The protein that gets misfolded in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (or mad cow) seems to be called just Prion protein and is only 253 amino acids. If bunnie is correct and one amino acid = 6 bits, then thats 1,518 bits.
So you're saying that it would take just 11 posts on Twitter to kill someone?
No matter, the Japanese space program proposed a module that would allow the study of incremental gravity on mammals, everything from low gravity to three times earth gravity, or the astronauts could sleep in it. That was scrubbed.
Why (not) on Earth would you want to simulate >1g in space? Anything below 1g, sure, but for greater you could just use a centrifuge on Earth where it doesn't take 1000kg of propellant to get every kilogram of payload to your test apparatus.
Add that to a race with death on any road you can come up with, so long as it has either a sheer cliff on one side, or the occasional overhead bridge, and you're golden.
Sheer cliff? Are you intending to be Thelma or Louise?;)
While I was (vaguely) aware that Bond's version was more tongue-in-cheek than connoisseur, I thank you for the in-depth information.:) And I now have a craving for a martini...
Windows cannot provide the mm accuracy in the same ROM size that DOS can. Linux is hard pressed to do it. You could probably run the same DOS programs on Windows 3.1 or even 9x but the storage and processing components would increase dramatically.
So there you have it. The state of the art is undoubtedly Massively OverAge - Parallel Environments of Windows - Piratically Esourced Windows Servers (MOA-PEW-PEWS).
I suddenly have this ghastly urge to go roll a Horde character and chat in the Barrens. Soz, cya, bbl...
You are simultaneously my hero, and a massive tool. I'm going to go and kill flagged lowbies near the battlemasters in Ironforge now. And it's ALL YOUR FAULT.:P
A group of 10-15 Stim-Pack equipped Marines and 5-10 Medics should do the trick nicely. Take out the drones and the carrier itself is nigh defenceless.
Actually, I'm sure that a flat spin would qualify more for 'stirred' than 'shaken'. You'll need to perform a multi-axis tumble in order to mix a really cool martini.
Because you really can't see much difference? I'm running 1920x1080 on a 24" widescreen and that's "plenty" - I can still see individual pixels but they're not THAT far off my eyes' resolution if I'm sitting ~50cm away from the screen. Unless you're going to make a wraparound 'surround screen' (oh god please yes!) there's not much point in that much resolution. It's like encoding an MP3 at 512kbps - sure, there may be SOME perceptible difference but it's not enough to be worth the extra hassle.
WTF Mods. He's just saying that at this price point you can get nearly double the performance from ATI than from nVidia. I love nVidia too, I run a 9800GT, but I'm not going to mod someone troll for pointing out that something else is now faster and cheaper.
Well, it comes down to simple math. For the performance to get to 570-fold more than what it is now, in the same style package, either:
The GPU has to become 570-fold more efficient
The GPU has to become ~570-fold smaller so they can fit 570 of the things onto a card
Both seem highly unlikely.
Either in isolation seems highly unlikely, true. But a 23x improvement in efficiency coupled with a 23x improvement in the number of cores on a GPU? In six years? That sounds a bit more feasible.
If there were, just coincidentally, to be some theoretical progression rate that involved doubling every 18 months, you'll notice that after ~6.87 years you're at ~570. Which is close enough to their estimate that it could be how they arrived at this figure.
Intel said 4 nm for 2022, that's in 13 years. What precisely allows you to doubt that claims, except maybe the fact that deadlines are often missed? Let me rephrase that, what allows you to think that it'll be reached much later than anything else?
Don't you start getting funky quantum effects happening around that size? Not saying it's not possible to build a CPU, but I thought there was a lot of talk about CPUs basically stagnating in clock speed and component density due to quantum tunneling or somesuch. The reason GPUs are outstripping CPUs these days is that everything they do is inherently massively, massively parallelizable. I think in the future, (and this is a fairly safe bet because it's already happening) computers will have the CPU basically as a coordinator and the grunt work will be done by massively parallel programmable vector processing units.
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Two guys in a garage could start a small hardware or software company and have a shot of success.
Yeah, playing with LEO-capable rocket motors in your garage tends to piss of the neighbours, if not the feds. :/
The protein that gets misfolded in Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (or mad cow) seems to be called just Prion protein and is only 253 amino acids. If bunnie is correct and one amino acid = 6 bits, then thats 1,518 bits.
So you're saying that it would take just 11 posts on Twitter to kill someone?
If you can change the constants of the universe, you probably already killed everyone an infinite number of times, preemptively.
Yeah but you do that anyway no matter what you do.
Who modded this informative!?
The guy who was asking "do y'all think tha babby is drinkin' all tha blood?"
