I plan on using these things for my off grid (solar and wind) powered computers and any car boxes I build.
Does Solar power provide enough juice to run a computer? I guess it should be able to drive a lap top like device, but not anything bigger for an extended period of time?
I'd be very interested if you have a website for anything you are doing (esp solar power)
A National Party senator (Sandy MacDonald)
is planning to lobby the Federal Government
to legislate for DNA profiles to be taken
from all babies at birth for use in a
national database.
The NSW senator, Sandy MacDonald, says it
should be part of a bill before the Parliament,
which would allow samples to be taken from
some convicted criminals.
Senator MacDonald says a comprehensive database
would save police time, with enormous advantages
to the community.
"It's about providing, from day one when we're
born, a DNA profile that would be of benefit to
the community," she said.
"It would only be used to identify where
we were at a certain time if it were necessary.
"It would also provide some assistance if
necessary for things like perhaps tracing
congenital diseases and things like that."
I can't understand why we are pushing for faster clock speeds! Don't you understand? The sooner we hit the limits of moores' law, the sooner the earth is swallowed in a black hole!
Not to mention what all that extra heat from CPUs are doing for the greenhouse effect...
I probably don't know what I'm talking about... Just random thoughts of a VERY tired person!I think your first sentence was correct:-)
I've got to stop posting late a night! Night time is for writting code, not trying to make sensible comments:)
I probably don't know what I'm talking about, but I've read in a few places that if we were going to invent a planet sized network, TCP/IP is a terrible way to do it. I'm not sure what they had in mind to replace it.
Isn't IPv6 still TCP/IP? Does this still suffer from the problems of IPv4, just with a lot more address space? Or am I missing something?
I'm not knocking anything that's being done, but instead of going towards IPv6, wouldn't we be better moving towards a new structure, the one that will eventually replace what we are using now? Will we still be using TCP/IP in the distant future (50 years)? Or will it be stuck with us, and we just keep coming up with kludges to get around it (tunneling anyone?).
I have been thinking about placing a linux PC in the trunk of my car, and setting up a voice recognition mp3 player. with more then a enough space for a few weeks of music.
I can't remember the Web page with the program
I don't know about voice recognition, but it should get you going in the right direction. I've been intending to put a mp3 player in my car too, but I'm having problems with power (I don't want to use an inverter).
I recently went to a dinner party at which few bottles of red wine were on offer. One thing that I found interesting is that they are starting to use "corks" that are not made out of cork. It's some sort of plastic type substance.
One of the guests informed me that there was a shortage of good quality cork in the world (I think only 2 nations produce it or something) and that they had been looking for a replacement for a while. I'm told that it is quite difficult to get a man-made substance to act like natural cork
The advantages of man-made corks are that it won't break up in the bottle, so you don't have bits of cork floating in your drink, and also the man-made cork is more reliable than natural cork (It seals better, so there is less risk of air getting into the bottle and the wine going bad)
If anyone has more accurate info, can you post it? Like I said, I was drinking at this party, and that may have affected my recall of some information... *g*
To start with, how reliable the software is at presenting correct patient data is far more important than the OS or the licensing cost.
I was thinking the same thing. I noticed a post about MySQL somewhere else in this thread. I don't want to start a flame war, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I would want a more reliable system for record keeping (i.e. similar to finacial transactions). MySQL is fine for/. but for medical records? hmm, I don't know...
Writing off commercial OS on costs before having evaluated all the other purchase, installation, maintenance, and operational costs of each competing system is crazy
Agreed. I love to use GPLed software and try to recomend it when I see that people would gain from its use, but if you've got people trained in MS, then i'd hate to say it, but use MS. The OS and database cost when compared to re-training admin,DBA's, net-admin etc shouldn't seem too steep. Use the knowledge of the people that you've got.
Maybe I've misunderstood, but this sounds like a rather large project, and if I undertook something like that, I'd like a bit more assistance and knowledge around me than just IRC.
Or, as one DBA said to me "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". Just because it's new, flash in the pan sort of stuff, doesn't mean that our old knowledge is worthless.
[Sorry for any typos in this. Personally, I wouldn't want this "laptop" on my lap!]
...For a black hole with a mass of the sun, the temperature is only about ten-millionth of a degree above absolute zero...
... a black hole with a mass of only a billion tons... roughly the size of a proton - would have a temperature of some 120 billion degrees Kelvin... [This sized] black hole would release energy at the rate of 6,000 megawatts, equivalent to the output of six large nuclear power plants.
From "Black Holes and Baby Universes" by Stephen Hawking (ISBN 0-553-40663-9)
...the mouse's name (the scientific-sounding X063X), and a $400 price tag
Wow, $400 for a clunky looking box-mouse thing! How far we've come in 25 years! I mean now I've got a sexy looking curvy-with-scroll-wheel-and-red-light-mouse thing. It enhances my computer experience so much.
Imagine if it eventually got tired of being 0.0026 AU and decided to come closer. Hrmmm... I wonder if we have any special telescopes continually observing the moon.
