I was curious how much 1000 Ghash/sec would cost, and pay out. A $3600 ASIC miner will pay for itself in under 5 days, and the estimated ROI after 1 year is about $40,000 (it actually starts losing $10 - $20 a month the last few months based on current rates) and then you could just buy the next one and keep making $
The Condos I used to live in were made from an old lumber mill, so each floor of the building was over 20 feet tall, and the units were then two levels (but occoupied one floor) with a loft above the kitchen for bedrooms, and then the dining room and living room had the full 20 foot ceilings.
They had a new tenant that bought 1/4 of the 4th floor and had three large units remodeled into one giant palace. He had a guest bedroom with it's own bathroom, and the brand new water heater leaked shortly after it was installed. It wasn't noticed for quite a while because the people who lived directly below them on the third floor were gone for the winter, and the people below them on the second floor were gone for the winter, so the flood made it to the first floor bedroom before being noticed. By that time it had completely destroyed both levels of the third floor unit, and both levels of the second floor unit!
If only they'd have designed the cables so all 4 pairs were next to each other instead of having the orange or green pair straddling the blue. It'd make assembling them so much easier!
Thanks for the explanation! I always thought that Quantum entanglement was the one thing that MAY be able to transmit data FTL. Is there some other quantum phenomenon that may offer the possibility to send information FTL that I have it confused with? Or is FTL (or instantaneous) quantum communication just a common misconception?
IANAP, but I always thought it was more like keeping one blank card, and sending another blank card, and then once the card arrived, you took your card and wrote either an A or a B on it, and the same letter would appear instantly on the other card. If you later erased the A and wrote a B, the other card would then also instantly begin to show a B. However if either of you looked at the cards to see the letter, it may change both of them, or erase them both completely.
Asking the question here is kinda like saying "tell me a story about the olden days grandpa" sure you could go to the library and read a book, but hopefully a few folks here will get off their lawn long enough to tell us an amusing shoe-shining story, or reminisce about their experiences with some bad-ass (or slow-ass) hardware to add some depth and sense of community to the discussion you just don't get from a Google search.
I'd rather hear it here, and have it inline with the discussion for everyone to enjoy (before Dice squeezes the last drop of life from/. and we all HAVE to go read Wikipedia)
Yes, it is. Sorry, I was going to link to it, but I ran out of time (are you on that damn phone again!)
It works really well, you can adjust the amount of RAM for buffering and the burst speed as well as many other settings. It also can make GIFs out of your shots.
It can take a while to store all the photos (you can take a lot in a very short time) and every once in a while Android will say it's not responding, but it is just busy dumping RAM to disk (a fast SD card helps a lot here) so don't force close it. It also helps to leave your phone on and don't hit the home button while it is saving, especially if you have it set to use all available RAM for the buffer. Android will sometimes shut the App down, or stop saving the files if you hit home, or put it to sleep when it is using all of your RAM and CPU.
I have taken pictures of a stop watch, and on a clean boot, in airplane mode, with nothing else running, I can get nearly 40 pics/second at 1920 X 1080! The timing can be a little uneven when set to take pics as fast as possible, but hey, it's on an android phone, and setting it to a fixed number (example 20) per second takes them at fairly even intervals!
I use it a lot at work to see what is going on with our machines, and I always get great pictures of the kids (that are the envy of everyone with a digital camera:) and always end up taking pictures for everyone else with it too.
I bought the app after using the free version once. I've also found the developer to be very responsive to my problems, and always adding new features as well.
I've also tried other burst mode apps, and Fast Burst Camera Pro is by far the best one I've found.
IANAFBCPD (I am not a Fast Burst Camera Pro Developer)
Jupiter, or one of their other products may be exactly what you are looking for. It takes care startup and shutdown of the VMs and can even bid on the spot instances for you. IIRC they even had different packages available depending on the number of instances required, and service required.
