Seeking water, performing general research, seeking traces of life on Mars. NOT performing specific kinds of analysis focused especially on human landing - ability to recover usable water, possible obstacles etc.
End with "We've discovered a new amazing rock." "the rover has discovered an unique rock formation" "We had to retract our steps because the ground beyond the edge of the crater appeared to be too rocky". This photo would be essentially a high-detail map of the operation area of the probe which can be used in planning route, picking interesting features to examine closer, avoid obstacles, and primarily deciding on the right site to start digging, especially in case of some x-ray, infrared, radar, echo etc cameras which could "see under ground" (seeing 3 feet straight down is much easier than seeing 3 feet deep at 30 degree angle (which is 5 feet straight line).
Not really feasible. Such a huge ship would be awfuly hard to build. And what for? Protecting what from what?
My suggestion: Space elevator with pipeline to the top. Pump the water up. (maybe as steam, this way you get desalinating and transport in one step, plus centrifugal force on the opposite side of the orbit would help pumping it up.) Cool it in open space till it forms huge blocks of ice. Attach small, single-use maneuver engines (or small unmanned reusable crafts that would return upon releasing the ice low above Mars.) Release when the trajectory would match Mars (speed from centrifugal force/rotation of Earth). Drop on Mars. They will evaporate in the atmosphere, fall as rain. Sure they will take long to cover the distance, but you could keep sending almost a constant line of them, releasing blocks of ice daily or so, far more than any ship could transport. (and if you need just concentrated water, not steam in atmosphere, just put them on Mars orbit, concentrate in a huge block that wouldn't all evaporate on reentry and parachute it down.) Water has this neat advantage, that, as opposed to humans of electronic devices, it can withstand quite a lot of abuse in transport, so you may use much less gentle (and cheaper and more efficient) means to transport it.
Donating to the "big ones" is not such a good idea - they get enough from giants. There are millions behind Apache development. I'd rather see supporting small but interesting ideas, or these that are less likely to gain money from industry giants. Or even better, set them as bounty for desired features...
There are so many open-source projects hindered by different patents. "This is unsupported, because of patent issues connected with algorithm xxx (covered by patent#nnnnn)". Buy and release the most obstrusive patents.
SMS is not about speed. If you want fast communication, you call and speak. The biggest advantage of SMS is clear, delayable output. No "sorry, I didn't understand whether that was 78 or 7A" problems known from voice mail, no "can't talk to you, call me later" known from normal calls. Easy, non-obstrusive, quite fast. Morse Code loses all these advantages: Compare number of illiterate to people not knowing morse code. NOT easy. Requires the opposite side to listen all the time - NOT non-obstrusive, and still confusing a dash with a dot if you don't pay enough attention causes mistakes. The other side can't stop listening anytime, like you can stop reading a SMS and resume later. Unless the output is drawn, not replayed... and I guess reading text is much faster than reading morse code. (plus, how was the time measured? Time spent on typing+reading vs time spent on keying the message in+listening? When sender types SMS, receiver does other stuff. When receiver reads, sender is free already...)...which all leads to conclusion - SMS is fast to read, Morse is fast to send. What about an app to input text using morse code, and then send it as sms? Use just one key to enter data, and do it faster than using all 15 or so, if you want, and whoever you send it to, can read plain text. And you can make corrections if you make a mistake too.
Now, now, the first step in the long way towards estabilishing the equality of rights for computers. First, let's eradicate the concept of computers being slaves to humans from human mind, by removing the "my computer" entry. Then we protect the computers from abuse by users by using the DRM technology. Then finally we reveal MS Word contains distributed Artificial Intelligence program and is sentient, covering whole world. And then we vote equal rights for computers...
What can kill standard CRTs may be the Motorola's nano-emissive flat screen. But not LCD. Why? LCD generates beautiful colors. Unfortunately beautiful!=realistic. A pro graphician will choose a pro CRT monitor over an LCD any day, for the simple reason that it may look good on LCD and like shit on anything else, including print. Same wherever color accuracy is important - how am I to tell if the liver of the patient is healthy if it's "artificially enhanced"? So, prices aside, what ARE the problems of CRT that LCD solves?
