He might have been rich as Bill Gates, and he still should have been a suspect. Anyway, I've read one of the previous articles about the arrest, and I was awed at how much information was available in posts (some probably from complete strangers)
It would be possible for an employee to heard as much in gossips, and draw its conclusions about what the police would do
You could have lower-power, "external combustion" engines using heat from the datacenter - Sterling engine springs to my mind.
You could use a low-temperature phase change agent - this already exists in heat sinks/coolers.
The bigger problem would be that you would need high pressure system in order to have a higher efficiency (power/volume) generating aggregate.
By the way, when do diamond substrate microelectronics will be functional? It seems they could work at up to 200 Celsius, so you could really make a thermal machine using them (unlike the current situation when you would have a 60 Celsius hot source and a 20 Celsius cold source (thermal efficiency for the best cycle - some 9% - and you lose efficiency in all sides).
They might have some means to do the removal of a DNS entry. However, it seems this would be against the rules/regulations/american laws under which they supervise the Internet.
NetBurst was a good architecture - the only problem with it was total heat, and hotspots inside the processor. This kept it from reaching its expected 10GHz (but was able to run at 6GHz on liquid nitrogen cooling). Now, if an 3GHz P4 is underwhelming, you couldn't say so about a 6GHz one.
Considering the big number of games that do run into a web browser, Web2.0 seems good to go
(you won't run games that are heavy on resources in a web browser - things like Battlefield, WoW or so - but smaller games can be run well by a Java client, Flash client, small ActiveX control and so on
This is not totally true - while people would be better to have free, open source drivers for some POS current printers, the idea is that the usable life of the products is so short that they don't survive long to the production cycle.
Would having Linux drivers for the Windows-only printers be good? Yes, certainly. Would some of those printers survive longer than the builder offers support/drivers for them? Some of them, maybe.
As long as the parties that work to make the OLPC work are well intended, there is nothing wrong with having proprietary things inside (interfaces, drivers, and so on). However, if one company supplying - let's say - the wireless stack decide to earn more money than what was in the initial contract - for reasons as diverse as negotiating the price for 5 millions pieces, but delivering only 4.5 millions for lack of customers, you are in trouble. You can not use a different supplier if the original one put a bit of DCMA-hooks inside, and have to break compatibility.
Open source everything inside would have been the best solution...
Do you think this could not happen? Microsoft choose to have proprietary rights over everything that is inside the XBox 360 - the reason? when they wanted some terms (price of NVidia graphics core inside XBox) revised, NVidia choose to keep the first negotiated price. Now, if Microsoft wants to build the graphic chips in XBox360 at a foundry in Taiwan, they are able to do so (it might cost them some, but they can do it)
All that says is US citizens can not sue US Government, and british citizens cannot sue UK government.
A foreign citizen could sue US Government, at least if the act against the citizen happened in a place where US does not have jurisdiction
Yep, I've done this once while driving (at 1 o'clock in the night). My eyes were closing on their own will, so I decided to keep them open. And with their open, a blank out of several seconds came - I've seen nothing for several seconds, with the eyes wide open.
I was scared, so I've stopped, moved around, waited some time and started again.
What if HTTP wouldn't have been an open standard but a Microsoft one? Using the DMCA, Microsoft would be able to stop everyone from building web browsers. In the end, you would be forced to use just Internet Explorer.
Let's take it another way. There was a time when power distribution in cities (in 1920s and so) used several systems - with different voltages and different frequencies. One open standard - imposed by a government maybe - changed these so that everyone would now use the same electric devices in any place of the city.
What would happen if company X has leased Microsoft Office, but due to some problems, the payment didn't reach Microsoft? Microsoft could ask the removal of all Office instances from the company computers. In this moment, all your data is kept hostage by the will of Microsoft (until they won't give you back the programs, you can not access your documents, your emails, your spreadsheets, part of your applications that use - let's say - interfacing to Excel, and so on.
Your arguments are flawed: the image editor (photoshop, let's say) have the image saved as an internal, undocumented, unknown format (.psd I think). In order to have the image visible to every other image viewer, you NEED to export it. Just like you would export the document with the image into a printable format, or into http, or whatever.
What you say seems to be just what Microsoft did with all the standards it tainted. Java embedded in Windows XP was not compatible with the license they got from Sun. They don't ship Java in XP any longer, and they paid their way out of the judgement (I think they paid $2 billions to Sun to drop the case).
And in the end, what you say is an argument for an open standard, not against:
As long as the format of the document is kept hidden, if you format an embedded image to have a pincushion effect, no other word processor would be able to read it.
There is a customer program at Microsoft that allows them "read-only" access to Windows source code. However, as you can not compile it yourself, you can not know that what you see is the "real thing"
This might spell the end of "automated" virus, and its total replacement with social-engineered, user-activated virus (the day of fully automated viruses seem to fade anyway)
Technology that relies on air (like humans) have no future in the space shuttle...
