanatics you can be pretty sure that they don't expect anything less than 1024x768 and up.
if you are building a site for grandmothers and grandfathers who still use a 15" screen or a site meant to be used from public internet access points like libraries of universitys, you definetly need to scale down.
if you are creating an attractive site which should get money from some kind of sponsors who hope to sell stuff with the help of your site, you have to consider that people who would be rich enough to buy stuff from your sponsors can almost certainly buy themselves a screen of 1024x768. ofcourse it would be nice to show stuff to poor people who can't afford big screens, but if they are not your "expected audience" then why should you give a tiny little webpage in the topleft corner of the screen to the main audience that you expect ? just because some granny refuses to buy herself a 17" normal crt display ?
I personally am very mad at sites that contain a lot of data but since they were designed by poor designers and built for screen like 800x600 it's a hell to read them in the top left corner of your screen
If you expect your site to be around after 5 years from now, i'd suggest to go at least for 1024x768. otherwise you'll be "deprecated".
atm. i for an example am sitting behind a 1280x1024@85Hz screen and i don't even consider myself rich in any dimension.
the dude looks like a perfect employee for microsoft ?
their apps alter the data and the specs on the run as needed and who would be a better supervisor for these kind of apps developement than the man that has a doctor degree in altering/manufacturing data ?
----
as from the academical view, i'd draw all kind of academical titles from a "scientist" like that and condemn him to hell.
seriously, such dudes do more harm than good in anything that thay touch. go to microsoft! destroy the evil thing.
[...]
wow, i can already imagine
kid : "Hey dad, what's that wierd thing in my burger instead of normal beef ?"
dad: "It's tux, a penguin, the linux mascott, and we will have to eat it now cause it's cheaper and more reliable and is licenced under GPL, make sure you publish it later after you have altered it."
i agree with terry.
...
americans seeme to have been seriously brainwashed
wtf did u guys lose in iraq ? if you are the "freeing" the nation then why in the bloody hell are is the "freed" nation shooting at you with guns.
what did you lose into arabic states from where now the bin laden haunts you ? if you hadn't gone there, the 2 towers in NY would still be up and thousands of your bloody citizens would still be alive.
if some politicians wouldn't have sent their troops there to harras the saudis i think everybody would be much happier right now.
as for gods & religion : i believe in chemistry and physics, sounds a lot more reasonable than the "god-thang".
if it's nt 4.0 then as far as i can remember the thing didn't support USB ports.
:)
so the captain won't able to take naughty pictures of girls picked up "in the war" and load them from their cameras to the mainframe ?
and what is the crew supposed to do with their iPod's ?
this boat seems like a lot of wasted money. they could have built a small hovercraft with linux on it for much less $.
and it would be almost as radar transparent as the swedish NT ship which will probably be "invisible" cause you can't really find it under water after a windows-virus-torpedo has rammed the boat.
do they have EMP reflection/covering systems of any kind or can a pen sized EMP bomb take out the whole ship under 1 second ?
so we have a "simple" way to create opengl demos ?
what's the point of an opengl application if it can't have threads nor can it have shared variables between the threads.
how can you wait for a network packet (for example a opengl game that uses the net) and at the same time draw frames ? well ofcourse until some "limit" you can have one thread doing both. But losing network packets because your game can't render on the screen fast enough is a death of a netgame.
php doesn't have threads and never will i think. they'd probably would have to rewrite most of the code to make it work.
it's like you are building a house but are "forgetting" that it should have a roof, electricity and water support. ofcourse the livingroom will be easy to create with 3 lines but missing the rest it has no point.
good luck anyway with it, it looks like a great util for creating opengl demos and movies which would be quite a hell to write in C from the beginning to the end.
you have the right ideas but the wrong attitude.
rpm itself can be compromised too , so there is no
guarantee whatsoever what it can show and what in reality
exists.
perhaps our children will have a chance to survive :)
:p)
or even their grandchildren
(if the killer tomatos don't attack before they are born
no matter what solutions the people will "invent" the case remains the same that every powerline running around and every working screen in any office creates a huge amount of heat every day. so we should better look for a way to stop using the electricity as we know at all.