Funny how they can sift through and filter nearly every conversation going on anywhere in the world, as well as search all of the traffic on the Internet for keywords and phrases in REAL TIME, and store this for analysis, but they can't do the same procedure on their own network, and search their own computers to find out information about what they've been doing in any reasonable amount of time.
I had this happen around 10 years ago, and I used to have some fax / answering machine software that used the modem, and came on my old Gateway computer that would allow you to set rules on which numbers were fax, and which numbers were to go to the answering machine (with mailboxes), and which numbers would just ring. It allowed you to use wildcards, and set area code ranges to route the calls to the desired function. I could even use my wireless remote to route the call as it rang, and add it to the fax list automatically.
I don't remember what it was called, but there must be something like that still available, at least the fax portion. This way you can just add the numbers to the fax list when they come in, or route them to a "hello, hello, I'm sorry I can't hear you, there is a very bad connection" message.
My first assembly program for the Atmel AVR gave me quite the headache debugging! The output would jump around randomly, and sometimes go backwards.
My program worked fine if I put the data tables in hex, but if I tried to put them in (what I thought was) decimal all hell broke loose. Watching the code in the emulator, I couldn't figure out why the lookups were giving me the wrong numbers.
I finally just made two data tables from 0 - 255, one in hex and one in decimal, and then programmed, and read back the flash and looked at the hex file, and the two tables were different!
I was trying to make my code look nice, so I made all the data points 3 digits, then I had a nice easy to modify table in the editor..DB 000, 000, 001, 001, 002, 003,......DB 009, 010, 011, 012, 013, 014.......DB 092, 096, 100, 104, 109, 115......
Really made my interpolation routine give some crazy results when it underflowed!
That's the same thing my instructor said. You'll either get an A or an F, so If you're gonna trust your exam to a program, I'm sure you will understand the problem and test the program, and that will be the best study guide you could ever have.
As a bonus I got to check everyone else's tests (every one was different)
I have 2 Casio FX-115ESPlus calcs, and I use them all the time. One at my desk, one in my toolbox. I think I paid $12.99 for them, and they are available everywhere.
I like RPN, but the Casio textbook entry input works very well, and comes in handy when I have more important things on my mind.
From the above link: One of the distinguishing characteristics of Frink is that it tracks units of measure through all calculations. This allows all values to contain a quantity and its units of measure. Frink understands how different units of measure interrelate, such as a length cubed is a volume, or power multiplied by time is energy. Different units of measure can be mixed in calculations, and Frink automatically ensures that the calculations lead to a result with the expected dimensions.
height = 3 feet
gravitation = 9.80665 m/s^2
mass = 60 kg
potential_energy = height * gravitation * mass
println[potential_energy -> joules]// Display in joules
The standard distribution comes with a data file which contains thousands of the most common units of measure, along with common data such as masses of elementary particles, planetary data, and historical measures. The standard data file uses the SI base units as its fundamental units of measure.
I have 6 products in high volume production that use the Tiny15, and it is amazing what you can do with 512 instructions, and just the CPU registers.
They are all written in assembly, and I can honestly say that they are bug free! I know every instruction that's executed, and optimized every routine by hand for either speed or efficiency when it was needed.
It's satisfying to have a complete understanding of what's going on, and not have several levels of abstraction between what you wrote, and what the CPU is doing.
if Stuxnet was really as particular about which systems is infected, it really makes you wonder if the Iranian plant was a carbon copy of the Russian plant.
Android has a show pointer locations setting in developer options that gives the size and pressure of the touch (among other things) and it seems to give a good indication of both. At least on the 3 devices I've owned, not sure if they all work that well.
There is also a script in the menu that allows you to make a live CD or live USB from your customized install, so you can get it how you like it, and then clone it to take with you. When you do a system update, just make new live media to take along, and if you do screw up your home install, just reinstall your custom version from your live media and be right back where you were in a few clicks.
It's the most well thought out distro I've ever used, and I (used to until now) do a lot of distro hopping in search of something better.
