The article links to this article which describes better how it actually works.
"Reading the memory consists of a simple, one-dimensional scan, because it is self-formatted into precise tracks. There is no need to search in two dimensions for the location of a bit. The signal is highly predictable since all atoms have the same shape and occur on well-defined lattice sites. That allows for a high level of filtering and error correction"
"Writing is more difficult. While atoms can be positioned controllably at liquid helium temperature, that is much harder to achieve that at room temperature"
..a microsoft conspiracy theory per day keep you going, here we go:
when Microsoft originally started shipping the xbox, they WISHED that that Linux would run on it as soon as possible. Why? They wanted a good excuse for entering the desktop/home PC market without being accused for using their monopoly power.
Now, because Linux has already soon changed the xbox from a game console to a nearly fullblown home PC - Microsoft can do it with windows as well. Want more proof, here. They are practising for this take over in many fronts. And it's not only PCs, they also bought a mobile phone plant in china. Oh yes, they will be selling the whole package SW+HW very soon.
I have to suck my words back a bit. I based the comment only on the content of the first page of the review, which is overly positive. Because of that I did not even bother browsing forward thinking that the same flattering story continues. Now that I did, it is, actually a rather good review.
My apologies for badmouthing based on partial facts.:)
it does not seem like a review at all. Instead, it is a full load of marketing words without any neutral statements. No data to base decisions on. I have seen more neutral marketing brochures.
> I don't know where you work, but I think the rest of us make far less then $100 an hour.
I don't make that either - but I talked about the effect on GNP;) GNP == "An estimate of the total money value of all the final goods and services produced in a given one-year period by the factors of production owned by a particular country's residents"
So, in other words the sum that your company charges from it's customer for your work. Or the value that it represents to your company. Atleast here in Europe, it's "about so" that if you are worth x to the company per hour, then you can divide this by around 1.8 - 3.2 to get your salary.
uhmmm in case you started wondering, there was a little mistake in the formula, I forgot to write about the 2235 minutes saved because the more clever ones could know that it is a repost, and could read just the frontpage and not the comments;))
like this one you Slashcode developers could develop a robust action-replay mechanism to smoothly and realistically simulate the creation of discussion threads in the original posting. To make the effect more realistic, add a few "repost, kill the moderators" comments.
Aproximating that there is around 67,000 readers who peek into this story at this hour,around 95 people who actually make a comment, 40 people who make a comment but hit the cancel button, and 140 people who try to make a comment but do not come up with anything, this simulational mechnanism could save aproximately (95 * 3 mins) + (40 * 2 mins) + (140 * 4 mins) = 3160 minutes. If one hour of work of an average slashdotted costs $100, the savings would be around $5266,67. Think about the effect on GNP!
> Eddie Bleasdale..."It's a stupidity because open source is by definition vendor neutral,"
by which definition?
Atleast not real-world definition, open source can be used as a tool for promoting or causing harm to a specific vendor(s).
From Open Source Definition : "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons"
So is it this? The license may not dicriminate anyone but you can choose to use an open source license when you know that selecting it instead of something else as licensing method discriminates someone. For example, if someone has cumulated capital in some form (wisdom, money, whatever) and then you half this someones capital (even if it was gathered by discrimination) by opensourcing you surely discriminate this someone. That does not mean open source is bad, it's still good atleast in my opinion, but it is not a magic hippiee miracle.
"Future plans by TransOrbital include the creation of a network of navigation beacons on the moon to help future lunar explorers and possibly ultra-secure data storage facilities."
Don't these guys know anything about marketing!?! What they should have mentioned is building the first Wi-Fi network and WarShuttling.
In your own head. What rewards you? Is it money? Is it scientific fame? Is it making products used by millions? Is it doing something ethically good? Is it long lasting research work? Is it the ability to change work-description quickly?
I read this Licentiate Thesis work sometime ago, and if you are interested in getting to know virtual reality/environment techniques and CAVE construction it is excellent. It's PDF and over 700K, 146 pages.
Both of the articles mentioned that fuel is not the only problem, the rest of the satellite has degraded as well. So, why don't they come up with a good garbage collection method to periodically get rid of the old sattelites. This could also partially answer the problem that it's starting to be pretty crowded there in the orbit already.
Actually, about everything you carry or wear might pose a risk to the plane. Imagine the electric shocks you can generate by wearing cheap nylon clothes and trying to find a good position in the lousy seat for 12 hours. The solution is simple: fly naked. Business classers could have a turkish sauna.
