We aren't even 100 orders of magnitude close to having a tether material that work, yet people are spending their time on robot designs that are a trivial problem. Why don't these contests focus on high alitutde tethers?
And you would trust the soviets to get rid of all their nukes? Could they have gotten rid of them? It has taken years and years and billions to dismantle the tens of thousands of nukes, both in the US and in Russia.
How about growing up, buying your own computer and not buying as many cds? I know plenty of people that stop buying music completely as they get older.
The monsoon season in the southwest is directly proportional to the temperature of the gulf of baha. Perhaps new mexico and arizona will become the new breadbasket of the us.
Not to mention that this would more quickly be taken up by electronics manufacturers, where it would make more sense to roll these out for something like a cellphone.
Bullshit indeed.
One of the gaming programmers I know told me that it was much harder to bring down xp when doing graphics programming and it saved him a considerable amount of time.
China created walmart, and China will destroy it.
Look at how easy (and cheaper) it is now to get chinese stuff on ebay. Once the chinese figure out how to drop ship to the US cheaply, walmart is doomed.
You don't need to make beer anologies to see why they are doing this. Just run some numbers. We will approximate that 50% of customers are locked into walmart. They might not have broadband, might not care to use itunes or something like that. Guess that 50% of non-locked in customers go to some itunes (or other) video service. Okay that means a loss of 25% of video sales, a guess would be $100 million. Wal mart still has 300$ million in sales it can hold over the studios head. Of course they (studios) are worried. If walmart can delay the transition a couple of years, it saves them 200m in sales. Perhaps they have they're own service in the works...
You really have a head up your ass. How many people that shop at walmart use itunes? I don't and I am a software engineer. What about the trailer trash in arkansas? Maybe 2%?
What would be the point? If I want to share a clip with someone I just send them a link instead of a huge file. I have been using youtube for a while now and haven't had the urge to actually 'keep' the file a single time.
When you are talking about electrons you start to have problems with resonance and interference between the connections. This is why memory is such a difficult problem, because manufaturer A has to create a memory module that plays nice on the generic memory bus designed by manufacturer B.
If there is an optical buss from the CPU to the memory module, the memory manufacture has carte blanch to design a module as fast as they want, because there is no more buss restrictions. They would only have to solve the electrical interference on their module, and hopefully would eventually go all optical.
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A smarter idea would be to send up new balloons that detach the old ones. no tanks and no robots.
Yeah the US has funded and executed the dismantling of the USSR warheads. Not a likely scenario in the 60s.
History has favored 'baby steps'
We aren't even 100 orders of magnitude close to having a tether material that work, yet people are spending their time on robot designs that are a trivial problem. Why don't these contests focus on high alitutde tethers?
And you would trust the soviets to get rid of all their nukes? Could they have gotten rid of them? It has taken years and years and billions to dismantle the tens of thousands of nukes, both in the US and in Russia.
Yeah but it's a solution to a non-problem. Imagine all of your cube mates talking to their computer? I curse at it but that's about it.
It was an example, not advice. Are you slow?
I would have to agree. The first thing I do now is rip the cd to my computer so I don't have to touch it again.
How about growing up, buying your own computer and not buying as many cds? I know plenty of people that stop buying music completely as they get older.
The monsoon season in the southwest is directly proportional to the temperature of the gulf of baha. Perhaps new mexico and arizona will become the new breadbasket of the us.
The article would of been more interesting if it said $XXXX dollar were stolen using a default password.
Seems like reporting on a non-issue.
Not to mention that this would more quickly be taken up by electronics manufacturers, where it would make more sense to roll these out for something like a cellphone. Bullshit indeed.
Never fear, IE 7 is on the way!
One of the gaming programmers I know told me that it was much harder to bring down xp when doing graphics programming and it saved him a considerable amount of time.
Like i said there is no where else to go in rural america. This is their monopoly.
10,000$ per file? that would mean 10,000 dowloads from itunes... People seem to mostly download porn in my experience.
China created walmart, and China will destroy it. Look at how easy (and cheaper) it is now to get chinese stuff on ebay. Once the chinese figure out how to drop ship to the US cheaply, walmart is doomed.
You don't need to make beer anologies to see why they are doing this. Just run some numbers.
We will approximate that 50% of customers are locked into walmart. They might not have broadband, might not care to use itunes or something like that.
Guess that 50% of non-locked in customers go to some itunes (or other) video service.
Okay that means a loss of 25% of video sales, a guess would be $100 million.
Wal mart still has 300$ million in sales it can hold over the studios head. Of course they (studios) are worried.
If walmart can delay the transition a couple of years, it saves them 200m in sales. Perhaps they have they're own service in the works...
Its just business.
it seems the majority of /. fails to think about rural america. In most of these places kmart or target simply don't exist.
This is where walmart started, and this is the 'can of whoop-ass' that walmart has pointed at the manufacturers.
You really have a head up your ass. How many people that shop at walmart use itunes? I don't and I am a software engineer. What about the trailer trash in arkansas? Maybe 2%?
These people would not be able to download that much, not to mention they wouldn't share it with anyone, at least in a p2p sense.
What would be the point? If I want to share a clip with someone I just send them a link instead of a huge file. I have been using youtube for a while now and haven't had the urge to actually 'keep' the file a single time.
When you are talking about electrons you start to have problems with resonance and interference between the connections. This is why memory is such a difficult problem, because manufaturer A has to create a memory module that plays nice on the generic memory bus designed by manufacturer B. If there is an optical buss from the CPU to the memory module, the memory manufacture has carte blanch to design a module as fast as they want, because there is no more buss restrictions. They would only have to solve the electrical interference on their module, and hopefully would eventually go all optical.
Lets outsource the baby boomers. Send them to nursing homes in India.
The lansdscaper i used to work for in NJ paid them 10$ hour cash. US citizens just don't want to work.
banks have insurance just like any other business.