It's one thing if software is written for a purpose and it gets misused. It is another entirely if the software is developed to defraud people and organizations by breaking turing tests. It's one thing if software is written for a purpose and it gets misused. It is another entirely if the software is developed to defraud people and organizations by breaking turing tests.
This software could be very useful for legitimate users too. I look forward to the day when it's integrated into browsers and I don't have to jump through these stupid hoops any more.
The point as I understand it is to use the thermal gradient you have to do useful work. You have a hot CPU core and cold air around it - and currently all we do is try and move heat from one to the other as quickly as possible. But in theory this is a power source that could be used - kind of like regenerative braking on hybrid cars. The idea is that you design the chip to run with some parts - probably the middle - at higher temperatures than others (the edge), and use these gradients for powering; ultimately you would perhaps only need to directly power the most intensive part of the CPU (at a guess, the ALU) and things like instruction decode could be powered entirely off the waste heat from this.
To me, it's the equivalent of saying, "OK you're of age to drive on the nation's interstate system. So we're not going to put up any speed limits or signs/signals/regulatory devices. It's every man for himself... good luck."To me, it's the equivalent of saying, "OK you're of age to drive on the nation's interstate system. So we're not going to put up any speed limits or signs/signals/regulatory devices. It's every man for himself... good luck."
Recent experiments suggest this would actually make things safer. Without all that signage and law people are forced to take responsibilty and exercise their judgement to drive safely.
No need to dick around with IDE (you'd probably have to repartition that every boot), just use tmpfs to store files in system memory as if it were a hard drive.
Dude, the mathematical preprint archive has been online and publicly available before most people had even heard of the internet. As for the abstraction, it's the very heart of mathematics - we'd very much like to get rid of it, but we *can't*, because it's what mathematics *is*.
* Some people here are saying that a CD player will attempt to play the data track as audio, and it will be random noise. I have never experienced this from data/audio CDs.* Some people here are saying that a CD player will attempt to play the data track as audio, and it will be random noise. I have never experienced this from data/audio CDs.
If you *just* do what you said, that's exactly what will happen. Most CDs of this sort do an additional step: they're created in multisession form, with the first session containing only the audio tracks and the second both the audio and data. Then audio CD players only read the first session and so only see the audio tracks, while computers read all the sessions and can handle both audio and data tracks appropriately. You'll occasionally find an audio CD player which uses a computer drive (it's apparrently more common in car players?), which will get confused by such CDs.
They were all about merging CPU and RAM on the same chip, weren't they? It seems like it must be a good idea in the long run, but was clearly ahead of its time there.
Wikipedia has power? Seriously? Are you one of those same people who called Ops on IRC power hungrey when they banned you?
Come now, you can't pretend it doesn't affect anything, in this day and age.
The only difference in Wikipedia between now and then is that its FAR more formalized now than back when you think it was so great.
No; there's a difference in the kind of people running it
Do you think slashdot editors are 'elite' because they pick and choose what stories they run? What about every newspaper editor in the country you live in? Or producer of a news tv show
Elite? Not especially. But powerful? Yes, a bit. And wikipedia is read by many more people than your typical newspaper.
More seriously: the LHC wasn't designed with repairability/serviceability in mind, it seems.
I doubt that; rather it was designed as serviceably as *possible*. Which isn't very given how cold and how freakin' big it needs to be. The whole thing is an exercise in pushing the boundaries; it's hard enough designing it to work at all.
I doubt that the original designer of Haskell had an SCM tool, e.g. darcs, in mind when creating the language.
I disagree; keeping track of multiple revisions of data is an important AI topic and would be exactly the sort of thing the committee had in mind. Show me something utterly divorced from academic interests - an FPS game perhaps - and I'll be impressed.
1) How would one get the opposite end of the "tether" into space after its been bolted to the Earth?
You wouldn't. You'd start building from geostationary orbit and lower one end down.
2) What kind of payloads are the likely going to be capable of carrying?
Ultimately, pretty much anything. It's easy to add strength to the cable if necessary since you just build a little more at the middle, which you've already got the infrastructure to do from when you built the thing.
3) Will the tether and the space-end of the tether need regular augmentations? (e.g. alignment, raising, maintenance etc)
Maintenance will probably be designed to be ongoing - with that long a cable it'd be a lot worse than the Fourth Bridge. It isn't really aligned, but doesn't need to be - if the space end wobbles about a bit, so what?
Indeed, but the weight of what we're pulling up on the elevator at any one time is trivial compared to the weight of the elevator itself.
I mean, if you launched one tonne a week with this thing (to geostationary orbit, which is a helluva lot higher than LEO) it would be a huge improvement over rocketry.
As I understand it the popular plan is to not actually attach the bottom end - you have it float around at fairly low altitude over the middle of the Pacific and reach it by conventional aeroplane - at least for the first one, perhaps when the technology's tested we can think about having one with train lines running there. Anyway, with such a "floating" elevator there's no need for absolute precision - if it moves a few tens of meters who cares. Just stick some thrusters on it so that it can be actively stabilized.
No, it's the hypocrisy and self-righteousness involved in adding eleven lines onto every email you send to tell people you don't want them sending you redundant information in emails.
I have high hopes for the TV Tropes Wiki - it has explicit "no such thing as nonnotable" and "citations only required if there's dispute" positions, and seems potentially willing to expand to cover everything.
... because at some point it was an accurate source of information... right...
It was, back before there was any power in it. When it was all just people trying to make the best articles they could. Sure it had mistakes, but so would anywhere you look.
Asus have been low-end for a long time now; they've always had the worst failure rates I've seen. On a recommendation from a friend, after receiving yet another dead ASUS motherboard when building this machine I used an MSI motherboard instead, and I couldn't be happier; it's well designed, well-featured and works beautifully.
