I have been working on an NXP ISP1582 driver, this is for USB2.0 Device interface and Rockbox has been one of the cleanest example code pieces for this, demonstrating how to use this chip.
I hope to eventually release my code in to the Linux kernel although it doesn't look anything like the RockBox code, they help me get past some roadblocks on how to communicate with that chip.
So Thank you Rockbox, I hope it will have a long future ahead.
The Carbon Fibers them selves would hold up at those temps, there is a good chance that they would bake out most of what was there and what remains would be some ceramic like material and not a polymer, so it's designed to behave properly at those high temperatures and stresses.
Like I said I think when they tried to actually apply this to a full sized aircraft is cracked.
For my app it was just 50C for a Pentium 4 CPU and we just just run of the mill Jeffco Epoxy that I know wouldn't take much heat.
If you remember the SR71 that could go Mach 3, I was told it was mostly titanium and would leak fuel while on the ground, but when at flight speeds, would operate at over 1000C the plane would literally get 3 feet longer and the seams would seal tight. So it wasn't designed to work on the ground really, just barely get by.
Also with the high thermal conductivity, maybe the point was to avoid having the material holding the fibers together hitting those high temperatures directly.
So cool your at Ames now, I am in Santa Barbara these days, otherwise I'd say lets go for coffee.
I still have a project where I need something that is easy to fabricate parts but must not outgas or release ions at 200 to 300c so Stainless Steel and Aluminum is out. This is for a medical app.
I worked with a type of Polyamide coating when at Standford for use on implantable stainless steel needle, this would be perfect, except I just can't found out what we had been using back this this is like 20 years ago. is was a red varnish like liquid that we would bake to make the polymers cross link and produce a very hard stable tear resistant coating since these were being implanted and then later removed.
It's been quite a few years, and we had Dr Alfred Zinn from the ESA assisting us in that department since my background is electronics and software, and some thermal modeling and not materials.
The fibers were from Mitsubishi I think they were PAN fibers but manufacture using a special process that increased the conductivity, but made them more brittle.
Initially we started with scrap given to us from some of the folks a NASA. I think they were left over from the Boeing X-32 project.
What resin they where using we never knew, since out application was low temperature. It seems some of the fiber sheet had been pre-impregnated with some sort of binder that was like peel and stick! It was designed to be baked in a Kiln so the whole think would end up as one solid very hard super high thermally conductive piece for the leading edge of the wings, the rest of the wings then using more common CF. I think they ended of failing because of some cracking problems.
Sure worked great for our stuff though.
I may not even be supposed to be discussing this. But I did not have any security clearance or sign any secrecy documents.
There was another guy I ran into that had some epoxy resins supposedly was good to 2000C. Never got my hands of any of it. Lost his contact info now anyhow, but I can try ask my friends for it.
How serious are you in persuing it? Since that start up "Nisvara" ended badly there are some burned relationships there.
> 100-200 deg. C May be your missing some "0" in there.
The High Temperature Carbon fiber reinforced polymers I was working with a NASA Ames were good up 2500 to 3000 deg. C. Their thermal conductivities were over 1700 WmK (Watts per Meter Kelvin where Steel is around 60, Aluminum 200 & Copper 400) These were used for the leading tips of super sonic aircraft.
I even experimented and made a light weight non-metallic frying pan just for fun using the stuff.
My interest was in using these Carbon fibers to cool CPU chips, so I never took them any near those temperatures in my application but needed the thermal conductivities.
The price of the material wasn't actually that expensive either when you started buying in bulk. Problem now is these fibers are only made for Aerospace in very small runs and done on defense contractor budgets.
With Carbon Fiber Composites and other composite materials it's possible to get much much stronger then steel, be totally inert to magnetic fields, more resistant to heat and can have much higher or lower thermal conductivities.
Dude, she scares me. I mean she could make GWB look like a saint in the end.
I look at McCain/Palin and they just seem like and even bigger bunch of screw up's then Bush/Cheney. Incompetence is one of the best way to disguise a con.
Plus there are more big oil company ties with her as if Bush/Cheney and the Halliburton Connection wasn't obvious enough. How did a company that maintains oil wells take over ALL our defense contracts anyhow? Don't think there may have been any impropriety there?
