This isn't a topic I follow closely, and so when I saw "functional package manager" I didn't immediately make the association with "functional programming". The SN comment was enlightening.
This is a case where insider terminology ("functional package manager") not only fails to convey meaning to outsiders, it doesn't even provide a hint that the outsiders are missing something -- "functional" masquerades quite well as a bit of marketing fluff. ("We're not like the dysfunctional PMs you've had to put up with in the past!") So, the fact that you don't get a bunch of "what does THAT mean?" comments doesn't mean that the summary has done a good job; in fact, the opposite is more likely.
Fighting the irrationalities of written English style is an admirable pursuit, but I must warn you that those windmills can take a ridiculous amount of punishment without toppling.
That means that instead of using a single layer of conventional cells, you can have hundreds of layers of these, generating hundreds of times more power per surface area!
Oh, wait. That doesn't actually work, and that's one reason we always hear about power per area, but rarely per volume or per mass.
Now, if these can be produced as cheap, disposable decals, where you just stick on another one when your current one gets too torn up -- that could be seriously useful. Even better if we can unfurl them by the square kilometer in orbit.
This is beautiful. It takes me back to my late teens, building out TTL divider chains and 2K CMOS static RAMs to make a higher-resolution (30 rows of 100 characters) alphanumeric display for the TRS-80. Maybe I won't toss that 1970s 13" color TV just yet...
You, um, need to read the second paragraph of the summary. That 100% DOES refer to quantum efficiency -- they're claiming that essentially every photon that reaches the catalyst frees an atom of hydrogen.
Yes, you can keep slinging garbage more quickly than I can wipe it off the screen.
No, that doesn't imbue it with actual truth.
Just to mop up a few of the largest globs here:
"As you know", most people don't have access to any classified knowledge about radiation effects, because it's, um, classified.
MRI and CT scanners bloody well can "cook you" if they're operated outside their safety envelope. Fortunately, we don't do that, and as a result their only "harm" is the expected cumulative damage from X-ray exposure (for CT) or, well, nothing at all for MRI.
You don't understand "earth gauss MRI" in any way whatsoever. It's not about imaging from space. It's about imaging things that you can't get inside a big honking superconducting magnet. The tradeoff is terribly low resolution * high noise * scan time (you can improve any one at the cost of the others). Video is right out. So is imaging from space.
As for anything involving reading, writing, or communicating thoughts -- yeah, tell me more about this model that maps actual thoughts to specific wave patterns. Because that's about twelve leaps ahead of anything that's currently being proposed in the open literature. For bonus points, talk about how a satellite, hundreds or thousands of miles away, can accurately and selectively impress a waveform across a target the size of a human brain.
I really don't know why I'm typing this, because anybody who's read this far will either realize that your claims are loony, or realize that your claims are much more exciting and fun than any mundane counter-arguments I can make. Unlike your imaginary all-controlling conspirators and their godlike technologies, I know that I'm not actually changing any minds.
With regard to the text of this particular patent, I would have... a number of specific questions. Let's start with "how are you getting adequate nonlinear mixing of radio signals in meat, without cooking said meat?"
Sorry, but anybody seeing Dr. Duncan's name on the page will automatically trigger some of the oldest and most robust pattern matches in The System, which will respond promptly in just the way you'd expect, beaming "don't take this seriously" resonance patterns into the reader's mind.
That's definitely why everyone just chuckles and shakes their head at your post.
Since he keeps emphasizing how hard drives are made with expensive and environmentally-hostile platinum, perhaps he's just comparing the cost per kilo of platinum to the cost per kilo of sand. After all, that's what flash memory is made with, right?
This boggles my mind, too -- that much energy radiated away as gravitational waves in a fraction of a second.
I have some referents for electromagnetic radiation -- I know what, say, a kilojoule of light is like, and what it can do when radiated over a few seconds or a few milliseconds. But what would it be like to have your body exposed to a gravitational wave pulse carrying several kilojoules, or megajoules, or terajoules? Would you even notice?