It includes lots of non-free wireless drivers and programs, but I'm not as concerned about purity as I am about having my computer do everything I need or want it to (but a bare bones version is available as well).
If you look at what's included, it really is the full monty, and if you don't like the customized KDE theme based desktop, standard KDE is a click away from the menu, and most if not all other desktops are ready to install from synaptic.
I really can't say enough about the forums and help / documentation that's included or available as well. Most settings have right-click "what's this" help available too.
Have a look at the customized settings and configurations available on the system config desktop too, it's far beyond what I've found anywhere else, and makes doing anything (including locking it down and verifying the install) a snap (or click).
They take the good parts of nearly every distro, and wrap them up in a well thought out and fully functional package.
It's been in the top 10 distros on distrowatch as long as I can remember, I can easily see why. It's so much easier and safer IMHO to uninstall what you don't use, and gives new users something fully functional so you don't get nearly as many of the "how do I get it to do???" questions that normally come with ditching windows.
There is also a menu that pops up when you put in media that shows you everything you can do, and with what program, so it's very simple to find your way around.
Slashdot Mirror
check out:
http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/b58934cea0
I was curious how much 1000 Ghash/sec would cost, and pay out. A $3600 ASIC miner will pay for itself in under 5 days, and the estimated ROI after 1 year is about $40,000 (it actually starts losing $10 - $20 a month the last few months based on current rates) and then you could just buy the next one and keep making $
I was surprised!
Cheers
Err, you mean house...
(I live in the basement)
Fun Story:
The Condos I used to live in were made from an old lumber mill, so each floor of the building was over 20 feet tall, and the units were then two levels (but occoupied one floor) with a loft above the kitchen for bedrooms, and then the dining room and living room had the full 20 foot ceilings.
They had a new tenant that bought 1/4 of the 4th floor and had three large units remodeled into one giant palace. He had a guest bedroom with it's own bathroom, and the brand new water heater leaked shortly after it was installed. It wasn't noticed for quite a while because the people who lived directly below them on the third floor were gone for the winter, and the people below them on the second floor were gone for the winter, so the flood made it to the first floor bedroom before being noticed. By that time it had completely destroyed both levels of the third floor unit, and both levels of the second floor unit!
It was quite a mess!
If only they'd have designed the cables so all 4 pairs were next to each other instead of having the orange or green pair straddling the blue. It'd make assembling them so much easier!
Anyone know why the hell they did that?
Thanks for the explanation! I always thought that Quantum entanglement was the one thing that MAY be able to transmit data FTL. Is there some other quantum phenomenon that may offer the possibility to send information FTL that I have it confused with? Or is FTL (or instantaneous) quantum communication just a common misconception?
Cheers!
IANAP, but I always thought it was more like keeping one blank card, and sending another blank card, and then once the card arrived, you took your card and wrote either an A or a B on it, and the same letter would appear instantly on the other card. If you later erased the A and wrote a B, the other card would then also instantly begin to show a B. However if either of you looked at the cards to see the letter, it may change both of them, or erase them both completely.
Again... IANAP!
Does /. eat carrots?
mm^2
Asking the question here is kinda like saying "tell me a story about the olden days grandpa" sure you could go to the library and read a book, but hopefully a few folks here will get off their lawn long enough to tell us an amusing shoe-shining story, or reminisce about their experiences with some bad-ass (or slow-ass) hardware to add some depth and sense of community to the discussion you just don't get from a Google search.
I'd rather hear it here, and have it inline with the discussion for everyone to enjoy (before Dice squeezes the last drop of life from /. and we all HAVE to go read Wikipedia)
Cheers
Yes, it is. Sorry, I was going to link to it, but I ran out of time (are you on that damn phone again!)
It works really well, you can adjust the amount of RAM for buffering and the burst speed as well as many other settings. It also can make GIFs out of your shots.