We might as well let the Oil and Gas companies just take over direct control, these guys are hell bent on total full bore global warming as a good thing. People in Canada and Alaska see this as making there land lush and green, while the rest of the human race further south get wiped out. But their republicans and it's clear they don't care because they think that somehow they will be above it all. But when the waves are crashing at there door steps and there no food to eat, they will starve just like the rest of the poor bastards they didn't care about.
Well I am way off topic now, please forgive me who ever is going to mod this.
But to get this back on topic I think McCain/Palin driving us in to WW III and/or doing nothing but getting us burning more gas and welcoming the rapture is far more real a danger then the LHC's micro black holes.
I spent about 4 months of experimentation on different epoxies and vendors of silicon carbide, different grit sizes and viscosities of mixtures.
Don't have my notes any more, but making sure your epoxy doesn't expand or contract on hardening is critical. Using and Oven to cure it helps, being electronics you can't take it too hot, 150F to 200F in an adapted toaster oven.
And a mix of different Silicon Carbide grain sizes Larger grain some are as large as 2 mm are excellent thermal conductors, then a mix of some finer powder to thicken the mix and fill in the gaps. Think cement with gravel and sand mixed.
As far as the and exact formulation it's more like doing it by feel, to get the ratios right. The problem is the Silicon Carbide will sink to the bottom and you will end up with plain epoxy pooling on top if you mixture isn't thick enough. This is where boron nitride was nice it that thicken and stayed mixed. Another option was to allow the mix to cure a little them mix again before pouring so it wouldn't settle out.
When I was doing a start up called Nisvara 2002 (now dead) we were building Silent computers and server rooms that didn't require air conditioning. Something like 50% power savings!
I was able to Pot or coat, power supply's, hard drive and motherboards in various materials.
The key is thermal conductivity. Yes some one here mention diamond, but that is expensive in unrealistic although diamond dust power was available from GE at a much lower cost then I expected. Carbon Fiber and other carbons are great except they are electrically conductive so they are ruled out (except diamond that is).
What worked great was epoxy with silicon carbide which is dirt cheap and sold as sand basting powder. Also boron nitride works great too, but this is a messy white powder and expensive.
Also a thin layer of silicon carbide or boron nitride epoxy could be applied then a layer of cheaper carbon black or chopped carbon fiber mixed epoxy could be use for making a thicker layer if needed. Non-metallic heat sinks work great using these materials.
We were able to take a Antec 450 Watt Power supply and run it at full load with no fans or heat sink fins as just one big white sold block of epoxy with boron nitride.
I expect Ethernet and USB to be the most usable interfaces in 25 years.
I would put a small computer in loaded with software capable of playing the files, do the whole thing on CD, and flash, I wouldn't count on the HD's working.
I'd also make sure to put in some desiccant and a plastic liner, and even some insulating layer to help reduce thermal cycling.
Another entirely different approach is to just UUENCODE the file and print them out.
Then in 25 years these can be OCR'ed and UUDECODED back to JPEG's.
Also include a printout of UUDECODE just to be safe.
Ted Nelson published a book "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" back in 1974 where he talks about this very concept if I remember correctly. There is a lot of neat ideas in that book.
Ted also invented Hypertext as a way to store and retrieve information.
On the recording all events around you. I had proposed this very idea 10 years ago to the head of a large rap music label, this is to record everything around him 24/7 to be able to provide proof to authorities every time he is accused of wrong doing so he could prove where and what he was doing at all times. A perpetual alibi. GPS with Date time, audio and video. He probably would have spent less time in jail had he listened to me. Or maybe more?
There have been discussions amongst my friend into wearable computers for just this sort of thing, but it hasn't yet materialized. Many concerns for security as well as it just being awkward.
Similar to Scotchgard, Rain-X, Aquapel, Jigaloo, RainClear and Magic Sand.
These use Organosilanes like Trimethylsilanol (TMS) (CH3)3SiOH, or perfluorooctanesulfonates (PFOS) C8HF17O3S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFOS Look at the fluorene chains on this one, fluorocarbons are the basis for things like Teflon and Fluorinert that don't react with anything and so in Teflon's case make good non-stick surfaces.
