Is that you could no longer have satellites in any orbit other than geosynchronous unless their orbits were very carefully tuned to avoid hitting the cable.
BTW: A space elevator will never really fall, if you put a rocket on one end you could get it to pinwheel, but I don't think any terrorists would have the time to attach a rocket motor with sufficient thrust to get it to do this.
No really, think about it, the space elevator would be rotating about GEO at exactly one rotation per day clockwise, while the earth rotates about its center at one rotation counterclockwise. Nothing you could do at the end would allow you to make the elevator fall.
If you really wanted the elevator to fall, go to the center of mass and cut it in half. That'll bring it down quickly.
BTW, read Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven, even if it is fantasy. You'll probably agree that we really don't want a space elevator:)
If you read through this research paper it'll start with N=4 and T=5. As you continue to read through the paper he quotes bandwidth figures from his table using various other N and T values.
For example, in the very last table (Bandwidth rates for 10qps) he says the bandwidth generated will by 8GB/s, which align with N=8, T=7. Where you to use the N and T values from the beginning, this would be 2.4MB/s, which is off by 3143 and one third times.
Going back to Joe User's Greatful Dead query, it only generates ~250KB, not 800MB.
Remember, very very few people are going to modify their TTL or open connections. This ``white paper'' grossly misstates the amount of bandwidth Gnutella generates and seems to be an anti-Gnutalla paper designed to mislead rather than an honest and fair judgment
I wrote a web site in it (about 3500 lines of ruby, not entirely polished) and it was super quick to write, includes an output class for generating content in various formats (HTML, plain text, whatever else you want to implement), a system for processing form data (not great, but reusable), and a template-ish system (uses the decorator pattern) for attaching arbitrary content to a page. The only problem is that it is far too slow to put into production, I'm porting it to perl, but I really hope that the execution times of ruby programs will increase, ruby is pure joy to program in.
Just because XML is a hierarchical markup language does not mean that it can only be used for hierarchical things. Perhaps you should look at RDF which can use many to many mappings through resources and groupings (sequences, bags, and alternates). (A resource in one grouping can refer to another grouping i.e. many to many.)
I've got a Dell Latitude LM P-133 w/40MB RAM and a 2-gig disk. The screen resolution is 800x600x8bit which is great for a bunch of xterms in blackbox. The only reason I'd buy a new machine is for an ACPI power-off/on button.
I recieved the laptop free from a prior employer and I find it does everything I need. If you need KDE with all its overhead you aren't thinking small enough. I don't know about prices, buy you could probably pick up a similar model for a few hundred on ebay.
FreeBSD gained the NetGraph code because it eventually came too difficult for the third party to cost effectively roll the FreeBSD source changes into their custom version. (I forget the company name, they're part of IBM now IIRC.)
Where are you going to put all these users? I doubt many companies have this many users close enough to the server where bandwidth costs won't be prohibative. My company (PACCAR) employs well over 20,000, but we are all spread out across the nation, the majority being in the Seattle area. The powers that be put Exchange servers at or close to each office with the users mailboxes on them. This makes much more sense because the offices mail within the group far more than they do to outside offices, reducing bandwidth requirements.
Putting all your mailboxes on one big box is going to be far too slow unless they work in Ethernet-distance from the server, and even that will be problematic.
You said, "Consistent and reasoned responses are imperitive in civilized society. Everything else is barbarism."
What happened yesterday was not just a terrorist attack on the WTC and the Pentagon and not just a terrorist attack on the US. It was a declaration of war against the civilized world.
Any country that supports or harbors terrorists on any scale had better sit down and take a long, hard look at what they are doing today, they probably won't last the next decade if they continue. The people that did this must be exterminated including any who support them.
While I'm not a fan of military action, I would now join the military to take revenge not for my nation, but for the world. The terroists have shown us they can take our own planes and cause such enormous destruction and through this they show that they despise the foundations of civilization itself, trade and travel. There is only one consistent and reasoned response to this, and I feel it is never again.
The terrorists would just start killing passengers and crew one by one until the pilot(s) opened the door. Making the cockpit completely self-sufficient would cost far, far too much (it'd need a bathroom, etc) so there would be no way to lock the pilot into the cockpit so they could only be let out once they land again.
From my understanding, a black hole will dissipate energy in the form of gamma/X-rays throughout its life. If the hole is not actively 'feeding' it will eventually dissipate (conservation of energy and all that). (I doubt a hole the size of this one will dissipate in any reasonable amount of time though.)
Of course, this is from my reading of Earth by David Brin, so I may be totally off kilter.
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Is that you could no longer have satellites in any orbit other than geosynchronous unless their orbits were very carefully tuned to avoid hitting the cable.
BTW: A space elevator will never really fall, if you put a rocket on one end you could get it to pinwheel, but I don't think any terrorists would have the time to attach a rocket motor with sufficient thrust to get it to do this.
No really, think about it, the space elevator would be rotating about GEO at exactly one rotation per day clockwise, while the earth rotates about its center at one rotation counterclockwise. Nothing you could do at the end would allow you to make the elevator fall.
If you really wanted the elevator to fall, go to the center of mass and cut it in half. That'll bring it down quickly.
