Flying cars will only be practical with an application of some form of science and engineering we don't have yet, otherwise we'd have flying cars. To speculate on what current forms of technology would do the job is rather futile, isn't it? We probably need a bit more pure research before it's feasible, no?
Look up "fancloth" if the articles are still around. Think it might have been in one of Drexler's papers.
Oh my. Is Microsoft buying up false floor to track Google's expansion into data centre space, on speculation that Google will use it for something Microsoft will need to compete with? As soon as Microsoft finds out what Google is buying up data centres for, that is. Which will probably happen after Google figures out what to do with their own acquisitions. It's a huge amount of data centre investment, and I think Cringley has been tracking the speculation.
In Australia (or at least in Victoria) insurance is included in the cost of auto registration. Big decals on the windscreen are colour-coded and have the month/year of expiry on them in big type. The police catch you with your car out of reg, they'll confiscate the license plates off the car directly (they keep tools for it) and politely offer to ring a taxi for you. It makes rego expensive, but you're covered. Because there are fewer deadbeats driving, cost per year is pretty low. I'm happy with the system, myself.
The instance I mentioned was Debian booting on top of VMWare. Watching the scroll, everything rockets past except the DHCP bit. It lives on a laptop at the moment (this will change) but the laptop itself is not the environment being booted. I think the appliance (Deki) is pared down pretty well and has the virtual drivers pretty well sorted would be my guess. I'm beginning to really like VMWare, and Deki.
Watching Debian boot on top of VMWare while loading a wiki appliance is a good indicator -- the only real delays (and they are significant) are waiting for response to DHCP broadcast. I don't think boot probs are the fault of the O/S, but rather the fact that many LAN's have a single DHCP server running on a x286 box located on subnet Mars.
x86 happened because Apple was trying to sell Apple///'s with clock chips that didn't work. Supplier chip source problem. I was there. Pity, because otherwise the/// was quite competitive. All Apple ][ computers were burned in in a hot room for a few days before shipment -- 100% test rate, which is why the original ]['s were so reliable. The clock problem on the threes changed all that.
It's been my experience that most boot delays are waiting for network startup, particularly DHCP broadcast/response. If you take a snapshot of the whole OS state then unless you have a long term IP address lease or a fixed address, you could end up with a duplicate address which could snarf things up a bit. Faster DHCP registration the cure?
I'm 58 and my kids don't mind. Somehow they skipped the whole embarrased-at-folks thing (proven when they laughed when I threatened to dance in front of their friends as a deterrent). Maybe a whole career in IT let me excrete brain-juice from the thinking gland a little more optimally, and I treated them like people instead of pets from an early age.
Maybe I'm just very lucky. But if the eldest ever gets bored with her WoW 70 druid with epic flight form and moves on to a real game like Vanguard and plays up, she'll get a real public spanking in PvP from her dad. Meh, she's overseas completing a non-IT degree now (the rebel!) so that may not happen for a while.
Point? Age don't mean suck on the Internet. It's a power tool for communicating, doing work that involves information and having fun without worrying about the comb-over. It's nobodys exclusive property, get over it.
Actually there is large scale industrial adoption of this technology already for prototyping, in engineering shops and major manufactured goods factories today, especially in the auto industry.
PTC / Windchill manufacturing http://www.ptc.com/ business process software includes pathing for fabbed model creation, for example, and accepts quite a number of 3D drawing file formats incorporated in the workflow. One of the guys we just hired on at our SI comes from mfg background and clued me. It's considered a must-have in a number of different mfg software packages now.
Good point. There has to be structure in that case, might be better to go left to right (invert the model 90 degrees) than bottom to top, i.e. print up a spider sideways. But if you use a fabber that uses laser hardening within a gel you have much better control of a 3D structure than you would with a layer-by-layer approach. In either case you can create very complex models very quickly, including internal hollow structures. Horses for courses.
-- From the late Rear Admiral Grace L. Hopper, founder of commercial computing and lead developer of the original COmmon Business-Oriented Language compiler.
I'd say do be careful. If the guy is a flake (and I have no knowledge either way) then is it possible he's keeping something alive that should be kept alive despite this? If there's value in the science and he's just doing a cut & paste plus control & money trip, it could sink the idea as surely as linking it to Atlantis.
However the percentage of nice people vs egregiously annoying people among good scientists probably correlates well with the population at large, so it's important to discriminate between his contributions to energy research and whether or not you'd invite him to dinner.
Look at the science and follow the method, I think. And nail down the scope of what he's trying to accomplish with that $2M before you fork out the cash. He could be a good scientist and a bad project estimator. But if you're a good venture capitalist you'll know all that, anyway. Sounds like the guy needs a minder.
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Just...just kill me now...
Yes, such as Jimmy Carter. Not a hugely memorable president from my point of view, but at least he pronounced "Nuclear" correctly.
