Converting water to hydrogen is too ineficient. How about using fly-wheels to store the power as mechanical energy? It is much more efficient conversion wise than hydrogen. Especially due to the high ineficiencies of the electolization of water.
How about replacing it with whipping (seriously) or something similar? Pain is the best teacher around. Assault? depending on the circumstances 5 to 50 (or more) lashes. But nah, our society thinks that even spankings cause kids to become criminals. And our supreme court would probably strike it down as cruel and unusual.
For more serious crimes I would propose some more creative punishments. And for death penalty cases I propose bringing back what the english used to do to people who commited high treason. As is, the death penalty is too lienient.
But yeah, the prison system doesn't work. Just seems that no one wants to go back to an age old method that does.
actually, what you do is get two servers, update one, test it for a while to make sure there are no bugs in the patch, then update the other. If you really need uptime, you have a third system that is your "guinea pig" system for testing fixes and patches on.
HVAC isn't just mainframe, but server rooms as well. I work in a place where we probably wat up at least 10KW a rack row. and we have 20 or more in one room. That requires serious cooling.
There is nothing inherently illegal about this. And it is not illegal in the US. In fact, I can imagine some radio stations and companies using this. In the case of companies, the otherday I listened (with slides) to a scheduled live webcast that was probably viewed by a couple thousand other people. If the company could set up a client that would let the viewers watch the webcast and help upload at the same time it would significantly reduce their bandwidth expenses. There are some companies that are going to love this technology if they can implement it and have it work.
Nasa streams NASA TV over the internet too. They could use this to reduce their costs as well.
True, and I think that (not seeing people die on the news) is actually a bad thing. Not because I'm so keen on blood and gore, but because it would take away a lot of misconceptions, bias, intentional disinformation and so on.
I'm assuming you mean the misconceptions, bias and intentional disinformation and so on that everyone puts out. Not just one side or the other?
Case 3: Employee with stock option to buy shares at $200 a share. Employee does nothing with stock option as it will cause them to loose money.
Stock options are issued in advance before they may be redeemed. Also, they may not always be redeemed as in the above case (unless you are in an idiot). If anything, the options should be listed under a "Risk" category, not under expenses as they may or may not be redeemed.
The cap would still rub against the bone, no matter how tight a fit they could make. You can't mold these things precisely to the bone until you have someone on the operating table, and they try to keep surgery time to a minimum. As it is, everything has to be pre-made from ultrasound type images and there is still "futzing" done during surgery to make a better fit. The caps just can't get a tight enough fit.
The main problem with making a joing between titanium and bone is that you don't want to wear the bone down. You could put the titanium right up against the bone, but the titanium would wear away the bone since there would be no lubrication (cartilige) between the titanium and bone. This is why artificial hips have a limited lifespan. The rubbery substance that goes between the artificial hip and the bone have to be replaced every now and then (10+ years or more i think). It's also why doctors don't like to replace hips in younger people (replacing hte hip rubber requires surgery).
They can't make the rubber stronger or it will wear away the bone. If we could come up with a replacement that would fix itself, we would be all set.
That two degree increase in the last decade is actually a 0.7 degree increase over the last 50 years. Read Michale Chritons "State of Fear" He references a lot of real scientific articles in there and several NASA graphs.
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Main reason it probably died was due to the body being completely incompatible with previous lenses. Go spend 5K (or more in most cases )on lenses and then tell me you want a body that is incompatible with them.
The image stabilization in teh body, however, if it is compatible with current lenses WILL SELL. Especially to people that can't afford the current auto stabilizing lenses. (like me) Best bet for that is to license it to Nikon and Cannon for theirs and they will make a bloody mint.
Resistance and Capacitance becomes a problem at the higher switching rates and the longer distances. Capacitance over long pairs of wires creates cross talk between the two (one reason why power lines are croseed every now and then is to create some induction to offset this). Another is that the longer distances increase the resistance on the wires. This causes the recieved voltage to be lower and can sometimes be to low to trigger a voltage high reception. This can be offset by making the wires wider but is still a problem. A third is the combination of Resistance and Capacitance call an RC constant. This problem is basically that when you go from high to low or low to high signal propogation takes longer. Causing the recieving end to wait more until it can make sure that the incoming signal is either high or low.
Take a basic AC electronics course and you should learn about most of these. Either that or a Digital Design (of Integrated Circuits) course.
It is not cheap to move memmory onto the CPU. Cache is VERY expensive. And they already did that by moving the cache onto the CPU (it used to be an external chip like RAM). Moving ram onto the cpu would be very expensive and would limit system ability to adapt. More likely would be to move the memmory controller onto the CPU so that the CPU bypasses the system bus altogether when accessing memmory.
