There are so many options for would be tinkerers. The OP's premise starts from the assumption that one has to buy Apple products.
Want your kids to learn tinkering? Build a PC with them first, then when they are older start them messing around with simple coding then move on to move advanced things. If they have the interest and aptitude for it there are tons of options for tinkerers. Hell, get them into FPGA prototyping. Maybe the next great CPU will be prototyped by some teenager thinking out of the box.
I use wifi for multiple devices on my internal LAN; I wasn't even thinking about Internet. As for bandwidth, I get about 30 mb/sec now and I'm sure that will just keep increasing as well.
My point was there's no such thing as a technology that should not be improved upon for future needs.
The other point is that for most applications, it's simply unnecessary to improve over the speed of modern wireless.
Uh huh, and 640K should be enough for anyone, and there's no reason to go to broadband when a regular old analog modem is sufficient for most applications, and...well you probably get my point by now.
actually, as of now, these robots are just programs in a physics computer experiment... so if they were to evolve to be smart, we'd have a computer virus instead of an actual robot that is evolving. I wonder, if a robot program like this were let loose on the internet, and was capable of learning... what would it learn?
God help us if it decides 4chan and goatse are the 'norm'.
I dunno. The first time I successful assembled the code to boot my '386 into protected mode, spawn a task, print 'Hello, World.' to the screen, then gracefully exit I was rather excited. I was close to 20 years younger then and had less of a life though.
You're worried about price/performance ratios and overall utility rather than being cool and popular by jumping on yet another overpriced 'best thing since sliced bread' bandwagon?
You must be new here...or you must actually have a functioning brain!
"During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications"
You read the article incorrectly. The above means that when they are NOT actively using the link it's available for the new 'LAN'. When the link is being used for 'real' work they fall back to the terminal server.
I know you're joking and yes I found it funny. You gave me a chuckle. I just wanted to point out that they only use RDP when the link is being used for voice/video/data communication between the ISS and the ground. The rest of the time they can use it like any other LAN based Internet, meaning they can use their personal laptops without resorting to RDP.
As long as you are fine with having a single point of failure then go for it. I'll stick to my standalone GPS and my MP3 Player to augment my smartphone.
A toolbox > a multitool. The multitool is great for quick fixes, but nothing replaces using the right tool for the right job, not to mention my aforementioned single point of failure problem.
I never said 'don't go there unless you work for a disaster group'. It was clear that the submitter was not experienced in recovery efforts, and the last thing they need is someone to setup a network. His wife might have something to contribute as a counselor depending upon her expertise and specialties though, that I'll grant you.
People can help by donating money and/or goods. If EVERYONE went to Haiti to 'help' nothing would get done. Let the professionals handle things until everything is stable.
You ignorant fool.... don't you understand that when you purchase a machine with Windows installed you are giving your money to a bloodthirsty, criminal organization bent on enslaving the entire world via proprietary software? Maybe you don't care about true freedom the way Richard Stallman does, but this machine is designed to provide just that. Proprietary software is like pedophilia, sodomy, card counting, or dog fighting. It's sick, immoral, and it harms society as a whole. If you want to enjoy using a computer with a clean conscience, this "Open PC" is the only way to go.
That makes about as much sense as saying downloading copyrighted material is akin to bank robbery. Your analogy is probably even worse than that, and you, sir, are showing YOUR ignorance and foolishness.
Exactly. Moving individual atoms and placing them where we want them is about as fine grained as we can get before we run into the Uncertainty Principle.
I know you're trolling, but there is NOTHING 'evil' about supporting a commonly used browser while also trying to eductate one's customers about alternatives/upgrades. Get a life:)
Exactly so...we'd need 'exotic matter' to have some kind of 'negative mass'.
GP also apparantly doesn't understand that a balloon floats because the gasses inside it are less dense than our atmosphere. Once you're in orbit that is not necessarily the case.
For bulk supplies it would be wonderful. Also, tricks like suspending more delicate components in a semi liquid gel can greatly ameleorate the effects of the rapid accelleration. A lot of raw materials, supplies, and even components for spacecraft could most likely be boosted to orbit by a 'cannon' or some type of mass driver.
There are still a few engineering challenges left to making one though. For one thing we need a big counterweight, and the 'easiest' way to do that is to tow an asteroid into Earth orbit. I'd say building a space tug is an engineering challenge.
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There are so many options for would be tinkerers. The OP's premise starts from the assumption that one has to buy Apple products.
Want your kids to learn tinkering? Build a PC with them first, then when they are older start them messing around with simple coding then move on to move advanced things. If they have the interest and aptitude for it there are tons of options for tinkerers. Hell, get them into FPGA prototyping. Maybe the next great CPU will be prototyped by some teenager thinking out of the box.