Unfortunately Scotchgard has been "reformulated" to make is "safer" PFOS never breaks down, good for electronics, bad for people and the environment. the new Formula (Perfluorobutane sulfonate PFBS ) is designed to break down after a month, so you'd have to keep reapplying.
If you want to research this further see Patents, 3574791, 6676733, and 6994890
Also get on youtube and look up magic sand, some cool videos there.
Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth.[3] In early 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including consciousness research and psychic events.
Mitchell says that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer, helped heal him of kidney cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a biopsy (the definitive test for cancer), "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma." Adam worked (distantly) on Mitchell from December of 2003 until June of 2004, when the "irregularity was gone and we haven't seen it since."[4]
Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets"[5] and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out."[6] In 2004 he told the St. Petersburg Times that a "cabal of insiders" inside the US Government were studying recovered alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing US Presidents after John F. Kennedy.[7] He has said, that "We all know that UFOs are real, now the question is, where they come from."[8]
On July 23, 2008 Edgar Mitchell was interviewed on Kerrang Radio. Mitchell claimed the Roswell crash was real and that Aliens have contacted humans several times but that governments have hidden the truth for 60 years stating, "'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real." In reply, a spokesman for NASA stated, "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue."[9] [10]
Edgar Mitchell is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary In the Shadow of the Moon.
As well as academic papers,[11] Mitchell has written two books: Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). In The Way of the Explorer, Mitchell proposed a dyadic model of reality.[12]
I have only been explaining this architecture since 1990 or so, "Head in hands shaking it" why doesn't anyone get it when I explain it!
Worse yet when they do "get it", it's like some new invention as if they never heard it before.
I have tried 3 times to get set top box companies going to do this since 1994 only to have "money people" not "get it".
Decentralized is the solution with high demand, high up time services for the internet.
Like Google for example. It's also worked great for Torrent and Skype.
There isn't any reason, Set top Boxes, for video aren't doing it right now, but fear and incompetence. When they do, Cable as we know it IS DEAD!!!! Oh youtube may also go by the way side.
They just need to get that couch potato channel flipping going correctly. This several seconds to change channels blows.
If I sound in an off mood maybe my Mc Donald's coffee wasn't hot enough.
I also have a badly explained idea for an OS that does this type of "millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center" http://www.dnull.com/os/ Amorphous OS - It came out better in the talk...
Isn't this the whole frigging concept of Peer to peer and the WHOLE Internet FTP Unix bla bla bla back in the 1970 and 80!!!! I mean before PC's were even allowed to play on the Internet as more then Dumb Terminals.
Has the web perverted people view of things so much that when they realize they can use their local PC for more then viewing web pages it's some major revelation.
Some of you need to go read the "Hobbes' Internet Timeline" and learn a bit more about how this network came to be.
I didn't realize anyone had a problem making in work in the first place.
I sure seems to work well when I tried it in the late 80's.
It was more efficient per amount of silicon used, but not square foot of sun light.
I am sure this is still the case, it's inherent in the technology. One of the Ph.D I worked with had some explanation why this would never be as efficient per amount of land covered. And also that the plastics degrades in UV light.
Yes, there is downloading, but this isn't really "video" in that sense, it just as easily could be video games or any media since it's just bulk files.
But still if these downloads take too long people will give up and move on. It will not gain mass adoption if it's not working effectivly and conviently. And so my argument for the Internet not failing still applys.
Humans will also backoff with over conjestion just like TCP/IP will, just over a much slow longer period maybe over the course of hours, days and months. Where tcp/ip is over the course of seconds and minutes.
Hey I thought that was an excellent Idea, GPL and programmable, every woman's dream, and it may be the closest some of the Linux developers get to loosing there virginity....
From my testing these older chips did more "work" per clock tick then the current line of P4's and use less transistors, and so make a much better candidate when choosing a candidate for a cluster of processors on a single chip.
When I was researching doing this type of thing back in 2001 It turned out that using even smaller lower and processors and running them faster makes even more sense.
