The hard problems to solve were structural design and propulsion, not algorithms. Propulsion technology- at least propulsion technology useful for manned lunar missions - hasn't advanced one iota since the mid-60's. The huge increases in computation power are extremely useful in running simulations, in engineering, fluid dynamics, etc, which may help us advance the propulsion technology. Moreover, landing men on Mars won't be as easy as the Moon, as the landing is considerably trickier (thanks to gravity and atmosphere), for which things like flight computers would certainly be useful.
Virtually every current space project of which I am aware has had massive problems with the flight software and database, and it's coincident with trying to use inappropriate programming techniques made possible by faster computers. Are you are aware of the quality the Space Shuttle Onboard Systems team produces?
Has anyone looked at the development of Dubai over the past 10 years? or the wealth of the royal family in Saudi Arabia?
One 9/11-esque attack could change that. The Burj Dubai? Genius! Finally we have a use for the new Airbus A380!
So graphic drivers as well as file system drivers and similar cannot use this API at the moment. Fuse and NTFS-3G seems to work pretty well for me, so I'm not entirely convinced by that statement.
I forget who came up with this, but there's a theory about reality as a wave. The idea being that the present is the peak of the wave, and that the future is a ripple in front, so space-time is distorted in advance of the present. So, there would be an ever-changing future always surging ahead of us.
I didn't miss the point, I just disagree that Slashdot needs professionally generated content to survive. Many of us here are professionals or academics, so if people aren't submitting "professional journalism" (and I use the term loosely) we'll get by just fine with our own information - see places like Bannination where the most popular discussions are, well, discussions rather than links to news or other articles.
Slashdot is really a glorified blog. It aggregates news sources from all over, stories that its members think are interesting. But without the original sources that generate these stories -- media outlets who pay writers to produce stories -- outlets like Slashdot disappear.
No, Slashdot is a glorified discussion forum. The discussion topics (news) is user submitted (albiet with editor assistance) and user moderated - it's not some random cat on the net spouting off about whatever and pining for attention, it's a large audience of participants interacting with each other. As long as the topics are relevant to the geek audience, I don't think it would much matter where they come from... indeed many links have been to purely amateur sources and projects as opposed to professional media.
For example, let's take "Spiderman." Spiderman has been around a lot longer than 14 years, and recently Sony has made a ton of money for Marvel and its own investors with three hit movies. If Spiderman had already fallen into the public domain, those films might not have been made, and therefore that wealth not generated.
Wealth wasn't generated. It was redistributed.
Society would have been just fine without those movies.
I still don't see why the Slashdot crowd cares one way or the other about the length of copyright terms, apart from it providing an opportunity to post generic anti-copyright rambling without being moderated offtopic.
That's because the Slashdot crowd has a lot of programmers in it, and the lines of code we write is also covered by copyright. The entire free-software movement greatly depends on copyright laws. In addition, copyright is one part of the mess of "IP" that has become a political issue, with "IP" based patents becoming a serious threat to our industry. As a photogapher, imagine if someone patented a particular arrangement in a photo - and then realise that's already happening with applications and even data-structures in the software industry.
More accurately, it's like asking Intel to release their trade-secret research on building 10 GHz chips, because you don't believe they're possible.
Look, the guy said they could do it with existing technology, given the funds for 100s of heavy lift rockets (Delta-V maybe?) and A LOT of Honeywell Spectra fibre. Think for a second how much 100s of heavy lift rockets would cost, even if they could have that many made within a production timespan - that's crazy money for most anyone. But if a group of BIG companies got together (Japanese style) I reckon it's almost feasible.
OTOH, and relating back to our Mars story, IF this cat can show big investors a serious engineering proposal for a project with existing technology, we just got our first "train station".
But totally brutal transportation costs. This is waiting for the invention of the railroad
That's more insightful than many will realize.
We really need a "railroad" in space - an efficient means of moving large masses between planets. I guess that means stations at each destination (eg in orbit) that can receive loads from heavy lift rockets, lightweight reusable landing systems such as computer controlled re-entry craft with parachutes, and a simple and efficient direct line between them like an ion propulsion tug (pulled that one outta my ass) or a nuclear propulsion tug. Indeed, if Mars is a shell anyway, we could use nuclear lifters there for launch too. The aim being to move 100s of tonnes of mass each trip.
Getting mass up from Mars won't be too hard, and getting it down to earth shouldn't be either. The tricky part is getting the infrastructure in place, but the ROI should be huge once done.
Actually, it wouldn't. I've thought about it critically, and I'm sure that I would be comfortable with being teleported. IMO, life is a series of moments, and the only connection with the past is state, and memory in particular. If state and memory are consistent, there's no way for the person or an observer to tell the difference. Assuming the error rate was extremely low, perhaps no worse than a specified exposure to radiation, I'd be okay with being serialized.
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Sounds like you want to run Solaris 10. It can do exactly that, and it comes up VERY fast on modern hardware.
Wasn't that the promise of technologies like HyperTransport, or are you thinking of something even more serial?
