>C'mon now! IF runing Spybot S&D and Microsoft's >own repair process didn't fix it, you could have >just reinstalled Win98.
>Total time, 2 hours MAX!
Sure, but then you have to reinstall her internet connection, drivers to the video card and cd burner, OFFICE, scanner/camera/printer software... It'll easilly be 10+ hours before it is doing all the stuff it was doing previously. Before win2k I had to go through this process every ~6 months with 98 and it usually took a day to get a fair degree of the functionality that existed before it was hosed.
Invariably something would break before I was even done installing everything and I'd give up on the idea of making a 'clean and complete' backup. Glad I had more free time back in those days...
Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. I know it's true because the weasel told me so!
Having helped with a couple fireworks shows, they are much more fun to produce than they are to watch. The job is coveted by local fire departments and small pyrotechnic companies that are hard to get into (Family connections got me in). These people strongly resist measures that make it less fun to do, even electrical ignition was scoffed at as 'button pushing'. Much cooler to be right there in the blast and flash and rain of fire.
Compressed air launch? LAME!
The bubbles would really help the convection current along too. The whole system could also be enclosed so none of the coolant evaporates. A pressure switch on the enclosure could turn the system off when it reached dangerous pressures or temperatures.
More like the opposite. Many times more buildings need fire prevention systems than a liquid cooling system. One library would need thousands of gallons of the stuff to feed their sprinkler system. If a library can afford thousands of gallons, the average geek should be able to afford a few quarts for coolant.
Yeah, it's more like locking the PC cases in a library shut. More to keep the idiots out.
Now if the car alarm were under that unopenable hood, it'd be fairly tough to disable to steal the car. Of course if your battery dies, you need to be towed to the shop instead of jumped by a good samaritan.
I put the thermistor on a programmable home thermostat on the end of a cable to allow for remote programmable temperature control of reptile cages and aquariums. Half the price of commercial solutions, with more features and higher reliability.
That a worm that digs for personal information goes active right when people start doing their taxes in the US. There are alot of bank account numbers being typed in right now. A worm that hacks taxact to send an account number the virus writer can access instead of the user's would be quite profitable. It'd probably only work for 24 hours or less, but it could steal hundreds of millions in that time.
This is how the hybrid rockets for the spaceship one x-prize contestant works. Very large model rockets also use this system. A cylinder of fuel with a small hole down the center is kept in the engine tube with the exhaust on the bottom, and nitrous oxide or pure o2 is pumped down the middle of the solid core. It can be started and stopped easilly and doesn't require hydrogen storage, which is tricky.
However, I doubt hybrid rockets will see much use for moon/mars missions. More likely we'll see a nuclear-thermal engine which uses nuclear heat instead of combustion heat, or some sort of nuclear-electric thing like a plasma rocket. Nuclear fuel has such a high power density that once the can of worms is opened (as it is being now), it's use will quickly become near ubiquitous in high energy applications beyond earth orbit.
The military has a hardon for HTHL hypersonic bombers that can drop massive amounts of ordinance anywhere in the world within 2 hours of the continental US.
These will probably come to be within 20 years, and dozens will be made - so they'll be relatively cheap. The military has a bigger budget than NASA so they will have less problems with development as well.
Once you've got these bombers, the bomb carriers (called CAVs) can be modified to work similar to the pegasus launch system. Except that the chemical rockets do the last 10% of the work instead of 80%.
The military isn't interested in space elevators, and it isn't interested in nuclear thermal propulsion. It is highly interested in hypersonic airbreathing craft, and leveraging their huge budget to produce dual-use vehicles has a big advantage to any NASA centric approach.
And CA won't be able to ban them. The whole genetically engineered fish law was brought about to prevent genetically modified salmon being farmed off the coast, where they might escape and crossbreed with wild salmon.
Choosing to enforce this law on tropical fish is silly since there are no wild zebrafish in CA for them to pollute the genes of.
