Thing is, the solar panels are designed to absorb solar energy, so relatively little reflection occurs. No one disputes that observed phenomenon. I think what is theorised here is an extremely light (read: thin) sail, which must be made as cose to 100% reflective as possible in order to avoid burning up with absorbed solar energy.
This is what is being disputed; whether or not an object that reflects nearly 100% of the photons can have momentum imposed on it by those same photons.
The Feature Freeze did indeed occur in 2002. This is something different, I think referred to as the Code Freeze.
AFAIUI, no major features have been accepted since the Feature Freeze, and from now on, nothing that will majorly alter the code will be accepted. Only bugfixes.
Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks: "Captain, I am picking up dangerous levels of methane and carbon monoxide, but no signs of intelligent life."
Spec-wise, I'd still go for a Zaurus SL-5600 though.
Perhaps Tech Guy 1 needs to explain that Linux is a heck of a lot less illegal than Windows.
If I had to make a decision based on which one I think will be around in ten years, I know which one I'd be picking, and it wouldn't be coming from Redmond.
The fact that he steered an illegal business through the PC computing industry, producing products that 'only just worked', wiping out competition by illegal lock-in processes, and hiring scores of lawyers (employing every dirty quasi-legal trick in the book) and senators to keep it all out of the courtroom makes Bill Gates greedy.
Make no mistakes - MS is by its very nature evil, a cancer in the computing industry that must be eliminated.
The fact they are paying out a dividend cannot possiblybe the whole story. Any decision made by MS to pay out dividends must have an ulterior motive, as their entire decision-making process is nothing more than, "Which course of action will generate more revenue for Microsoft?".
Philanthropic fronts such as the Gates Foundation are merely goodwill generators for Gates and therefore Microsoft (remember Gates is Microsoft in most peoples minds, CEO or not)
Or perhaps was so scared silly of it that he chose not to mention it.
Think about it: the sole advantage of your product is customer lock-in; making it so that anyone considering using a different platform would have a difficult if not impossible time migrating.
Then a technology comes that along that, by fundamental design, is platform-independent, threatening your (and more importantly, your shareholders) revenue stream.
All you can tell your customers is that this new technology isn't that great and won't last, whilst in the meantime prepare a Plan B just in case this threat doesn't go away.
The threat doesn't go away.
So you go buy Mosaic, and "embrace and extend" the standards on which the internet was based, ensuring that all those precious customers of yours won't be able to run their web applications on another platform.
Then tell everyone that you invented this marvelous new technology.
The conventional ground-to-cloud lightning bolts occur because thunderstorms build up huge surpluses of negatively charged particles near the bottom of clouds while objects on the ground collect a surge of positive charges that eventually come together in a bolt.
Erm, so are they saying that current now flows from a positively charged source to negative one?
A business is not designed to make friends, engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a charity.... or an Open Source project.
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Thing is, the solar panels are designed to absorb solar energy, so relatively little reflection occurs. No one disputes that observed phenomenon.
I think what is theorised here is an extremely light (read: thin) sail, which must be made as cose to 100% reflective as possible in order to avoid burning up with absorbed solar energy.
This is what is being disputed; whether or not an object that reflects nearly 100% of the photons can have momentum imposed on it by those same photons.
The Feature Freeze did indeed occur in 2002. This is something different, I think referred to as the Code Freeze.
AFAIUI, no major features have been accepted since the Feature Freeze, and from now on, nothing that will majorly alter the code will be accepted. Only bugfixes.
Golden rule of data cable laying:
Avoid power cables! If you've gotta go near the buggers, cross 'em at right angles.
Am I the only one who looks at this and thinks: "Captain, I am picking up dangerous levels of methane and carbon monoxide, but no signs of intelligent life."
Spec-wise, I'd still go for a Zaurus SL-5600 though.
Perhaps Tech Guy 1 needs to explain that Linux is a heck of a lot less illegal than Windows.
If I had to make a decision based on which one I think will be around in ten years, I know which one I'd be picking, and it wouldn't be coming from Redmond.
There is no "If this were true"; it's happening now, in your local computer store.
It's not uncommon for people to buy 2 or 3 printers at a time for 'spare parts'.
Wrong,
Neither of these actions makes Bill Gates greedy.
The fact that he steered an illegal business through the PC computing industry, producing products that 'only just worked', wiping out competition by illegal lock-in processes, and hiring scores of lawyers (employing every dirty quasi-legal trick in the book) and senators to keep it all out of the courtroom makes Bill Gates greedy.
Make no mistakes - MS is by its very nature evil, a cancer in the computing industry that must be eliminated.
The fact they are paying out a dividend cannot possiblybe the whole story. Any decision made by MS to pay out dividends must have an ulterior motive, as their entire decision-making process is nothing more than, "Which course of action will generate more revenue for Microsoft?".
Philanthropic fronts such as the Gates Foundation are merely goodwill generators for Gates and therefore Microsoft (remember Gates is Microsoft in most peoples minds, CEO or not)
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Yeah, like those colour inkjet printers you can get now for $25 with ink, but any more ink you buy down the road will cost you $50.
... which is why the first thing most mod-chips do now is replace the firmware with a completely different one.
Athlons cost more than Aircraft Carriers!
Those of you itching to buy one might do better to wait a couple months for the release of the USB2 HD backpack.
Just remember to ensure that you get "High-Speed" (480MiB/Sec) USB 2.0, and not "Full-Speed"(12MiB/Sec) USB 2.0.
No problems here. I stopped using mp3 a long time ago.
I just couldn't justify having to make payments to the Fraunhofer institute, who holds the patent on mp3.
Or perhaps was so scared silly of it that he chose not to mention it.
Think about it: the sole advantage of your product is customer lock-in; making it so that anyone considering using a different platform would have a difficult if not impossible time migrating.
Then a technology comes that along that, by fundamental design, is platform-independent, threatening your (and more importantly, your shareholders) revenue stream.
All you can tell your customers is that this new technology isn't that great and won't last, whilst in the meantime prepare a Plan B just in case this threat doesn't go away.
The threat doesn't go away.
So you go buy Mosaic, and "embrace and extend" the standards on which the internet was based, ensuring that all those precious customers of yours won't be able to run their web applications on another platform.
Then tell everyone that you invented this marvelous new technology.
"Gates seems to be considering Linux as a passing thru competition just like OS/2"
Isn't that pretty much what he said about the Internet in the 1996 revision of The Road Ahead? (later edited out)
Yes, I don't think those thick glasses are sufficiently correcting his short-sightedness.
... the guys at Bungie would do the same thing.
They could start developing what they wanted again, without an evil empire dictating to them.
I know,
That word has been literally picked up and thrown around so much that it's significance is reduced to literally smaller than a sesame seed.
That is what I had thought, but the article had stated the opposite (ground +ve, clouds -ve).
Misquote by the reporter, perhaps.
The conventional ground-to-cloud lightning bolts occur because thunderstorms build up huge surpluses of negatively charged particles near the bottom of clouds while objects on the ground collect a surge of positive charges that eventually come together in a bolt.
Erm, so are they saying that current now flows from a positively charged source to negative one?
Man, I can't keep up.
Have you ever tried getting a G440 to run with dual screen and acceleration under X 4.3?
Pity it can't do Ogg Vorbis, and I don't much fancy paying royalties to Fraunhofer for encoding music that I already own.
A business is not designed to make friends, engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a charity.
... or an Open Source project.
Thank you for hilighting the difference.
A business is not designed to make friends, engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a charity. ... or an Open Source project.
Thank you for hilighting the difference.
Sorry, not quite the right page.
The kernel is here.