"While your Porsche may develop 400hp at 7000 RPM, The Tesla develops 400HP at 0 RPM, and works down from there."
Err , no. At 0 rpm an electric motor develops 0 hp. Torque and hp are not the same thing. Hp (or kw if you prefer) is a function of torque (force) multiplied by rpm (speed) hence no rpm = no horsepower. Basic physics.
... I hope mission control don't mind waiting on the phone for 20 mins to Helpdesk , then going through a 5 level automated menu which asks them all their details , only to be finally put through to a human who asks all the same details again in an unintelligable accent and then be asked if they're sure the spacecraft is heading for the correct planet and could they double check, Then be put on hold once more and be passed to the customer satisfaction survey dept by mistake.
... journeys are probably on average considerably shorter. Plus germany has decent public transport so I suspect - I have no proof - that incompetants who would be tempted behind the wheel if they had no choice tend to use the train instead.
Ah , but absorbtion and re-emission isn't an instantanious process especially if its energy is use for something else - eg moving an electron to a higher orbit. Even if it didn't its still takes a finite amount of time which is why light travels slower in non vacuums than in a vacuum.
"In the case of the photon, which uses up all of it's speed travelling through space, no time ever passes for it. "
I've often wondered about this - If no time passes for a photon, how can it interact with anything? Interactions require a non zero amount of time to occur.
Its all very well storing it ON something for a billion years, but thats no use if that something is subducted into the earths crust in that time period of which there is a close to 100% chance it will happen. So storing it on earth is pointless , where else? Space? Nope. Any satellite would suffer orbital decay or be dragged off into the sun or some other body long before a billion years had passed and who the hell could find it even if it didn't?
Its a nice intellectual exercise but ultimately futile. In 1 billion years humanity and in fact all the rest of life on earth will be history because earth by then will be a boiling hell due to the sun heating up. We should just except that and make the most of the time we're here.
In the meantime I'll be worrying more about the extremist trend in Islam which - surprise surprise - tends to come from the arab countries and their patsies in the backwards *stan nations. Unfortunately this intolerant dim witted view of morality has now spread to africa.
They're just hoping the word "police" will make the admins wet their pants. Its all bluff and hot air, there's nothing they can do other generate more hot air. Eventually they'll get bored and move on to real crimes that are in their jurisdiction instead of trying to play world policeman.
Using the raw IP address should bypass any DNS redirection but we STILL get the police message. Have they taken over the actual web server too or even worse, somehow got the routing changed? How the hell did they manage that??
Apparently neural networks are news to the dot.com guy who submitted the article. Its nice to know they use journos so clued up on IT for an allegedly IT site.
So unless his engine indexed a load of other services such as gopher and ftp servers too then it really was too far ahead of its time so you can see why it didn't garner much interest. Also I wouldn't be surprised if people didn't just think it was archie on steroids so why bother?
When someone decides to buy a smartphone they think - which one has got the best features vs price, best screen, best deal from the phone company, looks the best, has the best app store.
What they DON'T think is "Hmm, what gives me best access to cloud service XYZ?".
Since they are generated by algorithms that give repeatable results - this isn't news. The distribution is random (usually) but the sequence is not. You need to tap into some aspect of the hardware if you hope to get true randomness and even then, unless you're measuring some quantum effect the random aspect might not be quite so random as you at first think.
Hummingbird brains are tiny yet they're probably the best acrobatic flyers the bird world has. Geese have much larger brains but they're as dumb as hell compared to the highly intelligent crow family.
UEFI *does*. Sure, you can switch off the secure boot FOR NOW. But how long until MS decides that other OS's are too "insecure" and insist on secure boot to be on all the time and start being parsimonious with their keys?
Its generally only people who have a lot of money who say that money isn't important. Its fine being a wistful poet spouting profoundities on a blog read by 3 people and a very smart dog if you have a nice trustfund to pay for the skinny lattes and hosting fees. But its a bit of a different story if you have a landlord on your back and don't know how you're going to pay for the next meal, never mind next months rent.
... for a website that when it boils down to it doesn't actually do that much. Publishes messages and some photos. BFD. We're not exactly talking about online banking here or even a site such as slashdot. Why exactly does it need so many people to do apparently so little?
Just what do you think would happen to a Russian citizen who leaked a ton bucket load of FSB secrets? I can tell you what - they'd be dead within a week. Last time I looked the USA didn't assasinate opposition politicians (look up Sergei Yushenkov amongst others), do show trials of citizens who pissed off putin and send them off for 20 years hard labour and poison citizens who've sort asylum in other countries eg Alexander Litvinenko. And you think the USA looks WORSE than a country that does this simply because they quite rightly want to arrest a traitor??
You "poor oppressed liberal us" stick-it-to-the-man types need to really need to wake up and never mind smell the coffee, inject the bloody stuff and get a grasp of reality!
Slashdot Mirror
*yawn*
Save it for your school debating society sonny.
"While your Porsche may develop 400hp at 7000 RPM, The Tesla develops 400HP at 0 RPM, and works down from there."
Err , no. At 0 rpm an electric motor develops 0 hp. Torque and hp are not the same thing. Hp (or kw if you prefer) is a function of torque (force) multiplied by rpm (speed) hence no rpm = no horsepower. Basic physics.
