" There is very little done that I know of that requires millisecond accuracy"
The review mentions forensics, but I would extend it to any time when you need to check log files with time stamps on two seperate machines. Having accurate clocks saves a lot of hassle.
We're not talking about building a Dyson Sphere here, and it's not that expensive. Some estimates put it at about the same as developing the shuttle program. Of course, that's an estimate for building something out of an unknown material, so....
Anyway, assuming we get it built, cost of kg-to-orbit will plummet. Rockets are right at the borderline of efficiency. For example, the Shuttle weighs 4.5 million lb, and can get 20,000 lbs of cargo up. That's not very efficient.
You might turn out to be right, as details of how it would actually be built, and how it would function after building, are still to be seen. But it still seems like an idea to come back to when we get the materials. As a side note, the space elevator doesn't need 100+ GPa for a tether, the bottom limit is ~65 GPa.
PS. Who the hell modded the OP 'troll'? Please learn what an 'opinion' is, and what a 'troll' is, thank you.
Well, OS X comes up real short in most server benchmarks, so I hope it's not that. Anyway, half of what Apple sells is 'coolness', and server farms don't go for that, too much.
The question you would actually be betting on is "Google, the hottest, most hyped stock of recent times, is about to do something big. 4 billion dolars big. Will the market get exited about it?"
Google introduces nation-wide free wireless; Massive exitement.
Google buys Apple; Massive exitement.
Google buys TimeWarnerAOL; less exitement.
I dunno. But some are more likely than others, and it seems likely that the market will hype it.
AdSense is a biggy. Advertising is the big money on the web, and AdSense is easily the most flexible, bang for the buck solution for most. Google also provides search functionality for many other sites and search engines.
No God != No Morality, thank you very much. I'm an atheist, and I had no problem constructing an ethical base for my life. 'Do to others as you would have them do to you." is a good starting point.
In my experience, humanism is the most compassionate and embracing of others of belief systems, as it doesn't leave any wriggle room. ie; "Love thy neighbour, unless he's a homo." Not to pick on Christians or anything, but religious groups can get up to things that look pretty immoral from my side of the fence.
1. The term "normative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which describes behaviors and feature to which implementors must adhere
2. The term "informative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which give certain details for further knowledge and do not describe behavior to which implementors must adhere
3. The term "non-normative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which describe behaviors or features of recommendation nature or changing nature
4. The words "must", "must not", "required", "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "recommended", "may", "may not" and "optional" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119
North America had all of those and more, previous to the first humans showing up. Including a species of horse unique to NA, saber tooths, giant sloths, and that 2 ton armadillo thing.
You do not have to know much to eat a healthy vegetarian diet. As long as you eat a variety of foods, you'll be fine. It would seem that some people (Caucasians, mostly) do poorly on the average vegetarian diet, and there is no vegetable source of creatine, which one might want to supplement, but you will get enough protein and vitamins.
I agree, though, that the healthiest diet includes a small amount of meat.
As an ex-vegeterian, now farmer, I would guess it's because of the wide range of behaviours deemed 'cruel' by vegeterians. For example, I'll happily eat a chicken whose head I just lopped off, because I'm doing it with the best of intentions. It's not being done in a factory without any thought of the life being taken.
Male chicks grow up to be roosters. Roosters are aggressive, and run harems, so most of the males get culled. Some prior arrangements with other chicken farmers can minimize how much culling is needed.
The points above about sticking with what you know make sense, but you admit that your site is getting hard to maintain. A framework like Ruby-on-Rails will likely alleviate a lot of the scalability and maintenance issues. If you've managed to hack together a functioning site with 40,000 members in perl, you won't have too much of a problem learning Ruby or Python. They both generally have One Well Known Way To Do It,
Perl is 'hardcore' compared to python. More things to remember, more exceptions to rules, more than one way to do it. Very powerful, but can be intimidating.
So, if you want a language for scripting 9in the sense that most people with little scripting experience think of it), you might want to avoid perl. If you want a language to elegantly encode brilliant ideas in a short space, go for it.
You won't catch me singing Microsofts praises too often, but MS Research is an important contributer to CS today. For example, they employ Simon Peyton Jones, the guy behind Haskell and GHC.
IBM is a massive corporation, with fingers in many pies. They make a wide range of hardware, software, and services, and the fruits of their research are often applied to their product line. IBM is as interested in profit as google is.
Google, OTOH, has a more limited model; they sell well placed, discreet ads on free services people want to use. Research in chemistry, for example, would be very hard to justify as anything but charity. The few papers google has published reflect this.
The declining research budgets of the private sector, and the loss of prestige that science once had is a tragedy.
