Unsurprisingly though, the dictators eventually decided that they'd prefer not to hand the power back to the senate, and the Romans ended up with a "modern" dictatorship - a semi-hereditary, semi-factional sucession of omnipotent Caesars. You may have heard of such "benign dictators" as Nero, Claudius and Caligula?
Hello? It's not new, but please explain why it's not unethical! Are you really telling me that companies expect nothing in return for their donations? That extra campaign money cannot influence the outcome of elections? Just because "everybody does it" doesn't mean it's ethical.
They'll be rightly sceptical, because the holes in the theory as presented in this article are big enough for you to drive your SUV through them quite comfortably.
More to the point, how many people want to wager that the energy / motoring lobbies will take this single study and claim it as proof that people can pollute as much as they like, because their children will have the technology to clear up after them?
For their "FlexCD" to be playable in regular CD drives, it has to conform to the CD standards.
A regular CD consists of a reflective data layer (aluminium in the case of a "pressed" CD) protected on the top by 10-20 microns of lacquer and on the bottom, by 1.2mm of polycarbonate. CD drives are therefore designed so that the laser focussing system takes the refractive index of polycarbonate into account: the laser is only in focus if the CD has an optical depth of 1.2mm*1.55 (the refractive index, N, of polycarbonate) = 1.86mm.
If these FlexCDs are 1/10 of the thickness of a regular CD, then either they have to be made of a material with a refractive index ten times larger than that of polycarbonate (show me one!) or they need to use an adaptor (a "spacer" of some kind, perhaps just a disc of transparent plastic!) to keep the data layer at the laser's nominal focus.
I wonder if it would end up frying every computer within a thousand miles of the Equator.
No, because a big release of thermal energy in the upper atmosphere is not the same thing a nuclear explosion in low earth orbit (although the latter coincidentally causes the former as well as an EMP).
It looks like a product marketed almost solely at the technical community just can't succeed in economic conditions like those at present, if ever.
Even industry heavyweights with large technical communities are in trouble (Psion - who invented the handheld computer - are pulling out and there are continuing rumours about the future of Palm), so what hope is there for a newcomer to the market? (Sharp take note!:-) )
Whether or not this is illegal depends on the wording of Firaxis' contract with Infogrames. If it gives Infogrames the EXCLUSIVE right to translate Civ 3 into German, then the patch might be illegal.
I think you've misunderstood the point of exclusive license agreements. Such an agreement would prevent Firaxis from getting someone else to do the work without Infogrames permission, but A. Hacker can't be bound by the terms of a contract he or she hasn't accepted!
When they throw the switch and the protons or whatever start smacking into each other, they get many collisions in a row, several every millisecond, maybe dozens every millisecond (depending on collider circumference I imagine).
Yup, 40,000 every millisecond in the case of the LHC! Actually the size of the collider doesn't really limit the collision rate, since there's no problem with having more than one "bunch" of protons (or whatever) going round the ring at once.
Grid computing is heirarchical, with higher tiers (typically stonking great PC farms) individually having much more processing power and data storage capacity than lower ones (eg the PC on your desk).
The main difference from existing distributed computing projects is that data storage is distributed as well as data processing; hence the investment in super-fast networks that people talk about.
Mind you, personally I don't see why we don't just put all the computers in the same room, and save all that investment in fibre...:-)
He went to the trouble of locating a 6V power source in the PC and then rewiring the fans from their 12V source to the lower power.
Obviously that's going to reduce the fans' cooling performance, with (potentially) baaaaaad effects on your system component lifetimes, even if the magic smoke doesn't escape immediately...:-)
Because using the magic "L" word gives you a that-much-higher probability of getting your story submission accepted and those magic 5 extra karma points.
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You are opening a giant can of worms there my friend...
Plus a few backports of relatively stable stuff, like NTFS-NG (or whatever it's called...)
(NB: stable in this case does not imply that you can write to NTFS partitions without corrupting them...)
If no-one complained, how would the editors know what their readership didn't like?
So... did you like it?
Unsurprisingly though, the dictators eventually decided that they'd prefer not to hand the power back to the senate, and the Romans ended up with a "modern" dictatorship - a semi-hereditary, semi-factional sucession of omnipotent Caesars. You may have heard of such "benign dictators" as Nero, Claudius and Caligula?
