depends on where the things lands I guess. If it chooses your house, I'm afraid a bunker can't be deep enough. Howerver a few kilometers away and a half buried shed may be enough to save your life.
I looked that one up. Wikipedia says "yes of course", Encyclopedia Galactica says "no", Hitchikers Guide says "both are not interesting enough for our editors to read through, so we're giving you an article about [[pr0n]]"
there also are a lot of firms selling pre-configured server solutions, complete with service and eye-candy. for example CoxOrange. I think this is a quite interesting development too.
In my school we're currently bringing a computer in every classroom. We spend a lot of money on them but it feels as if this whole project has been initiated to make our school look more modern. Serously, we got several prices for our "use" of modern technology in school, but in real life nobody uses the PCs (exept the teacher who started all this crap). There is no reason to put computers in classrooms when the teachers don't know how to use them. If you don't believe me have a look at our schools website to see our teacher's skills: http://www.come.to/goethe-schule I'd rather have our windows (the glass ones) fixed than useless technology to show off.
I saw pseudo 3d lcds at the CeBit (can't remember who produced them) and they looked like, you know, ugly. If you weren't in the sweet spot all you could see was a distorted image in different colours, and even if you found the optimal position the colours were wrong. I wouldn't want to have one of those. It has to be terribly un-ergonomic not to be able to move your head.
I think not. Heavy research is put in silencing aircraft turbines and it's not as easy as one way think. I guess it's the same with the fans cooling your CPU. Unless you want to pay $100 per fan with special widgets to reduce the noise you won't get fans very silent. IMHO it's much easier to reduce the overall heatoutput of a system than developing silent fans. As a plus less heat means less power consumption and nobody wants to pays those bills.
as other slashdot articles have proposed, future PCs (probably) won't be much more powerfull than today, but rather, like back in the mainframe days, dependend on some supercomputer selling it's processing power. obviously such a mainframe can use massive parallel processing techniques were cooling is less of an issue.
they should look for ways to mass produce cheap diamonds. Diamonds are about five times better at heat conducting as copper and could thus be used for passive cooling.
the speed of light in the vakuum is the maximum speed you (given you had no mass) could possibly have. slowing light down is not a problem if you have the right medium. only faster-than-light is impossible (if einstein was right).
Maybe it's a great honor to be a good camel racer and the parents just want the best for their children. Plus they may get better food/healthcare/education at their new "owner".
IIRC poor families in Europe sent their gifted children to wealthier people as servants, hoping that they'd had better chances there as with them, like 200-300 years ago.
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depends on where the things lands I guess. If it chooses your house, I'm afraid a bunker can't be deep enough.
Howerver a few kilometers away and a half buried shed may be enough to save your life.
*replaces tinfoil with Adamantium*
I guess the probability of it hitting the earth and missing it by 150km are about the same
I looked that one up.
Wikipedia says "yes of course", Encyclopedia Galactica says "no", Hitchikers Guide says "both are not interesting enough for our editors to read through, so we're giving you an article about [[pr0n]]"
no, this way we can have Microbe when Microsoft acquires Adobe Systems Inc.
there also are a lot of firms selling pre-configured server solutions, complete with service and eye-candy. for example CoxOrange. I think this is a quite interesting development too.
html for webpages and latex for documents...
I'm writing this on a DOS Box you insensitive clod!
In my school we're currently bringing a computer in every classroom. We spend a lot of money on them but it feels as if this whole project has been initiated to make our school look more modern.
Serously, we got several prices for our "use" of modern technology in school, but in real life nobody uses the PCs (exept the teacher who started all this crap). There is no reason to put computers in classrooms when the teachers don't know how to use them.
If you don't believe me have a look at our schools website to see our teacher's skills: http://www.come.to/goethe-schule
I'd rather have our windows (the glass ones) fixed than useless technology to show off.
I saw pseudo 3d lcds at the CeBit (can't remember who produced them) and they looked like, you know, ugly.
If you weren't in the sweet spot all you could see was a distorted image in different colours, and even if you found the optimal position the colours were wrong. I wouldn't want to have one of those.
It has to be terribly un-ergonomic not to be able to move your head.
it's the size.
compare the typical light bulb with the typical wire running through your house. the light bulb gets hot because of the thin wire.
I thenk you need to get a bigger room. the 300W or so your computer uses would hardly be enough to heat a toilet...
one has to assume ultra-fast gigabit internet for this to work, of course...
I think not.
Heavy research is put in silencing aircraft turbines and it's not as easy as one way think. I guess it's the same with the fans cooling your CPU. Unless you want to pay $100 per fan with special widgets to reduce the noise you won't get fans very silent.
IMHO it's much easier to reduce the overall heatoutput of a system than developing silent fans. As a plus less heat means less power consumption and nobody wants to pays those bills.
diamonds may conuct heat, but not electricity. not aren't usable at all for chip manufacturing.
fyi silicone is in breasts. silicium is in chips.
as other slashdot articles have proposed, future PCs (probably) won't be much more powerfull than today, but rather, like back in the mainframe days, dependend on some supercomputer selling it's processing power.
obviously such a mainframe can use massive parallel processing techniques were cooling is less of an issue.
they should look for ways to mass produce cheap diamonds.
Diamonds are about five times better at heat conducting as copper and could thus be used for passive cooling.
so, if pi doesn't exist, what is the ratio between a circle's diameter and its extent?
the speed of light in the vakuum is the maximum speed you (given you had no mass) could possibly have. slowing light down is not a problem if you have the right medium. only faster-than-light is impossible (if einstein was right).
Maybe it's a great honor to be a good camel racer and the parents just want the best for their children. Plus they may get better food/healthcare/education at their new "owner".
IIRC poor families in Europe sent their gifted children to wealthier people as servants, hoping that they'd had better chances there as with them, like 200-300 years ago.
actually I tried to be funny. I failed miserably.
"here at microsoft we invent things. Linux is still in the process of copying"
So now who copys what?
In a borg cubus nanotech regulates you!
My parent said they should've rather used this recent method utilising an 8000dpi scanner.
RTFC
maybe they had no 8000dpi scanners back in a time when normal people could build one of the fastest supercomputers in the world and pay less than $80k