Well, i guess at least hurd will support ide drives >2GB 2008.
What will be the next problem?
Most likely it wont support usb, so everybody would need to use 10 year old mice...
GNU Hurd - Because being 10 years behind the rest doesnt hurt
I remember owning a 8 bit computer that needed 2 seconds to display a 40*25 page of text in a wordprocessor. So i would say 30 sec per page is OK for a 1MHz 8 bit cpu running a BASIC (!!!!) Webserver
An neutron star is a pile of neutrons. Between them (hard to say because normaly one would assume there is no space between them), there are still a few % electrons and protons left. The reason why an neutron star can exist, but not a 10 neutron atom core is that neutrons would decay intro protons, but the huge pressure of the neutron star surpresses that.
Btw: Funny trivia: While the core of a neutron star may or may not be a neutron crystal, the major part of it consist of liquit neutronium. Because of the nature of the neutrons, this is a superfluid. It has zero fraction. The result is that if the outer layers of the neutron star are decellerated, the core can spin faster than the outer sphere. Add to this the fact that the remaining protons create cooper pairs and act as a REALLLY high temperature superconductor, a complicated mesh of magnetic flow vortices is build in the star. This can create the famous "star quakes", in which a pulsar (spinning neutron star) suddenly rotates faster. The core simply decellerates, accelerating the rest of the star
Some funny guy with his f4 phantom broke the sonic wall in 35000feet altitude just above my hometown here in germany last week.
I lived near a military base in my childhood, and i dont even notice distant explosions ect anymore. But that sound was LOUD. I was standing near an open window and i could FEEL the shockwave entering the room. Thats nothing you really want every day...
Yeah, but think about it: You have a generator system delivering 1500MW power to the grind and ZOOOOMMM. External grid goes down. How would you regulate your output other than doing an emergency shutdown?
My infos are rather old, but IMHO an nuclear power plant uses around 10% of the electricity it produces internally. If some massive surge shuts down the local grid, or even the connection power plantgrid, the last thing anybody wants is a nuclear power plant without power and a active core. So i guess the first thing such a plant will do if ANYTHING goes wrong is to shutdown itselft.
A blackout is 100times better than a china syndrom...
Imagine a 3gram payload in an explosive 0.50 round. You could equipe your air drop ranger with an anti-material rifle with a distruction force compareable to a maverick missile, plus having HUGE anti personal effect (a 3 mile shot could knock out a whole camp of soldiers via radiation damage)
There have been a few of them in this century. A really big flare can fry com sats, induce enough current in long range grid lines to blow up the transformators and interfere with radio. But they dont create a TOTAL blackout.
Sorry for the reply to my own post, but i guessed that it would rated flamebaid. One Question: Why? I mean, WMDs are bad, you hear that 10times a day. But who didnt retify the bioweapon controll treaty, developes "conventional" mininukes, uses their fasted supercomputers for nuclear weapon research and propose a new kind of WMD? Not iraq....
There are a few thousend nukes from the good old cold war days lying around, they are enough to bomb any country in the world back to the stoneage. Why waste ressources to develope new ones? Arent there enought other ways to spend the money
If you blur the line, noone will cry if you use a bomb "just a little larger". you can always say its a very deep bunker or a big stockpile of WMD ect.
Btw: Anyone still asking where you really have to search if you want to find WMD? Small hint: not in the middle east...
Yeah, but it isnt enough to install a full linux distro or a bigger game. If you limit yourself, you can use only a floppy. But 2.7GB? thats 1997, not 2003
Problem with voxels is storage requirement for data. A few GB for a scene while rendering may be acceptablem but every doom4 level requiring a own dvd wouldnt be that hot...
I really like the fact that the worm crashed my xp. Because i noticed at once something is wrong. And it keep crashing 1-5min after login into the net, so there war little chance for anyone to really use the exploit (thx to dynamic ip).
Cant imagine how much more packets would be flying around if all those crashing machines would be spamming the worm right now....
HEY, I saw it live while programming at my pc. Thought WTF?!?! Needed 5 trys to get the patch. it took only 10sec-3 min after going online to start the "60sec to death" countdown. Not much time to locate and download a 1.5MB patch. But it worked without problems. System is stable now....
Even worse, lets imagine the program isnt perfect and someone finds an exploid. Wanna install backdoor? Just mass email spam with a link to an infected site....
And WHY should i care about config files that are a mess? If i want to change only 1 value, i can find that faster in a form than i can open a terminal window, than an editor, the file, search the correct line and than save it.
And if im a l33t g33k that enjoys hacking plaintext configs, than simply dont use the gui tools...
Forget Paperclips. I used a needle for leather sewing..:) But you dont have a choise if you build a new computer and realize to late that your windows cd is in that old cd-rom you just put into the "misc electonix" box.....
You have to use a little bit of force. And a long needle. The hole is nothing but a hole that happens to be just in front of one of the tray gears, which has a lever attached to it. So you have to use enough force to get the gear moving....
Well, i'd LOVE an explanation about just HOW you think light can have a "cancelling effect" on some tones....
Some lights PRODUCE sound, due vibrations in coils of the driver ect, but until now my QED lecture hasnt given me any clue how sonic waves could be affected by photons:)
It is true that if you are in total darkness, you automatically focus your other senses, but that is a psychological effect.
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Well, i guess at least hurd will support ide drives >2GB 2008. What will be the next problem? Most likely it wont support usb, so everybody would need to use 10 year old mice... GNU Hurd - Because being 10 years behind the rest doesnt hurt
I remember owning a 8 bit computer that needed 2 seconds to display a 40*25 page of text in a wordprocessor.
So i would say 30 sec per page is OK for a 1MHz 8 bit cpu running a BASIC (!!!!) Webserver
I meant the election of gwb.
