I'm currently reading Karlsch's latest book "Hitlers Bombe" which unfortunately has not been tranlated in English yet.Anyway in this book he's done very good work demonstrating that the Germans were VERY actively conducting nuclear research during the war.They even had a comittee working on the concept of nuclear weapons before the U.S had the faintest idea of what they were about (early 1939).What the germans did wrong was that instead of building a giant research/production complex (like the US did with the Manhattan project) they let various institutes/authorities start individual projects between which there was erratic and irregular cooperation.Research was conducted by the Karl Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, the HWA (Heereswaffenamt...Army Weapons Authority?..or something like that:D),the German Post Ministry (!),the Navy,companies like Siemens and Degussa and several other individuals and insitutions.This obviously led to research slowing dowm and ressources being wasted.Now..as to the germans lacking in raw materials,this is not entirely right since they had the oldest european Uranium mines in Joachimstal,belgian mines in africa (after they conquered Belgium) and of course the norwegian heavy water production facility of the "Norsk Hydro" company(as norway was under their control as well).Karlsch also demonstrates they did built a reactor which nevertheless was rather imperfect and could not enrich uranium to the extent they required.In the end he claims that research which was recently conducted in the region of Thueringen proves the detonation of a *radioactive* bomb.Combining various elements (information from russian archives,eyewitness reports etc) he estimates that this was most likely a "tactical" fission/fusion nuclear weapon.
the obvious irony on the "napkin graph" on G-mail's login page? It's obvious that they are mocking of yahoo's desperate attempts to compete with them....
I can already envisage PocketPc enabled mobile phones being desperately shaken,swirled and juggled in all imaginable directions until their user realises that the O.S has just...frozen:S
The only meaningful use I can imagine for such a network is to build a kind of Grid/Cluster out of all the students computers for carrying out HEAVY computational tasks.....
Now what's the use of that?Could the dark brain matter which was wasted on this (cough cough ) technolical feat have been not used for some other purpose?
Those guys will end up adding Ethernet interface to IBM 360s and Univacs!!!
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Actually the article missed out on a small detail. It's D.Å.S attacks they will ban, not DOS attacks :P
He wore an Ipod suit while making the decisions?Gee...the US legal system is going to the d00gz :P
I'm currently reading Karlsch's latest book "Hitlers Bombe" which unfortunately has not been tranlated in English yet.Anyway in this book he's done very good work demonstrating that the Germans were VERY actively conducting nuclear research during the war.They even had a comittee working on the concept of nuclear weapons before the U.S had the faintest idea of what they were about (early 1939).What the germans did wrong was that instead of building a giant research/production complex (like the US did with the Manhattan project) they let various institutes/authorities start individual projects between which there was erratic and irregular cooperation.Research was conducted by the Karl Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, the HWA (Heereswaffenamt...Army Weapons Authority?..or something like that :D),the German Post Ministry (!) ,the Navy,companies like Siemens and Degussa and several other individuals and insitutions.This obviously led to research slowing dowm and ressources being wasted.Now..as to the germans lacking in raw materials ,this is not entirely right since they had the oldest european Uranium mines in Joachimstal ,belgian mines in africa (after they conquered Belgium) and of course the norwegian heavy water production facility of the "Norsk Hydro" company(as norway was under their control as well).Karlsch also demonstrates they did built a reactor which nevertheless was rather imperfect and could not enrich uranium to the extent they required.In the end he claims that research which was recently conducted in the region of Thueringen proves the detonation of a *radioactive* bomb.Combining various elements (information from russian archives,eyewitness reports etc) he estimates that this was most likely a "tactical" fission/fusion nuclear weapon.
the obvious irony on the "napkin graph" on G-mail's login page? It's obvious that they are mocking of yahoo's desperate attempts to compete with them....
I can already envisage PocketPc enabled mobile phones being desperately shaken,swirled and juggled in all imaginable directions until their user realises that the O.S has just...frozen :S
I can also walk without falling over...does this mean I am on a par with cockroaches? Horray!
The only meaningful use I can imagine for such a network is to build a kind of Grid/Cluster out of all the students computers for carrying out HEAVY computational tasks.....
In Soviet Russia, URLS type YOU!
Now what's the use of that?Could the dark brain matter which was wasted on this (cough cough ) technolical feat have been not used for some other purpose? Those guys will end up adding Ethernet interface to IBM 360s and Univacs!!!
Does the article state how many Celldar receivers one must install in a densely populated area to acurately locate objects moving within it.........?