The world produces about 12,000 pounds of nuclear waste a year. At current rates this would cost about $250 billion just to get into orbit.
Your numbers are a bit off. A single Delta IV Heavy rocket can carry about 28,000 pounds to GTO, or about 20,000 to escape orbit, at a cost of around $250 million.
How do these Germans know so much about the atomic nucleus? Did Neils Bohr leave them a working model or something? The German contribution to nuclear physics seems really disproprtionate to their actual population. Is there something unusually German about the model they committed us all to when they kicked off the science in the 1800s?
They spend a lot of money on nuclear physics. It's the same reason why the United States has such great computing research compared to its population.
When the RFID token is not present, the computer prevents the car from starting. Without the ECU, your engine can't run. It is vital to the operation of your car. If the software in the ECU actively prevents operation of the car, there isn't anything you can do about it except to load new software onto the ECU that you cooked up (good luck).
To elaborate, cars nowadays have their engine computer-controlled by an Engine Control Unit (ECU). It often does everything from telling the spark plugs to fire to regulating the amount of fuel injected into the engine. When the key hasn't been properly authenticated, the ECU simply refuses to allow the engine to do anything.
Using flash memory as a fast cache for the hard drive will increase the performance of the drive but will decrease the overall life of the drive. Someone will be awfully upset when she makes a final save of her million-dollar PowerPoint presentation for the CEO and discovers that the save is the 100001st write to the hybrid drive.
The thing to note is that that limitation is per flash block, not for the whole thing. So for a 1 GB flash component, given perfect block mapping, you can write around 100 TB of data to it before it wears out. With a 150MB/sec transfer rate, it would take more than a week of continuous writing to write that much. As well, modern flash can withstand a couple million writes, extending the life to several months of continuous writing. Given that this would generally be containing operating system components, which are read often but written to rarely, the lifespan of the memory should be no worry at all.
Is 'imprisonment for copyright infringement' something the state does on its own account, or is it something that some private individual or corporation asks to happen ?
Would Sam Palmisano now be in fear of time in Sing-Sing if SCO won their case, if this kind of law held in the USA ?
At least in the US, there are two kinds of copyright infringement, criminal and civil. The government is in charge of pursuing the criminal kind, which is things like large DVD counterfeiting chains and can carry jail terms, and copyright holders sue people for civil violations, which is stuff like individual file sharers and is punishable by monetary damages and other civil remedies. The SCO case is a civil suit, so there aren't jail terms involved.
The various national laboratories and other FFRDCs vary widely in their environment. I wouldn't necessarily write off all of them based on your experience at one. They have the large benefit of having research in their particular field being a core part of their charter, and government funding to boot.
Back in the era of the NES and SNES Nintendo Power used to advertise official game company 1-900 numbers where you could get rad tips for some crazy per-minute charge. I never called one, but I imagine a lot of children drove their parent's phone bills through the roof.
I don't know how popular those would have been for action games or such things, but LucasArts used to have a hint line you could call for their adventure games where you could get the solution for a puzzle that had gotten you stuck. I'd bet they got a lot of calls on that.
I swear people in front of me at ATMs must sometimes be trading stocks or applying for a mortgage considering how long it takes them to insert the card and get $20 out.
I was getting tired waiting at the ATM the other day, so I looked over the guy's shoulder, and he was just finishing up Baron Geddon.
I saw on CNN that California is experiencing nasty blackouts due to the record heat wave out there. That may help explain the problems.
Yep. The biggest problem is that both Northern California and Southern California were hit with heat waves at the same time, meaning there isn't excess capacity in either area to divert to the other. Friday of last week had the highest peak power usage in California history. And then in the middle of that, on Saturday, one of the power plants in Northern California failed. Today's peak usage has the possibility of breaking Friday's record, too.
For example, I'm pretty sure that the Supreme Court later determined that Lincoln's suspension of Habeus Corpus was, in fact, unconstitutional
Actually, it was a Circuit Court (though currently being headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) that declared that Lincoln couldn't suspend habeus corpus in 1861. However, Congress later suspended habeus corpus for Lincoln in 1863 (which they're allowed to do under the Constitution).
Profits are good, but when your stock starts to fall after 2 years of going up sharply, that has to be a sign of something t come?
I think it's more a sign that their stock had previously gone up an incredible amount. Stock price nowadays is only somewhat related to actual business value, it's more an indication of what the stock market thinks that the stock market is going to think about the stock. Once it stopped peaking, people saw that it had gone up a huge amount, and it corrected downwards a bit. Considering that according to the quote you provided it had gone up 600% over 2 years, a 25% downturn over the following six months doesn't seem out of line.