I think there choice for using the P54C really is the best decision, but it is just not obvious without all of the facts.
The P54C with 2GHz clock rates up is like a P4 3Ghz but uses less power, it's a better design and much smaller lower transistor count and now using modern high res fabs they are getting 32 probably in the same silicon as one single current Pentium D Extreme.
I really think this is going to be the coolest chip out in a very long time.
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Rockbox is very well written clean code.
I have been working on an NXP ISP1582 driver, this is for USB2.0 Device interface and Rockbox has been one of the cleanest example code pieces for this, demonstrating how to use this chip.
I hope to eventually release my code in to the Linux kernel although it doesn't look anything like the RockBox code, they help me get past some roadblocks on how to communicate with that chip.
So Thank you Rockbox, I hope it will have a long future ahead.
They could just have photo shopped it in.
The Carbon Fibers them selves would hold up at those temps, there is a good chance that they would bake out most of what was there and what remains would be some ceramic like material and not a polymer, so it's designed to behave properly at those high temperatures and stresses.
Like I said I think when they tried to actually apply this to a full sized aircraft is cracked.
For my app it was just 50C for a Pentium 4 CPU and we just just run of the mill Jeffco Epoxy that I know wouldn't take much heat.
If you remember the SR71 that could go Mach 3, I was told it was mostly titanium and would leak fuel while on the ground, but when at flight speeds, would operate at over 1000C the plane would literally get 3 feet longer and the seams would seal tight. So it wasn't designed to work on the ground really, just barely get by.
Also with the high thermal conductivity, maybe the point was to avoid having the material holding the fibers together hitting those high temperatures directly.
So cool your at Ames now, I am in Santa Barbara these days, otherwise I'd say lets go for coffee.
I still have a project where I need something that is easy to fabricate parts but must not outgas or release ions at 200 to 300c so Stainless Steel and Aluminum is out. This is for a medical app.
I worked with a type of Polyamide coating when at Standford for use on implantable stainless steel needle, this would be perfect, except I just can't found out what we had been using back this this is like 20 years ago. is was a red varnish like liquid that we would bake to make the polymers cross link and produce a very hard stable tear resistant coating since these were being implanted and then later removed.
Wish I could figure out who made it now.
It's been quite a few years, and we had Dr Alfred Zinn from the ESA assisting us in that department since my background is electronics and software, and some thermal modeling and not materials.
The fibers were from Mitsubishi I think they were PAN fibers but manufacture using a special process that increased the conductivity, but made them more brittle.
Initially we started with scrap given to us from some of the folks a NASA. I think they were left over from the Boeing X-32 project.
What resin they where using we never knew, since out application was low temperature. It seems some of the fiber sheet had been pre-impregnated with some sort of binder that was like peel and stick! It was designed to be baked in a Kiln so the whole think would end up as one solid very hard super high thermally conductive piece for the leading edge of the wings, the rest of the wings then using more common CF. I think they ended of failing because of some cracking problems.
Sure worked great for our stuff though.
I may not even be supposed to be discussing this. But I did not have any security clearance or sign any secrecy documents.
There was another guy I ran into that had some epoxy resins supposedly was good to 2000C. Never got my hands of any of it. Lost his contact info now anyhow, but I can try ask my friends for it.
How serious are you in persuing it? Since that start up "Nisvara" ended badly there are some burned relationships there.
> 100-200 deg. C
May be your missing some "0" in there.
The High Temperature Carbon fiber reinforced polymers I was working with a NASA Ames were good up 2500 to 3000 deg. C. Their thermal conductivities were over 1700 WmK (Watts per Meter Kelvin where Steel is around 60, Aluminum 200 & Copper 400) These were used for the leading tips of super sonic aircraft.
I even experimented and made a light weight non-metallic frying pan just for fun using the stuff.
My interest was in using these Carbon fibers to cool CPU chips, so I never took them any near those temperatures in my application but needed the thermal conductivities.
The price of the material wasn't actually that expensive either when you started buying in bulk. Problem now is these fibers are only made for Aerospace in very small runs and done on defense contractor budgets.