:)
:S)
flintstones style mechanical komputers and parrot voice recorders ? tipping you c++ apps with a hammer, nail and a stone plate ? sounds great
just from the realistic physics calculated view : we are all gonna die if we don't stop wasting energy like we do now (why the heck do i have to type this text here from a machine that consumes about 250w every hour ?, i could make 3l water boil with this energy in less than an hour
resolving IT hardware problems through an IT software seems :)
:)
quite ironical indeed
after some time you would need the archive your archive organizer too
inventorying old comupter stuff is always hard for me, i can't let go of things althrough i can forsee that won't ever use them again. like for an example i believe i still have an 8inch floppy disk from the 80-s back at my home. these were massive items :)
:)
as for book keeping over the computer stuff that you own, i believe a good shelf system in the attic is one of the best choices. as for companies, i think they should give up the old hardware to opensource programmers who are quite often in need for any item that can read a floppy and execute vim&gcc.
PS. if anybody has a usable(pentium2 or alike) old Laptop around which he doesn't need, i'd be glad to take it away
>>> Now I have to worry about nano-bacteria? Good grief --
, :)
>>> more viruses!
i suggest you to go back to school, bacteria has as much to do with viruses as chicken have to do with milking a cow.
ps. ofcourse as a computer software flaw is seen as a virus
windows may be considered a deadly bacteria which itself can be affected by viruses
agreed, i'm sure transmeta is actually doing what :)
they should have done ages ago. but it's a good effort
anyway
besides it won't help the wind0ws users much, i'm sure their
bloody mailclient outlook will find a workaround how to
execute whatever wherever without asking about executing it
from whomever.
[installing pine would be much cheaper i think]
as from the historical view (who was first)
german is really some screwed up swedish and not the other way around.
anyway, what's the language flamebite about, getting negative modpoints or just making people
who want to read tech specific comments scroll around more ?
basically i don't think that covering luxemburg or andorra or sri lanka would be a great deal nor an investment.
:p :(
they have hightech around them 24/7 anyway, these waves of net won't disturb anyone.
but as they are quite big exceptions they obviously don't count as a "country" in your context.
basically you got tv-signals and radio-signals around you the whole day (except if you dive into the sea), and they don't seem to disturb you, do they ?
i think i'll have barrel of beer when australia gets it's whole land area covered with wireless
as for estonia, i'm here and i'm for sure not sitting in the wireless enabled area right now, too bad
you can't possibly write every api that exists into
a wrapper in qt or can you ?
let's say you wan't to use ncurses api, are you
really going to implement it (or at least a frontend)
in qt ?
basically if you need to use libraries that
qt doesn't contain you have to worry about memory
usage.
anyway, this is not the global point.
qt is FAR away from where java is now.
it isn't even meant to be a java replacement, but as an C++ alternative to it.
still i can't imagine why should i switch from java
to c++ when developing huge enterprise applications
that will run god knows where on god knows which databases
and so on.
i can't expect my client to compile every kind of source
i send to him.
but i can expect that he can copy one war file into the right directory.
excuse me for the following expression :
.. what's the case ?
qt vs java ? WTF ?
this is like comparing a ford vs. titanic.
java is much more than some simple thread/socket apis
and visual components.
java has technologies from j2me to j2ee including
huge transactioning clusters which work with thousands
of clients. show me an qt based application server like jboss.
there are none.
so how could you POSSIBLY compare these things ?
java runs anywhere from sun to x86, you don't have to
compile anything if you switch the platform.
with qt you have to. that's the trouble most users don't want to take.
java can work in a cluster where machines are ranged
x86's to ultrasparcs and Apple's G4's. Qt isn't able
to do it. so
it's hard to write a memory leaking application in java
(i know it can be done, i have seen some "java programmers"
who are experts on it, but usually it doesn't happen),
every forgotten free() or a typo in a c/c++ program can
cause you memory leaks.
it's very hard to get a segmentation fault in java, in the
opposite of that you get a catchable exception which
you can handle as you like, as in c i belive everyone
reading this forum has opened the bloody gdb and looked
"where the f do i go wrong here... ?".
gush. who ever wrote the article should be ashamed a bit.
there is absolutely no point in the whole thing whatsoever.
you may define one define that qt the standard of c++ as
j2sdk is for java, but you couldn't obviously compare a c++
library to the whole java business.
i agree that php & bigtime enterprise software have
nothing incommon at the time being.
php has no business with enterprise software until it has no real security model nor a backward compatible language nor a threading model. not even thinking of application servers that interract on the language level like java's or sharing massive amount of data between threads so they would be synchronized and desynchronized as needed.
php has a long way to go.
i must admit that the php5 is a big step in the right direction.
but what use is a big step if after the upgrade all old oop scripts will cease to work ?
the originally chosen quickpad seems like 25 years old technology to me too ,
really just get a cheap palm with a keyboard or a nice small 12" laptop, the quickpad thing seems like a pointless waste of money. and also the quickpad won't be compatible with anything coming out in the next 5 years.
don't collect old stuff like my grandpa did, you're just wasting your time and money with the quickpad. get a handheld or a small notebook.
the article writer seems to be quite a techie ...
