they are a megacorp, but megacorps are very vulnerable to market demands, customer expectations. the fact is that if competition gets intensive enough to force all the players out of the market except for one, that player is going to take advantage of the situation and create a monopoly. we've seen what microsoft has done, and any other corporation put in the same advantage would be in danger of doing the same.
interesting? sheesh...that's more like -1 redundant/troll.
i don't think they will. it'll probably face the same regulations as in-car televisions or DVD players, etc. ok for everyone to use except the driver, obviously.
again, new tech but when will it be available?
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i've already mentioned this before and i don't wish to sound like a trolling wet-blanket, but when is this going to be widely available and adopted? slashdot is chockful of articles of new and emerging technologies that promise ever-increasing leaps and bounds in all these high-tech gadgets that all of us love (which is why we're here on slashdot!). most of these gadgets or other new developments in science and technology only see the light of exhibition or convetion halls and after that, either lousy manging, marketing or just a bad business model kills the product in its infant stages.
the article mentioned that this new wireless system uses a yet un-used 120GHz frequency. i personally feel that this can -both- be a disadvantage and advantage to its entry into the mainstream market. reason being, due to the 120GHz frequency being unused, widespread adoption might be made easier without any regulations but then again, that same lack of regulations would make it hard to regulate and control, and it might be open to abuses by users with malicious intent. worst still, all our beloved governments or telecommunication companies (for some countries, the above two are one and the same for all intents and purposes) will seize the opportunity to reap a handsome profit and end up killing the potential this product might have had in the market.
another factor, and perhaps the -most- important factor to consider is cost. the system may be cheap to built and maybe it didn't cost that much to develop, but we all know capitalism isn't about selling products at a price that indicates its real worth, capabalities, and cost of manufacture or R&D. rather, market demand or greedy corporate figures play an important part, along with sleazy marketing methods that target the ill-informed but rich people, who buy into meaningless numbers generated by the afore-mentioned marketing folks. the success or failure depends on how well the balance, between reaping the most profits and at the same time allowing growth, expansion and demand of the product to propagate is upheld by those corporate capitalist (and usually greedy) folks.
lastly, but not as importantly as the above factor, is whether the four times increase in speed is really needed, or is it on par with a 2.0GHz pentium 4, in that both only have impressive numbers to show off, which represent little of any real-world increase or -need- for performance for most mainstream users. but then again, i've just made a moot point haven't i? the sad reality is that the actual technology or the need for it isn't what sells. its how well its marketed (read: exaggerated and made pretty with big numbers) that really counts, ain't it?
if anyone feels like modding me down, go right ahead. i just had to get that off my mind. i just can't help being a little more and more pessimistic each time a promise of some new-fangled gadget makes headlines on slashdot, only to make headlines a year or two later when it flops over on its belly.
i don't mean to be a wet blanket here but announcement like this on slashdot are pretty common, and most of the time it takes a few years or so for the product to become widely available. more often than not, due to bad marketing decisions or various other reasons, the product doesn't even see the light of day.
yea i know its nice to read about it and the article says 2 years more, but that's what they say all the time. rewritable DVDs were such a hot topic once but when they actually came out all the different formats and standards adopted by the different companies made it pretty much unsuited to mass-market adoption, not to mention the price of the drives themselves, though those have dropped a bit since.
speaking of drives, the article mentioned the cost of the discs, but not the cost of the players themselves. the discs might be dirt cheap after a while, but are the drives going to cost too much for the average consumer to afford? and should it be cheap enough to be competitive with DVDs and HDTV will this get any opposition from rival companies who may view this as a threat to their products?
another thing i've noticed between the different ethnic groups is the threshold for salty or spicy food.
asians and indians in general seem to be able to take more spicy and salty food before the food starts to taste bad to them, whereas i've noticed caucasians in general can't take one bit of spicy food, and their threshold for salt is quite low.
i had this classmate who has a caucasian dad and an asian mum, and he could take more spicy food than other caucasians, though not as much as asians or indians. ditto for salty food.
this perhaps explains why asians on holiday in europe or america always complain about the food being too rich and sweet and caucasians in turn, complain about asian food being too salty and spicy.
has anyone else noticed something similar? my guess is this has definitely got to do with genetics, though only to a certain extent since i've also noticed that resistance to spicy and salty food can be built up over time.
