I don't think it is childish. Sending email is like sending a postcard it that the contents of that email are easily readable by every computer system that touches the email. Its not like you have to own the domain to read mail sent to it, it just makes it easier.
If you want a letter to be private you put it in an envelope (encrypt it), if you want to verify that you sent the letter you sign, etc.
I doubt a real time system uses any swap. In a real time system you usually spec out before hand what apps are going to run and what resource in what amount they need. So they would know exactly how much ram they need.
That idea was poking me in the back fo the head after I wrote my post. Very good point. At the end of the day I think it definitely takes more concentration just to hold a phone conversation, hands free or note.
We have statistics on the number of accidents where cell phones are involved. I would be interested in numbers comparing _how_ the phone was being used when the accident occured, talking, punching buttons, handfree or phone to the ear.
Very true, IANARS (Rocket Scientist) so I forgot about radiation. But again, surely specs on this stuff is availible from NASA. Maybe there are specs on how much shielding consumer grade electronics need?
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It would seem to me that you would want max reliability on the flight, and max performance on earth. Is the few hours it would take to transfer >500GBs bad enough to preclude copying to a higher performance system upon return. (Assuming the most reliable and fatest solutions turn out to be utually exclusive)
As a side note: If you are sending an experiment up on the shuttle, aren't there resources at NASA you can check with? Surely someone has sent a hard drive into space before. As someone mentioned, The only moving parts would be in the drives, so everything else is probably more robust than the drives, they are the weak link you need to worry about.
Maybe it takes more concentration to listen to a voice coming out of a speaker. When the person is sitting right there, you can get some of their hand expressions and a there voice inflections are clearer.
Also, maybe when you are talking in the car it is just idle chatter, whereas on the phone there is usually a reason for the call.
Well, with PHP yes, all of the DB function calls are prefixed with the database type, so either you write your own abstraction layer, or you do a global search and replace. Or you could use perl where the DB type is only mentioned in the connect function, only one place to change for each app.
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What Friedman is talking about, and has written about before, is globalization. Look at it this way, what are his goals for this article? He wants people to realize that, more than ever, the US is an equal partner in the world, that we need to be good listeners. Information is the great equalizer, right?
He is worried about a return to isolationist tendencies of the early 1900s. Is is worried, because it is no longer possible to isolate ourselve from the world. Of course, it was a bad idea back then, but that's another story.
Perhaps he is using FUD to convince people to listen to him, but in this case I think it for a good goal, encouraging the US to take more responsibilty for its actions present and past and realize that we cannot view the world as us and them.
After all, what better way to get people's ear these days then to discuss the terrorist threat?
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Its my impression that this will make it harder for high paid workers to get overtime. While lower paid workers will get overtime. Seems like the opposite of your statements.
As I see it the problem is that we have so much infrastructure built up around fossil fuels that the cheapest route to energy independence (at least more independence) is promoting domestic fossil fules exploration. The oil crisis of 30 years ago did teach us something. Before that the Middle east had a monopoly on fuel. Now they have far less power to contort the market.
One of major reasons OPEC is so much less important today is the amount of oil being pumped outside of the middle east. Most of that oil was found by exploration prompted by the '73 (I think) oil crisis.
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My point was not that wind energy is not worth the effort. Its all about relative costs. I was merely saying that the cost to recreation would be less on land than water. And I'm sure the economic cost would be less if it weren't for the use of cheap public land (the water) for the use.
The country cannot remove its dependence on fossil fuels overnight. In the short term it can increase its capacity to produce those fules. Either we subsidise domestic companies, or we remain dependant on foreign fuel, with the unfortunately global political consequences (Having to deal with the Saudis etc.).
I would imagine in a hybrid situation that the wear and tear on a gas engine, running at a constant and high efficiency RPM, would be less than the constant acceleration and changes in torque that we now subject our motos to.
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Agreed that it is N.I.M.B.Y. syndrome, but, it would seem to me that windmills on a hill ridge would be less of an obstacle to things like hiking etc. than a bay covered with windwills, which to me would be a huge obstruction to recreational boating in the area. I don't mind the look, as some other posters they can look cool and elegant spinning slowly in the wind. But it sems to me that the impact would be less on land instead of in a popular boating area. I agree with some the people quoted in the article saying that this plan is attractive to private comanies because they can use the public land cheaply.
As far as I know, Flight Sim has been around since about 1992. Did Looking Glass even exist then?
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But when you really get down to, how many of the fundamental technologies that we use were invented in the 60s and 70s? Honestly the saying "The more things change, then more they stay the same" is extremely applicable to computer science. Hell, even COBOL programmers can still find jobs. Hardware advances quickly, old software dies much slower.
Slashdot Mirror
"What other product do you buy that hasn't increased in price at all over the last decade and a half?"
Computers?
Yeah, but diamonds weren't super popular even 50 years ago, people still got married.
Konq also has this feature, with built in queries for many popular sites.
"should"?
Right, because water vapor is going to condense on hot computer components...
