This has been debated at SIGGRAPH the past couple years. The game boards, e.g. Nvidia/Geoforce do not provide full feature rendering. For example movie makers prefer 48 bit full color, but the game boards or only 8-16 bit indirect color.
Two terabytes gives you a thousand hours of video,
ten thousand hours of audio. It becomes hard to find and use that many hours, even with the best
indexing schemes.
Businesses and people buy MS software mainly for the intergrated office applications, then are forced to buy Windows and networking applications to support it. If anyone could seriously dent this, then MS could be on its way out.
Remember, MS changes stripes each decade.
75-85 it was a languages company, then became an OS company, then became a business software company. Lotus, Word Perfect, and Harvard Graphics "owned" the business app sector before MS did. Now MS is trying to become a personal entertainment company- games, digital TV, ISP...
In the Star shows they are always manipulating
memory devices about the size of a credit card.
Thats a good size for human hands.
Round ones may role away and waste corner real estate.
In trekno-babble, an "iso-linear memory card"
holds "kilo-quads" of data. People have
speculated that means 10^18 bits (one thousand
quadrillion) or a hundred million gigabytes.
I'd guess about every atomic particle need be
a memory cell then.
Hey, with Moore's law adding a zero every five
years, thats just 40 years from now!
Last week ABC news followed a worker in downtown Atlanta through her work day and counted the cameras- nearly 2000. A large fraction were along the roads observing traffic and in stores.
Conventional digital cameras use relatively expensive charge-coupled chips (CCD). A newer, but lower quality method uses the same technology as computer chips to make sensors for about a dollar. These have been used in toys such as the Game Boy, Barbie, and Hello Kitty cameras.
Generally the only way large supercomputers can be built in the USA is through government contracts. Industry is unwilling to pay more than $10 million for a large computer. The Department of Energy has been commisioning top-end computers ($10M to $100M) for weapons research and NOAA for weather forecasting.
I am ambivalant about this. On one hand I want to see a petaflop computer by 2010. (Two 100 teraflop computers have contracted for the 2007 timeframe, so this is possible.) On the other hand I am suspicious that computer companies won't build these on their own and dont like the governement propping up weak computer companies.
A poll of people born after 1965 found that only 16% knew the main facts of Watergate. The same poll increased to 60% for those born earlier.
Almost any major historical event has a similar recognition depending on whether one has lived through it or not.
A few parts in each summer animated movie since Aladdin have been CGI. Dinosaur was the first full CGI film. The magic carpet and cave scene were cgi. The ballroom dance scene in Beauty and Beast was CGI. The wildebest stampede in Lion King was CGI. The street crowds in Hunchback were CGI. The Olympic clouds in Hercules were CGI. The soldier armies in Mulan were CGI. Disney talked about these at the national and L.A. SIGGRAPH meetings.
I lived in China for a while. Almost no one obeys the fire code. It wasnt so bad when most buildings were one or two stories, but now lots are built up multi-story and sky-scrapers. Its really scary and you must be alert there. So there must be an additional angle for singling net cafes out. I think it is more that they are an in-your-face profitable illegal business (like half of small urban businesses) rather than free speech. Also many of the victims were young students, and parents (in every country) get more upset when childeren are involved, partiucalry only-sons in China.
In some of the smaller tech sub-specialties,
or a somewhat confined geographic market "everyone knows everyone". That means, unless you become a burger-flipper, your job decisions will dog you for years, if not decades.
Even despite the size of a specialty, you'd be surprised when re-encounter people. The guy you dis'ed last month might be a future hiring manager, customer, vendor, etc. I've seen this countless times. So it always advised to act with the maximum of poise, despite the urge to be negative.
The A.I. software mania of the mid-1980s was a preview of the late-1990s InterNet mania. Droves of computer science professors quit to start new A.I. companies. Exaggerated claims were made about the power of A.I. software. There were cries of "losing the computer race" with Japan. Japan has the Fifth Generation Project: A.I. parallel computer hardwired with Prolog- but it fizzled out too.
Although little practical progress was made in A.I., there was some decent spinoffs. The first workstations and first personal graphics computers were from A.I. efforts at Xerox, TI, Symbolics and others. Soon after Apollo, HP, and Sun followed with more generalized workstations using this technology. And then Apple MacIntosh and the Thieves of Redmond.
Richard Stallman was left unmolested in the empties out MIT AI lab to develop his GNU tool family.
Cyc was part of the US government-industry A.I. research institute in Austin. Then it became privatized into its corporation hobbling along on governemnt and private funding.
The DLP chip family from Texas Instruments have up to 1.3 million moving mirrors for high luminance TV projection systems for conference rooms, home and theatre digital TVs. These have been on the market for four years. This is nano tech if I ever saw it.
