Fibre Channel is (Gb/s) not (GB/s), there is an order of magnitude difference there. Theoretical max speed on a 4 Gb/s FC card would be ~400MB/s. I seriously doubt you ever see that kind of speed on any existing FC gear.
This is only a prototype, but obvious improvements would be to put magnets and coils on both ends, or along the entire length.
Picture this, you have a machine that takes two strips of heat fusible plastic and fuses them around coils of wire, so you have a roll of tape that has coils of wire embedded along its entire length.
You then have a second machine that takes a single coil of mylar and applies a thin film magnet along it's entire length. So now you have two rolls of plastic tape, one with embedded coils, the other with a thin film magnet.
Now you cut alternating strips from both spools and mount them under tension in a window frame, like horizontal louvered blinds and let the wind vibrate all of the strips. The power is being generated along the entire legnth of the strips now, and the coil wire tape and the thin film magnet tape should have different resonant frequencies so that the alternating strips will be vibrating asynchronously along their lengths. Seems like it would produce far more power this way than his original basic prototype.
I picked up his first book at a used book store around 1992 or so. It was around about 1000+ pages long, I read the first 450 pages, and not a damn thing happened, just like a Stephen King novel. His prose was just like Nora Robert's, (i.e. complete schlock). I stopped reading less than halfway through the first book. I don't like Nora Roberts or Stephen King and put Jordan in the same pop category as those two.
He seemed to ascribe to the theory, "Why use 5 words to describe something, when 35 words can be used instead?". I thought then, with his very first book, that he was being paid by the publisher per page, not per book. My wife actually finished this first book, because one of her friends absolutely raved about the series. She didn't much care for it either, even after reading the whole book.
I just don't understand why people liked him. I don't understand why people like Nora Roberts either, for that matter. Stephen King, on the otherhand, I can understand people liking, but I will only bother to read the Reader's Digest condensed versions of King, or just wait for the movie.:)
Everybody seems to be looking at this for electronic chip production. I don't see that being usable at all with this.
This seems more geared to producing optical diffraction gratings, sensors or maybe even use in solar cells. I.E. Take a normal photovoltaic cell, then put a thin film on top and use this to create a tuned diffraction grating on the surface that improves the solar cell effeciency. Same for optical sensors.
I could also see potential uses in biological sensors.
Yeah, must better to stick with the "extraordinary evidence" of black holes, dark matter and dark energy (which we can't see or measure) that have to be introduced to make the current theories work...
I believe that black holes are pretty well established empirically by astronomy. As to dark matter and dark energy, being a MOND fan myself, I agree that those may be hokum.
S/360 JCL (and the S/360 DCB macro) had a mechanism for 4096-byte blocks in 1964:
and 360 JCL should have been put out to pasture and abolished in 1974. I had the misfortune of having to learn it in the early 1990's for a Cobol class. The Cobol surprisingly was not that bad, but the 360 JCL was enough to drive me to drink and consider buying a gun to go hunt down and shoot anyone who had anything to do with creating 360 JCL.
Seriously, having to specify which device, block and sector your files are located at beyond the year 1980 is totally messed up.
If you are ever in a power failure situation (Think hurricane). Simply add a wick to your american chocolate bar and it will double as an emergency candle. It may save your life.
by sending out Beowulf Schaeffer in a singleship. We might be facing a Pak protector invasion soon, in front of the cosmic ray blast that will sterilize our planet./grin
My physics is from the mid 80's so it is 20+ years out of date. But what I remember is that if you put a black hole inside a hydrogen cloud, all the hydrogen and anything else that gets sucked inside the Schwartzchild radius will be ripped apart and converted to energy and approximately half of that energy will be radiated outwards, the other half getting sucked into the black hole.
Black holes can radiate huge amounts of radiation if you keep dumping matter into them.
Hey, I've had my TRS-80 around for 25 years without a single trojan, virus or remote exploit infecting it! Most securely designed OS ever! And it had "OS-9" way before Apple!
Funny you should mention that, but I actually wrote a trojan program for the TRS80 way back in 1980. It would put up a fake basic prompt, and let the user type about 256 bytes or so of commands, then erase all their work and print a mocking statement on the screen. Ahh, the high school memories of computer lab. Quite nostalgic.
I highly recommend SME Server at http://www.smeserver.org/ as a trivially easy to use server version of Linux. You can install it in 15-20 minutes and then configure it using a nice web interface in another 15 minutes.
