Documents exist on the corporate server. It costs a bundle to license though and I don't know if it supports linux. -- but isn't that where FLOSS shines?
Like X11? There at least 2 FOSS X11 clients/servers
People want x86 because of (Macromedia's) Flash, and, since the screen is the bigest power sink now, there isn't so much hush into a more efficient processor.
Lets see how well they adapt when their competition costs nothing and the world goes into a recession. Remember that MS always was the inexpensive low-quality competitor.
We are approaching atomic level composition on a plane. With quark composition, our computing capabilities could be much highter, some more than that 10^15 you propose (10^15 times what we have could be reached just by the normal speedup of hight energy physics, with no improvement on architecture). And we really don't know if quantum computers solve NP complete problems, we don't even know if classical ones solve them.
But, anyway, somehow our brain is able to create what we classify as strong AI within the laws of physics. To argue that we can't do that in another shape you'll need some evidence.
The nice part of superconductiong is that you don't need a coil to create a magnet. You create the material inside a (normal) coil and, as you remove it, current start running in circles inside it without the need of a potential difference.
Now, for designing motors and rail propursion systems without coils, people will really need to get creative.
It is as hard to find a competent Linux admin as it is to find a competent MCSE. If there is a difference here, I've seen nobody measure it yet.
Now, most plces need more than a "fisher-price level" network. They just cope with one (including the damages and delays caused by it) because they don't know any better.
Are you implying that people have to rewrite Linux everytime they install it? Or that Microsoft assumes at least some tiny bit of responsibility from what their products do? Because, you know, none of those are true.
conservation of momentum in GR requires inertial mass and gravitational mass to be equal
I think that is the most weard of all. The inertial mass increases with the velocity module (going into infinity when the later goes to c), but if the gravitational mass increses proportionaly, a body could have a speed that is highter than c just by falling into a strong enough gravitational field.
Just calculate the Carnot cycle efficiency of a machine that has the hot source at Sun's surface temperature and cold source at Earth's surface temperature. That is near 95%. (Wikipedia has the data if you need it, I'm just too lazy to research it again.)
So, PV could be 95% efficient without breaking 2dn law of thermodynamics. I, obviously, don't know how to make such PV, otherwise I'd be rich.
I am surprised nobody asked that before, but the answer is surprisingly simple. The photons obviously have enough energy do move several electrons, but the photovoltaic cell (junction) is a tiny laywer over some opaque substrate (normaly silicon). So you only have one chance of absorbing those photons.
There are some manufacturing processes that could create one junction over another, but those processes are very expensive and the material isn't completely transparent. Probably because of this (I don't know about all the problems) people are unable to stack more than 2 junctions.
So, making a photon displace several electrons at a time seems to be the best alternative. People are doing that with quantum dots for a time now, but quantum dots are very unstable. Now those researches were able to create the same effect using a well designed crystal. That is a big step foward.
"In realality Microsoft didn't put that much into it. And if they did win they really wouldn't have gained much anyways."
In fact, they didn't put too much into that, they just created an EU investigation exclusively for that happening, and oppened guard for lots of other monopoly abuse and criminal (bribery) prosecutions. No too much indeed.
In fact, they did have nothing to gain, but everything to lose.
My initial gut reaction is that Negroponte wants to completely scrap what came before, and put his own stamp on the project. But that makes no sense, because it was his project, and his stamp was on it already.
Well, he created a new kind of computer that changed the entire market. The marked already absorbed XO, but now he thinks he can do something better, so why stop?
They will be able to sell this new device for under $100, this time for sure.
The way the Dollar is going, it may very well cost $1000 by 2010, and still be right at price.
Although I wouldn't be terribly keen on the government literally "writing history", I'm sure many state governments would be willing to fund such an effort.
That is the important part. If MANY governemnts do that (on lots of different levels), and teachers are free to choose them, then there is no problem on they being writen by the State.
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Like X11? There at least 2 FOSS X11 clients/servers
Now, if you tell me how long is the battery life, it may have another sell :)
People want x86 because of (Macromedia's) Flash, and, since the screen is the bigest power sink now, there isn't so much hush into a more efficient processor.