But appearantly the law applies only to FISH, so glowing hamsters, geckos, llamas and interns are all still kosher. Possibly when faced with the glowing llamas, some bureaucrat will pull his head from hit butt.
BTW, CA bans several tropical fish due to the danger of them becoming invasive. Remember the snakehead fiasco in the southeast last year?
>That has to be one of the most complicated things I have ever read. Of course, it has the advantages of creating jobs to handle all the infrastructure that will require.
Yeah, and the record companies could probably get within 5% of those numbers just looking at record sales. If Band A sold.0239% of CD's for one month, they were probably about.024% of downloads too. Bands that suck such that people will only take their music if it's free will get nothing - as they should.
I bet RIAA would oppose receiving taxes on CD-Rs in exchange for allowing filesharing though - CD prices would collapse worldwide to 25c above a CD-R. Sony may not want to hurt it's hardware/media section to help it's music division. The last thing they want is the actions of Sony records to marr the image of the company as a whole.
We won't know the extent of the backlash from the lawsuits for a while yet. What happens when they sue the little sister of a vengeful gangster? Maybe they sort through the suspects and only sue those without a criminal record?
What on earth is he talking about with that line? One's burn once, and the other's rewriteable. No reason for confusion, or to fight since all CD/DVD burners will do both. CD-RW is probably more expensive just because there are fewer sold and a small premium for more features.
Now DVD-R and DVD+R is another story, maybe the author was confused about different media. Having just bought a burner, I went with DVD-R simply because the media's a little cheaper. Probably in 2 years all the DVD burners will do both formats.
Read the article. It specifies having a Lunar Lander in 15 years, and a spacecraft capable of shuttling people to mars in 20. Presumably the same lander could land on mar's moons, and since they're smaller than ours they are even easier to launch from and land on. The asteroid lander they mention might even work on phobos/deimos.
There is hydrogen at the poles, supposedly about as much as a couple of the great lakes. That aught to be plenty.
I think the element useful for fusion was Helium 3, but there won't be a market for it until fusion can go mainstream (except for H-bombs).
The lagrange points are more like areas, and they move a bit due to the gravity of other bodies like the moon and sun. But considering the vast distances involved, if you're within a few kilometers a few tiny Ion thrusters will keep things in place. Plenty of room for a bunch of structures at each point.
>Different games appeal to different people for different reasons.
Exactly, different games are like different sports. Person A might be great at football, but be horrible at ice skating. Of course, grandpa might have to be content with bocce.
It seems to me that the author is suggesting that we need new types of games, or remixes of old ones (a la battle-chess). Games that could act as a gateway from the games/sports that are part of our culture, to games in the digital medium. After a week of playing battle-chess, grandpa will start thinking "I'd be nice if my knight could just block and parry..." Next he's playing Civ, then maybe warcraft...
Back in the early 90's there were a lot of pc games (like battlechess) that my parents would play, but it seems like there are fewer of these 'bridge' games available nowadays as everybody is trying to go for psychadelic graphics and first person perspective.
The article also overlooks places where you might find gamers of a different feather, yahoo games has a whole different spectrum of people playing bridge and other card games online. I guess since they don't pay, those gamers don't 'count' for the likes of sony. Maybe if Sony or microsoft makes a "1001 interactive card games" disc for PS2 or XBX, they'd get gramps to bite and kick junior off the console once and a while.
Those SiGe heterojunction devices are BJTs, they're fast because their speed is determined by a vertical dimention (base thickness) instead of a lateral one (CMOS gate length), which is controlled by implant depth rather than lithography. However, they're quite large compared to CMOS gates. Plain jane silicon BJT ECL logic will run at 10-20GHz, but the size and power constraints bar their use for VLSI.
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Yeah, flying cars would use too much energy. Probably the smart toilets will deduct a greenhouse gas tax from us every time we fart.