The space shuttle's environment most damaging factor would be the shocks and high-g loads during launch and reentry (launch only for payload).
That is the linear velocity. The angular velocity for a 500,000 rpm turbine would be (0.5Mrpm = 8,333 rotations per second) 52,333 rad per second.
At 20mm diameter, circumference of about 60mm, distance per second (linear velocity at the edge): ~500 m/s. These would spin fast
Once, I don't think Dell uses a single supplier for memory (but I might be wrong). On the other side, the suppliers of memory would be perfectly able to provide DDR2 and DDR memory to a customer like Dell.
One of the reasons (that might not currently be valid) was that the DDR memory was just a tad more expensive than DDR2.
Use an electric one powered from a power socket, with a long power cord. It should be less expensive than an electric one with a supercapacitor. On the other side, your run-off-the-mill power socket in your house could only give you a couple kilowatts, so a one minute charge will give you at most ten minutes work (those things have power in the hundreds of watts range).
Not burning a small quantity of oil in the fuel-oil mixture can produce more pollution than burning a gallon of gasoline. Those oils are pretty unfriendly to the environment.
But anyway, I suppose even the tenth-of gallon of gas you must buy is expensive to you... As for transportation, maybe you could make a tricicle? It sure will use more fuel (it will be bigger), but the added stability might prove advantageous
There would be some reasons - once, the catalytic converter would probably be taken from a car. This means several pounds of extra weight. Then, catalytic converters rob power from the engine. Catalytic converters work only after they were heated up. The small engine might not give enough heat fast enough for heating it at nominal working temperature. And finally, unburned oil (and partially burned oil) in the exhaust might clog the converter.
In order to fully use a catalytic converter, you'd better have a stoichiometric ratio of air and fuel. Good luck providing that to the junk engine.
Diesel injected two strokes engines - when used at the rpm and power level they were designed for - don't waste fuel (they only waste air). On the other side, gasoline two-strokes waste fuel as unburnt exhaust gasses
The unprofitable quarter was there only because of great fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate (Nintendo builds the units for yens and sell them for dollars. When the dollar is weak compared to the yen, they get less yens for the same dollar
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He might have been rich as Bill Gates, and he still should have been a suspect. Anyway, I've read one of the previous articles about the arrest, and I was awed at how much information was available in posts (some probably from complete strangers) It would be possible for an employee to heard as much in gossips, and draw its conclusions about what the police would do
You could have lower-power, "external combustion" engines using heat from the datacenter - Sterling engine springs to my mind. You could use a low-temperature phase change agent - this already exists in heat sinks/coolers. The bigger problem would be that you would need high pressure system in order to have a higher efficiency (power/volume) generating aggregate. By the way, when do diamond substrate microelectronics will be functional? It seems they could work at up to 200 Celsius, so you could really make a thermal machine using them (unlike the current situation when you would have a 60 Celsius hot source and a 20 Celsius cold source (thermal efficiency for the best cycle - some 9% - and you lose efficiency in all sides).
They might have some means to do the removal of a DNS entry. However, it seems this would be against the rules/regulations/american laws under which they supervise the Internet.
I'm sure you haven't ever ever bought a processor made in Philippines, Costa Rica or Malaysia (built by Intel). Or maybe Dresden (built by AMD)
NetBurst was a good architecture - the only problem with it was total heat, and hotspots inside the processor. This kept it from reaching its expected 10GHz (but was able to run at 6GHz on liquid nitrogen cooling). Now, if an 3GHz P4 is underwhelming, you couldn't say so about a 6GHz one.
Considering the big number of games that do run into a web browser, Web2.0 seems good to go (you won't run games that are heavy on resources in a web browser - things like Battlefield, WoW or so - but smaller games can be run well by a Java client, Flash client, small ActiveX control and so on
Did you add the "Microsoft tax" into this? If so, very good. If not, not so good
Never had a problem playing videos from youtube (but didn't used it much)
This is not totally true - while people would be better to have free, open source drivers for some POS current printers, the idea is that the usable life of the products is so short that they don't survive long to the production cycle. Would having Linux drivers for the Windows-only printers be good? Yes, certainly. Would some of those printers survive longer than the builder offers support/drivers for them? Some of them, maybe.