Re:See rotor. See rotor break. Fall, fall, fall.
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"True enough. A helicopter mechanic (who may have been pulling my chain) once told me about a critical connector that he called a "Jesus bolt". Why? Because if that bolt lets loose, you're going to see Jesus."
yup....to be precise the jesus nut/bolt, was the nut that holds the rotor to the airframe of the helicopter. i suppose if it came loose you could eject yourself out of the cockpit without getting sliced up:)
285 kelvin is not about 12 degrees celsius, its exactly 12 degrees celsius
an increase/decrease of 1 kelvin in temperature is the same as an increase/decrease in temperature of 1 degrees celsius exactly. kelvin and degrees celsius only differ in that they have a different starting point.
degrees celsius is based on the melting and boiling points of water, whereby 0 degrees celsius is the melting point, and 100 degrees is the boiling point. kelvin is based on the theoratical temperature of absolute zero, which would be equivalent to 0 kelvin, or -273 degrees celsius. therefore, 273 kelvin is equal to 0 degrees celsius and 373 kelvin is 100 degrees celsius.
i hope that clears this up, because people in physics class always used to get confused about it due to some teachers that can't teach for nuts (like the one i had).
With skirts, the person wearing them is aware the someone in the right spot can look up, and makes a choice. Pants which are actually skirts, on the other hand, could easily be considered an invasion of privacy. Although it is an interesting idea...
"You also might want to do a little research on other countries that have introduced mandatory voting... I'll give you a hint: it hasn't created the political utopias some people imagine it would."
i agree. any government which has the power to make voting mandatory, would also have the power to put itself in office by any means possible. has anyone read up on singapore? its "officially" a democracy but most foreign observers consider it a friendly democracy.
stuff made in china now has decent quality, and stuff made in taiwan has respectable quality. i've never found anything that was made in japan with quality less than oustanding.
you're just an american commie socialist bastard so fuck off whilst you can.
i'm not from malaysia, but i'm from singapore, which is just south of malaysia.
i personally don't think this story is false, as the state of lawlessness in malaysia can be quite bad at times.
just a year or two ago, bandits masqueraded as military officials and stole over a hundred M16s from a malaysian armoury in broad daylight. another bunch of them stole some steyr AUGs, and both gangs went on a spate of robberies before the authorities managed to catch up with them.
in view of the above, i don't think malaysian software pirates shifting their base of operations to a ship is that unlikely =) besides, the malaysian authorities recent clamp-down on software pirates has been quite well publicized so such a reaction from the pirates may not be that far-fetched.
you can only get your hands on them if you're in the vincinity.....like in thailand, indonesia, singapore, etc. your best bet is still warez if you're not living in any of the above:)
(although a bit choppy even on a 1.33 ghz athlon and gf2 gts)
the trailer was encoded at a low bitrate, and has nothing to do with your computer's setup; its choppy on my 1.33ghz athlon too, and i've seen my computer handle quicktime movies that have a much higher resolution and bitrate before.
because most people still leave backdoors to their computers open.
if i'm not mistaken, this only makes the transfer of quantum encrypted data secure. most of the methods of transferring encrypted today though probably not as secure as this, are more than enough for most needs and purposes.
its frequently the integrity of either the computer sending the data or the computer receiving the data that gets compromised, and that is usually the issue.
its still a positive development nonetheless though.
