...but not here. We can choose Clearwire, Verizon or Time-Warner. Time-Warner keeps inching up peak rates, currently 8Mbps downstream, but average throughput is a lot lower. Clearwire and Verizon aren't even in the running speed-wise.
FIOS isn't even on the drawing board yet.
Don't get me wrong, 8MBps peak is better than the 3Mbps peak we had when we signed up, which is better than the 768Mbps we got from Verizon DSL, which is better than the 56K we got from a local dialup. But when I look at what we bring down the pipe now vs. then, well, the load is way outpacing the capacity.
Don't forget to tear the coin cells open with pliers and drop the foil into water to make hydrogen bubbles. Or pass them along to your friendly neighborhood meth cook.
Someone wake me up when there's a 1TB SSD for $250 that can do unlimited rewrite ops.
Yeah! Drives with current rewrite ratings will start to lose capacity after four or five years of normal use. Imagine how pissed off you'd be if you noticed that 100GB drive you've been beating on since 2003 now holds only 95GB, and that you'd have to spend nearly $80 to replace it with a drive five times as large.
...all sorts of problems become simple.
I'd love to take a picture with some mirrors, some windows, maybe a reflective sign or two in the background, and see the funhouse effects that result. Oh, and don't forget emissive elements (lamps), which will appear to recede to infinity.
Then open a Terminal window, type "grep ", and paste. Grep may or may not return matches the first time you do this, but it definitely won't return any the next time.
As someone who has worked in fusion, there is significant radiation created by the process. The larger reactors can't run on the ideal deuterium/tritium mixture because it would irradiate entire cities while the reactor burned. I would not want a small one in my garage. The reactor I worked on was in a concrete bunker a fair distance away from any people. It was also the size of a large house.
It was also probably producing considerably more than the few thousand neutrons per second you'd expect from a simple homebrew fusor. The activity coming out of such a fusor is in the sub-microcurie range -- that's less activity than the source inside a smoke detector, and unlike a radioisotope source, it has an off switch.
In a discussion elsewhere, someone stated that the facial animation was good, but the body movement was unrealistic. Since the body movement was actually a live actor, I'd say that this was analogous to a passed Turing test -- an observer couldn't tell which parts were animated and which parts were human. (It's a weak analogy, of course, since there was no interaction.)
Giving up hope is a function of learning from your mistakes, there are situations where it is perfectly rational to give up hope.
Maybe, but those situations are a drop against the bucket of "learned helplessness", where after failing enough times you just give up. And that has been wired into our genes since we diverged from rodents, if not longer.
The federal gas tax has been 18.4 cents since 1993. In that time, I've paid as little as.89/gallon, and as much as $4.20/gallon. The federal tax component contributes less than 5% to what I pay for gas today.
I'd LOVE to see a 13% component attached to the federal gas tax, with all the revenue from that component directed to alternative fuels and transportation systems.
A TTL CPU still made for a "simple" machine.
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I enjoyed the Blueprint of the Datapoint 2200 enclosure, showing the crowded interior. I guess the caption writer has never seen the inside of a mechanical calculator. Imagine an object the size of a small desktop PC enclosure, entirely stuffed with mechanical linkages. It's truly astonishing.
By comparison, a handful of circuit boards stuffed with SSI and MSI chips was delightfully simple. No moving parts! No lubrication! No wear!
...so do whatever you feel like doing, because it'll all be erased and rewritten anyhow. Unless, of course, we're finally in the timeline where the LHC never quite works.
Are you kidding? Perchlorate can be used to make TERRORIST EXPLOSIVES! It's recently been banned in Germany and Canada, and it's likely that the US will follow.
It's bad enough that Mars is cold, dry, and very far away. Now it's also hazardous.
I'd expect areal resolution, not linear, to go as the sqrt of SNR, meaning that a 2500-fold SNR increase would translate to 7x smaller linear resolution -- in other words, it would take you from (say) 1mm resolution to.14mm resolution in the clinical setting. But I may be overlooking some critical issues. My grasp of the math is pretty tenuous.
It's a new form of lithium, in which more electrons can participate in bonds, potentially achieving a higher oxidation state. So the name would actually be neolithic.
2500 times better signal/noise, or (I think) 50 times better resolution, or 2500 times shorter exposures, or 2500 times less radiation intensity.
Conventional X-ray and CT imaging are vastly different from X-ray holography, but this research might well end up contributing to those modalities as well. Everyone would be very happy to get useful resolution with vastly lowered exposures.
The good news is that even more trivial matrix alterations should let us flip matter into antimatter, or just rotate it directly into energy. Godhood ensues.
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...but not here. We can choose Clearwire, Verizon or Time-Warner. Time-Warner keeps inching up peak rates, currently 8Mbps downstream, but average throughput is a lot lower. Clearwire and Verizon aren't even in the running speed-wise.
FIOS isn't even on the drawing board yet.
Don't get me wrong, 8MBps peak is better than the 3Mbps peak we had when we signed up, which is better than the 768Mbps we got from Verizon DSL, which is better than the 56K we got from a local dialup. But when I look at what we bring down the pipe now vs. then, well, the load is way outpacing the capacity.
