Today's SCSI drives are almost exclusively 2.5" and smaller. They just come in big packages... That is, internally the platters and electronics are easily small enough to fit in a 2.5" drive (taller than notebook drives admittedly).
It will be interesting to see if 2.5" server drives will arrive as parallel SCSI, serial SCSI, or SATA first... Either way, 2.5" 15k drives are just around the corner. They will not work in a normal notebook though; it would melt.
Ok, so you can at least avoid large packets on the link. Still, this is a half-duplex link, and the turnaround will most likely be pretty painful. Delays from keypress to server echo is very annoying. Of course you can switch to line mode, but that means goodbye to pine and vi...
We do not kill people because we dislike them
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We kill them because not killing them would be even worse. And yes, we should treat them with as much tact as we can while we kill them. Because it is the proper thing to do.
I do not think you have actually tried accessing the Internet over a 19200bps modem (or slower). At that rate you have to lower your MTU in order to get a bearable telnetting experience. Receiving a 1500 bytes packet (such as when getting mail) takes almost a second. Just hope that this technology never ever drops a packet due to transmission errors or collissions. Add in that so far wireless technologies have a reputation for delivering about half the speed they promise. 10kbps then, which is about what mobile phones used to deliver. Ouch.
Putting 802.11b devices on the same network as 802.11g devices slows down the 802.11g devices. That is why there is a point to buying 802.11g even for devices which do not need the extra speed themselves.
My point was that for this program to work you need a whole bunch of text translated between the two languages. This bunch of text must not already contain the new stuff you want translated. So try to find a lot of Aramaic and Old Greek translated to something else, without using anything from the Bible. The article says you need gigabytes.
Good luck getting a many-gigabyte database of Old Greek and Hebrew texts with translations. And better luck getting such a database that does not include the Bible in its contents.
The GM electric car used fancy batteries. This thing uses lead-acid. As I said, lead-acid batteries are dirt cheap. Look here for one random reseller of brand-name UPS replacement batteries. You need four of those to get about the capacity of the car, so that's $2K. Hardly a large expense on a $20k car (or the $80k prototype production). I bet there are much better deals on batteries out there.
Is lifespan that much of a problem? This thing uses lead-acid batteries. They are dirt cheap and relatively easily recycled, and there is already a large industry built around them. Contrast that with about every other electric car using fancy NiCD/NiMH or even Lithium batteries.
The only major problem I see with that choice is all that lead floating around. But the production of the fancy battery types is not exactly environmentally friendly anyway. Well ok, the other problem is the 80 mile range. That works out to a 10 minute stop every hour to hour-and-a-half or so, if stations are placed optimally. Such frequent breaks could easily help traffic safety.
To be precise, the vibration travels at the speed of sound in that medium. (That is practically the definition of the speed of sound...) This will always be slower than the speed of light in vacuum, no matter which medium.
There is a solar wind consisting of particles with rest mass. That can do the pushing.
Other particles are available apart from photons
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Even if it turns out that particles without rest mass, such as photons, cannot be used for solar sails, there is still a solar wind made of particles which do have a rest mass. Solar sails could still work. One interesting idea is a "virtual sail" made of a permanent magnet. In theory it should gain momentum when the electrically charged particles are deflected by the magnetic field.
The Up button is available in most Mozilla derivatives. Gecko and Epiphany both have it, you just have to turn it on.
What I really want is a button that takes me to the "next" page of a multi-page document, and one that takes me to the "previous" page. Up should then be changed to go to the next higher level in the document structure. With this the info browser - may infernal demons eat its heart out - can finally be replaced with the web browser.
I have been the victim of a Nortel PBX based on Windows 2000. Reboots took 20 minutes. This would not have been a problem if it only had to be rebooted once a year, but reality was different.
...is not that complicated. I don't know where in the world KodaK is, but there are a number of companies offering Asterisk-based solutions. Perhaps asking on #asterisk on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net) would be worth a shot.
It is a religion. Of course it can edit text too. And naturally it can do semi-WYSIWYG document processing as well - that seems to be what "word processing" means.
Basically you want the old European copyright system, with moral rights. The Berne Convention basically took the worst part of US and European copyright protections and combined them, leaving out the good ideas. US brought the "anything can be copyrighted, no matter how trivial", Europe brought the long copyright terms.
If catching the snitch decides the win, why are they even bothering with the rest of the game? It annoyed me greatly in the books. In the same vein, arbitrary awards at random times decide the victory in the point games between the houses.
