Short of a superconductor, practical wired power transmission is measured in hundreds or at best thousands of miles. Tens of thousands would be too much to hope for.
Are you sure? Quoting the article I linked:
"On the fundamental side, a perfect metallic nanotube should be a ballistic conductor: in other words, every electron injected into the nanotube at one end should come out the other end. Although a ballistic conductor does have some resistance, this resistance is independent of its length, which means that Ohm's law does not apply. Indeed, only a superconductor (which has no electrical resistance whatsoever) is a better conductor."
I was about to say the same thing... on the other hand, they're doubling it for next year. Hopefully they will continue to increase it substantially ever year until there is a winner (or it just isn't worth it anymore).
Starting out low and moving up seems like a good way to ensure you get the best price if you're not in a great hurry. (Isn't that what a Dutch auction is?).
If you had read the article you would have discovered that MSH includes a managed virtualfilesystem-like provider for the registry that allows you to navigate the registry and read/write settings.
HA!! It took over 10 years, but finally they're coming around. May I propose a name for that "managed virtualfilesystem-like provider":
No, the oil flows to whoever will pay the most. Unless there's armed conflict, of course. But if we were to try and fight China, who would make our soldiers' uniforms? Joking aside, the oil shortage would have to be *very* bad to justify war between China and the US, because the disruption to trade would devestate both our economies, and that we do not have dibs on oil.
Anyways, my prediction is that the Chinese will be quicker than the West to adopt Nuclear power if oil scarcity begins to crimp their growth.
if it spread out to 3 square feet at 100' distance, what would it spread out to at 200' distance?
On the other hand, and more to the point, if a 20' dish focused light to a 10' diameter at 100', what would it converge to at 200'?
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But NOT posting a time-sensitive story such as this is ridiculous. This was yesterday, mr. editor.
The only mistake was referring to it in the future tense. It would have been a lame and pointless storie without zombie pics. If you're thinking the point was to increase participation, slashdot is the wrong forum for that because it is national and international.
The analogy with speed limits doesn't hold as you put it. There's nothing for normal drivers to lose if ambulances speed, or will you count those 10 seconds it takes you to pull over to let it pass as a major loss of income?
Speed limits aren't imposed to prevent a loss of income, they're imposed mainly for safety. So the risk of lifting speed limits is mainly the risk of danger. But when life is on the line, the speed/safety tradeoff changes and the prohibition on speed is lifted.
If you are implying that ambulances are somehow immune to the usual speed/safety tradeoffs, well they aren't:
I have been interested in this problem for some years and would like to offer the theory that emergency responses actually cause many more accidents between private vehicles than accidents involving ambulances, fire trucks or police cars. We at Medical Priority Consultants call these "emergency vehicle-related accidents" and estimate that this previously unidentified phenomenon represents many times more the number of accidents identified by any official statistics. Nevertheless, according to my math, the problem is approaching immense proportions on a national and international basis.
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Medical Priority Consultants, Inc.
Personally, I do believe in using "force" on private companies when emergencies arise.
I don't even see how not enforcing an IP law equates to use of force. What we're discussing is removing the threat of force against those who manufacture the drug in question. I'd say it's more like allowing ambulances to speed. Sure, speed limits are mostly beneficial most of the time, but there are a some cases where they don't make sense anymore.
It's not that you've hit a point of diminishing returns with cache, it's that you can't fit the entire memory footprint of an app inside 2m, 4m, or even 8m, which is the point at which everything REALLY gets sped up. That is the point where there is no additional value from cache.
Diminishing returns doesn't mean no returns. But the fact is that the first meg of cache helps A LOT, the second quite a bit, the third somewhat... and so on. Bumping from 8 to 10 would help only a little, yet those 2 megs would cost just as much as the first two (which made such a huge difference). That's what diminishing returns means.
As for system RAM, if you haven't hit the point of diminishing returns, you should add more, because it isn't that expensive.
so they'll be using the process headroom for higher clocks and/or larger caches.
Haven't we already hit the point of diminishing returns on bigger caches? It's just a simple way to use up transistors. I think I rather have more cores instead.
If your point is simply that Java, Flash, and PHP are good for different things, then you're in violent agreement with Andreessen. The point is, this is not what Sun had in mind 10 years ago, and many would take issue with abandoning Java for web apps even today. With Java, there wasn't supposed to be a need for Java and Flash and PHP and C++ and C#... Java was going to be *the* solution, from applets to embedded to servers, but in fact Java's niche just seems to keep shrinking.
Almost all other professions have to take responsibility for their work and constructs
They are? I never sued a farmer because I cut open a watermelon and it was bad inside. I never sued a GM engineer because my transmission only lasted 60K miles. I never sued a weatherman because his forecast was wrong. I never sued a chef because I had a bad meal.
My point is, there's a whole range of "bad things" that happen, from clearly negligent to uncontrollable, and a lot of stuff in between, and we make that judgement every day by assessing or not assessing blame.