"What if lack of development actually stemmed from the state of ignorance third-world ppl are in?"
he actually does have a point there....a very good one. i think "insightful or interesting" would have been a more appropriate modification.
indonesian farmers still burn lots of rainforests every year so as to fertilize the soil, which causes massive deforestation and environmental polution, of which the latter affects almost the whole of southeast asia. the ignorance of those farmers of the far-lying consequences of their actions and of better and less harmful methods of fertilizing the soil is one of the main reasons for this. that, and their obstinance.
as long as the fuel isn't exposed to a direct flame or electrical spark (or something else) and oxygen, it wouldn't ignite.
in fact crude oil is refined by taking advantage of the different boiling points of the various components of crude oil. if it can be boiled safely on an industrial scale i don't see why they can't use it to absorb some heat from the laser.
if you tried to dissipitate 900kw of heat into your car's gas tank, the petrol would start boiling and maybe you'll rupture your tank or screw up your car in some other way, but the petrol won't ignite as a direct result of heat being dissipitated into it, at least not by an open flame.
it seems to me that testing the wings at speeds "close to supersonice" would be necessary, since the plane would first have to get past that speed before it can go supersonic, right?
what's the point of having a flexy-wing plane that can fly at supersonic speeds, but becomes unpredictable, or at worst uncontrollable at the speeds it has to pass through first before becoming supersonic?
i'm guessing if they can't get the plane to fly properly at speeds close to the speed of sound, they can probably use this technique on surveillance planes which need to be able to loiter around in places longer, since the lighter weight would help with fuel efficiency.
one thing's for sure, i don't think this glass is going to be used on cars, because the water flowing down the glass in a sheet instead of droplets might severely hamper your view which would be a serious hazard. i think.
according to the article its titanium dioxide, not titanium, so i don't think its as tough as titanium. i'm not sure about this though, cos i'm basing that on iron oxide, which is much weaker than iron so someone correct me if i'm wrong.
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nice troll there.
they are a megacorp, but megacorps are very vulnerable to market demands, customer expectations. the fact is that if competition gets intensive enough to force all the players out of the market except for one, that player is going to take advantage of the situation and create a monopoly. we've seen what microsoft has done, and any other corporation put in the same advantage would be in danger of doing the same.
interesting? sheesh...that's more like -1 redundant/troll.
i don't think they will. it'll probably face the same regulations as in-car televisions or DVD players, etc. ok for everyone to use except the driver, obviously.
i've already mentioned this before and i don't wish to sound like a trolling wet-blanket, but when is this going to be widely available and adopted? slashdot is chockful of articles of new and emerging technologies that promise ever-increasing leaps and bounds in all these high-tech gadgets that all of us love (which is why we're here on slashdot!). most of these gadgets or other new developments in science and technology only see the light of exhibition or convetion halls and after that, either lousy manging, marketing or just a bad business model kills the product in its infant stages.
the article mentioned that this new wireless system uses a yet un-used 120GHz frequency. i personally feel that this can -both- be a disadvantage and advantage to its entry into the mainstream market. reason being, due to the 120GHz frequency being unused, widespread adoption might be made easier without any regulations but then again, that same lack of regulations would make it hard to regulate and control, and it might be open to abuses by users with malicious intent. worst still, all our beloved governments or telecommunication companies (for some countries, the above two are one and the same for all intents and purposes) will seize the opportunity to reap a handsome profit and end up killing the potential this product might have had in the market.
another factor, and perhaps the -most- important factor to consider is cost. the system may be cheap to built and maybe it didn't cost that much to develop, but we all know capitalism isn't about selling products at a price that indicates its real worth, capabalities, and cost of manufacture or R&D. rather, market demand or greedy corporate figures play an important part, along with sleazy marketing methods that target the ill-informed but rich people, who buy into meaningless numbers generated by the afore-mentioned marketing folks. the success or failure depends on how well the balance, between reaping the most profits and at the same time allowing growth, expansion and demand of the product to propagate is upheld by those corporate capitalist (and usually greedy) folks.
