I friend of mine, once argued very convincingly that it would be a very good thing is no one had any privacy, provided that applied to goverments, companies, politicians etc as well as citizens.
Its a theme that been explored in stories occasionally, for instance in "The light of other days".
But if its the goverments and companies with privacy and me without it, then no thanks.
Unlike other groups, geeks (i still hate the term) are defined by intellegance, reason, and the scientific method. While other groups will always contain members that will hold mad, bad and obviously wrong beliefs not matter what, a geek will always change beliefs based on evidence and a solid reasoned argument based on axioms they share. If most geeks are in argeement in belief of something its probably because its (if not true) at least as close to true as we can get in the limit current knowledge.
I'd don't know about the common man, but we're already running x86 linux boxes with 3.5G of RAM, any more than that and you need 64-bit.
Google for example uses commodity x86 boxes, and keep there whole internet index in RAM, for that cheap, big memory, 64-bit boxes would really come in useful.
Outsourcing still means some one has to be payed to managed the servers, except now the company also has to pay that someones bosses and shareholders and accounts departments etc, and the strange thing is, they do this in the name of efficency.
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Can anyone recommend a good MP3+OGG seperates unit i can attach to my Hi-fi, and upload to via my home LAN (standand CAT5 ethernet). With 10-100G of HD, and no loud fans. I was looking to homebrew one, but i don't really have the time. I Don't want to spend more than £300 (UK pounds), can anyone help?
Don't knock alchemy, given what little people knew a the time alchemy was the beginning of a real science. It begat chemistry after all. And yes turning lead into gold is now possible (although stupidly expensive and wasteful), and a exile of youth is no longer unscientific, merely hard to do, look up applications of stem cells, or drug candiates like ALT-711, if you don't believe me.
First off, you can't trademark ideas, trademarks are logos and names etc, nothing to do with patents. Secondly, having worked with a few patent lawyers for my company, i can see that where they know how to write a patent in the correct format, they have don't have the deep understanding of the technology needed to guess what other uses the patent might need to be targeted at and what can't be patented because it is already known, weither or not you use a lawyer you will need to do that youself.
Finally you can't get into legal hot water over a patent, all the worst that can happen is that your patent might be over turned.
What the point spend years studying linguistics, if he can't use it to make new words up. I'm sure Samurel Johnson is spinning in grave, but i like that word, it is most interfrastaticly omnidescribulous.
. I think the language architects who aren't living in reality tend to like multi-language solutions a lot more than ordinary folks do.
Do you folks, agree with that because i don't. My last product involved writing a java server, that produced XML that was passed into javascript by a perl script, using a custom minilanguage for the template.
To pick up the light and a hologram and display it again, the clock would have to have receptors and emitters smaller than the wavelength of the light. Plus they would have to acturately reproduce the light over all the optical wavelengths. (Infra red and radio would be good to if you don't want to be detected). This would require high nanotech.
However do this at radio frequencies, especial a single known fixed radio frequency, for perfect radar stealth seems feasible, (but very expensive) with current electronics.
Run a couple of volts through salt water, the Na+ ions go to the cathode, the Cl- ions go the anode and discharged to Cl which disolves to form Sodium Hypochlorite this is the main component of household bleach.
2Na+ + 2H20 + 2e- -> 2NaOH + H2 2Cl- -> Cl2 + 2e-
Cl2 + H20 = HCl + HCl0 HClO + NaOH -> NaClO + H20
Similar reaction will happen with any other disolved salts in the water.
Don't know about the razor blade or the lightbulb, but this behaviour is very common in industries.
For instance when Dyson took is patent for a bagless vacuum cleaner to Hoover and the other big companies, then told him to get lost as the bags and sundries where a big part of there profit. In the end the only way he could bring them to market was to finance and start his own company.
I've read at least on paper that shows, energy and momentum are not violated at all by time travel through a worm hole, the point is that the worm hole has energy/mass and momentum itself and energy is also conversed at the wormhole entrances and exit. So if you step into a wormhole the wormhole gets heavier and if you leave a wormhole it gets ligher. Thus we that the follow energy balance sheet for time travel through a wormhole.
The NDA isn't quite up until 2400 USA (eastern? pacific?, don't ask me i don't know) time, but look at, Here
Expect reviews from the usual suspects.
AMD have modified there ratings a little so as to keep the model numbers fair compared with the newer faster Northwood pentium 4s. So while the old rating system would have had 2400+ as a 1933MHz Athlon, and 2600+ as a 2066Mhz Athlon, in fact the 2400+ is the first 2GHz Athlon while the 2600+ clocks in a 2133MHz.
