With one hair per frequency. Make that one frequency per hair.
Hair damaged? you can't hear that frequency. Lots of hairs damaged? You're deaf, even though the actual receiving equipment may be fine. You can no longer receive input from that hair which makes you deaf to roughly that frequency, +- some percentage around it.
I'm sure that it would be possible to 'grow' silicon cilia to fit into a 'tuned pipe' to give ears to our computers. Then the fun comes with processing.
Detecting direction is simple and can be done with a couple of 'gates' (digital equivalent of a couple of analog devices,) which just detect the phase difference between inputs (a neural net is the simplest way to handle the processing and 'training' consists of placing a sound source on a traveling rail. [Babies can do it long before they are capable of knowing what a source is.])
CPE (cocktail party effect [the ability to pick a voice out of a crowd]) is more involved and does things with frequency matching. (And is a problem with MS sufferers, which is how I learned about it. You would not believe how much richer my ears 'hear' music compared to yours. Of course, if we're in a room with others talking, I get no coherent input.)
Back to physics:
The length of the cilia determine the 'sensitivity' to sound. Short hairs are less sensitive because there is less 'piezo' flexing distance, but longer hairs are more prone to damage (deafening.) There's also more stuff related to the actual mass of the cilia and its relation to motion.
The perception of 'loudness' is a post-processing effect and depends on relative strength of a signal to other signals.
Ask the submarine echo location staff in the navy and you'd be amazed at what they already know on the subject.
Its the perception of nature as a 'killer' world, red in toooth and claw, with its roots in 18 century England, that's part of this problem.
Symbiosis plays a much larger role, right down to our own cell structures, that competition. Things have a habit of trying to find 'unoccupied' niches rather that directly compete. That's a decidedly human trait.
I'm not saying that there's no predation, there is and it tastes good, but there's far less competition than you think.
Virtual machines are an old technology (remember UCSD Pascal with their PCode machine specification?)
Java benefitted from the hype that surrounded anything coming from Sun Microsystems in the 'nineties. Apart from the fact that it was easier for managers and PHBs to control lines of code as deliverables, which doesn't work with real lazy evaluation OOP because you sometimes end up with -x lines of code on a project, the Java VM was really no great shakes.
The Smalltalk VM is still a couple of light years a head of Java's MV. They've been at it longer, is all.
Nowadays.NET is trying to be another one of those VM engines. (Virus writers just LOVE it. You can now infect _anything_ and still end up 'owning' a machine a couple of steps down the line.) Everything on the Windows side is trying to run with the w-i-d-e architecture (as opposed to the narrow and focused architectures that you get with real OOP) for its virtual machine.
It still isn't perfect. They are trying to do too much with objects and ignoring relationships.
They embed pointers, a real nono, and references at their own peril. They have to refactor and reimplement every couple of years because, while the objects haven't changed, the relationships and the connections which implement them are still not being recognized as first class objects.
While it might seem a lot more complicated to track your code that way, it just requires a different point of view.
Heinlein defined a term which encapsulates an attitude, a complete world view, or more a world NON view. Don't blame him. He can't grok groking.
The average person is very limited in their capacity to grok.
How long did they BELIEVE that the earth was flat, despite the evidence of their senses? How long did they NOT wonder at gravity, until Newton. How long did they NOT wonder at divergent parallax, until Einstein. How long have they believed that Excel tables are usable as databases, despite... Oh, what's the use?
How long have they fucked up everything beyond what works and get themselves in an awful mess?
Then they wait for a messiah to show them that their senses weren't lying.
Its 'easier' than thinking... (And that's how the God industry started. From the first shaman to the latest newage crap. They AL due to failure to light up the 'THINK' sign.)
The struggle for new ideas isn't coming up with the ideas, even the seeming scarcety of workable ideas, its the Phillistine pig ignorance from the non-creative garbage out there.
with electricity being 50Hz and 60Hz and 110v or 220v (and we're not even talking about 660v, three phase here!)
The problem with talking all these 'incompatible' formats too seriously is that, as long as the hardware layer works underneath, they're all 'soft' standards. They can be adapted to changing needs/situations.
The only thing is to make sure that the media can be recognized and read. If that's done, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WINNER OR A LOSER of a format war.
for the server room cost more that the servers it was, uh, serving to cool. They also used more power to cool the room and blow the chilled air through the racks.
Hz doesn't enter into it. (well not directly except that light speed is constant and as long as they don't increase then die size the component have to get faster if only because the electrons have the approximately same distance to go from one side of the die to the other.)
While I admit there's been times I WANTED to get back at my laptop for being so slow, the smell factor stopped me. Okay that and the cost, not to mention that I could get zapped in a very private place!
Urea don't small like roses, just sniff my cat box after the cat's used it. Yurk! (Actually, just be in the room after he goes. Bleah!)
I mean, you'd get to work and your corpse would be naked from having all the clothes ripped off.
Actually, I suspect that its an even better ratio with the MTA (New York City subway.) 8 million riders per day at $2.00 per ride, its bound to be worth the trip... assuming you can live through it.
I had cleaned up my hard drive, defragged it and was loading the backup program to make a complete backup with all my settings and the $%#@ thing froze.
