X-ray lasers (common weapon lasers in Known Space canon) just stop at the outside surface of a GP hull. Optical-frequency lasers go right through, since the GP synthetic is intentionally transparent in the optical frequencies of all the Puppeteer's customers. That may be the effect you're thinking of: a high-powered visible-light laser would pretty much mow down anything inside the hull, but the hull itself would be fine. Hell, you could just hose out the insides and install new fittings and gear.
The other thing that goes through a GP hull is tidal force (and, more generically, probably gravity).
But antimatter being the Kryptonite of the GP macromolecule... absolutely correct, as the Shaeffer's almost-disasterous expedition to Cannonball Express showed.
3.3. We are developing the ability to forecast "space weather", thus leading to a new field, astrometeorology
We've had space weather as a branch of operational meteorology for decades. I can testify to the fact that the US Air Force has performed operational space weather observation, warning, and forecasting missions since the early 1970s.
It was never called "astrometeorology", though. Let's just say that the clever name you suggested will be your contribution to the field.
I'm old enough to remember a time where a computer was a series of bitty boxes tied together with cables. Then someone decided to integrate a lot of the stuff onto a motherboard, with just loosely-related stuff connected by cables to the motherboard. Then the loosely-related stuff got put into cards that plugged into the motherboard. Then that stuff just got integrated into the motherboard.
And now it's being reborn as stuff in bitty boxes connected together with cables.
I wonder what enlightement will be like, because karma appears to have been a bitch.
Which I thought was the coolest tech in William Gibson's short story "The Winter Market", even if it wasn't the central point of the story. The phrase "The exoskeleton walked her across the floor" kind of freaked me out when I read that story as a teen.
A few currency marks work if you're posting in (Slashdot's brain-damaged idea of) HTML, and you use the standard HTML character entity encoding for them:
Pound: £ Euro: € Yen: ¥
Of course, HTML 4.01's entity list only has a few currency marks available to begin with, including WTF ever a "general currency mark" is, but Slashcode can't be troubled with those other than the few listed up above.
The fundamental problem is this: users are still stupid, so we can't get past The September that Never Ended.. If we can do that, we can get past the "always Winter and never Christmas" phase, and geeks can cry out "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of [Helsinki]!"
I agree this is really awesome. Microsoft has done some revolutionary things in the past, like giving away the TCP/IP stack Internet Explorer 4.0 for free
If "giving away" a TCP/IP stack is your idea of revolutionary, I'd like to point out that (A) TCP/IP stacks have an integral part of every workstation-class operation system since the early 1980s and (B) you're not giving Microsoft enough credit (at least sufficiently early credit), since TCP/IP for Windows for Workgroups (3.11) came out in mid-1994, coinciding with Win NT 3.5 (which also had a native TCP/IP stack).
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According to TFA, one of the major bottlenecks was just copying files:
Just transferring the final 1,025 files (802 GB total) off the cluster took 2.5 hours using a 1 Gbps link.
They must have been using Vista Explorer pre SP-1 to do the file copy.
but not at all surprised that the argument against software patents in NZ didn't came down to "they're bad, often abused, and stifle competition" but instead to "they're bad for New Zealand".
It's a principled stand, where the principle is "what's good for us is good."
Nations, like people, are guided by "enlightened self-interest", I guess. (As a citizen of the USA, I'll admit to being quite familiar with the concept.)
If only it had been marketed that way! "Hey, folks, c'mon down and gimme all your personal information!"
No, I'm afraid FBook's market draw has been the tasty worm with a well-hidden hook. Yes, it's in the T's and C's, but the rage is about the fineness of the print that the hook is printed in. Sure, caveat emptor and all, but if you become wildly popular and obscenely rich borderline-lying about your product, don't expect to be widely admired and greatly beloved.
As to getting over it... I have no stake in this at all, since I consider all online social networking as different varieties of snake oil, and recognized the Devil's bargain from the outset, but again, just because I have the sense to not fall afoul of hucksters and con-men, doesn't mean I have to stand silent while they work. There's an amazingly fine line between "getting over it" and "aiding and abetting".
It's going to look like a bit of an overstatement, but "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Even if, as in the case of Facebook, it's a trivial evil in the cosmic scheme of things. Evil is still evil, for all its venality or narrowness.
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Lasers don't bother a GP hull in the slightest.
X-ray lasers (common weapon lasers in Known Space canon) just stop at the outside surface of a GP hull. Optical-frequency lasers go right through, since the GP synthetic is intentionally transparent in the optical frequencies of all the Puppeteer's customers. That may be the effect you're thinking of: a high-powered visible-light laser would pretty much mow down anything inside the hull, but the hull itself would be fine. Hell, you could just hose out the insides and install new fittings and gear.
The other thing that goes through a GP hull is tidal force (and, more generically, probably gravity).
But antimatter being the Kryptonite of the GP macromolecule... absolutely correct, as the Shaeffer's almost-disasterous expedition to Cannonball Express showed.
Please heed this advise kids before its to late, and you make an ass of your self.
For instance, by failing to correctly spell common English words generally taught at the 4th grade level while condescendingly lecturing others.
Ditto for mis-punctuation and general poor communications skill.
But kudos for violating the long-standing Slashdot taboo against reading the article.
I suggest "barrage vert" instead.
No, I don't speak French. If it's not grammatical, idiomatic, or otherwise genuinely French, blame Google Translate.