>C'mon now! IF runing Spybot S&D and Microsoft's >own repair process didn't fix it, you could have >just reinstalled Win98. >Total time, 2 hours MAX! Sure, but then you have to reinstall her internet connection, drivers to the video card and cd burner, OFFICE, scanner/camera/printer software... It'll easilly be 10+ hours before it is doing all the stuff it was doing previously. Before win2k I had to go through this process every ~6 months with 98 and it usually took a day to get a fair degree of the functionality that existed before it was hosed. Invariably something would break before I was even done installing everything and I'd give up on the idea of making a 'clean and complete' backup. Glad I had more free time back in those days...
Tell that to the endangered black footed ferrets of the Dakotas.
Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. I know it's true because the weasel told me so!
Having helped with a couple fireworks shows, they are much more fun to produce than they are to watch. The job is coveted by local fire departments and small pyrotechnic companies that are hard to get into (Family connections got me in). These people strongly resist measures that make it less fun to do, even electrical ignition was scoffed at as 'button pushing'. Much cooler to be right there in the blast and flash and rain of fire. Compressed air launch? LAME!
The bubbles would really help the convection current along too. The whole system could also be enclosed so none of the coolant evaporates. A pressure switch on the enclosure could turn the system off when it reached dangerous pressures or temperatures.
More like the opposite. Many times more buildings need fire prevention systems than a liquid cooling system. One library would need thousands of gallons of the stuff to feed their sprinkler system. If a library can afford thousands of gallons, the average geek should be able to afford a few quarts for coolant.
One word - gzip. Wait, SHHH, let them scam RIAA.
Yeah, it's more like locking the PC cases in a library shut. More to keep the idiots out. Now if the car alarm were under that unopenable hood, it'd be fairly tough to disable to steal the car. Of course if your battery dies, you need to be towed to the shop instead of jumped by a good samaritan.
I put the thermistor on a programmable home thermostat on the end of a cable to allow for remote programmable temperature control of reptile cages and aquariums. Half the price of commercial solutions, with more features and higher reliability.
That a worm that digs for personal information goes active right when people start doing their taxes in the US. There are alot of bank account numbers being typed in right now. A worm that hacks taxact to send an account number the virus writer can access instead of the user's would be quite profitable. It'd probably only work for 24 hours or less, but it could steal hundreds of millions in that time.
This is how the hybrid rockets for the spaceship one x-prize contestant works. Very large model rockets also use this system. A cylinder of fuel with a small hole down the center is kept in the engine tube with the exhaust on the bottom, and nitrous oxide or pure o2 is pumped down the middle of the solid core. It can be started and stopped easilly and doesn't require hydrogen storage, which is tricky. However, I doubt hybrid rockets will see much use for moon/mars missions. More likely we'll see a nuclear-thermal engine which uses nuclear heat instead of combustion heat, or some sort of nuclear-electric thing like a plasma rocket. Nuclear fuel has such a high power density that once the can of worms is opened (as it is being now), it's use will quickly become near ubiquitous in high energy applications beyond earth orbit.
Refueling rockets at the ISS is crazy, but they happilly refuel the ISS itself with volatile propellants?
More like "Scram Jet"
The military has a hardon for HTHL hypersonic bombers that can drop massive amounts of ordinance anywhere in the world within 2 hours of the continental US.
These will probably come to be within 20 years, and dozens will be made - so they'll be relatively cheap. The military has a bigger budget than NASA so they will have less problems with development as well.
Once you've got these bombers, the bomb carriers (called CAVs) can be modified to work similar to the pegasus launch system. Except that the chemical rockets do the last 10% of the work instead of 80%.
The military isn't interested in space elevators, and it isn't interested in nuclear thermal propulsion. It is highly interested in hypersonic airbreathing craft, and leveraging their huge budget to produce dual-use vehicles has a big advantage to any NASA centric approach.
And CA won't be able to ban them. The whole genetically engineered fish law was brought about to prevent genetically modified salmon being farmed off the coast, where they might escape and crossbreed with wild salmon.
