Fair enough, however, any Judges found to have broken the law (even once) should be subject to appropriate penalties... I think the guillotine would be appropriate for France.
Yes, but had they honored those at Bletchley Park, perhap Alan Turing would not have suicided. (Some say he was assassinated) At least he would have been viewed as a hero for what he (and others) achieved for the Allies.
PS: Don't mention the war, I did once but I think I got away with it!
I always laugh when I see the claim that light emission will be more efficient than metal interconnect in IC's. The article claims that 50% of power is currently lost in the metal interconnect in high density integrated circuits. However, I suspect that the loss in a solid state laser diode will be far worse than a mere 50%. There is also (some) metal interconnect involved in driving the diode in the first place. (Admittedly, this interconnect will probably be shorter than the metal interconnect is to make the correct connection.)
If I ever see someone drive one of those I'd fucking key it. You have the money for that, you deserve to have it keyed at the very least.
Smart move... someone with that much money would also have no trouble finding the few grand it would take to have you permanently removed from the planet. (IMHO, pity it would cost him that much!)
Once I was talking to my grandpa about old computers, and I mentioned that my C64 had a slow 300 baud modem. He used to work on these mainframes, and he came right back and said, "the first modem I had was 9 baud."
I reckon your Grandpa was pulling your leg... 50 baud modems have been around since before WW II. This was used by/for real teletype machines. (like creed, or Model 45 teletype machines) That certainly predates any computer usage.
A 1000 Amp 220 volt output at your house would be neat, plenty of capacity to run that new microwave oven. (Or gigawatt fusion facility if you like.) While this does seem a bit out of the range for the average household, it would seem ideal for "Service Stations". (Although, to wait 45 minutes, I hope they have good coffee!) Even extending to 10 hours of charge means 22 kW per hour, or 100 amps given 220 volts, exceeding the supply capacity to most houses anyway.
Warning, thick cables carrying 1000's of amps tend to jump about in the earths magnetic field, so stand back as the power is applied, or removed. (Or just ramp the current up/down slowly...)
If we are to believe "media" hype (AKA The X-Files) Every cow in the world has already been fitted with a tracking transponder. (And an awful lot of humans as well!). So why not buy the data from them?
Well, there were companies making CP/M clones, IBM could have gone there. I seem to recall one called "Quick and Dirty Operating System" from Seattle Computer Systems for instance.
I believe it was bought by a person named William Gates, and was sold on to IBM to becom MSDOS. To be fair though, it wasn't much better than CP/M. (Major problem was no support for subdirectories...)
It only makes sense that this is a "crystal set" otherwise the device would consume more than the 5 milliwatts the thing supposedly "generated. To do this well, I suspect they were fairly close to several reasonably high power transmitters! Remember that radio, like light, obeys the inverse square law, so the energy density received at an antenna drops off rather quickly. I would be very surprised if this thing ever makes it into a genuine product.
Of course, they have seen the Mythbusters episode where this myth was debunked?
I agree - although you might want to eventually implement a systematic method of naming/storing your documents.
While this seems like a good idea on the surface, it never seems to work very well. Even verbose file names seem to fail miserably, as the first 100 or so letters are always the same (IE:"Project Tiger Sausage rocket module assembly - Ion injector harware part 1...>
Then there is the problem of getting all the employees to fully understand directory structures. Just look at your workmates screens to see how many people save everything on their desktop. (Yes, really a windows problem... but so what.)
I used to get a local WAN search engine, and let it index the entire site. Much more useful as it would find documents most people thought had disappeared years ago.
Another approach would be to have a database that assigned file names for various projects and/or functions and mandate that this be the only way files are named for storage on the WAN. This, however, does not get around the thousands of files already stored in weird places using weird names! (Which is why an already indexed search engine works so well... not only does it extract the file names, but also search on random (but significant) phrases are picked up within the scanned documents. (I used to use "MAMMA", it worked a treat!) http://www.mamma.com/
You can make video encoding very parallel, but you reduce the quality (image quality decreases and bitrate increases) because the most efficient use of motion compensation video compression techniques, like the ones used in all MPEG derivatives, requires using the result of processing one entire frame before processing the next frame. In other words, you can make your encoder highly parallel, but you won't get anything resembling the compression and quality of even a video CD
Yes, but the 8x8 or 16x16 DCT part of the compression will be much sped up by throwing multiple CPU's at the task.) You do better doing the DCT in hardware. Even significant parts of the motion estimation are better (more quickly) handled by dedicated hardware. You don't really think that the dedicated h264 chips on the market actually use CPU's to do the compression of the video stream? Yet they manage to do a reasonable job on virtually all the imagery thrown at them. (Okay, I do know of one very early (MPEG2 stearing committee) MPEG2 hardware that would re-evaluate parts of the video, go back and encode them differently if the section did not meet the bitrate or quality requirements... (But strictly speaking, this approach is no longer "baseline" encoding!)