I suppose they'll outlaw any hardware architecture not supported by Windows or Mac OSX.
Intel and AMD will love that.
Google should have touted it as a forum and introduced all the other wave features over time.
Here's a tidy two-word counterargument to that idea:
realtime 4chan
3.3. We are developing the ability to forecast "space weather", thus leading to a new field, astrometeorology
We've had space weather as a branch of operational meteorology for decades. I can testify to the fact that the US Air Force has performed operational space weather observation, warning, and forecasting missions since the early 1970s.
It was never called "astrometeorology", though. Let's just say that the clever name you suggested will be your contribution to the field.
Emily Litella, is that you?
The entire history of US responses to perceived threats is "panic-monger in haste, repent at liesure".
How many different cases of "gosh, that was a terrible unconstitutional decision 40 years ago, we'd never do that again" have we had?
Sad. Very sad.
because this appears to be another aspect of Wheel of Reincarnation.
I'm old enough to remember a time where a computer was a series of bitty boxes tied together with cables. Then someone decided to integrate a lot of the stuff onto a motherboard, with just loosely-related stuff connected by cables to the motherboard. Then the loosely-related stuff got put into cards that plugged into the motherboard. Then that stuff just got integrated into the motherboard.
And now it's being reborn as stuff in bitty boxes connected together with cables.
I wonder what enlightement will be like, because karma appears to have been a bitch.
Seriously, 3d is closer to reality. Every step closer to reality has been found to be an improvement in the capabilities of storytellers.
In that case, I have seen the future, and it's called "theatre".
And I assume you're a lifetime patron of your local community theatre or summer stock company?
Which I thought was the coolest tech in William Gibson's short story "The Winter Market", even if it wasn't the central point of the story. The phrase "The exoskeleton walked her across the floor" kind of freaked me out when I read that story as a teen.
A few currency marks work if you're posting in (Slashdot's brain-damaged idea of) HTML, and you use the standard HTML character entity encoding for them:
Pound: £
Euro: €
Yen: ¥
Of course, HTML 4.01's entity list only has a few currency marks available to begin with, including WTF ever a "general currency mark" is, but Slashcode can't be troubled with those other than the few listed up above.
I'm sorry, no amount of alcohol (of any type) will make Silverlight attractive enough. It goes waaaaay past beer goggles ugly.
The fundamental problem is this: users are still stupid, so we can't get past The September that Never Ended.. If we can do that, we can get past the "always Winter and never Christmas" phase, and geeks can cry out "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of [Helsinki]!"
I agree this is really awesome. Microsoft has done some revolutionary things in the past, like giving away the TCP/IP stack Internet Explorer 4.0 for free
If "giving away" a TCP/IP stack is your idea of revolutionary, I'd like to point out that (A) TCP/IP stacks have an integral part of every workstation-class operation system since the early 1980s and (B) you're not giving Microsoft enough credit (at least sufficiently early credit), since TCP/IP for Windows for Workgroups (3.11) came out in mid-1994, coinciding with Win NT 3.5 (which also had a native TCP/IP stack).
Sorry, I guess slashdot ate the <joke> tags there. It might have helped
According to TFA, one of the major bottlenecks was just copying files:
Just transferring the final 1,025 files (802 GB total) off the cluster took 2.5 hours using a 1 Gbps link.
They must have been using Vista Explorer pre SP-1 to do the file copy.
Slashdot fails at an amazing list* of basic HTML capabilities. We're used to it.
At least we don't have to suffer from page-widening any more.
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*Which I can't include in this post, since proper handling of <ol> and <ul> is among that list, as you've described.
"Tivoization"
Tivo
GPL v3, which, if it had been the license of Android instead of the Apache License, might have prevented this travesty.
but not at all surprised that the argument against software patents in NZ didn't came down to "they're bad, often abused, and stifle competition" but instead to "they're bad for New Zealand".
It's a principled stand, where the principle is "what's good for us is good."
Nations, like people, are guided by "enlightened self-interest", I guess. (As a citizen of the USA, I'll admit to being quite familiar with the concept.)
Click The Fine Linky. Hell, it's Netcraft, so it's probably good reading anyway.
Oh, right, /. Where "tl;dr" is a way of life.
Yeah, someone needs to tell Mark Anthony Hill II of the Williams Hill Group that his host has been pwn'd.
Recursive comment is recursive.
I'm glad empty cynicism and apathy are working out so well for you. Keep up the good work.
If only it had been marketed that way! "Hey, folks, c'mon down and gimme all your personal information!"
No, I'm afraid FBook's market draw has been the tasty worm with a well-hidden hook. Yes, it's in the T's and C's, but the rage is about the fineness of the print that the hook is printed in. Sure, caveat emptor and all, but if you become wildly popular and obscenely rich borderline-lying about your product, don't expect to be widely admired and greatly beloved.
As to getting over it... I have no stake in this at all, since I consider all online social networking as different varieties of snake oil, and recognized the Devil's bargain from the outset, but again, just because I have the sense to not fall afoul of hucksters and con-men, doesn't mean I have to stand silent while they work. There's an amazingly fine line between "getting over it" and "aiding and abetting".
It's going to look like a bit of an overstatement, but "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Even if, as in the case of Facebook, it's a trivial evil in the cosmic scheme of things. Evil is still evil, for all its venality or narrowness.