I'm sure in order to bring weapons into the space, a lot of technologies will have to be developed, which hopefully will benefit many other sectors.
I'm sure it will too.
The idea of space-weapons is not a new one. These will eventually be developed by other nations as well. I, for one, would be much happier with the US military being the first to have these, rather than the military of N. Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Libya, et al.
So now we have 800 lbs of highly toxic lead-acid batteries to dispose of PER CAR. Gee these electric vehicles are so environmentally friendly! And my, what a long life-span they have too.
For some time now, you've been able to buy a turbo direct-injection diesel engine Volkswagen in europe that gets 81 miles per gallon. Yes, eighty-one. And with the new diesel particulate filters coming this year, these same cars will meet the very strict euro-IV emissions standard.
Hybrid is a gimick, electric is simply not feasable or environmentally friendlty with today's battery technology. turbo direct-inject diesel is the only way to go.
I drive a 96 VW Passat TDI (here in the US). I get 50 miles per gallon and I fuel my car with B100 Biodiesel (a diesel compatible fuel made from vegetable oil instead of petroleum oil). see www.tdiclub.com and www.biodiesel.org for more details. Biodiesel is 100% renewable, produces far less pollution than any other motor fuel, and can be used in TODAY's diesel engines - this is not vaporware, it's right here right now. It can also be blended in any percentage mix with regular diesel fuel.
VMWare ESX server is a very effective tool for server consolidation. Particularly if you have many old legacy servers that you just can't get rid of.
Migrate them all to virtual machines within VMware and say bye-bye to replacement parts, expensive support contracts and pricy KVM-IP devices for outdated servers.
We removed about 65 old (PPro through P3) servers to virtual machines in VMware. In addition to the benefits I mentioned above, we also gained SIX 42U racks of free space, reduced cable clutter, and reduced server room power/cooling consumption.
Disclaimer: I don't work for VMware but I can't say enough good things about their server product.
"...about desktop hard drive developments in 2005. It looks this year is going to be a dud for the storage industry."
"The storage industry" can hardly be categorized by desktop hard drive sales. I can assure you that high-end fibre-channel RAID controllers, FC fabric switches, and 15k rpm FC drives are the big profit makers.
Besides, in the personal desktop PC segment, current IDE and SATA technology provide way more than enough capacity to satisfy even the most MP3-hungry 14 year-old, and the most email-crazy grandmas. The vast majority of personal desktop PC buyers out there are not going to spend extra money to get a 600GB drive instead of the 400GB model - they just don't need it.
It seems every slashdot article that mentions primates, assumes that all/. readers believe in the theory of evolution. I'm not a bible-belt church nazi, but I also don't believe that apes and man share a common ancestor. I think the article summary should reflect the fact that evolution is only a theory. (Well, I guess it's also a groupware email client;).
Yes, but that can change, and electricity can be produced from alternatives, giving hydrogen fuel from "green" electricity.
Try doing something similar with oil-based fuel. Not as easy.
I live near by, and I don't want a large hydrogen tank in my neighborhood. Now a B100 biodiesel pump would be a welcome addition. I like to run my VW Passat TDI on Biodiesel, but I currently have to drive way up into Maryland to get it. Biodiesel is renewable, biodegradable, and much safer to handle than hydrogen or gasoline.
I hate hearing about global warming. It's a complete farce. The earth is several Billion years old, while humanity has 200 years, if that, of accurate temperature data. Looking at this tiny sliver of time and developing preposterous warming theories is akin to examining a single drop of sea water and theorizing about humpback whale breeding patterns. It's just plain nonsense.
I think I'm going to wear my "Industrial Revolution Day" T-Shirt to work tomorrow.
Regardless, we accept Paypal payments for our business. Didn't work all weekend...and today I kept getting errors (I think it was 30004) telling me to "retry" or "return to main page". Took a few retries, but I did get stuff done....such as transfering money out for payroll on Friday. Auction and storefront sales were down from lack of a payment service though. Debit card had activity over the weekend, so that worked fine.
You are a moron if you use paypal to run a business including the payroll, of all things. Read the fine print and you'll see that paypal IS NOT A BANK. They don't have to follow bank rules, and your money is NOT FDIC INSURED. Sure, paypal may be fine for processing occational petty payments (Personally, I wouldn't trust them with my bank account or credit card information), but to use it for running a business, including the payroll, should probably be illegal.
On the note of not trusting them. If a new storefront opened in the mall, we'll call them BankPal(tm). They want you to enter your credit card information, bank account numbers, address and phone numbers, and OH BY THE WAY we're not a bank, aren't held to bank standards or laws, can seize your account at any time for no reason, are not fdic insured, blah blah blah, how can anyone with more than two brain cells trust these jokers???
Oh, okay. So the nuclear-electric stations that produce power for much of Ontario "could" be re-engineered for evil usage. Better start bombing Canada!
