The point of the research really wasn't about being environmentally friendly. The title and snippet are misleading. The DoD's goal is to make a more efficient vehicle so that it can operate with less logistical support. Logistical support is a huge issue with the military. How far an army or navy can move or strike has always been limited by that. Even while the Germans were chasing the British across north Africa, they were limited by the lack of fuel. The problem still exists today. It is estimated that for every person on the ground fighting, there's another 4 people doing logistics to keep him supplied. A military as technologically advance as the US will have a huge logistics train. So a more efficient vehicle is always a very desirable thing. If the vehicle happens to be environmentally friendly, then all the better but that wasn't the point. So to answer your question, I really doubt that the DoD researched environmentally friendly manufacturing processes.
Not sure if Babbage's machine was Turing complete or anything close to it, but I doubt Da Vinci's cart was anywhere near that. It's sort of like C vs. HTML. Would you consider a HTML coder a programmer? It's arguable but we can no doubt call a C coder a programmer.
From the article: "Yet who would have thought that, after a millennium of poverty, they'd already do so many things better than we?"
A millenium? Maybe a century at worst. Historically, China has always been at the fore front of technology, power, and culture. The last few centuries, especially the 20th, was more of an exception than the rule. Three centuries of being behind might seem pretty bad but when you consider that the Chinese civilization has been around for 3,000 years, that's not too bad.
I wonder what percentage of RedHat users would fall for it versus the percentage of Windows users who fall something similar. We expect Linux users to be more cautious but perhaps they're just as human as everyone else. Perhaps they too can be tricked into running a trojan horse but with something more catered to their taste, ie. a software update versus a nude Russian tennis player.
Well the telegraph was really a form of packet network akin to the Internet. Maybe history repeats itself? I think it has more to do with design philosophies that work well for some recurring problems. Also, a lot of technologies can't move ahead until complimentary technologies advance as well. The cellphone would go nowhere without better batteries. Maybe switches/relay memory stalled for a while until we can get better with fabrication techniques.
I went to a presentation given by an exec from Intel once. He talked about tiny mechanical switches. After the presentation a few professors in the EE and CE department raised their arms and questioned the idea. Among the points they brought up was that mechanical switches are unreliable. Sparks can fly and generate enough force to destroy the switches. It was precisely unreliability that lead to the invention of the transistor in the first place.
While the article mentions these switches being extremely robust, what have they done to address some of those older issues?
Why don't you just pedal instead of riding it? Personally, I spend most of my day in front of a computer now and do even less excerise than I use to after I graduated from college. Needless to say, I put on some weight. Cycling is one of the best aerobic excerises out there. Professional cyclists are among the leanest athletes. Even 30 minutes of pedalling will help burn enough calories to compensate for spending most of your day sitting in front of a screen.
If this movie is as good as the original, then all those horrible Star Wars prequels would not have been made in vain. They will at least be source material for another new classic. It will bring some measure of closure to my violated childhood memories. I hope Mel Brooks will throw a bone out to Star Wars fans and have a Jar-Jar + Ewoks massacre scene so we can at least pretend it really happened. J/K.
Since CTSS is a distant ancestor of Unix but an ancestor nonetheless and CTSS is now part of Open Source, that means SCO Unix obviously stole from CTSS and thus owes $999.99 to the open source movement per license. I'm sure we can find a few
"if"-statements in SCO Unix, which probably also appears in CTSS.
J/K.
I remember Kryptonite locks have a manufacturer's guarantee against thief. Is this covered? If someone's bike gets stolen, would they replacec it still?
I think it has more to do with people who run XP vs. 2000. From my experience, 2000 is used in offices and the more hardcore computer users. Those machines will be better taken care of. XP, on the other hand, is everywhere. So those machines will face problems like spyware, stuff loading up at boot, viruses, and unpatched Windows.
Never understood the big deal with pen/pencils. Some people seem to think that once you can get the computer to act like a notepad, it will be magically easier to use. I've used Tablet PCs before. They're not all that useful. Most of the time, I just use them as a regular laptops. The whole using the pen thing is cool for about 10 minutes. Other than drawing, I would much rather type. Maybe it's because I started using the computer when I was 8 and am used to typing. Or maybe an improvement GUI would solve a lot of the problems.
For a moment I thought how wonderful it would be to have a society consisting completely of people like this: a veritable techocratic utopia.
and then I wondered, why aren't all societies like this right now?
Because any such society is doomed to be extinct. You can't procreate if none of the members are having sex. J/K.
There is already a court ruling on using heat seekers or infrared to peer inside houses. It has already been ruled illegal search. Therefore, if they add infrared on those cameras, it would be illegal.
