so in essence, you're indicating that the term "Broadband" is meant to indicate high bandwidth which will allow for better processor-to-processor communication. I'm going to read the article now and see, but that certainly makes more sense than any other interpretation.
Skimming through the pasted snippets of the article in people's posts, I can't seem to shake the feeling that this sounds like a deal in the game of Monopoly. "If you let me do this this and this I'll not do this or this to you, but I reserve the right to do This to anyone at all, including you, and if I decide to do it, you have to help me. deal?"
Maybe I'm just crazy, but that's never affected things before.
I think you have a point here. Yes the changes will be so insignificant that they'll go unnoticed for a long time, but you can't take energy out of a system without something changing eventually. The question would become: does the energy returned to the system equal or exceed the energy our efforts remove? if not, then eventually there will be no energy to remove from the system.
Then again, when you talk about an energy storage device as large as an ocean or the atmosphere, the amount of energy we would have to remove to make a significant change would be massive. So it would become a problem for future generations. Sounds like a great idea to me, actually. let our descendants deal with the mess.
Unless you're using some weird system I've never heard of, to move where you're typing, you'd need to bump the mouse *button*, which has nothing to do with whether there's a trackpad or trackpoint.
actually, this somehw happens to me frequently when I'm using a machine with a touchpad. and given the fact that tapping a touchpad can act like clicking the mouse, it's far more annoying than accidently bumping the trackpoint device.
Hypothesis: Macs tend to have a longer service life than PCs. Maybe it's worth it to have a trackpoint on PCs, since you're planning to replace it relatively soon, anyway, but on Macs you need something that works well for several years. (Or maybe it's *because* they last longer that they're in service longer.)
Of my two Toshiba laptops, the old one (which I used for 5 years and replaced only very recently) had a trackpoint style pointer which never gave me any problems except for an acceptably short interval of random drifting which occured very infrequently. The new one has a touchpad which is constantly driving me nuts even afteralmost 2 months of practice to gain proficiency with the pointing device.
other than a 5 year run with my trackpoint laptop, I don't have any good information on durability, but I would like to note that only my ancient serial-interface trackball has lasted longer than it as a functional pointing device (going on 8 years now and it's just starting to develop problems.)
what is this? Soviet Microsoft? The place where, when you consider the worm that turns on your webcam and the ability to execute arbitrary code from JPG, your porn looks at you?
no you didn't, I did. I made it all up as I went along too, but that's mostly becauase I figured everyone would ignore me.
and when I said exactly I was agreeing with you excluding the other individual from your final statement without excluding everyone.
Actually the indication was that they would not be solved, not that they were unsolvable. There will always be people who are (choose any number of them). Not because there are no solutions, but because there are no solutions which will simultaniously please a large enough percentage of those capable of providing the solution to get it done.
Exactly. That individual isn't the only person alive. Take me for example, I don't donate to charities, and I probably never will. "Why" you ask? because I'm a greedy, self serving bastard and I know it. Plus, if I donate to helping people, what have I done? possibly given to whichever criminal (sure you could use the term "terrorist" but why bother when a much more simple and accurate term exists?) group happens to intercept my money/food/medicines/etc. or -maybe- helped a small percentage of those who actually need assistance. Now, I don't fit exactly into the category you mentioned, as I don't think research money could be better spent aiding humanity. Rather, I feel that research money can be better spent on research that improves or may improve my life. and if, as a side effect, it improves the lives of others I can live with that.
"Touchpads on laptops" That pretty much says it all right there. I prefer trackpoint style pointing devices on my portables, as I find them to be more accurate, much faster to navigate the screen with, and less likely to get bumped while I'm typing and suddenly move my cursor up 12 lines. Which is not to say trackpoint is perfect, but it's imeasurably better than a touchpad, and the only other stationary pointing device which I might replace it with is a good trackball.
none at all, but you have to write the compiler yourself, puting the lines on seperate pages to keep it from crawling away. and the first time you attempt to model the universe, you'll probably turn into a 6 foot tall bug. Then you'll have to go steal a supercomputer that the russians went to a lot of misdirection to acquire, and while you're doing this, a pair of kids will be building giant robots to defeat anything you can throw at them.
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Even discounting the rather interesting comments from the other two people to Reply to you thus far, even a "fairly boring electromagnetic effect" would be rather interesting, especially given that it covers a large area (affecting both probes even though they were sent off in somewhat different directions).
This is primarily becuase the shotgun never runs out of ammunition, even if used to kill endless hordes of zombies. If your shotgun ever does run out of ammunition, there should be an alternate weapon within easy reach.
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So, it's a bit like saying a thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand, but less wordy?
It sounds to me as though you might have some faulty hardware causing those crashes. Anything that frequent can't simply be a glitch in the code.
(Note: I might be joking, but how would you ever know?)
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Basically what you're saying is...
so in essence, you're indicating that the term "Broadband" is meant to indicate high bandwidth which will allow for better processor-to-processor communication.
