Things are made of molecules Some things are made up of molecules, others aren't (or are one big molecule depending on your point of view)
ICs are generally built on one big crystal (a large lattice of atoms all bonded), we add impurities to parts of this crystal to change it's electrical properties (by creating either free electrons in the conduction band or holes in the valance band) and add layers of other things on top of it to make our circuit.
Electronics is really all about controlling the movement of free electrons or holes (generally each atom of dopant produces either a free electron or a hole) within said crystal.
Maybe computing inside an atom will be possible at some point but if it is it will be a totally new technology, not electronics.
Hold the stock in trust and only allow it to be traded after a certain number of years, e.g. 10% of it per year (cumulative), so you can trade all of the stock awarded in one year after ten years. The company needs to be in good shape for several years after they leave for them to profit. That would work if it wasn't for things like short selling and put options:/
If you are using windows XP (can't comment on other systems since I don't use them much on machines that need to print) then the manufacturers tools will likely autodiscover the printer initially but once you've installed it a "port" will be created pointing at the printers IP and the driver will be set up pointing to that "port".
So if you want it to keep working you need to get the printer onto a fixed IP (either by configuring a static IP on the printer or by configuring a fixed MAC to IP mapping on the DHCP server).
The other really nice thing about ethernet is that as well as keeping it open they have kept compatibility for a very long time. Equipment for twisted pair always seems to support falling back to slower speeds and with relatively cheap converters one can easilly hook up really old equipment with a AUI or BNC too.
Power dissipation has also been an issue at least for some consoles. I remember the PS2 being the first console I encoutered that needed fan cooling and the early models of PS3 and 360 take it to an insane level. Not sure about the original xbox (i've only used one briefly)
Well it seems most of these tablets are either running full windows or android.
Those running full windows, i'd expect those to be as open to developers as any other PC. It may or may not be possible to run linux on them depending on the particular hardware.
Android devices seem to be varying in thier openness from very open indeed to rather locked down (afaict android vendors CAN prevent the installation of non-market apps and can lock down the bootloader to stop you replaing the system with a clean image). I'd expect the tablets to be towards the less locked down end of the scale given that they won't be so tied to the whims of mobile phone operators as phones are.
One problem with Windows 7, "it isnt a tablet OS" were Android and Apple iOS 4 are. Yes you can skin windows 7 but as soon as you open an application you are back were you started with a desktop orientated application with menu's etc that are not tablet friendly. I think if MS really tried they COULD make a tablet friendly system based on windows. MS already has a media player, a web browser, an office suite, a mail client and so on in-house so they could adapt all of those for the tablet form factor. Some third party devs could probablly be railroaded into adapting thier apps too.
What do you think the critical apps are for a tablet platform to have?
Well steep hills and racetrack banking would put the car some way from the horizontal so you would have something of a compromise between gain when the car is on the flat and not losing too much gain when the car goes up a hill.
Still I'd expect an antenna on a car roof to be far far better at holding a cellular signal than the one inside a phone or mobile broadband stick which is in turn inside a car.
That is a carrier restriction, not an Apple restriction. My understanding is that the iphone (unlike other more basic phones) initially didn't allow tethering at all and now only allows it if the carrier specifically enables it.
So depending on where you are and what carrier you use the ipone tethering situation ranges from something the network can charge extra for to shit out of luck.
Still paying exorbitant data rates for cellular to actually access the Internet. I dunno what it's like in the US but here you can get some "mobile broadband" plans that are farily reasonable as long as you stay within your allowance (the overage rates are indeed exorbitant).
since I'm fairly sure that most of the people who would want mobile access on their laptop already have either a cellular stick for the laptop, or have already tethered their laptop to their cell phone.... I see several advantages to having car mounted gear
1: it can probablly use higher transmit power without battery life fears (regulations will limit this but I think the regulatory limits are higher than what a typical mobile phone will use) 2: it can make use of an antenna with some gain. Mobile phones and mobile broadband sticks may be operated in any orientation so they can't really make use of antenna gain. Cars are nearly always operated upright. 3: A car mounted antenna can be outside of the car while a device mounted antenna will be inside the car.
The combination of these factors will mean it can probablly get a usable data signal where a laptop in your car with a mobile broadband stick can't.
Yeah it's done in some places but it's not very efficiant and it requires a lot of expensive infrastructure. If we want to get anywhere near the point where we are running our elecricity grid on renewables alone someone is going to have to pay for storage.
If you are relying on your fossil/nuclear based neighbours acting like a battery to make up for the unreliability of your renewables you are far from self-sufficiant.
Here in Portugal we have towns with a nearby wind farm that are self-sufficient in electricity. Are they really self-sufficiant in electricity or are they just generating more in total than they use in total?
Since electricty is a major pain to store generating more in total than you use in total is not sufficiant for self-sufficiancy. You have to be able to generate electricty when it's actually needed.
If you buy outright and manage to get tenants you will almost certainly make some income. How much income you will make and what will happen to the value of your capital will of course depend on where you buy.
However normally people don't have that kind of money to invest all at one go and even if they did probablly wouldn't want to put all thier eggs in one basket. So people buy property on mortgages and let it out. There ARE places where you can do this and make money but you really have to pick your locations carefully and even then you can be hit by unforseen events.
There's a reason landlords go into the rental business, and its not because its impossible to make money at it. Afaict a lot of people went into the property business because they had been convinced (or convinced themselves) that property prices would never go down and so even if they didn't get any rent they would still be winning.
1: Afaict none of the major IDEs/editors support it and even if they do it won't be on by default. 2: it adds to the mess by creating yet another way of doing things that will lead to broken formatting (at least as broken as changing the tab stop in code that uses tabs for indentation and trys to line stuff up) when someone opens the file up in another editor.
Memory is cheap Kind of, the memory itself isn't too expensive but the cost of a system has a highly nonlinear relationship to memory requirements at least with the intel nahelm stuff (it's been a while since i've looked at AMD so I can't really commend there).
Up to 16GB you can use an ordinary LGA1366 board and CPU.
To get to 24GB you need a LGA1366 board and CPU.
To get to 48GB (or 72GB if you are prepared to take the performance hit and motherboard choice hit that comes from putting three memory modules on a channel) you need a dual-socket LGA1366 board and associated dual-socket capable CPUs (which are far far more expensive clock for clock than thier single socket equivilents) and associated speial case.
To get to 96GB (or 144GB if you are prepared to take the performance hit and motherboard choice hit that comes from putting three memory modules on a channel) you need the aforementioned dual-socket platform plus insanely expensive 8GB modules.
Beyond that you are talking moving to a quad-socket platform afaict.
The trouble is for a floating datacenter it won't be a case of "simply lift the anchor and sail away to a more tax friendly locale". It will be a case of building a new special power and data hookup and more importantly trying to figure out how to provide continuity of service to customers while you do the move (ships don't move very fast).
Is not an overloaded server a "clog"? In a sense it is but it is a clog in mail specific infrastructure, not a clog in the general purpose routing infrastructure.
And when talking about net neutrality that is a rather important distinction.
players are LICENSED. money. While i'm sure the money is nice gravy I don't think it's the only reason and probablly not even the main reason for keeping things tightly gaurded.
Open source and open standards are fundamenally incompatible with drm since if you have the unobfuscated source to a player or even a sufficiant spec (including all required keys) needed to implement a player you can create a player that does not respect the drm.
but we still will be able to play our media. you have done nothing but stopped revenue to your own self, you silly mpaa morons. I agree with dvd they are fighting a losing battle. At this point the best they can do is try and keep copiers relegated to the darker corners of the internet rather than something you get bundled with your PC or buy in a computer store.
Unfortunately for us the creaters of blu-ray learned from the mistakes they made with DVD. They designed it specifically so that even after it had been cracked once they had avenues availiable (e.g. revoking keys and even potentially firmware updating players) to lock it back down again.
To be impacted by this you have to choose to convert game time codes to PLEX (an ingame item that can be used to extend you account) and choose to undock with them in your hold. Really the only reason to do that is because you are trying to sell them for isk (in game currency) and either created them in the wrong place or are both buying and selling in game (arbitrage). Those just using them to extend thier own accounts would just use them where the bought them and those introducing them into the game can choose to introduce them where they plan to sell them.
Has anyone here actually tried this? is it actually feasible to set up a trial account and earn enough isk during the trial period to buy a PLEX and keep playing?
It seems my previous post was wrong, they sold the UK ISP to talktalk (talktalk has been buying up lots of ISPs to try and increase thier LLU coverage).
Afaict (based on what i've picked up on/., I don't use them myself and they were never anywhere near as popular on this side of the pond as in america) they do a few things
1: I think* they have a "transit data network" which is one of the tier 1 ISPs (the group of ISPs that all peer with each other and form the top level of the internet) 2: They still sell dialup and in the some places (including the UK where I live) they also offer broadband. 3: They sell a product which lets you access all the AOL services over your internet connection which some people who used to use AOL dialup and now have broadband use. 4: They have some advert supported products as well (IIRC they actually have an ad-supported product that is very similar to the aforementioned pay product but they don't like to mention that to thier customers).
* The transit data networks website still claims time warner is AOLs parent company so I can't tell which side of the split that went with.
