After seeing photos of the hardware, and learning how loaded with tech these things are, I have a hard time imagining that the prize will not be won this year.
"Unix really seems like it was designed for a computer with a single CPU (and it probably was; but even current Unix implementations don't seem to have adapted very well to the new capabilities of computers, in this respect), whereas NT was designed to run on SMP systems with many threads and/or processes running truly simultaneously."
Whatever. Unix has been on 64+ CPUs for a long time now. Is anyone selling an NT machine that comes close?
The geology of oil is well known, and the structure of the earth is well mapped. The chances of there being another Ghawar hiding somewhere are very slim. Many small oilfields remain to be exploited, of course, but they will never provide the return on investment that larger fields do, in both dollars and joules.
Remember also that Peak Oil isn't about suddenly running out of oil, it's about runing out of enough oil.
While population managment is an important part of being sustainable, a smaller population is not automaticaly sustainable. Burning oil, for example, is never sustainable. Harvesting wood might be, if done in limited amounts.
The Korean War was largely a proxy war between China and the U.S.
I wouldn't describe China as "peaceful", but they have zero interest in long distance projection. They want Taiwan, but right now, Taiwan has a better chance of invading China than the other way around. Recent western nervousness about China's increased military spending are misplaced, as the military being added to is almost worthless for anything but home defense.
Because the cold fusion experiments so far have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to replicate? Assuming something is happening, if the original experimenter can't pin it down enough to reproduce, it's kind of hard to justify funding for it. The DOE and others have flung a bit of money at it, though, and that's remarkable in itself.
Once you've got your life support systems tested, your astronauts trained and into LEO, etc, it's not a big leap to the moon. Assuming you've already got a lander...
The X-Prize was further from LEO than LEO is from the moon, for instance.
But text MUD players are in general much more consious of the roleplaying element of the game. You quite a bit less likely to come across a group of dwarves disscusing their homework assignment.
You raise a very good point about communication potentially ruining the gamers suspension of disbelief. Voice chat is especially bad for this. I think a combination of the hotkey system + (keyboard) chat can work well, with the hotkey messages prominent and the chat messages off in a corner.
"By the same token, Saddam was lying when he said that he had no WMD's, because even though the statement was in fact true, he believed it to be false at the time."
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Unless the mission is "go here, and shoot everything that moves", we're not going to see that for a long time.
In the parks of Kenya, poachers go heavily armed, obviously to kill elephants, but also to defend against wardens, who shoot to kill on sight.
Cloning doesn't work very well right now.
After seeing photos of the hardware, and learning how loaded with tech these things are, I have a hard time imagining that the prize will not be won this year.
By "NT" I was refering to the kernel, which, AFAIK, still goes by that name.
Whatever. Unix has been on 64+ CPUs for a long time now. Is anyone selling an NT machine that comes close?
Where do you get the idea that fuel cells can't be recharged? You just fill up the reservoir. Instant recharge.
Remember also that Peak Oil isn't about suddenly running out of oil, it's about runing out of enough oil.
And the US is acting on it more decisively than anyone. They've put lots of troops on the ground in the richest oil region in the world.
While population managment is an important part of being sustainable, a smaller population is not automaticaly sustainable. Burning oil, for example, is never sustainable. Harvesting wood might be, if done in limited amounts.
I wouldn't describe China as "peaceful", but they have zero interest in long distance projection. They want Taiwan, but right now, Taiwan has a better chance of invading China than the other way around. Recent western nervousness about China's increased military spending are misplaced, as the military being added to is almost worthless for anything but home defense.
5+ standard deviations against the control is interesting. Should be easy to reproduce. (or not).
Because the cold fusion experiments so far have been extremely difficult, if not impossible, to replicate? Assuming something is happening, if the original experimenter can't pin it down enough to reproduce, it's kind of hard to justify funding for it. The DOE and others have flung a bit of money at it, though, and that's remarkable in itself.
The X-Prize was further from LEO than LEO is from the moon, for instance.
We should all do that anyway. Does anyone run a machine where people you don't know need to ssh in?
Idiot moderators. And instead of modding this down, go mod someone else up.
Looks good. GNUStep has been missing this.... I wish more developers would give GNUStep/ObjC a look, this will help a lot.
But text MUD players are in general much more consious of the roleplaying element of the game. You quite a bit less likely to come across a group of dwarves disscusing their homework assignment.
That really cool, but not real yet, OLED keyboard thingy.
Hey cool! The first example I've seen of Googles wikipedia support and semantic web. Thanks.
You raise a very good point about communication potentially ruining the gamers suspension of disbelief. Voice chat is especially bad for this. I think a combination of the hotkey system + (keyboard) chat can work well, with the hotkey messages prominent and the chat messages off in a corner.
Communism is changing. Marxism is long dead. Socialism is alive and well, thank you.
That, and the total lack of evidence.
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Where's Osama? Who cares? The values that built your nation, and that drew all eyes in admiration, are going fast.