Comment Over 200 but on ADSL and not in space (Score 1) 558
I'm at 228ms from Canberra Australia.
I am surprised at how much slower some others from Australia are.
I'm at 228ms from Canberra Australia.
I am surprised at how much slower some others from Australia are.
Many, many years ago I worked as purchasing officer for a large research organisation. HP used to publish a magazine that showcased their latest equipment, usually describing the engineering that went into it in great detail. Within days of the magazine hitting the desks of our engineers we would get requests for these new gadgets, which HP was able to provide from local stock -- in Australia. That always impressed our engineers.
If you could put Linux on one it would be a sweet little machine. One of the reasons they are so expensive is the Windows requires a higher performance CPU and more memory than the other brands. This in turn pushes up the battery requirements as well as the cost. It would be nice to be able to put something more efficient on them.
To quote from the referenced article:
"The specific value can't be permanently altered on devices enabled with Secure Boot"
So not much use really.
I was watching a couple of youngsters trying to play with a Surface in one of our local electronics stores. It must have been that the keyboard was not connected correctly since nothing worked unless you poked at the screen. Not very impressive, and WAY too expensive compared to laptop computers.
Since its locked down so it can only run Windows RT, and the App Store would probably be shut down, what are you going to do with it?
The only way these could have succeeded was to price them below Android and recover the losses from the App Store.
The way these are heading, we will see Microsoft soon abandon them and because of their locked down nature they will be consigned to landfill.
There has been no spike in sales because PC sales are in decline overall.
However I purchased this W7 machine to avoid any W8 problems putting Linux on it.
Until very recently there was very little use for 3D for most people. Those few doing CAD, and some games were the only users, and they are not enough to bring 3D into the mainstream.
However we now have relatively low cost 3D movie cameras and 3D printers are also beginning to become common. I think 3D will finally start to take off.
Rather than yet another database application, what is needed is a database layer, much like a graphics layer. This could then be a common resource for all applications.
Part of the problem is that each application has its own database. Users want to access data from multiple applications which usually means exporting from one or more databases and importing the data into another before you can run any queries against it.
The relational model is two restrictive for the sort of things a user needs to do. Something based on RDF or OWL might be a lot more flexible and hence useful.
If the time machine transfered an equivalent mass in the opposite direction this problem could be resolved.
This assumes that the changes you make in the past can somehow catch up to the present. What if all changes just ripple forward at one second per second and those changes never reach our present (which is also travelling forward at one second per second.)
But after your hunting trip, none of these people would feature in your history, so you would have no incentive to go in the first place.
If you went back 100 million years, you would be on the other side of the galaxy without the spatial correction cicuit. And that is ignoring the movements of the galaxy.
Agree completely.
Once we have a means of sequestering CO2, then there is no longer much incentive to stop creating it. We will just build a lot more coal fired power stations, and probably a lot more of these plants to cope with the ever increasing demand.
Eventually all this CO2 goes back into the atmosphere, and probably very quickly.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol