Why bother fetching it back in small rockets when you can propel the entire rock back?
Can we use a lot of tiny propeller rockets installed on Titan to gradually push it off the orbit and toward earth? These rockets only needs to carry oxygen or other oxidizer to burn the hydrocarben on Titan, and this process may happen very slowly, i.e., in several hundreds or thousand years. When it becomes a satellite of earth we can burn it outside of earth atmosphere and send the energy back in the form of microwave/laser.
Additionally, in this long time frame, as Titan is getting nearer to earth, we can continuously improve the propeller technology and more easily install more powerful rockets on Titan, so the process would be an accelerating process, though initially it would be very slow.
No idea how long it would last as I'm not familiar with rocket science, but if this process would take more than 1000 years I guess we could probably have advanced beyond relying on hydrocarbon energy already, then the entire idea does not make any sense anymore, as someone has pointed out.
when you are a kid you generally have less to hide, therefore less privacy or security issues. A lot of people will care what President Bush or Paris Hilton is doing in the next 3 weeks, but very few (except for the close friends and their parents) will care what a kid is doing in the next 3 weeks. The basic rule is: when you are at a more prominent position in human society, people (including yourself) will have more concern about your privacy and security.
Actually provided the consumer as human being can view/listen to the content with their eyes/ears (in analog form obviously), the content itself is already cracked. for example, we can imagine that someone put an HD video camera in front of the LCD screen, and connect the line-in of a sound recorder to the 5.1/7.1 analog output of the BD player --- viola, all the contents are pirated!
Of course, due to the involved extra A/D conversion, the quality of the captured video/audio may not be so good as the original one, but here you get the idea. This can be improved. for example the pirates may find even better way, like hooking some circuits between the analog output of the BD player circuit to the capture devices, and so on... Finally given enough good equipment, they can actually produce almost identical quality content as the original.
The key point is: we as human being can only consume analog video/audio signals. It does not matter how advanced the digital encryption system is, finally the industry will provide the consumer both the encrypted content and the player (decrypter).
Although I may agree with most part of the quote, i cannot agree that the quote is "a timeless truth.", which appeared on Internet only after 2001. The pity is that the quote may only be a hoax, as described at http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/c aesar_quote.htm
Basically you carry the water with you, and you convert the water to H2, then burn it back to WATER. If (ideally) you don't waste any water in this cycle, e.g. you recycle it, then you don't need to count the weight of water at all! Instead, you should count MJ/kg of the Al you used to convert water to H2.
First, read again, they only have 1144 intel 2.8GHzprocessors, not 2.6GHztwo CPUs as you said.
Second, as someone has pointed out, indeed P3 performs faster than P4 in terms of Hz, due to the toooooo long instruction pipleline in P4.
Third, let's do very rough math. When you add up all the raw GHzs of all the CPUs, you end up with 3.4*2*250+2.6*1144=4674.4Ghz. Do you think 15000 1.2GHz P3 chips will have the performance equal or less to this number? My guestimation is: they should be at least two or three times faster.
Even though the blog is a little bit on the shallow side, it does make some points here and there. However you should not expect anyone who complains about current UI should be designing his OWN UI. Parent post is like the old rant "if you don't like this OSS, design your own."
We all know that LiON batteries have limited recharge cycles (~1000). Imagine that you will open doors four times per day, then your iPod Shuffle will die in one year. Keep in mind the operating cost....
Glad to know that you are happy with your phone. However I have tried 3 cellphones in the last three years, and I can assure you that most of them have lots of bugs in their firmware. From simple translation error to stupid and annoying bugs. By the way, the parent of your comment obviously means better "phone", not better "network".
http://www.huaqi.com/english/products/viewproduct. asp?id=459&classid=52
This product can use bluetooth headphone to listen to music. And the quality is also very good, besides, it is also a cute USB stick.
First, it is only an installer, it is M$'s way to foster FOSS developed for Windows.
Second, it seems that WiX cannot compile without VS.NET, M$'s development environment.
Third, I believe M$ is just testing the temperature of FOSS with the release of this small toolset. Anyway it doesn't hurt by releasing such a small piece of software, however they will learn a lot about dealing with FOSS, gain some experience, and the whole process also provides a lot of feedback to their future policy planner.
After following their instruction to download Linux distros, to find my way to use pirate Nero to burn CDs, to check the HW compatibility, backing up everything, converting the non-linux friendly file format, and formating my M$ partition, they told me to hold on, they are thinking about what to do the next???!!!!
Look at Altavista now by yourself, you'll see how clean it is NOW.
AltaVista means "a view from above". It is developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1995 in its Palo Alto research labs. (This is the reason you see DEC ads in its 1998 version) However, it was bought by Overture several years ago, which in turn was bought by Yahoo. Its database has been merged with that of AlltheWeb.
The counter at the bottom of the page has only 4 digits, I suppose it is going to be blown up by slashdotters.
Just pray that the page is not hosted in TMI, we don't want to see another TMI!
Another bad design without enough margin.
As Witty Worm sends packets to random generated IP address, because of the relatively small and quite dense IPv4 space, it can quite easily hit a venerable host.
I am not sure if using IPv6 will render this kind of attack impossible? Can anyone clear this for me?
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Why bother fetching it back in small rockets when you can propel the entire rock back?
Can we use a lot of tiny propeller rockets installed on Titan to gradually push it off the orbit and toward earth? These rockets only needs to carry oxygen or other oxidizer to burn the hydrocarben on Titan, and this process may happen very slowly, i.e., in several hundreds or thousand years. When it becomes a satellite of earth we can burn it outside of earth atmosphere and send the energy back in the form of microwave/laser.