With Carbon Fiber Composites and other composite materials it's possible to get much much stronger then steel, be totally inert to magnetic fields, more resistant to heat and can have much higher or lower thermal conductivities.
So why are they still even considering steel?
Does Air Force One on eBay come with McCain too?
Dude, she scares me. I mean she could make GWB look like a saint in the end.
I look at McCain/Palin and they just seem like and even bigger bunch of screw up's then Bush/Cheney. Incompetence is one of the best way to disguise a con.
Plus there are more big oil company ties with her as if Bush/Cheney and the Halliburton Connection wasn't obvious enough. How did a company that maintains oil wells take over ALL our defense contracts anyhow? Don't think there may have been any impropriety there?
We might as well let the Oil and Gas companies just take over direct control, these guys are hell bent on total full bore global warming as a good thing. People in Canada and Alaska see this as making there land lush and green, while the rest of the human race further south get wiped out. But their republicans and it's clear they don't care because they think that somehow they will be above it all. But when the waves are crashing at there door steps and there no food to eat, they will starve just like the rest of the poor bastards they didn't care about.
Well I am way off topic now, please forgive me who ever is going to mod this.
But to get this back on topic I think McCain/Palin driving us in to WW III and/or doing nothing but getting us burning more gas and welcoming the rapture is far more real a danger then the LHC's micro black holes.
If the LHC doesn't end the world McCain/Palin surly could.
I spent about 4 months of experimentation on different epoxies and vendors of silicon carbide, different grit sizes and viscosities of mixtures.
Don't have my notes any more, but making sure your epoxy doesn't expand or contract on hardening is critical. Using and Oven to cure it helps, being electronics you can't take it too hot, 150F to 200F in an adapted toaster oven.
We found Jeffco Epoxy as one of the best
http://www.jeffcoproducts.com/productsnew.html
And a mix of different Silicon Carbide grain sizes Larger grain some are as large as 2 mm are excellent thermal conductors, then a mix of some finer powder to thicken the mix and fill in the gaps. Think cement with gravel and sand mixed.
As far as the and exact formulation it's more like doing it by feel, to get the ratios right.
The problem is the Silicon Carbide will sink to the bottom and you will end up with plain epoxy pooling on top if you mixture isn't thick enough.
This is where boron nitride was nice it that thicken and stayed mixed.
Another option was to allow the mix to cure a little them mix again before pouring so it wouldn't settle out.
When I was doing a start up called Nisvara 2002 (now dead) we were building Silent computers and server rooms that didn't require air conditioning. Something like 50% power savings!
I was able to Pot or coat, power supply's, hard drive and motherboards in various materials.
The key is thermal conductivity. Yes some one here mention diamond, but that is expensive in unrealistic although diamond dust power was available from GE at a much lower cost then I expected. Carbon Fiber and other carbons are great except they are electrically conductive so they are ruled out (except diamond that is).
What worked great was epoxy with silicon carbide which is dirt cheap and sold as sand basting powder. Also boron nitride works great too, but this is a messy white powder and expensive.
Also a thin layer of silicon carbide or boron nitride epoxy could be applied then a layer of cheaper carbon black or chopped carbon fiber mixed epoxy could be use for making a thicker layer if needed. Non-metallic heat sinks work great using these materials.
We were able to take a Antec 450 Watt Power supply and run it at full load with no fans or heat sink fins as just one big white sold block of epoxy with boron nitride.
I have also do no have any problems using Verizon Wireless to send text message into and out of Main Land China, the city is Shen Zhen specifically.
Skype also work excellent for voice and text messages to and from China.
I don't think there is really any problem just some phone carriers here and maybe over there just don't have there act together.
I expect Ethernet and USB to be the most usable interfaces in 25 years.
I would put a small computer in loaded with software capable of playing the files, do the whole thing on CD, and flash, I wouldn't count on the HD's working.
I'd also make sure to put in some desiccant and a plastic liner, and even some insulating layer to help reduce thermal cycling.
Another entirely different approach is to just UUENCODE the file and print them out.
Then in 25 years these can be OCR'ed and UUDECODED back to JPEG's.
Also include a printout of UUDECODE just to be safe.