Material scientists have come up with all kinds of nifty hydrogen storage schemes. There are metallic sponges that store hydrogen in dense and fairly safe manner, expecially in an impact accident. I dont not know the economcis of such systems.
An alternative fuel cell technology extracts hydrogen from hydrocarbons on the way to combustion. These are more likely to see implementation because there is a hydrocarbon deliver infrastructure in place. Probably will start with laptop fuel cell batteries that have triple lifetime over alternatives.
An article (membership requires) in May Physics Today details the extensive corrections GPS must make for both special relativity (velocity corrections) and general relativity (gravity corrections). This has tested Einstein every day of the past 20 years, and he has held up.
When you include the total cost of operation (TCO), a TM computer cluster is a third of the price of alternatives. TM clusters have smaller footprints because you can pack the cooler CPUs closer together. They use considerably less power.
Solaris 9 runs on 109 CPUs transparently compared to beawolf and other UNIXes. It supports nearly a terrabyte of core memory- several times more than the nearest competitor. It has been 64-bit tested for over eight years. Anyone knows that when you first use so-called 64-bit OSes, there is always some 32-bit bottleneck the engineers overlooked. We saw these in early Solaris and IRIX and see them now in Intel platform OSes.
On the other hand you can get Linux at low cost. When something breaks, you can go in and fix it right away, given you understand it. Linux doesn't have the multi-CPU performance of Solaris. Its is not 64-bit battle tested. hwoever, SGI and IBM Linux are making a lot a progress in high ed Linux.
Now that people can make there "personal edits" on their home PCs (as several did the SW:TPM) using iMovie and the like,
its only a matter of time before all six movies
are cut together. You could rearange to your hearts content. Some ideas:
(1) A collage of all the space and land chase scenes.
(2) A collage of all the light saber battles.
(3) Put all the character development in temproral order, though you may be hard pressed to assemble more than 15 minutes of this.
(4) A tour of the star wars planets.
(5) A tour of the star wars races.
(6) A documentary on Jedi history.
(7) A remake of Dune, since Lucas borrowed heavily from Herbert.
Revenge of the Nerds #1 and #2 have origonal historical footage (and I even appear in one spot, though dont say anything). Dogtown lucked out because thaere was guy intentionally filming the action. Lots of history is not as fortunate.
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Has anyone made one? SOmeone had to ask!
This has been debated at SIGGRAPH the past couple years. The game boards, e.g. Nvidia/Geoforce do not provide full feature rendering. For example movie makers prefer 48 bit full color, but the game boards or only 8-16 bit indirect color.
Two terabytes gives you a thousand hours of video, ten thousand hours of audio. It becomes hard to find and use that many hours, even with the best indexing schemes.
Regjected because the defect rate was too large. What has changed?
Now there are 23 installations at least this large, that should be the new threshhold: the largest machines that can be bought at any given time.
If it happens very infrequently,
and you cant do anything about,
and cant really see it,
you just waste a lot of mental energy.
Businesses and people buy MS software mainly for the intergrated office applications, then are forced to buy Windows and networking applications to support it. If anyone could seriously dent this, then MS could be on its way out.
...
Remember, MS changes stripes each decade. 75-85 it was a languages company, then became an OS company, then became a business software company. Lotus, Word Perfect, and Harvard Graphics "owned" the business app sector before MS did. Now MS is trying to become a personal entertainment company- games, digital TV, ISP
In the Star shows they are always manipulating memory devices about the size of a credit card. Thats a good size for human hands. Round ones may role away and waste corner real estate.
In trekno-babble, an "iso-linear memory card" holds "kilo-quads" of data. People have speculated that means 10^18 bits (one thousand quadrillion) or a hundred million gigabytes. I'd guess about every atomic particle need be a memory cell then. Hey, with Moore's law adding a zero every five years, thats just 40 years from now!
Last week ABC news followed a worker in downtown Atlanta through her work day and counted the cameras- nearly 2000. A large fraction were along the roads observing traffic and in stores.
Conventional digital cameras use relatively expensive charge-coupled chips (CCD). A newer, but lower quality method uses the same technology as computer chips to make sensors for about a dollar. These have been used in toys such as the Game Boy, Barbie, and Hello Kitty cameras.
Generally the only way large supercomputers can be built in the USA is through government contracts. Industry is unwilling to pay more than $10 million for a large computer. The Department of Energy has been commisioning top-end computers ($10M to $100M) for weapons research and NOAA for weather forecasting.
I am ambivalant about this. On one hand I want to see a petaflop computer by 2010. (Two 100 teraflop computers have contracted for the 2007 timeframe, so this is possible.) On the other hand I am suspicious that computer companies won't build these on their own and dont like the governement propping up weak computer companies.
A poll of people born after 1965 found that only 16% knew the main facts of Watergate. The same poll increased to 60% for those born earlier.
