Say the speed limit is 60km/h and to get a green at the next intersection you have to travel at either 61 km/h or 12 km/h. Few car drivers will choose the lower of those two values.
tells drivers the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of lights."
The problem is that the speed to travel at to not stop at the next set of lights could be 12 km/h or 1.5 times the speed limit. It is hardly ever a speed you are actually going to travel at. We had a system in Melbourne which did this. They had to change it to not display a speed above the speed limit and then the displays showed stupidly low speeds.
and what was the last time, you really used remote X? Everone uses ssh X-Forwarding for that. First, because ssh runs anyway, second most people do not want their x-server to listen on tcp, when using ssh is sufficient. And ssh is encrypted, remote X or even xdmcp is not.
ssh X-Forwarding uses normal remote X over TCP/IP. ssh can forward any TCP connection.
I think it makes sense that stress would promote mutations. Organisms which do not cope with their environment need to experiment with the genes of subsequent generations, to find a way to adapt.
Sorry but your argument is back to front. If you want to use the air which I breathe as a garbage dump then the burden is on you to prove that your actions are safe.
At some point (possibly quite soon) Tim Cook will have to throw away Steve Jobs's legacy and take the company in a new direction. They can't compete with a mature market and android is coming up fast.
Thats quite some assumption you have there. The problem with java IMHO is that it gives the bright young things a lot of fun toys to play with and opportunities to create write only source code.
I don't find eclipse to be especially slow but it does everything it can to make software written under eclipse difficult to run outside eclipse. For example eclipse runs class files directly while deployments use jar files. Eclipse has its own classpath file format which is of no use in the outside world.
Build two big pipelines. Put your cargo (including the self loading kind) in capsules inside the pipeline. Run the pipeline along the bottom of the Bering Strait.
Dunno. Consider the infrastructure costs of rail. Work out how much energy its going to cost to build the whole system. The market isn't in the frozen north anyway. Thats just the narrow part of the ocean. Nobody tries electric power for ships because they seem to be exempt from pollution laws. I bet there are massive improvements to be made over the currently filthy diesels they use. 510 isn't that much more than 341.
When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.
Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.
Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.
It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg.
Yeah I have flown hang gliders and sailplanes. I can imagine building something like that for commuting, except for a couple of things. When you have to travel at a specified time it is hard to avoid IFR conditions; and recreational vehicles are not engineered for day to day use. My commuting bicycle has done 20000km and it is falling to bits.
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Say the speed limit is 60km/h and to get a green at the next intersection you have to travel at either 61 km/h or 12 km/h. Few car drivers will choose the lower of those two values.
tells drivers the optimal speed to drive at to avoid waiting at the next set of lights."
The problem is that the speed to travel at to not stop at the next set of lights could be 12 km/h or 1.5 times the speed limit. It is hardly ever a speed you are actually going to travel at. We had a system in Melbourne which did this. They had to change it to not display a speed above the speed limit and then the displays showed stupidly low speeds.
and what was the last time, you really used remote X? Everone uses ssh X-Forwarding for that. First, because ssh runs anyway, second most people do not want their x-server to listen on tcp, when using ssh is sufficient. And ssh is encrypted, remote X or even xdmcp is not.
ssh X-Forwarding uses normal remote X over TCP/IP. ssh can forward any TCP connection.
What layers? Last I looked Xlib calls are all there are for low level graphics. Can you show me a system with fewer layers than X?
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Version 10.00 is just around the corner.
I think it makes sense that stress would promote mutations. Organisms which do not cope with their environment need to experiment with the genes of subsequent generations, to find a way to adapt.
Being a "friend" is not inherently a bad thing.
Maybe not but as a high school student I saw plenty of examples of questionable relationships between students and teachers.
Sorry but your argument is back to front. If you want to use the air which I breathe as a garbage dump then the burden is on you to prove that your actions are safe.
Well yeah Rupert Murdoch and New corp but the argument works for the tech industry. The DEC and HP guys are long gone.
At some point (possibly quite soon) Tim Cook will have to throw away Steve Jobs's legacy and take the company in a new direction. They can't compete with a mature market and android is coming up fast.
It would be interesting to see if he could be kept healthy if enough money was put on the table. Medical research, on the whole, is not funded well.
I still change DIP switches on ISA cards at my work place.
Hey I had to attack the backplane of a PDP 11/84 to install a SCSI card.
assuming you bother to write apps correctly.
Thats quite some assumption you have there. The problem with java IMHO is that it gives the bright young things a lot of fun toys to play with and opportunities to create write only source code.
I don't find eclipse to be especially slow but it does everything it can to make software written under eclipse difficult to run outside eclipse. For example eclipse runs class files directly while deployments use jar files. Eclipse has its own classpath file format which is of no use in the outside world.
Turbines then
I think if I'd ridden that far it would be my legs that'd need replacing.
I know a guy who replaced his touring bike at 50k. He had cycled around the world, across all the continents.
Build two big pipelines. Put your cargo (including the self loading kind) in capsules inside the pipeline. Run the pipeline along the bottom of the Bering Strait.
I reckon you could run them on Methane.
Dunno. Consider the infrastructure costs of rail. Work out how much energy its going to cost to build the whole system. The market isn't in the frozen north anyway. Thats just the narrow part of the ocean. Nobody tries electric power for ships because they seem to be exempt from pollution laws. I bet there are massive improvements to be made over the currently filthy diesels they use. 510 isn't that much more than 341.
ACC seems to have come closer to the ipad
When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship's information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him.
Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.
Floyd sometimes wondered if the Newspad, and the fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased. (That very word "newspaper," of course, was an anachronistic hangover into the age of electronics.) The text was updated automatically on every hour; even if one read only the English versions, one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.
It was hard to imagine how the system could be improved or made more convenient. But sooner or later, Floyd guessed, it would pass away, to be replaced by something as unimaginable as the Newspad itself would have been to Caxton or Gutenberg.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey , by Arthur C. Clarke.
Published by Del Rey in 1968
Yeah I have flown hang gliders and sailplanes. I can imagine building something like that for commuting, except for a couple of things. When you have to travel at a specified time it is hard to avoid IFR conditions; and recreational vehicles are not engineered for day to day use. My commuting bicycle has done 20000km and it is falling to bits.
Of course WW2 pilots weren't all expected to land...
They must be making a fortune because HP seem to be giving these TouchPads away to the retailers.
Won't help. The spammer continually creates new accounts.