Your argument doesn't make any sense. So a gas at.001 atm exposed to a pure vaccuum would expand...infinity, resulting in infinite pressure.
In point of fact, the absolute pressure matters because it defines the amount of kinetic energy contained in the gas volume. A gas confined in a given volume at 10 atm has a great deal more energy than a gas in that same volume at 1 atm. So to use this example linearly, which is probably incorrect, the diver example would have been at least 6 times more violent than a decompression from 1 atm.
Spacesuits are generally pressurised at 5 psi in pure oxygen (necessitating prebreathing), or roughly 0.33 atm. In a real situation in space with control of the air system, I would imagine that the crew would fill an airlock with pure oxygen, reduce the internal pressure as much as possible (you could go below 5 psi if you weren't concerned about maintaining sea level O2 partial pressure), and prebreathe until the nitrogen was blown off. I'd say the odds of explosive decompression would be nil.
The biggest problem, I've always thought, is how do you SEE. You would either have liquid boiling off the eyes, and/or distortion of the eyeball from the internal pressure in the eye - you'd get nearsighted as the eye bulged. NASA should have something like tight-fitting swim goggles onboard, which might allow 20-30 seconds of vision before the air leaked out.
One of the most retarded things implemented on/. Credit for working the idea, but they told me nothing about a story and took up valuable page space. I turned them off a while ago.
Well said. My main motivators were noise and power, and yes, these were worth $100 to me.
I do not understand the fixation on the Mini that PC guys have, it's like Apple pissed in their pool by coming out with a low end box. It's not targeted towards you guys ; if you know what the clock speed is on the CPU you are using, you are already too much of a dork. It was a stab at making an appliance-like computing terminal, not the cheapest stamped metal box you can stuff a Sempron in and barf out of some sweatshop in China.
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment : All programs attempt to expand until they can read mail. Programs that cannot so expand are replaced by those that can.
vi's continued existence is a confusing exception to this rule.
The Audrey was developed by a separate business unit, it had nothing to do with Palm whatsoever, apart from including a HotSync interface. It actually ran QNX. It also wasn't replicating existing devices, it was intended as a stand-alone small form factor information access appliance. Like the Foleo, it was priced at about double what it should have been, hence its demise. When they dumped the inventory on TigerDirect at $199 they sold pretty much every one ever made.
The Audrey was also generally well received, except for the price; the Foleo seems to be garnering universal reviews that summarize as "what brand of fine Colombian are they smoking at Pal HQ?"
When I saw the Foleo, I was in shock. I was certain that the "mystery" product was overhyped, but this was a jaw dropper. The company that arguably invented the first successful mobile computing device has been reduced to *this*? Palm is on the ropes, this being perhaps their last chance to become relevant again, and they not only blow it, they miss the target by 180 degrees.
I lost a lot of respect for Jeff Hawkins here. This doesn't seem to hold out much hope for his other gig either [http://numenta.com/] I also find it notable that Jeff and Donna Dubinsky have been steadily bailing out of Palm for the last year, as have all the rest of the senior management. It seems that they are out of ideas there, and are just sucking as much of the blood out of the corpse as they can.
I note they still have Eric Benhamou still on their board. Having destroyed 3Com, I guess he will not rest until every company he has ever been associated with is reduced to ash. Amazing.
...if a broadband or near broadband wireless connection is not available everywhere, then it is pointless.
By your broadside 'logic' then 3G as currently deployed is pointless, at least in the US. In most airports the usable data rate is modem-like; and here in suburban Chicago any kind of connection via EVDO with Sprint is a crapshoot. You also have the issue in the US of having two competing technologies for delivering the same service which have mutually incompatible access gear. WiFi is at least standardized.
Perhaps WiMax will be the next wave...but I doubt it. Sprint owns most of the spectrum for it in the US, and the market won't back a single-provider solution. What is left, and what works, now - is WiFi.
Open their Razr phones like communicators, not tricorders. Instead they hold up their iPods and and do the "whirmrmrmr" sound while they "scan" the backside of some hottie on the subway, and say "Fascinating" with an upraised eyebrow.
Also dawns on me that only people 35+ years old would have any association between a flip-phone and Star Trek's original communicators. Defines the generation that designed these phones as well as (apparently) Slashdot's demographic.