I discovered that day the importance of keeping sufficient 'free air delivery' around the drives. I had four, count'em four drives, that decided that it was the perfect time to pack it in. Just before I ran the back up program.
It should be able to take images from a wide range of input (devices, resolutions, color corrections, user selectable, and NOT from a config list requiring rebooting, if you please,) feeding something like The Gimp for image manipulation, in real time.
Guy's in Vietnam and had no support issues with M$ We can do better for cheaper.
means that a woman can never menstruate and that they should be f*cked immediately. Otherwise half a potential embryo dies and is flushed down the toilet (or something.)
The right-wingers make the argument that you don't know the potential of the person. Yeah Sure. Like the world needs another G. Dahmer, J.W. Gacy, J.V.D. Stalins, Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), or even someone like ME.
I actually wonder what all these sanctimonious twits are all excited about.
By their lights, every time a woman miscarries, she should be put on trial for murder?
By my lights, what's with them being all for capital punishment (retroactive abortion?)
Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here...
99.99% of ANYTHING is crap. But that.01% of the total content of the universe makes it all worthwhile.
I listen to a podcast on wine tasting. If I didn't like wine, the entire thing would be an utter waste. Even then, most of it is only of passing interest, and then only to the people who had fun gathering the material, and to me.
Right now 99.99% of podcasts suck with their repellent production values. They have none. That will change as the geek factor diminishes and the abhorent contents kick in.
A lot of this is eminently forgetable. Some of it, like Slacker Astronomy is good (if you're into astrinomy...)
Slashdot Mirror
but am I?
Really, how much am I going to enjoy it more than a $250.00/hour hooker?
Oh, I just reread. $100, not $1,000. For $100, I'd question her qualifications. (Actually I wouldn't touch her with a borrowed dick.)
Never mind...
5.391 × 10 -44 seconds is the smallest amount of time. The clock-tick of the universe.
You can get 1TB of data space for $850USD (depending on latency) they want 2,092.67 USD.
I ain't thrilled...
With one hair per frequency. Make that one frequency per hair.
Hair damaged? you can't hear that frequency. Lots of hairs damaged? You're deaf, even though the actual receiving equipment may be fine. You can no longer receive input from that hair which makes you deaf to roughly that frequency, +- some percentage around it.
I'm sure that it would be possible to 'grow' silicon cilia to fit into a 'tuned pipe' to give ears to our computers. Then the fun comes with processing.
Detecting direction is simple and can be done with a couple of 'gates' (digital equivalent of a couple of analog devices,) which just detect the phase difference between inputs (a neural net is the simplest way to handle the processing and 'training' consists of placing a sound source on a traveling rail. [Babies can do it long before they are capable of knowing what a source is.])
CPE (cocktail party effect [the ability to pick a voice out of a crowd]) is more involved and does things with frequency matching. (And is a problem with MS sufferers, which is how I learned about it. You would not believe how much richer my ears 'hear' music compared to yours. Of course, if we're in a room with others talking, I get no coherent input.)
Back to physics:
The length of the cilia determine the 'sensitivity' to sound. Short hairs are less sensitive because there is less 'piezo' flexing distance, but longer hairs are more prone to damage (deafening.) There's also more stuff related to the actual mass of the cilia and its relation to motion.
The perception of 'loudness' is a post-processing effect and depends on relative strength of a signal to other signals.
Ask the submarine echo location staff in the navy and you'd be amazed at what they already know on the subject.
There were more traffic deaths in the 'States that there were casualties in the WAR in Iraq.
But the toll of the PEACE is Iraq is just a tad more that the American population would like.
Its a good thing that Bush is a lame duck. I don't think he could win reelection again the way things are there and here right now.
and, if they used an X-Ray laser, you'll get Hell(ad) from a nurse for not wearing a lead apron.
Its the perception of nature as a 'killer' world, red in toooth and claw, with its roots in 18 century England, that's part of this problem.
Symbiosis plays a much larger role, right down to our own cell structures, that competition. Things have a habit of trying to find 'unoccupied' niches rather that directly compete. That's a decidedly human trait.
I'm not saying that there's no predation, there is and it tastes good, but there's far less competition than you think.
Apple just uses off the shelf (OTS) components anyway. There's nothing about the hardware that is bleeding edge.
They just have a team with great aesthetics. Do you have the same talents for your team?
And then Squeak!
.NET is trying to be another one of those VM engines. (Virus writers just LOVE it. You can now infect _anything_ and still end up 'owning' a machine a couple of steps down the line.) Everything on the Windows side is trying to run with the w-i-d-e architecture (as opposed to the narrow and focused architectures that you get with real OOP) for its virtual machine.
Virtual machines are an old technology (remember UCSD Pascal with their PCode machine specification?)
Java benefitted from the hype that surrounded anything coming from Sun Microsystems in the 'nineties. Apart from the fact that it was easier for managers and PHBs to control lines of code as deliverables, which doesn't work with real lazy evaluation OOP because you sometimes end up with -x lines of code on a project, the Java VM was really no great shakes.