I'm sure the P/W ratio for today's bipedal autonomous robots is lower than that of humans. But the Wikipedia article on the ratio cites 20W/kg for human cyclists as a 5-second maximum, and 174W/kg for a Tesla Roadster -- and that's the whole freaking car, motors, batteries, chassis, body, upholstery, the works.
Batteries still are, and will probably remain, a strong limiting factor. But not motors -- for example, Siemens announced a 50kg electric aircraft motor that delivers 260kw continuous output power. That's five KILOWATTS per kg. Without active cooling, that motor would melt quickly at full power, but scale it down to a 5kg "leg muscle" delivering 26kw impulse power, and yeah, you're heavily outperforming a human leg muscle.
At least, I think so. Disclaimer: I'm no biomechanical engineer.
Yeah, it's a bit creepy to see them starting to balance and recover as well as humans -- but their potential for strength, reaction speed, balance and perception are vastly superhuman. In another ten years, they'll be doing parkour with hundred-foot leaps, limited mainly by their battery or fuel cell power and capacity.
LOL. Look at it this way: five years ago, the $100 bill couldn't even buy three of your "real dollars", now it can buy six or more.
By the way, I'm not sure why you're considering a 1-troy-ounce.999 silver eagle as a "real dollar", when circulating silver dollars contained just.7736 ozt of silver, and a dollar's worth of silver dimes, quarters or halves contained just.715 ozt.
If you're going by the fact that modern silver eagles have a face value of one dollar, what's your opinion on the 5 ozt rounds that the Mint is producing with a face value of one quarter dollar? I'd be happy to give you a silver eagle for four of those. Heck, I'd give you a silver eagle for one of them, and let you keep the change. I'd even give you five silver eagles for one of those dinky 1/10ozt $5-face-value gold eagles.
By the same token, Newton's law of gravitation has clearly lost ALL predictive power, since it breaks down in the relativistic realm. So feel free not to get out of the way next time there's an anvil falling toward your head.
The constitution does not give the federal government the right to inhibit to privacy, therefor you have the right to it.
Wow, that's spectacularly simple-minded.
The Constitution requires a periodic census. Doesn't that "inhibit privacy"?
The Constitution authorizes the government to raise and fund an army; this was widely understood from the very beginning to imply conscription. Doesn't that "inhibit privacy"?
Folks, it clearly says Power Capacity. Power, not energy, and capacity, not average actual output. The headline and summary are precise and correct. But if you're deprived of your usual stalking points -- people trying to report power in kWh or energy in kW -- I guess you have no choice but to accuse the authors of not really meaning Exactly. What. They. Said.
Combined with the fact that HDDs today are slower per megabyte than ever (10TB drives spin at the same 7200 RPM that 120GB drives did), the near future holds the end of the HDD in the majority of applications.
"Slower per megabyte than ever"? What does this even mean?
If you're packing data more densely within a track, you'll be able to read it faster at a given rotational speed, unless your hardware can't keep up and you have to fall back to interleaving (or, perhaps worse, multiple reads to correct errors). I didn't think drives had been interleaved in years.
My own disclaimer: it's been many years since I paid close attention to drive transfer rates, so I have no idea what actual rates you get out of the new drives. They claim 250/225MBps read/write speeds. I don't remember what was claimed for the 120GB drives, but I don't think they approached 100MBps in the real world.
Yep. I'd seen them sub-$300 once or twice before, but hadn't pulled the trigger. This time there was some sort of 10% off deal on top of everything else. I don't think I've seen anything quite that low since, but I do believe they still dip below $300 occasionally.
Can't speak to performance relative to other SSDs, but for a laptop running an older version of OS X, it's been quite a step up from the 500GB 5400RPM drive it replaced.
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This isn't a topic I follow closely, and so when I saw "functional package manager" I didn't immediately make the association with "functional programming". The SN comment was enlightening.
This is a case where insider terminology ("functional package manager") not only fails to convey meaning to outsiders, it doesn't even provide a hint that the outsiders are missing something -- "functional" masquerades quite well as a bit of marketing fluff. ("We're not like the dysfunctional PMs you've had to put up with in the past!") So, the fact that you don't get a bunch of "what does THAT mean?" comments doesn't mean that the summary has done a good job; in fact, the opposite is more likely.
