Nothing wrong with including an artificial hash code (bits and pieces of useful data crammed together in a short string) for end-users to use, it's often a shorthand they're used to. It's not a very good practice to depend on such things as unique identifiers. They ain't normal. The hassles involved in updating them existed long before the modern database.
There's a sort of nimbus around highly creative people that other creative people want to be around. I would suspect that for every top-level name that leaves an Oracle, dozens - if not hundreds - will be updating their resume. In about 40 years in IT I've seen a pattern repeat rather a lot; once a firm is declared "toxic" by the best minds, they reach a sort of "avalanche point" and that firm can kiss their market leadership goodby within about three years, no matter how much marketing mind share they have. Some, like IBM, have recovered from that sort of thing (it took several archiquakes to make the change though) but it takes longer to climb back than it does to fall.
If you're a long term investor, I'd start slowly leaking Oracle shares out of your portfolio about now. Microsoft? Maybe. Watch to see what venture capitalists are lining up behind those brilliant ex-employees, and ponder. This industry hasn't run out of breakthroughs yet.
With no atmosphere to conduct heat, any Stirling engine would be massively more efficient. Solar collector concentrator at the hot end, black finned heat sink facing away into shadow, near-perfect vacuum for thermal insulation -- that sucker would spin.
In the long run, the one commodity available from the Moon will no longer be easily available from Earth.
Acreage.
Not this decade, perhaps, or the next, but you may or may not have noticed it's starting to get a bit crowded down here.
Hard to say this when I'm ringing in from Australia, but we're pushing inward from our rather pleasant coastlines too. Eventually, we'll cover the deserts -- and once we get to that point, we'll know a lot more about living in hostile environments (I'm minded to think of the underground settlements in Coober Pedy). Moving to the Moon wouldn't be that huge of a jump.
Rare Earths aren't actually that rare, I've heard. It's just whether or not you have the infrastructure to refine them. And they are used in a lot of technology. Hmm... most of which comes from China anyway nowdays.
Kids, pay attention, this is how wars get started. (I'm not suggesting we are about to start lobbing nukes at each other, but this historically causes issues, see Japan and WWII)
Mod parent up. If this gets to the point of stopping diplomatic communications - withdrawing ambassadors, or even a flurry of "sternly worded letters", best stock up on shit-proof paddles.
FoxConn make most of the world's computers. Seriously. Approach them for what you need and say you need x1000. They'll build what you want without the 3rd party markup.
How about using a small or even a micro sized turbine(s) to minimize friction and start-stop losses in an "hybrid" drive of this kind? Manufacturability, maintainability and the added possibility of interesting material choices could be a nice bonus.
Nice idea! Leetle tiny motor-generators. Make them small enough and you could run a bunch of them in parallel - just turn on the ones you need when you need more throttle. If they're small enough, spooling time shouldn't be much of a problem. Kind of like approximating a power curve, instead of drawing one with a large brush. Ideal for a hybrid application.
My understanding about most law schools (correct me if I'm wrong) is that the law students only need to maintain a 2.0 GPA to graduate, whereas most other grad students must maintain a 3.0.
They started out requiring a 4.0 GPA, but the students thought this was unfair and brought it to the attention of the courts...
Yet. There was a time when the only airport in the world was at Kitty Hawk. Clearly, there was no point to air travel when it was obvious there was no place to go.
Have all of you lost your ability to envision the future?
Was the failure of the SST due to the lack of people wanting to arrive at distant places quickly? No, it was the cost of running the jet coupled with the noise pollution from the sonic wake.
Look closely at SpaceShip Two. Then imagine it - or an evolution of it - as a quick way to get from Los Angeles to Melbourne. Nothing wrong with the idea of posting launch ships at major city airports tossing ballistic rockets carrying passengers from here to there. You're looking at the fabled Orient Express here, not just a toff's junket. Reasonable size plus no sonic wake means this could shape up into a real solution.
I shop often in an Asian part of town. Bought my daughter a lovely pink kitten-infested shoulder bag with "Sing Sing Death House" neatly embroidered on it. With little fluffy sheep dancing about.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAID. Ok, maybe that scared them. Redundant Array of Raid Controllers - RARC? Nope, sounds Chinese. How about Redundant Infrastructure Array Audits? Nope, than definitely will not do...
Agree, Migla. My recurring thought is -- who in the hell do they think they're protecting? I've never met a 10 year old who didn't use language that would make a sailor blush among their own.
Given the choice of religious snapcase Tony Abbot or Gillard with that censorious Stephen Conroy, I can forecast the upcoming Australian election with complete confidence; everybody will be disappointed.
This has already been parodied beautifully -- look up "date my avatar" on YouTube, and the running comedy of "The Guild".
