If companies move to a new filesystem, that is not supported by current MS operating systems (almost all other filesystems), we will see the need for 3rd party drivers again. The evil, evil thing that finally went away with USB storage drivers.
And I don't see companies moving to NTFS, because the patent threat looms there aswell.
Sigh, I guess we'll go back to carrying a device, accompanied by a CD with a driver. Sometimes we need to be reminded exactly how Microsoft makes our lives miserable. Or, if the hardware guys cave, our hardware more expensive.
Because there were a lot of scares and incidents with airships before the Hindenburg crash. The Hindenburg crash itself was just the very public straw that broke the camel's back. It couldn't have happened at a worse time really, because public faith in airships were at a low point, even though, over the course of their operation, the airships were quite safe.
Steam engines usually need to be supplied with water.
The article doesn't state whether it would be necessary to periodically stop and fill up with water, whether it will be a closed system, and if not, will the water supply last as long as the fuel in the tank?
They mention extracting energy from the cooling water as an additional source of energy. But is this related to the water being used in the steam engine?
This article is very thin on specifics, but constantly having to stop and fill up with water sounds like a downside to me...
Well, if we assume for a moment that it isn't a hoax. It wouldn't be real funny if two of them decided to murder the third so that they can get the suits....
Even if the show staff came rushing in to save him/her, it would still be conspiracy to commit murder.
What if you've just been involved in a shooting/accident/etc. Your friend/wife/child is in the back of the car bleeding profusely. But the car won't let you get to the hospital in time, and that person dies as a direct result. What are the legal implications of that?
Have these guys never had to rush a woman in labour to the hospital?
Here in Africa we every now and then get to read about some tourist who thought posing next to the lion in the game park would be really cool. (And got eaten)
IMHO foreigners really have no clue of how dangerous these creatures really are. I can only imagine what would happen if you brought the lions/elephant right into these people's back yards. Scary. (No, elephant are not friendly, peace-loving animals.)
Also, in the game parks here it's pretty darn difficult to keep the animals inside. Expensive fencing isn't feasible when enclosing an area the size of a province/state. The net result is game rangers have to continually bring animals back into the reserves. Which is somewhat acceptible in Africa as the game parks are generally surrounded by sparsely populated rural areas.
Okay. I'm about to say something that just popped into my head. Maybe it's true maybe not. Maybe I should have googled first....
Doesn't this sound a lot like the "red-out" airforce pilots get when they pull too much negative g's? And the reason for that is that their blood is pushed up into their heads.
And when I picture someone who is really angry, I think of veins popping out, red-face, etc. (A rise in blood pressure I presume).
Robots so far haven't been the best looking things, as their inventors rarely see a need to cover them up with "skin" or something that looks vaguely aesthetic.
So maybe this will make new robots resemble something a bit more organic, by, say, colouring this stuff to look like human skin. I think this would go a long way in making them more appealing to the public.
Of course. I completely agree with you. If you increase the voltage over a resistor the current will go up. If you assume there is no breaker.
I guess I should have added "and because the breakers can be more sensitive, thus saving you from the high current".
Of course, your electrician friend prob. didn't have that luxury, so I'm sorry to hear about your ordeal. As for me, said breakers once saved my life. And while I agree that 240v hurts like hell. It didn't kill me, and I walked away scott free. (Though I guess there would be some damage done to the brain, nerves, muscles, etc... But on this field I don't know much.)
At 110v you need to pump through a lot more amps than at 240v. Actually it's the rest of the world that has it right, not you. 240v is safer than 110v. Mostly because of the increased current going through everything.
High voltage gives you a nice jolt to make you pay attention again. High current kills you.
Actually, that sounds exactly like the "democracies" I know. America not being one of those I know first-hand, but from recent wars and the like, sounds pretty much the same. The USA just kills people on a bigger scale.
I find it very amusing that most of the replies I get of things that the "evil" Russians are doing that make them not qualify for a democracy, are done by perfectly "legitimate" democracies worldwide. Being myself a citizen of a very new-found democracy. I can tell you one thing, It IS very corrupt, and cencorship does take place. It's just that now everybody KNOWS it's happening. Maybe it is just because it is a new democracy. But articles like this convince me otherwise.
Let's just face it, all governments do these things. Just like there is no true communism, there is no true democracy.
Anyway, besides Russia, what democracy is NOT sliding towards socialism? They all are.
The main reason I see for this? The majority is poor. They like getting free stuff. Socalism/Communism promises free stuff (Even though it never delivers). Thus popular vote (In the world according to Chatsubo) will always favour those who promise more socialistic behaviour from government.
Look at the way politicians canvas. They PROMISE YOU STUFF! "We'll build more houses for the poor", "We'll provide cheaper medical care" etc. etc. etc.
Like I said, they never actually deliver (where I'm from), but then again, the majority is usually not all that smart anyway (Not necessarily the same group of people who are poor, which makes it even worse...)
Slashdot Mirror
"A team of astronomers using the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea has discovered giant, three-dimensional filaments of galaxies ..."
If they're merely three-dimensional, that means they don't obey the laws of quantum mechanics? or time?
That's a REMARKABLE discovery!
What about the loud bang when you hit the case with the side of your fist so that the hard disk will spin up?
Yes, I had one of those...
I still think that the dot-matrix noise did actually deafen me.
Luckily for you, if Duke Nukem Forever ever makes one of it's deadlines, there's bound to be an article.
http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_mar/031 306-sql-developer-finalsite.html
Linking to the the actual site of the company, imagine that!
> 2009 will be a great year for us,
Nice to see there are still some optimists left on slashdot.
You are a pile of atoms arranged a certain way. Running an adaptive neural network.
If you make a robotic dog that looks real, and acts all happy when it sees it's owner. What makes it less real than an organic dog?