Actually, it's moving (very slowly) further away. The Apollo missions set up "mirror boxes" (can't remember the offical name) that allow us to shoot a laser beam at them and bounce it straight back to the source. The time taken is used to mesure how far away the moon is. I think this is the only experiment from Apollo that is still usable today.
If we could detect mass somehow, that would be the way to go, but we can only detect mass at a distance by observing how it affects other mass as it passes.
just a few thoughts... I'd say that when (if?) we can detect a gravity field directly, I doubt that we could use it for this sort of thing in the near future (+200 years). The Earth and Sun would swamp any mesurments we tried to make. Comparing to early radio astronomy and stuff like that.
The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Things change, but slowly. We can lead a full life and never personally encounter a natural disaster more violent than a storm. And so we become complacent, relaxed, unconcerned. But in the history of Nature, the record is clear. Worlds have been devastated. Even we humans have achieved the dubious technical distinction of being able to make our own disasters, both intentional and inadvertent. On the landscapes of other planets where the records of the past have been preserved, there is abundant evidence of major catastrophes. It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million, Even on the earth, even in our own century, bizarre natural events have occurred.
In the early morning hours of June 30, 1908, in Central Siberia, a giant fireball was seen moving rapidly across the sky. Where it touched the horizon, an enormous explosion took place. It levelled some 2,000 square kilometres of forest and burned thousands of trees in a flash fire near the impact site. It produced an atmospheric shock wave that twice circle the earth. For two days afterwards, there was so much fine dust in the atmosphere that one could read a newspaper at night by scattered light in the streets of London, 10,000 Kilometre's away.
-- Carl Sagan, Chapter IV "Heaven and Hell", Cosmos (ISBN: 0-349-10703-3)
These things just don't go past once and then leave, they *ORBIT* the sun. Guess what that means? They cross earths orbit twice for each one of their "years"
That means the chance of a collision incresses with time. How many of these "small" rocks that cross earths orbit are there? Who knows...
I can't belive how many bloody trolls there are in this story:(
Anyway, what would be nice to see is an archive of the various BBS's that were floating around in the 80s/90s in.au, before the internet killed them off. I guess that they wouldn't take up too much HDD if the old programs were dropped, just have fidonet(etc), local messages and the designs of the BBS (welcome page etc). It would be great to go back and read the older stuff. Similar to the story about early usenet posts from a few days ago.
How many SysOps trashed thier BBSes when they shut down? Would it be feasable (sp?) to mirror them on a free web provider? Just wrap them up with "pre" tags and "href" links instead of the old key-combos that you had to memorize under 2400 baud:)
How much work do you think would be involved in a project like this? I think that I'd like to try it, just for larks:)
Slashdot Mirror
They might have a pdf file with some info that you are looking for, but I doubt it.
And other coutries haven't done this? USA on Japan, USA in Australia, USA in USA, French in the Pacific...
Does Solar power provide enough juice to run a computer? I guess it should be able to drive a lap top like device, but not anything bigger for an extended period of time?
I'd be very interested if you have a website for anything you are doing (esp solar power)
Have fun!
Always do :)
http://www.abc .net.au/news/politics/2000/09/item20000908085054_1 .htm
A National Party senator (Sandy MacDonald) is planning to lobby the Federal Government to legislate for DNA profiles to be taken from all babies at birth for use in a national database.
The NSW senator, Sandy MacDonald, says it should be part of a bill before the Parliament, which would allow samples to be taken from some convicted criminals.
Senator MacDonald says a comprehensive database would save police time, with enormous advantages to the community.
"It's about providing, from day one when we're born, a DNA profile that would be of benefit to the community," she said.
"It would only be used to identify where we were at a certain time if it were necessary.
"It would also provide some assistance if necessary for things like perhaps tracing congenital diseases and things like that."
Not to mention what all that extra heat from CPUs are doing for the greenhouse effect...
I probably don't know what I'm talking about ... Just random thoughts of a VERY tired person!
I think your first sentence was correct :-)
I've got to stop posting late a night! Night time is for writting code, not trying to make sensible comments :)
Well, I guess we're going to be forced to rate each one on it's merits now. What a strange concept! It feels... kinky :)
Am I mistaken, or did Bill call Intel Chicken?
the boy named Griff asked "What's matter, McFly? Chicken?"
Isn't IPv6 still TCP/IP? Does this still suffer from the problems of IPv4, just with a lot more address space? Or am I missing something?
I'm not knocking anything that's being done, but instead of going towards IPv6, wouldn't we be better moving towards a new structure, the one that will eventually replace what we are using now? Will we still be using TCP/IP in the distant future (50 years)? Or will it be stuck with us, and we just keep coming up with kludges to get around it (tunneling anyone?).
Just random thoughts of a VERY tired person!
Try this: http://cajun.sourceforge.net/
I don't know about voice recognition, but it should get you going in the right direction. I've been intending to put a mp3 player in my car too, but I'm having problems with power (I don't want to use an inverter).
