... and how most of them either won't be available until after 2002 (or even later) or are infact quite old (voice recognition, distributed computing).
And what the hell is that all about: "Next time you call your bank or your travel agent, that pleasant-sounding woman who answers the phone may be a Web server." <seductive voice>"Hi, I'm Apache, what can I do for you."</seductive voice>
But the server market is tiny compared to the desktop market, and this is unlikely to change. And those who run Linux servers are likely to run more servers than desktops.
a recent Economist article that explores and compares the differences between Clarke/Kubrick's vision of 2001
Odd, the article only talks about the aspect of AI. I have the feeling that the author originally wrote that as a tie-in to A.I., but it got cancelled due to 9/11, and he recycled it now.
So what's your problem? That the ships aft will light up, and thus ruin the darkness? Or that the ships will be "cute" and thus prevent the show from being "dark"?
It tought me that people will believe anything they see in some big budget movie. That they will get paranoid about it, yet totaly ignore that "they" can track their movement via their credit card payments and (even better) their cell phones.
See that antenna on that building? They can tell you're close to it. Now they only have to wait a couple of hours till they can get one of their satellites to fly over you to get one image.
Yes. Even if you had the resolution to read them (61cm = 24inch, that's (1/24)dpi, you'ld need at least 2dpi to read it), license plates can only be seen from close to horizontal views. So if you want to see LPs on a satellite image, you have to tilt it, and shoot from a much higher distance (meaning even more resolution needed), with a lot more atmosphere between (meaning much fuzzier image).
It may be good enough to track somebody, but it certainly isn't good enough to identify somebody. The point is, they don't know where Bin Ladin is, so trying to track him is kind of silly.
There is no special "digital copyright" in Europe, let alone those bizare "if you look at it, you're a criminal" stuff in the DMCA. For years the US gave a shit about international copyright, because Americans made more money copying non-Americans work than they lost the other way around.
Actually Europe was under the threat of nuclear attack because the USA and USSR couldn't get along. Let alone that without Europeans you wouldn't even have been able to build the A-bomb in the first place.
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It doesn't matter, because if you destroy the chip, the note stops being legal currency.
And what the hell is that all about: "Next time you call your bank or your travel agent, that pleasant-sounding woman who answers the phone may be a Web server." <seductive voice>"Hi, I'm Apache, what can I do for you."</seductive voice>
Ahh, no, 512MB is the working minimum for those (Windows) PCs.
Did anybody look like Doonesbury ?-)
5) Use a Beowulf cluster of Athlons with water cooling to heat the water.
But the server market is tiny compared to the desktop market, and this is unlikely to change. And those who run Linux servers are likely to run more servers than desktops.
Ahh, but there is still the EM noise that most our technology creates, like your computer for instance.
Well, maybe it isn't that simple.
So what's your problem? That the ships aft will light up, and thus ruin the darkness? Or that the ships will be "cute" and thus prevent the show from being "dark"?
So who plays Scooby Doo?
Yeah, apart from the good old "heads exploding in vacuum" cliché, it was quite good.
Space Rangers?
OTOH there are probably bacteria in water from Uranus.
So NASA blows its budget and it's the others fault. Thanks for clearing that up.
See that antenna on that building? They can tell you're close to it. Now they only have to wait a couple of hours till they can get one of their satellites to fly over you to get one image.
Yes. Even if you had the resolution to read them (61cm = 24inch, that's (1/24)dpi, you'ld need at least 2dpi to read it), license plates can only be seen from close to horizontal views. So if you want to see LPs on a satellite image, you have to tilt it, and shoot from a much higher distance (meaning even more resolution needed), with a lot more atmosphere between (meaning much fuzzier image).
It may be good enough to track somebody, but it certainly isn't good enough to identify somebody. The point is, they don't know where Bin Ladin is, so trying to track him is kind of silly.
Heck, let's see him find Will in one 61x61 cm^2 pixel ;-)
Stalin had plans on Europ before WWII. Ask the Polish about the joint attack by Germany and the USSR. The US gave shit.
I heard Bin Ladin is in a stealth space station, preparing another attack. Sombody tell Dubya.
There is no special "digital copyright" in Europe, let alone those bizare "if you look at it, you're a criminal" stuff in the DMCA. For years the US gave a shit about international copyright, because Americans made more money copying non-Americans work than they lost the other way around.
Actually Europe was under the threat of nuclear attack because the USA and USSR couldn't get along. Let alone that without Europeans you wouldn't even have been able to build the A-bomb in the first place.
Interesting point - totaly ignoring that NASA asked the others to help fund the ISS, in exchange they could do science projects on the station.
Yuck, I suddenly had the image of Micheal Jackson in mind.