.. is when you wake up, and for some reason you keep on thinking: "Yellow"
If companies move to a new filesystem, that is not supported by current MS operating systems (almost all other filesystems), we will see the need for 3rd party drivers again. The evil, evil thing that finally went away with USB storage drivers.
And I don't see companies moving to NTFS, because the patent threat looms there aswell.
Sigh, I guess we'll go back to carrying a device, accompanied by a CD with a driver. Sometimes we need to be reminded exactly how Microsoft makes our lives miserable. Or, if the hardware guys cave, our hardware more expensive.
Because there were a lot of scares and incidents with airships before the Hindenburg crash. The Hindenburg crash itself was just the very public straw that broke the camel's back. It couldn't have happened at a worse time really, because public faith in airships were at a low point, even though, over the course of their operation, the airships were quite safe.
Steam engines usually need to be supplied with water.
The article doesn't state whether it would be necessary to periodically stop and fill up with water, whether it will be a closed system, and if not, will the water supply last as long as the fuel in the tank?
They mention extracting energy from the cooling water as an additional source of energy. But is this related to the water being used in the steam engine?
This article is very thin on specifics, but constantly having to stop and fill up with water sounds like a downside to me...
Well, if we assume for a moment that it isn't a hoax. It wouldn't be real funny if two of them decided to murder the third so that they can get the suits....
Even if the show staff came rushing in to save him/her, it would still be conspiracy to commit murder.
Like patents have ever stopped developing countries from buying generic AIDS medicines.
It is the very country that runs the broken patent system that gets burned by it.
Smith, can I see you in my office for a moment?
Exactly.
What if you've just been involved in a shooting/accident/etc. Your friend/wife/child is in the back of the car bleeding profusely. But the car won't let you get to the hospital in time, and that person dies as a direct result. What are the legal implications of that?
Have these guys never had to rush a woman in labour to the hospital?
It's OK to smack ho's, shoot up clubs, strangle your wife, kill your baby, and all that stuff. Just as long as you don't download mp3's, okay kids?
Here in Africa we every now and then get to read about some tourist who thought posing next to the lion in the game park would be really cool. (And got eaten)
IMHO foreigners really have no clue of how dangerous these creatures really are. I can only imagine what would happen if you brought the lions/elephant right into these people's back yards. Scary. (No, elephant are not friendly, peace-loving animals.)
Also, in the game parks here it's pretty darn difficult to keep the animals inside. Expensive fencing isn't feasible when enclosing an area the size of a province/state. The net result is game rangers have to continually bring animals back into the reserves. Which is somewhat acceptible in Africa as the game parks are generally surrounded by sparsely populated rural areas.
Okay. I'm about to say something that just popped into my head. Maybe it's true maybe not. Maybe I should have googled first....
Doesn't this sound a lot like the "red-out" airforce pilots get when they pull too much negative g's? And the reason for that is that their blood is pushed up into their heads.
And when I picture someone who is really angry, I think of veins popping out, red-face, etc. (A rise in blood pressure I presume).
You know, actually, it makes a lot of sense....
The event formerly known as the symbol formerly known as the "event formerly known as" symbol.
I did RTFA, thanks. But on the second paragraph, yes, interesting.
Robots so far haven't been the best looking things, as their inventors rarely see a need to cover them up with "skin" or something that looks vaguely aesthetic.
So maybe this will make new robots resemble something a bit more organic, by, say, colouring this stuff to look like human skin. I think this would go a long way in making them more appealing to the public.
Of course. I completely agree with you. If you increase the voltage over a resistor the current will go up. If you assume there is no breaker.
I guess I should have added "and because the breakers can be more sensitive, thus saving you from the high current".
Of course, your electrician friend prob. didn't have that luxury, so I'm sorry to hear about your ordeal. As for me, said breakers once saved my life. And while I agree that 240v hurts like hell. It didn't kill me, and I walked away scott free. (Though I guess there would be some damage done to the brain, nerves, muscles, etc... But on this field I don't know much.)
I don't think so.
At 110v you need to pump through a lot more amps than at 240v. Actually it's the rest of the world that has it right, not you. 240v is safer than 110v. Mostly because of the increased current going through everything.
High voltage gives you a nice jolt to make you pay attention again. High current kills you.
Well, it sounds like it still leans toward socialism. Does it?
Actually, that sounds exactly like the "democracies" I know. America not being one of those I know first-hand, but from recent wars and the like, sounds pretty much the same. The USA just kills people on a bigger scale.
I find it very amusing that most of the replies I get of things that the "evil" Russians are doing that make them not qualify for a democracy, are done by perfectly "legitimate" democracies worldwide. Being myself a citizen of a very new-found democracy. I can tell you one thing, It IS very corrupt, and cencorship does take place. It's just that now everybody KNOWS it's happening. Maybe it is just because it is a new democracy. But articles like this convince me otherwise.
Let's just face it, all governments do these things. Just like there is no true communism, there is no true democracy.
Anyway, besides Russia, what democracy is NOT sliding towards socialism? They all are.
The main reason I see for this? The majority is poor. They like getting free stuff. Socalism/Communism promises free stuff (Even though it never delivers). Thus popular vote (In the world according to Chatsubo) will always favour those who promise more socialistic behaviour from government.
Look at the way politicians canvas. They PROMISE YOU STUFF! "We'll build more houses for the poor", "We'll provide cheaper medical care" etc. etc. etc.
Like I said, they never actually deliver (where I'm from), but then again, the majority is usually not all that smart anyway (Not necessarily the same group of people who are poor, which makes it even worse...)
PATRIOT acts on YOU!
Sorry, couldn't resist. But seriously. At a time when Russia is just becoming a functioning democracy, I think this is actually pretty ironic.