First, what "little push" would that be? You (quite deliberately) don't say. Second, quite frankly, the technique means crap, because they are inefficient, cheap panels, which makes no sense unless you have a huge roof.
H'mm, Actually, the cells use only five square meters, which is a tiny fraction of the size of most house roofs. Secondly, while they are "only" 8% efficient, this happens to be as good, if not better, than the greater percentage of solar cells available on the market. (Fact is, most manufacturers are careful to avoid quoting an efficiency figure, but you can work one out easily enough.) Your bitch about the panels being of less importance (cost wise) than the panels would also seem extremely suspect. If they are expensive, it means they are still at rip off prices. (Just don't bother feeding the grid, and use cheap inverters. (Of course, then the batteries become the expensive part...)
The article said 230,000 times atmospheric pressure. I guess this would bring a new dimension to the term "my memory blew up"... I imagine it would be a lot more dramatic than just letting out the smoke!
Lets face it, all the lunar hardware will end up back on Earth, in a museum. (Or perhaps private collections.) Obviously, this professor is a loony. (PUN ishment)
If the doors are locked, surely you get out through (the M$) windows.
The USB key would obviously contain a boot-able OS image. Scanning for pictures, etc would identify where such items are hidden. Hidden partitions would be scanned as well. (A raw look at the HDD might even be considered!) Sections with high entropy would be flagged for further investigation, as this would indicate probable encryption. (Or a ZIP file!) Given that it is an offense in the UK to withhold encryption keys from authorities, any "illegal" stuff detected should be evident.
It is a bit rude that the authorities can just fish around on a PC looking for potentially incriminating stuff though. Especially since they might have a machine for over a year! If they wanted to, they could low level copy the HDD's (or any other mass storage device) and return the hardware. The media could then be investigated.
What should "frost" you is how stupid Guantanamo Bay has made The US look to the rest of the world. However, there are enough redneck statements in this thread that one suspects significant inbreeding may have occurred in the USA.
Bet you have never done any hardware design. Combinatorial logic can easily be described in any HDL. The fact that the synthesis tool can extract clock events from the description is a plus! (And very desirable.) As far as requiring timing constraints... most designs do not need them. But, this has as much to do with the design of modern FPGA's as much (probably MORE) as the synth tool. (Please do not forget that the PLACEMENT tool is actually the tool that attempts to match the timespecs in a design). Early FPGA's suffered in routing delay, every PIP (periperal interconnect point) added as much as a few nanoseconds delay.... Anyway, there are often tricks for getting your design to run at the required speed. Pipelining is one such trick, but it does tend to make your head spin as you try to verify the design and keep all processes synchronised!
Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America onto a spot the size of a needle point.
Oh, please. This is not true! A femptosecond is 10 to the -15 seconds. The actual power is bugger all!
A tiny battery would have more power!. Take a AAA battery, which probably gives more than 1 watt. If you could totally discharge that batteries 1 watt in a femptosecond, you still only have one watt! However, the instantaneous power is one million gigawatts!
Sorry, have you ever used a search engine and tried to filter through the utter fucking tripe from morons who have no clue about anything but will happily talk about it as if an expert?
H'mm, sounds like 95% of the postings on/.
The things that really peeve me is reading articles in some of the popular science journals where the articles auther extrapolates something miraculous from the invention being discussed, when it is obvious to 99% of the readers that nothing will come from the invention!
As someone who can speak both Dutch and English, I find that the two are very intimately related. In fact, Dutch reminds me of old English. (IE: The counting structure used in Dutch beyond twenty reverses the sequence used in modern English, but was used in Old English... EG: Four and twenty black birds...)
But I do agree with Hey!'s description of the GUI interface. Intuitive indeed, which is what has made computers accessible to the unwashed mass's. Most people today cannot even begin to spell correctly, so imagine their problems with DOS/UNIX like operating systems!
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Fair enough, however, any Judges found to have broken the law (even once) should be subject to appropriate penalties ... I think the guillotine would be appropriate for France.
Yes, but had they honored those at Bletchley Park, perhap Alan Turing would not have suicided. (Some say he was assassinated) At least he would have been viewed as a hero for what he (and others) achieved for the Allies.