:D
:)]
but has anyone seen linux 7.1 yet ?
quote from the article
"Linux boxes that comes with dozens of manuals. In the end I was given an old Linux 7.1 box that was 15mm wider than the Windows XP box but otherwise the same depth and width."
while i'm lmao and rofl, you people should learn that
linux != redhat
[ps. as i recall 7.1 was a freaking bugversion of redhat]
[well have to wait some 20 years i think before kernel reaches such a version number
dunno about you dudes over there but :D
:
:D
i live in the free europe
so i don't have to worry about sco for a while anyway.
besides, what's the hoax all about ?
as i recall sco didn't win in court ? at least not yet?
so what's the fuzz ?
i place my bets on linux, because atm. there is no new and shiny windows to see anywhere (xp is already old and buggy.) and even if sco wins anything in court, the code that it claims to have some rights on , can be rewritten in another way in a day or two, so they will loose any idea that they are holding on to with this hoaxing..
i wish my grandpa had taken a copyright on this
for(int i=0;i10;i++) {
###some looping here.
}
would i be ritch then and have right to everyone from motorola up to microsoft ?
have a nice day and don't worry so much
you could also add a "hacker" detection box to your net cable, it should be armed with scissors so any time when someone tries to hack you, it just cuts the network cable and everything will be ok :p.
:D.
... so .. the choice is yours ...
:(
ok seriously now, i think you should try to look at some system balancing e.g. if some of your services really need windows then a windows machine could do it but for the security of data keep the data on a shared network drive (on linux or bsd box). so if the windows machine goes down with a big whistle (believe me, it will go down "everything that boots up, must go down, especially when software is from microsoft"), the data will be safe
ofcourse making all accesses to the shared drive authented in some way will make things more secure but also more slow
just hacking any program on your current windows machine won't help you. windows is as vulnerable at the moment as it has always been, all virus detecters are 1 day behing the virus writers so the worm hits you before you get the cure and so you are f___ed.
i still don't understand why people use windows anyway
good luck
basically if something gets lost on the windows machine it doesn't really matter anyway (problably yet more viruses and spyware gets corrupter, oh dear eh ?)
:)
:) :)
anyway, i'm a bit techie and for calming down the people, there is no 50% extraspace in any hdd, really
just some wierd hoax brought up by people to make them ruin their hdd-s and buy some new ones
[considering the work/software/configuration loss you will have whily trying this, it's cheaper to buy a new hdd]
you should consider investing some money into
:S), the ventilators use a lot of battery power
more ram, cause avoiding the swapping all the time
will surely help the disk to stay longer in spindowns.
nowaday the kernel can cache most of the files you use
so the bigger ram the bigger cache you will have the less
power it needs to spin
in our office we also noticed that the laptops coolers
are spinning way to much e.g. trying to keep the machine
as cold as possible, you can bring the temperature limits
a bit up (ofcourse don't let the machine burn in hour hands
so keeping them in spindown will help to save the battery
life.
hope it helps.
space elevator ?
:) , they have a ...
... but probably the "method"
>do you know how many chinese dudes run around ?
>about a billion !
>if you pile them all up into a huge mountain
>the top will be in space (we need only 200 km to go,
>every chinese man is about 1.5-1.7m of height, it makes
>uh-oh , about 150 000 chinese dudes ?) so there would be
>a minor loss only in their population
>politics for loosing people count anyway
no ok, seriously now, i actually am a deep friend of the
space elevator idea too, only that i aint quite sure if it
should be a long line from some mystic material
which is attached to something very big and heavy object
in space and would work like the 'elevators' in
skiing sites in the mountains.
or should be it a large pipe which could "upload" stuff
in itself ?
there was a movie i saw on tv, maybe even a serial
where people used the inside explosion of a planet to
travel on it, the explosion caused a big hole of vacuum
which dragged all the objects near the holes into it
and they flew out on the other side. physically i think
it's not impossible
would IRL just crush people to death in the flight.
cool idea though..