We can expected newer Athlons to be released later with 333MHz Front Side buses, and later 512MB of cache. Even when Hammer comes out, AMD will still to selling Athlons for around a year afterwoods, the Athlon will move done the low end to replace the Duron, and thats going give the celeron a real kicking. In fact Intel seems to have blown there wad completely, with nothing to compete with the Hammer until there Prescott strink of the P4 in Q4 2003.
Sorry to open a can of worms but, There is quite a bit of evidence that crime went down in 80 and 90s due to the legalisation of abortion in the 60s: less poverty striken, badly brought up, unwanted childern, growing up be disfunctional adults.
In memory indexes for search engines, databases etc. Servers need lots of memory anyway, but by keeping data normally stored on data in memory you can boost your speed by up to a hundred fold. As for large memory for graphics or CAD work, yeah maybe it isn't needed yet, but see here
I don't why everyone is talking like IA-64 and x86-64 are the only 64-bit games in town.
If you want the best performance money can buy get a IBM power-4 system.
If you want tried and tested reliablity get a SUN ultrasparc system.
If you want the most bang for the buck get an Operton system, (AMD Hammer systems are still going to be cheaper than pentium and xeon systems). (Of course you'll have to wait 5+ months, still for that)
And Itanium-2, err, i can't actually think of business or server application that would be best on an Itanium-2, compared to the others at this point. One the plus side Itanium-2 has got good FP perfomance but not as good as Power-4 or the latest Alphas, but its real world Integer performance is still to weak for servers.
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I friend of mine, once argued very convincingly
that it would be a very good thing is no one
had any privacy, provided that applied to
goverments, companies, politicians etc as well
as citizens.
Its a theme that been explored in stories
occasionally, for instance in "The light of
other days".
But if its the goverments and companies with privacy and me without it, then no thanks.
Unlike other groups, geeks (i still
hate the term) are defined by
intellegance, reason, and the scientific method.
While other groups will always contain members
that will hold mad, bad and obviously wrong
beliefs not matter what, a geek will always
change beliefs based on evidence and a solid
reasoned argument based on axioms they share.
If most geeks are in argeement in belief of something its probably because its (if
not true) at least as close to true as we can
get in the limit current knowledge.
I'd don't know about the common man, but we're
already running x86 linux boxes with 3.5G of
RAM, any more than that and you need 64-bit.
Google for example uses commodity x86 boxes,
and keep there whole internet index in RAM, for
that cheap, big memory, 64-bit
boxes would really come in useful.
Outsourcing still means some one has to be payed
to managed the servers, except now the company
also has to pay that someones bosses and shareholders and accounts departments etc, and
the strange thing is, they do this in the name
of efficency.
Can anyone recommend a good MP3+OGG seperates
unit i can attach to my Hi-fi, and upload to
via my home LAN (standand CAT5 ethernet). With
10-100G of HD, and no loud fans. I was looking
to homebrew one, but i don't really have the
time. I Don't want to spend more than £300 (UK pounds), can anyone help?
Don't knock alchemy, given what little people
knew a the time alchemy was the beginning of
a real science. It begat chemistry after all.
And yes turning lead into gold is now possible
(although stupidly expensive and wasteful), and
a exile of youth is no longer unscientific,
merely hard to do, look up applications of
stem cells, or drug candiates like ALT-711, if
you don't believe me.
First off, you can't trademark ideas, trademarks
are logos and names etc, nothing to do with
patents. Secondly, having worked with a few
patent lawyers for my company, i can see that
where they know how to write a patent in the
correct format, they have don't have the
deep understanding of the technology needed to
guess what other uses the patent might need to
be targeted at and what can't be patented because
it is already known, weither or not you use a
lawyer you will need to do that youself.
Finally you can't get into legal hot water over
a patent, all the worst that can happen is that
your patent might be over turned.
The demo was a little late, so while they
were waiting some for the fan on the UT2003 forums, made some really funny "late demo"
posters, enjoy.
Release the demo, fan art
Because they are clever a vengeful, and on the
whole tend to return how they are treated.
What the point spend years studying linguistics, if he can't use it to make new words up. I'm
sure Samurel Johnson is spinning in grave, but
i like that word, it is most interfrastaticly
omnidescribulous.
. I think the language architects who aren't living in reality tend to like multi-language solutions a lot more than ordinary folks do.
