From reading that, I am not sure that Gates issues a catagorical denial, though.. Its fair to say he wasnt the one who made the first IBM use the 8088 (spit) instead of the fab 68000 - how much better the world of PCs would be if they had..
"..And it now appears that Bill Gates never said anything about getting along with 640K. One Sunday afternoon I asked a friend in Seattle who knows Gates whether the quote was accurate or apocryphal. Late that night, to my amazement, I found a long e-mail from Gates in my inbox, laying out painstakingly the reasons why he had always believed the opposite of what the notorious quote implied. His main point was that the 640K limit in early PCs was imposed by the design of processing chips, not Gates's software, and he'd been pushing to raise the limit as hard and as often as he could. Yet despite Gates's convincing denial, the quote is unlikely to die. It's too convenient an expression of the computer industry's sense that no one can be sure what will happen next."
Thats a great idea, a universal Dynamo that can power any portable device. Then if you hands get tired, you could build another device with a motor & batteries to turn it for you and..
If electric cars take off, we can make use of all that surplus off-peak power that comes from wind, tidal, etc.. For instance the UK could make 200% of power needs from offshore wind, but that would leave loads of unused off-peak capacity going to waste.
The problem with pure electric (as opposed to petro-electric, etc) has always been the batteries, and the recharge time. I have always thought that you should be able to change a battery for a fully charged one at a pump station, so you in effect "lease" rather than own batteries. Gives the oil companies something to sell & keeps them happy too..
The assumptions about the link between red-shift and age are correct. It has been postulated that other factors, like dark matter or dust, could cause apparent red-shift..
The cost of decomissioning old reactors and getting rid of waste has pretty much killed the nuclear option in the UK. To make Nuclear make any sort of long term sense you need to reprocess - otherwise you end up with finite Uranium supply & a lot of plutonium waste to hide from terrorists for a few millenia.. And reprocessing has proven to be messy and expensive in practice. Thanks to reprocessing the Irish sea is the most radioactive sea in the world. No one has yet fully addressed the waste problem & shown a *proven* safe disposal method - the US wants to build one huge complex in a mountain in Nevada (I believe) but this has yet to be done, or paid for.
Wind power is practical - the UK has enough off-shore sites to make >1000% of current needs, plenty left over to make hydrogen, etc - in fact a desirable use, given that there will be a lot of off-peak excess power floating around. The US and countries like Australia have similar wealths of off-shore sites - the problem is political will rather than practicalities..
Just put a fraction of what has been wasted on Nuclear power into Alternatives, and you will see a different future emerge..
Solar power comes in all forms - solar cells, wind power, etc.. Dont forget "moon" power - tidal (ok a bit of solar in that)!
Wind power is outstripping nuclear, if you look at it on a level playing field. Not only cleaner, but probably cheaper too, especially if you take into account the cost of decommissioning, and storing old nuclear waste for centuries. New offshore wind farms in the uk are contracted to produce electricity at 0.03/kilowatt/hour, and that price is set to drop.. (British wind energy association) (also awea.com)
We will have to stop using oil some time fairly soon anyway - we have to find a way to power vehicles from some sort of alternative. If its 10 or 50 years anyway why not make it sooner and stop pouring out CO2?
Not true.
There are alternatives (*cough*wind power*cough*) that are outstripping nuclear, if you look at it on a level playing field. New offshore wind farms in the uk are contracted to produce electricity at 0.03/kilowatt/hour, and that price is set to drop..
(British wind energy association) The real energy problem is a blinkered outlook in some parts of the US establishment..
I use the Canon XM1, which is really good. The biggest advantage is the brightness and sharpness of the colours - much better than 1CCD. This is because a 1 CCD camera uses a colour mask "grid" - any 1 pixel only ever gets 1 colour - and fancy algorithms to fill in the colours for the bits it doesnt have data for. With 3ccd each pixel has separate sensors for red, green, blue.. It really makes a difference - especially if you edit onto decent digital media like DVD..