As long as the parties that work to make the OLPC work are well intended, there is nothing wrong with having proprietary things inside (interfaces, drivers, and so on). However, if one company supplying - let's say - the wireless stack decide to earn more money than what was in the initial contract - for reasons as diverse as negotiating the price for 5 millions pieces, but delivering only 4.5 millions for lack of customers, you are in trouble. You can not use a different supplier if the original one put a bit of DCMA-hooks inside, and have to break compatibility. Open source everything inside would have been the best solution... Do you think this could not happen? Microsoft choose to have proprietary rights over everything that is inside the XBox 360 - the reason? when they wanted some terms (price of NVidia graphics core inside XBox) revised, NVidia choose to keep the first negotiated price. Now, if Microsoft wants to build the graphic chips in XBox360 at a foundry in Taiwan, they are able to do so (it might cost them some, but they can do it)
All that says is US citizens can not sue US Government, and british citizens cannot sue UK government. A foreign citizen could sue US Government, at least if the act against the citizen happened in a place where US does not have jurisdiction
Yep, I've done this once while driving (at 1 o'clock in the night). My eyes were closing on their own will, so I decided to keep them open. And with their open, a blank out of several seconds came - I've seen nothing for several seconds, with the eyes wide open. I was scared, so I've stopped, moved around, waited some time and started again.
What if HTTP wouldn't have been an open standard but a Microsoft one? Using the DMCA, Microsoft would be able to stop everyone from building web browsers. In the end, you would be forced to use just Internet Explorer. Let's take it another way. There was a time when power distribution in cities (in 1920s and so) used several systems - with different voltages and different frequencies. One open standard - imposed by a government maybe - changed these so that everyone would now use the same electric devices in any place of the city. What would happen if company X has leased Microsoft Office, but due to some problems, the payment didn't reach Microsoft? Microsoft could ask the removal of all Office instances from the company computers. In this moment, all your data is kept hostage by the will of Microsoft (until they won't give you back the programs, you can not access your documents, your emails, your spreadsheets, part of your applications that use - let's say - interfacing to Excel, and so on. Your arguments are flawed: the image editor (photoshop, let's say) have the image saved as an internal, undocumented, unknown format (.psd I think). In order to have the image visible to every other image viewer, you NEED to export it. Just like you would export the document with the image into a printable format, or into http, or whatever. What you say seems to be just what Microsoft did with all the standards it tainted. Java embedded in Windows XP was not compatible with the license they got from Sun. They don't ship Java in XP any longer, and they paid their way out of the judgement (I think they paid $2 billions to Sun to drop the case). And in the end, what you say is an argument for an open standard, not against: As long as the format of the document is kept hidden, if you format an embedded image to have a pincushion effect, no other word processor would be able to read it.
There is a customer program at Microsoft that allows them "read-only" access to Windows source code. However, as you can not compile it yourself, you can not know that what you see is the "real thing"
Why was that modded funny? It should be modded insightful, or even recommendable
This might spell the end of "automated" virus, and its total replacement with social-engineered, user-activated virus (the day of fully automated viruses seem to fade anyway)
Technology that relies on air (like humans) have no future in the space shuttle... The space shuttle's environment most damaging factor would be the shocks and high-g loads during launch and reentry (launch only for payload).
That is the linear velocity. The angular velocity for a 500,000 rpm turbine would be (0.5Mrpm = 8,333 rotations per second) 52,333 rad per second. At 20mm diameter, circumference of about 60mm, distance per second (linear velocity at the edge): ~500 m/s. These would spin fast
Finland?
Once, I don't think Dell uses a single supplier for memory (but I might be wrong). On the other side, the suppliers of memory would be perfectly able to provide DDR2 and DDR memory to a customer like Dell. One of the reasons (that might not currently be valid) was that the DDR memory was just a tad more expensive than DDR2.
Use an electric one powered from a power socket, with a long power cord. It should be less expensive than an electric one with a supercapacitor. On the other side, your run-off-the-mill power socket in your house could only give you a couple kilowatts, so a one minute charge will give you at most ten minutes work (those things have power in the hundreds of watts range).
Not burning a small quantity of oil in the fuel-oil mixture can produce more pollution than burning a gallon of gasoline. Those oils are pretty unfriendly to the environment. But anyway, I suppose even the tenth-of gallon of gas you must buy is expensive to you... As for transportation, maybe you could make a tricicle? It sure will use more fuel (it will be bigger), but the added stability might prove advantageous
There would be some reasons - once, the catalytic converter would probably be taken from a car. This means several pounds of extra weight. Then, catalytic converters rob power from the engine. Catalytic converters work only after they were heated up. The small engine might not give enough heat fast enough for heating it at nominal working temperature. And finally, unburned oil (and partially burned oil) in the exhaust might clog the converter. In order to fully use a catalytic converter, you'd better have a stoichiometric ratio of air and fuel. Good luck providing that to the junk engine.
Diesel injected two strokes engines - when used at the rpm and power level they were designed for - don't waste fuel (they only waste air). On the other side, gasoline two-strokes waste fuel as unburnt exhaust gasses
The unprofitable quarter was there only because of great fluctuations of the yen/dollar exchange rate (Nintendo builds the units for yens and sell them for dollars. When the dollar is weak compared to the yen, they get less yens for the same dollar