Since these guys are trying to do it in the USA, they will definitely get arrested for this. The only question here is whether they'll get arrested after the flight or before the flight. There's no doubt that if they tried to pull something like that anywhere in the USA outside California, they'd be in Gitmo already. In California though they still have a chance to see the ignition. Let's hope they last as long.
No, of course, Sputnik wasn't a fraud. The article doesn't state anything like that, BTW. The fraud here is the pre-planned and well-paid-for American smear campaign dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik. Nothing to be surprised of here, of course - everytime USA gets beaten to something, it resorts to a standard smear campaign. So, some for of fraud is present here, no doubt. It's the USA itself and trolls like you.
It is interesting to see how typical "Wikipedia" standards of describing reality make their way into Slashdot... Decay, decay, decay...
What is this nonsense? Another bit of propaganda? The success of the experiment itself does not include the rope unwinding fully (or not unwinding fully). That's completely secondary. The success of the experiment depends only on the payload returning to Earth successfully. Period. If it returns, then the experiment is 100% successful. How much of the rope unwinds in this case makes absolutely no difference, especially taking into account the fact that no one knows yet how much is really necessary. That's actually one of the things they are trying to determine by this experiment in the first place.
I can tell you why. Since recent time Slashdot become a target for paid posters who work in an attempt to influence stock prices: so called "pumpers" and "bashers". There's been a chain of anti-Apple articles here recently, which were very obviously work of paid bashers. Articles like that are normally very easy to recognize (as is the case with this one and with the recent ones posted here), which brings the question of why these articles were allowed to make their way to the front page of Slashdot, especially if one takes into account the fact that none of them were even close to being typical Slashdot material. Is someone high in the Slashdot's "chain of command" getting paid for it? Or is the basher's mob responsible for this?
There are no even remotely definitive plans for future gPhone, which is pretty obvious even from that "article". The article is created and posted in an obvious attempt to influence the AAPL stock price. Fabrciated articles of that nature have been circulating for quite some time already and are currently available in copious amount around the web./. moderators have to do better job recognizing and blocking this kind of spam. This is not a Yahoo Finance message board, after all...
I'm un the US and with my provider/plan I don't get free mobile-to-mobile calls. Moreover, I have to pay for incoming calls and messages. This all depends on the particular provider/plan. It's about O2, not about Apple.
The dollar is turning into toilet paper much faster than the price of OLPC rises. Foreign governments should not have any problem with the rise of the price. Quite the opposite, it would be very strange if it remained steady.
Thats' why it clearly says that this is a new race. Otherwise, there woudn't be a race at all: Russians explored the Moon with unmanned rovers 40 years ago.
Wrong. US is going in exactly the same direction, when it comes to large bombs, which was, of course, widely and pompously reported when US tested its latest "daisy-cutter". It is just that at the current moment Russia has the upper hand.
"Rest of the world" with respect ot whom? USA? LOL. Soviet Union (now Russia) has always been ahead in the development of quiet submarines by about a decade compared to the rest of the world. The more embarassing problem with this photo is not that someone can copy the design, but that now it can be easily determined what Russian design it was lifted from:)
He's joking all right. In the modern world "education" is a chiefly Russian word. Not only Russinas have good education, they are just about the only ones who still do. That's why USA is crawling across former USSR territories on its knees tearfully begging people to come to work for the USA.
It is hard to compare achievements that took place on different planets, since the conditions could be very different. While it is clear that the modern US Mars rovers can indeed live up to the fame of Russian lunar rovers (although it took US quite some time and US rovers will aleways be seen as that "we can do it too" kind of thing), the Russian Venus landers sill remain unsurpassed.
Moore's Law has never been specifically about the density of transistors. Moore's Law has always been about the total number of transistors per chip. Moore's Law says that the total number of transistors per chip will increase at certain rate, bit it never said that the increase will be implemented specifically through increasing density. Density is just one factor in the equation. Another major factor is the sheer area of the chip. The total number of the transistors can obviously be increased by increasing the area of the chip.