Almost any major historical event has a similar recognition depending on whether one has lived through it or not.
A few parts in each summer animated movie since Aladdin have been CGI. Dinosaur was the first full CGI film. The magic carpet and cave scene were cgi. The ballroom dance scene in Beauty and Beast was CGI. The wildebest stampede in Lion King was CGI. The street crowds in Hunchback were CGI. The Olympic clouds in Hercules were CGI. The soldier armies in Mulan were CGI. Disney talked about these at the national and L.A. SIGGRAPH meetings.
I lived in China for a while. Almost no one obeys the fire code. It wasnt so bad when most buildings were one or two stories, but now lots are built up multi-story and sky-scrapers. Its really scary and you must be alert there. So there must be an additional angle for singling net cafes out. I think it is more that they are an in-your-face profitable illegal business (like half of small urban businesses) rather than free speech. Also many of the victims were young students, and parents (in every country) get more upset when childeren are involved, partiucalry only-sons in China.
In some of the smaller tech sub-specialties, or a somewhat confined geographic market "everyone knows everyone". That means, unless you become a burger-flipper, your job decisions will dog you for years, if not decades. Even despite the size of a specialty, you'd be surprised when re-encounter people. The guy you dis'ed last month might be a future hiring manager, customer, vendor, etc. I've seen this countless times. So it always advised to act with the maximum of poise, despite the urge to be negative.
The A.I. software mania of the mid-1980s was a preview of the late-1990s InterNet mania. Droves of computer science professors quit to start new A.I. companies. Exaggerated claims were made about the power of A.I. software. There were cries of "losing the computer race" with Japan. Japan has the Fifth Generation Project: A.I. parallel computer hardwired with Prolog- but it fizzled out too.
Although little practical progress was made in A.I., there was some decent spinoffs. The first workstations and first personal graphics computers were from A.I. efforts at Xerox, TI, Symbolics and others. Soon after Apollo, HP, and Sun followed with more generalized workstations using this technology. And then Apple MacIntosh and the Thieves of Redmond.
Richard Stallman was left unmolested in the empties out MIT AI lab to develop his GNU tool family.
Cyc was part of the US government-industry A.I. research institute in Austin. Then it became privatized into its corporation hobbling along on governemnt and private funding.
The DLP chip family from Texas Instruments have up to 1.3 million moving mirrors for high luminance TV projection systems for conference rooms, home and theatre digital TVs. These have been on the market for four years. This is nano tech if I ever saw it.
Material scientists have come up with all kinds of nifty hydrogen storage schemes. There are metallic sponges that store hydrogen in dense and fairly safe manner, expecially in an impact accident. I dont not know the economcis of such systems.
An alternative fuel cell technology extracts hydrogen from hydrocarbons on the way to combustion. These are more likely to see implementation because there is a hydrocarbon deliver infrastructure in place. Probably will start with laptop fuel cell batteries that have triple lifetime over alternatives.
A fuel cell explosion severely disabled the Apollo 13 mission. Ron Howard made an award winning movie about it several years ago.
An article (membership requires) in May Physics Today details the extensive corrections GPS must make for both special relativity (velocity corrections) and general relativity (gravity corrections). This has tested Einstein every day of the past 20 years, and he has held up.
When you include the total cost of operation (TCO), a TM computer cluster is a third of the price of alternatives. TM clusters have smaller footprints because you can pack the cooler CPUs closer together. They use considerably less power.
Solaris 9 runs on 109 CPUs transparently compared to beawolf and other UNIXes. It supports nearly a terrabyte of core memory- several times more than the nearest competitor. It has been 64-bit tested for over eight years. Anyone knows that when you first use so-called 64-bit OSes, there is always some 32-bit bottleneck the engineers overlooked. We saw these in early Solaris and IRIX and see them now in Intel platform OSes.
On the other hand you can get Linux at low cost. When something breaks, you can go in and fix it right away, given you understand it. Linux doesn't have the multi-CPU performance of Solaris. Its is not 64-bit battle tested. hwoever, SGI and IBM Linux are making a lot a progress in high ed Linux.
Now that people can make there "personal edits" on their home PCs (as several did the SW:TPM) using iMovie and the like, its only a matter of time before all six movies are cut together. You could rearange to your hearts content. Some ideas:
(1) A collage of all the space and land chase scenes.
(2) A collage of all the light saber battles.
(3) Put all the character development in temproral order, though you may be hard pressed to assemble more than 15 minutes of this.
(4) A tour of the star wars planets.
(5) A tour of the star wars races.
(6) A documentary on Jedi history.
(7) A remake of Dune, since Lucas borrowed heavily from Herbert.
Revenge of the Nerds #1 and #2 have origonal historical footage (and I even appear in one spot, though dont say anything). Dogtown lucked out because thaere was guy intentionally filming the action. Lots of history is not as fortunate.