The solution is for Dell to get all that bloatware working in wine and install it! While they are at it, they can root the kernel/filesystem so that it is impossible to delete.
Next step, install a small cron job that fiddles with
Not to mention the fact that our entire economy is very closely tied to the price of fuel, so even the folks who only own bicycles are touched by rising fuel costs.
I thought of the mosquito killing laser gun years before they did.
I'm sure the reason they are not actually selling it, is that it occasionally sets nearby trees on fire when it misses a shot. My version won't start fires, but I'd be crazy to try to bring it to market knowing that the product would be in I.V.'s sights from the get go.
Way to kill innovation guys!
Their life is already bad enough...
"Now I lay me down to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infrared
How I hate the night"
--Marvin
If we only had to go to LEO, we'd probably have done it already.
Also, there are a ton of satellites in LEO, and most of them are likely to hit the tether at some point. It is just a matter of time (and not as much time as you'd think -- you'd probably have a near miss every couple weeks).
The airlines to hire people to keep the airplane's copy of all the charts up to date, but in almost every airline, the pilots are responsible for doing the updates on their own set, and everyone needs their own set. Every time a new update comes out, every pilot gets an envelope with a hundred or more loose leaf pages, and they have to locate the old copy of each in their chart book, tear out the old one, and insert the new one into the rings. It is really annoying and takes a long time.
Time spent preparing charts is not counted as duty time, so often times, pilots who have been busy or who have procrastinated will be up late the night before a trip updating all the approach plates so that they are legal to fly the next day.
With electronic flight bags, the airline still keeps paper copies in the cockpit, but the pilots use their electronic copies, and the updates involve touching an update button. With the Jeppessen product, all the specific company and aircraft specific manuals are also linked to your account, so if any procedures change, those are also updated within the app. It is very cool. Pilots should focus on flying, not collating. This is a huge step forward.
If your inner ear can distinguish the difference between a uniform field, aka an accelerating spaceship, and the curved field of a point source 6300000 meters away, I'll eat my hat.
I agree that the spinning case would probably feel a little wierd to most people. That's why I only suggested the first case as being indistinguishable.
Of course you could devise an experiment to tell the difference between the first case and earth, but the parent of the thread is talking about artificial gravity!!! I guarantee you I could devise an experiment to prove that the gravitation field inside of the starship entriprise or battlestar galactica does not have an identical curviture to that of the earth.
The point of having artificial gravity is not to decieve instruments, it's to keep those instruments from floating away from their labs!
I'm not affiliated with Supermicro in any way, but they have four 1U serverboards designed for the 12 core opterons, so that's 48 cores in a 1U server. I'm guessing that Supermicro is not the only vendor of quad opteron boards supporting the latest chips. There are most likely quite a few of these in use by real people. Anyone want to speak up?
I know from personal experience that the socket F opterons performed very poorly in an 8 way configuration compared to the previous generation (socket 940 gen). I ran multiple tests on dual core chips (885s, I think), back in 2006 or 7 where I'd get nearly double the performance in going from a quad configuration to an 8 way configuration, but with the socket F breed of chips, there was no performance boost at all, it was like the clock speed was being cut in half and all the threads took twice as long to complete. I saw this behavior again and again, and the motherboard manufacturer that I was testing the chips with told me that it was an issue with the chips themselves. I think this is the reason why 8-way opteron systems are very rare now.
This is a blatant misquote by the media. Prince was merely saying that IPv4 is over. Prince recently dropped all IPv4 support in his home network, and is excited to be making the switch from unhealthy decimal "numbers" (actually he said "octets") to long 128bit hexadecimal strings. WTF is wrong with the media.
The Internets are not deadz.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