PS: Don't mention the war, I did once but I think I got away with it!
I always laugh when I see the claim that light emission will be more efficient than metal interconnect in IC's. The article claims that 50% of power is currently lost in the metal interconnect in high density integrated circuits. However, I suspect that the loss in a solid state laser diode will be far worse than a mere 50%. There is also (some) metal interconnect involved in driving the diode in the first place. (Admittedly, this interconnect will probably be shorter than the metal interconnect is to make the correct connection.)
If I ever see someone drive one of those I'd fucking key it. You have the money for that, you deserve to have it keyed at the very least.
Smart move ... someone with that much money would also have no trouble finding the few grand it would take to have you permanently removed from the planet. (IMHO, pity it would cost him that much!)
Once I was talking to my grandpa about old computers, and I mentioned that my C64 had a slow 300 baud modem. He used to work on these mainframes, and he came right back and said, "the first modem I had was 9 baud."
I reckon your Grandpa was pulling your leg ... 50 baud modems have been around since before WW II. This was used by/for real teletype machines. (like creed, or Model 45 teletype machines) That certainly predates any computer usage.
A 1000 Amp 220 volt output at your house would be neat, plenty of capacity to run that new microwave oven. (Or gigawatt fusion facility if you like.) While this does seem a bit out of the range for the average household, it would seem ideal for "Service Stations". (Although, to wait 45 minutes, I hope they have good coffee!) Even extending to 10 hours of charge means 22 kW per hour, or 100 amps given 220 volts, exceeding the supply capacity to most houses anyway.
...)
Warning, thick cables carrying 1000's of amps tend to jump about in the earths magnetic field, so stand back as the power is applied, or removed. (Or just ramp the current up/down slowly
If we are to believe "media" hype (AKA The X-Files) Every cow in the world has already been fitted with a tracking transponder. (And an awful lot of humans as well!). So why not buy the data from them?
Well, there were companies making CP/M clones, IBM could have gone there. I seem to recall one called "Quick and Dirty Operating System" from Seattle Computer Systems for instance.
...)
I believe it was bought by a person named William Gates, and was sold on to IBM to becom MSDOS. To be fair though, it wasn't much better than CP/M. (Major problem was no support for subdirectories
Obviously, the flute was only one instrument used by a prehistoric Rock group!
Imagine that big plug really being a bundle of tiny fiber optic jacks...
Gibson called them MicroSofts ... Rather apt I thought!
I agree, hard to believe the glowing recommendations this ferret is getting. The only thing it didn't do was make a cup of coffee for the operators!
It only makes sense that this is a "crystal set" otherwise the device would consume more than the 5 milliwatts the thing supposedly "generated. To do this well, I suspect they were fairly close to several reasonably high power transmitters! Remember that radio, like light, obeys the inverse square law, so the energy density received at an antenna drops off rather quickly. I would be very surprised if this thing ever makes it into a genuine product.
Of course, they have seen the Mythbusters episode where this myth was debunked?
I agree - although you might want to eventually implement a systematic method of naming/storing your documents.
While this seems like a good idea on the surface, it never seems to work very well. Even verbose file names seem to fail miserably, as the first 100 or so letters are always the same (IE:"Project Tiger Sausage rocket module assembly - Ion injector harware part 1 ...>
... but so what.)
... not only does it extract the file names, but also search on random (but significant) phrases are picked up within the scanned documents. (I used to use "MAMMA", it worked a treat!) http://www.mamma.com/
Then there is the problem of getting all the employees to fully understand directory structures. Just look at your workmates screens to see how many people save everything on their desktop. (Yes, really a windows problem
I used to get a local WAN search engine, and let it index the entire site. Much more useful as it would find documents most people thought had disappeared years ago.
Another approach would be to have a database that assigned file names for various projects and/or functions and mandate that this be the only way files are named for storage on the WAN. This, however, does not get around the thousands of files already stored in weird places using weird names! (Which is why an already indexed search engine works so well
You can make video encoding very parallel, but you reduce the quality (image quality decreases and bitrate increases) because the most efficient use of motion compensation video compression techniques, like the ones used in all MPEG derivatives, requires using the result of processing one entire frame before processing the next frame. In other words, you can make your encoder highly parallel, but you won't get anything resembling the compression and quality of even a video CD
Yes, but the 8x8 or 16x16 DCT part of the compression will be much sped up by throwing multiple CPU's at the task.) You do better doing the DCT in hardware. Even significant parts of the motion estimation are better (more quickly) handled by dedicated hardware. You don't really think that the dedicated h264 chips on the market actually use CPU's to do the compression of the video stream? Yet they manage to do a reasonable job on virtually all the imagery thrown at them. (Okay, I do know of one very early (MPEG2 stearing committee) MPEG2 hardware that would re-evaluate parts of the video, go back and encode them differently if the section did not meet the bitrate or quality requirements ... (But strictly speaking, this approach is no longer "baseline" encoding!)