^^^THIS^^^
Presumably it's as far reaching as the NZ courts are, so Youtube posts by Americans who procured copies should be safe enough.
Funny thing though, is that the media has already stated it won't blindly comply with them. It'll be interesting to see how far they go though.
They had the flux capacitors, but he couldn't find a DeLorean.
I forget who came up with this, but there's a theory about reality as a wave. The idea being that the present is the peak of the wave, and that the future is a ripple in front, so space-time is distorted in advance of the present. So, there would be an ever-changing future always surging ahead of us.
And an AC agrees with GP post. Indeed, so what?
I didn't miss the point, I just disagree that Slashdot needs professionally generated content to survive. Many of us here are professionals or academics, so if people aren't submitting "professional journalism" (and I use the term loosely) we'll get by just fine with our own information - see places like Bannination where the most popular discussions are, well, discussions rather than links to news or other articles.
Slashdot is really a glorified blog. It aggregates news sources from all over, stories that its members think are interesting. But without the original sources that generate these stories -- media outlets who pay writers to produce stories -- outlets like Slashdot disappear.
No, Slashdot is a glorified discussion forum. The discussion topics (news) is user submitted (albiet with editor assistance) and user moderated - it's not some random cat on the net spouting off about whatever and pining for attention, it's a large audience of participants interacting with each other. As long as the topics are relevant to the geek audience, I don't think it would much matter where they come from... indeed many links have been to purely amateur sources and projects as opposed to professional media.
That's doable for Firefox as well:
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http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_Institutional
and inparticular:
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/mcs/FirefoxADM/Readme.h
For example, let's take "Spiderman." Spiderman has been around a lot longer than 14 years, and recently Sony has made a ton of money for Marvel and its own investors with three hit movies. If Spiderman had already fallen into the public domain, those films might not have been made, and therefore that wealth not generated.
Wealth wasn't generated. It was redistributed.
Society would have been just fine without those movies.
I still don't see why the Slashdot crowd cares one way or the other about the length of copyright terms, apart from it providing an opportunity to post generic anti-copyright rambling without being moderated offtopic.
That's because the Slashdot crowd has a lot of programmers in it, and the lines of code we write is also covered by copyright. The entire free-software movement greatly depends on copyright laws. In addition, copyright is one part of the mess of "IP" that has become a political issue, with "IP" based patents becoming a serious threat to our industry. As a photogapher, imagine if someone patented a particular arrangement in a photo - and then realise that's already happening with applications and even data-structures in the software industry.
I'm still not sure if it is better than Con Kolivas' SD scheduler in his patchset, but we'll see.
- The-end-of-the-CK-kernel-patch-set.html
Well, the CK patchset has been formally discontinued... the reasons for which appear to be related to this (and it seems that CFS was related in many ways to SD as well).
http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/serendipity/archives/32
Blade servers are to mainframes as a pack of mice are to an elephant.
Very, very, scary?
The company's chips use cryptography designed to make it harder for customers to use off-brand and counterfeit cartridges.
Fixed that for you.
But I bet we could engineer a microbe to kill those first microbes.
"No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
We've been a lot longer than 20 years without 'such a rebellion'.
I would say that Gen-X has certainly felt one brewing. Fight Club, anyone?
I fully expect a 'Microsoft = Ass' article by 2010.
After reading this, I fully expect one by lunchtime tomorrow.
More accurately, it's like asking Intel to release their trade-secret research on building 10 GHz chips, because you don't believe they're possible.
Look, the guy said they could do it with existing technology, given the funds for 100s of heavy lift rockets (Delta-V maybe?) and A LOT of Honeywell Spectra fibre. Think for a second how much 100s of heavy lift rockets would cost, even if they could have that many made within a production timespan - that's crazy money for most anyone. But if a group of BIG companies got together (Japanese style) I reckon it's almost feasible.
OTOH, and relating back to our Mars story, IF this cat can show big investors a serious engineering proposal for a project with existing technology, we just got our first "train station".
But totally brutal transportation costs. This is waiting for the invention of the railroad
That's more insightful than many will realize.
We really need a "railroad" in space - an efficient means of moving large masses between planets. I guess that means stations at each destination (eg in orbit) that can receive loads from heavy lift rockets, lightweight reusable landing systems such as computer controlled re-entry craft with parachutes, and a simple and efficient direct line between them like an ion propulsion tug (pulled that one outta my ass) or a nuclear propulsion tug. Indeed, if Mars is a shell anyway, we could use nuclear lifters there for launch too. The aim being to move 100s of tonnes of mass each trip.
Getting mass up from Mars won't be too hard, and getting it down to earth shouldn't be either. The tricky part is getting the infrastructure in place, but the ROI should be huge once done.
The majority just want to be left alone to live as they will.
QFT.
Actually, it wouldn't. I've thought about it critically, and I'm sure that I would be comfortable with being teleported. IMO, life is a series of moments, and the only connection with the past is state, and memory in particular. If state and memory are consistent, there's no way for the person or an observer to tell the difference. Assuming the error rate was extremely low, perhaps no worse than a specified exposure to radiation, I'd be okay with being serialized.