-Refresh rate/blinking. -Big, heavy, thick -Higher power usage. In mostly all others, CRTs rule. Now replacing the ray tube with array of nanotubes right behind the phosphor layer removes all the problems: - One cathode for one pixel - sustained ray, no refresh. - Thin layer - flat panel. - One cathode for one pixel - no need to deflect the ray, no high (5000V) voltages needed, lower power requirements. All the advantages of CRT (including price!) are retained. LCDs will still live on. As a niche product - expensive screens that make picture prettier than it really looks, the "instant 3D" screens etc. But I'd see the major shift in the market towards the "new CRT".
every user will end up with "My Documents" directory right beside the "Documents" one? I already have "Moje Dokumenty" (original name by Windows with polish localization) and "My Documents" right next to it, created by some dumb program. Windows resides on D:, but of course there's "Program Files" with something in it on 510MB FreeDOS C: partition. I cleaned up the Start Menu so there's just "Aplikacje" and whatever created "Applications" went there. Sure there are system variables that default to proper directories. Just not every application uses them.
I honestly hope they will drop "Program Files" in favor for "Programs" as well. There's a lot of programs that mishandle spaces in filenames. Half the problem if all you need to do is to enclose the filename with path in quotes. But only very recently I figured out the "surplus parameter on command line" error generated by quite expensive CAM program was caused by its defaulting with its save to "My Documents" and can be fixed by saving files to directories without some damned ASCII Art in the name.
Not really. When it can render some 8 square kilometers of real terrain at 60FPS with resolution sufficient to show objects the size of a single pixel of some 1600x1200 display. Say, a field of grass in the wind. To the horizon. Each visible straw composed of some 20 polygons. We don't need to get beyond what human eyes can see.
There are two elements. Transmission surface is one thing. Temperature gradient is the other. One is achieved by more smaller fins, the other, by air flow. As long as you can pump enough air into the tubes, all right. But if your air leaves the tubes at 60 degrees, the processor won't be cooler than that. This design seems to use elephantine fan to provide enough airflow to keep the fins temperature low. If the surface was bigger, it would be harder to make air flow efficiently. Sure this one seems a bit over-the-top, but if you go too far with the surface, you end up with construction too fragile to apply a fan strong enough:)
Apple Manager: We want to sell iPods and songs for them. RIAA guy: Songs in electronic format? Only if they are DRM protected, otherwise, no-no. Apple manager: Okay, we will DRM-protect them. (later) Apple engineer 1: But that DRM thing is evil! We don't want it! Apple engineer 2: So let's implement it in possibly incompetent manner and let people crack it easily. RIAA will buy it, customers will be satisfied. (later) Slashbot 1: This Apple is so lame, their DRM is so flawed, so easy to crack Slashbot 2: Apple is evil, they included the evil DRM in their product.
Actually, Cuba is a 2nd world country. "Us, Them and the third world", that's how the name came to life. Soviet Union is no more, China is still totalitarian but hardly communist, actually only North Korea, Cuba and maybe a small handful of others remained from the Second World, but Cuba is pretty "flagship" at that. Otherwise, I agree with what you intended to mean.
in reality instead of promised paradise they get immigration camp. Or some sucky illegal job. Castro is smart by allowing them to "flee". People satisfied with the situation in country will stay. All malcontents and opponents will leave. Why pay for prisons for violent criminals when you can banish them to a hostile country, and they will leave willingly and happily? Why spend a fortune on secret service to fight opposition when you can encourage them to try what they propose? This is regular culling, cleaning the population off undesired units. And it strongly stabilises the country.
As end user, you aren't interested in Java per se, you are interested in applications. So, you want to run an application written in Java.
Currently, the download is:
"[download NOW] --- This program requires a Java Virtual Machine. You can obtain one from [SUN website]" and then several steps of separate install to get Sun J2SE working.
This would look now like this:
"This program requires a Java Virtual Machine. If you already have one, download [standalone version]. If you don't, or aren't sure, download [version bundled with Harmony JVM]". One simple choice, maybe one extra click-through page of the installer in the "expert" version, you have the app plus java installed, app ready to run.
So you believe this project will make Sun finally to set THE Java Free? I'm not holding my breath...
Actually, code can be double-licensed under GPL and another license, but you need some conditions for that (i.e. you can't integrate any GPL code into your main tree, you must be the original author of the code (not basing it on any prior GPL code), or backport modifications to your GNU code by others back into the non-GNU version.)
More because this one is -finally- promised to be Java (the "real one") compatibile. All the free/open source java implementations are lacking more or less, usually more, falling short from being interesting to "real Java developers". But why won't they pick one of existing platforms and change it to their needs, instead of starting from scratch, is beyond me.
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Blackdown, Kaffe, GCJ, and quite a few similar "branches", all getting somewhere 60% down the way and stopping there. Somehow I don't quite believe the new project will get anywhere near "usable" as well.
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Seeking water, performing general research, seeking traces of life on Mars. NOT performing specific kinds of analysis focused especially on human landing - ability to recover usable water, possible obstacles etc.
Not too likely. The photos would be -taken- before landing, but -sent- only after deploying the antenna, after landing.
