But map in the entire database store into one process, a 32bit processor never will (unless your database is small, then multiway or 64 bit is useless anyway).
64bit math is actually not the draw of 64bits, it's all about the mapping capabilities.
The previous poster gave you link, and _still_ignored it.
Most commercial microwave units run in the 900MHz range. Anything that isn't too close to water's real resonance of ~22GHz, will heat water pretty well.
The reason the resonance frequency is not used is that the water on the surface of the food to be cooked would get superheated before the insides of the food ever got to see any radiation...
On another point: The perfect mirror sail couldn't possibly work because 100% of the light energy would be reflected back. Because you can't alter the speed of light, in such a situation you cannot harvest any of its energy (it's a theoretical perfect mirror, 100% is being reflected, so 100% of it is keeping 100% of its original energy level, thus none is imparted to the sail; any of its energy that was absorbed due to it being a non perfect mirror would fall under the same category as our previous black sail discussion).
This is not as obvious as you state. Some physicist can correct me of course, but here is the intuitive part you must leap too... light is both a wave and a particle, depending on what you are doing. As a wave contacting the mirror, you are correct, the 100% reflective mirror will just bounce all the light back in the other direction. But when you consider that light also acts upon objects as a particle, then as a particle a photon must have momentum. The mirror has nothing to do with reflecting particles, only waves. The mirror and its attached structure is then simply a large ball bearing being shot at by a bunch of small ball bearings from the sun at high energy.
However, the light must also maintain its wave characteristics with the mirror, so when the light reflects from the mirror, but imparts some momentum, then the drop in energy for the photon is registered as a drop in the frequency of the reflected light.
Considering the vast size of the post office system and the fact that we have not invented machines that can deliver mail, the post office is actually pretty reliable. While I could end up one day the victim of a FCM dropout, in 29 years, it would be the first.
Anybody know what their loss rate is per amt of mail they transfer vs. say loss rate of UPS or fedex per their transfer numbers?
That's funny, bandwidth didn't become prevalent until private corporations became interested. Up until that point 56Kbps over uWave carrier made for voice telephone calls was the transport of the day --- and at that time, the internet was not large nor pervasive. Even I2 wouldn't feasible without the interest of IBM and their partners in high speed comms for you guessed it, more commercial exploitation of the internet for global compute farms. Please guess again, and try harder this time.
Hmmh first you argue that the government is the problem, then you say we should rely on the government to regulate the economy and take away the "evils of capitalism".
"but he doesn't ask the Secret Service to lift a finger to keep them from being caught drinking underage"
Are you an idiot? Just wondering, because, if I wanted my daughters to learn not to drink underage, I'd let them spend the night in jail everytime they did it. And that's exactly what he has done. Now, if I were a lying & conniving SOB, I'd tell the SS to go handle things everytime, to keep my own image clean.
Point 1: "chad" theories abound, but the official count says GWB won. Get over it, it's done. The press played a even more powerful role of ruining voter turnout in the western portion of the state in a different time zone.
Point 2: This does suck, but correction will come if it becomes necessary. Just wait till Joe Smuck is arrested for some pointless reason and thrown in jail as a terrorist. A clean idealistic lawyer will change the entire ballgame.
Point 3: What civil liberties will be restricted??? See pt2.
Point 4: I personally dislike abortion, but I wouldn't prevent someone from having one, as the child is still within the body of the woman. However, having my tax dollars empower a system of both destruction of unborn children, and recommendation of abortion to mothers-to-be, is non-acceptable. Pay for it yourself, and hope to God you read about it somewhere so you can go do it, and that you have enough of your own cash to actually implement.
I fully believe that people like you who believe things should be a certain way, your way, are the true danger in our society. God help us if you ever get into office. You WILL be the Nazi in charge.
I think this the unfortunate dark side to the transition that Apple _had_ to make. At some point Apple realized they had the Lexus of the computing world, and that was what was going to sell the product. Unfortunately, their VARs were not all up to the task of selling and supporting the pricey machines. In response, Apple decided they had to bring the dealers up --- and the only way they could do it is to own the dealerships too.
The darkside is that unfortunately some of us are or know people who are Apple VARs, and it sucks to see them spiraling out of existance. But that is capitalism -- the strong ideas always win, thats what Americans have embraced since the creation of our gov't.
But in this case, producing it and selling it are the very same thing. Apple computers doesn't produce apples for free so that stores can sell them --- they produce to sell, either through the web, Apple stores, or 3rd parties.
Not sure what case you are speaking of, but MS was using monopoly advantage to keep other OSs off the shelves and off the shipped harddrives of manufacturers. They weren't giving MS stores a product advantage over 3rd party MS vendors. Geez.