The difference is that with the Dells at least, what you will get is shite that will devour your cost savings in downtime and IT overhead. My company initially rolled with Dell Inspiron 5150 laptops, a grand total of around 20. Of these 20, 18 of them eventually had some kind of problem requiring repair. We have had many hard disk failures with the IBM T4x laptops which succeeded the Dells.
Then there is the security management overhead in keeping Windows platform machines virus-free. If the difference is really only $200 for Apple product, corporate America should be running at top speed to convert.
Speaking as a male, post-40 who hadn't owned a console since he begged a Coleco Telstar out of his parents to experience the awesome wonder of two paddle hockey, I have neither the time nor the money to bust out on TWO consoles. I bought a Wii after one sit down (or stand up actually) and my wife, who wouldn't come near a game controller, loves Wii bowling.
Nintendo's move with the Wii was a stroke of genius. Until other platforms get the same controller concept and games that use it deployed, Nintendo will be beating the living hell out of their competition.
Frequently Canada has one over on those of us living Down Under the 49th parallel (beer is better for one thing) but...looks like it sucks to be Canadian. I have 6 MB/s down ADSL from AT&T here in Chicago for what would be CND $33.50/month. I've had essentially 100% uptime last 12 months. So you your telco is charging more for half the bandwidth.
I would avoid telling your customers any more about US rates if I were you.....
I see that we either have 3 people with a warped sense of humor here on/. or 3 more morons than previously suspected. Who modded this 'Informative'? I could possibly have seen this modded 'Funny'.
The only Plasma Charges around the earth are on the Vogon Demolition Ships.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=173
So I wonder if this invalidates the contest. This just revealed vulns that aren't patched on the contest machines.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
I totally thought you were, like, the MOST RAD DUDE EVER until you let slip about the Harley. Massive yawn and eyeroll ensued. I'd try and repost this with either a longboard in the back, or some kind of flying apparatus.
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Your argument doesn't make any sense. So a gas at .001 atm exposed to a pure vaccuum would expand...infinity, resulting in infinite pressure.
In point of fact, the absolute pressure matters because it defines the amount of kinetic energy contained in the gas volume. A gas confined in a given volume at 10 atm has a great deal more energy than a gas in that same volume at 1 atm. So to use this example linearly, which is probably incorrect, the diver example would have been at least 6 times more violent than a decompression from 1 atm.
Spacesuits are generally pressurised at 5 psi in pure oxygen (necessitating prebreathing), or roughly 0.33 atm. In a real situation in space with control of the air system, I would imagine that the crew would fill an airlock with pure oxygen, reduce the internal pressure as much as possible (you could go below 5 psi if you weren't concerned about maintaining sea level O2 partial pressure), and prebreathe until the nitrogen was blown off. I'd say the odds of explosive decompression would be nil.
The biggest problem, I've always thought, is how do you SEE. You would either have liquid boiling off the eyes, and/or distortion of the eyeball from the internal pressure in the eye - you'd get nearsighted as the eye bulged. NASA should have something like tight-fitting swim goggles onboard, which might allow 20-30 seconds of vision before the air leaked out.
Remember what happened when Cartman got a V-chip....
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/. Credit for working the idea, but they told me nothing about a story and took up valuable page space. I turned them off a while ago.
One of the most retarded things implemented on
I thought that the features in ZFS were needed to implement Time Machine?
Well said. My main motivators were noise and power, and yes, these were worth $100 to me.
I do not understand the fixation on the Mini that PC guys have, it's like Apple pissed in their pool by coming out with a low end box. It's not targeted towards you guys ; if you know what the clock speed is on the CPU you are using, you are already too much of a dork. It was a stab at making an appliance-like computing terminal, not the cheapest stamped metal box you can stuff a Sempron in and barf out of some sweatshop in China.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/0 3/159239
But it sure sounds schweet.....
Dammit! I knew I should have fone wit hthe mod points.... +1 Funny
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment : All programs attempt to expand until they can read mail. Programs that cannot so expand are replaced by those that can.
vi's continued existence is a confusing exception to this rule.
Let the battle rage for all time and space!
I was on the 3Com Audrey team.
The Audrey was developed by a separate business unit, it had nothing to do with Palm whatsoever, apart from including a HotSync interface. It actually ran QNX. It also wasn't replicating existing devices, it was intended as a stand-alone small form factor information access appliance. Like the Foleo, it was priced at about double what it should have been, hence its demise. When they dumped the inventory on TigerDirect at $199 they sold pretty much every one ever made.