How true, Yet, recording and video taping everything in his life is the norm for him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson
Ted Nelson published a book "Computer Lib/Dream Machines" back in 1974 where he talks about this very concept if I remember correctly. There is a lot of neat ideas in that book.
Ted also invented Hypertext as a way to store and retrieve information.
On the recording all events around you.
I had proposed this very idea 10 years ago to the head of a large rap music label, this is to record everything around him 24/7 to be able to provide proof to authorities every time he is accused of wrong doing so he could prove where and what he was doing at all times. A perpetual alibi. GPS with Date time, audio and video.
He probably would have spent less time in jail had he listened to me. Or maybe more?
There have been discussions amongst my friend into wearable computers for just this sort of thing, but it hasn't yet materialized. Many concerns for security as well as it just being awkward.
Think Nixon here.
Like a month ago we had to make something IP54 Compliant This is part of the IEC 60529 Standard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code
So even though I am the Linux Software GUY, I started to investigate water repellent coatings.
I think they are just using a hydrophobic coating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic
Hardly worth $1000 a bottle.
Similar to Scotchgard, Rain-X, Aquapel, Jigaloo, RainClear and Magic Sand.
These use Organosilanes like Trimethylsilanol (TMS) (CH3)3SiOH, or perfluorooctanesulfonates (PFOS) C8HF17O3S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFOS
Look at the fluorene chains on this one,
fluorocarbons are the basis for things like Teflon and Fluorinert that don't react with anything and so in Teflon's case make good non-stick surfaces.
Unfortunately Scotchgard has been "reformulated" to make is "safer" PFOS never breaks down, good for electronics, bad for people and the environment. the new Formula (Perfluorobutane sulfonate PFBS ) is designed to break down after a month, so you'd have to keep reapplying.
If you want to research this further see Patents, 3574791, 6676733, and 6994890
Also get on youtube and look up magic sand, some cool videos there.
This isn't a conformal coatings, it's a hydrophobic coating more like Scotch Gard, or Rain-X
I guess then never figured on digging in Mud.
I think his views have been a bit wacky all along. good news if he really must have walked on the moon or he'd surly be talking about that one.
Excerpt from wikipdia on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell
Mitchell's interests include consciousness and paranormal phenomena. During the Apollo 14 flight he conducted private ESP experiments with his friends on Earth.[3] In early 1973, he founded the nonprofit Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to conduct and sponsor research into areas that mainstream science has ignored, including consciousness research and psychic events.
Mitchell says that a teenage remote healer who lives in Vancouver and uses the pseudonym Adam Dreamhealer, helped heal him of kidney cancer at a distance. Mitchell said that while he never had a biopsy (the definitive test for cancer), "I had a sonogram and MRI that was consistent with renal carcinoma." Adam worked (distantly) on Mitchell from December of 2003 until June of 2004, when the "irregularity was gone and we haven't seen it since."[4]
Mitchell has publicly expressed his opinions that he is "90 per cent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets"[5] and that UFOs have been the "subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and to create confusion so the truth doesn't come out."[6] In 2004 he told the St. Petersburg Times that a "cabal of insiders" inside the US Government were studying recovered alien bodies, and that this group had stopped briefing US Presidents after John F. Kennedy.[7] He has said, that "We all know that UFOs are real, now the question is, where they come from."[8]
On July 23, 2008 Edgar Mitchell was interviewed on Kerrang Radio. Mitchell claimed the Roswell crash was real and that Aliens have contacted humans several times but that governments have hidden the truth for 60 years stating, "'I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we've been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real." In reply, a spokesman for NASA stated, "NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue."[9] [10]
Edgar Mitchell is one of the astronauts featured in the documentary In the Shadow of the Moon.
As well as academic papers,[11] Mitchell has written two books: Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science (ISBN 0-399-11342-8) and The Way of the Explorer (ISBN 1-57270-019-X). In The Way of the Explorer, Mitchell proposed a dyadic model of reality.[12]
I have done some experiments.
You really need channel flipping or it will get boring fast, because when "channel surfing" you come across content you'd never ordinarily watch.
But if you must wait 1 or more seconds to see that next channel it's not going to work.
The technology can handle it. Just not the way we are doing it now build on Microsoft thinking.