"Even in sparsely populated 120km ranges, there will be more than enough callers to completely overload said infrastructure."
I'd like to expand upon this comment. TDMA systems have frequency reuse by dividing the small piece of bandwidth they get by allocating small chunks of time on the same channel to the phones on a specific channel. As the number of callers increase, less slots are free for a new caller. At low frequencies, the number of channels are more limited, and therefore the number of slots in total per tower.
What makes matters fun in a GSM system used for long distances, is that the speed of light becomes a problematic factor for those near the tower, and those far from the tower. The slots are equidistant, but the users are not. If a user at the max range attempts to dial from a nearly full tower, he can knock other people off the tower, or the tower may ignore him because he appears out of spec. CDMA doesn't suffer from that issue. CDMA does have its own issues at a distance, however, they are not insurmountable with variable power output RF amplifiers on the phone and base station, a much simpler solution than the software nightmare that TDMA could quickly become to handle the situation (which as I understand it, it is not handled. You get knocked, well thats too bad. Hope you weren't dying or anything during a busy period on the tower).
"GSM works well in environments like Iraq. You might live in some isolated part of the huge US of A where GSM sucks but Iraq is an urban and concentrated country. Most people live near the cities or the river valleys."
From the maps and footage brought along by the war, Iraq is by no means urban. The desert dwellers are in near isolation already. Now the urban elite can get one more foothold over the desert dwellers simply because MCI needs to unload some equipment.
Your urban elitism is really reaking in your post, too. GSMers always want the population to live in "urban areas in concentrations". Let me tell you, us "country bumpkins" want wireless too, and GSM isn't providing. But GSMers are more than happy to tell us to move to a city, or how theoretically great GSM is on paper even in large geographical areas. For some of us, this isn't feasible.
"GSM does not suck. It allows clear voice transmissions and gives an acceptable data transfer rate (not for internet browsing but for email okay).
Iraq does not need an expensive data network with bells on it. It needs one that works. And GSM works excellently - as Europe can testify."
Again, I don't know where you are culling your data from. Call me from a desert repeater and keep talking for 4 or 5 hundred kilometers without interruption on a GSM system in Iraq, and I'll bless GSM as being more than a sorry ripoff for the Iraqis.
And how can the data rate be acceptable if I can't browse comfortably? Data transmission is purely a luxury item, it should be nice to use...
I am not aware of any implementation of EGPRS in my state, but of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I travel routinely to the RTP area of NC though, and I have never heard of EGPRS, which would definitely popular among my friends. My guess is that EGPRS is a bit hard to implement "for real". When I searched on the net, I found only a pilot project by AT&T. Hardly proven technology like CDMA...
Where are you getting your distance benchmarks for Is-95/CDMA2k? It doesn't really matter anyway, because even if you are a few more kilometers capable on GSM, GSM tower capacity will be exceeded. Even in sparsely populated 120km ranges, there will be more than enough callers to completely overload said infrastructure.
"The limited range of electric cars is a myth. They already have the power and range of a gasoline-powered cars."
You must be living in a better part of the matrix.
Electric cars have three major flaws currently:
1) Way too much lead is needed for the batteries (imagine what lead damage to the evironment is like with one small battery per car, now multiply that by 10 or 12 per car on the road).
2) I haven't seen a electric car yet that drives like a American muscle car (whether or not you like them is irrelevant). Lets see the electric car that seats 4 comfortable, can do 120mph on a short stretch with AC on full blast, with all 4 of those people comfortable seated. This what I require for the car to be called "safe" for driving on the two lane blacktop.
3) Let's see #2 with a 400 mile range before recharges.
Just because GSM is mandated to exist in most parts of the world does not mean it is either superior or will be in existance forever (or maybe it can if you want 2.5G forever).
All future 3g standards are based on CDMA (UTMS,WCDMA, CDMA2K, etc.), if not direct decendents. Qualcomm owns most if not all patents on those technologies. Not only that, but a terrain as sparse as Iraq, should not use GSM, but CDMA.
I live in the countryside of North Carolina, and I can tell you all about the GSM vs. CDMA arguments in living color. GSM blows in large geographical expanses with sparse populations. The companies don't want to provide the coverage that GSM requires (GSM requires dense repeater coverage), while CDMA requires many fewer towers for the same area. GSM isn't even an option, and those fancy AT&T phones are only worth their solder and discrete components to any outside-of-the-city dweller. Sprint PCS phones however, have full net capabilities, text paging, and digital clarity in the middle of nowhere.