lastly, but not as importantly as the above factor, is whether the four times increase in speed is really needed, or is it on par with a 2.0GHz pentium 4, in that both only have impressive numbers to show off, which represent little of any real-world increase or -need- for performance for most mainstream users. but then again, i've just made a moot point haven't i? the sad reality is that the actual technology or the need for it isn't what sells. its how well its marketed (read: exaggerated and made pretty with big numbers) that really counts, ain't it?
if anyone feels like modding me down, go right ahead. i just had to get that off my mind. i just can't help being a little more and more pessimistic each time a promise of some new-fangled gadget makes headlines on slashdot, only to make headlines a year or two later when it flops over on its belly.
i don't mean to be a wet blanket here but announcement like this on slashdot are pretty common, and most of the time it takes a few years or so for the product to become widely available. more often than not, due to bad marketing decisions or various other reasons, the product doesn't even see the light of day.
yea i know its nice to read about it and the article says 2 years more, but that's what they say all the time. rewritable DVDs were such a hot topic once but when they actually came out all the different formats and standards adopted by the different companies made it pretty much unsuited to mass-market adoption, not to mention the price of the drives themselves, though those have dropped a bit since.
speaking of drives, the article mentioned the cost of the discs, but not the cost of the players themselves. the discs might be dirt cheap after a while, but are the drives going to cost too much for the average consumer to afford? and should it be cheap enough to be competitive with DVDs and HDTV will this get any opposition from rival companies who may view this as a threat to their products?
another thing i've noticed between the different ethnic groups is the threshold for salty or spicy food.
asians and indians in general seem to be able to take more spicy and salty food before the food starts to taste bad to them, whereas i've noticed caucasians in general can't take one bit of spicy food, and their threshold for salt is quite low.
i had this classmate who has a caucasian dad and an asian mum, and he could take more spicy food than other caucasians, though not as much as asians or indians. ditto for salty food.
this perhaps explains why asians on holiday in europe or america always complain about the food being too rich and sweet and caucasians in turn, complain about asian food being too salty and spicy.
has anyone else noticed something similar? my guess is this has definitely got to do with genetics, though only to a certain extent since i've also noticed that resistance to spicy and salty food can be built up over time.
"True enough. A helicopter mechanic (who may have been pulling my chain) once told me about a critical connector that he called a "Jesus bolt". Why? Because if that bolt lets loose, you're going to see Jesus."
:)
yup....to be precise the jesus nut/bolt, was the nut that holds the rotor to the airframe of the helicopter. i suppose if it came loose you could eject yourself out of the cockpit without getting sliced up
"285 K is 285 Kelvin which is about 12C"
285 kelvin is not about 12 degrees celsius, its exactly 12 degrees celsius
an increase/decrease of 1 kelvin in temperature is the same as an increase/decrease in temperature of 1 degrees celsius exactly. kelvin and degrees celsius only differ in that they have a different starting point.
degrees celsius is based on the melting and boiling points of water, whereby 0 degrees celsius is the melting point, and 100 degrees is the boiling point. kelvin is based on the theoratical temperature of absolute zero, which would be equivalent to 0 kelvin, or -273 degrees celsius. therefore, 273 kelvin is equal to 0 degrees celsius and 373 kelvin is 100 degrees celsius.
i hope that clears this up, because people in physics class always used to get confused about it due to some teachers that can't teach for nuts (like the one i had).
i fully agree. if i had moderator points i would have used them up on your post.
With skirts, the person wearing them is aware the someone in the right spot can look up, and makes a choice. Pants which are actually skirts, on the other hand, could easily be considered an invasion of privacy. Although it is an interesting idea...
"You also might want to do a little research on other countries that have introduced mandatory voting... I'll give you a hint: it hasn't created the political utopias some people imagine it would."
i agree. any government which has the power to make voting mandatory, would also have the power to put itself in office by any means possible. has anyone read up on singapore? its "officially" a democracy but most foreign observers consider it a friendly democracy.
"ExtremeTech tested the stock version of each car, but also added a faster engine to the ZipZap to see if it would boost speed."
doh! i suppose adding a faster engine would make it go slower??
