The address space exhaustion is here already. I cannot get any more IP addresses. I only get two, and I pay extra for the second. If I want more I need to switch away from cable modem to something more expensive.
Luckily I run IPv6 as well, and that gives me 2^80 addresses. It will probably be a while before I exhaust those.
So do it. But first, you should really switch to IPv6. You cannot do a decent-sized network with a flatter routing with IPv4. So start by joining us -- set up 6to4. Anyone can do it, and all operating systems that matter support it. (Yes, that includes Windows XP.)
For electricity, if you real want to deregulate, do it right. First, if you want reliability, make the companies financially responsible for outages. If it hits them in the bottom line, they will invest the infrastructure, procedures, etc. to make sure the lights stay on.
Private companies do not have the kind of funds necessary to pay the losses due to a blackout. If you try to make them, they just go bankrupt. So they will be replaced with a new company that does the same thing, generating profits to its owners until it hits a blackout. And so on.
The Commission is the only body in the European Union with the power to propose new directives. Therefore it is a legislatory body - and arguably the most powerful legislatory body in the EU.
AFAIR the 68000 was released after the original IBM PC. That is about the only good reason IBM had for not using the 68000.
I remember it that way too, but some googling makes me believe that the 68000 was actually out early enough that it could have plausibly been used for the PC. However, the 68000 was always a single-source thing. Intel has been fairly open towards cloning, all things considered.
Actually, you don't have to use the cable for propulsion.
Actually you do. It's the whole point of having the cable there at all. You need something to push off of. The only alternative is to throw stuff backwards really fast. The purpose of building a cable is to avoid that method.
I can do the math myself. Now do the same constant acceleration while staying attached to the cable. For extra points, figure out a way to transfer the energy from the braking of the elevator going down to the elevator going up. Oh and you have to use the cable for propulsion, otherwise you have just invented a strange kind of tethered rocked and you are not saving any energy. Good luck.
So what? It breaks, we build a new one. So far the most credible threat from a break is that there would be microscopic carbon particles left over from when it burns up in the atmosphere. Those might be harmful. Guess what? Diesel exhaust contains lots already.
The ascent is going to be very very slow. Imagine going at 100km/h, a speed that would impress most normal elevator designers. 15 days for the ascent, 15 more for the descent. (Admittedly the descent could be done quicker).
Mutually Assured Destruction has served well in preventing all countries from using nuclear weapons. The only time nuclear weapons were used were when there was no risk of retaliation. The only other scenario where it makes sense to use nuclear weapons is if all is lost anyway and destruction is certain. The shield is only necessary if it is expected that some country will end up with that scenario. As such it is certainly offensive.
The big problem that I have with Cyrus is that account administration is a pain in the butt. It would be really nice to be able to give someone a web-based tool to create accounts and change passwords.
There's one thing I don't get about those energetic neutrons. If you are building a nuclear reactor, you want relatively low energy neutrons, since the high energy neutrons rarely induce a chain reaction. Therefore you use a moderator. But in a fusion boosted fission bomb, what is the moderator?
I skipped the part about the 8 registers not being true GPRs, just to keep it simple. It just reinforces the point that going to the 64-bit mode is best, since all registers truly are GPR's there. As to the MC 68000, it was very new at the time of the first PC, and only available from a single vendor.
a benchmark of 64-bit gaming performance (say, its 3D calculation or its AI plotting performance) would be mostly a waste of time, as you would see very likely only see an equalling performance at best.
This would have been the case if IA-32 was a sane architecture. Athlon64 in IA-32 mode has only 8 visible general purpose registers, whereas it has 16 in 64-bit mode. That makes 64-bit mode a win in almost all cases. Technically it would have made sense for AMD to introduce a new 32-bit mode, but it would probably have been bad for marketing.
If you had programmed the Microsoft web server and noone had the chance to audit the code, you could certainly edit microsoft.com if you have any connection at all to it.
And as to keeping it offline, that is what they promised to do. Only it turns out that it had both modem and wireless...
Everyone will be downloading different stuff. Bittorrent only works when everyone is trying to get the same content at the same time. Freenet on the other hand might work, at least for moderately popular stuff.
First of all your units are all screwed up. 25.2kW was right, forget the/hr thing. Second, I refuse to believe that you need 2W of electricity to move 1W of heat. Airconditioning seems to be more in the range of 1W of electricity needed to move 2W of heat. So let us say 40kW total, which in the silly units used for electricity billing comes to 350MWh/year.
