Because the War to Japan was not won by the Bomb. Japanese already lost people by thousands every day. What mattered was the arrival of the soviets on the Japan north coast, threatening them of ending up under Stalin's hand. They preferred the gentler US domination and capitulated for that.
This study relies ridiculously on traditionnal generations. By the time we have enough energy to get there, life will be way longer, there will be cloning, and women will not be needed for bearing children. One may even send just clone embryos of the selected astronauts, plus android robots to raise them upon arrival. Farther, imagine replicating the astronauts brain in an artificial simulation. And I'm jut thinking aloud a couple of minutes, no doubt the future will invent more surprising solutions. I just wish I were there.
If this technology reduces energy storage costs dramatically, renewable energies (solar, wind, etc) would become much more practical because they could be stored, ie, made available on demand instead of when Mother Nature provides them.
Indeed shutting down an OS is very complicated because you have to clean it up for the next startup. Think e.g. of running apps keeping open handles on network files. Think of tunnels of tunnels over everything. Components have to be shut down in order and the order is not always trivial to find. Then you give some time to apps to clean up their stuff. The whole thing can be a real mess...
Oracle (ORCL) announces that in order to emphasize the importance of this operation, and better reflect its activities, will switch its stock ticker name to JAVA.
At least two companies have been focusing on OS virtualization on mobile phones for several years, namely Virtuallogix and Trango. They both advertize the interest of running both an RTOS specialized on real-time mobile network protocol handling, and a generic-purpose OS for user applications. Security is also a motivation, especially if phone-based payment systems develop. I believe there are already models running Virtuallogix software on sale now, just check their web site. So VmWare is just saying that they're going to duplicate these products, unless they plan to buy one of these companies.
If only they could fix the hdparm issue...
Since 7.04 IDE disks are mounted through scsi emulation, hence they cannot be tuned any longer... I just hope they can fix that for a "stable" release.
However it's generally colder under clouds than under blue skies, and there's little greenhouse effect under clouds.
For example, if we could manage to completely cover the skies with clouds, we should cool the planet quiet well.
There's a simple way to reflect the Sun's light: clouds. So how about putting a large number of barges in the sea: their bottom would be reflective and insulated, they would
hold a small depth of water inside, so that the Sun's rays would be used 100% to produce
clouds instead of heating the ocean, and the extra clouds would reflect the Sun's rays,
and if we're smart enough, some desert areas would get some rain.
The question is in the subject... The ring would hide not only the Sun's rays, but also satellites
radio communications.
By the way, I'm not sure I'd be happy to live under the ring.
So, the ring should at least support being "turned off" for some time.
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Because the War to Japan was not won by the Bomb. Japanese already lost people by thousands every day. What mattered was the arrival of the soviets on the Japan north coast, threatening them of ending up under Stalin's hand. They preferred the gentler US domination and capitulated for that.
This study relies ridiculously on traditionnal generations. By the time we have enough energy to get there, life will be way longer, there will be cloning, and women will not be needed for bearing children. One may even send just clone embryos of the selected astronauts, plus android robots to raise them upon arrival. Farther, imagine replicating the astronauts brain in an artificial simulation. And I'm jut thinking aloud a couple of minutes, no doubt the future will invent more surprising solutions. I just wish I were there.
If this technology reduces energy storage costs dramatically, renewable energies (solar, wind, etc) would become much more practical because they could be stored, ie, made available on demand instead of when Mother Nature provides them.
They should have gone ARM, really. Non-counting the legal battle they face with Intel for usage of the "86" trademark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_marquis_de_Lafayette
Indeed shutting down an OS is very complicated because you have to clean it up for the next startup. Think e.g. of running apps keeping open handles on network files. Think of tunnels of tunnels over everything. Components have to be shut down in order and the order is not always trivial to find. Then you give some time to apps to clean up their stuff. The whole thing can be a real mess...
What is their process in case an ET impersonates into a human, just for fun ?
Wonderful, one more incentive to fund asteroid mining.
+1. Especially since memory is nearly free these days.
Oracle (ORCL) announces that in order to emphasize the importance of this operation, and better reflect its activities, will switch its stock ticker name to JAVA.
Yeah I was right ! They're buying Trango.
At least two companies have been focusing on OS virtualization on mobile phones for several years, namely Virtuallogix and Trango. They both advertize the interest of running both an RTOS specialized on real-time mobile network protocol handling, and a generic-purpose OS for user applications. Security is also a motivation, especially if phone-based payment systems develop. I believe there are already models running Virtuallogix software on sale now, just check their web site. So VmWare is just saying that they're going to duplicate these products, unless they plan to buy one of these companies.
If only they could fix the hdparm issue... Since 7.04 IDE disks are mounted through scsi emulation, hence they cannot be tuned any longer... I just hope they can fix that for a "stable" release.
See http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4223741314.html
It looks like they want to make sure good virtualization software is available on their processors.
However it's generally colder under clouds than under blue skies, and there's little greenhouse effect under clouds. For example, if we could manage to completely cover the skies with clouds, we should cool the planet quiet well.
There's a simple way to reflect the Sun's light: clouds. So how about putting a large number of barges in the sea: their bottom would be reflective and insulated, they would hold a small depth of water inside, so that the Sun's rays would be used 100% to produce clouds instead of heating the ocean, and the extra clouds would reflect the Sun's rays, and if we're smart enough, some desert areas would get some rain.
The question is in the subject... The ring would hide not only the Sun's rays, but also satellites radio communications. By the way, I'm not sure I'd be happy to live under the ring. So, the ring should at least support being "turned off" for some time.