If you can in any how tell that the state of the second electron has been altered, and you could consistently alter/un-alter/re-alter the second electron
You are using a false assumption there, which is that it's repeatable. The thing about entanglement is, you can just do it once. And you can't figure out which way it'll go. Once you observe either electron, and force it to a particular spin, the other one is forced to the opposite spin. Then you're done, they both have fixed spins. To get them to do it again, you would have to bring them back together again first.
Why do people feel obcessed to implement simple things in complex and incompatible ways?
Complex, possibly, but Flash is far from incompatible in the modern Internet. The most recent numbers from Macromedia (which may not be entirely accurate, but probably aren't all that far off) are that if you restrict yourself to Flash 6, you can reach 97% of the world's end users. Assuming that's accurate, if your site works properly on both Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not on Opera or Konquerer, you would have more people for whom your site breaks than if you had put it together in Flash.
You as a geek may not realize it, but crappy products can be more popular than your oh-so-mighty technically correct ones if the former is marketed better than the latter.
I personally know three people who worked at Intel, one who still does. All worked in the same division, so this isn't a representative sample. But all of them saw money thrown around quite freely, including on hardware and on salaries (which are among the highest in the area here). I hope they tried to cut other things before they started firing.
Well, I don't think it's that simple. If you reduce employee benefits, you risk having some of your best people (the people who could most easily get jobs elsewhere) start leaving. By having a layoff, you're hopefully going to be getting rid of some of your worst people. So, it may be wiser (from a business perspective) to lay off people rather than cut benefits, even though it's not very nice.
The recommendation by the DoD isn't specifically to use open source software, though that'd be one possible implementation of it. What they're recommending is that the DoD build a foundation upon which code and standards can be shared in the way that open source tends to do. The current situation in DoD is that basically every project writes its own code, so the software in a GPS satellite may well be entirely distinct from the software in a communications satellite, even though they could both be cheaper and more reliable if they were to reuse code and standards. It's the methodology, not the actual code, of the open source movement that they're interested in.
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How can a group of users who contribute nothing "divide the community"? They can go off by themselves, and nothing will happen.
The community around a piece of software consists of both its developers and its users.
The world produces about 12,000 pounds of nuclear waste a year. At current rates this would cost about $250 billion just to get into orbit.
Your numbers are a bit off. A single Delta IV Heavy rocket can carry about 28,000 pounds to GTO, or about 20,000 to escape orbit, at a cost of around $250 million.
How do these Germans know so much about the atomic nucleus? Did Neils Bohr leave them a working model or something? The German contribution to nuclear physics seems really disproprtionate to their actual population. Is there something unusually German about the model they committed us all to when they kicked off the science in the 1800s?
They spend a lot of money on nuclear physics. It's the same reason why the United States has such great computing research compared to its population.
Sounds like Microsoft should try getting Apple to ship Macs with Windows.
We laugh, but there's a certain truth to it. As far as Microsoft goes, what do they care whose hardware it is? They get paid either way.
i'd agree myspace gets a lot of traffic, but my guess is about 60% of it is girls in their early teens, and about 30% is goths.
Geez, way to generalize, buddy.
Girls in their late teens have got to make up at least 20%.
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When the RFID token is not present, the computer prevents the car from starting. Without the ECU, your engine can't run. It is vital to the operation of your car. If the software in the ECU actively prevents operation of the car, there isn't anything you can do about it except to load new software onto the ECU that you cooked up (good luck).
To elaborate, cars nowadays have their engine computer-controlled by an Engine Control Unit (ECU). It often does everything from telling the spark plugs to fire to regulating the amount of fuel injected into the engine. When the key hasn't been properly authenticated, the ECU simply refuses to allow the engine to do anything.
Using flash memory as a fast cache for the hard drive will increase the performance of the drive but will decrease the overall life of the drive. Someone will be awfully upset when she makes a final save of her million-dollar PowerPoint presentation for the CEO and discovers that the save is the 100001st write to the hybrid drive.
The thing to note is that that limitation is per flash block, not for the whole thing. So for a 1 GB flash component, given perfect block mapping, you can write around 100 TB of data to it before it wears out. With a 150MB/sec transfer rate, it would take more than a week of continuous writing to write that much. As well, modern flash can withstand a couple million writes, extending the life to several months of continuous writing. Given that this would generally be containing operating system components, which are read often but written to rarely, the lifespan of the memory should be no worry at all.
Is 'imprisonment for copyright infringement' something the state does on its own account, or is it something that some private individual or corporation asks to happen ?
Would Sam Palmisano now be in fear of time in Sing-Sing if SCO won their case, if this kind of law held in the USA ?
At least in the US, there are two kinds of copyright infringement, criminal and civil. The government is in charge of pursuing the criminal kind, which is things like large DVD counterfeiting chains and can carry jail terms, and copyright holders sue people for civil violations, which is stuff like individual file sharers and is punishable by monetary damages and other civil remedies. The SCO case is a civil suit, so there aren't jail terms involved.