Anyway, if you want to see stuff that really draws power, go look for the high energy physics stuff. Power cables that are liquid cooled through tubes in the copper...
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If they don't, people will just ignore them and tunnel. No way to stop that, with the efficient tunnel system already in place and more arriving.
I would like people to call my phone with VoIP. That is a "service", and I need an IP address for it.
Luckily I run IPv6 as well, and that gives me 2^80 addresses. It will probably be a while before I exhaust those.
It is very interesting. Here is the above link with no cut&paste necessary.
So do it. But first, you should really switch to IPv6. You cannot do a decent-sized network with a flatter routing with IPv4. So start by joining us -- set up 6to4. Anyone can do it, and all operating systems that matter support it. (Yes, that includes Windows XP.)
Private companies do not have the kind of funds necessary to pay the losses due to a blackout. If you try to make them, they just go bankrupt. So they will be replaced with a new company that does the same thing, generating profits to its owners until it hits a blackout. And so on.
The Commission is the only body in the European Union with the power to propose new directives. Therefore it is a legislatory body - and arguably the most powerful legislatory body in the EU.
I remember it that way too, but some googling makes me believe that the 68000 was actually out early enough that it could have plausibly been used for the PC. However, the 68000 was always a single-source thing. Intel has been fairly open towards cloning, all things considered.
One of them happens to be the only VPN-solution supported by Red Hat.
You did not read the first half of the sentence you quoted. We are in fact in violent agreement.
Actually you do. It's the whole point of having the cable there at all. You need something to push off of. The only alternative is to throw stuff backwards really fast. The purpose of building a cable is to avoid that method.
I can do the math myself. Now do the same constant acceleration while staying attached to the cable. For extra points, figure out a way to transfer the energy from the braking of the elevator going down to the elevator going up. Oh and you have to use the cable for propulsion, otherwise you have just invented a strange kind of tethered rocked and you are not saving any energy. Good luck.
The "centrifugal force" is what keeps the whole thing up. Build it at a pole and it will just come down immediately. Duh.
So what? It breaks, we build a new one. So far the most credible threat from a break is that there would be microscopic carbon particles left over from when it burns up in the atmosphere. Those might be harmful. Guess what? Diesel exhaust contains lots already.
The ascent is going to be very very slow. Imagine going at 100km/h, a speed that would impress most normal elevator designers. 15 days for the ascent, 15 more for the descent. (Admittedly the descent could be done quicker).
Mutually Assured Destruction has served well in preventing all countries from using nuclear weapons. The only time nuclear weapons were used were when there was no risk of retaliation. The only other scenario where it makes sense to use nuclear weapons is if all is lost anyway and destruction is certain. The shield is only necessary if it is expected that some country will end up with that scenario. As such it is certainly offensive.
You have just excellently described why the missile shield is a primarily offensive invention.
The big problem that I have with Cyrus is that account administration is a pain in the butt. It would be really nice to be able to give someone a web-based tool to create accounts and change passwords.
There's one thing I don't get about those energetic neutrons. If you are building a nuclear reactor, you want relatively low energy neutrons, since the high energy neutrons rarely induce a chain reaction. Therefore you use a moderator. But in a fusion boosted fission bomb, what is the moderator?
I skipped the part about the 8 registers not being true GPRs, just to keep it simple. It just reinforces the point that going to the 64-bit mode is best, since all registers truly are GPR's there. As to the MC 68000, it was very new at the time of the first PC, and only available from a single vendor.
This would have been the case if IA-32 was a sane architecture. Athlon64 in IA-32 mode has only 8 visible general purpose registers, whereas it has 16 in 64-bit mode. That makes 64-bit mode a win in almost all cases. Technically it would have made sense for AMD to introduce a new 32-bit mode, but it would probably have been bad for marketing.
And as to keeping it offline, that is what they promised to do. Only it turns out that it had both modem and wireless...
Yes but how do you know whether to check bittorrent or go directly to the archive? 99% will go directly to the archive.
Everyone will be downloading different stuff. Bittorrent only works when everyone is trying to get the same content at the same time. Freenet on the other hand might work, at least for moderately popular stuff.
Anyway, if you want to see stuff that really draws power, go look for the high energy physics stuff. Power cables that are liquid cooled through tubes in the copper...