Hardly irrelevant; I'm happy to reply to those interested in polite discussion, but someone who'll sit there anonymously and call me a liar isn't worth trying to be reasonable with.
Perhaps you could stick "I am trolling" in your sig.
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Rapidshare's "letters with cats" can be an absolute nightmare; often takes me two or three attempts.
This software could be very useful for legitimate users too. I look forward to the day when it's integrated into browsers and I don't have to jump through these stupid hoops any more.
The point as I understand it is to use the thermal gradient you have to do useful work. You have a hot CPU core and cold air around it - and currently all we do is try and move heat from one to the other as quickly as possible. But in theory this is a power source that could be used - kind of like regenerative braking on hybrid cars. The idea is that you design the chip to run with some parts - probably the middle - at higher temperatures than others (the edge), and use these gradients for powering; ultimately you would perhaps only need to directly power the most intensive part of the CPU (at a guess, the ALU) and things like instruction decode could be powered entirely off the waste heat from this.
There is no such thing as crime these days, everything is terrorism. Didn't you get the memo?
Recent experiments suggest this would actually make things safer. Without all that signage and law people are forced to take responsibilty and exercise their judgement to drive safely.
No need to dick around with IDE (you'd probably have to repartition that every boot), just use tmpfs to store files in system memory as if it were a hard drive.
Windows 3.1 was too much of a resource hog. I stuck with windows 2.0 on my 286. Good times.
Dude, the mathematical preprint archive has been online and publicly available before most people had even heard of the internet. As for the abstraction, it's the very heart of mathematics - we'd very much like to get rid of it, but we *can't*, because it's what mathematics *is*.
With a ruler. Duh.
* Some people here are saying that a CD player will attempt to play the data track as audio, and it will be random noise. I have never experienced this from data/audio CDs.* Some people here are saying that a CD player will attempt to play the data track as audio, and it will be random noise. I have never experienced this from data/audio CDs.
If you *just* do what you said, that's exactly what will happen. Most CDs of this sort do an additional step: they're created in multisession form, with the first session containing only the audio tracks and the second both the audio and data. Then audio CD players only read the first session and so only see the audio tracks, while computers read all the sessions and can handle both audio and data tracks appropriately. You'll occasionally find an audio CD player which uses a computer drive (it's apparrently more common in car players?), which will get confused by such CDs.
You could, but like hell is that going to wind up cheaper than a full-sized server (or, if the load is smaller than that, a cheap virtual host)
They were all about merging CPU and RAM on the same chip, weren't they? It seems like it must be a good idea in the long run, but was clearly ahead of its time there.
Come now, you can't pretend it doesn't affect anything, in this day and age.
The only difference in Wikipedia between now and then is that its FAR more formalized now than back when you think it was so great.
No; there's a difference in the kind of people running it
Do you think slashdot editors are 'elite' because they pick and choose what stories they run? What about every newspaper editor in the country you live in? Or producer of a news tv show
Elite? Not especially. But powerful? Yes, a bit. And wikipedia is read by many more people than your typical newspaper.
I doubt that; rather it was designed as serviceably as *possible*. Which isn't very given how cold and how freakin' big it needs to be. The whole thing is an exercise in pushing the boundaries; it's hard enough designing it to work at all.
I doubt that the original designer of Haskell had an SCM tool, e.g. darcs, in mind when creating the language.
I disagree; keeping track of multiple revisions of data is an important AI topic and would be exactly the sort of thing the committee had in mind. Show me something utterly divorced from academic interests - an FPS game perhaps - and I'll be impressed.
Why? If someone was harmed, they've standing to sue for themselves. If noone was harmed, maybe it shouldn't be illegal.
You wouldn't. You'd start building from geostationary orbit and lower one end down.
2) What kind of payloads are the likely going to be capable of carrying?
Ultimately, pretty much anything. It's easy to add strength to the cable if necessary since you just build a little more at the middle, which you've already got the infrastructure to do from when you built the thing.
3) Will the tether and the space-end of the tether need regular augmentations? (e.g. alignment, raising, maintenance etc)
Maintenance will probably be designed to be ongoing - with that long a cable it'd be a lot worse than the Fourth Bridge. It isn't really aligned, but doesn't need to be - if the space end wobbles about a bit, so what?
I mean, if you launched one tonne a week with this thing (to geostationary orbit, which is a helluva lot higher than LEO) it would be a huge improvement over rocketry.
As I understand it the popular plan is to not actually attach the bottom end - you have it float around at fairly low altitude over the middle of the Pacific and reach it by conventional aeroplane - at least for the first one, perhaps when the technology's tested we can think about having one with train lines running there. Anyway, with such a "floating" elevator there's no need for absolute precision - if it moves a few tens of meters who cares. Just stick some thrusters on it so that it can be actively stabilized.
No, it's the hypocrisy and self-righteousness involved in adding eleven lines onto every email you send to tell people you don't want them sending you redundant information in emails.
I have high hopes for the TV Tropes Wiki - it has explicit "no such thing as nonnotable" and "citations only required if there's dispute" positions, and seems potentially willing to expand to cover everything.
It was, back before there was any power in it. When it was all just people trying to make the best articles they could. Sure it had mistakes, but so would anywhere you look.
Asus have been low-end for a long time now; they've always had the worst failure rates I've seen. On a recommendation from a friend, after receiving yet another dead ASUS motherboard when building this machine I used an MSI motherboard instead, and I couldn't be happier; it's well designed, well-featured and works beautifully.
There's an election coming up.
Hardly irrelevant; I'm happy to reply to those interested in polite discussion, but someone who'll sit there anonymously and call me a liar isn't worth trying to be reasonable with.
Perhaps you could stick "I am trolling" in your sig.
Sure, why not.