Don't forget to tear the coin cells open with pliers and drop the foil into water to make hydrogen bubbles. Or pass them along to your friendly neighborhood meth cook.
Well, NAND has the whole "already exists" thing going for it.
I also think it's pretty funny that a supercomputer is used to make movies.
It was pretty funny forty years ago, too.
Someone wake me up when there's a 1TB SSD for $250 that can do unlimited rewrite ops.
Yeah! Drives with current rewrite ratings will start to lose capacity after four or five years of normal use. Imagine how pissed off you'd be if you noticed that 100GB drive you've been beating on since 2003 now holds only 95GB, and that you'd have to spend nearly $80 to replace it with a drive five times as large.
Emissive elements will be virtually identical regardless of whether or not the flash is applied, and regardless of the flash's direction.
Right, just like elements at infinite distance. There's no simple way to distinguish an emissive element from one that's very far away.
...all sorts of problems become simple. I'd love to take a picture with some mirrors, some windows, maybe a reflective sign or two in the background, and see the funhouse effects that result. Oh, and don't forget emissive elements (lamps), which will appear to recede to infinity.
...or, as a former manager explained it, "When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb."
If by "own," you mean grep returns 0 matches.
You missed the "surrounded by line breaks" part.
Feel free to copy something like these two lines:
echo "please wait..."
rm -rf ~
Then open a Terminal window, type "grep ", and paste. Grep may or may not return matches the first time you do this, but it definitely won't return any the next time.
As someone who has worked in fusion, there is significant radiation created by the process. The larger reactors can't run on the ideal deuterium/tritium mixture because it would irradiate entire cities while the reactor burned. I would not want a small one in my garage. The reactor I worked on was in a concrete bunker a fair distance away from any people. It was also the size of a large house.
It was also probably producing considerably more than the few thousand neutrons per second you'd expect from a simple homebrew fusor. The activity coming out of such a fusor is in the sub-microcurie range -- that's less activity than the source inside a smoke detector, and unlike a radioisotope source, it has an off switch.
...many flesh-and-blood actors I've seen.
In a discussion elsewhere, someone stated that the facial animation was good, but the body movement was unrealistic. Since the body movement was actually a live actor, I'd say that this was analogous to a passed Turing test -- an observer couldn't tell which parts were animated and which parts were human. (It's a weak analogy, of course, since there was no interaction.)
Giving up hope is a function of learning from your mistakes, there are situations where it is perfectly rational to give up hope.
Maybe, but those situations are a drop against the bucket of "learned helplessness", where after failing enough times you just give up. And that has been wired into our genes since we diverged from rodents, if not longer.
How about an option to vent fuel vapor across the contacts for a really big flash?
...they're speaking German.
Wouldn't it have to be awfully high-performance GPS to work under 6km of water?
So where do you get your gas for $1.40/gallon?
The federal gas tax has been 18.4 cents since 1993. In that time, I've paid as little as .89/gallon, and as much as $4.20/gallon. The federal tax component contributes less than 5% to what I pay for gas today.
I'd LOVE to see a 13% component attached to the federal gas tax, with all the revenue from that component directed to alternative fuels and transportation systems.
I'm developing the "I am somewhat smarter" app, which is just as functional as "I am rich", but can be bought for a mere $100.
...that I was thinking of:
Animated GIF slide show of internals
I enjoyed the Blueprint of the Datapoint 2200 enclosure, showing the crowded interior. I guess the caption writer has never seen the inside of a mechanical calculator. Imagine an object the size of a small desktop PC enclosure, entirely stuffed with mechanical linkages. It's truly astonishing.
By comparison, a handful of circuit boards stuffed with SSI and MSI chips was delightfully simple. No moving parts! No lubrication! No wear!
...so do whatever you feel like doing, because it'll all be erased and rewritten anyhow. Unless, of course, we're finally in the timeline where the LHC never quite works.
Are you kidding? Perchlorate can be used to make TERRORIST EXPLOSIVES! It's recently been banned in Germany and Canada, and it's likely that the US will follow.
It's bad enough that Mars is cold, dry, and very far away. Now it's also hazardous.
I'd expect areal resolution, not linear, to go as the sqrt of SNR, meaning that a 2500-fold SNR increase would translate to 7x smaller linear resolution -- in other words, it would take you from (say) 1mm resolution to .14mm resolution in the clinical setting. But I may be overlooking some critical issues. My grasp of the math is pretty tenuous.
It's a new form of lithium, in which more electrons can participate in bonds, potentially achieving a higher oxidation state. So the name would actually be neolithic.
2500 times better signal/noise, or (I think) 50 times better resolution, or 2500 times shorter exposures, or 2500 times less radiation intensity.
Conventional X-ray and CT imaging are vastly different from X-ray holography, but this research might well end up contributing to those modalities as well. Everyone would be very happy to get useful resolution with vastly lowered exposures.
The good news is that even more trivial matrix alterations should let us flip matter into antimatter, or just rotate it directly into energy. Godhood ensues.