To construct large, complex software systems without bugs (including security flaws) is beyond the state of the art. In fact, it is beyond the state of the art by definition: if we could make today's systems bug-free, we could, and would, make even more ambitious systems by tolerating some rate of errors. Conversely, with today's state of the art, if we placed correctness (including security) above everything else, we'd have to cut way back on what we attempt, and charge a lot more. The market has already decided that's the wrong approach.
If you got a 10% raise, and other workers got a 13% raise, you wouldn't say your salary has 'dropped', would you?
Well, yes, because if most people get a raise there will be inflation. Another example: if your tribe only has spears and the next tribe over suddenly acquires gunpowder, your spears don't protect you any more (even though the spears didn't change overnight).
I think the implication is that connectivity contributes to long-term technical and economic superiority. (And I happen to agree, whether it's the telephone network or the highway system.) If we want to keep driving SUVs and heating 4000 square foot homes, we'd better tune up the economy, because it's a bidding war with China, Europe, and everybody else from here on out.
Considering that writers are the least paid of all professions, this would pretty much put an end to writing professionally if what you say comes to pass.
Well, there is no way no-holds-barred book copying will ever become legal, so don't worry about it. But I hope there is still some way to harness the advantages of digital media - economy, searchability, and easy distribution - for all the information currently trapped in books. You might balk at the assertion that information is "trapped" in books, but the fact is most books are not available to most people. There must be a way to give everybody the advantages of access to a world-class library without destroying the livlihoods of authors. (At least really good ones... I don't think the market could ever support all the people who'd like to be professional authors).
Maybe 99.999% of people can't read the source, but you can bet your butt theyll be hiring expert witnesses who can. And if there really are bugs in the thing, there's a good chance they'll find it.
The sad thing is the video iPod's screen covers less than half of its front surface. What's up with that? The screen could be twice as large without making the device any bigger. Look at how many PocketPC devices have full VGA screens about 3.6 inches across wich is over double the surface area and twice the pixels, all in a nice small package. mmm, that Asus is a very sweet form factor.
While the newer Prius, Civic, etc hybrids are nice and all they are just way too underpowered.
The diesel hybrid does sound nice, but even current hybrids needn't be underpowered. The Accord hybrid is the fastest Accord ever. Compared to the all-gas Lexus RX330, the hybrid RX400h SUV goes 0-60 0.4 seconds quicker (7.3 seconds), 38% more gas mileage (28 mpg), and costs only 10% more (except demand is high, so the going price might be higher).
It's kinda sad to see the Japanese wiping the floor with GM, whose sales have tanked completely because they weren't forward-looking. Sales of big trucks have plummeted about 40% while the Prius and other hybrids are selling like hot cakes.
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Starting out low and moving up seems like a good way to ensure you get the best price if you're not in a great hurry. (Isn't that what a Dutch auction is?).
Anyways, my prediction is that the Chinese will be quicker than the West to adopt Nuclear power if oil scarcity begins to crimp their growth.
If you are implying that ambulances are somehow immune to the usual speed/safety tradeoffs, well they aren't:
Mac: It Just Works.
Wine: Whoah, something almost worked!
That's kind of an interesting idea... it's good enough for jury duty, right?
If your point is simply that Java, Flash, and PHP are good for different things, then you're in violent agreement with Andreessen. The point is, this is not what Sun had in mind 10 years ago, and many would take issue with abandoning Java for web apps even today. With Java, there wasn't supposed to be a need for Java and Flash and PHP and C++ and C#... Java was going to be *the* solution, from applets to embedded to servers, but in fact Java's niche just seems to keep shrinking.
My point is, there's a whole range of "bad things" that happen, from clearly negligent to uncontrollable, and a lot of stuff in between, and we make that judgement every day by assessing or not assessing blame.
To construct large, complex software systems without bugs (including security flaws) is beyond the state of the art. In fact, it is beyond the state of the art by definition: if we could make today's systems bug-free, we could, and would, make even more ambitious systems by tolerating some rate of errors. Conversely, with today's state of the art, if we placed correctness (including security) above everything else, we'd have to cut way back on what we attempt, and charge a lot more. The market has already decided that's the wrong approach.
I think the implication is that connectivity contributes to long-term technical and economic superiority. (And I happen to agree, whether it's the telephone network or the highway system.) If we want to keep driving SUVs and heating 4000 square foot homes, we'd better tune up the economy, because it's a bidding war with China, Europe, and everybody else from here on out.
Sorry I missed your point, but I got stuck at "600 million."
Maybe 99.999% of people can't read the source, but you can bet your butt theyll be hiring expert witnesses who can. And if there really are bugs in the thing, there's a good chance they'll find it.
It's kinda sad to see the Japanese wiping the floor with GM, whose sales have tanked completely because they weren't forward-looking. Sales of big trucks have plummeted about 40% while the Prius and other hybrids are selling like hot cakes.
Look, hydrogen cars aren't mainstream yet, but you can go out and buy one if you want, so comparing them to fusion power is very inaccurate.
400 MHZ back in 1999 to 1600 MHZ now in 2005, that's only a 32% speedup per year... whoda thunk?