What makes you think that high voltage will help significantly? (Significantly as in "double the range"). Batteries just don't store enough energy. Cheap batteries even less. The only cheap, efficient (measured by size/weight) batteries are alkalines, and they can only be recharged 10 times or so. There is research going on to fix that problem, but whether they will still be cheap after the fix is unknown.
Be sure to let me know when we've run out of hydrogen!:-)
Be sure to let me know when we run out of carbon and oxygen. So if you say we can't run out of hydrogen, you're saying we can't run out of oil. The thing is, we already did run out of hydrogen. Except for methane-splitting perhaps, you could argue that counts since it is so cheap to do. But methane is not a renewable resource.
Of course 64-bit software runs faster than 32-bit software on the same architecture.
There is no "of course" about that. It is in fact highly unusual. While a few programs need a large virtual memory area and a few other programs can find a use for 64-bit integers, most run faster in 32-bit mode. Except on AMD64, where the extra registers are only available in 64-bit mode.
I really don't understand the difference between a credit card and a debit card. I have what I think is called a debit card. I am allowed to let the account attached to the card go down to the equivalent of minus $10K or so (beyond that the payments on the card are still valid, the bank just gets unhappy with me). What exactly can I do with a credit card that I can't do with a debit card?
By 2038, no 32-bit processors will be in production. Heck, there will probably be no mainstream 32-bit only chips in production by end of next year (hint: AMD64, G5, etc..).
There are plenty of 8-bit processors in production right now. In fact, the production of 8-bit processors is likely orders of magnitude higher than the production of 32-bit processors right now. 32-bit processors will likely be produced in mass quantities in 2038. (Barring any interruption by Singularity or collapse of civilisation).
Actually it is the lack of legislation that is holding back the US cell phone network. In Europe frequencies are generally only given out/sold to companies which are using interoperable standards. Also, the US for some strange reason likes to assign different frequencies to widely adapted standards. This increases the cost of developing for the US market (and therefore protects domestic manufacturers).
I never get that one. What use is it to you that there happens to be a copy of you in a machine? When you die, will you feel better knowing that the copy lives on?
On the rec.puzzles page they mention (but don't derive) an equivalent resistance for two nodes k diagonal nodes apart: (2/pi)(1+1/3+1/5+...+1/(2k-1)). It would seem that a knights move would be a 1-diagonal in series with an adjacent node. The former is simply 2/pi Ohm, the latter (as they show) is 1/2 Ohm. So my result is (2/pi + 1/2) Ohm. What am I doing wrong?
The President of the US is (supposed to be) an elected representative. Also, the part "a republic has a head (monarch or president)" is wrong according to the dictionary you quoted, which specifically excludes monarch.
You are forgetting the fact that copyright is a government granted monopoly. It predates capitalism by the way; monarchs used to grant such monopolies. It seems most advocates of capitalism have a feeble belief in what they advocate; otherwise why do they think a feudal concept is needed to fix capitalism?
It doesn't take long to realize that the resistance must be above 0 (since just getting one move away from the initial node costs you at least 1/4 Ohm). An upper bound consists of the two paths of length 3 Ohm, for a 3/2 Ohm total.
Sure, but in Europe power is delivered as 400V triple-phase, which comes to 240V single-phase. So the original point stands: the higher voltage in Europe is reducing transmission loss.
You can reasonably easily convert a gasoline engine to run on ethanol. Ethanol tends to vaporize though, and you get way lower mileage on ethanol compared to gasoline. At least has a high octane.
In every history of Linux I've read including The Cathedral and the Bazaar it's been explained to me that Linux came out of Unix. That alone leads me to believe that there is some Unix source in the Linux kernel.
You are implying that Linux was somehow built on the Unix source code, back in the really old days. This was simply not the case, and even SCO seems to stay away from saying otherwise. Linux has always been an independent development, merely inspired by Unix/POSIX. SCO has been saying that Unix sourcecode was introduced into the Linux kernel between version 2.4 and 2.6 (to improve multiprocessor scalability). This is very recent history and has nothing at all to do with the origins of Linux, more than 10 years ago.
Back before it was Linux, it was Solaris. I remember trying to keep various Free Software running on Solaris, HP/UX, and Irix on various architectures. Solaris was by far easiest, simply because that was what everyone else used. Irix was the trickiest, mostly because gcc was having much fun on SGI machines back in those days.
Trust me, it has gotten far far better over the last 8 years.
Back when SGI had their brief love affair with Microsoft, they produced workstations called VisualWS or something. They needed a custom copy of Windows NT, because they didn't have the usual real-mode boot or the DOS-mandated memory layout. This is from memory and I never actually touched one, so I could be wrong of course.
Here in Denmark pretty much all governments are minority governments. It forces the government to compromise, much like the typical split between president and congress does in the US. Unfortunately the current distribution of seats makes for a strong government with no need (and no intent, for sure) to compromise.
[...]most corporate IT groups at some point in their chain of command end up reporting to finance
This has traditionally been one of the most important ways for Linux to get introduced into a company. Some employees need to do something, getting financing for the project is just too cumbersome, so Linux and other Free Software is used. It used to be done in deep secrecy, but nowadays, employees will even tell their managers about it.
Fortran compilers are guaranteed that the programs do not try to do strange things behind their backs (such as pointer aliasing). Therefore they can make optimizations that would be almost impossible to prove valid in, say, C. Also, Fortran numerical libraries are of very high quality.