I have had a Canon XM1 for around 4 years - it is an absolutely great camera - it was about the cheapest 3CCD camera at the time, but it beats even pretty expensive single CCD machines hands down.. The new model is the XM2, check it out..
Even if a "Linux Zealot" wrote Mydoom so what?
A virus is written by a Linux Zealot, so all Linux supporters are Virus writers.
A Black man rapes a women, therefore all Black men are rapists..
Easy logic, huh?
Eeee, we used to dream about having toggle switches. We had a 0.01 bit valve computer with only 1 valve, so we had to switch it between sockets very fast beforre the electrons got around the circuit so it could work. If we did nt switch it fast enough, our dad would kill us, then dance on our graves singing halleyuya
How are you Gentlemen! All your Motherboard are belong to us! You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA....
But it *isnt* easy - the UK ended up shutting down its reprocessing program because (amongst other things) certain types of liquid waste were very very expensive to handle & process - it was costing a huge amount of money. Same goes for decommissioning, etc.
The reality is that its very hard to get those theoretical results - the plutonium doesnt obligingly all get used up - bit get mixed in with other waste, and so on. You end up with loads of Medium level waste that is *yet* to be dealt with..
So do you think thats whats Saddams done with those WMDs?
A secret that big is *very* hard to keep. Its like those "NASA never went to the moon" theories - its wrong because you just cant keep a secret that big hidden..
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Many (non-planet) Asteroids have moons or satellites in orbit about them..
From reading that, I am not sure that Gates issues a catagorical denial, though.. Its fair to say he wasnt the one who made the first IBM use the 8088 (spit) instead of the fab 68000 - how much better the world of PCs would be if they had..
"..And it now appears that Bill Gates never said anything about getting along with 640K. One Sunday afternoon I asked a friend in Seattle who knows Gates whether the quote was accurate or apocryphal. Late that night, to my amazement, I found a long e-mail from Gates in my inbox, laying out painstakingly the reasons why he had always believed the opposite of what the notorious quote implied. His main point was that the 640K limit in early PCs was imposed by the design of processing chips, not Gates's software, and he'd been pushing to raise the limit as hard and as often as he could. Yet despite Gates's convincing denial, the quote is unlikely to die. It's too convenient an expression of the computer industry's sense that no one can be sure what will happen next."
"640K should be enough for anyone" Bill Gates, 1981
Dont worry guys, Ive found a much cheaper alternative here..
Nearly as useful too!
Thats a great idea, a universal Dynamo that can power any portable device. Then if you hands get tired, you could build another device with a motor & batteries to turn it for you and..
oh.. hang on a minute..
If electric cars take off, we can make use of all that surplus off-peak power that comes from wind, tidal, etc.. For instance the UK could make 200% of power needs from offshore wind, but that would leave loads of unused off-peak capacity going to waste.
The problem with pure electric (as opposed to petro-electric, etc) has always been the batteries, and the recharge time. I have always thought that you should be able to change a battery for a fully charged one at a pump station, so you in effect "lease" rather than own batteries. Gives the oil companies something to sell & keeps them happy too..
Its got to happen..
Its really a much better web browser than Explorer and..
Oh wait, GODzilla. sorry..
Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
Just because I eat worms
Short fat hairy ones
Long tall skinny ones
See how the little ones squirm
Bite all their heads off
Suck all the juice out
Throw the empty skins away
Nobody Likes me
Everybody hates me
Cos I eat worms all day
Nobody likes us
Everybody hates us
Just because we eat worms
Short fat hairy ones
Long tall skinny ones
See how the little ones squirm
Bite all their heads off
Suck all the juice out
Throw the empty skins away
Nobody Likes us
Everybody hates us
Cos we eat worms all day
(Apologies to terry scott et al..)
The assumptions about the link between red-shift and age are correct. It has been postulated that other factors, like dark matter or dust, could cause apparent red-shift..
and I for one welcome our new insectoid overlords.
