Unlikely. It doesn't truly matter to IBM who owns the copyright on the original code: They just have to prove they didn't use any of it in Linux. (Though if SCO doesn't own it then their claim can be thrown out based on the fact that they have no cause for complaint.)
Modern iPods have no problem holding enough video to exceed batter life: Battery life while playing video is a little over 6 hours on the newer iPods, and you can easily store a half-dozen movies at DVD-quality. (Or at their own max playable quality, which is slightly lower.)
The Russians already use it, but mostly for speed. It isn't all that usefull for stealth. (As already mentioned.)
So it's not useful for submarines, but for many surface ships it is very useful. And for torpedos it is killer. IIRC, they have a couple of rocket-powered supersonic torpedos that panicked the US Navy when first demonstrated...
Have they factored in the amount of energy required to create the layer of bubbles? Seems like creating a layer of bubbles around the hull of a giant ship would take quite a bit of energy.They are moderately intellegent people. They do think of these obvious things...
(For reference: It is a major problem for one of the approaches being researched, but only one. Another approach already has a 40% reduction in friction by diverting 3% of the ship's power. Well worth the expendeture.)
The Chicago Sun Times is one of the biggest newspapers in the country. Possibly in the top three, definitely in the top ten. They are mainstream media.
That said, Andy is a former MacWorld columnist, who often supports Apple. His viewpoint can probably be considered somewhat biased. (Not that I don't agree with him, but I am also somewhat biased.)
I've got another one, related to the first: Super-conducting sensors are several orders of magnitude more responsive than normal sensors. The problem is to pass that data to the non-superconducting circuits that record the data, and in designing those sensors.
We already have designs for sensors made out of silicon, and I bet these superconductors integrate fairly well with normal computer components...
That's one possible problem. Then there are characters that are technically equivilent but have different representations. (Accented vowels for instance: you can code them directly, or you can code the accent and the vowel seperate.) You need some way to make sure they both go the same place, no matter UTF-8, -16, -32 or whatever else people throw at it.
And, of course, you need to make sure when someone types this into a browser some major DNS server someplace won't crash.
I'm all for adding non-latin characters. But I do recognize that it should be a slow process.
That would work, I don't disagree. Assuming you can get emulators of sufficient quality to run everything. Speed isn't necessarily an issue: access doesn't have to be as fast as it is on a native system after all.
However, you are just time-shifting your complexity, from data input to data output. Given that data input is a continuous process and output is likely to be burst, having the complexity up front is going to present less of an overall issue to use of the system. It is also probably the cheaper in total cost, especially if you need to output the same data several times at widely spaced time intervals. (Where you would need to do the emulate-and-extract separate for each time, as hardware/software/etc. will have changed.)
Of course, your solution is cheaper up front. Which is an advantage.
ODF/PDF are probably about at the required level of use for this; I did consider them for a moment. A little harder to convert to, but they preserve more and are nearly as future-proof. I did mention PNG, though I thought about leaving it out: if MS's support doesn't improve it could eventually fade away as a format. (Another alternative would be TIFF, which is quite well supported.)
FLAC... Isn't widely enough used, in my opinion. WAV or AIFF perhaps.
Of course, these are all of the top of my head. Given some time and money I could come up with numbers to back specific choices, but it would take a fair amount of both.
There are only two ways of doing this: keeping a copy of every program used to create these files (and a system to run them on) or converting them to some open and well-supported format.
For text documents, HTML is probably the best bet. It is so widely used and supported readers are almost garunteed to exist as long as computers do in their current form. (And if something ever truely supersedes it, a mass-conversion program will be written anyway.) HTML probably works for basic spreadsheets too. Graphics support for GIF, JPEG, and PNG is probably at that level as well, and MP3 for music.
As a bonus, most of the native programs for the documents to be preserved have translators to these formats already.
I've read good arguments that many of these are actually adaptations that will help the species survive.
Think about it: who is more likely to say 'fuck civilization': A person with perfect eyesight, or someone who needs that civilization to buy their next pair of contact lenses?
Take a look at the local computer stores, see if any resell used computers. A router doesn't need much power usually, so you might be able to find a bare bones system that fits your needs. Sometimes you can find old server hardware for sale: lots of space for memory/drives/cards.
It can do exactly as much about them as it can about gaming in Antigua: prohibit them from offering gambling online to US citizens. Since it doesn't, Antigua can claim that the laws prohibiting them from offering such sites are only to protect the sites that are allowed to operate.
The fact that the USA allows casinos is irrelevent. Read the article, the problem is that the US allows in-state, horse-racing, and gambling sites based on Native American reservations to operated unimpeded. So, the US allows internet gambling right now. You just have to base it in the USA. That's a clear violation of trade treaties.
They are not arguing that internet gambling and casino gambling are the same thing. No need: the USA has legal internet gambling sites that they are protecting, in direct violation of trade treaties that the USA has signed.