Now, MCI can backdate Iraq and put them on GSM if they want, but the truth of the matter is, the Iraqi people are getting ripped off. MCI is simply going to dump their GSM equipment they wanted to sell in the US market, on the Iraqis who currently have no choice. But its not the best network for Iraq. In fact, it sucks. It sucks so bad, I guarantee the venture will be basic failure except in the largest of cities in Iraq with the most income and highest population densities. The rest of Iraq will be left phoneless.
Besides, why would the average grid operator want to individually log into the grid substations and disable them? A nice concise unix command would fire off scripts to do all that.... and yes, if I were the operator I'd want confirmation..
Finally, this is just fiction, ya know? Heck, they used SSH though to make an appeal to geeks:)
So I would suppose that you on the other hand would set up a 99$ PC, drop a ULTRASCSI card and Linux on it, connect it to a coupla terabytes of drive space and run a company on it?
You would stake your reputation on that, right? Right?
Why whatever would he have gone running to the hills for?
Pushrods are hardly inferior --- a 5.7L Corvette engine develops 405hp, and gets over 25mpg. It uses pushrods and can easily dip into the 7KRPM area without valve float. Chevrolet actually increased the hp on the ls1 when they went to the ls6 by extending the operational RPM range (well, that was part of it).
I wouldn't say the Viper is a waste either... it does what it is designed to do, pull like a tractor in the low RPM bands, something the Viper customer base buys the car explicitly for. Of course they'd have more tractability with a 'Vette:)
Slashdot Mirror
They are pedalling their hearts out, not reading slashdot, you insensitive clod!
TurboD
But map in the entire database store into one process, a 32bit processor never will (unless your database is small, then multiway or 64 bit is useless anyway).
64bit math is actually not the draw of 64bits, it's all about the mapping capabilities.
TurboD
Yeah, and who is going to regulate that everyone uses power control and that it works right all the time?
It's alot easier to partition everything into bands and hand out rights to each chunk.
Also, recently it seems that UWB radio itself may not be all its cracked up to be in real life.
The previous poster gave you link, and _still_ignored it.
Most commercial microwave units run in the 900MHz range. Anything that isn't too close to water's real resonance of ~22GHz, will heat water pretty well.
The reason the resonance frequency is not used is that the water on the surface of the food to be cooked would get superheated before the insides of the food ever got to see any radiation...
TurboD
I beleive 180dB can cause your hair to catch fire. Seems like that is the pressure of sound waves in the new sonic-compressor fridges.
On another point:
The perfect mirror sail couldn't possibly work because 100% of the light energy would be reflected back. Because you can't alter the speed of light, in such a situation you cannot harvest any of its energy (it's a theoretical perfect mirror, 100% is being reflected, so 100% of it is keeping 100% of its original energy level, thus none is imparted to the sail; any of its energy that was absorbed due to it being a non perfect mirror would fall under the same category as our previous black sail discussion).
This is not as obvious as you state. Some physicist can correct me of course, but here is the intuitive part you must leap too... light is both a wave and a particle, depending on what you are doing. As a wave contacting the mirror, you are correct, the 100% reflective mirror will just bounce all the light back in the other direction. But when you consider that light also acts upon objects as a particle, then as a particle a photon must have momentum. The mirror has nothing to do with reflecting particles, only waves. The mirror and its attached structure is then simply a large ball bearing being shot at by a bunch of small ball bearings from the sun at high energy.
However, the light must also maintain its wave characteristics with the mirror, so when the light reflects from the mirror, but imparts some momentum, then the drop in energy for the photon is registered as a drop in the frequency of the reflected light.
Light is cool.
Considering the vast size of the post office system and the fact that we have not invented machines that can deliver mail, the post office is actually pretty reliable. While I could end up one day the victim of a FCM dropout, in 29 years, it would be the first.
Anybody know what their loss rate is per amt of mail they transfer vs. say loss rate of UPS or fedex per their transfer numbers?
I'll bet they are within the same ballpark...
TurboD
That's funny, bandwidth didn't become prevalent until private corporations became interested. Up until that point 56Kbps over uWave carrier made for voice telephone calls was the transport of the day --- and at that time, the internet was not large nor pervasive. Even I2 wouldn't feasible without the interest of IBM and their partners in high speed comms for you guessed it, more commercial exploitation of the internet for global compute farms. Please guess again, and try harder this time.
TurboD
Hmmh first you argue that the government is the problem, then you say we should rely on the government to regulate the economy and take away the "evils of capitalism".
Sounds really logical there.