Having both a GC and(finally) a PS2 I personally like the PS2 method better than the GC. The GC still requires me to pry the disks out. With the PS2 I just need to push the button in the middle and the disk pops right out. Or at least that is how it is with Kingdom Hearts.
I have known of cases where people have cut (with scisors) their 5.25" floppies to 3.5" to fit in a 3.5" drive and expected to be able to get the data off of them.
Contrast this to the first-world countries where students have grow up with top of the line systems. Elementary students learn typing at the same time they learn how to write. And where high school students already know programming and contribute to open source projects.
Yeah, todays programmers grew up with computers in there schools. Right. Computers in my area weren't in schools until the mid 80s and they were Apple IIgs. I was never "formally" taught how to type until 7th grade (22 years old now). What you may be talking about are todays kids but not todays programmers. Todays experienced programmers grew up in the 70s before computers were in schools, only CS departments had them in colleges and those usually took punch cards.
Uh... No, not confusing acronyms. DivX was a Circit City invention of a variant on DVDs that required you to pay money for everytime you watched a disk after the first three times. The players would dial home to a central server and bill your credit card. The idea failed miserably and in its honor the DivX codec was named. I have had troubles with this at work where people thought I was talking about the circuit city product and not the codec.
Customer: I bought this DVD player, and now it won't play DVDs!
Salesidiot: Yes sir. That is becuase the new DVDs have a new copy protecion scheme to stop pirates.
Customer: But it's a DVD player, it's supposed to play DVDs!
Salesidiot: Yes it will, but only the old ones. In order to play the new DVDs you will need to but this DVD player.
Customer: But that one costs $100 more than the one I bought yesterday that you say won't work!
Salesidiot: Yes sir, but you will need this to play the new DVDs.
Customer:.....
Salesidiot: I'm sorry sir, but you're not allowed to bring shotguns into the store.
Customer: BLAM!
That's exactly the point of these DRM schemes.
Of course it won't prevent *all* copyright infringement or whatever other bulls#$t restrictions they have in mind. But it will make it difficult for the average user.
Until someone come out with a one click solution for copying like has happened with DVDs.
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Converting water to hydrogen is too ineficient. How about using fly-wheels to store the power as mechanical energy? It is much more efficient conversion wise than hydrogen. Especially due to the high ineficiencies of the electolization of water.
How about replacing it with whipping (seriously) or something similar? Pain is the best teacher around. Assault? depending on the circumstances 5 to 50 (or more) lashes. But nah, our society thinks that even spankings cause kids to become criminals. And our supreme court would probably strike it down as cruel and unusual.
For more serious crimes I would propose some more creative punishments. And for death penalty cases I propose bringing back what the english used to do to people who commited high treason. As is, the death penalty is too lienient.
But yeah, the prison system doesn't work. Just seems that no one wants to go back to an age old method that does.
actually, what you do is get two servers, update one, test it for a while to make sure there are no bugs in the patch, then update the other. If you really need uptime, you have a third system that is your "guinea pig" system for testing fixes and patches on.
HVAC isn't just mainframe, but server rooms as well. I work in a place where we probably wat up at least 10KW a rack row. and we have 20 or more in one room. That requires serious cooling.
There is nothing inherently illegal about this. And it is not illegal in the US. In fact, I can imagine some radio stations and companies using this. In the case of companies, the otherday I listened (with slides) to a scheduled live webcast that was probably viewed by a couple thousand other people. If the company could set up a client that would let the viewers watch the webcast and help upload at the same time it would significantly reduce their bandwidth expenses. There are some companies that are going to love this technology if they can implement it and have it work.
Nasa streams NASA TV over the internet too. They could use this to reduce their costs as well.
True, and I think that (not seeing people die on the news) is actually a bad thing. Not because I'm so keen on blood and gore, but because it would take away a lot of misconceptions, bias, intentional disinformation and so on.
I'm assuming you mean the misconceptions, bias and intentional disinformation and so on that everyone puts out. Not just one side or the other?
Case 3: Employee with stock option to buy shares at $200 a share. Employee does nothing with stock option as it will cause them to loose money.
Stock options are issued in advance before they may be redeemed. Also, they may not always be redeemed as in the above case (unless you are in an idiot). If anything, the options should be listed under a "Risk" category, not under expenses as they may or may not be redeemed.
The cap would still rub against the bone, no matter how tight a fit they could make. You can't mold these things precisely to the bone until you have someone on the operating table, and they try to keep surgery time to a minimum. As it is, everything has to be pre-made from ultrasound type images and there is still "futzing" done during surgery to make a better fit. The caps just can't get a tight enough fit.