I play WoW for a number of reasons, one subtle one being that I'm uh, "chronologically privileged". I get puffed taking out the rubbish, but my Hunter can run all day and kick serious butt.
Anyone thinking there's no value to the organisation training provided by WoW has never tried to take down any of the Ice Crown Cathedral bosses in a 10-man raid. These things are intense, people, and if you screw up even a tiny bit you can wipe the raid. You'll hear about it from your guildies if you do.
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Nothing wrong with including an artificial hash code (bits and pieces of useful data crammed together in a short string) for end-users to use, it's often a shorthand they're used to. It's not a very good practice to depend on such things as unique identifiers. They ain't normal. The hassles involved in updating them existed long before the modern database.
If you're a long term investor, I'd start slowly leaking Oracle shares out of your portfolio about now. Microsoft? Maybe. Watch to see what venture capitalists are lining up behind those brilliant ex-employees, and ponder. This industry hasn't run out of breakthroughs yet.
With no atmosphere to conduct heat, any Stirling engine would be massively more efficient. Solar collector concentrator at the hot end, black finned heat sink facing away into shadow, near-perfect vacuum for thermal insulation -- that sucker would spin.
In the long run, the one commodity available from the Moon will no longer be easily available from Earth.
Acreage.
Not this decade, perhaps, or the next, but you may or may not have noticed it's starting to get a bit crowded down here.
Hard to say this when I'm ringing in from Australia, but we're pushing inward from our rather pleasant coastlines too. Eventually, we'll cover the deserts -- and once we get to that point, we'll know a lot more about living in hostile environments (I'm minded to think of the underground settlements in Coober Pedy). Moving to the Moon wouldn't be that huge of a jump.
"Why?"
"It isn't there any more."
-- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - R.A.Heinlein
Never mind.
Mod parent up. If this gets to the point of stopping diplomatic communications - withdrawing ambassadors, or even a flurry of "sternly worded letters", best stock up on shit-proof paddles.
Oh, wait...
FoxConn make most of the world's computers. Seriously. Approach them for what you need and say you need x1000. They'll build what you want without the 3rd party markup.
Nice idea! Leetle tiny motor-generators. Make them small enough and you could run a bunch of them in parallel - just turn on the ones you need when you need more throttle. If they're small enough, spooling time shouldn't be much of a problem. Kind of like approximating a power curve, instead of drawing one with a large brush. Ideal for a hybrid application.
Apollo 11 was run from this perspective. Multiple launches (Apollo + Agena) docked in orbit to become the composite lunar spacecraft.
They started out requiring a 4.0 GPA, but the students thought this was unfair and brought it to the attention of the courts...
Yet. There was a time when the only airport in the world was at Kitty Hawk. Clearly, there was no point to air travel when it was obvious there was no place to go.
Have all of you lost your ability to envision the future?
Was the failure of the SST due to the lack of people wanting to arrive at distant places quickly? No, it was the cost of running the jet coupled with the noise pollution from the sonic wake.
Look closely at SpaceShip Two. Then imagine it - or an evolution of it - as a quick way to get from Los Angeles to Melbourne. Nothing wrong with the idea of posting launch ships at major city airports tossing ballistic rockets carrying passengers from here to there. You're looking at the fabled Orient Express here, not just a toff's junket. Reasonable size plus no sonic wake means this could shape up into a real solution.
Vulcan learning pits!
Another billion dollars, perhaps.
Maybe we should tell the RIAA that he's been embedding Britney Spears songs as background music in his spam.
I shop often in an Asian part of town. Bought my daughter a lovely pink kitten-infested shoulder bag with "Sing Sing Death House" neatly embroidered on it. With little fluffy sheep dancing about.
Why am I even posting this?
Call Gregory.
This is just compression on a larger scale.
That was a strangely non-evil thing for Microsoft to do. My world is shifting.
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. RAID. Ok, maybe that scared them. Redundant Array of Raid Controllers - RARC? Nope, sounds Chinese. How about Redundant Infrastructure Array Audits? Nope, than definitely will not do...
"You supply the story. I'll supply the war."
Some things never change.
Given the choice of religious snapcase Tony Abbot or Gillard with that censorious Stephen Conroy, I can forecast the upcoming Australian election with complete confidence; everybody will be disappointed.
I play WoW for a number of reasons, one subtle one being that I'm uh, "chronologically privileged". I get puffed taking out the rubbish, but my Hunter can run all day and kick serious butt.
Anyone thinking there's no value to the organisation training provided by WoW has never tried to take down any of the Ice Crown Cathedral bosses in a 10-man raid. These things are intense, people, and if you screw up even a tiny bit you can wipe the raid. You'll hear about it from your guildies if you do.
You're using the add-on, aren't you?