Refrigerators use the Carnot gas cycle instead of the melting or evaporation of a finite amount of matter. Electric stoves use electrical resistance of conductors instead of a chemical reaction. These are inventions based on 19th Century technology. The one and only post-WW2 invention that made it into our daily lives is the LASER.
When we start using ionic wind instead of Carnot cycle in most refrigerators I'll count it as an invention, for example.
Dead on target, Sir. Now we only need some unlimited source of energy, or enough collective courage to pull off a Martian Colony with existing technology.
Tesla and many scientists who furthered his work kept announcing that the fantastic technology advances seen in their time were just the beginning. Think about it: in a few decades we got phones, radio, generalised air traffic, television, nuclear power, premices of computers, and then... it stopped.
What common appliance do you use everyday, that is not just an incremental improvement of the some invention, or mix of two+ inventions, discovered before the end of WW2 ? What happened to inventions since then ? There are no general public usage of supraconductors, of the technologies that put a man on the Moon... Even the Internet is just an improvement of commuted networks, though it is binary instead of analogic.
The only major breakthrough that could plausibly make its way into our day-to-day lives is hydrogen fuel cells. Where are all the other Breakthroughs ?
I remember back in the 80s, "terrorist" meant "someone who hijacks a plane with guns and bomb threats" or "someone who straps explosives on and blows self up in a crowd" or "sets up a (toxic gas) bomb in a crowded place". It roughly equated to "criminal mad with anger or self-righteousness" to me.
terrorize, v 1: coerce by violence or with threats 2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify]
Somehow I doubt threatening to tell everyone your shirt looks dorky qualifies. Pray you never learn what terror really feels like.
The Top500 site lists two competing 64bits architectures-based clusters: the Integrity rx2600, with 1938 Itanium2 at 1.5GHz (must be pricey), and an 2816 Opteron 2 GHz cluster, that achieves only three fourths of Big Mac's performance. Now that's a defeat for AMD.
Also, the VirginiaTech cluster is the only "self-made" supercomputer in the Top50 (the next one is ranked 63th, based on SunFire V60). The original #3 slipped to the 7th position because of the new supercomputers. Competition for that third place was tough !
Now where's the G5 XServe ? It was supposed to be out when OS X Server 10.3 was released.
"members of [planned GameCube tunneling alternative] Xlink community have exploited the fact that our source code (previously open source) is still sitting our SourceForge CVS servers."
Isn't the point of Open source that everyone can make use of it and generally enhance software (provided they comply with the GPL) ? Seems to me they really did NOT want to make their project Open Source and keep it for themselves.
*BZZZT* Wrong. I use OpenSource Software over its Microsoft equivalents because it's clearly better.
I don't see how mp3 playing, websurfing, email writing/sending/receiving, document writing and software development could be non-mainstream among the computer-using demographics.
Any local Government established on celestial bodies can claim property of the land its representatives are standing on, since they are not bound by this international treaty.
But then they couldn't enter the UNO. And it doesn't clear up the fact that you call it "communist senseless hubris" just because you cannot abuse property right for your own gratification.
Yes I said abuse. You know what I mean, and Nemitz know it too, even though he'll never admit it.
I certainly hope they find documents that prove that Darl &Co. just went into this madness for quick money, using an illegal pump and dump scheme. It'll make the SEC's job much easier.
once again Microsoft is offering too little, too late. But they're offering it as default on 92% of the personal computers out there. Can you beat that, Cowboy ? Netscape couldn't.
The harder you make it to read, the less people will want to read it. Anti-Leach is an exercise in futility. Besides, them stating that their product "secures" websites is false advertising, it doesn't stop worms and crackers.
I could not repress a smile when the very first picture displayed in the article showed the White Knight and Space Ship One in flight. I'm a big Scaled Composites fan, and I'm pretty sure they're gonna collect the X-Prize this year (watch the sky on 17th of December).
The article says that the SS1 did not behave as expected and that it will have to be corrected, but that's because they didn't research their facts. The elevators stalled at the end of one landing, (so, yes, this was not expected) but it is corrected now, and it did not damage the aircraft (pilot just had to brake) nor casted doubt on the SS1's capability to reach space.
Frederic Martin gave a one-man live radio show parody of both Star Wars Prequel movies, on the regional french radio OuiFM. This guy has a thousand different voices, and he sings very well. And the result was a lot, lot more enjoyable than the original. He also did the same with Spiderman, XMen, Xmen2, XXX, XXX2, Star Trek, Daredevil, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UFO Robot Grendizer, the Fantastic Four, The Jungle Book, Matrix Reloaded, Austin Powers: the Spy who shagged me, Men in Black, the Bible (!), Air Force One, Gladiator, etc...
If you understand fast-spoken slang French, you can find them on emule with the keyword "LMDMF".
I can think of one way to make this business successfull: As one previous poster mentioned, the frequencies used in Europe with GSM are different from those in use in the US. So why not sell the disposable phones to the tourists so they can still phone, and have the phones double as SOUVENIRS ? It'll take some work on the design to make them collectibles, of course.
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Refrigerators use the Carnot gas cycle instead of the melting or evaporation of a finite amount of matter. Electric stoves use electrical resistance of conductors instead of a chemical reaction. These are inventions based on 19th Century technology. The one and only post-WW2 invention that made it into our daily lives is the LASER.
When we start using ionic wind instead of Carnot cycle in most refrigerators I'll count it as an invention, for example.
It does not, though part of its thrust depends on a surrounding atmosphere (roughly 40%). Read on for details.
It begs the question: Where Are All the Energy Breakthroughs ?
Dead on target, Sir. Now we only need some unlimited source of energy, or enough collective courage to pull off a Martian Colony with existing technology.