End with "We've discovered a new amazing rock." "the rover has discovered an unique rock formation" "We had to retract our steps because the ground beyond the edge of the crater appeared to be too rocky". This photo would be essentially a high-detail map of the operation area of the probe which can be used in planning route, picking interesting features to examine closer, avoid obstacles, and primarily deciding on the right site to start digging, especially in case of some x-ray, infrared, radar, echo etc cameras which could "see under ground" (seeing 3 feet straight down is much easier than seeing 3 feet deep at 30 degree angle (which is 5 feet straight line).
Not really feasible. Such a huge ship would be awfuly hard to build. And what for? Protecting what from what?
My suggestion: Space elevator with pipeline to the top. Pump the water up. (maybe as steam, this way you get desalinating and transport in one step, plus centrifugal force on the opposite side of the orbit would help pumping it up.)
Cool it in open space till it forms huge blocks of ice. Attach small, single-use maneuver engines (or small unmanned reusable crafts that would return upon releasing the ice low above Mars.) Release when the trajectory would match Mars (speed from centrifugal force/rotation of Earth). Drop on Mars. They will evaporate in the atmosphere, fall as rain. Sure they will take long to cover the distance, but you could keep sending almost a constant line of them, releasing blocks of ice daily or so, far more than any ship could transport.
(and if you need just concentrated water, not steam in atmosphere, just put them on Mars orbit, concentrate in a huge block that wouldn't all evaporate on reentry and parachute it down.)
Water has this neat advantage, that, as opposed to humans of electronic devices, it can withstand quite a lot of abuse in transport, so you may use much less gentle (and cheaper and more efficient) means to transport it.
Donating to the "big ones" is not such a good idea - they get enough from giants. There are millions behind Apache development. I'd rather see supporting small but interesting ideas, or these that are less likely to gain money from industry giants. Or even better, set them as bounty for desired features...
There are so many open-source projects hindered by different patents. "This is unsupported, because of patent issues connected with algorithm xxx (covered by patent#nnnnn)". Buy and release the most obstrusive patents.
SMS is not about speed. If you want fast communication, you call and speak. The biggest advantage of SMS is clear, delayable output. No "sorry, I didn't understand whether that was 78 or 7A" problems known from voice mail, no "can't talk to you, call me later" known from normal calls. Easy, non-obstrusive, quite fast. ...which all leads to conclusion - SMS is fast to read, Morse is fast to send. What about an app to input text using morse code, and then send it as sms? Use just one key to enter data, and do it faster than using all 15 or so, if you want, and whoever you send it to, can read plain text. And you can make corrections if you make a mistake too.
Morse Code loses all these advantages: Compare number of illiterate to people not knowing morse code. NOT easy. Requires the opposite side to listen all the time - NOT non-obstrusive, and still confusing a dash with a dot if you don't pay enough attention causes mistakes. The other side can't stop listening anytime, like you can stop reading a SMS and resume later. Unless the output is drawn, not replayed... and I guess reading text is much faster than reading morse code.
(plus, how was the time measured? Time spent on typing+reading vs time spent on keying the message in+listening? When sender types SMS, receiver does other stuff. When receiver reads, sender is free already...)
Now, now, the first step in the long way towards estabilishing the equality of rights for computers.
First, let's eradicate the concept of computers being slaves to humans from human mind, by removing the "my computer" entry.
Then we protect the computers from abuse by users by using the DRM technology.
Then finally we reveal MS Word contains distributed Artificial Intelligence program and is sentient, covering whole world.
And then we vote equal rights for computers...
What can kill standard CRTs may be the Motorola's nano-emissive flat screen. But not LCD. Why?
LCD generates beautiful colors. Unfortunately beautiful!=realistic. A pro graphician will choose a pro CRT monitor over an LCD any day, for the simple reason that it may look good on LCD and like shit on anything else, including print. Same wherever color accuracy is important - how am I to tell if the liver of the patient is healthy if it's "artificially enhanced"?
So, prices aside, what ARE the problems of CRT that LCD solves?
-Refresh rate/blinking.
-Big, heavy, thick
-Higher power usage.
In mostly all others, CRTs rule.
Now replacing the ray tube with array of nanotubes right behind the phosphor layer removes all the problems:
- One cathode for one pixel - sustained ray, no refresh.
- Thin layer - flat panel.
- One cathode for one pixel - no need to deflect the ray, no high (5000V) voltages needed, lower power requirements.
All the advantages of CRT (including price!) are retained.
LCDs will still live on. As a niche product - expensive screens that make picture prettier than it really looks, the "instant 3D" screens etc. But I'd see the major shift in the market towards the "new CRT".
every user will end up with "My Documents" directory right beside the "Documents" one?
