I disagree, you still need to know how many 1s need to be sent. So, not sending 0s saves half of the bandwidth, but we still must know how many 1s we want to send. So, unfortunately, we can't avoid cables yet. However, we can compress: for example, we want to send 64 of 1s: which is 1000000b in binary, thus 64 can be described only by one 1. So, we can send one 1 instead!
Just a random thought:
Your civilization figured out how to travel FTL, or very close to speed of light. You are also advanced enough to easily avoid obstacles such as asteroid collisions, high radiation etc. Where would you go to search for other intelligent species from outskirt of the galaxy where you evolved? I think going to downtown (to the center of the galaxy) makes the perfect sense. Suns are closer, other species come to this place to study about the galaxy. So, basically this is the perfect place to meet other civilizations. Unlike searching in the boonies (what we are doing at the moment).
In April 26, 1999, I turned on my computer, and it met me with a black screen. Turned out that my BIOS was flashed because of this virus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_virus . Had to re-flash the BIOS. Obviously BIOS could have been loaded with something else other than simply erased.
This is sad that code base of Open Source projects is growing exponentially. Projects become fat ugly and unmanageable. It is also getting harder to debug, port, and even use such programs. http://suckless.org/ has several programs that do their job every well and yet very managable. For example window manager: dwm less than 2K lines of code, is the most feature complete WM I've seen. I've been using it as my main window manager for over year, and was very happy with it. There are few good CLI applications availble that hold approach of been efficient and useful and almost no GUI applications.
I just invented a time machine, without the problem that you described.
It has some limitations but it already works! Limitations are following: it drives in one direction only (forward), and with speed no faster than 60 seconds a minute!
This in 60 seconds you can travel 1 minute in future!
Why was this moded as flamebait? What I wrote, is besically described one of the advantage of Linux/BSD over {Mac, Windows} which inderectly causes why games are not released/do not work for opensource OSes.
IMHO this is just because average Linux user is spoiled. Linux user does not want to BUY software, when in everyday life he or she just uses package manager for searching needed tools. Linux user tries to avoid closed source software, becuase it does not run well on his costum built kernel compiled and optimized specifically for his mojo. Windows and Mac users are not that spoiled, they get used to the fact that most of the software you need to buy or crack, that you need to look for it in different places and not just by using yum/apt-get/pacman etc.
13.73 Billion Years: hm, good uptime so far... Will 64bit clock counter should be long enough to count since the creation of universe but for how long?
<quote> Being able to factor large integers quickly is not much use if you have to repeat the calculation many times to make sure it was correct.</quote>
Wrong, it is usally much cheaper to check that answer is correct than to find the answer. For example once quantum computer has factored a large number, it is simple to check the calculation even with regular PC by multiplying those numbers and compare with the orgincal large number.
You can format, delete, or leave anoutched any partitions you want. becisally the same as in Windows XP, except they added GUI to that, and also you can't format into FAT32, it must NTFS from now on. As far as Boot Sectors go, I think Vista still does not give you any choices...
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I disagree, you still need to know how many 1s need to be sent. So, not sending 0s saves half of the bandwidth, but we still must know how many 1s we want to send. So, unfortunately, we can't avoid cables yet. However, we can compress: for example, we want to send 64 of 1s: which is 1000000b in binary, thus 64 can be described only by one 1. So, we can send one 1 instead!
Just a random thought: Your civilization figured out how to travel FTL, or very close to speed of light. You are also advanced enough to easily avoid obstacles such as asteroid collisions, high radiation etc. Where would you go to search for other intelligent species from outskirt of the galaxy where you evolved? I think going to downtown (to the center of the galaxy) makes the perfect sense. Suns are closer, other species come to this place to study about the galaxy. So, basically this is the perfect place to meet other civilizations. Unlike searching in the boonies (what we are doing at the moment).
Windows 7, Windows 8, How long do we have to wait untill Windows 2000?
In April 26, 1999, I turned on my computer, and it met me with a black screen. Turned out that my BIOS was flashed because of this virus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_virus . Had to re-flash the BIOS. Obviously BIOS could have been loaded with something else other than simply erased.
This is sad that code base of Open Source projects is growing exponentially. Projects become fat ugly and unmanageable. It is also getting harder to debug, port, and even use such programs. http://suckless.org/ has several programs that do their job every well and yet very managable. For example window manager: dwm less than 2K lines of code, is the most feature complete WM I've seen. I've been using it as my main window manager for over year, and was very happy with it. There are few good CLI applications availble that hold approach of been efficient and useful and almost no GUI applications.
I just invented a time machine, without the problem that you described.
It has some limitations but it already works!
Limitations are following: it drives in one direction only (forward), and with speed no faster than 60 seconds a minute!
This in 60 seconds you can travel 1 minute in future!
Why was this moded as flamebait? What I wrote, is besically described one of the advantage of Linux/BSD over {Mac, Windows} which inderectly causes why games are not released/do not work for opensource OSes.
You do not get it!
All Linux users are games, they just like different kind of games: it is called playing with your PC and Hardware.
IMHO this is just because average Linux user is spoiled.
Linux user does not want to BUY software, when in everyday life he or she just uses package manager for searching needed tools.
Linux user tries to avoid closed source software, becuase it does not run well on his costum built kernel compiled and optimized specifically for his mojo.
Windows and Mac users are not that spoiled, they get used to the fact that most of the software you need to buy or crack, that you need to look for it in different places and not just by using yum/apt-get/pacman etc.
13.73 Billion Years: hm, good uptime so far...
Will 64bit clock counter should be long enough to count since the creation of universe but for how long?
Supernova is nothing, what conerns me more is that if Big Bang hapened once, it can occur anytime anywhere again: even from inside of me or you :)
I wonder would he get an A from music teacher for using Oepra?
<quote> Being able to factor large integers quickly is not much use if you have to repeat the calculation many times to make sure it was correct.</quote>
Wrong, it is usally much cheaper to check that answer is correct than to find the answer.
For example once quantum computer has factored a large number, it is simple to check the calculation even with regular PC by multiplying those numbers and compare with the orgincal large number.
Does it run Linux?
No certain anwer yet again.
You can format, delete, or leave anoutched any partitions you want. becisally the same as in Windows XP, except they added GUI to that, and also you can't format into FAT32, it must NTFS from now on. As far as Boot Sectors go, I think Vista still does not give you any choices...