Additionally, in this long time frame, as Titan is getting nearer to earth, we can continuously improve the propeller technology and more easily install more powerful rockets on Titan, so the process would be an accelerating process, though initially it would be very slow.
No idea how long it would last as I'm not familiar with rocket science, but if this process would take more than 1000 years I guess we could probably have advanced beyond relying on hydrocarbon energy already, then the entire idea does not make any sense anymore, as someone has pointed out.
when you are a kid you generally have less to hide, therefore less privacy or security issues. A lot of people will care what President Bush or Paris Hilton is doing in the next 3 weeks, but very few (except for the close friends and their parents) will care what a kid is doing in the next 3 weeks.
The basic rule is: when you are at a more prominent position in human society, people (including yourself) will have more concern about your privacy and security.
Actually provided the consumer as human being can view/listen to the content with their eyes/ears (in analog form obviously), the content itself is already cracked. for example, we can imagine that someone put an HD video camera in front of the LCD screen, and connect the line-in of a sound recorder to the 5.1/7.1 analog output of the BD player --- viola, all the contents are pirated!
Of course, due to the involved extra A/D conversion, the quality of the captured video/audio may not be so good as the original one, but here you get the idea. This can be improved. for example the pirates may find even better way, like hooking some circuits between the analog output of the BD player circuit to the capture devices, and so on... Finally given enough good equipment, they can actually produce almost identical quality content as the original.
The key point is: we as human being can only consume analog video/audio signals. It does not matter how advanced the digital encryption system is, finally the industry will provide the consumer both the encrypted content and the player (decrypter).
And hydrogen does not give twice the lift of Helium, the net lift given by an object in air is given by
(lift given by air)-(weight of the object)
=(volumn of the object)*[(density of air)-(density of the object)]
Although the density of Hydrogen is half of that of Helium, You don't get twice the lift when you replace the latter with the former.
Although I may agree with most part of the quote, i cannot agree that the quote is "a timeless truth.", which appeared on Internet only after 2001. The pity is that the quote may only be a hoax, as described at http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/c aesar_quote.htm
It can be multi-odor, however.
Basically you carry the water with you, and you convert the water to H2, then burn it back to WATER. If (ideally) you don't waste any water in this cycle, e.g. you recycle it, then you don't need to count the weight of water at all! Instead, you should count MJ/kg of the Al you used to convert water to H2.
First, read again, they only have 1144 intel 2.8GHz processors, not 2.6GHz two CPUs as you said.
Second, as someone has pointed out, indeed P3 performs faster than P4 in terms of Hz, due to the toooooo long instruction pipleline in P4.
Third, let's do very rough math. When you add up all the raw GHzs of all the CPUs, you end up with 3.4*2*250+2.6*1144=4674.4Ghz. Do you think 15000 1.2GHz P3 chips will have the performance equal or less to this number? My guestimation is: they should be at least two or three times faster.
Even though the blog is a little bit on the shallow side, it does make some points here and there. However you should not expect anyone who complains about current UI should be designing his OWN UI. Parent post is like the old rant "if you don't like this OSS, design your own."
Is it a hint of worse security? Does it mean that everyone can own my computer now?
I have been waiting for the true OS pron since long time ago!
We all know that LiON batteries have limited recharge cycles (~1000). Imagine that you will open doors four times per day, then your iPod Shuffle will die in one year. Keep in mind the operating cost....
If the base station is mobile, how can the BS connect to the backbone network?
Why bother a dual band receiver, when you can have one Galileo band receiver with more accuracy and lower price?
Glad to know that you are happy with your phone. However I have tried 3 cellphones in the last three years, and I can assure you that most of them have lots of bugs in their firmware. From simple translation error to stupid and annoying bugs.
By the way, the parent of your comment obviously means better "phone", not better "network".
http://www.huaqi.com/english/products/viewproduct. asp?id=459&classid=52
This product can use bluetooth headphone to listen to music. And the quality is also very good, besides, it is also a cute USB stick.
in this part of code "copy(temp, code)" you are writing code segment. This is not compatible with NX bit.
As we all know, DOS is also a product from M$, maybe they will be sued again, until they change to some not so generic name!
First, it is only an installer, it is M$'s way to foster FOSS developed for Windows.
Second, it seems that WiX cannot compile without VS.NET, M$'s development environment.
Third, I believe M$ is just testing the temperature of FOSS with the release of this small toolset. Anyway it doesn't hurt by releasing such a small piece of software, however they will learn a lot about dealing with FOSS, gain some experience, and the whole process also provides a lot of feedback to their future policy planner.
Overall, I feel it is a smart move for Microsoft.
But that digicam driver probably is not writen by Microsoft, if you ever need one.
A bad driver in Linux can also easily corrupt the whole system.
After following their instruction to download Linux distros, to find my way to use pirate Nero to burn CDs, to check the HW compatibility, backing up everything, converting the non-linux friendly file format, and formating my M$ partition, they told me to hold on, they are thinking about what to do the next???!!!!
At the moment the cached page is still old version.
Look at Altavista now by yourself, you'll see how clean it is NOW. AltaVista means "a view from above". It is developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1995 in its Palo Alto research labs. (This is the reason you see DEC ads in its 1998 version) However, it was bought by Overture several years ago, which in turn was bought by Yahoo. Its database has been merged with that of AlltheWeb.
The counter at the bottom of the page has only 4 digits, I suppose it is going to be blown up by slashdotters. Just pray that the page is not hosted in TMI, we don't want to see another TMI! Another bad design without enough margin.
As Witty Worm sends packets to random generated IP address, because of the relatively small and quite dense IPv4 space, it can quite easily hit a venerable host. I am not sure if using IPv6 will render this kind of attack impossible? Can anyone clear this for me?