The Smalltalk VM is still a couple of light years a head of Java's MV. They've been at it longer, is all.
Nowadays
It still isn't perfect. They are trying to do too much with objects and ignoring relationships.
They embed pointers, a real nono, and references at their own peril. They have to refactor and reimplement every couple of years because, while the objects haven't changed, the relationships and the connections which implement them are still not being recognized as first class objects.
While it might seem a lot more complicated to track your code that way, it just requires a different point of view.
Heinlein defined a term which encapsulates an attitude, a complete world view, or more a world NON view. Don't blame him. He can't grok groking.
... Oh, what's the use?
The average person is very limited in their capacity to grok.
How long did they BELIEVE that the earth was flat, despite the evidence of their senses? How long did they NOT wonder at gravity, until Newton. How long did they NOT wonder at divergent parallax, until Einstein. How long have they believed that Excel tables are usable as databases, despite
How long have they fucked up everything beyond what works and get themselves in an awful mess?
Then they wait for a messiah to show them that their senses weren't lying.
Its 'easier' than thinking... (And that's how the God industry started. From the first shaman to the latest newage crap. They AL due to failure to light up the 'THINK' sign.)
The struggle for new ideas isn't coming up with the ideas, even the seeming scarcety of workable ideas, its the Phillistine pig ignorance from the non-creative garbage out there.
with electricity being 50Hz and 60Hz and 110v or 220v (and we're not even talking about 660v, three phase here!)
The problem with talking all these 'incompatible' formats too seriously is that, as long as the hardware layer works underneath, they're all 'soft' standards. They can be adapted to changing needs/situations.
The only thing is to make sure that the media can be recognized and read. If that's done, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WINNER OR A LOSER of a format war.
for the server room cost more that the servers it was, uh, serving to cool. They also used more power to cool the room and blow the chilled air through the racks.
Hz doesn't enter into it. (well not directly except that light speed is constant and as long as they don't increase then die size the component have to get faster if only because the electrons have the approximately same distance to go from one side of the die to the other.)
While I admit there's been times I WANTED to get back at my laptop for being so slow, the smell factor stopped me. Okay that and the cost, not to mention that I could get zapped in a very private place!
Urea don't small like roses, just sniff my cat box after the cat's used it. Yurk! (Actually, just be in the room after he goes. Bleah!)
I feel good about the choice that Steve made but I don't think he capitalized on the announcement.
Here's hoping that the new architecture is not just a M$, Linux thing.
I'd really like to have a low-power multi-core 64 bit chip blazing away in my next iMac.
and do it anywhere on earth that requires the deliverable.
Supersonic speed is S-L-O-W compared to light speed.
What keeps me commuting every damn day is that my manager INSISTS on my showing up at the office.
The windshear must be murder.
... assuming you can live through it.
I mean, you'd get to work and your corpse would be naked from having all the clothes ripped off.
Actually, I suspect that its an even better ratio with the MTA (New York City subway.) 8 million riders per day at $2.00 per ride, its bound to be worth the trip
Even though the dog is dead on the floor an the sheets on her side of the bed are smouldering.
That is one of the many joys of being married.
My nose gets blocked up (out of self preservation) after one of her cabbage and broccolli caseroles.
type the complete works of Shakespeare. Or half as much elapsed time.
I had cleaned up my hard drive, defragged it and was loading the backup program to make a complete backup with all my settings and the $%#@ thing froze.
I discovered that day the importance of keeping sufficient 'free air delivery' around the drives. I had four, count'em four drives, that decided that it was the perfect time to pack it in. Just before I ran the back up program.
Grrrr.....
How cheaply can it be done for?
It should be able to take images from a wide range of input (devices, resolutions, color corrections, user selectable, and NOT from a config list requiring rebooting, if you please,) feeding something like The Gimp for image manipulation, in real time.
Guy's in Vietnam and had no support issues with M$ We can do better for cheaper.
means that a woman can never menstruate and that they should be f*cked immediately. Otherwise half a potential embryo dies and is flushed down the toilet (or something.)
The right-wingers make the argument that you don't know the potential of the person. Yeah Sure. Like the world needs another G. Dahmer, J.W. Gacy, J.V.D. Stalins, Saloth Sar (Pol Pot), or even someone like ME.
I actually wonder what all these sanctimonious twits are all excited about.
By their lights, every time a woman miscarries, she should be put on trial for murder?
By my lights, what's with them being all for capital punishment (retroactive abortion?)
Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here...
I was gonna get all my sh*t in MP3 for free (from YOUR machines.)
Yeh, its closed source, you can't know...
99.99% of ANYTHING is crap. But that .01% of the total content of the universe makes it all worthwhile.
I listen to a podcast on wine tasting. If I didn't like wine, the entire thing would be an utter waste. Even then, most of it is only of passing interest, and then only to the people who had fun gathering the material, and to me.
Right now 99.99% of podcasts suck with their repellent production values. They have none. That will change as the geek factor diminishes and the abhorent contents kick in.
A lot of this is eminently forgetable. Some of it, like Slacker Astronomy is good (if you're into astrinomy...)
When the client is hosted on a Windows platform, it still a bad idea...