No, just making the point that if you heat something tiny to 100 degrees, and heat something large to the same, that the small thing will cool much faster.
Volume drops even faster, so in fact, heat dissipates much quicker.
Take a cube one unit on a side. Surface area = 6 square units, volume = 1 cubic unit. Ratio = 6. Now take another cube built with 8 of the former. Surface area = 24 square, volume = 8 cubic. Ratio = 3.
Moore's law is over, or is Intel shipping a 10GHz cpu? Yes, we will probably get faster cores yet, but the days of reliable speed increases are done. Hence the move to multi-core.
Motion blur in current games is not done as well as it could be. The next-gen games should have a much better take on it, and you'll probably start to appreciate it then.
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The review mentions forensics, but I would extend it to any time when you need to check log files with time stamps on two seperate machines. Having accurate clocks saves a lot of hassle.
I can just imagine what Cisco pays for hardware, considering their prices...
Anyway, assuming we get it built, cost of kg-to-orbit will plummet. Rockets are right at the borderline of efficiency. For example, the Shuttle weighs 4.5 million lb, and can get 20,000 lbs of cargo up. That's not very efficient.
You might turn out to be right, as details of how it would actually be built, and how it would function after building, are still to be seen. But it still seems like an idea to come back to when we get the materials. As a side note, the space elevator doesn't need 100+ GPa for a tether, the bottom limit is ~65 GPa.
PS. Who the hell modded the OP 'troll'? Please learn what an 'opinion' is, and what a 'troll' is, thank you.
Well, OS X comes up real short in most server benchmarks, so I hope it's not that. Anyway, half of what Apple sells is 'coolness', and server farms don't go for that, too much.
Google introduces nation-wide free wireless; Massive exitement.
Google buys Apple; Massive exitement.
Google buys TimeWarnerAOL; less exitement.
I dunno. But some are more likely than others, and it seems likely that the market will hype it.
AdSense is a biggy. Advertising is the big money on the web, and AdSense is easily the most flexible, bang for the buck solution for most. Google also provides search functionality for many other sites and search engines.
'Highly liquid' is bizspeak for 'cash to wave in peoples faces'.
Here's an idea; stick with one fork, then you only have to patch one.
In my experience, humanism is the most compassionate and embracing of others of belief systems, as it doesn't leave any wriggle room. ie; "Love thy neighbour, unless he's a homo." Not to pick on Christians or anything, but religious groups can get up to things that look pretty immoral from my side of the fence.
1. The term "normative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which describes behaviors and feature to which implementors must adhere
2. The term "informative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which give certain details for further knowledge and do not describe behavior to which implementors must adhere
3. The term "non-normative" describes sections (or comments/notes) which describe behaviors or features of recommendation nature or changing nature
4. The words "must", "must not", "required", "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "recommended", "may", "may not" and "optional" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119
North America had all of those and more, previous to the first humans showing up. Including a species of horse unique to NA, saber tooths, giant sloths, and that 2 ton armadillo thing.
Do they not allow exporting to the red states because they are supercomputers?
I agree, though, that the healthiest diet includes a small amount of meat.
As an ex-vegeterian, now farmer, I would guess it's because of the wide range of behaviours deemed 'cruel' by vegeterians. For example, I'll happily eat a chicken whose head I just lopped off, because I'm doing it with the best of intentions. It's not being done in a factory without any thought of the life being taken.
Male chicks grow up to be roosters. Roosters are aggressive, and run harems, so most of the males get culled. Some prior arrangements with other chicken farmers can minimize how much culling is needed.
More accurately, veal is young cow that hasn't been allowed to develop its muscles, hence the confinement.
So, if you want a language for scripting 9in the sense that most people with little scripting experience think of it), you might want to avoid perl. If you want a language to elegantly encode brilliant ideas in a short space, go for it.
And you're missing the sarcasm.
Google, OTOH, has a more limited model; they sell well placed, discreet ads on free services people want to use. Research in chemistry, for example, would be very hard to justify as anything but charity. The few papers google has published reflect this.
The declining research budgets of the private sector, and the loss of prestige that science once had is a tragedy.
No, just making the point that if you heat something tiny to 100 degrees, and heat something large to the same, that the small thing will cool much faster.
Take a cube one unit on a side. Surface area = 6 square units, volume = 1 cubic unit. Ratio = 6. Now take another cube built with 8 of the former. Surface area = 24 square, volume = 8 cubic. Ratio = 3.
Moore's law is over, or is Intel shipping a 10GHz cpu? Yes, we will probably get faster cores yet, but the days of reliable speed increases are done. Hence the move to multi-core.
Motion blur in current games is not done as well as it could be. The next-gen games should have a much better take on it, and you'll probably start to appreciate it then.