But the problem is that the US hasn't banned internet gambling. It has only banned some internet gambling, including all internet gambling outside the USA. If all internet gambling were banned, the US could cry 'moral grounds' and the problem would go away. But since they aren't, and instead only allow US-based internet gambling...
The required bodysuit will be enough for UV and other solar radiation. Cosmic rays are a problem; I'd expect that the 'indoors' would be somewhat shielded, and outdoors exposure would be deemed 'acceptable'.
Notably, even a thin atmosphere will provide significant amounts of protection against cosmic rays, where total depth of protection is more important than total intercepting mass.
It's clever because you don't actualy have to pressurise the surface to live there: a simple bodysuit can give the pressure you need, with SCUBA-style gear to make sure you've got enough oxygen. So if it is warm enough to not require active heating in the suits, you can make a suit thin enough to be worn as part of everyday clothing, which can be worn both inside and out. Then you just put on a helmet with air when you walk outside. Instead of having to put on a full pressure/temperature/air suit everytime you walk through the airlock.
A current Mac? No. The PPC - Intel switch left anything that couldn't run natively under OS X at the roadside.
Prior to that, yes. Many 'Classic' Macintosh applications could run just fine under the Classic compatablitly layer. Unfortunately that layer has been dropped. There are third-party workarounds avalible though. And G4-G5 Macs are still for sale from Apple at discount.
Apple has done very well in backwards compatablity. Not as well as Windows, but then Windows hasn't managed two archetecture changes and a complete system rewrite. Currently you can still run programs compiled using the 'Carbon' interface introduced with System 9, without change, but that's as far back as you can go. (Still, that's nearly 8 years. Not great, but not bad.)
Debatable, but true enough. My point was that a change in who holds the legislature is completely irrelevant. The applicable laws are already on the books, so there is little the legislature could do if it wanted to.
Who is president is relevant, because that would be how the voice of the people would have to make their complaint. Of course, your point that this is not likely to be a major issue anytime soon (for various reasons) is true as well.
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Hey, some of us are eclectic enough to use it as is. After all, I've read and enjoyed both works listed in the blurb...
Unlikely. It doesn't truly matter to IBM who owns the copyright on the original code: They just have to prove they didn't use any of it in Linux. (Though if SCO doesn't own it then their claim can be thrown out based on the fact that they have no cause for complaint.)
The primary reason Novell wanted IBM to go first was probably because it meant that IBM's lawyers would have to be paid, and not Novell's.
Modern iPods have no problem holding enough video to exceed batter life: Battery life while playing video is a little over 6 hours on the newer iPods, and you can easily store a half-dozen movies at DVD-quality. (Or at their own max playable quality, which is slightly lower.)
The Russians already use it, but mostly for speed. It isn't all that usefull for stealth. (As already mentioned.)
So it's not useful for submarines, but for many surface ships it is very useful. And for torpedos it is killer. IIRC, they have a couple of rocket-powered supersonic torpedos that panicked the US Navy when first demonstrated...
Have they factored in the amount of energy required to create the layer of bubbles? Seems like creating a layer of bubbles around the hull of a giant ship would take quite a bit of energy.They are moderately intellegent people. They do think of these obvious things...
(For reference: It is a major problem for one of the approaches being researched, but only one. Another approach already has a 40% reduction in friction by diverting 3% of the ship's power. Well worth the expendeture.)
The Chicago Sun Times is one of the biggest newspapers in the country. Possibly in the top three, definitely in the top ten. They are mainstream media.
That said, Andy is a former MacWorld columnist, who often supports Apple. His viewpoint can probably be considered somewhat biased. (Not that I don't agree with him, but I am also somewhat biased.)
Actually, we see black shapes very well in the sky. If you want to make a plane invisible during the day, you need to put lights on the underside.
During the night, black is good though.
I've got another one, related to the first: Super-conducting sensors are several orders of magnitude more responsive than normal sensors. The problem is to pass that data to the non-superconducting circuits that record the data, and in designing those sensors.
We already have designs for sensors made out of silicon, and I bet these superconductors integrate fairly well with normal computer components...
That's one possible problem. Then there are characters that are technically equivilent but have different representations. (Accented vowels for instance: you can code them directly, or you can code the accent and the vowel seperate.) You need some way to make sure they both go the same place, no matter UTF-8, -16, -32 or whatever else people throw at it.
And, of course, you need to make sure when someone types this into a browser some major DNS server someplace won't crash.
I'm all for adding non-latin characters. But I do recognize that it should be a slow process.
That would work, I don't disagree. Assuming you can get emulators of sufficient quality to run everything. Speed isn't necessarily an issue: access doesn't have to be as fast as it is on a native system after all.