Hello? It's not new, but please explain why it's not unethical! Are you really telling me that companies expect nothing in return for their donations? That extra campaign money cannot influence the outcome of elections? Just because "everybody does it" doesn't mean it's ethical.
Only because it's quoting from the ISP's terms of service. Hence the quotes.
Why can't they both be evil?
Down with capitalism!
:-)
They'll be rightly sceptical, because the holes in the theory as presented in this article are big enough for you to drive your SUV through them quite comfortably.
More to the point, how many people want to wager that the energy / motoring lobbies will take this single study and claim it as proof that people can pollute as much as they like, because their children will have the technology to clear up after them?
Heard of encryption?
A regular CD consists of a reflective data layer (aluminium in the case of a "pressed" CD) protected on the top by 10-20 microns of lacquer and on the bottom, by 1.2mm of polycarbonate. CD drives are therefore designed so that the laser focussing system takes the refractive index of polycarbonate into account: the laser is only in focus if the CD has an optical depth of 1.2mm*1.55 (the refractive index, N, of polycarbonate) = 1.86mm.
If these FlexCDs are 1/10 of the thickness of a regular CD, then either they have to be made of a material with a refractive index ten times larger than that of polycarbonate (show me one!) or they need to use an adaptor (a "spacer" of some kind, perhaps just a disc of transparent plastic!) to keep the data layer at the laser's nominal focus.
Not to be confused with "Pentium Death Green": #F00F.
:-)
I wonder if it would end up frying every computer within a thousand miles of the Equator.
No, because a big release of thermal energy in the upper atmosphere is not the same thing a nuclear explosion in low earth orbit (although the latter coincidentally causes the former as well as an EMP).
It looks like a product marketed almost solely at the technical community just can't succeed in economic conditions like those at present, if ever.
Even industry heavyweights with large technical communities are in trouble (Psion - who invented the handheld computer - are pulling out and there are continuing rumours about the future of Palm), so what hope is there for a newcomer to the market? (Sharp take note! :-) )
The problem is in the idea of a "research firm". :-)
In a word, Freenet. :-)
Whether or not this is illegal depends on the wording of Firaxis' contract with Infogrames. If it gives Infogrames the EXCLUSIVE right to translate Civ 3 into German, then the patch might be illegal.
I think you've misunderstood the point of exclusive license agreements. Such an agreement would prevent Firaxis from getting someone else to do the work without Infogrames permission, but A. Hacker can't be bound by the terms of a contract he or she hasn't accepted!
Call me a cynic, but personally I've always assumed that most "captains of industry" were knighted for services to Conservative Party coffers...
:-)
Quick! Moderators! Censor this story! signed, The Government.
When they throw the switch and the protons or whatever start smacking into each other, they get many collisions in a row, several every millisecond, maybe dozens every millisecond (depending on collider circumference I imagine).
Yup, 40,000 every millisecond in the case of the LHC! Actually the size of the collider doesn't really limit the collision rate, since there's no problem with having more than one "bunch" of protons (or whatever) going round the ring at once.
Grid computing is heirarchical, with higher tiers (typically stonking great PC farms) individually having much more processing power and data storage capacity than lower ones (eg the PC on your desk).
:-)
The main difference from existing distributed computing projects is that data storage is distributed as well as data processing; hence the investment in super-fast networks that people talk about.
Mind you, personally I don't see why we don't just put all the computers in the same room, and save all that investment in fibre...
(aka "stating the bleeding obvious")
He went to the trouble of locating a 6V power source in the PC and then rewiring the fans from their 12V source to the lower power.
Obviously that's going to reduce the fans' cooling performance, with (potentially) baaaaaad effects on your system component lifetimes, even if the magic smoke doesn't escape immediately... :-)
Allow me to point you to Wil's previous comment on the interview.
Summary: he was joking.
The A300, like practically all passenger aeroplanes, can survive the loss of an engine in flight.
Because using the magic "L" word gives you a that-much-higher probability of getting your story submission accepted and those magic 5 extra karma points.
Mmmm.... karma... gagaghghhghagagagh...
:-)