I'm not sure why they're sueing Red Hat since the plaintiffs are the stock holders of Red Hat and the defendant is Red Hat which is owned by the stock holders. The only one who's going to profit from this are the lawyers.
Not sure if they lied to the stockholders since if you read their financial reports, how they recognized revenues from contracts should have been stated in the footnotes. Of course, since most of us don't do that, this would come as a surprise but that's mainly our fault.
Isn't it ironic then that we Americans are also the same ones who tip a higher percentage or that our service workers are more dependant on our tips for income than those in other countries?
Here's an interesting idea: If someone writes a worm that exploits a flaw in a spyware, would be spyware company be legally responsible for the damage? Even if not, the resulting uproar could bring much needed attention to spywares.
Is this thing open source? It doesn't seem like it. For all we know we could be downloading the world's next biggest trojan horse/worm. Considering the only people who would download this would be techies with big pipes, this could get interesting. Just a theory and a reminder to the author that people usually feel safer downloading something they can examine.
While I agree that enforcement of the law is a good thing, I am unhappy about the selective enforcement of the law. When the law is not being equally applied to everyone, there is no justice.
What do I mean? While the government is out helping the RIAA hunt down teenagers downloading music, jailing some hackers, cracking down on Warez groups, they turn a blind eye to corporate misdeeds and other more important issues. Where was the government while the whole Enron thing was brewing? When the Enron scandal hit, it was followed by a string of many others. Do they expect us to believe that Enron and all those companies are just a fluke? Why wasn't the government watching them? And how many years are the executives going to get? The same and maybe even less than what these Warez kiddies are going to get. Who hurt society more? It's hard to say but at least in the corporate scandals, the only ones benefitting were the executives themselves and there are a lot of people without pension or jobs because of them.
Or how about Ashcroft's idea of clamping down on pornography not long after he was appointed attorney general? And guess what stop the crack down? 9/11. Until 9/11 hit, the government was still getting ready to use it's supposed stretched resources to hunt down pornographers.
I'm not angry at the government for enforcing the law. I'm just angry that they can't get their priorities straight. I'm angry that the law usually is easier on the rich and powerful. Martha Steward was just a scrape goat. Don't go hunting down pornographers and Warez kiddies when you just told me a minute ago that government need more money and people because Al Qaeda is plannning another attack.
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The point of the research really wasn't about being environmentally friendly. The title and snippet are misleading. The DoD's goal is to make a more efficient vehicle so that it can operate with less logistical support. Logistical support is a huge issue with the military. How far an army or navy can move or strike has always been limited by that. Even while the Germans were chasing the British across north Africa, they were limited by the lack of fuel. The problem still exists today. It is estimated that for every person on the ground fighting, there's another 4 people doing logistics to keep him supplied. A military as technologically advance as the US will have a huge logistics train. So a more efficient vehicle is always a very desirable thing. If the vehicle happens to be environmentally friendly, then all the better but that wasn't the point. So to answer your question, I really doubt that the DoD researched environmentally friendly manufacturing processes.
Not sure if Babbage's machine was Turing complete or anything close to it, but I doubt Da Vinci's cart was anywhere near that. It's sort of like C vs. HTML. Would you consider a HTML coder a programmer? It's arguable but we can no doubt call a C coder a programmer.
From the article:
"Yet who would have thought that, after a millennium of poverty, they'd already do so many things better than we?"
A millenium? Maybe a century at worst. Historically, China has always been at the fore front of technology, power, and culture. The last few centuries, especially the 20th, was more of an exception than the rule. Three centuries of being behind might seem pretty bad but when you consider that the Chinese civilization has been around for 3,000 years, that's not too bad.
I wonder what percentage of RedHat users would fall for it versus the percentage of Windows users who fall something similar. We expect Linux users to be more cautious but perhaps they're just as human as everyone else. Perhaps they too can be tricked into running a trojan horse but with something more catered to their taste, ie. a software update versus a nude Russian tennis player.
And and... Vulcan chicks dig nerds!
Well the telegraph was really a form of packet network akin to the Internet. Maybe history repeats itself? I think it has more to do with design philosophies that work well for some recurring problems. Also, a lot of technologies can't move ahead until complimentary technologies advance as well. The cellphone would go nowhere without better batteries. Maybe switches/relay memory stalled for a while until we can get better with fabrication techniques.
I went to a presentation given by an exec from Intel once. He talked about tiny mechanical switches. After the presentation a few professors in the EE and CE department raised their arms and questioned the idea. Among the points they brought up was that mechanical switches are unreliable. Sparks can fly and generate enough force to destroy the switches. It was precisely unreliability that lead to the invention of the transistor in the first place.
While the article mentions these switches being extremely robust, what have they done to address some of those older issues?
