My first two hard drives were a 17GB Seagate and a 80GB Western Digital. Still using both of them (the Seagate was pretty cheap, but the WD was one of the first 7200rpm drives here).
It might have some effect on the South Korea. As for the North Korea, there are other issues that needs to be solved first, much before the anti-personnel land mines are tackled.
I wonder about the range of such a system. Assuming it would fire at about 500 meters (even if this system is used mainly to scare, not to maim or kill), you need one every kilometer - in the end, it is $200k for every kilometer of border. Would that be better than human guards? Assuming 8 hours shifts (including movement to/from guard post), one should need 4 soldiers to guard probably a similar border length
Use of anti-personnel land mines is bad in the eyes of civilized world - very few armies still use them (use of anti-tank mines is still considered ok)
If you throw something "down" when you are in orbit, that something will have the same speed as the space station. As a result, it will take a similar trajectory.
Even better - if you throw something down, its speed will increase - so, it will have a trajectory higher than the space station. If you throw it directly down, the trajectories will intersect (maybe not at the same time, so no crash) as the junk will take its higher trajectory.
Oh well...
My car - built in 1992 - has some neat things:
the burnt gasses go over an oxygen sensor. The results from this sensor helps the engine computer to inject enough fuel to keep the engine in running parameters, but not more. Also, there is a catalytic converter that helps burn the incomplete burned results down to very much only H2O and CO2.
New cars have even better systems: the computer control is improved, fuel injection takes place in the cylinders (not in the air distribution ducts), higher injection pressure "atomizes" fuel better (so it will burn better).
Leaks between engine and exhaust? At the car's periodic check (mandatory), they found a hole few millimeters wide, when after changing the exhaust noise dampers the weld was not complete. They got 2% oxygen in exhaust gases, and that was a problem
As a matter of fact, Mein Kampf (the "bible" for the nazi regime) is copyrighted by the US Army (as retribution after the war, I think). This way, they were able to stop a re-edition of it in Germany.
The opinion of the editors? This being a copyright issue, it cannot be considered censorship, and we won't publish it (they were pretty far in regard to the publishing)
You are underestimating the needed speed:
Assuming your lost energy in atmosphere is nothing, zip, nada, you need a speed in excess of 8 km/s. For reference, sound barrier is at around 340m/s at sea level - meaning your projectiles will start at around Mach 25.
I'd say like using an secure IE5.
I don't know how many vulnerabilities are in the 0.7 version, but I don't think I've encountered any. There are some nice updates in the 1.x versions (much better download manager, for one), but I feel secure using the 0.7, and it shows everything I want to see.
Yahoo! mail seems to use a less dangerous of these vulnerabilities - while stable versions earlier than 2.0 would crash, 2.0 only crashes when exiting Yahoo! Mail or when closing all the tabs of Yahoo Mail.
Firebird 0.7 is not affected
Yes, OpenBSD was not created for one to run everything under it. While it won't give Linux a run for its money (not to mention Windows), OpenBSD has a very well delimited market niche. If you have a use for it, it's perfect. If not, it's not
Use the best tool for the job
The $100 OLPC is costing more than $100 right now (some $130 I think). However, the price will go to the magic point when they start building them in quantity
No, laptop users don't care a bit about the nm thingie a processor has. All they care is performance, heat, noise (sometime) AND battery life.
As such, an laptop user would (better) choose a 90nm Athlon64 than a 65nm Pentium4, all else being equal.
You could be selling more processors than you can produce - the problem is the fact that you are selling at rock-bottom prices. Just think that after the introduction of Intel Core2Duo, the prices for AMD processors were cut to half. Unlike any other theoretical (and not easily known) quantities as yield, cost per wafer and so on, a decrease in half of the selling price halves the bottom line.
(Now I know not all AMD processors fell in price to 50%, but many of them did)
Let's get attached to a piece of technology. We could bring back to Earth the old Hubble if we replace it with a new one.
The shuttle could bring it back to Earth - after all, why use a wagon both ways (using extra energy to get it out of orbit once up there) if you don't have the capability to bring back some loads?
Where can you have a land-based telescope that can take a day-long picture of some galactic phenomenon?
While the orbit of the Hubble space telescope will certainly put some strains on what it can picture, it is much better than what an land-based telescope can do
Also, some people above in the thread told about exploration in frequencies that are highly absorbed by atmosphere (like UV). Unless building a land-based telescope below the ozone layer in Antarctica, there is nothing land-based that can take pictures as good as Hubble can
Not to rain on your parade, but even if you have a gun, I can knock down with my car, and run several times over you. No need to get out.
And while a shotgun could do some real damage to a car, a pistol probably won't do enough damage to save your life (even a shotgun won't do enough damage against a car coming head-on)
Even if the prosecutors feels they have a good case, that doesn't mean he's guilty. And maybe they put him in jail with some dangerous people trying to get him to cut a deal (you say you killed her, you get easy detention in a minimal security facility - you say you don't, if we convict you, you go to...)
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My first two hard drives were a 17GB Seagate and a 80GB Western Digital. Still using both of them (the Seagate was pretty cheap, but the WD was one of the first 7200rpm drives here).
It might have some effect on the South Korea. As for the North Korea, there are other issues that needs to be solved first, much before the anti-personnel land mines are tackled.