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Things are made of molecules
Some things are made up of molecules, others aren't (or are one big molecule depending on your point of view)
ICs are generally built on one big crystal (a large lattice of atoms all bonded), we add impurities to parts of this crystal to change it's electrical properties (by creating either free electrons in the conduction band or holes in the valance band) and add layers of other things on top of it to make our circuit.
Electronics is really all about controlling the movement of free electrons or holes (generally each atom of dopant produces either a free electron or a hole) within said crystal.
Maybe computing inside an atom will be possible at some point but if it is it will be a totally new technology, not electronics.
Hold the stock in trust and only allow it to be traded after a certain number of years, e.g. 10% of it per year (cumulative), so you can trade all of the stock awarded in one year after ten years. The company needs to be in good shape for several years after they leave for them to profit. :/
That would work if it wasn't for things like short selling and put options
If you are using windows XP (can't comment on other systems since I don't use them much on machines that need to print) then the manufacturers tools will likely autodiscover the printer initially but once you've installed it a "port" will be created pointing at the printers IP and the driver will be set up pointing to that "port".
So if you want it to keep working you need to get the printer onto a fixed IP (either by configuring a static IP on the printer or by configuring a fixed MAC to IP mapping on the DHCP server).
The other really nice thing about ethernet is that as well as keeping it open they have kept compatibility for a very long time. Equipment for twisted pair always seems to support falling back to slower speeds and with relatively cheap converters one can easilly hook up really old equipment with a AUI or BNC too.
Power dissipation has also been an issue at least for some consoles. I remember the PS2 being the first console I encoutered that needed fan cooling and the early models of PS3 and 360 take it to an insane level. Not sure about the original xbox (i've only used one briefly)
Well it seems most of these tablets are either running full windows or android.
Those running full windows, i'd expect those to be as open to developers as any other PC. It may or may not be possible to run linux on them depending on the particular hardware.
Android devices seem to be varying in thier openness from very open indeed to rather locked down (afaict android vendors CAN prevent the installation of non-market apps and can lock down the bootloader to stop you replaing the system with a clean image). I'd expect the tablets to be towards the less locked down end of the scale given that they won't be so tied to the whims of mobile phone operators as phones are.
One problem with Windows 7, "it isnt a tablet OS" were Android and Apple iOS 4 are. Yes you can skin windows 7 but as soon as you open an application you are back were you started with a desktop orientated application with menu's etc that are not tablet friendly.
I think if MS really tried they COULD make a tablet friendly system based on windows. MS already has a media player, a web browser, an office suite, a mail client and so on in-house so they could adapt all of those for the tablet form factor. Some third party devs could probablly be railroaded into adapting thier apps too.
What do you think the critical apps are for a tablet platform to have?
Well steep hills and racetrack banking would put the car some way from the horizontal so you would have something of a compromise between gain when the car is on the flat and not losing too much gain when the car goes up a hill.
Still I'd expect an antenna on a car roof to be far far better at holding a cellular signal than the one inside a phone or mobile broadband stick which is in turn inside a car.
That is a carrier restriction, not an Apple restriction.
My understanding is that the iphone (unlike other more basic phones) initially didn't allow tethering at all and now only allows it if the carrier specifically enables it.
So depending on where you are and what carrier you use the ipone tethering situation ranges from something the network can charge extra for to shit out of luck.
Still paying exorbitant data rates for cellular to actually access the Internet.
I dunno what it's like in the US but here you can get some "mobile broadband" plans that are farily reasonable as long as you stay within your allowance (the overage rates are indeed exorbitant).
since I'm fairly sure that most of the people who would want mobile access on their laptop already have either a cellular stick for the laptop, or have already tethered their laptop to their cell phone....
I see several advantages to having car mounted gear
1: it can probablly use higher transmit power without battery life fears (regulations will limit this but I think the regulatory limits are higher than what a typical mobile phone will use)
2: it can make use of an antenna with some gain. Mobile phones and mobile broadband sticks may be operated in any orientation so they can't really make use of antenna gain. Cars are nearly always operated upright.
3: A car mounted antenna can be outside of the car while a device mounted antenna will be inside the car.
The combination of these factors will mean it can probablly get a usable data signal where a laptop in your car with a mobile broadband stick can't.
Yeah it's done in some places but it's not very efficiant and it requires a lot of expensive infrastructure. If we want to get anywhere near the point where we are running our elecricity grid on renewables alone someone is going to have to pay for storage.
If you are relying on your fossil/nuclear based neighbours acting like a battery to make up for the unreliability of your renewables you are far from self-sufficiant.
Here in Portugal we have towns with a nearby wind farm that are self-sufficient in electricity.
Are they really self-sufficiant in electricity or are they just generating more in total than they use in total?
Since electricty is a major pain to store generating more in total than you use in total is not sufficiant for self-sufficiancy. You have to be able to generate electricty when it's actually needed.