The cost of decomissioning old reactors and getting rid of waste has pretty much killed the nuclear option in the UK. To make Nuclear make any sort of long term sense you need to reprocess - otherwise you end up with finite Uranium supply & a lot of plutonium waste to hide from terrorists for a few millenia.. And reprocessing has proven to be messy and expensive in practice. Thanks to reprocessing the Irish sea is the most radioactive sea in the world. No one has yet fully addressed the waste problem & shown a *proven* safe disposal method - the US wants to build one huge complex in a mountain in Nevada (I believe) but this has yet to be done, or paid for.
Wind power is practical - the UK has enough off-shore sites to make >1000% of current needs, plenty left over to make hydrogen, etc - in fact a desirable use, given that there will be a lot of off-peak excess power floating around. The US and countries like Australia have similar wealths of off-shore sites - the problem is political will rather than practicalities..
Just put a fraction of what has been wasted on Nuclear power into Alternatives, and you will see a different future emerge..
Solar power comes in all forms - solar cells, wind power, etc.. Dont forget "moon" power - tidal (ok a bit of solar in that)!
Wind power is outstripping nuclear, if you look at it on a level playing field. Not only cleaner, but probably cheaper too, especially if you take into account the cost of decommissioning, and storing old nuclear waste for centuries. New offshore wind farms in the uk are contracted to produce electricity at 0.03/kilowatt/hour, and that price is set to drop..
(British wind energy association) (also awea.com)
We will have to stop using oil some time fairly soon anyway - we have to find a way to power vehicles from some sort of alternative. If its 10 or 50 years anyway why not make it sooner and stop pouring out CO2?
Not true. There are alternatives (*cough*wind power*cough*) that are outstripping nuclear, if you look at it on a level playing field. New offshore wind farms in the uk are contracted to produce electricity at 0.03/kilowatt/hour, and that price is set to drop.. (British wind energy association) The real energy problem is a blinkered outlook in some parts of the US establishment..
I use the Canon XM1, which is really good. The biggest advantage is the brightness and sharpness of the colours - much better than 1CCD. This is because a 1 CCD camera uses a colour mask "grid" - any 1 pixel only ever gets 1 colour - and fancy algorithms to fill in the colours for the bits it doesnt have data for. With 3ccd each pixel has separate sensors for red, green, blue.. It really makes a difference - especially if you edit onto decent digital media like DVD..
I have had a Canon XM1 for around 4 years - it is an absolutely great camera - it was about the cheapest 3CCD camera at the time, but it beats even pretty expensive single CCD machines hands down.. The new model is the XM2, check it out..
Indeed they can, as this Demo of new version of Windows shows..
Even if a "Linux Zealot" wrote Mydoom so what? A virus is written by a Linux Zealot, so all Linux supporters are Virus writers. A Black man rapes a women, therefore all Black men are rapists.. Easy logic, huh?
Eeee, we used to dream about having toggle switches. We had a 0.01 bit valve computer with only 1 valve, so we had to switch it between sockets very fast beforre the electrons got around the circuit so it could work. If we did nt switch it fast enough, our dad would kill us, then dance on our graves singing halleyuya
Eee by gum you had it easy!
In my day we used a 4 bit 4004 processor, *and* had to pay our employers for priveledge of working.. 64 bit, pah!
I will only need 20 HD-DVD-R's to back up my 300 gig HD.. Oh joy..
Another evening of dodgy old b/w film on the BBC soon folks..
How are you Gentlemen! ....
All your Motherboard are belong to us!
You are on the way to destruction.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
HA HA HA HA
"Hands that do dishes can be as soft as your face, with Mild Green.. Carling Black Label!"
But it *isnt* easy - the UK ended up shutting down its reprocessing program because (amongst other things) certain types of liquid waste were very very expensive to handle & process - it was costing a huge amount of money. Same goes for decommissioning, etc.
The reality is that its very hard to get those theoretical results - the plutonium doesnt obligingly all get used up - bit get mixed in with other waste, and so on. You end up with loads of Medium level waste that is *yet* to be dealt with..
So do you think thats whats Saddams done with those WMDs?
A secret that big is *very* hard to keep. Its like those "NASA never went to the moon" theories - its wrong because you just cant keep a secret that big hidden..