Why don't take an U2 an equip it to make a drone out of it? It will take the limits of human crew out, and the price would be cheaper than a new plane. If the engineers are smart enough the same U2 could be converted between man an unmanned operation in short time, depending on the mission requirements.
Intel lost a lot of time with high end processors for desktop and servers thinking it was the most profitable market.
It seems more profitable market, or at least markets that be considered as part of core strategu, are in mobile devices where computational efficiency is a must ( energy consumption per computation)
Computational efficiency is not only relevant in mobile devices but also in server farms where hundreds if not thousands of CPU are running in parallel.
You should also include costs for: building new power lines to bring electricity from the far places where the wind is blowing or the sun is sinning, multiply solar/wind farms as necessary to be able to catch as much fine weather (power generating wise) as possible, duplicated power stations (gas/coal/nuclear) as backup when the weather does not comply with demand (power stations will be sitting idle a significant part of the time); supplies, logistics, repair and maintenance cost of a vastly geographically distributed power generating equipment/transformation/and distribution network; IT software and hardware to make the distribution network intelligent enough to manage fluctuating power generation and distribution patterns.
If twitter and other US services can delivery your private data to the government there, then it should be better to use services based in the European Union.
That will not only affect twitter but also facebook, linkedin, gmail and....... slashdot!
Maybe some small country could good business guarantying that customer information of services hosted there are kept private, sort of a swiss, lichtenstein or luxemburg internet privacy haven.
One more thing. Could this system, or something similar, better combine the outputs of both electric and internal combustion engine? The idea is to combine the output of both electric and ICE to move the car forward with infinite variability
Could this device make a new kind of hybrid possible?
For this auto, at a given speed the internal combustion engine will be running at optimal efficiency rpm range while the electric engine is used to get the required energy input for the variable transmission system.
How efficient such a car could be compared with cars equipped with conventional gear boxes?
How big the batteries and electric engine have to be to make it work? And how much can be internal combustion engine be reduced without loosing too much performance?
You certainly agree with Nazi Germany government to punish a foreign information company which refuses to deliver information that could identify people of jewish origin.
When you make a new game available on the market, just put it on any of the popular P2P file sharing services. Maybe even put your own P2P service online.
Make it totally FREE!! Anyone can download, anyone can play, no registration, no payment, no surveys no bullshit.
If someone likes it, put a link so he can donate ANY amount he see fits for the game.
Depending of the amount he is willing to give you can give him some goodies, any kind of merchandise, special subscriptions, or offer special services and extensions which would be also no DRMized once downloaded of course. You can also offer discount on real world events related to the game, game shows, competition, movies, concerts, etc.
Customer want affordable and hassle free software, and a convenient way to pay what they see fit or can pay.
You may think you will be losing money by the ton, I think you will making money by shit loads, plus unbeatable publicity.
Man! You could even et money from previously pirated copies!!!
And you can ditch those blasted servers. The money you spare with that can be put to better use on game production.
After seing time after time programmers construct their own framework inside frameworks, their own overloading inside overloading, etc, if it would be better for a task to be delivered to code monkeys to design a domain specific language.
The convoluted programming I have seen sometimes is beyond description
If you have a specific problem in a specific domain that has to be coded by average programmers, maybe better design a language for that specific task and be done with it. With as little overloading, re-encapsulating and re-objecting as possible.
Right, but most programmers today see only one side, and are totally aware of the other. For them a sorting algorithm is just a function they call. How it works, which to choose is beyond most of them.
And if forced to design something from scratch, they can only see the structure not the efficency.
Solution. Design an Documentation oriented language. Just write the documentation, and the software will be written automatically.
Or an artificial intelligence system that parses the code and, from a big database of programming design and bibliography, write nice and concise documentation.
Maybe it could be achieved with a bunch of reverse engineering documentation monkeys,;-)
That may explain the slugginesh I detect lately on computers GUI, no matter how much memory or CPU cores they have. I get this slow responsiveness and the strange feeling that it is doing something in the background that has nothing with what I want it to do.
And that when the poor thing does not get stuck for several seconds. It drives me mad, Who has programmed this?
But when I talk with my younger colleagues who do software development and they get a blank stare when I explain them that foundation algorithms, and a programming technique compatible with the underlaying hardware and/or OS structure, is more important than a nice Object/Hierarchy structure and patterns, I understand.
A good structure is nice to have to understand and have a good design of the program, but without a solid underlaying algorithm structure, it is just a good show, nothing else. And many times the selected algorithms will mandate the Object architecture.
Not long ago I showed a programmer, with quite a long experience, how to reduce the running time of his software when processing a file by just changing the algorithm. He was using an 0(n2) kind of algorithm. From minutes to a few seconds!
No matter how fast and resource full your hardware is a O(n2) is still an O(n2) algorithm, at it will eat it for breakfast in no time if not careful with the way you program.
A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people (or at least a part of its people)have an impact on its government The word "republic" is derived from the Latin phrase res publica, which can be translated as "a public affair".
Can the restrictions be interpreted as a market manipulation? Creating artificial scarceness to raise prises? Old business model trying to survive cornering the market? Wouldn't that be illegal in normal markets?
Slashdot Mirror
So I can get cool air and light on hot summer nights?
Typical american bomb-guzzler!
Why don't take an U2 an equip it to make a drone out of it? It will take the limits of human crew out, and the price would be cheaper than a new plane. If the engineers are smart enough the same U2 could be converted between man an unmanned operation in short time, depending on the mission requirements.
