That's actually a good idea for a company that could be expected to be operating at low margins. Large volume, low-margin companies are not exactly the sweethearts of the market.
The technology that comes out of the program is often as useful or more useful than the stated program goal.
The Internet for instance was supposed to just link military bases and civilian sites coordinating directly with the military (White House, some research universities, and weapons contractors). Now anyone who can afford it can use it. In many countries, that's anyone who chooses to do so.
The technology that comes out of understanding the needs of one item that deals well with fluids of different densities and viscosity gradients could prove very useful.
A plane that's also a submarine sounds pretty useful to marine biologists, oceanographers, and possibly even small plane pilots during bad weather. Remember, it's the air and the surface of the water that experience major turbulence during a storm. Being able to travel under a storm cell and fly again on the other side might increase safety. Being able to fly to the section of ocean you're about to study instead of using a surface ship cuts down on time and money needed to do research. Searching for wrecks or submerged land formations comes to mind, too.
Is it the most directly applicable project to daily life? Probably not. It's still more likely to have a positive impact on us than Total Information Awareness.
No, you're right. In rare cases an overclocked Celeron performed better than the standard-clocked Pentium 3 of the same nominal speed on most benchmarks. It's been a long time since the Pentium 3 and that generation of Celerons, though, and it usually wasn't worth doing even then.
Buy DIMMs that work at lower voltages because they use smaller processes or buy motherboards that separate the refresh power circuits from the data circuits on your RAM. It's doubtful that the data lines need 1.8 or 2.1 volts or whatever.
The main problem is that to get the speeds and efficiency of this part they went down to a tiny little gate technology. That technology requires lower voltages than your 130nm or 90nm RAM does.
Somebody needs to release some RAM that's built on little bitty gates so that it draws tiny little voltages, or the MB manufacturers need to design their boards with separate voltage settings for the RAM and CPU.
If they can get a stock four-banger with nitrous feed and twin turbos bolted on to not slip the clutch until the checkered, they're doing pretty well. I'd expect that setup to fly apart closer to the green.
On a related note, carbon dioxide isn't as bad as methane. Burning methane and releasing it as CO2 may actually help the situation, as methane traps heat 25x as effectively as CO2 on a per-molecule basis.
Over the last 40 years, the world population of farting, belching cattle has doubled. Methane concentration in the atmosphere is rising at 1% annually. Within 50 years, methane could overtake carbon dioxide as the primary greenhouse gas. A big part of this is produced in landfills.
Using landfill gas as an energy source and cutting back on cattle production may be the greenest things we can do.
If, and it's a big if I'll grant, you can raise the water vapor temperature to around 850 degrees cheaply (as in a nuclear power plant) then you can split the water vapor very efficiently and use hydrogen as a decent energy carrier.
Until then, burning CNG on the bike is just as good a solution for overall carbon reduction.
I guess you could live without heads-up displays, GPS, night vision, radar, interstate highways, handheld language translators, gallium arsenide semiconductor chips (used widely in wireless communications), multi-user operating systems, the Lisp programming language, onion routing, and jet propulsion. Development of all of these were funded in whole or in part by US and British defense research groups.
Short-sell the fab spin-off. The likely split will be the parent company will keep all of the assets other than the expensive fabs, and all the liabilities will go to the spin-off. Instant profitability for one, and instant debt for the other.
I'm no pool of lard or swizzle stick. I was in football and wrestling in high school. Yet I still don't want to compete for scarce resources with the type of guys who play college football, let alone pro sports. I'm content to stay moderately healthy and keep an office job.
You're paying for DARPA so we can have nice little things like the Internet, automatically navigating and driving cars, tasers, and load-bearing exoskeletons. The rest of the military budget is so we can still be alive to worry about such things. Whether or not the money is spent doing the right things is another question entirely.
A submersible aircraft carrier that can launch fighters and light bombers seems stealthy enough to me. It also seems, naively at least, a hell of a lot less complicated.
You'd probably need to land first like a regular floatplane. Then you could tilt your wings and control surfaces upside-down rather than tilting the whole craft end-over-end. You'd need to account for structural integrity (at least of the cockpit), and how you'd make something strong enough to take your target depths safely light enough to fly.
There was a time when intelligence of human children and more so of their parents weighed heavily in humans reaching reproductive age. Then we became civilized enough and technologically assisted enough that it makes very little difference.