The web management is very nice and it will even act as an NT Primary domain controller for single sign on to a domain out of the box, with Samba shares, ftp, and email. It can act as your firewall/gateway or as just a stand alone server. It is based on CentOS 4.4 and it is great for home or small business servers with WindowsXP clients.
If Quanta will sell me an OLPC with 256 meg ram and a 1-2 Gig CF flash drive and the capability to run either Puppy or DSL Linux on it. I would buy one for $200.00 in a heartbeat.
Depending on how well it worked out, I might very well end up buying 5 of them, one for everybody in my family. Primary uses would be E-Book reader, web browser and email. I particularly like the nice screen and the capability to self charge, so you could take it camping/traveling without having to worry about remote power.
I am on my 9th inkjet printer in the past four years. When you can go to Walmart/Staples or Best Buy and pick up last years closeout model inkjet for $29-$39 and the ink refills ran $69, It was far more economical for me to trash my inkjet printer every 3-4 months when the cartridges ran out than to buy refills.
Recently, the economics have changed a little. Walmart sells their base model Lexmark inkjet printer for regular price of $19.95 and the single cartridge refill is also $19.95, so I currently buy one or two refills before trashing the printer for a new model, as the cost is the same either way, and it is slightly less hassle to change the ink cartridge then to disconnect and reconnect the USB and power cable on a new printer.
When the ink runs low, I check the print quality, if it is good, I buy a refill, if it has degraded, I pitch the printer for a new one. Always buy an inkjet that comes with full sized cartridges and not "Starter" ones, and if you buy last years discontinued/closeout model, you can get a higher quality or more featurefull printer for rock bottom pricing. I recommend that nobody should ever pay more than $39 for an inkjet.
The only thing I really feel bad about is the growing stack of inkjet printers that are/will be accumulating in landfills from the ridiculous Razor Blade business model the printer companies are using. Inkjet refill prices have dropped by 1/2 to 2/3 in the past year so I think the printer companies are finally starting to move to a more balanced business model. I can't be the only person junking inkjets left and right when the ink runs out, so change is inevitable.
Call me crazy, but the FSF is going to have to fork their software when they go to GPL 3 anyway. Since they own the copywrite, they are free to move it all to GPL 3, but according to the terms of the GPL 2 they will have to take a snapshot of the code right before the upgrade and keep that available to anybody who wants the static GPL 2 source at the time of the upgrade for quite some time to come.
The GPL 2 clause about distributing the programs and then not adding any further restrictions is why they will have to keep the 2.0 code available for anybody to whom they have distributed it to as GPL 3 does add further restrictions.
IANAL But your posting his mother's personal information in Bold type to a public forum and then posting email correspondence between you and her to a public forum and then also posting an alternate email address for her, seems to indicate an intent to harrass.
You have also posted potentially Libelous accusations to a public forum against Neil and James. With the implication of their sexual preferences which may fall under Federal Hate crime laws. It seems to me that (again IANAL) that you have done this both personally and in regards to the businesses that you own. So the corporate veil probably won't protect you from legal liabilities both against your person and against the companies you represent.
I think that you had better retain the services of legal counsel, and if your legal counsel is any good, he/she will recommend you cease and desist posting personal information for people who are not officer's or owners of RegisterFly.
This seems to be turning into a circus act now. I foresee some long jail sentences for one or more of the principles once the FBI gets involved.
With that said, I think the parent here stepped over the line in posting the personal info with "Boyfriend" and "Prostitute" attached. You may very well be looking at a Libel suit yourself here.
It is also, never appropriate to be posting people's Mother's email accounts, phone numbers, and address to a public forum, no matter what dispute you may have with a person. That is the act of a 12 year old and comes across as very stalker like. Are you really looking for somebody to go beat up his mom?
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Fibre Channel is (Gb/s) not (GB/s), there is an order of magnitude difference there. Theoretical max speed on a 4 Gb/s FC card would be ~400MB/s. I seriously doubt you ever see that kind of speed on any existing FC gear.
This is only a prototype, but obvious improvements would be to put magnets and coils on both ends, or along the entire length.
Picture this, you have a machine that takes two strips of heat fusible plastic and fuses them around coils of wire, so you have a roll of tape that has coils of wire embedded along its entire length.