Why don't you just pedal instead of riding it? Personally, I spend most of my day in front of a computer now and do even less excerise than I use to after I graduated from college. Needless to say, I put on some weight. Cycling is one of the best aerobic excerises out there. Professional cyclists are among the leanest athletes. Even 30 minutes of pedalling will help burn enough calories to compensate for spending most of your day sitting in front of a screen.
If this movie is as good as the original, then all those horrible Star Wars prequels would not have been made in vain. They will at least be source material for another new classic. It will bring some measure of closure to my violated childhood memories. I hope Mel Brooks will throw a bone out to Star Wars fans and have a Jar-Jar + Ewoks massacre scene so we can at least pretend it really happened. J/K.
Since CTSS is a distant ancestor of Unix but an ancestor nonetheless and CTSS is now part of Open Source, that means SCO Unix obviously stole from CTSS and thus owes $999.99 to the open source movement per license. I'm sure we can find a few "if"-statements in SCO Unix, which probably also appears in CTSS. J/K.
I remember Kryptonite locks have a manufacturer's guarantee against thief. Is this covered? If someone's bike gets stolen, would they replacec it still?
So is this one of those "Wanted: Dead or Alive" bounties?
I think it has more to do with people who run XP vs. 2000. From my experience, 2000 is used in offices and the more hardcore computer users. Those machines will be better taken care of. XP, on the other hand, is everywhere. So those machines will face problems like spyware, stuff loading up at boot, viruses, and unpatched Windows.
Never understood the big deal with pen/pencils. Some people seem to think that once you can get the computer to act like a notepad, it will be magically easier to use. I've used Tablet PCs before. They're not all that useful. Most of the time, I just use them as a regular laptops. The whole using the pen thing is cool for about 10 minutes. Other than drawing, I would much rather type. Maybe it's because I started using the computer when I was 8 and am used to typing. Or maybe an improvement GUI would solve a lot of the problems.
Because any such society is doomed to be extinct. You can't procreate if none of the members are having sex. J/K.
There is already a court ruling on using heat seekers or infrared to peer inside houses. It has already been ruled illegal search. Therefore, if they add infrared on those cameras, it would be illegal.
I'm not sure why they're sueing Red Hat since the plaintiffs are the stock holders of Red Hat and the defendant is Red Hat which is owned by the stock holders. The only one who's going to profit from this are the lawyers.
Not sure if they lied to the stockholders since if you read their financial reports, how they recognized revenues from contracts should have been stated in the footnotes. Of course, since most of us don't do that, this would come as a surprise but that's mainly our fault.
Isn't it ironic then that we Americans are also the same ones who tip a higher percentage or that our service workers are more dependant on our tips for income than those in other countries?
Do they have L337 $p3@k for Chinese? This time it might be useful.
Yes, at last we have a way to fold a paper in half more than 7 times!
Here's an interesting idea: If someone writes a worm that exploits a flaw in a spyware, would be spyware company be legally responsible for the damage? Even if not, the resulting uproar could bring much needed attention to spywares.
Poor thing never even made a whimper before it died by Slashdotting.
Is this thing open source? It doesn't seem like it. For all we know we could be downloading the world's next biggest trojan horse/worm. Considering the only people who would download this would be techies with big pipes, this could get interesting. Just a theory and a reminder to the author that people usually feel safer downloading something they can examine.
While I agree that enforcement of the law is a good thing, I am unhappy about the selective enforcement of the law. When the law is not being equally applied to everyone, there is no justice.
What do I mean? While the government is out helping the RIAA hunt down teenagers downloading music, jailing some hackers, cracking down on Warez groups, they turn a blind eye to corporate misdeeds and other more important issues. Where was the government while the whole Enron thing was brewing? When the Enron scandal hit, it was followed by a string of many others. Do they expect us to believe that Enron and all those companies are just a fluke? Why wasn't the government watching them? And how many years are the executives going to get? The same and maybe even less than what these Warez kiddies are going to get. Who hurt society more? It's hard to say but at least in the corporate scandals, the only ones benefitting were the executives themselves and there are a lot of people without pension or jobs because of them.
Or how about Ashcroft's idea of clamping down on pornography not long after he was appointed attorney general? And guess what stop the crack down? 9/11. Until 9/11 hit, the government was still getting ready to use it's supposed stretched resources to hunt down pornographers.
I'm not angry at the government for enforcing the law. I'm just angry that they can't get their priorities straight. I'm angry that the law usually is easier on the rich and powerful. Martha Steward was just a scrape goat. Don't go hunting down pornographers and Warez kiddies when you just told me a minute ago that government need more money and people because Al Qaeda is plannning another attack.