SIP tends to be shaped into the special queue that says "forward with no delay until you hit bandwidth limit". This pretty much kills that idea. And therefore, it may well kill SIP entirely for voice applications. Meanwhile, that queue is not very useful for P2P because of the bandwidth limit.
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What makes you think that high voltage will help significantly? (Significantly as in "double the range"). Batteries just don't store enough energy. Cheap batteries even less. The only cheap, efficient (measured by size/weight) batteries are alkalines, and they can only be recharged 10 times or so. There is research going on to fix that problem, but whether they will still be cheap after the fix is unknown.
Be sure to let me know when we run out of carbon and oxygen. So if you say we can't run out of hydrogen, you're saying we can't run out of oil. The thing is, we already did run out of hydrogen. Except for methane-splitting perhaps, you could argue that counts since it is so cheap to do. But methane is not a renewable resource.
There is no "of course" about that. It is in fact highly unusual. While a few programs need a large virtual memory area and a few other programs can find a use for 64-bit integers, most run faster in 32-bit mode. Except on AMD64, where the extra registers are only available in 64-bit mode.
I really don't understand the difference between a credit card and a debit card. I have what I think is called a debit card. I am allowed to let the account attached to the card go down to the equivalent of minus $10K or so (beyond that the payments on the card are still valid, the bank just gets unhappy with me). What exactly can I do with a credit card that I can't do with a debit card?
There are plenty of 8-bit processors in production right now. In fact, the production of 8-bit processors is likely orders of magnitude higher than the production of 32-bit processors right now. 32-bit processors will likely be produced in mass quantities in 2038. (Barring any interruption by Singularity or collapse of civilisation).
Actually it is the lack of legislation that is holding back the US cell phone network. In Europe frequencies are generally only given out/sold to companies which are using interoperable standards. Also, the US for some strange reason likes to assign different frequencies to widely adapted standards. This increases the cost of developing for the US market (and therefore protects domestic manufacturers).
Very neat. Thank you very much.
I never get that one. What use is it to you that there happens to be a copy of you in a machine? When you die, will you feel better knowing that the copy lives on?
On the rec.puzzles page they mention (but don't derive) an equivalent resistance for two nodes k diagonal nodes apart: (2/pi)(1+1/3+1/5+...+1/(2k-1)). It would seem that a knights move would be a 1-diagonal in series with an adjacent node. The former is simply 2/pi Ohm, the latter (as they show) is 1/2 Ohm. So my result is (2/pi + 1/2) Ohm. What am I doing wrong?
I suggest improving your reading skills.
You are forgetting the fact that copyright is a government granted monopoly. It predates capitalism by the way; monarchs used to grant such monopolies. It seems most advocates of capitalism have a feeble belief in what they advocate; otherwise why do they think a feudal concept is needed to fix capitalism?
It doesn't take long to realize that the resistance must be above 0 (since just getting one move away from the initial node costs you at least 1/4 Ohm). An upper bound consists of the two paths of length 3 Ohm, for a 3/2 Ohm total.
99 zeroes. 10^1 is 10 followed by zero zeroes. 10^100 is 10 followed by 99 zeroes. Please hand over your geek card.
Sure, but in Europe power is delivered as 400V triple-phase, which comes to 240V single-phase. So the original point stands: the higher voltage in Europe is reducing transmission loss.
You can reasonably easily convert a gasoline engine to run on ethanol. Ethanol tends to vaporize though, and you get way lower mileage on ethanol compared to gasoline. At least has a high octane.
You are implying that Linux was somehow built on the Unix source code, back in the really old days. This was simply not the case, and even SCO seems to stay away from saying otherwise. Linux has always been an independent development, merely inspired by Unix/POSIX. SCO has been saying that Unix sourcecode was introduced into the Linux kernel between version 2.4 and 2.6 (to improve multiprocessor scalability). This is very recent history and has nothing at all to do with the origins of Linux, more than 10 years ago.
Trust me, it has gotten far far better over the last 8 years.
Back when SGI had their brief love affair with Microsoft, they produced workstations called VisualWS or something. They needed a custom copy of Windows NT, because they didn't have the usual real-mode boot or the DOS-mandated memory layout. This is from memory and I never actually touched one, so I could be wrong of course.
Here in Denmark pretty much all governments are minority governments. It forces the government to compromise, much like the typical split between president and congress does in the US. Unfortunately the current distribution of seats makes for a strong government with no need (and no intent, for sure) to compromise.
A latency compared to what? Like "oh no, my ethernet latency is now 330us rather than 300us. Better call the network guys so they can fix it"?
This has traditionally been one of the most important ways for Linux to get introduced into a company. Some employees need to do something, getting financing for the project is just too cumbersome, so Linux and other Free Software is used. It used to be done in deep secrecy, but nowadays, employees will even tell their managers about it.
Fortran compilers are guaranteed that the programs do not try to do strange things behind their backs (such as pointer aliasing). Therefore they can make optimizations that would be almost impossible to prove valid in, say, C. Also, Fortran numerical libraries are of very high quality.
SIP tends to be shaped into the special queue that says "forward with no delay until you hit bandwidth limit". This pretty much kills that idea. And therefore, it may well kill SIP entirely for voice applications. Meanwhile, that queue is not very useful for P2P because of the bandwidth limit.
Also, the solution can be found with less than a minute of Googling.
The Linksys WRT54G boots in a few seconds. It runs Linux.