*sigh* The liberal lefty knee jerk repost of last resort. I hate to break the news to you but people just laugh at simpletons like you now.
... I hope mission control don't mind waiting on the phone for 20 mins to Helpdesk , then going through a 5 level automated menu which asks them all their details , only to be finally put through to a human who asks all the same details again in an unintelligable accent and then be asked if they're sure the spacecraft is heading for the correct planet and could they double check, Then be put on hold once more and be passed to the customer satisfaction survey dept by mistake.
... journeys are probably on average considerably shorter. Plus germany has decent public transport so I suspect - I have no proof - that incompetants who would be tempted behind the wheel if they had no choice tend to use the train instead.
Ah , but absorbtion and re-emission isn't an instantanious process especially if its energy is use for something else - eg moving an electron to a higher orbit. Even if it didn't its still takes a finite amount of time which is why light travels slower in non vacuums than in a vacuum.
"In the case of the photon, which uses up all of it's speed travelling through space, no time ever passes for it. "
I've often wondered about this - If no time passes for a photon, how can it interact with anything? Interactions require a non zero amount of time to occur.
Its all very well storing it ON something for a billion years, but thats no use if that something is subducted into the earths crust in that time period of which there is a close to 100% chance it will happen. So storing it on earth is pointless , where else? Space? Nope. Any satellite would suffer orbital decay or be dragged off into the sun or some other body long before a billion years had passed and who the hell could find it even if it didn't?
Its a nice intellectual exercise but ultimately futile. In 1 billion years humanity and in fact all the rest of life on earth will be history because earth by then will be a boiling hell due to the sun heating up. We should just except that and make the most of the time we're here.
Ah yes , "racist", the playground insult of last resort for idiot liberals who have no counter argument.
Oh and FYI I'm not even american so your cartoon misses its target by a long way.
In the meantime I'll be worrying more about the extremist trend in Islam which - surprise surprise - tends to come from the arab countries and their patsies in the backwards *stan nations. Unfortunately this intolerant dim witted view of morality has now spread to africa.
They're just hoping the word "police" will make the admins wet their pants. Its all bluff and hot air, there's nothing they can do other generate more hot air. Eventually they'll get bored and move on to real crimes that are in their jurisdiction instead of trying to play world policeman.
Using the raw IP address should bypass any DNS redirection but we STILL get the police message. Have they taken over the actual web server too or even worse, somehow got the routing changed? How the hell did they manage that??
Apparently neural networks are news to the dot.com guy who submitted the article. Its nice to know they use journos so clued up on IT for an allegedly IT site.
You beat me to it. Anyone with a vague clue about unix would have thought of that. Obviously vague clues are a rare thing for the parent poster.
So unless his engine indexed a load of other services such as gopher and ftp servers too then it really was too far ahead of its time so you can see why it didn't garner much interest. Also I wouldn't be surprised if people didn't just think it was archie on steroids so why bother?
When someone decides to buy a smartphone they think - which one has got the best features vs price, best screen, best deal from the phone company, looks the best, has the best app store.
What they DON'T think is "Hmm, what gives me best access to cloud service XYZ?".
Since they are generated by algorithms that give repeatable results - this isn't news. The distribution is random (usually) but the sequence is not. You need to tap into some aspect of the hardware if you hope to get true randomness and even then, unless you're measuring some quantum effect the random aspect might not be quite so random as you at first think.
Hummingbird brains are tiny yet they're probably the best acrobatic flyers the bird world has. Geese have much larger brains but they're as dumb as hell compared to the highly intelligent crow family.
"could have" != did
UEFI *does*. Sure, you can switch off the secure boot FOR NOW. But how long until MS decides that other OS's are too "insecure" and insist on secure boot to be on all the time and start being parsimonious with their keys?
Wake up.
Its generally only people who have a lot of money who say that money isn't important. Its fine being a wistful poet spouting profoundities on a blog read by 3 people and a very smart dog if you have a nice trustfund to pay for the skinny lattes and hosting fees. But its a bit of a different story if you have a landlord on your back and don't know how you're going to pay for the next meal, never mind next months rent.
... for a website that when it boils down to it doesn't actually do that much. Publishes messages and some photos. BFD. We're not exactly talking about online banking here or even a site such as slashdot. Why exactly does it need so many people to do apparently so little?
*yawn*.
Get back to me when you've grown up.
I did read them , perhaps you should learn to WRITE if you didn't intend it to come across as yet another go at apparent freedom in the US.
Just what do you think would happen to a Russian citizen who leaked a ton bucket load of FSB secrets? I can tell you what - they'd be dead within a week. Last time I looked the USA didn't assasinate opposition politicians (look up Sergei Yushenkov amongst others), do show trials of citizens who pissed off putin and send them off for 20 years hard labour and poison citizens who've sort asylum in other countries eg Alexander Litvinenko. And you think the USA looks WORSE than a country that does this simply because they quite rightly want to arrest a traitor??
You "poor oppressed liberal us" stick-it-to-the-man types need to really need to wake up and never mind smell the coffee, inject the bloody stuff and get a grasp of reality!
Running tends to get pushed as an example of pure unaided human physical performance - which it isn't. The sports you mentioned are not.