Of course, being mostly geeks, we probably don't want to go back to when keen natural eyesight, strong muscles, fast nerves, muscle coordination, and agreeable stomachs also weighed heavily in survival.
There is no need to run Exchange at all. There are a number of mail servers that work better and scale easier. There are a number of shared calendar and shared address book solutions, too. It's not all open-source, either, as Novell has Groupwise which is perfectly workable.
AutoCAD is a good point, although CAD software on Linux is consistently improving.
QuickBooks (which IMO frankly sucks, BTW) and PeachTree are the real deal-killers on a Windows-free office for many. GNUCash or any simple double-entry ledger program do not compete with this sufficiently. Once there's a full-fledged small to medium business accounting package for Linux then that's a significant hurdle down. Yes, I might be able to run PeachTree through Wine or CrossOver. No, I'm not willing to call Sage with a nightmare support ticket some day only to be told my installation can't be supported. That's reason enough to have Windows installed on one VM or physical machine per office. QuickBooks or PeachTree handle data and processes too important to overlook.
That F/OSS is widespread and that it didn't get that way based solely on being Free or Open Source are not mutually exclusive ideas.
Most of the Free and Open Source software that has become widely used got that way by being good software with a low price tag (often, but not always, zero).
The freedom to redistribute altered code doesn't make an impact on people who had no plans to do so anyway. The fact that the software is cheap and good because other people did care is what matters to users who are not developers.
That's exactly the assumption their model is meant to test.
Scientists tend to look at an assumption and ask a question about it. They then evaluate the question, and if the question is testable they model or simulate an experiment. Then they evaluate the data generated by the simulated experiment. If that looks promising, they run an actual experiment. Then they interpret the results to determine whether they are compatible with the previously held belief.
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You've never had a development schedule written by a business person, have you?
That's actually a good idea for a company that could be expected to be operating at low margins. Large volume, low-margin companies are not exactly the sweethearts of the market.
The technology that comes out of the program is often as useful or more useful than the stated program goal.
The Internet for instance was supposed to just link military bases and civilian sites coordinating directly with the military (White House, some research universities, and weapons contractors). Now anyone who can afford it can use it. In many countries, that's anyone who chooses to do so.
The technology that comes out of understanding the needs of one item that deals well with fluids of different densities and viscosity gradients could prove very useful.
A plane that's also a submarine sounds pretty useful to marine biologists, oceanographers, and possibly even small plane pilots during bad weather. Remember, it's the air and the surface of the water that experience major turbulence during a storm. Being able to travel under a storm cell and fly again on the other side might increase safety. Being able to fly to the section of ocean you're about to study instead of using a surface ship cuts down on time and money needed to do research. Searching for wrecks or submerged land formations comes to mind, too.
Is it the most directly applicable project to daily life? Probably not. It's still more likely to have a positive impact on us than Total Information Awareness.
No, you're right. In rare cases an overclocked Celeron performed better than the standard-clocked Pentium 3 of the same nominal speed on most benchmarks. It's been a long time since the Pentium 3 and that generation of Celerons, though, and it usually wasn't worth doing even then.
Buy DIMMs that work at lower voltages because they use smaller processes or buy motherboards that separate the refresh power circuits from the data circuits on your RAM. It's doubtful that the data lines need 1.8 or 2.1 volts or whatever.
The main problem is that to get the speeds and efficiency of this part they went down to a tiny little gate technology. That technology requires lower voltages than your 130nm or 90nm RAM does.
Somebody needs to release some RAM that's built on little bitty gates so that it draws tiny little voltages, or the MB manufacturers need to design their boards with separate voltage settings for the RAM and CPU.
So buy some memory made on 45nm processes so it doesn't require 1.8v to do its work.
If they can get a stock four-banger with nitrous feed and twin turbos bolted on to not slip the clutch until the checkered, they're doing pretty well. I'd expect that setup to fly apart closer to the green.
You laugh, but pedaling in a dry and comfortable location beats pedaling when there's ice and snow on the pedals.
Water vapor is a (minor) greenhouse gas.
On a related note, carbon dioxide isn't as bad as methane. Burning methane and releasing it as CO2 may actually help the situation, as methane traps heat 25x as effectively as CO2 on a per-molecule basis.