In the past, the density was the dominating factor. It was dominating do much that we could satisfy the Moore's Law and at the same time actually decrease the size of the chip. However, further increases in density are no longer possible. We have already hit the limit for the traditional technology. Density is no longer the dominating factor. <i>Area</i> is. The Moore's Law continues to be satisfied today by increases in the area of the chip. Chips become bigger. A lot bigger. An this is the direction the industry will continue to move in for a while, until the next density-related breakthrough comes over (like 3D designs, optical chips etc.)
You need to take "Logic 101" classes. Just because muscles react to electricity (and body transmits electricity) does not prove in any way that it is necessarily electricity that is used by body to control muscles. In the same way one can conclude that just becuase body reacts to bullets means that it uses bullets internally, which is nonsense.
That's because you don't know much about cars. Honda CRX is a legendary car. Today, in 2006 owning one in good condition is like owning a classic Mustang. A preserved CRX (0 miles or about that) costs between 30K and 40K today, because unfortunately there's no supply to meet demand (in its time collectors didn't recognize the value). I was looking for a preserved CRX about two months ago and found only two in the entire US. Needless to say, both sellers wanted upper 30's for the car and neither would bulge.
The original report was premature. Accorinf to todays data (Nov 29th) Zune has risen to the SECOND spot, with 9% of the market.
It is rather funny to see people here explain "why Zune failed...". LOL. Zune is a huge success. Tehcnically it is not a serious challenger to iPod yet, but it's initiali performance on the market is incredible.
You are talking about hardlinks. Hardlinks for files and directories were in Windows even earlier. They are supported since NTFS 4.0. In XP/2000 NTFS 5.0 added support for symlinks for directories. I never herd about anything new in Vista in this regard.
What are you talking about? Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP already have built-in support for symlinks (NTFS 5.0). What does all this have to do with Vista?
Reports of the secret of Damascus steel being redicovered date back to no-one-remembers-when. Russian Anosov reportedly re-created the famous Bulat steel back in the first half of XIX century. The problem is that no one really knows whether Bulat steel is the same as Damascus steel. As well as no one really knows what the more-or-less exact properties of Damascus steel really were.
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Since these guys are trying to do it in the USA, they will definitely get arrested for this. The only question here is whether they'll get arrested after the flight or before the flight. There's no doubt that if they tried to pull something like that anywhere in the USA outside California, they'd be in Gitmo already. In California though they still have a chance to see the ignition. Let's hope they last as long.
No, of course, Sputnik wasn't a fraud. The article doesn't state anything like that, BTW. The fraud here is the pre-planned and well-paid-for American smear campaign dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik. Nothing to be surprised of here, of course - everytime USA gets beaten to something, it resorts to a standard smear campaign. So, some for of fraud is present here, no doubt. It's the USA itself and trolls like you.
It is interesting to see how typical "Wikipedia" standards of describing reality make their way into Slashdot... Decay, decay, decay...
What is this nonsense? Another bit of propaganda? The success of the experiment itself does not include the rope unwinding fully (or not unwinding fully). That's completely secondary. The success of the experiment depends only on the payload returning to Earth successfully. Period. If it returns, then the experiment is 100% successful. How much of the rope unwinds in this case makes absolutely no difference, especially taking into account the fact that no one knows yet how much is really necessary. That's actually one of the things they are trying to determine by this experiment in the first place.
I can tell you why. Since recent time Slashdot become a target for paid posters who work in an attempt to influence stock prices: so called "pumpers" and "bashers". There's been a chain of anti-Apple articles here recently, which were very obviously work of paid bashers. Articles like that are normally very easy to recognize (as is the case with this one and with the recent ones posted here), which brings the question of why these articles were allowed to make their way to the front page of Slashdot, especially if one takes into account the fact that none of them were even close to being typical Slashdot material. Is someone high in the Slashdot's "chain of command" getting paid for it? Or is the basher's mob responsible for this?
There are no even remotely definitive plans for future gPhone, which is pretty obvious even from that "article". The article is created and posted in an obvious attempt to influence the AAPL stock price. Fabrciated articles of that nature have been circulating for quite some time already and are currently available in copious amount around the web. /. moderators have to do better job recognizing and blocking this kind of spam. This is not a Yahoo Finance message board, after all...
I'm un the US and with my provider/plan I don't get free mobile-to-mobile calls. Moreover, I have to pay for incoming calls and messages. This all depends on the particular provider/plan. It's about O2, not about Apple.