I'm going to read the article now and see, but that certainly makes more sense than any other interpretation.
Much better :] was that so hard?
or the BSD Daemonettes. if they wre there, I doubt the place would go uninhabited through the winter.
Skimming through the pasted snippets of the article in people's posts, I can't seem to shake the feeling that this sounds like a deal in the game of Monopoly. "If you let me do this this and this I'll not do this or this to you, but I reserve the right to do This to anyone at all, including you, and if I decide to do it, you have to help me. deal?"
Maybe I'm just crazy, but that's never affected things before.
1) probably a valid point
2) probably a valid point
3) no
4) profit
I think you have a point here. Yes the changes will be so insignificant that they'll go unnoticed for a long time, but you can't take energy out of a system without something changing eventually. The question would become: does the energy returned to the system equal or exceed the energy our efforts remove? if not, then eventually there will be no energy to remove from the system.
Then again, when you talk about an energy storage device as large as an ocean or the atmosphere, the amount of energy we would have to remove to make a significant change would be massive. So it would become a problem for future generations. Sounds like a great idea to me, actually. let our descendants deal with the mess.
Unless you're using some weird system I've never heard of, to move where you're typing, you'd need to bump the mouse *button*, which has nothing to do with whether there's a trackpad or trackpoint.
actually, this somehw happens to me frequently when I'm using a machine with a touchpad. and given the fact that tapping a touchpad can act like clicking the mouse, it's far more annoying than accidently bumping the trackpoint device.
Hypothesis: Macs tend to have a longer service life than PCs. Maybe it's worth it to have a trackpoint on PCs, since you're planning to replace it relatively soon, anyway, but on Macs you need something that works well for several years. (Or maybe it's *because* they last longer that they're in service longer.)
Of my two Toshiba laptops, the old one (which I used for 5 years and replaced only very recently) had a trackpoint style pointer which never gave me any problems except for an acceptably short interval of random drifting which occured very infrequently. The new one has a touchpad which is constantly driving me nuts even afteralmost 2 months of practice to gain proficiency with the pointing device.
other than a 5 year run with my trackpoint laptop, I don't have any good information on durability, but I would like to note that only my ancient serial-interface trackball has lasted longer than it as a functional pointing device (going on 8 years now and it's just starting to develop problems.)
what is this? Soviet Microsoft? The place where, when you consider the worm that turns on your webcam and the ability to execute arbitrary code from JPG, your porn looks at you?
what the hell? why did I get anything for that, funny or not?! bloody insane mods I tell you.. bloody insane.
no you didn't, I did. I made it all up as I went along too, but that's mostly becauase I figured everyone would ignore me.
and when I said exactly I was agreeing with you excluding the other individual from your final statement without excluding everyone.
Actually the indication was that they would not be solved, not that they were unsolvable. There will always be people who are (choose any number of them). Not because there are no solutions, but because there are no solutions which will simultaniously please a large enough percentage of those capable of providing the solution to get it done.
Exactly. That individual isn't the only person alive. Take me for example, I don't donate to charities, and I probably never will. "Why" you ask? because I'm a greedy, self serving bastard and I know it.
Plus, if I donate to helping people, what have I done? possibly given to whichever criminal (sure you could use the term "terrorist" but why bother when a much more simple and accurate term exists?) group happens to intercept my money/food/medicines/etc. or -maybe- helped a small percentage of those who actually need assistance.
Now, I don't fit exactly into the category you mentioned, as I don't think research money could be better spent aiding humanity. Rather, I feel that research money can be better spent on research that improves or may improve my life. and if, as a side effect, it improves the lives of others I can live with that.
"Touchpads on laptops"
That pretty much says it all right there. I prefer trackpoint style pointing devices on my portables, as I find them to be more accurate, much faster to navigate the screen with, and less likely to get bumped while I'm typing and suddenly move my cursor up 12 lines.
Which is not to say trackpoint is perfect, but it's imeasurably better than a touchpad, and the only other stationary pointing device which I might replace it with is a good trackball.
effect: to bring about
affect: To have an influence on or effect a change in
no, I think effect works best for going from effectively 0% market share to some number coming closer to 100%
yes but can it run... oh.. well how about BSD?
I would, but having already opted out of modding, I decided to post this absolutely pointless bit of text instead.
none at all, but you have to write the compiler yourself, puting the lines on seperate pages to keep it from crawling away. and the first time you attempt to model the universe, you'll probably turn into a 6 foot tall bug. Then you'll have to go steal a supercomputer that the russians went to a lot of misdirection to acquire, and while you're doing this, a pair of kids will be building giant robots to defeat anything you can throw at them.
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Even discounting the rather interesting comments from the other two people to Reply to you thus far, even a "fairly boring electromagnetic effect" would be rather interesting, especially given that it covers a large area (affecting both probes even though they were sent off in somewhat different directions).
This is primarily becuase the shotgun never runs out of ammunition, even if used to kill endless hordes of zombies. If your shotgun ever does run out of ammunition, there should be an alternate weapon within easy reach.