You then have a second machine that takes a single coil of mylar and applies a thin film magnet along it's entire length. So now you have two rolls of plastic tape, one with embedded coils, the other with a thin film magnet.
Now you cut alternating strips from both spools and mount them under tension in a window frame, like horizontal louvered blinds and let the wind vibrate all of the strips. The power is being generated along the entire legnth of the strips now, and the coil wire tape and the thin film magnet tape should have different resonant frequencies so that the alternating strips will be vibrating asynchronously along their lengths. Seems like it would produce far more power this way than his original basic prototype.
I picked up his first book at a used book store around 1992 or so. It was around about 1000+ pages long, I read the first 450 pages, and not a damn thing happened, just like a Stephen King novel. His prose was just like Nora Robert's, (i.e. complete schlock). I stopped reading less than halfway through the first book. I don't like Nora Roberts or Stephen King and put Jordan in the same pop category as those two.
:)
He seemed to ascribe to the theory, "Why use 5 words to describe something, when 35 words can be used instead?". I thought then, with his very first book, that he was being paid by the publisher per page, not per book. My wife actually finished this first book, because one of her friends absolutely raved about the series. She didn't much care for it either, even after reading the whole book.
I just don't understand why people liked him. I don't understand why people like Nora Roberts either, for that matter. Stephen King, on the otherhand, I can understand people liking, but I will only bother to read the Reader's Digest condensed versions of King, or just wait for the movie.
All those volunteers along the highway, in the orange jumpsuits voluntarily picking up trash, refute your argument. :)
Everybody seems to be looking at this for electronic chip production. I don't see that being usable at all with this. This seems more geared to producing optical diffraction gratings, sensors or maybe even use in solar cells. I.E. Take a normal photovoltaic cell, then put a thin film on top and use this to create a tuned diffraction grating on the surface that improves the solar cell effeciency. Same for optical sensors. I could also see potential uses in biological sensors.
What about Paul Vixie and FTPMail? I was using that way back around 1988 when DEC still existed as a company.
Yeah, must better to stick with the "extraordinary evidence" of black holes, dark matter and dark energy (which we can't see or measure) that have to be introduced to make the current theories work...
I believe that black holes are pretty well established empirically by astronomy. As to dark matter and dark energy, being a MOND fan myself, I agree that those may be hokum.
S/360 JCL (and the S/360 DCB macro) had a mechanism for 4096-byte blocks in 1964:
and 360 JCL should have been put out to pasture and abolished in 1974. I had the misfortune of having to learn it in the early 1990's for a Cobol class. The Cobol surprisingly was not that bad, but the 360 JCL was enough to drive me to drink and consider buying a gun to go hunt down and shoot anyone who had anything to do with creating 360 JCL.
Seriously, having to specify which device, block and sector your files are located at beyond the year 1980 is totally messed up.
rdiff-backup is the Linux version of shadow copy. Very easy to use backup with revisions. find it here: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html
If you are ever in a power failure situation (Think hurricane). Simply add a wick to your american chocolate bar and it will double as an emergency candle. It may save your life.
I read this paper about 5 or 6 years ago and it bears directly on the parent article and Bell's inequality.
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http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/quant-ph/papers/9906/9906
Since I can't read the parent paper outside of the abstract it is hard to say. But I think that these two papers disagree in their conclusions.
It should probably be noted that Grant [discovery.com] has a BS in EE from USC.
It should also be noted that Grant has 60 Lbs gold plated nuts. Two or three time Robot war champion. His geek card is current.
by sending out Beowulf Schaeffer in a singleship. We might be facing a Pak protector invasion soon, in front of the cosmic ray blast that will sterilize our planet. /grin
My physics is from the mid 80's so it is 20+ years out of date. But what I remember is that if you put a black hole inside a hydrogen cloud, all the hydrogen and anything else that gets sucked inside the Schwartzchild radius will be ripped apart and converted to energy and approximately half of that energy will be radiated outwards, the other half getting sucked into the black hole.
Black holes can radiate huge amounts of radiation if you keep dumping matter into them.
Hey, I've had my TRS-80 around for 25 years without a single trojan, virus or remote exploit infecting it! Most securely designed OS ever! And it had "OS-9" way before Apple!
Funny you should mention that, but I actually wrote a trojan program for the TRS80 way back in 1980. It would put up a fake basic prompt, and let the user type about 256 bytes or so of commands, then erase all their work and print a mocking statement on the screen. Ahh, the high school memories of computer lab. Quite nostalgic.