Thats the one who put the idiots in power
An neutron star is a pile of neutrons. Between them (hard to say because normaly one would assume there is no space between them), there are still a few % electrons and protons left.
The reason why an neutron star can exist, but not a 10 neutron atom core is that neutrons would decay intro protons, but the huge pressure of the neutron star surpresses that.
Btw:
Funny trivia: While the core of a neutron star may or may not be a neutron crystal, the major part of it consist of liquit neutronium. Because of the nature of the neutrons, this is a superfluid. It has zero fraction. The result is that if the outer layers of the neutron star are decellerated, the core can spin faster than the outer sphere.
Add to this the fact that the remaining protons create cooper pairs and act as a REALLLY high temperature superconductor, a complicated mesh of magnetic flow vortices is build in the star. This can create the famous "star quakes", in which a pulsar (spinning neutron star) suddenly rotates faster.
The core simply decellerates, accelerating the rest of the star
Some funny guy with his f4 phantom broke the sonic wall in 35000feet altitude just above my hometown here in germany last week.
I lived near a military base in my childhood, and i dont even notice distant explosions ect anymore.
But that sound was LOUD.
I was standing near an open window and i could FEEL the shockwave entering the room.
Thats nothing you really want every day...
Yeah, but think about it:
You have a generator system delivering 1500MW power to the grind and ZOOOOMMM. External grid goes down.
How would you regulate your output other than doing an emergency shutdown?
Yeah, your right.
We here in europe can see what one wrong election can do....
My infos are rather old, but IMHO an nuclear power plant uses around 10% of the electricity it produces internally. If some massive surge shuts down the local grid, or even the connection power plantgrid, the last thing anybody wants is a nuclear power plant without power and a active core. So i guess the first thing such a plant will do if ANYTHING goes wrong is to shutdown itselft.
A blackout is 100times better than a china syndrom...
Well, i guess april 2004 will see a lot of babies if this continues till tomorrow....
Imagine a 3gram payload in an explosive 0.50 round.
You could equipe your air drop ranger with an anti-material rifle with a distruction force compareable to a maverick missile, plus having HUGE anti personal effect (a 3 mile shot could knock out a whole camp of soldiers via radiation damage)
There have been a few of them in this century.
A really big flare can fry com sats, induce enough current in long range grid lines to blow up the transformators and interfere with radio.
But they dont create a TOTAL blackout.
Sorry for the reply to my own post, but i guessed that it would rated flamebaid.
One Question: Why?
I mean, WMDs are bad, you hear that 10times a day. But who didnt retify the bioweapon controll treaty, developes "conventional" mininukes, uses their fasted supercomputers for nuclear weapon research and propose a new kind of WMD?
Not iraq....
There are a few thousend nukes from the good old cold war days lying around, they are enough to bomb any country in the world back to the stoneage.
Why waste ressources to develope new ones?
Arent there enought other ways to spend the money
If you blur the line, noone will cry if you use a bomb "just a little larger". you can always say its a very deep bunker or a big stockpile of WMD ect.
Btw:
Anyone still asking where you really have to search if you want to find WMD? Small hint: not in the middle east...
Yeah, but it isnt enough to install a full linux distro or a bigger game.
If you limit yourself, you can use only a floppy.
But 2.7GB?
thats 1997, not 2003
Problem with voxels is storage requirement for data.
A few GB for a scene while rendering may be acceptablem but every doom4 level requiring a own dvd wouldnt be that hot...
Your sig shows everyone where at least one of the trolls is hiding.
I really like the fact that the worm crashed my xp. Because i noticed at once something is wrong. And it keep crashing 1-5min after login into the net, so there war little chance for anyone to really use the exploit (thx to dynamic ip).
Cant imagine how much more packets would be flying around if all those crashing machines would be spamming the worm right now....
HEY, I saw it live while programming at my pc.
Thought WTF?!?!
Needed 5 trys to get the patch. it took only 10sec-3 min after going online to start the "60sec to death" countdown. Not much time to locate and download a 1.5MB patch.
But it worked without problems. System is stable now....
Even worse, lets imagine the program isnt perfect and someone finds an exploid.
Wanna install backdoor?
Just mass email spam with a link to an infected site....
And WHY should i care about config files that are a mess?
If i want to change only 1 value, i can find that faster in a form than i can open a terminal window, than an editor, the file, search the correct line and than save it.
And if im a l33t g33k that enjoys hacking plaintext configs, than simply dont use the gui tools...
Forget Paperclips. I used a needle for leather sewing.. :)
But you dont have a choise if you build a new computer and realize to late that your windows cd is in that old cd-rom you just put into the "misc electonix" box.....
You have to use a little bit of force. And a long needle. The hole is nothing but a hole that happens to be just in front of one of the tray gears, which has a lever attached to it. So you have to use enough force to get the gear moving....
Yeah, but dont tell me a file called xxx_driver_v1.34.rpm couldnt do the same thing?
Only you have to do more work to intall it....
Well, i'd LOVE an explanation about just HOW you think light can have a "cancelling effect" on some tones....
:)
Some lights PRODUCE sound, due vibrations in coils of the driver ect, but until now my QED lecture hasnt given me any clue how sonic waves could be affected by photons
It is true that if you are in total darkness, you automatically focus your other senses, but that is a psychological effect.
You could say the same thing about linux/bsd/irix/ect.
"WHAT!!!! There is a bootable 1.44mb linux floppy? Why is my kernel alone more than 7 MB big! BLOAtWARE!!!!11!!"
Nowadays, 1GB HD-space costs less then 1$. So you are really that upset because your 150$ windows xp needs 2$ hard disc space?