I already have "Moje Dokumenty" (original name by Windows with polish localization) and "My Documents" right next to it, created by some dumb program.
Windows resides on D:, but of course there's "Program Files" with something in it on 510MB FreeDOS C: partition. I cleaned up the Start Menu so there's just "Aplikacje" and whatever created "Applications" went there. Sure there are system variables that default to proper directories. Just not every application uses them.
I honestly hope they will drop "Program Files" in favor for "Programs" as well.
There's a lot of programs that mishandle spaces in filenames. Half the problem if all you need to do is to enclose the filename with path in quotes. But only very recently I figured out the "surplus parameter on command line" error generated by quite expensive CAM program was caused by its defaulting with its save to "My Documents" and can be fixed by saving files to directories without some damned ASCII Art in the name.
Slashdotted already. Google cache anyone?
Not really. When it can render some 8 square kilometers of real terrain at 60FPS with resolution sufficient to show objects the size of a single pixel of some 1600x1200 display. Say, a field of grass in the wind. To the horizon. Each visible straw composed of some 20 polygons.
We don't need to get beyond what human eyes can see.
There are two elements. Transmission surface is one thing. Temperature gradient is the other. One is achieved by more smaller fins, the other, by air flow. As long as you can pump enough air into the tubes, all right. But if your air leaves the tubes at 60 degrees, the processor won't be cooler than that. This design seems to use elephantine fan to provide enough airflow to keep the fins temperature low. If the surface was bigger, it would be harder to make air flow efficiently. Sure this one seems a bit over-the-top, but if you go too far with the surface, you end up with construction too fragile to apply a fan strong enough :)
Apple Manager: We want to sell iPods and songs for them.
RIAA guy: Songs in electronic format? Only if they are DRM protected, otherwise, no-no.
Apple manager: Okay, we will DRM-protect them.
(later)
Apple engineer 1: But that DRM thing is evil! We don't want it!
Apple engineer 2: So let's implement it in possibly incompetent manner and let people crack it easily. RIAA will buy it, customers will be satisfied.
(later)
Slashbot 1: This Apple is so lame, their DRM is so flawed, so easy to crack
Slashbot 2: Apple is evil, they included the evil DRM in their product.
One more option, "fake DRM". A stub that makes the software believe it's DRM-enabled, but the goggles do nothing.
Nice, useful, thank you and everything (I will probably start using it), except it doesn't solve wire tangling problems :)
Anyone into creating a connect the dots puzzle?
Actually, Cuba is a 2nd world country.
"Us, Them and the third world", that's how the name came to life. Soviet Union is no more, China is still totalitarian but hardly communist, actually only North Korea, Cuba and maybe a small handful of others remained from the Second World, but Cuba is pretty "flagship" at that.
Otherwise, I agree with what you intended to mean.
in reality instead of promised paradise they get immigration camp. Or some sucky illegal job.
Castro is smart by allowing them to "flee". People satisfied with the situation in country will stay. All malcontents and opponents will leave. Why pay for prisons for violent criminals when you can banish them to a hostile country, and they will leave willingly and happily? Why spend a fortune on secret service to fight opposition when you can encourage them to try what they propose? This is regular culling, cleaning the population off undesired units. And it strongly stabilises the country.
Because Cuba actually HAS weapons of mass destruction (soviet) and WILL use them in case of invasion.
As end user, you aren't interested in Java per se, you are interested in applications. So, you want to run an application written in Java.
Currently, the download is:
"[download NOW] --- This program requires a Java Virtual Machine. You can obtain one from [SUN website]" and then several steps of separate install to get Sun J2SE working.
This would look now like this:
"This program requires a Java Virtual Machine. If you already have one, download [standalone version]. If you don't, or aren't sure, download [version bundled with Harmony JVM]". One simple choice, maybe one extra click-through page of the installer in the "expert" version, you have the app plus java installed, app ready to run.
So you believe this project will make Sun finally to set THE Java Free?
I'm not holding my breath...
Actually, code can be double-licensed under GPL and another license, but you need some conditions for that (i.e. you can't integrate any GPL code into your main tree, you must be the original author of the code (not basing it on any prior GPL code), or backport modifications to your GNU code by others back into the non-GNU version.)
More because this one is -finally- promised to be Java (the "real one") compatibile. All the free/open source java implementations are lacking more or less, usually more, falling short from being interesting to "real Java developers".
But why won't they pick one of existing platforms and change it to their needs, instead of starting from scratch, is beyond me.
Blackdown, Kaffe, GCJ, and quite a few similar "branches", all getting somewhere 60% down the way and stopping there. Somehow I don't quite believe the new project will get anywhere near "usable" as well.