"given to women who are victims of domestic violence"
not all victims of domestic violence are women. are they leaving the men who are victims of domestic violence out of this deal?
stuff made in china now has decent quality, and stuff made in taiwan has respectable quality. i've never found anything that was made in japan with quality less than oustanding.
you're just an american commie socialist bastard so fuck off whilst you can.
i'm not from malaysia, but i'm from singapore, which is just south of malaysia.
i personally don't think this story is false, as the state of lawlessness in malaysia can be quite bad at times.
just a year or two ago, bandits masqueraded as military officials and stole over a hundred M16s from a malaysian armoury in broad daylight. another bunch of them stole some steyr AUGs, and both gangs went on a spate of robberies before the authorities managed to catch up with them.
in view of the above, i don't think malaysian software pirates shifting their base of operations to a ship is that unlikely =) besides, the malaysian authorities recent clamp-down on software pirates has been quite well publicized so such a reaction from the pirates may not be that far-fetched.
you can only get your hands on them if you're in the vincinity.....like in thailand, indonesia, singapore, etc. your best bet is still warez if you're not living in any of the above :)
The guy who wrote it didn't think too much of Lindows before looking at it but he seemed to like it after doing a hands-on
:)
new blood for the brotherhood and more converts for the cult eh?
(although a bit choppy even on a 1.33 ghz athlon and gf2 gts)
the trailer was encoded at a low bitrate, and has nothing to do with your computer's setup; its choppy on my 1.33ghz athlon too, and i've seen my computer handle quicktime movies that have a much higher resolution and bitrate before.
because most people still leave backdoors to their computers open.
if i'm not mistaken, this only makes the transfer of quantum encrypted data secure. most of the methods of transferring encrypted today though probably not as secure as this, are more than enough for most needs and purposes.
its frequently the integrity of either the computer sending the data or the computer receiving the data that gets compromised, and that is usually the issue.
its still a positive development nonetheless though.
"What if lack of development actually stemmed from the state of ignorance third-world ppl are in?"
he actually does have a point there....a very good one. i think "insightful or interesting" would have been a more appropriate modification.
indonesian farmers still burn lots of rainforests every year so as to fertilize the soil, which causes massive deforestation and environmental polution, of which the latter affects almost the whole of southeast asia. the ignorance of those farmers of the far-lying consequences of their actions and of better and less harmful methods of fertilizing the soil is one of the main reasons for this. that, and their obstinance.
as long as the fuel isn't exposed to a direct flame or electrical spark (or something else) and oxygen, it wouldn't ignite.
in fact crude oil is refined by taking advantage of the different boiling points of the various components of crude oil. if it can be boiled safely on an industrial scale i don't see why they can't use it to absorb some heat from the laser.
if you tried to dissipitate 900kw of heat into your car's gas tank, the petrol would start boiling and maybe you'll rupture your tank or screw up your car in some other way, but the petrol won't ignite as a direct result of heat being dissipitated into it, at least not by an open flame.
yea. i believe that's the same reason why countries aren't fighting over antarctica or france.
it seems to me that testing the wings at speeds "close to supersonice" would be necessary, since the plane would first have to get past that speed before it can go supersonic, right?
what's the point of having a flexy-wing plane that can fly at supersonic speeds, but becomes unpredictable, or at worst uncontrollable at the speeds it has to pass through first before becoming supersonic?
i'm guessing if they can't get the plane to fly properly at speeds close to the speed of sound, they can probably use this technique on surveillance planes which need to be able to loiter around in places longer, since the lighter weight would help with fuel efficiency.
the windshield does have wipers, but what about the side and rear windows? and what about the external side view mirrors?
one thing's for sure, i don't think this glass is going to be used on cars, because the water flowing down the glass in a sheet instead of droplets might severely hamper your view which would be a serious hazard. i think.
according to the article its titanium dioxide, not titanium, so i don't think its as tough as titanium. i'm not sure about this though, cos i'm basing that on iron oxide, which is much weaker than iron so someone correct me if i'm wrong.