after the enormous and embarrassing mistakes found in Vista. It's an actual, along with a PR nightmare for them and justifiably so. Were I a stockholder, I'd have their heads.
I have spent the last year asking people what those "enormous and embarrassing mistakes" were and I have come to flag people like you as trolls.
There is nothing wrong in Vista. Nothing that I have found. Nothing that any of you wild-eyed apple fanboys can actually name. It's a new version of Windows with all the usual little annoyances but no more annoyances than XP or S.03 ever had.
Vista tanked because the consumer market saw no particular reason to upgrade from XP which is still doing what folks want it to do. That's all. Gamers who'll happily shell out $500 for a graphics card crying foul that they have to update their $50 scanners or webcams because their drivers are incompatible with Vista - and instead of blaming the manufacturers of those devices/drivers they blame MS.
I am not at all a fan of Mr. Gates, but the whole "Vista is flawed" bullshit is going to have to stop at some point. Because XP is going away. And you people sound exactly like the crop of morons who kept whining that 98SE was just fine and that you'd never change to XP because it was "buggy and bloated and unusable".
Is there anything wrong with the idea of combining solar sails WITH Ion thrusters? Both should be light weight, not require a large energy source, and theoretical light speed acceleration.
Ion engines still need fuel. Ions, to be precise. Just because they use electricity to accelerate them (instead of some kind of combustion process) doesn't mean that the energy doesn't have to come from somewhere, so now you need an energy source. Which is either solar (cutting into your available area for a sail and becoming increasingly infeasible when you get away from the sun) or nuclear (which means enormously heavy: RTGs are many kg per Watt and a full-blown reactor weighs tons before you've generated the first Watt).
I think that aiming to indefinitely prolong life is a good goal,
I disagree.
Immortality is easy. Bacteria figured it out billins of years ago. Which is why they're still bacteria.
Evolution requires new generations. If you figure out immortality today, you're going to be yesterday's hardware tomorrow. While life, real life, will overtake you over there on the fast lane...
Any place where you want to quickly develop large server-side in-house apps, you can do that much more reliably with Java
This is meaningless gibberish. The term "more" indicates a comparison: "more reliably with java THAN [insert something here]"
and you have access to a huge talent pool of developers.
I wouldn't exactly call it a "talent pool", but this is of course the reason why so much software is written in Java: anybody who knows to code in more than one or two languages knows that Java is never the appropriate choice, but it doesn't help you to know that [languageXYZ] is the right thing to use for this problem here if you can't find competent [languageXYZ]-programmers -- when you can buy Java-monkeys for a dime a dozen. If necessary in India somewhere.
Java makes large software projects cheap because the competitive pressure amongst all the Java-monkeys keeps them cheap.
Which keeps your IT staff replaceable and doesn't lead to the kind of painting-yourself-into-a-corner we saw with COBOL where one guy wrote apps with functionality that requires twenty folks these days, but when that one guy leaves you're suddenly hosed. Instead hire twenty Java dudes at one-twentieth the price each and your software system becomes less dependent on a single choke point...
That goes in the direction of the old joke of registering dotat.at (.at=austria) and point it at a machine where a user with the name "dot" can be mailed at dot@dotat.at
Heck, you can even get a 12/24 volt DC air conditioner http://www.dcbreeze.com/ There's plenty of low voltage DC appliances.
This is an appliance for a boat. It requires that there is a large amount of water as a heat dump. Without that water all around, it is pretty nigh worthless.
Who are the nutcases that mod this kind of drivel "Informative"? That author has no clue what he's talking about. A shed without power plus a solar panel equals a shed with power - and all the whining of the anti-solar retards isn't going to change that.
IT DOES NOT MATTER what idiotic games you can play with dollars to make solar look unattractive (and the fact that have to play games in the first place proves you squarely wrong anyways) when you have a shed without power. There's simply one solution and no word-games and math-fiddling is going to make it go away. There's NO alternative. You go ahead and power your lights with fifty-packs of C-batteries that you have to replace once a week, but for reasonable people who'd just like to run a light in a shed, solar is THE solution.
I disagree and ask that you look there again. You will see that IBM is hiring in China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, etc., etc., maybe 10% of the jobs are in the US.
...and since less than 5% of the world population lives in the US, yet 10% of the open jobs are there, it means that there are a lot more open IBM jobs in the US than elsewhere in the world.
Actually, I think the recording technique, at least later, was a specially equipped piano that used an electronic current to mark the roll whenever a key or pedal was pressed, and this was used as a stencil to produce copies.
Yes, and that means you could play a roll and get the same timing that the original piano player would've used. I have a couple of MIDI files that were made by scanning old piano rolls originally played in by Scott Joplin -- which is probably as close to a "live recording" of him playing as you're going to get...
