that more and more of the new supercomputers use the same processors than everybody's computer...
Xeons, Opterons, PPC 970s,... and I think this trend will continue in the future.
I think this is because of the low cost of these processor.
But I still can't understand how a so expensive G5 (for personal use) can blow everybody in term of performance/cost. Amazing, it's obvious that we gonna have more supercomputers powered by G5 in the near future.
It's nice to see that the US government cares about supporting future technology and 'science facilities'.
In France our government is doing major cut in funding of many science labs and projects and that means that we will soon be unable to keep up with America's technology.
Anyway I wonder why building a new collider where the US government could have helped funding the construction of the LHC (allowing it to be even larger) ?
I would also like to know if you think that these fundings are military related. I mean do you think the US government is putting money in because most of these technologies could have military use ?
Unfortunately it seems nothing goes to the space elevator...
I actually think I'm doing much more errors in grammar than in spelling (maybe because english is not my mother tongue) but I really think you Americans shouldn't complain about lack of education in Europe.
After all it's your channel, one of the most famous, CNN, that once put a map of Europe on prime time with the switzerland misplaced (and I mean a more than thousand miles error). Now THAT is lack of education and when it comes to the medias it's really disturbing.
I'm not saying that China is the country of freedom. I'm not saying that the space program for China has no propaganda purpose. I'm not saying that the US governement spends ALL its money on the war.
I'm just saying that instead of putting China down in flames people should realize that moon exploitation is not a so bad idea. In fact it seems to be a hell of a good idea.
As we said before in a previous debate, energy drives the whole economy. Energy is everywhere, in everything we consume.
If China controls the moon, China could control the cheap energy production and China could control the whole economy. We don't need any major breakthrough in space technology and aeronautics to achieve that in the next 50 years, so will you let them do that ? Alone ?
Stop criticize all that China is doing just because its a communist country. This space program is definitely not a dumb idea.
I'm saying that you gonna need Helium-3 to feed your 'fusion powerplants the size of an eggcarton' and that moon has plenty of it. I'm saying that even if fusion is a failure moon gets enormous amount of energy thanks to the sun and that we could easily collect this energy and send it to earth in the form of microwaves.
I'm also saying that the US governement spends BILLIONs for war and that even a very little part of this amount funding NASA would be enough for an equivalent space program.
I would certainly prefer US or EU to be behind that space program but hey its the China ! What about setting up a new space race that wouldn't be a big show off ?
when a new Chinese Space Mission update is posted on slashdot some people start to complain: - China has other problems and moon is not a priority - Been there done that they are 30 years late
You have to know that China is not spending ALL the money on space travel. It's working on its own problems right now. It's a developping country but the thing is it's a hell of a developping country with almost a billion workers that are about to create the biggest market in the world.
You did that 30 years ago... ok. And what ?
What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was ?
China is planning actual exploitation of moon ressources within the next 50 years. They could really become prevalent in the future just because of the bargain they are doing today. Imagine if they manage to set up a full moon base.
They would become prevalent in energy, astronomy, vacuum manufacturing and space exploration. You should think about it and maybe the US government should try to spend less money on war and maybe a little more on space exploration...
Ok so now you gonna say: "Hey this guy has a full tank of sarin gas (WMD) fry him."
And after that when people start to understand he had NO sarin gas (WMD): "That's ok we have good sources for our information anyway he was a terrorist."
I think we should never kill or attack somebody or a country before being absolutely sure that he is a threat.
Europe needs Galileo because it depends too much on GPS which is owned by US Army. It means that US has complete control on all the Europeans positionning devices (including those of the Army).
We need more and more of this devices, for civilian purposes mainly. So Europe needs to be independant and thus, needs Galileo.
It's not an act of war or anything like this. Europe needs that for commercial and to have it's own reliable positionning system.
I agree, the russian space program was horrible, no real respect for cosmonauts life... Everybody knows that.
What I mean is that if we all agree that on the human side the American space program was the best, I think that on a technical point of view, the russian space program was the best.
But don't get me wrong, I truly think that, of course, human life must be preserved at best knowing that space exploration as a cost in term of human life.
With the list I intend to show that most of big milestones in space exploration were made by russians.
Yes, in the sixties the U.S.A. put men on the moon to show the world how advanced they were, ahead of the rest of the world. It was a political statement in the cold war: look, Russia, we can walk on the moon, we are technically superior to you.
I honestly think that the Americans didn't win the space race.
First artificial object in space : russians. First animal in space : russians. First man in space : russians. First object on the moon : russians. First durable space station : russians. First man on the moon : americans. Ok you got this one.
When the NASA first though about the ISS, engineers at NASA told the press that they need russians engineer because Mir was 20 years ahead everything that they had ever think about in term of space stations.
And oh, I think that russians were ready to send a man to the moon. I think they tried and I think something happened and that they kept the secret.
Well it seems that IBM really Loves Linux. We all now that IBM is more than a company, it's THE company. This is a first step for IBM, let's hope it won't be the last...
Well OpenGL is a really great rendering library but I think linux need a DX-like (but better of course) program. Does anyone ever heard about such a project ?
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that more and more of the new supercomputers use the same processors than everybody's computer...
... and I think this trend will continue in the future.
Xeons, Opterons, PPC 970s,
I think this is because of the low cost of these processor.
But I still can't understand how a so expensive G5 (for personal use) can blow everybody in term of performance/cost. Amazing, it's obvious that we gonna have more supercomputers powered by G5 in the near future.
