Looking at todays Astronomy Picture of the Day Dec 30 2003
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
it seems more likely that the beagle fell into or got stuck or wedged in a crevice maybe getting caught after a bounce or two and therefore was unable to open properly
For curiosity I did a google on the the dragonfly and found this link http://mil.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper466/2/clas s046600005/hwz1116940.htm
Is this a chinese translation of the boeing site or is it their version of the same invention ?
The iMac is a 'clever' design, there is no doubt about that, but unfortunately the market is cleverer. The market is patiently awaiting a computer as powerful as a highend Imac/lowend G5 that provides the mobility of a powerbook but has the ruggedness of an eMac, think something like a chunky powerbook. Its not to hard to think how many societal situations would love to have an iMac, only that its design/function is to delicate for them. Its more a matter of focusing on peoples natural clumsiness/accidents/idiot behaviours etc. Perhaps its a retro step to think 'design is function' but as much as we like to believe that our sophistication parrallels our objects of desire, we are still animals that have chaotic principles of behaviour built into our genes.
The ball is still in the scientific communities court as far as working out a way of decontaminating the toxic waste. Science is usually understood as clever, but so far the nuclear industry/science still doesn't appease us with 'cleverness'. Sure there are 'clever' and ingenuous methods of producing energy from splitting atoms, but burying the waste is like 'giving up' . All we can do is hope that science will one day real soon now amaze us with their 'cleverness' and discover a way of decontamitating the waste or maybe discovering a new use for it or maybe even 'split' the waste into several new safe byproducts ?
Sure you can always build a pc alternative for half the price but one never thinks about the number and frequencies of viruses and worms that hit the pc's and just how much time is lost hurdling these regular debacles !
Just returned from a wild goose chase trying to find Alfven's controversial theory (the link you gave was dead). but anyway at the very least learnt about Alfvern's Waves, not that I can necessarily dovetail that with anti-matter ?
I read on/. recently about a Pegasos box able to run Jaguar et al over the top of a Linux build I notice they still seem to be ok
http://64.246.37.205/
but I also notice that this 'if its true' fact is not immediately visible on their website.
Even so Apple seems to be locked into some kind of monarchical pathos about their product/product line. Take for example the rather inane and backward idea about their historical stock ie powersupplies for all past laptops come with the hefty price tag of the original price, wheh I bet not too many 'switchers' would find this fact astounding ?
When I first saw the core I almost believed that Steve had a plan to capture the 'garageband' market ( u know remember where he came from himself). I also thought wow he has found a gimmicky way of moving obsolete stock. I thought that this would have been part of the plot to grow sales and broaden markets, but heh ?
We must remember how tight lipped Apple almost always is, but we can estimate with some degree of certainty that whenever Apple announces a price cut on a particular product line that they are gearing up to release an updated one. We also know that there is one particular product line that is moving more units then another, except to say that occassionally there is surprise like the imac and the ipod.
Nevertheless I'm an ardent speculator of future Apples, thus:
From all of the hyperboly I've read about the imminent release of the G5 for the last two years , I haven't once gleaned a snippet of info about Altivec, ie as to whether its included in the G5 Architecture or not and if it isn't a more powerful inclusion, what replaces it ?
Unfortunately or fortunately these days in order to get a job a fair percentage of the time you need to know someone, similarlily if you are going to spend big bucks on a big box one often buys in the direction of influence and/or allegiences.
I have been following this story via the net I first picked up the thread on a so called reputable Australian Science site wherein I have since learnt that most of the facts reported there about 'Hydra' are totally wrong or incorrect, similarly wherever I continue to read about this story the facts or more precisely the numbers and as to whether they are significant or not are always further misconstrued.
They are probably running Linux because they can just go down to the newsagent and buy a magazine for a few bucks and get the latest software update in the included cdroms. Pobably what they are completly unware of is just how many extra big bucks they are going to have to spend on support from Big Blue,
If on the other hand they had bought an Apple XServe Cluster they wouldn't have to spend a penny on support or software and they would probably only have to have spent a tenth of what they spent on the BIG BLUE BOX they got.
Who ever said that Universities were full of intelligient people ?