Over the last 40 years, the world population of farting, belching cattle has doubled. Methane concentration in the atmosphere is rising at 1% annually. Within 50 years, methane could overtake carbon dioxide as the primary greenhouse gas. A big part of this is produced in landfills.
Using landfill gas as an energy source and cutting back on cattle production may be the greenest things we can do.
If, and it's a big if I'll grant, you can raise the water vapor temperature to around 850 degrees cheaply (as in a nuclear power plant) then you can split the water vapor very efficiently and use hydrogen as a decent energy carrier.
Until then, burning CNG on the bike is just as good a solution for overall carbon reduction.
I guess you could live without heads-up displays, GPS, night vision, radar, interstate highways, handheld language translators, gallium arsenide semiconductor chips (used widely in wireless communications), multi-user operating systems, the Lisp programming language, onion routing, and jet propulsion. Development of all of these were funded in whole or in part by US and British defense research groups.
How better to help with financial bailout than to make a big company stay profitable instead of laying off highly skilled workers?
Short-sell the fab spin-off. The likely split will be the parent company will keep all of the assets other than the expensive fabs, and all the liabilities will go to the spin-off. Instant profitability for one, and instant debt for the other.
I'm no pool of lard or swizzle stick. I was in football and wrestling in high school. Yet I still don't want to compete for scarce resources with the type of guys who play college football, let alone pro sports. I'm content to stay moderately healthy and keep an office job.
You're paying for DARPA so we can have nice little things like the Internet, automatically navigating and driving cars, tasers, and load-bearing exoskeletons. The rest of the military budget is so we can still be alive to worry about such things. Whether or not the money is spent doing the right things is another question entirely.
A submersible aircraft carrier that can launch fighters and light bombers seems stealthy enough to me. It also seems, naively at least, a hell of a lot less complicated.
You'd probably need to land first like a regular floatplane. Then you could tilt your wings and control surfaces upside-down rather than tilting the whole craft end-over-end. You'd need to account for structural integrity (at least of the cockpit), and how you'd make something strong enough to take your target depths safely light enough to fly.
There was a time when intelligence of human children and more so of their parents weighed heavily in humans reaching reproductive age. Then we became civilized enough and technologically assisted enough that it makes very little difference.
Of course, being mostly geeks, we probably don't want to go back to when keen natural eyesight, strong muscles, fast nerves, muscle coordination, and agreeable stomachs also weighed heavily in survival.
There is no need to run Exchange at all. There are a number of mail servers that work better and scale easier. There are a number of shared calendar and shared address book solutions, too. It's not all open-source, either, as Novell has Groupwise which is perfectly workable.
AutoCAD is a good point, although CAD software on Linux is consistently improving.
QuickBooks (which IMO frankly sucks, BTW) and PeachTree are the real deal-killers on a Windows-free office for many. GNUCash or any simple double-entry ledger program do not compete with this sufficiently. Once there's a full-fledged small to medium business accounting package for Linux then that's a significant hurdle down. Yes, I might be able to run PeachTree through Wine or CrossOver. No, I'm not willing to call Sage with a nightmare support ticket some day only to be told my installation can't be supported. That's reason enough to have Windows installed on one VM or physical machine per office. QuickBooks or PeachTree handle data and processes too important to overlook.
... and laws.
That F/OSS is widespread and that it didn't get that way based solely on being Free or Open Source are not mutually exclusive ideas.
Most of the Free and Open Source software that has become widely used got that way by being good software with a low price tag (often, but not always, zero).
The freedom to redistribute altered code doesn't make an impact on people who had no plans to do so anyway. The fact that the software is cheap and good because other people did care is what matters to users who are not developers.
I think it's called AATD (acronym automatic translation disorder).
That's exactly the assumption their model is meant to test.
Scientists tend to look at an assumption and ask a question about it. They then evaluate the question, and if the question is testable they model or simulate an experiment. Then they evaluate the data generated by the simulated experiment. If that looks promising, they run an actual experiment. Then they interpret the results to determine whether they are compatible with the previously held belief.
Welcome to science. Have a nice stay.
Use the excess heat to turn a fan to cool the chip. If there's not enough ehat to move the fan, then it's not hot enough to need to be cooled.
MSI is talking up using a Sterling engine to do just that. Engadget has a blurb about it.