What kind of environmental concerns will be raised about this? I remember the project in Canada or whatever (name slips me right now, some big bay) that was being considered for damming to produce tidal power. However, because of the amount of water involved, it would change water levels all over the world. Obviously, this does not involve a dam, but wouldn't the turbine harm aquatic life, and how would the turbines disrupt normal sediment flow?
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Vote for Bill Gates! He'll buy Iraq to end this madness!
I'm not surprised by this. If they really cared about the internet and such, we would have people like Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds (oh yeah, and CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco and...) as top Presidential/Senatorial/Congressional consultants and there would be GOOD anti-spam legislation.
The other concern was not about the 1999 flyby, but rather the launch in 1997. People were afraid that the stress created by the launch would cause the plutonium to leak, or that the rocket would explode on launch and splatter plutonium all over Florida. Obviously, the NASA engineers did their job and properly converted meters to feet, because (as far as we know), there are no problems with the plutonium fuel cell.
Huygens (Christiaan thereof) was the Dutch physicist/astronomer who came up with the wave theory of light. He also used a telescope to study Saturn's rings and also discovered one of Saturn's many moons. He lived in the 17th century, although I'm not exactly sure of his DOB and DOD, because I'm too lazy to look.
Giovanni Cassini was another who studied the rings of Saturn. He found a division between the rings, aptly named the Cassini Division, and also discovered several (four, I believe) new Saturnian moons.
I'm sure this will help connect Huygens, Cassini, and Saturn.
If you use anything with a HOSTS file (yes, i believe even XP has it under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc), you can add a line that says 66.35.250.150 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org slashdot any_other_aliases_you_feel_like_having Of course, if you didnt have access to the new server, you wouldnt be reading this... right?
At any rate, this solves any DNS misdirections due to the server move, and it will even let you access slashdot using the DNS should the root servers of the internet actually fail.
Why all this hype? The OQO PC is really small, AND it has all the functions of a normal computer, which means you could potentially put Linux on it given the drivers. You could consider THAT a 'Tablet PC'.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Really, though, the fact that this blade server consumes so much less electricity would be very meaningful to me. The server room at our school was not intended to be a server room. The wiring also is lacking, and every once in a while the breakers go pop! BTW, is it possible to use this in a laptop? Just imagine the power (or less consumption thereof) if you packed two processors in parallel on a laptop...
Imagine being a sysadmin at MIT, having to replace/patch versions of Kerberos on every single computer... Ouch! Send that Mountain Dew in! (Yes, I'm aware that they probably have lots of undergrads helping. Still, the concept is quite large.)
Probably, the reason why the internet was not affected was because there are many other DNS servers not considered 'root'. For example, my school uses a DNS server to speed requests along without having to do a DNS search. It keeps track of known domain name/ip combos in a hosts file. It even caches these pages, letting users on the school load pages faster! I believe we called it a 'proxy server'?
OK, maybe i'm missing something, but at that temperature, wouldn't some parts be smaller than they should be and some larger? I'm pretty sure that the coefficient of thermal expansion of plastic != that of silicon != that of copper. And besides, if you consider silicon, its resistivity is negative, meaning it generally increases with temperature increase. (it may be positive, depending on how your teacher taught it.) So although cooling it would result in higher conductivity for the copper, wouldn't that put the silicon to sleep, effectively?
Trolls and humor aside, I would like to know how they are expecting to fix problems with Palladium should they arise. The only way they can fix X-Box "security" problems right now is to release X-Box 1.1, and if they have to re-release computers to fix security problems, how would they do it? and who gets the bill? (maybe I shouldn't ask that last question...) And what is to stop people from mod-chipping computers? At any rate, I believe like many of my fellow/.'ers that X-Box is a Palladium Preview... or Rhodium (the element before Pd, get it?)
Hmmm.. On that note, maybe Palladium is a preview to Microsoft Silver?
Maybe eventually they can put that dust collecting above the ceiling tiles at our school to good use. I mean, the layer is about five inches thick.
Or, they could just use wifi...
Let's do the math. If the ice falls from 6 mi, and assuming no friction and melting (the perfect physics world), then:
6 mi * 1600 m/mi = 9600 m
Kinetic Energy = Potential Energy, so 0.5*m*v^2 = m*g*h, and the m's cancel, and then we solve for v:
v=sqrt(2*g*h)
h=9600m, g=approx. 9.5 m/s^2 at that height. Therefore, the ice will hit the ground at
about 430 m/s, almost the speed of sound!
'The company has developed a computer mouse that will scan the palm of the user and deliver not a look into the future but verify the identity of that person.' Well, if someone were to rewrite fortune for this, you would have a customized one every time you logged on!
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What kind of environmental concerns will be raised about this? I remember the project in Canada or whatever (name slips me right now, some big bay) that was being considered for damming to produce tidal power. However, because of the amount of water involved, it would change water levels all over the world. Obviously, this does not involve a dam, but wouldn't the turbine harm aquatic life, and how would the turbines disrupt normal sediment flow?
Vote for Bill Gates! He'll buy Iraq to end this madness!