Oh, so close. Just 110 megawatts short, Doc.
Fighting the irrationalities of written English style is an admirable pursuit, but I must warn you that those windmills can take a ridiculous amount of punishment without toppling.
That means that instead of using a single layer of conventional cells, you can have hundreds of layers of these, generating hundreds of times more power per surface area!
Oh, wait. That doesn't actually work, and that's one reason we always hear about power per area, but rarely per volume or per mass.
Now, if these can be produced as cheap, disposable decals, where you just stick on another one when your current one gets too torn up -- that could be seriously useful. Even better if we can unfurl them by the square kilometer in orbit.
This is beautiful. It takes me back to my late teens, building out TTL divider chains and 2K CMOS static RAMs to make a higher-resolution (30 rows of 100 characters) alphanumeric display for the TRS-80. Maybe I won't toss that 1970s 13" color TV just yet...
You, um, need to read the second paragraph of the summary. That 100% DOES refer to quantum efficiency -- they're claiming that essentially every photon that reaches the catalyst frees an atom of hydrogen.
Doesn't look like Apple's making any big after-hours moves in the wake of the announcement.
Yes, you can keep slinging garbage more quickly than I can wipe it off the screen.
No, that doesn't imbue it with actual truth.
Just to mop up a few of the largest globs here:
"As you know", most people don't have access to any classified knowledge about radiation effects, because it's, um, classified.
MRI and CT scanners bloody well can "cook you" if they're operated outside their safety envelope. Fortunately, we don't do that, and as a result their only "harm" is the expected cumulative damage from X-ray exposure (for CT) or, well, nothing at all for MRI.
You don't understand "earth gauss MRI" in any way whatsoever. It's not about imaging from space. It's about imaging things that you can't get inside a big honking superconducting magnet. The tradeoff is terribly low resolution * high noise * scan time (you can improve any one at the cost of the others). Video is right out. So is imaging from space.
As for anything involving reading, writing, or communicating thoughts -- yeah, tell me more about this model that maps actual thoughts to specific wave patterns. Because that's about twelve leaps ahead of anything that's currently being proposed in the open literature. For bonus points, talk about how a satellite, hundreds or thousands of miles away, can accurately and selectively impress a waveform across a target the size of a human brain.
I really don't know why I'm typing this, because anybody who's read this far will either realize that your claims are loony, or realize that your claims are much more exciting and fun than any mundane counter-arguments I can make. Unlike your imaginary all-controlling conspirators and their godlike technologies, I know that I'm not actually changing any minds.
How odd. I would have thought that a silent machine with reasonable power would garner LOTS of fans.
Maybe not. Looks like "working" Newton MessagePad 120 and 130 models are nearly all going for well under $100.
Well, that settles it. If he's got a patent, then it all must be completely legit.
With regard to the text of this particular patent, I would have... a number of specific questions. Let's start with "how are you getting adequate nonlinear mixing of radio signals in meat, without cooking said meat?"
Well, thank heavens placing a stent inside the brain doesn't carry any risks of its own, right?
Sorry, but anybody seeing Dr. Duncan's name on the page will automatically trigger some of the oldest and most robust pattern matches in The System, which will respond promptly in just the way you'd expect, beaming "don't take this seriously" resonance patterns into the reader's mind.
That's definitely why everyone just chuckles and shakes their head at your post.
<slow clap>
Since he keeps emphasizing how hard drives are made with expensive and environmentally-hostile platinum, perhaps he's just comparing the cost per kilo of platinum to the cost per kilo of sand. After all, that's what flash memory is made with, right?
This boggles my mind, too -- that much energy radiated away as gravitational waves in a fraction of a second.
I have some referents for electromagnetic radiation -- I know what, say, a kilojoule of light is like, and what it can do when radiated over a few seconds or a few milliseconds. But what would it be like to have your body exposed to a gravitational wave pulse carrying several kilojoules, or megajoules, or terajoules? Would you even notice?
