When I skimmed the summary, my mind re-wrote that line as "they pinched out Myspace from the best bits of everybody else's sites." I think the excretory analogy works better.
Well, as the AC says, the UN is essentially beholden to the dictatorships that make up its majority. I know, I know, cue the inevitable response that the United States is just as bad. Well, our "dictators" go away after a fixed amount of time, and while some of our nuttier politicians get ideas in their heads about things like.xxx, you'll notice that they talk a lot while things stay the same.
Giving all groups equal say in the future of the internet would be a disaster for free expression. Backwards theocracies like Saudi Arabia would push restrictions on pornography and criticism of religion. China would, of course, want anything critical of its sytem blocked. The list goes on.
You don't think it would be this bad? Fine. I think it would be worse. The status quo, while imperfect, is the best way to go. My $0.02
For one thing, it's a much simpler mechanism. As other posters have said, maintenance on the F-14 and like aircraft is very high. Traditional swing wings have two points of rotation which must be synchronized, whereas this has only one (that probably cuts the weight of the mechanism in half, too). It's probably stealthier, too, since the wing doesn't retract into a big groove in the side of the fuselage.
Despite the NDA I imagine this will be very, very skimpy on details. Something like, "In six months, we'll be using the 3Ghz dual-core processors, in twelve months we'll be using the 3.5Ghz quad-core processors." Hell, Intel's roadmaps already give us most of the details of Apple's future products (everything except size and shape).
A $200 camcorder would still be blinded. The IR cut filters built in to consumer cameras are pretty crappy. A remote control, for example, looks like a little flashlight to my $500 digicam. I never cared enough to buy a screw-on IR filter (I might, now), but it's clearly superior to what comes in the camera.
The best solution in that case would be a hot mirror*, or IR cutoff filter, which allows visible light through but blocks all IR. According to the article, the final system will use infrared lasers (visible light won't be too welcome in a theater), which may as well be shooting blanks at an IR cut filter. IIRC it's about an $80 piece of glass, which movie pirates and others will gladly pay.
So once again, this is a protection system that will only inconvenience normal people.
*A hot mirror reflects infrared back, will it blind the sensors that direct the lasers?
You're an idiot. The spy plane (an electronic surveillance aircraft for sniffing radar and radio signals) was over international waters when a couple of Chinese fighters came out to play with it. That's all quite normal. Somebody got too close (not turboprop flying slowly in a straight line), there was a collision, and the spy plane made an emergency landing at the Chinese base.
There was no "act of war" involved. Both governments expressed their concerns and moved on.
I think a meteorite striking a lunar base would be like shooting at an ant crawling on the side of a barn. From a mile away. With your eyes closed. Of course, the thing about random chance is that it's bound to happen eventually, but I don't think any astronauts will lose sleep over it.
They are talking about the recordable drives, which for what it's worth do not burn DRM to the discs you make.
You're quite right that hard drives are getting cheaper and better for backup; I am myself building a file server, but high capacity optical disks have their place. I can hand out CD-Rs and DVD-Rs like candy, and these next-generation formats will come down in price if they survive.
Oh, and as a competing anecdote, I've never had a failed write/corrupt DVD-R. It's been a couple of years since I last (accidently) turned a CD-R into a coaster, too. Maybe you should look into higher quality drives and media.
Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba, Pioneer, Aiwa and NEC all supported Betamax. Presumably some studios did, too. There's no loyalty among corporations; *if* Blu-Ray starts looking like a failure, those companies you listed will not hesitate to jump ship (same goes for HD-DVD, of course).
Dual processor (not dual core) systems have been the domain of server chips like the Opteron and Xeon, ever since Intel split the Xeon off from the PIII line. The motherboards for them (not to mention the processors themselves) are very expensive... this is good news for enthusiasts.
Will AMD hurt itself by undercutting Opteron sales?
The 865 chipset supports dual channel RAM, I'm using it right now (one of the BIOS boot messages that flashes by is "Memory runs at dual channel").
The overall system performance increase from dual channel RAM is ~3%, but since Intel's integrated graphics use system memory, they probably sees a noticeable increase. That's partly why Apple pairs the RAM in its low-end computers, but not in the iMac or Macbook Pro (those machines are also more likely to get upgraded).
One can argue that there's already a Homeworld TV show, since Homeworld was heavily influenced by the original Battlestar Galactica series. Of couse, there are many other influences in Homeworld. Yes, it would make a good movie, though it would probably take a trilogy of films to do right.
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28 seasons of Star Trek + all the movies = 250GB.
When I skimmed the summary, my mind re-wrote that line as "they pinched out Myspace from the best bits of everybody else's sites." I think the excretory analogy works better.
Well, as the AC says, the UN is essentially beholden to the dictatorships that make up its majority. I know, I know, cue the inevitable response that the United States is just as bad. Well, our "dictators" go away after a fixed amount of time, and while some of our nuttier politicians get ideas in their heads about things like .xxx, you'll notice that they talk a lot while things stay the same.