I'm not surprised by this. If they really cared about the internet and such, we would have people like Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds (oh yeah, and CowboyNeal and CmdrTaco and...) as top Presidential/Senatorial/Congressional consultants and there would be GOOD anti-spam legislation.
Maybe the courts should just start calling the parties H4X0R and H4X0R3D...
The other concern was not about the 1999 flyby, but rather the launch in 1997. People were afraid that the stress created by the launch would cause the plutonium to leak, or that the rocket would explode on launch and splatter plutonium all over Florida. Obviously, the NASA engineers did their job and properly converted meters to feet, because (as far as we know), there are no problems with the plutonium fuel cell.
Huygens (Christiaan thereof) was the Dutch physicist/astronomer who came up with the wave theory of light. He also used a telescope to study Saturn's rings and also discovered one of Saturn's many moons. He lived in the 17th century, although I'm not exactly sure of his DOB and DOD, because I'm too lazy to look.
Giovanni Cassini was another who studied the rings of Saturn. He found a division between the rings, aptly named the Cassini Division, and also discovered several (four, I believe) new Saturnian moons.
I'm sure this will help connect Huygens, Cassini, and Saturn.
If you use anything with a HOSTS file (yes, i believe even XP has it under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\drivers\etc), you can add a line that says
66.35.250.150 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org slashdot any_other_aliases_you_feel_like_having
Of course, if you didnt have access to the new server, you wouldnt be reading this... right? At any rate, this solves any DNS misdirections due to the server move, and it will even let you access slashdot using the DNS should the root servers of the internet actually fail.
Dude... what do you think the OSDN Self-Serve Advertising System is? Or for that matter, ThinkGeek?
Why all this hype? The OQO PC is really small, AND it has all the functions of a normal computer, which means you could potentially put Linux on it given the drivers. You could consider THAT a 'Tablet PC'.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Really, though, the fact that this blade server consumes so much less electricity would be very meaningful to me. The server room at our school was not intended to be a server room. The wiring also is lacking, and every once in a while the breakers go pop!
BTW, is it possible to use this in a laptop? Just imagine the power (or less consumption thereof) if you packed two processors in parallel on a laptop...
Imagine being a sysadmin at MIT, having to replace/patch versions of Kerberos on every single computer... Ouch! Send that Mountain Dew in!
(Yes, I'm aware that they probably have lots of undergrads helping. Still, the concept is quite large.)
Probably, the reason why the internet was not affected was because there are many other DNS servers not considered 'root'. For example, my school uses a DNS server to speed requests along without having to do a DNS search. It keeps track of known domain name/ip combos in a hosts file. It even caches these pages, letting users on the school load pages faster! I believe we called it a 'proxy server'?
Bad joke. Sorry.
OK, maybe i'm missing something, but at that temperature, wouldn't some parts be smaller than they should be and some larger? I'm pretty sure that the coefficient of thermal expansion of plastic != that of silicon != that of copper. And besides, if you consider silicon, its resistivity is negative, meaning it generally increases with temperature increase. (it may be positive, depending on how your teacher taught it.) So although cooling it would result in higher conductivity for the copper, wouldn't that put the silicon to sleep, effectively?
[root@localhost]% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
[root@localhost]% gotta light?
no match.
[root@localhost]% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
[root@localhost]% cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
[root@localhost]% rm God
God not found.
[root@localhost]% talk VladimirPutin@Kremlin
Cannot find VladimirPutin@Kremlin: Your party is not logged on.
More funny UNIX commands here.
Trolls and humor aside, I would like to know how they are expecting to fix problems with Palladium should they arise. The only way they can fix X-Box "security" problems right now is to release X-Box 1.1, and if they have to re-release computers to fix security problems, how would they do it? and who gets the bill? (maybe I shouldn't ask that last question...) And what is to stop people from mod-chipping computers? At any rate, I believe like many of my fellow /.'ers that X-Box is a Palladium Preview... or Rhodium (the element before Pd, get it?)
Hmmm.. On that note, maybe Palladium is a preview to Microsoft Silver?
And thanks to the modded 2 zillion X zoom scope, I can really take aim!
This one's also at CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/08/russia.tv show.ap/index.html
Seriously though, it reminds me of Darwin Award where the guy had cesium...
Hey, if you used that mud as a 802.11b antenna or something, you would be WARMUDSLINGING!
Maybe eventually they can put that dust collecting above the ceiling tiles at our school to good use. I mean, the layer is about five inches thick.
Or, they could just use wifi...
6 mi * 1600 m/mi = 9600 m
Kinetic Energy = Potential Energy, so 0.5*m*v^2 = m*g*h, and the m's cancel, and then we solve for v:
v=sqrt(2*g*h)
h=9600m, g=approx. 9.5 m/s^2 at that height.
Therefore, the ice will hit the ground at about 430 m/s, almost the speed of sound!
I wonder... if EVERY single /. reader accessed www.microsoft.com to read some hot new story, would the server crash (no flamebait please).
Here are instructions on how to build an igloo, if anyone is interested.
But if you ask me, I think global warming is the trend.
'The company has developed a computer mouse that will scan the palm of the user and deliver not a look into the future but verify the identity of that person.'
Well, if someone were to rewrite fortune for this, you would have a customized one every time you logged on!