Intel lost a lot of time with high end processors for desktop and servers thinking it was the most profitable market. It seems more profitable market, or at least markets that be considered as part of core strategu, are in mobile devices where computational efficiency is a must ( energy consumption per computation) Computational efficiency is not only relevant in mobile devices but also in server farms where hundreds if not thousands of CPU are running in parallel.
You should also include costs for: building new power lines to bring electricity from the far places where the wind is blowing or the sun is sinning, multiply solar/wind farms as necessary to be able to catch as much fine weather (power generating wise) as possible, duplicated power stations (gas/coal/nuclear) as backup when the weather does not comply with demand (power stations will be sitting idle a significant part of the time); supplies, logistics, repair and maintenance cost of a vastly geographically distributed power generating equipment/transformation/and distribution network; IT software and hardware to make the distribution network intelligent enough to manage fluctuating power generation and distribution patterns.
You forget CANDU
The active cooling system seems to be the Achilles heel of a nuclear reactor.
Time to design and build nuclear reactors with passive cooling systems that do not need external resources to be operational.
Totally agree.
Such a service, flying over the GFW, would theoretically give access to uncensored internet.
Will the company filter traffic from China in exchange to get into that market.
Will China shoot the satellites down?
If twitter and other US services can delivery your private data to the government there, then it should be better to use services based in the European Union.
....... slashdot!
That will not only affect twitter but also facebook, linkedin, gmail and
Maybe some small country could good business guarantying that customer information of services hosted there are kept private, sort of a swiss, lichtenstein or luxemburg internet privacy haven.
Lets mother nature take care of the problem. Natural selection will eventually weed out those that walk with too loud Ipods
One more thing. Could this system, or something similar, better combine the outputs of both electric and internal combustion engine? The idea is to combine the output of both electric and ICE to move the car forward with infinite variability
Could this device make a new kind of hybrid possible?
For this auto, at a given speed the internal combustion engine will be running at optimal efficiency rpm range while the electric engine is used to get the required energy input for the variable transmission system.
How efficient such a car could be compared with cars equipped with conventional gear boxes?
How big the batteries and electric engine have to be to make it work? And how much can be internal combustion engine be reduced without loosing too much performance?
You certainly agree with Nazi Germany government to punish a foreign information company which refuses to deliver information that could identify people of jewish origin.
When you make a new game available on the market, just put it on any of the popular P2P file sharing services. Maybe even put your own P2P service online.
Make it totally FREE!! Anyone can download, anyone can play, no registration, no payment, no surveys no bullshit.
If someone likes it, put a link so he can donate ANY amount he see fits for the game.
Depending of the amount he is willing to give you can give him some goodies, any kind of merchandise, special subscriptions, or offer special services and extensions which would be also no DRMized once downloaded of course. You can also offer discount on real world events related to the game, game shows, competition, movies, concerts, etc.
Customer want affordable and hassle free software, and a convenient way to pay what they see fit or can pay.
You may think you will be losing money by the ton, I think you will making money by shit loads, plus unbeatable publicity.
Man! You could even et money from previously pirated copies!!!
And you can ditch those blasted servers. The money you spare with that can be put to better use on game production.
DRM comes back to bite you UBI.
After seing time after time programmers construct their own framework inside frameworks, their own overloading inside overloading, etc, if it would be better for a task to be delivered to code monkeys to design a domain specific language.
The convoluted programming I have seen sometimes is beyond description
If you have a specific problem in a specific domain that has to be coded by average programmers, maybe better design a language for that specific task and be done with it. With as little overloading, re-encapsulating and re-objecting as possible.
Let that for the real software designers.
Right, but most programmers today see only one side, and are totally aware of the other. For them a sorting algorithm is just a function they call. How it works, which to choose is beyond most of them.
And if forced to design something from scratch, they can only see the structure not the efficency.
Solution. Design an Documentation oriented language. Just write the documentation, and the software will be written automatically.
;-)
Or an artificial intelligence system that parses the code and, from a big database of programming design and bibliography, write nice and concise documentation.
Maybe it could be achieved with a bunch of reverse engineering documentation monkeys,
That may explain the slugginesh I detect lately on computers GUI, no matter how much memory or CPU cores they have. I get this slow responsiveness and the strange feeling that it is doing something in the background that has nothing with what I want it to do.
And that when the poor thing does not get stuck for several seconds. It drives me mad, Who has programmed this?
But when I talk with my younger colleagues who do software development and they get a blank stare when I explain them that foundation algorithms, and a programming technique compatible with the underlaying hardware and/or OS structure, is more important than a nice Object/Hierarchy structure and patterns, I understand.
A good structure is nice to have to understand and have a good design of the program, but without a solid underlaying algorithm structure, it is just a good show, nothing else. And many times the selected algorithms will mandate the Object architecture. Not long ago I showed a programmer, with quite a long experience, how to reduce the running time of his software when processing a file by just changing the algorithm. He was using an 0(n2) kind of algorithm. From minutes to a few seconds!
No matter how fast and resource full your hardware is a O(n2) is still an O(n2) algorithm, at it will eat it for breakfast in no time if not careful with the way you program.
Ooops! My fault. I mean Republic
A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people (or at least a part of its people)have an impact on its government The word "republic" is derived from the Latin phrase res publica, which can be translated as "a public affair".
But don't boycott Taiwan (Repuplic of China)
Can the restrictions be interpreted as a market manipulation? Creating artificial scarceness to raise prises? Old business model trying to survive cornering the market? Wouldn't that be illegal in normal markets?
Don't buy those products.
Ah yes, the inflationary tendencies of software.