It can take a while to store all the photos (you can take a lot in a very short time) and every once in a while Android will say it's not responding, but it is just busy dumping RAM to disk (a fast SD card helps a lot here) so don't force close it. It also helps to leave your phone on and don't hit the home button while it is saving, especially if you have it set to use all available RAM for the buffer. Android will sometimes shut the App down, or stop saving the files if you hit home, or put it to sleep when it is using all of your RAM and CPU.
I have taken pictures of a stop watch, and on a clean boot, in airplane mode, with nothing else running, I can get nearly 40 pics/second at 1920 X 1080! The timing can be a little uneven when set to take pics as fast as possible, but hey, it's on an android phone, and setting it to a fixed number (example 20) per second takes them at fairly even intervals!
I use it a lot at work to see what is going on with our machines, and I always get great pictures of the kids (that are the envy of everyone with a digital camera:) and always end up taking pictures for everyone else with it too.
I bought the app after using the free version once. I've also found the developer to be very responsive to my problems, and always adding new features as well.
I've also tried other burst mode apps, and Fast Burst Camera Pro is by far the best one I've found.
IANAFBCPD
(I am not a Fast Burst Camera Pro Developer)
Cheers!
If you are using Android, try using "fast burst camera (pro)" I love it, and it works better than my stock camera at taking burst shots.
Everyone always asks how I got such a perfect shot with my camera, I don't tell them I took 50 and went through them all to get just the right one:)
Cheers
Cycle Computing has the Jupiter Job Scheduler that was used in a /. article a couple of weeks ago:
tech.slashdot.org/story/13/11/13/1754225/121-petaflops-rpeak-supercomputer-created-with-ec2
Jupiter, or one of their other products may be exactly what you are looking for. It takes care startup and shutdown of the VMs and can even bid on the spot instances for you. IIRC they even had different packages available depending on the number of instances required, and service required.
Good Luck!
Cheers:)
Funny how they can sift through and filter nearly every conversation going on anywhere in the world, as well as search all of the traffic on the Internet for keywords and phrases in REAL TIME, and store this for analysis, but they can't do the same procedure on their own network, and search their own computers to find out information about what they've been doing in any reasonable amount of time.
Nice!
I had this happen around 10 years ago, and I used to have some fax / answering machine software that used the modem, and came on my old Gateway computer that would allow you to set rules on which numbers were fax, and which numbers were to go to the answering machine (with mailboxes), and which numbers would just ring. It allowed you to use wildcards, and set area code ranges to route the calls to the desired function. I could even use my wireless remote to route the call as it rang, and add it to the fax list automatically.
I don't remember what it was called, but there must be something like that still available, at least the fax portion. This way you can just add the numbers to the fax list when they come in, or route them to a "hello, hello, I'm sorry I can't hear you, there is a very bad connection" message.
Cheers, and good luck!
My first assembly program for the Atmel AVR gave me quite the headache debugging! The output would jump around randomly, and sometimes go backwards.
My program worked fine if I put the data tables in hex, but if I tried to put them in (what I thought was) decimal all hell broke loose. Watching the code in the emulator, I couldn't figure out why the lookups were giving me the wrong numbers.
I finally just made two data tables from 0 - 255, one in hex and one in decimal, and then programmed, and read back the flash and looked at the hex file, and the two tables were different!
I was trying to make my code look nice, so I made all the data points 3 digits, then I had a nice easy to modify table in the editor. .DB 000, 000, 001, 001, 002, 003,..... .DB 009, 010, 011, 012, 013, 014...... .DB 092, 096, 100, 104, 109, 115......
Really made my interpolation routine give some crazy results when it underflowed!
Cheers!
I make my Duncan Turbo with Water Joe TYVM!!!
That's the same thing my instructor said. You'll either get an A or an F, so If you're gonna trust your exam to a program, I'm sure you will understand the problem and test the program, and that will be the best study guide you could ever have.