...what's the current big thing again? I think I'm behind. Did something come after AJAX, or is that still it?
The various national laboratories and other FFRDCs vary widely in their environment. I wouldn't necessarily write off all of them based on your experience at one. They have the large benefit of having research in their particular field being a core part of their charter, and government funding to boot.
Back in the era of the NES and SNES Nintendo Power used to advertise official game company 1-900 numbers where you could get rad tips for some crazy per-minute charge. I never called one, but I imagine a lot of children drove their parent's phone bills through the roof.
I don't know how popular those would have been for action games or such things, but LucasArts used to have a hint line you could call for their adventure games where you could get the solution for a puzzle that had gotten you stuck. I'd bet they got a lot of calls on that.
Oddly enough, rules #2 and #3 are "location" and "location".
I swear people in front of me at ATMs must sometimes be trading stocks or applying for a mortgage considering how long it takes them to insert the card and get $20 out.
I was getting tired waiting at the ATM the other day, so I looked over the guy's shoulder, and he was just finishing up Baron Geddon.
I saw on CNN that California is experiencing nasty blackouts due to the record heat wave out there. That may help explain the problems.
Yep. The biggest problem is that both Northern California and Southern California were hit with heat waves at the same time, meaning there isn't excess capacity in either area to divert to the other. Friday of last week had the highest peak power usage in California history. And then in the middle of that, on Saturday, one of the power plants in Northern California failed. Today's peak usage has the possibility of breaking Friday's record, too.
For example, I'm pretty sure that the Supreme Court later determined that Lincoln's suspension of Habeus Corpus was, in fact, unconstitutional
Actually, it was a Circuit Court (though currently being headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) that declared that Lincoln couldn't suspend habeus corpus in 1861. However, Congress later suspended habeus corpus for Lincoln in 1863 (which they're allowed to do under the Constitution).
Profits are good, but when your stock starts to fall after 2 years of going up sharply, that has to be a sign of something t come?
I think it's more a sign that their stock had previously gone up an incredible amount. Stock price nowadays is only somewhat related to actual business value, it's more an indication of what the stock market thinks that the stock market is going to think about the stock. Once it stopped peaking, people saw that it had gone up a huge amount, and it corrected downwards a bit. Considering that according to the quote you provided it had gone up 600% over 2 years, a 25% downturn over the following six months doesn't seem out of line.
No one has been blackmailed or otherwise had any information misused.
Yeah, I mean it's not like they've been using it to discover reporter's confidential sources or anything.
So if there's a dupe, do you donate to the EFF twice?
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If you can in any how tell that the state of the second electron has been altered, and you could consistently alter/un-alter/re-alter the second electron
You are using a false assumption there, which is that it's repeatable. The thing about entanglement is, you can just do it once. And you can't figure out which way it'll go. Once you observe either electron, and force it to a particular spin, the other one is forced to the opposite spin. Then you're done, they both have fixed spins. To get them to do it again, you would have to bring them back together again first.
Why do people feel obcessed to implement simple things in complex and incompatible ways?
Complex, possibly, but Flash is far from incompatible in the modern Internet. The most recent numbers from Macromedia (which may not be entirely accurate, but probably aren't all that far off) are that if you restrict yourself to Flash 6, you can reach 97% of the world's end users. Assuming that's accurate, if your site works properly on both Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not on Opera or Konquerer, you would have more people for whom your site breaks than if you had put it together in Flash.
You as a geek may not realize it, but crappy products can be more popular than your oh-so-mighty technically correct ones if the former is marketed better than the latter.
What, in the browser market? Surely you jest.
What's to stop them from changing the protocol now?
The several million people whose copies only support the current one.
I personally know three people who worked at Intel, one who still does. All worked in the same division, so this isn't a representative sample. But all of them saw money thrown around quite freely, including on hardware and on salaries (which are among the highest in the area here). I hope they tried to cut other things before they started firing.
Well, I don't think it's that simple. If you reduce employee benefits, you risk having some of your best people (the people who could most easily get jobs elsewhere) start leaving. By having a layoff, you're hopefully going to be getting rid of some of your worst people. So, it may be wiser (from a business perspective) to lay off people rather than cut benefits, even though it's not very nice.
The recommendation by the DoD isn't specifically to use open source software, though that'd be one possible implementation of it. What they're recommending is that the DoD build a foundation upon which code and standards can be shared in the way that open source tends to do. The current situation in DoD is that basically every project writes its own code, so the software in a GPS satellite may well be entirely distinct from the software in a communications satellite, even though they could both be cheaper and more reliable if they were to reuse code and standards. It's the methodology, not the actual code, of the open source movement that they're interested in.