Hmm... boiling a gas to get a plasma. Interesting meme.
(Sigh). That's why I want to move myself and my family to outer space.
Yes, well I kept disabling things until the bad guys couldn't find NTOSKRNL any more. Now I feel really safe!
I for one welcome our new A-level domain overlords.
Look up "fancloth" if the articles are still around. Think it might have been in one of Drexler's papers.
Oh, and what was the pin number for furling those wings again? I forgot...
Oh my. Is Microsoft buying up false floor to track Google's expansion into data centre space, on speculation that Google will use it for something Microsoft will need to compete with? As soon as Microsoft finds out what Google is buying up data centres for, that is. Which will probably happen after Google figures out what to do with their own acquisitions. It's a huge amount of data centre investment, and I think Cringley has been tracking the speculation.
How big is a Vista license? Used to be you could get fancy certificates for DOS, but they were smaller than most peoples' pedal extremities. Just.
In Australia (or at least in Victoria) insurance is included in the cost of auto registration. Big decals on the windscreen are colour-coded and have the month/year of expiry on them in big type. The police catch you with your car out of reg, they'll confiscate the license plates off the car directly (they keep tools for it) and politely offer to ring a taxi for you. It makes rego expensive, but you're covered. Because there are fewer deadbeats driving, cost per year is pretty low. I'm happy with the system, myself.
I want a telephone that has a character-cell display. It needs to efficiently send and receive telephone calls. I have a computer for all the rest.
The instance I mentioned was Debian booting on top of VMWare. Watching the scroll, everything rockets past except the DHCP bit. It lives on a laptop at the moment (this will change) but the laptop itself is not the environment being booted. I think the appliance (Deki) is pared down pretty well and has the virtual drivers pretty well sorted would be my guess. I'm beginning to really like VMWare, and Deki.
Watching Debian boot on top of VMWare while loading a wiki appliance is a good indicator -- the only real delays (and they are significant) are waiting for response to DHCP broadcast. I don't think boot probs are the fault of the O/S, but rather the fact that many LAN's have a single DHCP server running on a x286 box located on subnet Mars.
Anarchy is the opposite of hierarchy. Think about it. Can you truly be free when a hierarchy forces you into a category?
x86 happened because Apple was trying to sell Apple ///'s with clock chips that didn't work. Supplier chip source problem. I was there. Pity, because otherwise the /// was quite competitive. All Apple ][ computers were burned in in a hot room for a few days before shipment -- 100% test rate, which is why the original ]['s were so reliable. The clock problem on the threes changed all that.
It's been my experience that most boot delays are waiting for network startup, particularly DHCP broadcast/response. If you take a snapshot of the whole OS state then unless you have a long term IP address lease or a fixed address, you could end up with a duplicate address which could snarf things up a bit. Faster DHCP registration the cure?
Maybe I'm just very lucky. But if the eldest ever gets bored with her WoW 70 druid with epic flight form and moves on to a real game like Vanguard and plays up, she'll get a real public spanking in PvP from her dad. Meh, she's overseas completing a non-IT degree now (the rebel!) so that may not happen for a while.
Point? Age don't mean suck on the Internet. It's a power tool for communicating, doing work that involves information and having fun without worrying about the comb-over. It's nobodys exclusive property, get over it.
(Swings microphone stand) That's what they saaay...you're riding high in April -- shot down in May..
PTC / Windchill manufacturing http://www.ptc.com/ business process software includes pathing for fabbed model creation, for example, and accepts quite a number of 3D drawing file formats incorporated in the workflow. One of the guys we just hired on at our SI comes from mfg background and clued me. It's considered a must-have in a number of different mfg software packages now.
Good point. There has to be structure in that case, might be better to go left to right (invert the model 90 degrees) than bottom to top, i.e. print up a spider sideways. But if you use a fabber that uses laser hardening within a gel you have much better control of a 3D structure than you would with a layer-by-layer approach. In either case you can create very complex models very quickly, including internal hollow structures. Horses for courses.
Ooh arrr, what be a Jetski anyway? Russian Hanna-Barbera futurist?
-- From the late Rear Admiral Grace L. Hopper, founder of commercial computing and lead developer of the original COmmon Business-Oriented Language compiler.
Sometimes you have to lead.
However the percentage of nice people vs egregiously annoying people among good scientists probably correlates well with the population at large, so it's important to discriminate between his contributions to energy research and whether or not you'd invite him to dinner.
Look at the science and follow the method, I think. And nail down the scope of what he's trying to accomplish with that $2M before you fork out the cash. He could be a good scientist and a bad project estimator. But if you're a good venture capitalist you'll know all that, anyway. Sounds like the guy needs a minder.
Geez I wish I could be a corporate spin doctor like that. With my skills -- I could be a Hundredaire!!