Just don't hide any mystery tubes about, and don't elect a terrorist dictator and I think you'll be ok.
You COULD be a terrorist. I think we should lock you up just in case. We'll let you out when the War on Terror is over.
Well lets see here. If I had a history of using WMD's on my own people, and of having the desire and the means to begin a nuclear weapons program, and then some mystery tubes turned up that *could* be used to satisfy my nuclear desires, then yes my friend, I quite possibly COULD be a terrorist.
How does this have anything at all to do with computing, science, gaming, linux, or even microsoft for that matter. It's offtopic liberal bullshit like this that's making/. get worse and worse.
The tubes were stated as COULD be used for nuclear weapons. They could also be large drinking straws or sewer pipes. I, for one, would rather NOT take that chance. Better to be too cautious than not cautious enough.
How is this any different from a desktop file manager application? Typically, a double-click on any given document type will open that document using the appropriate program. For example, when I click on a.JPG file, the file manager will "ask" GQview to open the file.
How is that any different from some Java code that asks for the Java engine to run it?
That's normal floating-point arithmetic, not a bug. There's a similar "bug" in Apple's calculator utility - and I mean right now, today, in the latest version.
I just tried it on my ibook G4 and it gave the correct answer. -0.01
25 complaning about the grammar in the article
50 complaining how much Hotmail sucks and why not just use Gmail
50 complaining about how much Outlook sucks and why not use a open alternative
75 complaning about how much Microsoft sucks
2 haikus
24 calling for the death penaly for spammers
8 trying to link to JPEG exploits
Don't forget the 3 A/C's who make lame Soviet Russia jokes. BTW, Are we still doing those?
How could they not know? "Records show we have 100 million users. Finance records show 75 million are non-paying. We will need at *least* 18,600 TB of storage.
Perhaps they were using an old version of calc.exe. Remember the one where 3 - 3.01 = 0. I think it was buggy like that from Win 3.0 up until Win 2k.
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A new mouse is released and there are nearly 700 posts to discuss it. this is truly the domain of the ultra geeky.
Is why do we give a crap? We know better than to use that garbage out of redmond.
And what are all these 'ctsr.exe' and 'winlogon.exe'?
I'm sure in order to bring weapons into the space, a lot of technologies will have to be developed, which hopefully will benefit many other sectors.
I'm sure it will too.
The idea of space-weapons is not a new one. These will eventually be developed by other nations as well. I, for one, would be much happier with the US military being the first to have these, rather than the military of N. Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Libya, et al.
Just my two cents.
A grand for a video card? A grand? All I can say is some folks have more dollars than sense, but that's just MHO.
For a gaming video card, absolutely it's preposterous.
$1000 for a workstation graphics card is probably average, with prices going well above that for the high end.
ASIMO is old news. We need a newer better robot. And this time, don't make it look so gay.
So now we have 800 lbs of highly toxic lead-acid batteries to dispose of PER CAR. Gee these electric vehicles are so environmentally friendly! And my, what a long life-span they have too.
For some time now, you've been able to buy a turbo direct-injection diesel engine Volkswagen in europe that gets 81 miles per gallon. Yes, eighty-one. And with the new diesel particulate filters coming this year, these same cars will meet the very strict euro-IV emissions standard.
Hybrid is a gimick, electric is simply not feasable or environmentally friendlty with today's battery technology. turbo direct-inject diesel is the only way to go.
I drive a 96 VW Passat TDI (here in the US). I get 50 miles per gallon and I fuel my car with B100 Biodiesel (a diesel compatible fuel made from vegetable oil instead of petroleum oil). see www.tdiclub.com and www.biodiesel.org for more details. Biodiesel is 100% renewable, produces far less pollution than any other motor fuel, and can be used in TODAY's diesel engines - this is not vaporware, it's right here right now. It can also be blended in any percentage mix with regular diesel fuel.
VMWare ESX server is a very effective tool for server consolidation. Particularly if you have many old legacy servers that you just can't get rid of.
Migrate them all to virtual machines within VMware and say bye-bye to replacement parts, expensive support contracts and pricy KVM-IP devices for outdated servers.
We removed about 65 old (PPro through P3) servers to virtual machines in VMware. In addition to the benefits I mentioned above, we also gained SIX 42U racks of free space, reduced cable clutter, and reduced server room power/cooling consumption.
Disclaimer: I don't work for VMware but I can't say enough good things about their server product.
So what does DEC have to do with it? Who was the idiot that chose the "digital" logo as the icon for this story??
c'est un farce! Global warming is nonsense crackpot theory invented by hippies and liberals. Bah.
"...about desktop hard drive developments in 2005. It looks this year is going to be a dud for the storage industry."
"The storage industry" can hardly be categorized by desktop hard drive sales. I can assure you that high-end fibre-channel RAID controllers, FC fabric switches, and 15k rpm FC drives are the big profit makers.