I recall Zuse claiming that they invented the computer because they has some machine that performed some operations sequentially according to holes punched into film strips (what was later to become paper tape). I always thought that under that definition a player piano is a computer, because it uses some kind of punch tape to make a machine well-defined things in pre-determined order.
If this counts, then there's been computer-generated music a lot earlier than the fifties.
Is there actually some kind of "commonly agreed upon definition" of the term computer? Does it have to be equivalent to a Turing machine? Does it have to produce output that itself can read as input? Was this machine of 1951 (which I know nothing about) in either of these categories?
... and strongly consider upgrading to this svelte gadget.
Is it actually "svelte"? The article speaks of "thin", but it only shows a face-on photograph. If the "thin" part is some kind of selling point (i.e. worth a press release) why don't they show us how thin it is?
What absurd nonsense -- this is just a bunch of horseshoe magnets laid next to each other. You get both poles, they just happen to point in the same direction.
Let me suggest that you lay off three-syllable words like "monpopole" until you've learned at least to look them up on wikipedia...
Get yourself a nice RAID-box to hook'em into and use the thing for backup. Hard disks have a pretty good life span when they're powered down. And their power requirements are zero in that case. Bring it up once a year and run your favorite disk-scan over the array and power it back down. Cheaper than tape backup.
A "one sided magnet" would be a monopole. Draw your magnet, draw the field lines: these lines must end up being closed loops, neccessitating one sout pole and one north pole for every magnet.
What, and, what? Seriously, I have no idea what your point is.
If a politician says "I took the initiative in creating the Panama canal", they are NOT claiming that they personally broke out a shovel, flew south and dug something. They are NOT saying that they invented digging or canals. They are NOT saying that the canal was their idea or that they drew up the plans or any such thing.
Equating "I took the initiative in creating the internet" with "I invented the internet" marks the one who is doing the equating as lacking in very basic reading comprehension.
As the industry moves to 32nm and beyond, the sharply escalating costs of both IC product development and fab equipment may combine to slow down the historic chip cost reduction trendline.
Celebration! 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of this claim being made at a die-shrink -- or at least 1983 is the first time I heard it. People were talking about the 1u (1000nm) "holy grail" and how it would likely never happen because it wouldn't be worth the cost...
If there were any physics happening here anywhere, this would have been published in Science or Nature or Phys Rev B or NIM or whatever.
The fact that this was published in a business journal is conclusive proof that this is about business, not physics. About bilking investors, not creating fusion.
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after the enormous and embarrassing mistakes found in Vista. It's an actual, along with a PR nightmare for them and justifiably so. Were I a stockholder, I'd have their heads.
I have spent the last year asking people what those "enormous and embarrassing mistakes" were and I have come to flag people like you as trolls.
There is nothing wrong in Vista. Nothing that I have found. Nothing that any of you wild-eyed apple fanboys can actually name. It's a new version of Windows with all the usual little annoyances but no more annoyances than XP or S.03 ever had.
Vista tanked because the consumer market saw no particular reason to upgrade from XP which is still doing what folks want it to do. That's all. Gamers who'll happily shell out $500 for a graphics card crying foul that they have to update their $50 scanners or webcams because their drivers are incompatible with Vista - and instead of blaming the manufacturers of those devices/drivers they blame MS.
I am not at all a fan of Mr. Gates, but the whole "Vista is flawed" bullshit is going to have to stop at some point. Because XP is going away. And you people sound exactly like the crop of morons who kept whining that 98SE was just fine and that you'd never change to XP because it was "buggy and bloated and unusable".
Funny how you're now unwilling to let go of it.
Is there anything wrong with the idea of combining solar sails WITH Ion thrusters? Both should be light weight, not require a large energy source, and theoretical light speed acceleration.
Ion engines still need fuel. Ions, to be precise. Just because they use electricity to accelerate them (instead of some kind of combustion process) doesn't mean that the energy doesn't have to come from somewhere, so now you need an energy source. Which is either solar (cutting into your available area for a sail and becoming increasingly infeasible when you get away from the sun) or nuclear (which means enormously heavy: RTGs are many kg per Watt and a full-blown reactor weighs tons before you've generated the first Watt).
Does anyone know about geothermal hot spots on mars?
Google: "Olympus Mons".
If there is life on mars it's probably in hot springs
"No liquid water" as a phrase as a whole precludes notions of "springs". Unless you're talking "springs" of something other than water.
I think that aiming to indefinitely prolong life is a good goal,
I disagree.
Immortality is easy. Bacteria figured it out billins of years ago. Which is why they're still bacteria.
Evolution requires new generations. If you figure out immortality today, you're going to be yesterday's hardware tomorrow. While life, real life, will overtake you over there on the fast lane...
Cthulhu for President 2008: Vote for the lesser evil!
Finally a candidate without any hidden agenda...