I don't think it is childish. Sending email is like sending a postcard it that the contents of that email are easily readable by every computer system that touches the email. Its not like you have to own the domain to read mail sent to it, it just makes it easier.
If you want a letter to be private you put it in an envelope (encrypt it), if you want to verify that you sent the letter you sign, etc.
Several of the system packages will need to be updated, notably the modutils. But nothing a good package system shouldn't be able to handle.
I doubt a real time system uses any swap. In a real time system you usually spec out before hand what apps are going to run and what resource in what amount they need. So they would know exactly how much ram they need.
That idea was poking me in the back fo the head after I wrote my post. Very good point. At the end of the day I think it definitely takes more concentration just to hold a phone conversation, hands free or note.
We have statistics on the number of accidents where cell phones are involved. I would be interested in numbers comparing _how_ the phone was being used when the accident occured, talking, punching buttons, handfree or phone to the ear.
Very true, IANARS (Rocket Scientist) so I forgot about radiation. But again, surely specs on this stuff is availible from NASA. Maybe there are specs on how much shielding consumer grade electronics need?
It would seem to me that you would want max reliability on the flight, and max performance on earth. Is the few hours it would take to transfer >500GBs bad enough to preclude copying to a higher performance system upon return. (Assuming the most reliable and fatest solutions turn out to be utually exclusive)
As a side note: If you are sending an experiment up on the shuttle, aren't there resources at NASA you can check with? Surely someone has sent a hard drive into space before. As someone mentioned, The only moving parts would be in the drives, so everything else is probably more robust than the drives, they are the weak link you need to worry about.
Maybe it takes more concentration to listen to a voice coming out of a speaker. When the person is sitting right there, you can get some of their hand expressions and a there voice inflections are clearer.
Also, maybe when you are talking in the car it is just idle chatter, whereas on the phone there is usually a reason for the call.
Well, with PHP yes, all of the DB function calls are prefixed with the database type, so either you write your own abstraction layer, or you do a global search and replace. Or you could use perl where the DB type is only mentioned in the connect function, only one place to change for each app.
What Friedman is talking about, and has written about before, is globalization. Look at it this way, what are his goals for this article? He wants people to realize that, more than ever, the US is an equal partner in the world, that we need to be good listeners. Information is the great equalizer, right?
He is worried about a return to isolationist tendencies of the early 1900s. Is is worried, because it is no longer possible to isolate ourselve from the world. Of course, it was a bad idea back then, but that's another story.
Perhaps he is using FUD to convince people to listen to him, but in this case I think it for a good goal, encouraging the US to take more responsibilty for its actions present and past and realize that we cannot view the world as us and them.
After all, what better way to get people's ear these days then to discuss the terrorist threat?
Its my impression that this will make it harder for high paid workers to get overtime. While lower paid workers will get overtime. Seems like the opposite of your statements.
Try setting you monitor to 24HZ refresh and see if you notice a difference...
I could be wrong, but I think that Metallica has allowed live recordings nearly from the beginning. Maybe?
Linus Torvalds :-)
As I see it the problem is that we have so much infrastructure built up around fossil fuels that the cheapest route to energy independence (at least more independence) is promoting domestic fossil fules exploration. The oil crisis of 30 years ago did teach us something. Before that the Middle east had a monopoly on fuel. Now they have far less power to contort the market.
One of major reasons OPEC is so much less important today is the amount of oil being pumped outside of the middle east. Most of that oil was found by exploration prompted by the '73 (I think) oil crisis.
My point was not that wind energy is not worth the effort. Its all about relative costs. I was merely saying that the cost to recreation would be less on land than water. And I'm sure the economic cost would be less if it weren't for the use of cheap public land (the water) for the use.
The country cannot remove its dependence on fossil fuels overnight. In the short term it can increase its capacity to produce those fules. Either we subsidise domestic companies, or we remain dependant on foreign fuel, with the unfortunately global political consequences (Having to deal with the Saudis etc.).
I would imagine in a hybrid situation that the wear and tear on a gas engine, running at a constant and high efficiency RPM, would be less than the constant acceleration and changes in torque that we now subject our motos to.
Agreed that it is N.I.M.B.Y. syndrome, but, it would seem to me that windmills on a hill ridge would be less of an obstacle to things like hiking etc. than a bay covered with windwills, which to me would be a huge obstruction to recreational boating in the area. I don't mind the look, as some other posters they can look cool and elegant spinning slowly in the wind. But it sems to me that the impact would be less on land instead of in a popular boating area. I agree with some the people quoted in the article saying that this plan is attractive to private comanies because they can use the public land cheaply.
"who did they buy it from again, looking glass ?"
As far as I know, Flight Sim has been around since about 1992. Did Looking Glass even exist then?
But when you really get down to, how many of the fundamental technologies that we use were invented in the 60s and 70s? Honestly the saying "The more things change, then more they stay the same" is extremely applicable to computer science. Hell, even COBOL programmers can still find jobs. Hardware advances quickly, old software dies much slower.