Tesla and many scientists who furthered his work kept announcing that the fantastic technology advances seen in their time were just the beginning. Think about it: in a few decades we got phones, radio, generalised air traffic, television, nuclear power, premices of computers, and then ... it stopped.
What common appliance do you use everyday, that is not just an incremental improvement of the some invention, or mix of two+ inventions, discovered before the end of WW2 ? What happened to inventions since then ? There are no general public usage of supraconductors, of the technologies that put a man on the Moon... Even the Internet is just an improvement of commuted networks, though it is binary instead of analogic.
The only major breakthrough that could plausibly make its way into our day-to-day lives is hydrogen fuel cells. Where are all the other Breakthroughs ?
I remember back in the 80s, "terrorist" meant "someone who hijacks a plane with guns and bomb threats" or "someone who straps explosives on and blows self up in a crowd" or "sets up a (toxic gas) bomb in a crowded place". It roughly equated to "criminal mad with anger or self-righteousness" to me.
terrorize, v
1: coerce by violence or with threats
2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify]
Somehow I doubt threatening to tell everyone your shirt looks dorky qualifies. Pray you never learn what terror really feels like.
Yes, that part of the shop where software stays at $50 apiece even after sitting one full year on the shelf.
Since it's running MacOS X, you can play the games available for this OS. Search for any title here.
The Top500 site lists two competing 64bits architectures-based clusters: the Integrity rx2600, with 1938 Itanium2 at 1.5GHz (must be pricey), and an 2816 Opteron 2 GHz cluster, that achieves only three fourths of Big Mac's performance. Now that's a defeat for AMD.
Also, the VirginiaTech cluster is the only "self-made" supercomputer in the Top50 (the next one is ranked 63th, based on SunFire V60). The original #3 slipped to the 7th position because of the new supercomputers. Competition for that third place was tough !
Now where's the G5 XServe ? It was supposed to be out when OS X Server 10.3 was released.
You're not going to die from a killer-asteroid fall.
You can now safely return to previous activity.
"members of [planned GameCube tunneling alternative] Xlink community have exploited the fact that our source code (previously open source) is still sitting our SourceForge CVS servers."
Isn't the point of Open source that everyone can make use of it and generally enhance software (provided they comply with the GPL) ? Seems to me they really did NOT want to make their project Open Source and keep it for themselves.
Last time I checked Apple did not have exclusive deals with OEMs so as to have QuickTime preinstalled on each and every PC sold.
Monopolies have additional limits to what they do, so that they don't abuse their position on the market. MS falls in this category, Apple does not.
You actually mean Daniel "FSF-are-hitmen and Linux-users-are-religious-fanatics" Lyons ?
Quite a change in tone ! Oh, well, maybe he's grown as tired of the SCO-IBM case as I am...
*BZZZT* Wrong. I use OpenSource Software over its Microsoft equivalents because it's clearly better.
I don't see how mp3 playing, websurfing, email writing/sending/receiving, document writing and software development could be non-mainstream among the computer-using demographics.
Any local Government established on celestial bodies can claim property of the land its representatives are standing on, since they are not bound by this international treaty.
But then they couldn't enter the UNO. And it doesn't clear up the fact that you call it "communist senseless hubris" just because you cannot abuse property right for your own gratification.
Yes I said abuse. You know what I mean, and Nemitz know it too, even though he'll never admit it.
I can have any MS software for free, thanks to today's P2P networks and friends. But I use OSS instead anyway. Care to explain this ?
I certainly hope they find documents that prove that Darl &Co. just went into this madness for quick money, using an illegal pump and dump scheme. It'll make the SEC's job much easier.
once again Microsoft is offering too little, too late.
But they're offering it as default on 92% of the personal computers out there. Can you beat that, Cowboy ? Netscape couldn't.
The harder you make it to read, the less people will want to read it. Anti-Leach is an exercise in futility. Besides, them stating that their product "secures" websites is false advertising, it doesn't stop worms and crackers.
Beagle2 is expected to send its results just in time for Christmas. I have some reason to think its findings will be positive (namely: Gil Levin).
A short Media briefing can be found here.
I could not repress a smile when the very first picture displayed in the article showed the White Knight and Space Ship One in flight. I'm a big Scaled Composites fan, and I'm pretty sure they're gonna collect the X-Prize this year (watch the sky on 17th of December).
The article says that the SS1 did not behave as expected and that it will have to be corrected, but that's because they didn't research their facts. The elevators stalled at the end of one landing, (so, yes, this was not expected) but it is corrected now, and it did not damage the aircraft (pilot just had to brake) nor casted doubt on the SS1's capability to reach space.
If IBM's patent is about a new biometric measure from a physical device, it might even be applicable in Europe.
I was talking about US tourists in Europe, not the other way 'round...
Frederic Martin gave a one-man live radio show parody of both Star Wars Prequel movies, on the regional french radio OuiFM. This guy has a thousand different voices, and he sings very well. And the result was a lot, lot more enjoyable than the original. He also did the same with Spiderman, XMen, Xmen2, XXX, XXX2, Star Trek, Daredevil, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, UFO Robot Grendizer, the Fantastic Four, The Jungle Book, Matrix Reloaded, Austin Powers: the Spy who shagged me, Men in Black, the Bible (!), Air Force One, Gladiator, etc...
If you understand fast-spoken slang French, you can find them on emule with the keyword "LMDMF".
I can think of one way to make this business successfull:
As one previous poster mentioned, the frequencies used in Europe with GSM are different from those in use in the US. So why not sell the disposable phones to the tourists so they can still phone, and have the phones double as SOUVENIRS ? It'll take some work on the design to make them collectibles, of course.