BTW, read Rainbow Mars by Larry Niven, even if it is fantasy. You'll probably agree that we really don't want a space elevator :)
If you read through this research paper it'll start with N=4 and T=5. As you continue to read through the paper he quotes bandwidth figures from his table using various other N and T values.
For example, in the very last table (Bandwidth rates for 10qps) he says the bandwidth generated will by 8GB/s, which align with N=8, T=7. Where you to use the N and T values from the beginning, this would be 2.4MB/s, which is off by 3143 and one third times.
Going back to Joe User's Greatful Dead query, it only generates ~250KB, not 800MB.
Remember, very very few people are going to modify their TTL or open connections. This ``white paper'' grossly misstates the amount of bandwidth Gnutella generates and seems to be an anti-Gnutalla paper designed to mislead rather than an honest and fair judgment
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Um, since when did IE beat Mozilla here? IE doesn't even support <link>!
Yep, rejected.
Come on fans, post along with me!
I submitted this as a YRO, waiting for rejection now.
We all should submit this story to slashdot...
Just slap the drive into an external SCSI case and off you go. Some of my friends use external SCSI cases with a CD-ROM drive as a CD player.
I wrote a web site in it (about 3500 lines of ruby, not entirely polished) and it was super quick to write, includes an output class for generating content in various formats (HTML, plain text, whatever else you want to implement), a system for processing form data (not great, but reusable), and a template-ish system (uses the decorator pattern) for attaching arbitrary content to a page. The only problem is that it is far too slow to put into production, I'm porting it to perl, but I really hope that the execution times of ruby programs will increase, ruby is pure joy to program in.
Just because XML is a hierarchical markup language does not mean that it can only be used for hierarchical things. Perhaps you should look at RDF which can use many to many mappings through resources and groupings (sequences, bags, and alternates). (A resource in one grouping can refer to another grouping i.e. many to many.)
KDE? 8GB RAM? 1024x768 screen?
Bah! [waves dismissively]
I've got a Dell Latitude LM P-133 w/40MB RAM and a 2-gig disk. The screen resolution is 800x600x8bit which is great for a bunch of xterms in blackbox. The only reason I'd buy a new machine is for an ACPI power-off/on button.
I recieved the laptop free from a prior employer and I find it does everything I need. If you need KDE with all its overhead you aren't thinking small enough. I don't know about prices, buy you could probably pick up a similar model for a few hundred on ebay.
FreeBSD gained the NetGraph code because it eventually came too difficult for the third party to cost effectively roll the FreeBSD source changes into their custom version. (I forget the company name, they're part of IBM now IIRC.)
I only glanced over the article ["this article"] but I noticed several places with "word 0 word", anybody know if they mean something?
Where are you going to put all these users? I doubt many companies have this many users close enough to the server where bandwidth costs won't be prohibative. My company (PACCAR) employs well over 20,000, but we are all spread out across the nation, the majority being in the Seattle area. The powers that be put Exchange servers at or close to each office with the users mailboxes on them. This makes much more sense because the offices mail within the group far more than they do to outside offices, reducing bandwidth requirements.
Putting all your mailboxes on one big box is going to be far too slow unless they work in Ethernet-distance from the server, and even that will be problematic.
Isn't this the same /. that said Mafiaboy was a scapegoat?
You said, "Consistent and reasoned responses are imperitive in civilized society. Everything else is barbarism."
What happened yesterday was not just a terrorist attack on the WTC and the Pentagon and not just a terrorist attack on the US. It was a declaration of war against the civilized world.
Any country that supports or harbors terrorists on any scale had better sit down and take a long, hard look at what they are doing today, they probably won't last the next decade if they continue. The people that did this must be exterminated including any who support them.
While I'm not a fan of military action, I would now join the military to take revenge not for my nation, but for the world. The terroists have shown us they can take our own planes and cause such enormous destruction and through this they show that they despise the foundations of civilization itself, trade and travel. There is only one consistent and reasoned response to this, and I feel it is never again.
The terrorists would just start killing passengers and crew one by one until the pilot(s) opened the door. Making the cockpit completely self-sufficient would cost far, far too much (it'd need a bathroom, etc) so there would be no way to lock the pilot into the cockpit so they could only be let out once they land again.
While the physical cube can currently not be built, you can solve it through the portal of your computer screen.
Magic Cube 4D
I think 6 rotations was my highest difficulty solution, 5 is hard, 4 is difficult, 3 and less is cake.
The CVSup GUI was really more of a debugging tool than something that was supposed to be useful. Ask Polstra.
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Appendix J: Minimizing SVG File Sizes
From my understanding, a black hole will dissipate energy in the form of gamma/X-rays throughout its life. If the hole is not actively 'feeding' it will eventually dissipate (conservation of energy and all that). (I doubt a hole the size of this one will dissipate in any reasonable amount of time though.)
Of course, this is from my reading of Earth by David Brin, so I may be totally off kilter.
I can see the ads now:
But can anyone plug up all the flaws in Holier than the Pope software (MS et. al.)?
I didn't know that FireWire ports could also transfer fire. If only it had an internal battery it would be great for camping trips...