This method could be first field-tested by a volunteer group of female flight stewards.
> "steal a child's meal, pedal your way to the net"
Uh? Like how does it make you steal a child's meal if your village gets a generator which can be used to generate electricity by foot pedals? Instead, they could use the SAME generator and battery for warming up the food. Just if Anonymous Cowards started surfing the whole day, it might become a problem
Providing the villages with access to information and with means of communication can instead change something in the long run too. Or?? Did you have a point, if so please explain - your comment did not make any sense to me.
This is one of the best projects I have seen in many years. They use extremely simple but still very innovative solutions - which are based on technologies that have already proved working - put the together and voila!
Basically, this system could work without maintenance or electricity in any of it's elements for many years. And that is just amazing.
"The equipment will be powered by electricity stored in a car battery charged by "foot cranks" which are essentially bicycle wheels and pedals hooked to a small generator. The generator is connected to a car battery and the car battery is connected to the computer.
Connection with each computer to the others will be by radio local area network (LAN). Each village will connect to one repeater station powered by a solar means on the ridge near the river valley. That station will then send the radio signal to the microwave tower nearby and eventually to a server in Vientiane that will connect the villages to the internet."
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> Dude, you REALLY need to get out of the house. No, seriously, this is not even trolling.
> Find the nearest walking trail and follow it as long as you can. You need fresh air.
hehe! do I have this effective geekcamouflage, cool:) I will have to show this to my two kids when they start thinking I am a dinosaur:)
maybe the could instead reverse the concept and build a service which would allow people to request a peer-review on certain research work. Maybe it could be easier to find the funding like this - also the scientist-community like the 30,000 supporters who signed in support the "The Public Library of Science" effort, could mass-fund the peer-reviews.
They will, anyway have limited funding for the reviews and can never cover everything, so why not target it based on demand. Or...is this how it works already?:)
> This new hardware|software is great, but unless it has feature ____,...it is ABSOULTELY worthless.
In countries which have mobile penetration of around 80%, including where I live, a phone is not a feature in a PDA, it is a must. People are not likely to carry more than 1 device with them. They buy first the mobile phone, and then the PDA. My point, which you did not get, was that the product should have been a mobile phone, and the PDA functionality a "feature". I quess US just lags behind in this and your reality is different.
" intended to study how people will try to interact with and relate to an 'alien' creature that seems organic but is not anthropomorphic"
Based on a empirical research conducted amongst 42^42 volunteering/. readers an average humanoid reacts by first looking up some words from the thesaurus continued with anthropomorphous expressions like *pause* *sigh* and *Huh!*
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"Reading the memory consists of a simple, one-dimensional scan, because it is self-formatted into precise tracks. There is no need to search in two dimensions for the location of a bit. The signal is highly predictable since all atoms have the same shape and occur on well-defined lattice sites. That allows for a high level of filtering and error correction"
"Writing is more difficult. While atoms can be positioned controllably at liquid helium temperature, that is much harder to achieve that at room temperature"
when Microsoft originally started shipping the xbox, they WISHED that that Linux would run on it as soon as possible. Why? They wanted a good excuse for entering the desktop/home PC market without being accused for using their monopoly power.
Now, because Linux has already soon changed the xbox from a game console to a nearly fullblown home PC - Microsoft can do it with windows as well. Want more proof, here. They are practising for this take over in many fronts. And it's not only PCs, they also bought a mobile phone plant in china. Oh yes, they will be selling the whole package SW+HW very soon.
Yes, you are correct. Thanks for making me re-read the review. :) My apologies are here.
I have to suck my words back a bit. I based the comment only on the content of the first page of the review, which is overly positive. Because of that I did not even bother browsing forward thinking that the same flattering story continues. Now that I did, it is, actually a rather good review.
My apologies for badmouthing based on partial facts. :)
it does not seem like a review at all. Instead, it is a full load of marketing words without any neutral statements. No data to base decisions on. I have seen more neutral marketing brochures.
Read the article High-Tech Ways to Handle End-of-Life Issues and visit this site of a company that organizes (semi) virtual funerals.