I highly recommend SME Server at http://www.smeserver.org/ as a trivially easy to use server version of Linux. You can install it in 15-20 minutes and then configure it using a nice web interface in another 15 minutes.
The web management is very nice and it will even act as an NT Primary domain controller for single sign on to a domain out of the box, with Samba shares, ftp, and email. It can act as your firewall/gateway or as just a stand alone server. It is based on CentOS 4.4 and it is great for home or small business servers with WindowsXP clients.
If Quanta will sell me an OLPC with 256 meg ram and a 1-2 Gig CF flash drive and the capability to run either Puppy or DSL Linux on it. I would buy one for $200.00 in a heartbeat.
Depending on how well it worked out, I might very well end up buying 5 of them, one for everybody in my family. Primary uses would be E-Book reader, web browser and email. I particularly like the nice screen and the capability to self charge, so you could take it camping/traveling without having to worry about remote power.
I am on my 9th inkjet printer in the past four years. When you can go to Walmart/Staples or Best Buy and pick up last years closeout model inkjet for $29-$39 and the ink refills ran $69, It was far more economical for me to trash my inkjet printer every 3-4 months when the cartridges ran out than to buy refills.
Recently, the economics have changed a little. Walmart sells their base model Lexmark inkjet printer for regular price of $19.95 and the single cartridge refill is also $19.95, so I currently buy one or two refills before trashing the printer for a new model, as the cost is the same either way, and it is slightly less hassle to change the ink cartridge then to disconnect and reconnect the USB and power cable on a new printer.
When the ink runs low, I check the print quality, if it is good, I buy a refill, if it has degraded, I pitch the printer for a new one. Always buy an inkjet that comes with full sized cartridges and not "Starter" ones, and if you buy last years discontinued/closeout model, you can get a higher quality or more featurefull printer for rock bottom pricing. I recommend that nobody should ever pay more than $39 for an inkjet.
The only thing I really feel bad about is the growing stack of inkjet printers that are/will be accumulating in landfills from the ridiculous Razor Blade business model the printer companies are using. Inkjet refill prices have dropped by 1/2 to 2/3 in the past year so I think the printer companies are finally starting to move to a more balanced business model. I can't be the only person junking inkjets left and right when the ink runs out, so change is inevitable.
Call me crazy, but the FSF is going to have to fork their software when they go to GPL 3 anyway. Since they own the copywrite, they are free to move it all to GPL 3, but according to the terms of the GPL 2 they will have to take a snapshot of the code right before the upgrade and keep that available to anybody who wants the static GPL 2 source at the time of the upgrade for quite some time to come.
The GPL 2 clause about distributing the programs and then not adding any further restrictions is why they will have to keep the 2.0 code available for anybody to whom they have distributed it to as GPL 3 does add further restrictions.
Does draft 2.0 deal with 802.11n trashing any nearby b/g access point traffic? That to me is the biggest hurdle with 802.11n technology.
If my neighbor goes out and buys a new wireless "n" router, my old 802.11b router traffic will go to hell.
I don't doubt that this will produce thrust. But I don't see how they will be able to direct the thrust in a specific controllable direction.
IANAL But your posting his mother's personal information in Bold type to a public forum and then posting email correspondence between you and her to a public forum and then also posting an alternate email address for her, seems to indicate an intent to harrass.
You have also posted potentially Libelous accusations to a public forum against Neil and James. With the implication of their sexual preferences which may fall under Federal Hate crime laws. It seems to me that (again IANAL) that you have done this both personally and in regards to the businesses that you own. So the corporate veil probably won't protect you from legal liabilities both against your person and against the companies you represent.
I think that you had better retain the services of legal counsel, and if your legal counsel is any good, he/she will recommend you cease and desist posting personal information for people who are not officer's or owners of RegisterFly.
This seems to be turning into a circus act now. I foresee some long jail sentences for one or more of the principles once the FBI gets involved.
With that said, I think the parent here stepped over the line in posting the personal info with "Boyfriend" and "Prostitute" attached. You may very well be looking at a Libel suit yourself here.
It is also, never appropriate to be posting people's Mother's email accounts, phone numbers, and address to a public forum, no matter what dispute you may have with a person. That is the act of a 12 year old and comes across as very stalker like. Are you really looking for somebody to go beat up his mom?