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Looking at todays Astronomy Picture of the Day Dec 30 2003 http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html it seems more likely that the beagle fell into or got stuck or wedged in a crevice maybe getting caught after a bounce or two and therefore was unable to open properly
For curiosity I did a google on the the dragonfly and found this link http://mil.eastday.com/epublish/gb/paper466/2/clas s046600005/hwz1116940.htm
Is this a chinese translation of the boeing site or is it their version of the same invention ?
The iMac is a 'clever' design, there is no doubt about that, but unfortunately the market is cleverer. The market is patiently awaiting a computer as powerful as a highend Imac/lowend G5 that provides the mobility of a powerbook but has the ruggedness of an eMac, think something like a chunky powerbook. Its not to hard to think how many societal situations would love to have an iMac, only that its design/function is to delicate for them. Its more a matter of focusing on peoples natural clumsiness/accidents/idiot behaviours etc. Perhaps its a retro step to think 'design is function' but as much as we like to believe that our sophistication parrallels our objects of desire, we are still animals that have chaotic principles of behaviour built into our genes.
The ball is still in the scientific communities court as far as working out a way of decontaminating the toxic waste. Science is usually understood as clever, but so far the nuclear industry/science still doesn't appease us with 'cleverness'. Sure there are 'clever' and ingenuous methods of producing energy from splitting atoms, but burying the waste is like 'giving up' . All we can do is hope that science will one day real soon now amaze us with their 'cleverness' and discover a way of decontamitating the waste or maybe discovering a new use for it or maybe even 'split' the waste into several new safe byproducts ?
Sure you can always build a pc alternative for half the price but one never thinks about the number and frequencies of viruses and worms that hit the pc's and just how much time is lost hurdling these regular debacles !
Just returned from a wild goose chase trying to find Alfven's controversial theory (the link you gave was dead). but anyway at the very least learnt about Alfvern's Waves, not that I can necessarily dovetail that with anti-matter ?
I take it that you never saw Dark City ?
I read on /. recently about a Pegasos box able to run Jaguar et al over the top of a Linux build I notice they still seem to be ok
http://64.246.37.205/
but I also notice that this 'if its true' fact is not immediately visible on their website.
Even so Apple seems to be locked into some kind of monarchical pathos about their product/product line. Take for example the rather inane and backward idea about their historical stock ie powersupplies for all past laptops come with the hefty price tag of the original price, wheh I bet not too many 'switchers' would find this fact astounding ?
When I first saw the core I almost believed that Steve had a plan to capture the 'garageband' market ( u know remember where he came from himself). I also thought wow he has found a gimmicky way of moving obsolete stock. I thought that this would have been part of the plot to grow sales and broaden markets, but heh ?
We must remember how tight lipped Apple almost always is, but we can estimate with some degree of certainty that whenever Apple announces a price cut on a particular product line that they are gearing up to release an updated one. We also know that there is one particular product line that is moving more units then another, except to say that occassionally there is surprise like the imac and the ipod. Nevertheless I'm an ardent speculator of future Apples, thus: From all of the hyperboly I've read about the imminent release of the G5 for the last two years , I haven't once gleaned a snippet of info about Altivec, ie as to whether its included in the G5 Architecture or not and if it isn't a more powerful inclusion, what replaces it ?
Unfortunately or fortunately these days in order to get a job a fair percentage of the time you need to know someone, similarlily if you are going to spend big bucks on a big box one often buys in the direction of influence and/or allegiences. I have been following this story via the net I first picked up the thread on a so called reputable Australian Science site wherein I have since learnt that most of the facts reported there about 'Hydra' are totally wrong or incorrect, similarly wherever I continue to read about this story the facts or more precisely the numbers and as to whether they are significant or not are always further misconstrued. They are probably running Linux because they can just go down to the newsagent and buy a magazine for a few bucks and get the latest software update in the included cdroms. Pobably what they are completly unware of is just how many extra big bucks they are going to have to spend on support from Big Blue, If on the other hand they had bought an Apple XServe Cluster they wouldn't have to spend a penny on support or software and they would probably only have to have spent a tenth of what they spent on the BIG BLUE BOX they got. Who ever said that Universities were full of intelligient people ?