The Audrey was also generally well received, except for the price; the Foleo seems to be garnering universal reviews that summarize as "what brand of fine Colombian are they smoking at Pal HQ?"
When I saw the Foleo, I was in shock. I was certain that the "mystery" product was overhyped, but this was a jaw dropper. The company that arguably invented the first successful mobile computing device has been reduced to *this*? Palm is on the ropes, this being perhaps their last chance to become relevant again, and they not only blow it, they miss the target by 180 degrees.
I lost a lot of respect for Jeff Hawkins here. This doesn't seem to hold out much hope for his other gig either [http://numenta.com/] I also find it notable that Jeff and Donna Dubinsky have been steadily bailing out of Palm for the last year, as have all the rest of the senior management. It seems that they are out of ideas there, and are just sucking as much of the blood out of the corpse as they can.
I note they still have Eric Benhamou still on their board. Having destroyed 3Com, I guess he will not rest until every company he has ever been associated with is reduced to ash. Amazing.
...if a broadband or near broadband wireless connection is not available everywhere, then it is pointless.By your broadside 'logic' then 3G as currently deployed is pointless, at least in the US. In most airports the usable data rate is modem-like; and here in suburban Chicago any kind of connection via EVDO with Sprint is a crapshoot. You also have the issue in the US of having two competing technologies for delivering the same service which have mutually incompatible access gear. WiFi is at least standardized.
Perhaps WiMax will be the next wave...but I doubt it. Sprint owns most of the spectrum for it in the US, and the market won't back a single-provider solution. What is left, and what works, now - is WiFi.
Has some nice features. I like the Roadmap. But the Searching, feh. Only by strings? And I need to write SQL to create a report?
Open their Razr phones like communicators, not tricorders. Instead they hold up their iPods and and do the "whirmrmrmr" sound while they "scan" the backside of some hottie on the subway, and say "Fascinating" with an upraised eyebrow.
Also dawns on me that only people 35+ years old would have any association between a flip-phone and Star Trek's original communicators. Defines the generation that designed these phones as well as (apparently) Slashdot's demographic.
Is it just me, or is it getting OLD in here??
The difference is that with the Dells at least, what you will get is shite that will devour your cost savings in downtime and IT overhead. My company initially rolled with Dell Inspiron 5150 laptops, a grand total of around 20. Of these 20, 18 of them eventually had some kind of problem requiring repair. We have had many hard disk failures with the IBM T4x laptops which succeeded the Dells.
Then there is the security management overhead in keeping Windows platform machines virus-free. If the difference is really only $200 for Apple product, corporate America should be running at top speed to convert.
OK you guys, out of the Wii discussion. If you know what a "rails shooter" is, and I sure don't, you definitely aren't in the Wii target market.
Speaking as a male, post-40 who hadn't owned a console since he begged a Coleco Telstar out of his parents to experience the awesome wonder of two paddle hockey, I have neither the time nor the money to bust out on TWO consoles. I bought a Wii after one sit down (or stand up actually) and my wife, who wouldn't come near a game controller, loves Wii bowling.
Nintendo's move with the Wii was a stroke of genius. Until other platforms get the same controller concept and games that use it deployed, Nintendo will be beating the living hell out of their competition.
Frequently Canada has one over on those of us living Down Under the 49th parallel (beer is better for one thing) but...looks like it sucks to be Canadian. I have 6 MB/s down ADSL from AT&T here in Chicago for what would be CND $33.50/month. I've had essentially 100% uptime last 12 months. So you your telco is charging more for half the bandwidth.
I would avoid telling your customers any more about US rates if I were you.....
I see that we either have 3 people with a warped sense of humor here on /. or 3 more morons than previously suspected. Who modded this 'Informative'? I could possibly have seen this modded 'Funny'.
The only Plasma Charges around the earth are on the Vogon Demolition Ships.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=173
So I wonder if this invalidates the contest. This just revealed vulns that aren't patched on the contest machines.
AC, stand and be recognized. +1 Funny if I had it for ya.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.
I totally thought you were, like, the MOST RAD DUDE EVER until you let slip about the Harley. Massive yawn and eyeroll ensued. I'd try and repost this with either a longboard in the back, or some kind of flying apparatus.
Normally, won't feed a troll, but this one *admitted* it ;-)