I agree to everything you are saying here. I was just correcting the minor point about icc's performance on AMD processors. For me icc's performance is totally irrelevant, actually. I probably have not run a program compiled with icc ever, and I most likely never will.
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It will be interesting to see if 2.5" server drives will arrive as parallel SCSI, serial SCSI, or SATA first... Either way, 2.5" 15k drives are just around the corner. They will not work in a normal notebook though; it would melt.
Uday's 14 year old son.
Ok, so you can at least avoid large packets on the link. Still, this is a half-duplex link, and the turnaround will most likely be pretty painful. Delays from keypress to server echo is very annoying. Of course you can switch to line mode, but that means goodbye to pine and vi...
We kill them because not killing them would be even worse. And yes, we should treat them with as much tact as we can while we kill them. Because it is the proper thing to do.
I do not think you have actually tried accessing the Internet over a 19200bps modem (or slower). At that rate you have to lower your MTU in order to get a bearable telnetting experience. Receiving a 1500 bytes packet (such as when getting mail) takes almost a second. Just hope that this technology never ever drops a packet due to transmission errors or collissions. Add in that so far wireless technologies have a reputation for delivering about half the speed they promise. 10kbps then, which is about what mobile phones used to deliver. Ouch.
Putting 802.11b devices on the same network as 802.11g devices slows down the 802.11g devices. That is why there is a point to buying 802.11g even for devices which do not need the extra speed themselves.
My point was that for this program to work you need a whole bunch of text translated between the two languages. This bunch of text must not already contain the new stuff you want translated. So try to find a lot of Aramaic and Old Greek translated to something else, without using anything from the Bible. The article says you need gigabytes.
Good luck getting a many-gigabyte database of Old Greek and Hebrew texts with translations. And better luck getting such a database that does not include the Bible in its contents.
The GM electric car used fancy batteries. This thing uses lead-acid. As I said, lead-acid batteries are dirt cheap. Look here for one random reseller of brand-name UPS replacement batteries. You need four of those to get about the capacity of the car, so that's $2K. Hardly a large expense on a $20k car (or the $80k prototype production). I bet there are much better deals on batteries out there.
The only major problem I see with that choice is all that lead floating around. But the production of the fancy battery types is not exactly environmentally friendly anyway. Well ok, the other problem is the 80 mile range. That works out to a 10 minute stop every hour to hour-and-a-half or so, if stations are placed optimally. Such frequent breaks could easily help traffic safety.
To be precise, the vibration travels at the speed of sound in that medium. (That is practically the definition of the speed of sound...) This will always be slower than the speed of light in vacuum, no matter which medium.
Some mail scanners are too smart to fall for that one. (Usually they limit the size that an archive is allowed to expand to)
Compact flash is really really slow. That may or may not be a problem.
There is a solar wind consisting of particles with rest mass. That can do the pushing.
Even if it turns out that particles without rest mass, such as photons, cannot be used for solar sails, there is still a solar wind made of particles which do have a rest mass. Solar sails could still work. One interesting idea is a "virtual sail" made of a permanent magnet. In theory it should gain momentum when the electrically charged particles are deflected by the magnetic field.
Sorry.
What I really want is a button that takes me to the "next" page of a multi-page document, and one that takes me to the "previous" page. Up should then be changed to go to the next higher level in the document structure. With this the info browser - may infernal demons eat its heart out - can finally be replaced with the web browser.
Most of it goes to Israel. They are hardly the nation most in need.
I have been the victim of a Nortel PBX based on Windows 2000. Reboots took 20 minutes. This would not have been a problem if it only had to be rebooted once a year, but reality was different.
...is not that complicated. I don't know where in the world KodaK is, but there are a number of companies offering Asterisk-based solutions. Perhaps asking on #asterisk on FreeNode (irc.freenode.net) would be worth a shot.
It is a religion. Of course it can edit text too. And naturally it can do semi-WYSIWYG document processing as well - that seems to be what "word processing" means.
Basically you want the old European copyright system, with moral rights. The Berne Convention basically took the worst part of US and European copyright protections and combined them, leaving out the good ideas. US brought the "anything can be copyrighted, no matter how trivial", Europe brought the long copyright terms.
If catching the snitch decides the win, why are they even bothering with the rest of the game? It annoyed me greatly in the books. In the same vein, arbitrary awards at random times decide the victory in the point games between the houses.
I seem to manage to dread it just fine.
I agree to everything you are saying here. I was just correcting the minor point about icc's performance on AMD processors. For me icc's performance is totally irrelevant, actually. I probably have not run a program compiled with icc ever, and I most likely never will.