It sounds like you think that manufacturers have stopped making multi-platter drives. That's not true. Seagate and WD both use seven platters in their highest-capacity (10TB, standard-height) drives. The linked article further states that they use seven platters "instead of the usual six".
I don't know how prevalent single-platter drives are today, but multi-platter drives certainly haven't disappeared.
I'm sure the P/W ratio for today's bipedal autonomous robots is lower than that of humans. But the Wikipedia article on the ratio cites 20W/kg for human cyclists as a 5-second maximum, and 174W/kg for a Tesla Roadster -- and that's the whole freaking car, motors, batteries, chassis, body, upholstery, the works.
Batteries still are, and will probably remain, a strong limiting factor. But not motors -- for example, Siemens announced a 50kg electric aircraft motor that delivers 260kw continuous output power. That's five KILOWATTS per kg. Without active cooling, that motor would melt quickly at full power, but scale it down to a 5kg "leg muscle" delivering 26kw impulse power, and yeah, you're heavily outperforming a human leg muscle.
At least, I think so. Disclaimer: I'm no biomechanical engineer.
Yeah, it's a bit creepy to see them starting to balance and recover as well as humans -- but their potential for strength, reaction speed, balance and perception are vastly superhuman. In another ten years, they'll be doing parkour with hundred-foot leaps, limited mainly by their battery or fuel cell power and capacity.
LOL. Look at it this way: five years ago, the $100 bill couldn't even buy three of your "real dollars", now it can buy six or more.
By the way, I'm not sure why you're considering a 1-troy-ounce .999 silver eagle as a "real dollar", when circulating silver dollars contained just .7736 ozt of silver, and a dollar's worth of silver dimes, quarters or halves contained just .715 ozt.
If you're going by the fact that modern silver eagles have a face value of one dollar, what's your opinion on the 5 ozt rounds that the Mint is producing with a face value of one quarter dollar? I'd be happy to give you a silver eagle for four of those. Heck, I'd give you a silver eagle for one of them, and let you keep the change. I'd even give you five silver eagles for one of those dinky 1/10ozt $5-face-value gold eagles.
By the same token, Newton's law of gravitation has clearly lost ALL predictive power, since it breaks down in the relativistic realm. So feel free not to get out of the way next time there's an anvil falling toward your head.
The constitution does not give the federal government the right to inhibit to privacy, therefor you have the right to it.
Wow, that's spectacularly simple-minded.
The Constitution requires a periodic census. Doesn't that "inhibit privacy"?
The Constitution authorizes the government to raise and fund an army; this was widely understood from the very beginning to imply conscription. Doesn't that "inhibit privacy"?
...film at 11.
Folks, it clearly says Power Capacity. Power, not energy, and capacity, not average actual output. The headline and summary are precise and correct. But if you're deprived of your usual stalking points -- people trying to report power in kWh or energy in kW -- I guess you have no choice but to accuse the authors of not really meaning Exactly. What. They. Said.
Combined with the fact that HDDs today are slower per megabyte than ever (10TB drives spin at the same 7200 RPM that 120GB drives did), the near future holds the end of the HDD in the majority of applications.
"Slower per megabyte than ever"? What does this even mean?
If you're packing data more densely within a track, you'll be able to read it faster at a given rotational speed, unless your hardware can't keep up and you have to fall back to interleaving (or, perhaps worse, multiple reads to correct errors). I didn't think drives had been interleaved in years.
My own disclaimer: it's been many years since I paid close attention to drive transfer rates, so I have no idea what actual rates you get out of the new drives. They claim 250/225MBps read/write speeds. I don't remember what was claimed for the 120GB drives, but I don't think they approached 100MBps in the real world.
Yep. I'd seen them sub-$300 once or twice before, but hadn't pulled the trigger. This time there was some sort of 10% off deal on top of everything else. I don't think I've seen anything quite that low since, but I do believe they still dip below $300 occasionally.
Can't speak to performance relative to other SSDs, but for a laptop running an older version of OS X, it's been quite a step up from the 500GB 5400RPM drive it replaced.