If you buy outright and manage to get tenants you will almost certainly make some income. How much income you will make and what will happen to the value of your capital will of course depend on where you buy.
However normally people don't have that kind of money to invest all at one go and even if they did probablly wouldn't want to put all thier eggs in one basket. So people buy property on mortgages and let it out. There ARE places where you can do this and make money but you really have to pick your locations carefully and even then you can be hit by unforseen events.
There's a reason landlords go into the rental business, and its not because its impossible to make money at it.
Afaict a lot of people went into the property business because they had been convinced (or convinced themselves) that property prices would never go down and so even if they didn't get any rent they would still be winning.
Cool idea, the trouble is
1: Afaict none of the major IDEs/editors support it and even if they do it won't be on by default.
2: it adds to the mess by creating yet another way of doing things that will lead to broken formatting (at least as broken as changing the tab stop in code that uses tabs for indentation and trys to line stuff up) when someone opens the file up in another editor.
Up to 16GB you can use an ordinary LGA1366 board and CPU.
That line should have said LGA1156
Memory is cheap
Kind of, the memory itself isn't too expensive but the cost of a system has a highly nonlinear relationship to memory requirements at least with the intel nahelm stuff (it's been a while since i've looked at AMD so I can't really commend there).
Up to 16GB you can use an ordinary LGA1366 board and CPU.
To get to 24GB you need a LGA1366 board and CPU.
To get to 48GB (or 72GB if you are prepared to take the performance hit and motherboard choice hit that comes from putting three memory modules on a channel) you need a dual-socket LGA1366 board and associated dual-socket capable CPUs (which are far far more expensive clock for clock than thier single socket equivilents) and associated speial case.
To get to 96GB (or 144GB if you are prepared to take the performance hit and motherboard choice hit that comes from putting three memory modules on a channel) you need the aforementioned dual-socket platform plus insanely expensive 8GB modules.
Beyond that you are talking moving to a quad-socket platform afaict.
The trouble is for a floating datacenter it won't be a case of "simply lift the anchor and sail away to a more tax friendly locale". It will be a case of building a new special power and data hookup and more importantly trying to figure out how to provide continuity of service to customers while you do the move (ships don't move very fast).
Is not an overloaded server a "clog"?
In a sense it is but it is a clog in mail specific infrastructure, not a clog in the general purpose routing infrastructure.
And when talking about net neutrality that is a rather important distinction.
players are LICENSED. money.
While i'm sure the money is nice gravy I don't think it's the only reason and probablly not even the main reason for keeping things tightly gaurded.
Open source and open standards are fundamenally incompatible with drm since if you have the unobfuscated source to a player or even a sufficiant spec (including all required keys) needed to implement a player you can create a player that does not respect the drm.
but we still will be able to play our media. you have done nothing but stopped revenue to your own self, you silly mpaa morons.
I agree with dvd they are fighting a losing battle. At this point the best they can do is try and keep copiers relegated to the darker corners of the internet rather than something you get bundled with your PC or buy in a computer store.
Unfortunately for us the creaters of blu-ray learned from the mistakes they made with DVD. They designed it specifically so that even after it had been cracked once they had avenues availiable (e.g. revoking keys and even potentially firmware updating players) to lock it back down again.
They can check it's a valid postcode but I don't see any real way they can check the submitter actually lives there.
To be impacted by this you have to choose to convert game time codes to PLEX (an ingame item that can be used to extend you account) and choose to undock with them in your hold. Really the only reason to do that is because you are trying to sell them for isk (in game currency) and either created them in the wrong place or are both buying and selling in game (arbitrage). Those just using them to extend thier own accounts would just use them where the bought them and those introducing them into the game can choose to introduce them where they plan to sell them.
Has anyone here actually tried this? is it actually feasible to set up a trial account and earn enough isk during the trial period to buy a PLEX and keep playing?
Following the links in TFA apparently they used the android build of flash with some kind of compatibility layer.
It seems my previous post was wrong, they sold the UK ISP to talktalk (talktalk has been buying up lots of ISPs to try and increase thier LLU coverage).
Afaict (based on what i've picked up on /., I don't use them myself and they were never anywhere near as popular on this side of the pond as in america) they do a few things
1: I think* they have a "transit data network" which is one of the tier 1 ISPs (the group of ISPs that all peer with each other and form the top level of the internet)
2: They still sell dialup and in the some places (including the UK where I live) they also offer broadband.
3: They sell a product which lets you access all the AOL services over your internet connection which some people who used to use AOL dialup and now have broadband use.
4: They have some advert supported products as well (IIRC they actually have an ad-supported product that is very similar to the aforementioned pay product but they don't like to mention that to thier customers).
* The transit data networks website still claims time warner is AOLs parent company so I can't tell which side of the split that went with.