The dollar is turning into toilet paper much faster than the price of OLPC rises. Foreign governments should not have any problem with the rise of the price. Quite the opposite, it would be very strange if it remained steady.
Thats' why it clearly says that this is a new race. Otherwise, there woudn't be a race at all: Russians explored the Moon with unmanned rovers 40 years ago.
Wrong. US is going in exactly the same direction, when it comes to large bombs, which was, of course, widely and pompously reported when US tested its latest "daisy-cutter". It is just that at the current moment Russia has the upper hand.
More importantly, what effect is it going to have on the Goggle stock price?
"Rest of the world" with respect ot whom? USA? LOL. Soviet Union (now Russia) has always been ahead in the development of quiet submarines by about a decade compared to the rest of the world. The more embarassing problem with this photo is not that someone can copy the design, but that now it can be easily determined what Russian design it was lifted from :)
'strncpy' is an obsolete function that no longer has any uses. If you think it can be used for safe 0-terminated string copying, think again.
He's joking all right. In the modern world "education" is a chiefly Russian word. Not only Russinas have good education, they are just about the only ones who still do. That's why USA is crawling across former USSR territories on its knees tearfully begging people to come to work for the USA.
LOL. "American school system". What is it, an oxymoron contest? :)
It is hard to compare achievements that took place on different planets, since the conditions could be very different. While it is clear that the modern US Mars rovers can indeed live up to the fame of Russian lunar rovers (although it took US quite some time and US rovers will aleways be seen as that "we can do it too" kind of thing), the Russian Venus landers sill remain unsurpassed.
Moore's Law has never been specifically about the density of transistors. Moore's Law has always been about the total number of transistors per chip. Moore's Law says that the total number of transistors per chip will increase at certain rate, bit it never said that the increase will be implemented specifically through increasing density. Density is just one factor in the equation. Another major factor is the sheer area of the chip. The total number of the transistors can obviously be increased by increasing the area of the chip.
In the past, the density was the dominating factor. It was dominating do much that we could satisfy the Moore's Law and at the same time actually decrease the size of the chip. However, further increases in density are no longer possible. We have already hit the limit for the traditional technology. Density is no longer the dominating factor. <i>Area</i> is. The Moore's Law continues to be satisfied today by increases in the area of the chip. Chips become bigger. A lot bigger. An this is the direction the industry will continue to move in for a while, until the next density-related breakthrough comes over (like 3D designs, optical chips etc.)
You need to take "Logic 101" classes. Just because muscles react to electricity (and body transmits electricity) does not prove in any way that it is necessarily electricity that is used by body to control muscles. In the same way one can conclude that just becuase body reacts to bullets means that it uses bullets internally, which is nonsense.
Roof scoop? You must be seeing things...
That's because you don't know much about cars. Honda CRX is a legendary car. Today, in 2006 owning one in good condition is like owning a classic Mustang. A preserved CRX (0 miles or about that) costs between 30K and 40K today, because unfortunately there's no supply to meet demand (in its time collectors didn't recognize the value). I was looking for a preserved CRX about two months ago and found only two in the entire US. Needless to say, both sellers wanted upper 30's for the car and neither would bulge.
The original report was premature. Accorinf to todays data (Nov 29th) Zune has risen to the SECOND spot, with 9% of the market.
It is rather funny to see people here explain "why Zune failed...". LOL. Zune is a huge success. Tehcnically it is not a serious challenger to iPod yet, but it's initiali performance on the market is incredible.
Not 7th, not 10th, not 13th. It is SECOND now.
You are not the first. In fact, that's how two out of three radio stations started...
Incorrect.
You are talking about hardlinks. Hardlinks for files and directories were in Windows even earlier. They are supported since NTFS 4.0. In XP/2000 NTFS 5.0 added support for symlinks for directories. I never herd about anything new in Vista in this regard.
What are you talking about? Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP already have built-in support for symlinks (NTFS 5.0). What does all this have to do with Vista?
Reports of the secret of Damascus steel being redicovered date back to no-one-remembers-when. Russian Anosov reportedly re-created the famous Bulat steel back in the first half of XIX century. The problem is that no one really knows whether Bulat steel is the same as Damascus steel. As well as no one really knows what the more-or-less exact properties of Damascus steel really were.