Maybe it's to show off but at least you do have funding...
France science is slowly dying nowadays. No money !
It's nice to see that the US government cares about supporting future technology and 'science facilities'.
In France our government is doing major cut in funding of many science labs and projects and that means that we will soon be unable to keep up with America's technology.
Anyway I wonder why building a new collider where the US government could have helped funding the construction of the LHC (allowing it to be even larger) ?
I would also like to know if you think that these fundings are military related. I mean do you think the US government is putting money in because most of these technologies could have military use ?
Unfortunately it seems nothing goes to the space elevator...
I actually think I'm doing much more errors in grammar than in spelling (maybe because english is not my mother tongue) but I really think you Americans shouldn't complain about lack of education in Europe.
After all it's your channel, one of the most famous, CNN, that once put a map of Europe on prime time with the switzerland misplaced (and I mean a more than thousand miles error). Now THAT is lack of education and when it comes to the medias it's really disturbing.
I'm not saying that China is the country of freedom.
I'm not saying that the space program for China has no propaganda purpose.
I'm not saying that the US governement spends ALL its money on the war.
I'm just saying that instead of putting China down in flames people should realize that moon exploitation is not a so bad idea. In fact it seems to be a hell of a good idea.
As we said before in a previous debate, energy drives the whole economy. Energy is everywhere, in everything we consume.
If China controls the moon, China could control the cheap energy production and China could control the whole economy. We don't need any major breakthrough in space technology and aeronautics to achieve that in the next 50 years, so will you let them do that ? Alone ?
Stop criticize all that China is doing just because its a communist country. This space program is definitely not a dumb idea.
I'm saying that you gonna need Helium-3 to feed your 'fusion powerplants the size of an eggcarton' and that moon has plenty of it. I'm saying that even if fusion is a failure moon gets enormous amount of energy thanks to the sun and that we could easily collect this energy and send it to earth in the form of microwaves.
I'm also saying that the US governement spends BILLIONs for war and that even a very little part of this amount funding NASA would be enough for an equivalent space program.
I would certainly prefer US or EU to be behind that space program but hey its the China ! What about setting up a new space race that wouldn't be a big show off ?
when a new Chinese Space Mission update is posted on slashdot some people start to complain:
- China has other problems and moon is not a priority
- Been there done that they are 30 years late
You have to know that China is not spending ALL the money on space travel. It's working on its own problems right now. It's a developping country but the thing is it's a hell of a developping country with almost a billion workers that are about to create the biggest market in the world.
You did that 30 years ago... ok. And what ?
What about doing REAL space and moon exploration instead of a big show off like the Appolo program was ?
China is planning actual exploitation of moon ressources within the next 50 years. They could really become prevalent in the future just because of the bargain they are doing today. Imagine if they manage to set up a full moon base.
They would become prevalent in energy, astronomy, vacuum manufacturing and space exploration. You should think about it and maybe the US government should try to spend less money on war and maybe a little more on space exploration...
... hey man I can't even pay the EBay insertion fee...
Ok so now you gonna say:
"Hey this guy has a full tank of sarin gas (WMD) fry him."
And after that when people start to understand he had NO sarin gas (WMD):
"That's ok we have good sources for our information anyway he was a terrorist."
I think we should never kill or attack somebody or a country before being absolutely sure that he is a threat.
Europe needs Galileo because it depends too much on GPS which is owned by US Army. It means that US has complete control on all the Europeans positionning devices (including those of the Army).
We need more and more of this devices, for civilian purposes mainly. So Europe needs to be independant and thus, needs Galileo.
It's not an act of war or anything like this. Europe needs that for commercial and to have it's own reliable positionning system.
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/promotebroadband/PB0 3-PromotingBroadband.pdf
I agree, the russian space program was horrible, no real respect for cosmonauts life... Everybody knows that.
What I mean is that if we all agree that on the human side the American space program was the best, I think that on a technical point of view, the russian space program was the best.
But don't get me wrong, I truly think that, of course, human life must be preserved at best knowing that space exploration as a cost in term of human life.
With the list I intend to show that most of big milestones in space exploration were made by russians.
I honestly think that the Americans didn't win the space race.
First artificial object in space : russians.
First animal in space : russians.
First man in space : russians.
First object on the moon : russians.
First durable space station : russians.
First man on the moon : americans. Ok you got this one.
When the NASA first though about the ISS, engineers at NASA told the press that they need russians engineer because Mir was 20 years ahead everything that they had ever think about in term of space stations.
And oh, I think that russians were ready to send a man to the moon. I think they tried and I think something happened and that they kept the secret.
Actually that would be pretty good for power failures...
No more work lost under Office when my roommate switch her hair dryer on...
The first submarine was the 'Turtle' :D rG eorgePCPage9Turtle.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4870/
I've heard that Jules Verne imagined the computer, can someone confirm ?
If you do that, how would our anti-virus software (like norton) make the difference between a good and a bad virus ?
Well it seems that IBM really Loves Linux. We all now that IBM is more than a company, it's THE company. This is a first step for IBM, let's hope it won't be the last...
Yes that's right, but I think It's better like that. When you don't Beta-test program enough you get Window$-like bugs everywhere ;) I hate bugs.
Well OpenGL is a really great rendering library but I think linux need a DX-like (but better of course) program. Does anyone ever heard about such a project ?