First, what "little push" would that be? You (quite deliberately) don't say. Second, quite frankly, the technique means crap, because they are inefficient, cheap panels, which makes no sense unless you have a huge roof.
H'mm, Actually, the cells use only five square meters, which is a tiny fraction of the size of most house roofs. Secondly, while they are "only" 8% efficient, this happens to be as good, if not better, than the greater percentage of solar cells available on the market. (Fact is, most manufacturers are careful to avoid quoting an efficiency figure, but you can work one out easily enough.) Your bitch about the panels being of less importance (cost wise) than the panels would also seem extremely suspect. If they are expensive, it means they are still at rip off prices. (Just don't bother feeding the grid, and use cheap inverters. (Of course, then the batteries become the expensive part ...)
The article said 230,000 times atmospheric pressure. I guess this would bring a new dimension to the term "my memory blew up" ... I imagine it would be a lot more dramatic than just letting out the smoke!
Lets face it, all the lunar hardware will end up back on Earth, in a museum. (Or perhaps private collections.) Obviously, this professor is a loony. (PUN ishment)
If the doors are locked, surely you get out through (the M$) windows. The USB key would obviously contain a boot-able OS image. Scanning for pictures, etc would identify where such items are hidden. Hidden partitions would be scanned as well. (A raw look at the HDD might even be considered!) Sections with high entropy would be flagged for further investigation, as this would indicate probable encryption. (Or a ZIP file!) Given that it is an offense in the UK to withhold encryption keys from authorities, any "illegal" stuff detected should be evident.
It is a bit rude that the authorities can just fish around on a PC looking for potentially incriminating stuff though. Especially since they might have a machine for over a year! If they wanted to, they could low level copy the HDD's (or any other mass storage device) and return the hardware. The media could then be investigated.
What should "frost" you is how stupid Guantanamo Bay has made The US look to the rest of the world. However, there are enough redneck statements in this thread that one suspects significant inbreeding may have occurred in the USA.
Incest, keep it in the family!
All your really saying is Don't bend for a friend or you'll get it in the end!
Seriously though, as someone else pointed out, just create a guest account, and prohibit execution in that account.This is known as Using protection!
Bet you have never done any hardware design. Combinatorial logic can easily be described in any HDL. The fact that the synthesis tool can extract clock events from the description is a plus! (And very desirable.) As far as requiring timing constraints ... most designs do not need them. But, this has as much to do with the design of modern FPGA's as much (probably MORE) as the synth tool. (Please do not forget that the PLACEMENT tool is actually the tool that attempts to match the timespecs in a design). Early FPGA's suffered in routing delay, every PIP (periperal interconnect point) added as much as a few nanoseconds delay. ...
Anyway, there are often tricks for getting your design to run at the required speed. Pipelining is one such trick, but it does tend to make your head spin as you try to verify the design and keep all processes synchronised!
Next thing you know, you'll be able to use it to make a phone call!
Guo's laser unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America onto a spot the size of a needle point.
Oh, please. This is not true! A femptosecond is 10 to the -15 seconds. The actual power is bugger all! A tiny battery would have more power!. Take a AAA battery, which probably gives more than 1 watt. If you could totally discharge that batteries 1 watt in a femptosecond, you still only have one watt!
However, the instantaneous power is one million gigawatts!
Sorry, have you ever used a search engine and tried to filter through the utter fucking tripe from morons who have no clue about anything but will happily talk about it as if an expert?
H'mm, sounds like 95% of the postings on /.
The things that really peeve me is reading articles in some of the popular science journals where the articles auther extrapolates something miraculous from the invention being discussed, when it is obvious to 99% of the readers that nothing will come from the invention!
As someone who can speak both Dutch and English, I find that the two are very intimately related. In fact, Dutch reminds me of old English. (IE: The counting structure used in Dutch beyond twenty reverses the sequence used in modern English, but was used in Old English ... EG: Four and twenty black birds ...)
But I do agree with Hey!'s description of the GUI interface. Intuitive indeed, which is what has made computers accessible to the unwashed mass's. Most people today cannot even begin to spell correctly, so imagine their problems with DOS/UNIX like operating systems!