The main problem with making a joing between titanium and bone is that you don't want to wear the bone down. You could put the titanium right up against the bone, but the titanium would wear away the bone since there would be no lubrication (cartilige) between the titanium and bone. This is why artificial hips have a limited lifespan. The rubbery substance that goes between the artificial hip and the bone have to be replaced every now and then (10+ years or more i think). It's also why doctors don't like to replace hips in younger people (replacing hte hip rubber requires surgery).
They can't make the rubber stronger or it will wear away the bone. If we could come up with a replacement that would fix itself, we would be all set.
That two degree increase in the last decade is actually a 0.7 degree increase over the last 50 years. Read Michale Chritons "State of Fear" He references a lot of real scientific articles in there and several NASA graphs.
Main reason it probably died was due to the body being completely incompatible with previous lenses. Go spend 5K (or more in most cases )on lenses and then tell me you want a body that is incompatible with them.
The image stabilization in teh body, however, if it is compatible with current lenses WILL SELL. Especially to people that can't afford the current auto stabilizing lenses. (like me) Best bet for that is to license it to Nikon and Cannon for theirs and they will make a bloody mint.
Read it again, Microsoft isn't in the U3 consortium. They don't want to be in it cause they don't control it.
Resistance and Capacitance becomes a problem at the higher switching rates and the longer distances. Capacitance over long pairs of wires creates cross talk between the two (one reason why power lines are croseed every now and then is to create some induction to offset this). Another is that the longer distances increase the resistance on the wires. This causes the recieved voltage to be lower and can sometimes be to low to trigger a voltage high reception. This can be offset by making the wires wider but is still a problem. A third is the combination of Resistance and Capacitance call an RC constant. This problem is basically that when you go from high to low or low to high signal propogation takes longer. Causing the recieving end to wait more until it can make sure that the incoming signal is either high or low.
Take a basic AC electronics course and you should learn about most of these. Either that or a Digital Design (of Integrated Circuits) course.
It is not cheap to move memmory onto the CPU. Cache is VERY expensive. And they already did that by moving the cache onto the CPU (it used to be an external chip like RAM). Moving ram onto the cpu would be very expensive and would limit system ability to adapt. More likely would be to move the memmory controller onto the CPU so that the CPU bypasses the system bus altogether when accessing memmory.
Don't worry. We have nothing to worry about until the Virtual Umbrella Corp comes about and releases a virtual T-Virus
It's called "Black and White"
Having both a GC and(finally) a PS2 I personally like the PS2 method better than the GC. The GC still requires me to pry the disks out. With the PS2 I just need to push the button in the middle and the disk pops right out. Or at least that is how it is with Kingdom Hearts.
I have known of cases where people have cut (with scisors) their 5.25" floppies to 3.5" to fit in a 3.5" drive and expected to be able to get the data off of them.
Maybe if the computer was an iMac...
Contrast this to the first-world countries where students have grow up with top of the line systems. Elementary students learn typing at the same time they learn how to write. And where high school students already know programming and contribute to open source projects.
Yeah, todays programmers grew up with computers in there schools. Right. Computers in my area weren't in schools until the mid 80s and they were Apple IIgs. I was never "formally" taught how to type until 7th grade (22 years old now). What you may be talking about are todays kids but not todays programmers. Todays experienced programmers grew up in the 70s before computers were in schools, only CS departments had them in colleges and those usually took punch cards.
DVDs don't wear out as easily as VHS casets.
I have worn out a couple of VHS tapes due to watching them A LOT. (Ghost Busters, Top Gun)
Uh... No, not confusing acronyms. DivX was a Circit City invention of a variant on DVDs that required you to pay money for everytime you watched a disk after the first three times. The players would dial home to a central server and bill your credit card. The idea failed miserably and in its honor the DivX codec was named. I have had troubles with this at work where people thought I was talking about the circuit city product and not the codec.
Customer: I bought this DVD player, and now it won't play DVDs! .....
Salesidiot: Yes sir. That is becuase the new DVDs have a new copy protecion scheme to stop pirates.
Customer: But it's a DVD player, it's supposed to play DVDs!
Salesidiot: Yes it will, but only the old ones. In order to play the new DVDs you will need to but this DVD player.
Customer: But that one costs $100 more than the one I bought yesterday that you say won't work!
Salesidiot: Yes sir, but you will need this to play the new DVDs.
Customer:
Salesidiot: I'm sorry sir, but you're not allowed to bring shotguns into the store.
Customer: BLAM!
Don't forget the recording companies fought RADIO and the Music Rolls for Pianos when they first came out as well.
That's exactly the point of these DRM schemes. Of course it won't prevent *all* copyright infringement or whatever other bulls#$t restrictions they have in mind. But it will make it difficult for the average user.
Until someone come out with a one click solution for copying like has happened with DVDs.