It'll be tough to build a 1G chamber on the Moon.
It'll be a damn sight easier than building a 0.16G chamber on Earth. Unless you have a source of Cavorite that you're not telling us about?
No matter, the Japanese space program proposed a module that would allow the study of incremental gravity on mammals, everything from low gravity to three times earth gravity, or the astronauts could sleep in it. That was scrubbed.
Why (not) on Earth would you want to simulate >1g in space? Anything below 1g, sure, but for greater you could just use a centrifuge on Earth where it doesn't take 1000kg of propellant to get every kilogram of payload to your test apparatus.
Add that to a race with death on any road you can come up with, so long as it has either a sheer cliff on one side, or the occasional overhead bridge, and you're golden.
Sheer cliff? Are you intending to be Thelma or Louise? ;)
Humans cannot withstand long term micro-gravity. Period.
There's your problem. You're not pregnant until you STOP having periods.
Why did I have to spend all my mod points? :(
While I was (vaguely) aware that Bond's version was more tongue-in-cheek than connoisseur, I thank you for the in-depth information. :) And I now have a craving for a martini...
Windows cannot provide the mm accuracy in the same ROM size that DOS can. Linux is hard pressed to do it. You could probably run the same DOS programs on Windows 3.1 or even 9x but the storage and processing components would increase dramatically.
Um... what?
So there you have it. The state of the art is undoubtedly Massively OverAge - Parallel Environments of Windows - Piratically Esourced Windows Servers (MOA-PEW-PEWS).
I suddenly have this ghastly urge to go roll a Horde character and chat in the Barrens. Soz, cya, bbl...
You are simultaneously my hero, and a massive tool. I'm going to go and kill flagged lowbies near the battlemasters in Ironforge now. And it's ALL YOUR FAULT. :P
How exactly do you plan to strike a carrier?
A group of 10-15 Stim-Pack equipped Marines and 5-10 Medics should do the trick nicely. Take out the drones and the carrier itself is nigh defenceless.
Actually, I'm sure that a flat spin would qualify more for 'stirred' than 'shaken'. You'll need to perform a multi-axis tumble in order to mix a really cool martini.
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Damn new fangled stealth fighters.
Did you not see the WOOOOSH?
So that's the noise one of those Indian fighter jets makes?
It's like our defence force went "they're getting some sweet new planes, let us pretend that we do likewise!".
If Mr. Maxwell would just let me borrow his demon for a while, I wouldn't NEED Mr. Fusion.
Because you really can't see much difference? I'm running 1920x1080 on a 24" widescreen and that's "plenty" - I can still see individual pixels but they're not THAT far off my eyes' resolution if I'm sitting ~50cm away from the screen. Unless you're going to make a wraparound 'surround screen' (oh god please yes!) there's not much point in that much resolution. It's like encoding an MP3 at 512kbps - sure, there may be SOME perceptible difference but it's not enough to be worth the extra hassle.
I want to buy your ??underpants??
WTF Mods. He's just saying that at this price point you can get nearly double the performance from ATI than from nVidia. I love nVidia too, I run a 9800GT, but I'm not going to mod someone troll for pointing out that something else is now faster and cheaper.
Wouldn't that be more like "in many cases the car is slower than two faster cars"?
Embed a network of microscopic cooling tubes, with coolant flowing through via either capillary action or forced by a pump.
Well, it comes down to simple math. For the performance to get to 570-fold more than what it is now, in the same style package, either:
Both seem highly unlikely.
Either in isolation seems highly unlikely, true. But a 23x improvement in efficiency coupled with a 23x improvement in the number of cores on a GPU? In six years? That sounds a bit more feasible.
If there were, just coincidentally, to be some theoretical progression rate that involved doubling every 18 months, you'll notice that after ~6.87 years you're at ~570. Which is close enough to their estimate that it could be how they arrived at this figure.
Intel said 4 nm for 2022, that's in 13 years. What precisely allows you to doubt that claims, except maybe the fact that deadlines are often missed? Let me rephrase that, what allows you to think that it'll be reached much later than anything else?
Don't you start getting funky quantum effects happening around that size? Not saying it's not possible to build a CPU, but I thought there was a lot of talk about CPUs basically stagnating in clock speed and component density due to quantum tunneling or somesuch. The reason GPUs are outstripping CPUs these days is that everything they do is inherently massively, massively parallelizable. I think in the future, (and this is a fairly safe bet because it's already happening) computers will have the CPU basically as a coordinator and the grunt work will be done by massively parallel programmable vector processing units.
After that you can technically do them on paper, but... not so fun.