J
I have only been explaining this architecture since 1990 or so, "Head in hands shaking it" why doesn't anyone get it when I explain it!
Worse yet when they do "get it", it's like some new invention as if they never heard it before.
I have tried 3 times to get set top box companies going to do this since 1994 only to have "money people" not "get it".
Decentralized is the solution with high demand, high up time services for the internet.
Like Google for example. It's also worked great for Torrent and Skype.
There isn't any reason, Set top Boxes, for video aren't doing it right now, but fear and incompetence. When they do, Cable as we know it IS DEAD!!!! Oh youtube may also go by the way side.
They just need to get that couch potato channel flipping going correctly. This several seconds to change channels blows.
If I sound in an off mood maybe my Mc Donald's coffee wasn't hot enough.
I also have a badly explained idea for an OS that does this type of "millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center"
http://www.dnull.com/os/ Amorphous OS - It came out better in the talk...
Isn't this the whole frigging concept of Peer to peer and the WHOLE Internet FTP Unix bla bla bla back in the 1970 and 80!!!! I mean before PC's were even allowed to play on the Internet as more then Dumb Terminals.
Has the web perverted people view of things so much that when they realize they can use their local PC for more then viewing web pages it's some major revelation.
Some of you need to go read the "Hobbes' Internet Timeline" and learn a bit more about how this network came to be.
Below is a good paper I did on this in 2003.
http://www.videotechnology.com/economics_of_video.htm
2005
http://www.videotechnology.com/startrek/
Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem (v1.2) By William B. Norton
http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf
I didn't realize anyone had a problem making in work in the first place.
I sure seems to work well when I tried it in the late 80's.
It was more efficient per amount of silicon used, but not square foot of sun light.
I am sure this is still the case, it's inherent in the technology. One of the Ph.D I worked with had some explanation why this would never be as efficient per amount of land covered. And also that the plastics degrades in UV light.
A. Goetzberger et al., "Solar Energy Conversion with Fluorescent Collectors", Applied Physics 14, 1977, pp. 123-139.
Yes 1977!!!
I was also playing with this using plastic from TAP plastics (in the SF Bay Area) http://www.tapplastics.com/ in the late 80's.
Works ok.
See:
Patent 4149902
Patent 5227773
Patent 5816238
Patent 7316497
Mobay Chemical Corporation make a fluorescent called LISA. "fluorescent dye-doped edge-illuminating emitter panels" Technically.
There were some articles.
"A Little Light Goes a Long Way with Lisa", Mobay Corp. Marketing Document.
"Light-Collecting Plastics-A Brilliant Idea", Provisional Information Sheet, Mobay Corp.
Steven Ashley, "Razzle-Dazzle Plastic", Popular Science, pp. 100-101. Sorry can't find the year, (any one can you help here)
Yes, there is downloading, but this isn't really "video" in that sense, it just as easily could be video games or any media since it's just bulk files.
But still if these downloads take too long people will give up and move on. It will not gain mass adoption if it's not working effectivly and conviently. And so my argument for the Internet not failing still applys.
Humans will also backoff with over conjestion just like TCP/IP will, just over a much slow longer period maybe over the course of hours, days and months. Where tcp/ip is over the course of seconds and minutes.
I thought you were talking about a dildo...
Hey I thought that was an excellent Idea, GPL and programmable, every woman's dream, and it may be the closest some of the Linux developers get to loosing there virginity....
From my testing these older chips did more "work" per clock tick then the current line of P4's and use less transistors, and so make a much better candidate when choosing a candidate for a cluster of processors on a single chip.
http://www.dnull.com/cpubenchmark/budmark3.html
When I was researching doing this type of thing back in 2001 It turned out that using even smaller lower and processors and running them faster makes even more sense.
I think there choice for using the P54C really is the best decision, but it is just not obvious without all of the facts.
The P54C with 2GHz clock rates up is like a P4 3Ghz but uses less power, it's a better design and much smaller lower transistor count and now using modern high res fabs they are getting 32 probably in the same silicon as one single current Pentium D Extreme.
I really think this is going to be the coolest chip out in a very long time.