TurboD
Care to back up your claims about public researchers doing the most good? I don't think you can do it.
TurboD
It's quite light. When I hand mine to interested people, they toss it up in the air, figuring it's gonna be even bigger than their 15" dells.
Before you knock it, and if you have the money, you should go check one out in person.
TurboD
"but he doesn't ask the Secret Service to lift a finger to keep them from being caught drinking underage"
Are you an idiot? Just wondering, because, if I wanted my daughters to learn not to drink underage, I'd let them spend the night in jail everytime they did it. And that's exactly what he has done. Now, if I were a lying & conniving SOB, I'd tell the SS to go handle things everytime, to keep my own image clean.
TurboD
Point 1: "chad" theories abound, but the official count says GWB won. Get over it, it's done. The press played a even more powerful role of ruining voter turnout in the western portion of the state in a different time zone.
Point 2: This does suck, but correction will come if it becomes necessary. Just wait till Joe Smuck is arrested for some pointless reason and thrown in jail as a terrorist. A clean idealistic lawyer will change the entire ballgame.
Point 3: What civil liberties will be restricted??? See pt2.
Point 4: I personally dislike abortion, but I wouldn't prevent someone from having one, as the child is still within the body of the woman. However, having my tax dollars empower a system of both destruction of unborn children, and recommendation of abortion to mothers-to-be, is non-acceptable. Pay for it yourself, and hope to God you read about it somewhere so you can go do it, and that you have enough of your own cash to actually implement.
I fully believe that people like you who believe things should be a certain way, your way, are the true danger in our society. God help us if you ever get into office. You WILL be the Nazi in charge.
This article is pure unadulterated fear mongering, and is an insult too be posted as news. Each man can form his own opinion, thank you.
TurboD
I think this the unfortunate dark side to the transition that Apple _had_ to make. At some point Apple realized they had the Lexus of the computing world, and that was what was going to sell the product. Unfortunately, their VARs were not all up to the task of selling and supporting the pricey machines. In response, Apple decided they had to bring the dealers up --- and the only way they could do it is to own the dealerships too.
The darkside is that unfortunately some of us are or know people who are Apple VARs, and it sucks to see them spiraling out of existance. But that is capitalism -- the strong ideas always win, thats what Americans have embraced since the creation of our gov't.
TurboD
But in this case, producing it and selling it are the very same thing. Apple computers doesn't produce apples for free so that stores can sell them --- they produce to sell, either through the web, Apple stores, or 3rd parties.
Not sure what case you are speaking of, but MS was using monopoly advantage to keep other OSs off the shelves and off the shipped harddrives of manufacturers. They weren't giving MS stores a product advantage over 3rd party MS vendors. Geez.
TurboD
"Even in sparsely populated 120km ranges, there will be more than enough callers to completely overload said infrastructure."
I'd like to expand upon this comment. TDMA systems have frequency reuse by dividing the small piece of bandwidth they get by allocating small chunks of time on the same channel to the phones on a specific channel. As the number of callers increase, less slots are free for a new caller. At low frequencies, the number of channels are more limited, and therefore the number of slots in total per tower.
What makes matters fun in a GSM system used for long distances, is that the speed of light becomes a problematic factor for those near the tower, and those far from the tower. The slots are equidistant, but the users are not. If a user at the max range attempts to dial from a nearly full tower, he can knock other people off the tower, or the tower may ignore him because he appears out of spec. CDMA doesn't suffer from that issue. CDMA does have its own issues at a distance, however, they are not insurmountable with variable power output RF amplifiers on the phone and base station, a much simpler solution than the software nightmare that TDMA could quickly become to handle the situation (which as I understand it, it is not handled. You get knocked, well thats too bad. Hope you weren't dying or anything during a busy period on the tower).
TurboD
"GSM works well in environments like Iraq. You might live in some isolated part of the huge US of A where GSM sucks but Iraq is an urban and concentrated country. Most people live near the cities or the river valleys."
From the maps and footage brought along by the war, Iraq is by no means urban. The desert dwellers are in near isolation already. Now the urban elite can get one more foothold over the desert dwellers simply because MCI needs to unload some equipment.
Your urban elitism is really reaking in your post, too. GSMers always want the population to live in "urban areas in concentrations". Let me tell you, us "country bumpkins" want wireless too, and GSM isn't providing. But GSMers are more than happy to tell us to move to a city, or how theoretically great GSM is on paper even in large geographical areas. For some of us, this isn't feasible.
"GSM does not suck. It allows clear voice transmissions and gives an acceptable data transfer rate (not for internet browsing but for email okay).