I use wifi for multiple devices on my internal LAN; I wasn't even thinking about Internet. As for bandwidth, I get about 30 mb/sec now and I'm sure that will just keep increasing as well.
My point was there's no such thing as a technology that should not be improved upon for future needs.
The other point is that for most applications, it's simply unnecessary to improve over the speed of modern wireless.
Uh huh, and 640K should be enough for anyone, and there's no reason to go to broadband when a regular old analog modem is sufficient for most applications, and...well you probably get my point by now.
Yes, and the NFL never officially used it or claimed it until now. Fail.
actually, as of now, these robots are just programs in a physics computer experiment... so if they were to evolve to be smart, we'd have a computer virus instead of an actual robot that is evolving. I wonder, if a robot program like this were let loose on the internet, and was capable of learning... what would it learn?
God help us if it decides 4chan and goatse are the 'norm'.
Hey now. I for one welcome our new robot...oh fuck it. It's been done too many times.
I'd rather we become the ones who find other intelligent life and eat/enslave/probe/hybridize them, rather than the reverse.
I dunno. The first time I successful assembled the code to boot my '386 into protected mode, spawn a task, print 'Hello, World.' to the screen, then gracefully exit I was rather excited. I was close to 20 years younger then and had less of a life though.
You're worried about price/performance ratios and overall utility rather than being cool and popular by jumping on yet another overpriced 'best thing since sliced bread' bandwagon?
You must be new here...or you must actually have a functioning brain!
You do know what his last words were, right?
"I drank WHAT?" : Socrates
I think I love you in a platonic sort of way.
"During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications"
You read the article incorrectly. The above means that when they are NOT actively using the link it's available for the new 'LAN'. When the link is being used for 'real' work they fall back to the terminal server.
I know you're joking and yes I found it funny. You gave me a chuckle. I just wanted to point out that they only use RDP when the link is being used for voice/video/data communication between the ISS and the ground. The rest of the time they can use it like any other LAN based Internet, meaning they can use their personal laptops without resorting to RDP.
As long as you are fine with having a single point of failure then go for it. I'll stick to my standalone GPS and my MP3 Player to augment my smartphone.
A toolbox > a multitool. The multitool is great for quick fixes, but nothing replaces using the right tool for the right job, not to mention my aforementioned single point of failure problem.
The largest supermarket chain here rents most DVD's for $1.
I never said 'don't go there unless you work for a disaster group'. It was clear that the submitter was not experienced in recovery efforts, and the last thing they need is someone to setup a network. His wife might have something to contribute as a counselor depending upon her expertise and specialties though, that I'll grant you.
People can help by donating money and/or goods. If EVERYONE went to Haiti to 'help' nothing would get done. Let the professionals handle things until everything is stable.
You ignorant fool.... don't you understand that when you purchase a machine with Windows installed you are giving your money to a bloodthirsty, criminal organization bent on enslaving the entire world via proprietary software? Maybe you don't care about true freedom the way Richard Stallman does, but this machine is designed to provide just that. Proprietary software is like pedophilia, sodomy, card counting, or dog fighting. It's sick, immoral, and it harms society as a whole. If you want to enjoy using a computer with a clean conscience, this "Open PC" is the only way to go.
That makes about as much sense as saying downloading copyrighted material is akin to bank robbery. Your analogy is probably even worse than that, and you, sir, are showing YOUR ignorance and foolishness.
It's just one long rambling whine without a lot of substance. The author is crying because they aren't making games exactly the way he wants them now.
Exactly. Moving individual atoms and placing them where we want them is about as fine grained as we can get before we run into the Uncertainty Principle.
I know you're trolling, but there is NOTHING 'evil' about supporting a commonly used browser while also trying to eductate one's customers about alternatives/upgrades. Get a life :)
Who said anything about escape velocity? They want to get things into Low Earth Orbit, not fling them to the Moon.
Exactly so...we'd need 'exotic matter' to have some kind of 'negative mass'.
GP also apparantly doesn't understand that a balloon floats because the gasses inside it are less dense than our atmosphere. Once you're in orbit that is not necessarily the case.
For bulk supplies it would be wonderful. Also, tricks like suspending more delicate components in a semi liquid gel can greatly ameleorate the effects of the rapid accelleration. A lot of raw materials, supplies, and even components for spacecraft could most likely be boosted to orbit by a 'cannon' or some type of mass driver.
There are still a few engineering challenges left to making one though. For one thing we need a big counterweight, and the 'easiest' way to do that is to tow an asteroid into Earth orbit. I'd say building a space tug is an engineering challenge.