Giving all groups equal say in the future of the internet would be a disaster for free expression. Backwards theocracies like Saudi Arabia would push restrictions on pornography and criticism of religion. China would, of course, want anything critical of its sytem blocked. The list goes on.
You don't think it would be this bad? Fine. I think it would be worse. The status quo, while imperfect, is the best way to go. My $0.02
It must be carried across the sea by an African Swallow. In a hollowed-out coconut.
I'm running it on my v2, and it's been great. This is good news for people who don't want to spend an extra $20 on the WRT54GL.
I think the title uses "assassin" because that's what the article uses.
For one thing, it's a much simpler mechanism. As other posters have said, maintenance on the F-14 and like aircraft is very high. Traditional swing wings have two points of rotation which must be synchronized, whereas this has only one (that probably cuts the weight of the mechanism in half, too). It's probably stealthier, too, since the wing doesn't retract into a big groove in the side of the fuselage.
Actually, no, you can't connect a 30" monitor to a Macbook. Fortunately, the 23" is big enough for this.
Despite the NDA I imagine this will be very, very skimpy on details. Something like, "In six months, we'll be using the 3Ghz dual-core processors, in twelve months we'll be using the 3.5Ghz quad-core processors." Hell, Intel's roadmaps already give us most of the details of Apple's future products (everything except size and shape).
It'll leak anyway.
A $200 camcorder would still be blinded. The IR cut filters built in to consumer cameras are pretty crappy. A remote control, for example, looks like a little flashlight to my $500 digicam. I never cared enough to buy a screw-on IR filter (I might, now), but it's clearly superior to what comes in the camera.
The best solution in that case would be a hot mirror*, or IR cutoff filter, which allows visible light through but blocks all IR. According to the article, the final system will use infrared lasers (visible light won't be too welcome in a theater), which may as well be shooting blanks at an IR cut filter. IIRC it's about an $80 piece of glass, which movie pirates and others will gladly pay.
So once again, this is a protection system that will only inconvenience normal people.
*A hot mirror reflects infrared back, will it blind the sensors that direct the lasers?
You're an idiot. The spy plane (an electronic surveillance aircraft for sniffing radar and radio signals) was over international waters when a couple of Chinese fighters came out to play with it. That's all quite normal. Somebody got too close (not turboprop flying slowly in a straight line), there was a collision, and the spy plane made an emergency landing at the Chinese base.
There was no "act of war" involved. Both governments expressed their concerns and moved on.
I think a meteorite striking a lunar base would be like shooting at an ant crawling on the side of a barn. From a mile away. With your eyes closed. Of course, the thing about random chance is that it's bound to happen eventually, but I don't think any astronauts will lose sleep over it.
It's for advertising...on the moon!
Actually, I'd love it if I could use my cats as roving access points.
What does this have to do with my rights online?
I'm looking forward to the first hydrogen hard drive.
They are talking about the recordable drives, which for what it's worth do not burn DRM to the discs you make.
You're quite right that hard drives are getting cheaper and better for backup; I am myself building a file server, but high capacity optical disks have their place. I can hand out CD-Rs and DVD-Rs like candy, and these next-generation formats will come down in price if they survive.
Oh, and as a competing anecdote, I've never had a failed write/corrupt DVD-R. It's been a couple of years since I last (accidently) turned a CD-R into a coaster, too. Maybe you should look into higher quality drives and media.
Sony said we didn't need a PC? The PS3 is supposed to be good enough for anything.
Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba, Pioneer, Aiwa and NEC all supported Betamax. Presumably some studios did, too. There's no loyalty among corporations; *if* Blu-Ray starts looking like a failure, those companies you listed will not hesitate to jump ship (same goes for HD-DVD, of course).
It's slides 69 and 73-74, to be exact (I can't believe I just looked at all of those).
Dual processor (not dual core) systems have been the domain of server chips like the Opteron and Xeon, ever since Intel split the Xeon off from the PIII line. The motherboards for them (not to mention the processors themselves) are very expensive... this is good news for enthusiasts.
Will AMD hurt itself by undercutting Opteron sales?
Will Intel follow suit with its consumer chips?
Orion is how we get out of earth's gravity.
The 865 chipset supports dual channel RAM, I'm using it right now (one of the BIOS boot messages that flashes by is "Memory runs at dual channel").
The overall system performance increase from dual channel RAM is ~3%, but since Intel's integrated graphics use system memory, they probably sees a noticeable increase. That's partly why Apple pairs the RAM in its low-end computers, but not in the iMac or Macbook Pro (those machines are also more likely to get upgraded).
One can argue that there's already a Homeworld TV show, since Homeworld was heavily influenced by the original Battlestar Galactica series. Of couse, there are many other influences in Homeworld. Yes, it would make a good movie, though it would probably take a trilogy of films to do right.