Choosing to enforce this law on tropical fish is silly since there are no wild zebrafish in CA for them to pollute the genes of.
But appearantly the law applies only to FISH, so glowing hamsters, geckos, llamas and interns are all still kosher. Possibly when faced with the glowing llamas, some bureaucrat will pull his head from hit butt.
BTW, CA bans several tropical fish due to the danger of them becoming invasive. Remember the snakehead fiasco in the southeast last year?
Just ground pin 5 on the HDTV flag detection ASIC in your cheap, kludged to compliance, DVR.
>That has to be one of the most complicated things I have ever read. Of course, it has the advantages of creating jobs to handle all the infrastructure that will require. Yeah, and the record companies could probably get within 5% of those numbers just looking at record sales. If Band A sold .0239% of CD's for one month, they were probably about .024% of downloads too. Bands that suck such that people will only take their music if it's free will get nothing - as they should.
I bet RIAA would oppose receiving taxes on CD-Rs in exchange for allowing filesharing though - CD prices would collapse worldwide to 25c above a CD-R. Sony may not want to hurt it's hardware/media section to help it's music division. The last thing they want is the actions of Sony records to marr the image of the company as a whole.
We won't know the extent of the backlash from the lawsuits for a while yet. What happens when they sue the little sister of a vengeful gangster? Maybe they sort through the suspects and only sue those without a criminal record?
If so we're prolly all violating DMCA in comprehending it!
What on earth is he talking about with that line? One's burn once, and the other's rewriteable. No reason for confusion, or to fight since all CD/DVD burners will do both. CD-RW is probably more expensive just because there are fewer sold and a small premium for more features. Now DVD-R and DVD+R is another story, maybe the author was confused about different media. Having just bought a burner, I went with DVD-R simply because the media's a little cheaper. Probably in 2 years all the DVD burners will do both formats.
Read the article. It specifies having a Lunar Lander in 15 years, and a spacecraft capable of shuttling people to mars in 20. Presumably the same lander could land on mar's moons, and since they're smaller than ours they are even easier to launch from and land on. The asteroid lander they mention might even work on phobos/deimos.
There is hydrogen at the poles, supposedly about as much as a couple of the great lakes. That aught to be plenty. I think the element useful for fusion was Helium 3, but there won't be a market for it until fusion can go mainstream (except for H-bombs).
The lagrange points are more like areas, and they move a bit due to the gravity of other bodies like the moon and sun. But considering the vast distances involved, if you're within a few kilometers a few tiny Ion thrusters will keep things in place. Plenty of room for a bunch of structures at each point.
>Different games appeal to different people for different reasons.
Exactly, different games are like different sports. Person A might be great at football, but be horrible at ice skating. Of course, grandpa might have to be content with bocce.
It seems to me that the author is suggesting that we need new types of games, or remixes of old ones (a la battle-chess). Games that could act as a gateway from the games/sports that are part of our culture, to games in the digital medium. After a week of playing battle-chess, grandpa will start thinking "I'd be nice if my knight could just block and parry..." Next he's playing Civ, then maybe warcraft...
Back in the early 90's there were a lot of pc games (like battlechess) that my parents would play, but it seems like there are fewer of these 'bridge' games available nowadays as everybody is trying to go for psychadelic graphics and first person perspective.
The article also overlooks places where you might find gamers of a different feather, yahoo games has a whole different spectrum of people playing bridge and other card games online. I guess since they don't pay, those gamers don't 'count' for the likes of sony. Maybe if Sony or microsoft makes a "1001 interactive card games" disc for PS2 or XBX, they'd get gramps to bite and kick junior off the console once and a while.
Those SiGe heterojunction devices are BJTs, they're fast because their speed is determined by a vertical dimention (base thickness) instead of a lateral one (CMOS gate length), which is controlled by implant depth rather than lithography. However, they're quite large compared to CMOS gates. Plain jane silicon BJT ECL logic will run at 10-20GHz, but the size and power constraints bar their use for VLSI.