I haven't been able to scare one :)
I wonder about the range of such a system. Assuming it would fire at about 500 meters (even if this system is used mainly to scare, not to maim or kill), you need one every kilometer - in the end, it is $200k for every kilometer of border. Would that be better than human guards? Assuming 8 hours shifts (including movement to/from guard post), one should need 4 soldiers to guard probably a similar border length
It is enough to scare the wild life and allow them a bit of time to run away - you know, scared wildlife runs fast
Use of anti-personnel land mines is bad in the eyes of civilized world - very few armies still use them (use of anti-tank mines is still considered ok)
Fusion, not fission :(
Nuclear fission would be a great solution - in ten years time, as it was promised from 20 years ago
If you throw something "down" when you are in orbit, that something will have the same speed as the space station. As a result, it will take a similar trajectory. Even better - if you throw something down, its speed will increase - so, it will have a trajectory higher than the space station. If you throw it directly down, the trajectories will intersect (maybe not at the same time, so no crash) as the junk will take its higher trajectory.
Very true. You need to throw it "back" - this way, it will have a lower speed, and will take a lower orbit.
Oh well... My car - built in 1992 - has some neat things: the burnt gasses go over an oxygen sensor. The results from this sensor helps the engine computer to inject enough fuel to keep the engine in running parameters, but not more. Also, there is a catalytic converter that helps burn the incomplete burned results down to very much only H2O and CO2. New cars have even better systems: the computer control is improved, fuel injection takes place in the cylinders (not in the air distribution ducts), higher injection pressure "atomizes" fuel better (so it will burn better). Leaks between engine and exhaust? At the car's periodic check (mandatory), they found a hole few millimeters wide, when after changing the exhaust noise dampers the weld was not complete. They got 2% oxygen in exhaust gases, and that was a problem
As a matter of fact, Mein Kampf (the "bible" for the nazi regime) is copyrighted by the US Army (as retribution after the war, I think). This way, they were able to stop a re-edition of it in Germany. The opinion of the editors? This being a copyright issue, it cannot be considered censorship, and we won't publish it (they were pretty far in regard to the publishing)
You are underestimating the needed speed: Assuming your lost energy in atmosphere is nothing, zip, nada, you need a speed in excess of 8 km/s. For reference, sound barrier is at around 340m/s at sea level - meaning your projectiles will start at around Mach 25.
I'd say like using an secure IE5. I don't know how many vulnerabilities are in the 0.7 version, but I don't think I've encountered any. There are some nice updates in the 1.x versions (much better download manager, for one), but I feel secure using the 0.7, and it shows everything I want to see.
Yahoo! mail seems to use a less dangerous of these vulnerabilities - while stable versions earlier than 2.0 would crash, 2.0 only crashes when exiting Yahoo! Mail or when closing all the tabs of Yahoo Mail. Firebird 0.7 is not affected
Some people love the source-only updates, as witnessed by the increase of the gentoo community :)
Yes, OpenBSD was not created for one to run everything under it. While it won't give Linux a run for its money (not to mention Windows), OpenBSD has a very well delimited market niche. If you have a use for it, it's perfect. If not, it's not Use the best tool for the job
The $100 OLPC is costing more than $100 right now (some $130 I think). However, the price will go to the magic point when they start building them in quantity
No, laptop users don't care a bit about the nm thingie a processor has. All they care is performance, heat, noise (sometime) AND battery life. As such, an laptop user would (better) choose a 90nm Athlon64 than a 65nm Pentium4, all else being equal.
You could be selling more processors than you can produce - the problem is the fact that you are selling at rock-bottom prices. Just think that after the introduction of Intel Core2Duo, the prices for AMD processors were cut to half. Unlike any other theoretical (and not easily known) quantities as yield, cost per wafer and so on, a decrease in half of the selling price halves the bottom line. (Now I know not all AMD processors fell in price to 50%, but many of them did)
Let's get attached to a piece of technology. We could bring back to Earth the old Hubble if we replace it with a new one. The shuttle could bring it back to Earth - after all, why use a wagon both ways (using extra energy to get it out of orbit once up there) if you don't have the capability to bring back some loads?
Where can you have a land-based telescope that can take a day-long picture of some galactic phenomenon? While the orbit of the Hubble space telescope will certainly put some strains on what it can picture, it is much better than what an land-based telescope can do Also, some people above in the thread told about exploration in frequencies that are highly absorbed by atmosphere (like UV). Unless building a land-based telescope below the ozone layer in Antarctica, there is nothing land-based that can take pictures as good as Hubble can
Not to rain on your parade, but even if you have a gun, I can knock down with my car, and run several times over you. No need to get out. And while a shotgun could do some real damage to a car, a pistol probably won't do enough damage to save your life (even a shotgun won't do enough damage against a car coming head-on)
"and 640x400 (don't know why it wasn't 480)" 640x480 means 307 200 pixels. 640x400 is only 256000, so the last would fit better into video RAM
Even if the prosecutors feels they have a good case, that doesn't mean he's guilty. And maybe they put him in jail with some dangerous people trying to get him to cut a deal (you say you killed her, you get easy detention in a minimal security facility - you say you don't, if we convict you, you go to ...)