One of the guests informed me that there was a shortage of good quality cork in the world (I think only 2 nations produce it or something) and that they had been looking for a replacement for a while. I'm told that it is quite difficult to get a man-made substance to act like natural cork
The advantages of man-made corks are that it won't break up in the bottle, so you don't have bits of cork floating in your drink, and also the man-made cork is more reliable than natural cork (It seals better, so there is less risk of air getting into the bottle and the wine going bad)
If anyone has more accurate info, can you post it? Like I said, I was drinking at this party, and that may have affected my recall of some information... *g*
I was thinking the same thing. I noticed a post about MySQL somewhere else in this thread. I don't want to start a flame war, so please don't take this the wrong way, but I would want a more reliable system for record keeping (i.e. similar to finacial transactions). MySQL is fine for /. but for medical records? hmm, I don't know...
Writing off commercial OS on costs before having evaluated all the other purchase, installation, maintenance, and operational costs of each competing system is crazy
Agreed. I love to use GPLed software and try to recomend it when I see that people would gain from its use, but if you've got people trained in MS, then i'd hate to say it, but use MS. The OS and database cost when compared to re-training admin ,DBA's, net-admin etc shouldn't seem too steep. Use the knowledge of the people that you've got.
Maybe I've misunderstood, but this sounds like a rather large project, and if I undertook something like that, I'd like a bit more assistance and knowledge around me than just IRC.
Or, as one DBA said to me "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". Just because it's new, flash in the pan sort of stuff, doesn't mean that our old knowledge is worthless.
Of course then there is this: In the beginning there was the computer. And God said ...
From "Black Holes and Baby Universes" by Stephen Hawking (ISBN 0-553-40663-9)
The main question is this: what will millions of people do with them?
What a silly question... look at pr0n, steal songs from the RIAA, and download code to rip DVD's of course! Oh, and read /. too :)
I found a link that may be of interest: Apollo 11 experiment continues to return valuable data.
Wow, $400 for a clunky looking box-mouse thing! How far we've come in 25 years! I mean now I've got a sexy looking curvy-with-scroll-wheel-and-red-light-mouse thing. It enhances my computer experience so much.
Oh, and the of course the marketing has improved.
Spacebob has a quick review of this book here.
Actually, it's moving (very slowly) further away. The Apollo missions set up "mirror boxes" (can't remember the offical name) that allow us to shoot a laser beam at them and bounce it straight back to the source. The time taken is used to mesure how far away the moon is. I think this is the only experiment from Apollo that is still usable today.
just a few thoughts... I'd say that when (if?) we can detect a gravity field directly, I doubt that we could use it for this sort of thing in the near future (+200 years). The Earth and Sun would swamp any mesurments we tried to make. Comparing to early radio astronomy and stuff like that.
The Earth is a lovely and more or less placid place. Things change, but slowly. We can lead a full life and never personally encounter a natural disaster more violent than a storm. And so we become complacent, relaxed, unconcerned. But in the history of Nature, the record is clear. Worlds have been devastated. Even we humans have achieved the dubious technical distinction of being able to make our own disasters, both intentional and inadvertent. On the landscapes of other planets where the records of the past have been preserved, there is abundant evidence of major catastrophes. It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million, Even on the earth, even in our own century, bizarre natural events have occurred.
In the early morning hours of June 30, 1908, in Central Siberia, a giant fireball was seen moving rapidly across the sky. Where it touched the horizon, an enormous explosion took place. It levelled some 2,000 square kilometres of forest and burned thousands of trees in a flash fire near the impact site. It produced an atmospheric shock wave that twice circle the earth. For two days afterwards, there was so much fine dust in the atmosphere that one could read a newspaper at night by scattered light in the streets of London, 10,000 Kilometre's away.
-- Carl Sagan, Chapter IV "Heaven and Hell", Cosmos (ISBN: 0-349-10703-3)
These things just don't go past once and then leave, they *ORBIT* the sun. Guess what that means? They cross earths orbit twice for each one of their "years"
That means the chance of a collision incresses with time. How many of these "small" rocks that cross earths orbit are there? Who knows...
Hey Taco, This book is for you man!
Otherwise how else are the apes in AD 52001 going to decrypt the DVDs?
Anyway, what would be nice to see is an archive of the various BBS's that were floating around in the 80s/90s in .au, before the internet killed them off. I guess that they wouldn't take up too much HDD if the old programs were dropped, just have fidonet(etc), local messages and the designs of the BBS (welcome page etc). It would be great to go back and read the older stuff. Similar to the story about early usenet posts from a few days ago.
How many SysOps trashed thier BBSes when they shut down? Would it be feasable (sp?) to mirror them on a free web provider? Just wrap them up with "pre" tags and "href" links instead of the old key-combos that you had to memorize under 2400 baud :)
How much work do you think would be involved in a project like this? I think that I'd like to try it, just for larks :)