Actually, depending on what frequencies you use for communication, you may hear the engine very clearly. Unfortunately, unless it passes by at really high (close to c) speeds, you will get no doppler pitch change.
I think you pretty much nailed it: it's about making the userland as independent as possible from the kernel and, in the process, to find any code that makes improper assumptions about the computer it's running on.
You find all sorts of subtle bugs when porting to a different architecture. It must be the same with kernels.
- Checksums to prevent/warn of silent corruption - Lots of options for redundancy - Zero-cost snapshots (Something effectively better than Apple's time-machine)
"just from watching the show, it seems like anything requires a little bit of a "push" to move through the gate"
I always marvel at how all planets appear to have the exact same atmospheric pressure all over the galaxy... It's every bit as surprising as how well most aliens speak English.
- Microsoft subsidizes every XBox 360 system and makes an investment for every unit sold - Microsoft only recoups that investment with game and accessory sales - A supercomputer built on Xbox 360 nodes would not need any games or accessories
We can try to answer: - How many nodes would a supercomputer need to completely suck the life out of Microsoft once and for all? - How much that machine would be able to do?
Even if it is not make it to the top 500, just killing Microsoft is a worthy goal.
I think the ATV is somewhat larger than the Dragon. The Dragon shares the larger door with the Japanese H-II and should be able to carry larger loads. It's interesting that the ATV, although much larger than a Progress, docks to the same hatch (a small one) and is thus unable to carry anything that does not pass through the smaller hatch. At least, not in one piece.
As for the H-II, return capabilities are being planned. IIRC, so are the ATV folks.
Flash video is not a codec. It's a container, much like.avi and.mov. If the decoder can read it and play it full-screen, there is no need for the rest of Flash, at least not for full-screen Youtube.
If an upgrade risks screwing something up, you are not doing it in an enterprise-grade fashion. You just don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
And, as I said somewhere else, if you postpone your upgrades enough you will sure need Red Hat's support when you have to upgrade your mSQL database to MySQL 8.
Anyway, I seriously doubt there is anything that valuable on Mars that justifies the ridiculous amounts it costs to send people there and back. Robots would make a lot more sense for a mining operation, if they don't mine themselves in accidents.
If, however, some technological breakthrough makes round-trips to Mars affordable, then anything can happen.
Water could be a nice export if there is a lot of it on Mars, but Mars would have to compete with operations on icy moons that have less gravity to fight.
The trip proposed in TFA is a stupid idea. Claiming there would be something of value that could be found on Mars and that the sacrifice of those astronauts would be somehow worth it is not a much better one.
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"I don't even know why Sun paid a billion for it in the first place"
That's it. Fire the 3000 employees closer to whoever made this stupid decision.
Their marketing team should go too.
I moved to PostgreSQL long ago. For me it was subqueries and transactions that made PostgreSQL look very attractive.
I would have no problem in doing stuff on OpenSolaris. Moving the kind of stuff I do to BSD, AIX, HP/UX, OSX or Linux is more or less trivial.
You underestimate the power of executive bonuses. If one has to make a certain number of units sold, he will do it regardless of price.
That's management by managers. And that's what will ultimately kill Microsoft.
Good riddance, BTW
I was going to buy it, you insensitive clod
Actually, depending on what frequencies you use for communication, you may hear the engine very clearly. Unfortunately, unless it passes by at really high (close to c) speeds, you will get no doppler pitch change.
"That's not really a problem. Stargates were placed exclusively on Earth-like planets intentionally by the Ancients."
But all at the same air pressure?
Remember - a stargate pair at sea level and Mexico City will have quite an atmospheric effect on both sides.
Conceivably, you could have airtight doors on the stargate room that would have to be locked before the wormhole is formed.
And, BTW, it's very weird light can't travel through a wormhole when radio waves can
I think you pretty much nailed it: it's about making the userland as independent as possible from the kernel and, in the process, to find any code that makes improper assumptions about the computer it's running on.
You find all sorts of subtle bugs when porting to a different architecture. It must be the same with kernels.
ZFS for those who are suspicious of FUSE and don't want to give up APT.
Actually, if BSD is dead, using it would be more like necrophilia than archeology
- Checksums to prevent/warn of silent corruption
- Lots of options for redundancy
- Zero-cost snapshots (Something effectively better than Apple's time-machine)
"just from watching the show, it seems like anything requires a little bit of a "push" to move through the gate"
I always marvel at how all planets appear to have the exact same atmospheric pressure all over the galaxy... It's every bit as surprising as how well most aliens speak English.
Yes, but is this product so incredible, revolutionary and so and so as to warrant such a strong reaction?
Is it supposed to cure cancer in baby seals?
Is it at all relevant?
"Surely there were games/shareware apps that did that before this patent too."
Sure if it were any games/shareware apps that did that before this patent, Microsoft would be able to produce them as evidence in the case.
Did they?
Given that:
- Microsoft subsidizes every XBox 360 system and makes an investment for every unit sold
- Microsoft only recoups that investment with game and accessory sales
- A supercomputer built on Xbox 360 nodes would not need any games or accessories
We can try to answer:
- How many nodes would a supercomputer need to completely suck the life out of Microsoft once and for all?
- How much that machine would be able to do?
Even if it is not make it to the top 500, just killing Microsoft is a worthy goal.
"x86 is fast catching up,"
It doesn't really matter if it's fast. It's still a x86.
The newer P55 systems show promise, but there is more than CPU clock and number of cores to sever performance than you may (or may not) realize.
"According to this article [reason.com] your lifetime chance of dying in a car crash is 1 in 83."
I am pretty sure my lifetime chances of dying in a spacecraft accident are much slimmer
I think the ATV is somewhat larger than the Dragon. The Dragon shares the larger door with the Japanese H-II and should be able to carry larger loads. It's interesting that the ATV, although much larger than a Progress, docks to the same hatch (a small one) and is thus unable to carry anything that does not pass through the smaller hatch. At least, not in one piece.
As for the H-II, return capabilities are being planned. IIRC, so are the ATV folks.
Flash video is not a codec. It's a container, much like .avi and .mov. If the decoder can read it and play it full-screen, there is no need for the rest of Flash, at least not for full-screen Youtube.
Yeah. Right. Seriously. Do you really think Microsoft will become a huge case for VMWare?
You can always flag that box for maintenance and move to the next one
Ya canna' change the laws of Physics!
Agreed. The main reasons I see RH boxes around is not RH support but Oracle, IBM and Realmedia. Still, this still amount to a handful of boxes.
I would fire someone who uses it to serve static HTML.
If an upgrade risks screwing something up, you are not doing it in an enterprise-grade fashion. You just don't put all your eggs in the same basket.
And, as I said somewhere else, if you postpone your upgrades enough you will sure need Red Hat's support when you have to upgrade your mSQL database to MySQL 8.
True. It was the TFA, not you. My bad.
Anyway, I seriously doubt there is anything that valuable on Mars that justifies the ridiculous amounts it costs to send people there and back. Robots would make a lot more sense for a mining operation, if they don't mine themselves in accidents.
If, however, some technological breakthrough makes round-trips to Mars affordable, then anything can happen.
Water could be a nice export if there is a lot of it on Mars, but Mars would have to compete with operations on icy moons that have less gravity to fight.
The trip proposed in TFA is a stupid idea. Claiming there would be something of value that could be found on Mars and that the sacrifice of those astronauts would be somehow worth it is not a much better one.