This is meaningless gibberish. The term "more" indicates a comparison: "more reliably with java THAN [insert something here]"
and you have access to a huge talent pool of developers.I wouldn't exactly call it a "talent pool", but this is of course the reason why so much software is written in Java: anybody who knows to code in more than one or two languages knows that Java is never the appropriate choice, but it doesn't help you to know that [languageXYZ] is the right thing to use for this problem here if you can't find competent [languageXYZ]-programmers -- when you can buy Java-monkeys for a dime a dozen. If necessary in India somewhere.
Java makes large software projects cheap because the competitive pressure amongst all the Java-monkeys keeps them cheap.
Which keeps your IT staff replaceable and doesn't lead to the kind of painting-yourself-into-a-corner we saw with COBOL where one guy wrote apps with functionality that requires twenty folks these days, but when that one guy leaves you're suddenly hosed. Instead hire twenty Java dudes at one-twentieth the price each and your software system becomes less dependent on a single choke point...
Just because there are problems that cannot be solved by bombing Florida doesn't mean that it isn't a good idea to do so anyways.
That goes in the direction of the old joke of registering dotat.at (.at=austria) and point it at a machine where a user with the name "dot" can be mailed at dot@dotat.at
This is an appliance for a boat. It requires that there is a large amount of water as a heat dump. Without that water all around, it is pretty nigh worthless.
Who are the nutcases that mod this kind of drivel "Informative"? That author has no clue what he's talking about. A shed without power plus a solar panel equals a shed with power - and all the whining of the anti-solar retards isn't going to change that.
IT DOES NOT MATTER what idiotic games you can play with dollars to make solar look unattractive (and the fact that have to play games in the first place proves you squarely wrong anyways) when you have a shed without power. There's simply one solution and no word-games and math-fiddling is going to make it go away. There's NO alternative. You go ahead and power your lights with fifty-packs of C-batteries that you have to replace once a week, but for reasonable people who'd just like to run a light in a shed, solar is THE solution.
...and since less than 5% of the world population lives in the US, yet 10% of the open jobs are there, it means that there are a lot more open IBM jobs in the US than elsewhere in the world.
You were saying?
Yes, and that means you could play a roll and get the same timing that the original piano player would've used. I have a couple of MIDI files that were made by scanning old piano rolls originally played in by Scott Joplin -- which is probably as close to a "live recording" of him playing as you're going to get...
I recall Zuse claiming that they invented the computer because they has some machine that performed some operations sequentially according to holes punched into film strips (what was later to become paper tape). I always thought that under that definition a player piano is a computer, because it uses some kind of punch tape to make a machine well-defined things in pre-determined order.
If this counts, then there's been computer-generated music a lot earlier than the fifties.
Is there actually some kind of "commonly agreed upon definition" of the term computer? Does it have to be equivalent to a Turing machine? Does it have to produce output that itself can read as input? Was this machine of 1951 (which I know nothing about) in either of these categories?
... and strongly consider upgrading to this svelte gadget.Is it actually "svelte"? The article speaks of "thin", but it only shows a face-on photograph. If the "thin" part is some kind of selling point (i.e. worth a press release) why don't they show us how thin it is?
What absurd nonsense -- this is just a bunch of horseshoe magnets laid next to each other. You get both poles, they just happen to point in the same direction.
Let me suggest that you lay off three-syllable words like "monpopole" until you've learned at least to look them up on wikipedia...
Impossible.
Just because you don't grasp physics doesn't make it go away.
-1 on the power requirements.
Get yourself a nice RAID-box to hook'em into and use the thing for backup. Hard disks have a pretty good life span when they're powered down. And their power requirements are zero in that case. Bring it up once a year and run your favorite disk-scan over the array and power it back down. Cheaper than tape backup.
A "one sided magnet" would be a monopole. Draw your magnet, draw the field lines: these lines must end up being closed loops, neccessitating one sout pole and one north pole for every magnet.
That's easy. It's exactly 10.
In base pi.
Nice joke.
Botched.
Pi in base pi is 1, not 10.
maybe next time
If a politician says "I took the initiative in creating the Panama canal", they are NOT claiming that they personally broke out a shovel, flew south and dug something. They are NOT saying that they invented digging or canals. They are NOT saying that the canal was their idea or that they drew up the plans or any such thing.
Equating "I took the initiative in creating the internet" with "I invented the internet" marks the one who is doing the equating as lacking in very basic reading comprehension.
No, he never said that.
Parroting an urban legend doesn't make it true -- and only makes the parrot look foolish.
Wait -- you can use EMACS for text editing now? What will they think of next...
Celebration! 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of this claim being made at a die-shrink -- or at least 1983 is the first time I heard it. People were talking about the 1u (1000nm) "holy grail" and how it would likely never happen because it wouldn't be worth the cost...
If there were any physics happening here anywhere, this would have been published in Science or Nature or Phys Rev B or NIM or whatever.
The fact that this was published in a business journal is conclusive proof that this is about business, not physics. About bilking investors, not creating fusion.