However, you are just time-shifting your complexity, from data input to data output. Given that data input is a continuous process and output is likely to be burst, having the complexity up front is going to present less of an overall issue to use of the system. It is also probably the cheaper in total cost, especially if you need to output the same data several times at widely spaced time intervals. (Where you would need to do the emulate-and-extract separate for each time, as hardware/software/etc. will have changed.)
Of course, your solution is cheaper up front. Which is an advantage.
ODF/PDF are probably about at the required level of use for this; I did consider them for a moment. A little harder to convert to, but they preserve more and are nearly as future-proof. I did mention PNG, though I thought about leaving it out: if MS's support doesn't improve it could eventually fade away as a format. (Another alternative would be TIFF, which is quite well supported.)
FLAC... Isn't widely enough used, in my opinion. WAV or AIFF perhaps.
Of course, these are all of the top of my head. Given some time and money I could come up with numbers to back specific choices, but it would take a fair amount of both.
There are only two ways of doing this: keeping a copy of every program used to create these files (and a system to run them on) or converting them to some open and well-supported format.
For text documents, HTML is probably the best bet. It is so widely used and supported readers are almost garunteed to exist as long as computers do in their current form. (And if something ever truely supersedes it, a mass-conversion program will be written anyway.) HTML probably works for basic spreadsheets too. Graphics support for GIF, JPEG, and PNG is probably at that level as well, and MP3 for music.
As a bonus, most of the native programs for the documents to be preserved have translators to these formats already.
Beyond that I have no idea.
I can see Carl Sagan presenting it. In a 'history of science' lecture: that was a semi-popular scientifc theory for a while. Until it was disproved.
So, if you are presenting the history of biological theory, that theory should come up...
I've read good arguments that many of these are actually adaptations that will help the species survive.
Think about it: who is more likely to say 'fuck civilization': A person with perfect eyesight, or someone who needs that civilization to buy their next pair of contact lenses?
When the environment changes, some animals are better adapted to the new change than others. Details at 11.
Take a look at the local computer stores, see if any resell used computers. A router doesn't need much power usually, so you might be able to find a bare bones system that fits your needs. Sometimes you can find old server hardware for sale: lots of space for memory/drives/cards.
It can do exactly as much about them as it can about gaming in Antigua: prohibit them from offering gambling online to US citizens. Since it doesn't, Antigua can claim that the laws prohibiting them from offering such sites are only to protect the sites that are allowed to operate.
The fact that the USA allows casinos is irrelevent. Read the article, the problem is that the US allows in-state, horse-racing, and gambling sites based on Native American reservations to operated unimpeded. So, the US allows internet gambling right now. You just have to base it in the USA. That's a clear violation of trade treaties.
They are not arguing that internet gambling and casino gambling are the same thing. No need: the USA has legal internet gambling sites that they are protecting, in direct violation of trade treaties that the USA has signed.
But the problem is that the US hasn't banned internet gambling. It has only banned some internet gambling, including all internet gambling outside the USA. If all internet gambling were banned, the US could cry 'moral grounds' and the problem would go away. But since they aren't, and instead only allow US-based internet gambling...
The required bodysuit will be enough for UV and other solar radiation. Cosmic rays are a problem; I'd expect that the 'indoors' would be somewhat shielded, and outdoors exposure would be deemed 'acceptable'.
Notably, even a thin atmosphere will provide significant amounts of protection against cosmic rays, where total depth of protection is more important than total intercepting mass.
It's clever because you don't actualy have to pressurise the surface to live there: a simple bodysuit can give the pressure you need, with SCUBA-style gear to make sure you've got enough oxygen. So if it is warm enough to not require active heating in the suits, you can make a suit thin enough to be worn as part of everyday clothing, which can be worn both inside and out. Then you just put on a helmet with air when you walk outside. Instead of having to put on a full pressure/temperature/air suit everytime you walk through the airlock.
A current Mac? No. The PPC - Intel switch left anything that couldn't run natively under OS X at the roadside.
Prior to that, yes. Many 'Classic' Macintosh applications could run just fine under the Classic compatablitly layer. Unfortunately that layer has been dropped. There are third-party workarounds avalible though. And G4-G5 Macs are still for sale from Apple at discount.
Apple has done very well in backwards compatablity. Not as well as Windows, but then Windows hasn't managed two archetecture changes and a complete system rewrite. Currently you can still run programs compiled using the 'Carbon' interface introduced with System 9, without change, but that's as far back as you can go. (Still, that's nearly 8 years. Not great, but not bad.)
Debatable, but true enough. My point was that a change in who holds the legislature is completely irrelevant. The applicable laws are already on the books, so there is little the legislature could do if it wanted to.
Who is president is relevant, because that would be how the voice of the people would have to make their complaint. Of course, your point that this is not likely to be a major issue anytime soon (for various reasons) is true as well.
More than that: An anti-trust suit is not a legislative matter. It is an executive one. And Junior is still in charge there for another two years.