Besides, in the personal desktop PC segment, current IDE and SATA technology provide way more than enough capacity to satisfy even the most MP3-hungry 14 year-old, and the most email-crazy grandmas. The vast majority of personal desktop PC buyers out there are not going to spend extra money to get a 600GB drive instead of the 400GB model - they just don't need it.
Someone intentionally tried to blind the pilot of an aircraft in an attempt to cause a crash. Why shouldn't the scumbag get a stiff prison sentence?
Or is Chewbacca groping Leia?
Dude, he's totally grabbing her boob. Han is so going to be pissed when he hears about this.
It seems every slashdot article that mentions primates, assumes that all /. readers believe in the theory of evolution. I'm not a bible-belt church nazi, but I also don't believe that apes and man share a common ancestor. I think the article summary should reflect the fact that evolution is only a theory. (Well, I guess it's also a groupware email client ;).
Just my two cents.
Yes, but that can change, and electricity can be produced from alternatives, giving hydrogen fuel from "green" electricity. Try doing something similar with oil-based fuel. Not as easy.
Actually, it is.
I live near by, and I don't want a large hydrogen tank in my neighborhood. Now a B100 biodiesel pump would be a welcome addition. I like to run my VW Passat TDI on Biodiesel, but I currently have to drive way up into Maryland to get it. Biodiesel is renewable, biodegradable, and much safer to handle than hydrogen or gasoline.
Just my two cents.
I hate hearing about global warming. It's a complete farce. The earth is several Billion years old, while humanity has 200 years, if that, of accurate temperature data. Looking at this tiny sliver of time and developing preposterous warming theories is akin to examining a single drop of sea water and theorizing about humpback whale breeding patterns. It's just plain nonsense.
I think I'm going to wear my "Industrial Revolution Day" T-Shirt to work tomorrow.
Regardless, we accept Paypal payments for our business. Didn't work all weekend...and today I kept getting errors (I think it was 30004) telling me to "retry" or "return to main page". Took a few retries, but I did get stuff done....such as transfering money out for payroll on Friday. Auction and storefront sales were down from lack of a payment service though. Debit card had activity over the weekend, so that worked fine.
You are a moron if you use paypal to run a business including the payroll, of all things. Read the fine print and you'll see that paypal IS NOT A BANK. They don't have to follow bank rules, and your money is NOT FDIC INSURED. Sure, paypal may be fine for processing occational petty payments (Personally, I wouldn't trust them with my bank account or credit card information), but to use it for running a business, including the payroll, should probably be illegal.
On the note of not trusting them. If a new storefront opened in the mall, we'll call them BankPal(tm). They want you to enter your credit card information, bank account numbers, address and phone numbers, and OH BY THE WAY we're not a bank, aren't held to bank standards or laws, can seize your account at any time for no reason, are not fdic insured, blah blah blah, how can anyone with more than two brain cells trust these jokers???
Oh, okay. So the nuclear-electric stations that produce power for much of Ontario "could" be re-engineered for evil usage. Better start bombing Canada!
Just don't hide any mystery tubes about, and don't elect a terrorist dictator and I think you'll be ok.
You COULD be a terrorist. I think we should lock you up just in case. We'll let you out when the War on Terror is over.
Well lets see here. If I had a history of using WMD's on my own people, and of having the desire and the means to begin a nuclear weapons program, and then some mystery tubes turned up that *could* be used to satisfy my nuclear desires, then yes my friend, I quite possibly COULD be a terrorist.
How does this have anything at all to do with computing, science, gaming, linux, or even microsoft for that matter. It's offtopic liberal bullshit like this that's making /. get worse and worse.
The tubes were stated as COULD be used for nuclear weapons. They could also be large drinking straws or sewer pipes. I, for one, would rather NOT take that chance. Better to be too cautious than not cautious enough.
How is this any different from a desktop file manager application? Typically, a double-click on any given document type will open that document using the appropriate program. For example, when I click on a .JPG file, the file manager will "ask" GQview to open the file.
How is that any different from some Java code that asks for the Java engine to run it?
That's normal floating-point arithmetic, not a bug. There's a similar "bug" in Apple's calculator utility - and I mean right now, today, in the latest version.
I just tried it on my ibook G4 and it gave the correct answer. -0.01
25 complaning about the grammar in the article 50 complaining how much Hotmail sucks and why not just use Gmail 50 complaining about how much Outlook sucks and why not use a open alternative 75 complaning about how much Microsoft sucks 2 haikus 24 calling for the death penaly for spammers 8 trying to link to JPEG exploits
Don't forget the 3 A/C's who make lame Soviet Russia jokes. BTW, Are we still doing those?
How could they not know? "Records show we have 100 million users. Finance records show 75 million are non-paying. We will need at *least* 18,600 TB of storage.
Perhaps they were using an old version of calc.exe. Remember the one where 3 - 3.01 = 0. I think it was buggy like that from Win 3.0 up until Win 2k.