Now, I wouldn't mind one ARM based UMPC...
Lets see how well they adapt when their competition costs nothing and the world goes into a recession. Remember that MS always was the inexpensive low-quality competitor.
We are approaching atomic level composition on a plane. With quark composition, our computing capabilities could be much highter, some more than that 10^15 you propose (10^15 times what we have could be reached just by the normal speedup of hight energy physics, with no improvement on architecture). And we really don't know if quantum computers solve NP complete problems, we don't even know if classical ones solve them.
But, anyway, somehow our brain is able to create what we classify as strong AI within the laws of physics. To argue that we can't do that in another shape you'll need some evidence.
That is the point. Pionted sticks can't kill the world, as can't nuclear weapons. But nanotech can.
It would be non-deterministic. And send to hell all those people that spent their lifes trying to discover if P = NP :)
Vacuum is not immune to gravity, it simply "falls up" (like people are saying about antimatter on a later news topic).
How is it different from simply cutting the wire?
The nice part of superconductiong is that you don't need a coil to create a magnet. You create the material inside a (normal) coil and, as you remove it, current start running in circles inside it without the need of a potential difference.
Now, for designing motors and rail propursion systems without coils, people will really need to get creative.
It is as hard to find a competent Linux admin as it is to find a competent MCSE. If there is a difference here, I've seen nobody measure it yet.
Now, most plces need more than a "fisher-price level" network. They just cope with one (including the damages and delays caused by it) because they don't know any better.
And how exactly does that analogy applies?
Are you implying that people have to rewrite Linux everytime they install it? Or that Microsoft assumes at least some tiny bit of responsibility from what their products do? Because, you know, none of those are true.
Now, that is what I'd call a killer app :)
Dia can import .vsd files.
I think that is the most weard of all. The inertial mass increases with the velocity module (going into infinity when the later goes to c), but if the gravitational mass increses proportionaly, a body could have a speed that is highter than c just by falling into a strong enough gravitational field.
Or did I just "discover" a black hole?
And I would mod you up if I had the points (they always came when I don't need them).
Just calculate the Carnot cycle efficiency of a machine that has the hot source at Sun's surface temperature and cold source at Earth's surface temperature. That is near 95%. (Wikipedia has the data if you need it, I'm just too lazy to research it again.)
So, PV could be 95% efficient without breaking 2dn law of thermodynamics. I, obviously, don't know how to make such PV, otherwise I'd be rich.
I am surprised nobody asked that before, but the answer is surprisingly simple. The photons obviously have enough energy do move several electrons, but the photovoltaic cell (junction) is a tiny laywer over some opaque substrate (normaly silicon). So you only have one chance of absorbing those photons.
There are some manufacturing processes that could create one junction over another, but those processes are very expensive and the material isn't completely transparent. Probably because of this (I don't know about all the problems) people are unable to stack more than 2 junctions.
So, making a photon displace several electrons at a time seems to be the best alternative. People are doing that with quantum dots for a time now, but quantum dots are very unstable. Now those researches were able to create the same effect using a well designed crystal. That is a big step foward.
I don't know... You got moded Funny, but I can't think breaking the Carnal Cycle could be any funny.
You can get a 95% efficient PV cell without violating those "thermaldynamic laws".
Well I didn't RTFA either, but TF Summary says they didn't mention that.
In fact, they didn't put too much into that, they just created an EU investigation exclusively for that happening, and oppened guard for lots of other monopoly abuse and criminal (bribery) prosecutions. No too much indeed.
In fact, they did have nothing to gain, but everything to lose.
Well, he created a new kind of computer that changed the entire market. The marked already absorbed XO, but now he thinks he can do something better, so why stop?
The way the Dollar is going, it may very well cost $1000 by 2010, and still be right at price.
That is the important part. If MANY governemnts do that (on lots of different levels), and teachers are free to choose them, then there is no problem on they being writen by the State.
That is why i save all my documents into /dev/null, and read them from /dev/urandom.
By the way, my documents don't seem to like me very much... Am I feeding them wrongly?