As a bonus I got to check everyone else's tests (every one was different)
Cheers
I love my EL-9300. The solver is awesome, and I have hundreds of programs and equations in it. Still going strong for nearly 20 years!
I have 2 Casio FX-115ESPlus calcs, and I use them all the time. One at my desk, one in my toolbox. I think I paid $12.99 for them, and they are available everywhere.
I like RPN, but the Casio textbook entry input works very well, and comes in handy when I have more important things on my mind.
www.casio.com/products/Calculators_%26_Dictionaries/Fraction_%26_Scientific/FX-115ESPLUS/
They also rank very highly for accuracy.
http://www.rskey.org/~mwsebastian/miscprj/forensics.htm
voidware.com/calcs/torturetest.htm
Aren't they all:
JMP PC-1
?
Or try Frink!
c2.com/cgi/wiki?FrinkLanguage
From the above link:
One of the distinguishing characteristics of Frink is that it tracks units of measure through all calculations. This allows all values to contain a quantity and its units of measure. Frink understands how different units of measure interrelate, such as a length cubed is a volume, or power multiplied by time is energy. Different units of measure can be mixed in calculations, and Frink automatically ensures that the calculations lead to a result with the expected dimensions.
height = 3 feet // Display in joules
gravitation = 9.80665 m/s^2
mass = 60 kg
potential_energy = height * gravitation * mass
println[potential_energy -> joules]
The standard distribution comes with a data file which contains thousands of the most common units of measure, along with common data such as masses of elementary particles, planetary data, and historical measures. The standard data file uses the SI base units as its fundamental units of measure.
ATTiny15 FTW!
I have 6 products in high volume production that use the Tiny15, and it is amazing what you can do with 512 instructions, and just the CPU registers.
They are all written in assembly, and I can honestly say that they are bug free! I know every instruction that's executed, and optimized every routine by hand for either speed or efficiency when it was needed.
It's satisfying to have a complete understanding of what's going on, and not have several levels of abstraction between what you wrote, and what the CPU is doing.
What's ramless CPU are you using?
if Stuxnet was really as particular about which systems is infected, it really makes you wonder if the Iranian plant was a carbon copy of the Russian plant.
Android has a show pointer locations setting in developer options that gives the size and pressure of the touch (among other things) and it seems to give a good indication of both. At least on the 3 devices I've owned, not sure if they all work that well.
Cheers
www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=770&pgno=3
Hmmm...
It seemed to me like it was going to be wave powered.
If your power is free and your cooling is free a project like this makes a lot of sense.
I think you'll really enjoy it!
There is also a script in the menu that allows you to make a live CD or live USB from your customized install, so you can get it how you like it, and then clone it to take with you. When you do a system update, just make new live media to take along, and if you do screw up your home install, just reinstall your custom version from your live media and be right back where you were in a few clicks.
It's the most well thought out distro I've ever used, and I (used to until now) do a lot of distro hopping in search of something better.
It includes lots of non-free wireless drivers and programs, but I'm not as concerned about purity as I am about having my computer do everything I need or want it to (but a bare bones version is available as well).
If you look at what's included, it really is the full monty, and if you don't like the customized KDE theme based desktop, standard KDE is a click away from the menu, and most if not all other desktops are ready to install from synaptic.
I really can't say enough about the forums and help / documentation that's included or available as well. Most settings have right-click "what's this" help available too.
Have a look at the customized settings and configurations available on the system config desktop too, it's far beyond what I've found anywhere else, and makes doing anything (including locking it down and verifying the install) a snap (or click).
They take the good parts of nearly every distro, and wrap them up in a well thought out and fully functional package.
It's been in the top 10 distros on distrowatch as long as I can remember, I can easily see why. It's so much easier and safer IMHO to uninstall what you don't use, and gives new users something fully functional so you don't get nearly as many of the "how do I get it to do???" questions that normally come with ditching windows.
There is also a menu that pops up when you put in media that shows you everything you can do, and with what program, so it's very simple to find your way around.
Enjoy!