Do you folks, agree with that because i don't. My last product involved writing a java server, that produced XML that was passed into javascript by a perl script, using a custom minilanguage for the
template.
also gives you the ability to write XML comments in your code that can be parsed by the compiler to generate documentation.
Thats not exactly new, that the same feature
as Javadoc did for java since version 1.0
And that that page reads:
C# for java developers:
Please Stick to Java. Don't sell you soul
to mickysoft.
again, the clock would have to have receptors
and emitters smaller than the wavelength of
the light. Plus they would have to acturately
reproduce the light over all the optical wavelengths. (Infra red and radio would be
good to if you don't want to be detected).
This would require high nanotech.
However do this at radio frequencies, especial
a single known fixed radio frequency, for perfect
radar stealth seems feasible, (but very
expensive) with current electronics.
Run a couple of volts through salt water, the
Na+ ions go to the cathode, the Cl- ions go the
anode and discharged to Cl which disolves to
form Sodium Hypochlorite this is the main
component of household bleach.
2Na+ + 2H20 + 2e- -> 2NaOH + H2
2Cl- -> Cl2 + 2e-
Cl2 + H20 = HCl + HCl0
HClO + NaOH -> NaClO + H20
Similar reaction will happen with any other
disolved salts in the water.
Yeah, you'd need two flywheels rotating in
opersite directions to avoid nasty gryoscopic
effects.
Don't know about the razor blade or the lightbulb,
but this behaviour is very common in industries.
For instance when Dyson took is patent for a
bagless vacuum cleaner to Hoover and the other
big companies, then told him to get lost as the
bags and sundries where a big part of there
profit. In the end the only way he could bring
them to market was to finance and start his
own company.
The clawhammer and operatons don't have a front
side bus, anymore, the memory controller is
on the chip
I've read at least on paper that shows, energy
and momentum are not violated at all by time
travel through a worm hole, the point is that
the worm hole has energy/mass and momentum itself
and energy is also conversed at the wormhole
entrances and exit. So if you step into a wormhole
the wormhole gets heavier and if you leave a
wormhole it gets ligher. Thus we that the follow
energy balance sheet for time travel through
a wormhole.
1. Man , Wormhole
E_m + E_w0
A future copy of the man leaves the wormhole
2. Man, future man, Wormhole
E_m + E_m E_w1 = (E_w0 - E_m)
The orignal man enters the wormhole.
3. Future_man, Wormhole
E_m E_w0
Whoops my bad
The NDA isn't quite up until 2400 USA (eastern? pacific?, don't ask me i don't know) time, but look at, Here
Expect reviews from the usual suspects.
AMD have modified there ratings a little so as
to keep the model numbers fair compared with
the newer faster Northwood pentium 4s. So while
the old rating system would have had 2400+ as a 1933MHz Athlon, and 2600+ as a 2066Mhz Athlon, in
fact the 2400+ is the first 2GHz Athlon while the
2600+ clocks in a 2133MHz.
We can expected newer Athlons to be released later
with 333MHz Front Side buses, and later 512MB of cache. Even when Hammer comes out, AMD will still to selling Athlons for around a year afterwoods, the Athlon will move done the low end to replace the Duron, and thats going give the celeron a real kicking. In fact Intel seems to have blown
there wad completely, with nothing to compete with
the Hammer until there Prescott strink of the
P4 in Q4 2003.
All i can tell is that the shots definitely weren't done with anti-aliasing switched on, jagglies everywhere. Give me Quincunx.
Sorry to open a can of worms but, There is quite
a bit of evidence that crime went down in
80 and 90s due to the legalisation of abortion in the 60s: less poverty striken, badly brought up, unwanted childern, growing up be disfunctional adults.
In memory indexes for search engines, databases etc. Servers need lots of memory anyway,
but by keeping data normally stored on data in
memory you can boost your speed by up to a
hundred fold. As for large memory for graphics or
CAD work, yeah maybe it isn't needed yet, but
see here
I don't why everyone is talking like IA-64 and
x86-64 are the only 64-bit games in town.
If you want the best performance money can buy
get a IBM power-4 system.
If you want tried and tested reliablity get
a SUN ultrasparc system.
If you want the most bang for the buck get an
Operton system, (AMD Hammer systems are still
going to be cheaper than pentium and xeon systems). (Of course you'll have to wait 5+ months, still for that)
And Itanium-2, err, i can't actually think of
business or server application that would be
best on an Itanium-2, compared to the others at
this point. One the plus side Itanium-2 has
got good FP perfomance but not as good as
Power-4 or the latest Alphas, but its real world Integer performance is still to weak for servers.