Iraq does not need an expensive data network with bells on it. It needs one that works. And GSM works excellently - as Europe can testify."
Again, I don't know where you are culling your data from. Call me from a desert repeater and keep talking for 4 or 5 hundred kilometers without interruption on a GSM system in Iraq, and I'll bless GSM as being more than a sorry ripoff for the Iraqis.
And how can the data rate be acceptable if I can't browse comfortably? Data transmission is purely a luxury item, it should be nice to use...
TurboD
I am not aware of any implementation of EGPRS in my state, but of course, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I travel routinely to the RTP area of NC though, and I have never heard of EGPRS, which would definitely popular among my friends. My guess is that EGPRS is a bit hard to implement "for real". When I searched on the net, I found only a pilot project by AT&T. Hardly proven technology like CDMA...
Where are you getting your distance benchmarks for Is-95/CDMA2k? It doesn't really matter anyway, because even if you are a few more kilometers capable on GSM, GSM tower capacity will be exceeded. Even in sparsely populated 120km ranges, there will be more than enough callers to completely overload said infrastructure.
TurboD
"The limited range of electric cars is a myth. They already have the power and range of a gasoline-powered cars."
:)
You must be living in a better part of the matrix.
Electric cars have three major flaws currently:
1) Way too much lead is needed for the batteries (imagine what lead damage to the evironment is like with one small battery per car, now multiply that by 10 or 12 per car on the road).
2) I haven't seen a electric car yet that drives like a American muscle car (whether or not you like them is irrelevant). Lets see the electric car that seats 4 comfortable, can do 120mph on a short stretch with AC on full blast, with all 4 of those people comfortable seated. This what I require for the car to be called "safe" for driving on the two lane blacktop.
3) Let's see #2 with a 400 mile range before recharges.
4) Let's see #2 and #3 with a 5 minute recharge.
I didn't think so. Sorry, please lie again
TurboD
Read some radio manuals, and get back to us.
Just because GSM is mandated to exist in most parts of the world does not mean it is either superior or will be in existance forever (or maybe it can if you want 2.5G forever).
All future 3g standards are based on CDMA (UTMS,WCDMA, CDMA2K, etc.), if not direct decendents. Qualcomm owns most if not all patents on those technologies. Not only that, but a terrain as sparse as Iraq, should not use GSM, but CDMA.
I live in the countryside of North Carolina, and I can tell you all about the GSM vs. CDMA arguments in living color. GSM blows in large geographical expanses with sparse populations. The companies don't want to provide the coverage that GSM requires (GSM requires dense repeater coverage), while CDMA requires many fewer towers for the same area. GSM isn't even an option, and those fancy AT&T phones are only worth their solder and discrete components to any outside-of-the-city dweller. Sprint PCS phones however, have full net capabilities, text paging, and digital clarity in the middle of nowhere.
Now, MCI can backdate Iraq and put them on GSM if they want, but the truth of the matter is, the Iraqi people are getting ripped off. MCI is simply going to dump their GSM equipment they wanted to sell in the US market, on the Iraqis who currently have no choice. But its not the best network for Iraq. In fact, it sucks. It sucks so bad, I guarantee the venture will be basic failure except in the largest of cities in Iraq with the most income and highest population densities. The rest of Iraq will be left phoneless.
TurboD
Ever heard of custom software?
:)
Besides, why would the average grid operator want to individually log into the grid substations and disable them? A nice concise unix command would fire off scripts to do all that.... and yes, if I were the operator I'd want confirmation..
Finally, this is just fiction, ya know? Heck, they used SSH though to make an appeal to geeks
TurboD
One thing I would suggest a PC laptop owner to try --- buy a equivalent priced PC notebook to the ibook 900 and attempt to capture.
:)
:)
You fail on PC, pass on ibook
Of course, DV capture may not be the same to anyone else as it is to me
TurboD
So I would suppose that you on the other hand would set up a 99$ PC, drop a ULTRASCSI card and Linux on it, connect it to a coupla terabytes of drive space and run a company on it?
You would stake your reputation on that, right? Right?
Why whatever would he have gone running to the hills for?
Pushrods are hardly inferior --- a 5.7L Corvette engine develops 405hp, and gets over 25mpg. It uses pushrods and can easily dip into the 7KRPM area without valve float. Chevrolet actually increased the hp on the ls1 when they went to the ls6 by extending the operational RPM range (well, that was part of it).
:)
I wouldn't say the Viper is a waste either... it does what it is designed to do, pull like a tractor in the low RPM bands, something the Viper customer base buys the car explicitly for. Of course they'd have more tractability with a 'Vette
TurboD