I don't make that either - but I talked about the effect on GNP ;) GNP == "An estimate of the total money value of all the final goods and services produced in a given one-year period by the factors of production owned by a particular country's residents"
So, in other words the sum that your company charges from it's customer for your work. Or the value that it represents to your company. Atleast here in Europe, it's "about so" that if you are worth x to the company per hour, then you can divide this by around 1.8 - 3.2 to get your salary.
uhmmm in case you started wondering, there was a little mistake in the formula, I forgot to write about the 2235 minutes saved because the more clever ones could know that it is a repost, and could read just the frontpage and not the comments ;))
Aproximating that there is around 67,000 readers who peek into this story at this hour,around 95 people who actually make a comment, 40 people who make a comment but hit the cancel button, and 140 people who try to make a comment but do not come up with anything, this simulational mechnanism could save aproximately (95 * 3 mins) + (40 * 2 mins) + (140 * 4 mins) = 3160 minutes. If one hour of work of an average slashdotted costs $100, the savings would be around $5266,67. Think about the effect on GNP!
by which definition?
Atleast not real-world definition, open source can be used as a tool for promoting or causing harm to a specific vendor(s). From Open Source Definition : "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons"
So is it this? The license may not dicriminate anyone but you can choose to use an open source license when you know that selecting it instead of something else as licensing method discriminates someone. For example, if someone has cumulated capital in some form (wisdom, money, whatever) and then you half this someones capital (even if it was gathered by discrimination) by opensourcing you surely discriminate this someone. That does not mean open source is bad, it's still good atleast in my opinion, but it is not a magic hippiee miracle.
Don't these guys know anything about marketing!?! What they should have mentioned is building the first Wi-Fi network and WarShuttling.
In your own head. What rewards you? Is it money? Is it scientific fame? Is it making products used by millions? Is it doing something ethically good? Is it long lasting research work? Is it the ability to change work-description quickly?
I read this Licentiate Thesis work sometime ago, and if you are interested in getting to know virtual reality/environment techniques and CAVE construction it is excellent. It's PDF and over 700K, 146 pages.
The site has some other good stuff as well, like: Bootup screens, Magazine adverts, and emulators on which you can run the ROMs of the classic games. Thanks to Whoeverrunsthatsite.
Both of the articles mentioned that fuel is not the only problem, the rest of the satellite has degraded as well. So, why don't they come up with a good garbage collection method to periodically get rid of the old sattelites. This could also partially answer the problem that it's starting to be pretty crowded there in the orbit already.
to broadcast their mysql database connection details upon database error. I hope they remembered to put --skip-networking in the my.cnf :/
This method could be first field-tested by a volunteer group of female flight stewards.
I believe your expertize in this area is enough for the whole world.
Uh? Like how does it make you steal a child's meal if your village gets a generator which can be used to generate electricity by foot pedals? Instead, they could use the SAME generator and battery for warming up the food. Just if Anonymous Cowards started surfing the whole day, it might become a problem
Providing the villages with access to information and with means of communication can instead change something in the long run too. Or?? Did you have a point, if so please explain - your comment did not make any sense to me.
Basically, this system could work without maintenance or electricity in any of it's elements for many years. And that is just amazing.
"The equipment will be powered by electricity stored in a car battery charged by "foot cranks" which are essentially bicycle wheels and pedals hooked to a small generator. The generator is connected to a car battery and the car battery is connected to the computer. Connection with each computer to the others will be by radio local area network (LAN). Each village will connect to one repeater station powered by a solar means on the ridge near the river valley. That station will then send the radio signal to the microwave tower nearby and eventually to a server in Vientiane that will connect the villages to the internet."
> Find the nearest walking trail and follow it as long as you can. You need fresh air.
hehe! do I have this effective geekcamouflage, cool :) I will have to show this to my two kids when they start thinking I am a dinosaur :)
because picking up specific instances would require publishing opinions that are in no way related to /. and would just shock you.
They will, anyway have limited funding for the reviews and can never cover everything, so why not target it based on demand. Or...is this how it works already? :)
In countries which have mobile penetration of around 80%, including where I live, a phone is not a feature in a PDA, it is a must. People are not likely to carry more than 1 device with them. They buy first the mobile phone, and then the PDA. My point, which you did not get, was that the product should have been a mobile phone, and the PDA functionality a "feature". I quess US just lags behind in this and your reality is different.
Based on a empirical research conducted amongst 42^42 volunteering /. readers an average humanoid reacts by first looking up some words from the thesaurus continued with anthropomorphous expressions like *pause* *sigh* and *Huh!*