yes, it is unfortunate that some companies have large market shares in the telecommunications business, but it's silly to force them to bend over backwards for their competitors.
I find this especially irksome because I've been in the similar situation all my life: "no, charles, we will move slowly on this math because everybody else needs more help. I know you could move faster, but you could just help everybody else along"
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sadly, this produces a delay at startup time... It may have something to do with the fact that I use a P4, but I prefer not to use quicklaunch... (plus I get a happy splash screen.
why not just have remote virtual PCs? Get a massive supercomputer and a bunch of remotely located dumb terminals. Stream the video and transmit the keystrokes. We NEED to use the extra bandwidth and porn just can't fill the void.
sorry, I believe I misspoke... What I meant to say regarding the memory footprint is that it takes more memory than running the components with mozilla, not that it takes more space in ram than on a hard drive.
I think it's less likely that people will run around campus with these things on and more likely that laser tag arenas will adopt this (since the gear looks roughly similar and will add a new dimension to gameplay.
Wow, I almost got arrested for playing real (not augmented reality, without guns of any type) capture the flag the other night. This just multiplies the fun.
Well everyone here seems to like talking about the limitations set by the FM band. It seems the measures suggested in the article would indeed eliminate the "anonymous listener" which is, indeed, important for the free dissemination of information, specifically to prevent fear of being tracked in listening to "subversive" speech. Bandwidth could easily be used more efficiently without eliminating that. Just go to a digital system, so stations could easily be placed much closer together. CDs give (for all practical intents and purposes) better quality than tapes. Just set up bits transmitting every 44kHz or however fast CDs sample.
I doubt there would be much trouble setting up such a system, with the only limitations being the willingness of consumers to buy the new technology. This could be easily remedied by giving a licence to every station that already exists in the old band a station in the new. Then say the old band will go away in X years. people will buy new cars with hybrid receivers until everything is transmitted on the new band. There goes all that bandwidth wasted by FM... and AM... and TV, etc.
... oh yeah, and you can polarize the signals, too... that gives you at least double (maybe triple if they get longitudinal polarizaiton to work) the bandwidth.
I find it quite impressive how they can take several components (Mozilla, 10.3 MB; AIM, 2.56 MB, shockwave, ~1MB; JRE, 1.5 MB) and make them worth more than the sum of their whole (30 MB vs. 16 MB of components). It's quite impressive that they can double the size of the package and increase the memory footprint all at the same time. It's plain to see why AOL does so well.
Actually 5.0 would be more appropriate, but hey, who's counting? it's the same as netscape 6 and mozilla 5, so I think mozilla 1.0 should be called mozilla 7.0 so websites are aware that my browser supports everything they have.
Well I'll have to argue with you about the speed of typing... I'm not sure how fast you think, but it seems to me that it would be impossible to type (or write or speak for that matter) as fast as I think. (I'm working on getting used to the dvorak keyboard for that)
I do not disagree with you, especially about the must change comments part.
Comments, however, should be succinct and not take very much space (unlike this comment). They should take significantly less time than the actual code and also much less time than thinking about your design. If you really are so lazy as not to change the comment, at least delete it if it is no longer correct...
an entertaining idea, even if it simply reduces power output... I can't get the whole text, but it seems like 1 V transistors should allow faster clock speeds (especially since processor speed isn't really much related to transistor speed but rather to cooling speed)
I want riches... why don't we threaten to build a moon base too... it happened in the 60s and look what we have now -- tang and velcro and all kinds of cool stuff. We really ought to challenge the Chinese to a space race. That'd be really cool.
I think you're missing the point. There won't be any heat sinks with these things attached any time soon, but the fact is that if this technology can be built to last long enough, power companies running 80% carnot-efficient solar panels would put every coal miner out of business and cars running on 80% carnot efficient electrical motors would make fossil fuels all but useless. This invention could totally change the way we live.
You fail to see the real effects by simply assuming that this is a consumer product, which it clearly is not. Your refridgerator would not benefit much from this. A 60% increase in fridge efficiency is trivial. Think of this invention more like quantum computing and less like an uber-fridge
If they can get this to work on a large scale, they may have found the first step towards Utopia. Unfortunately, you'll probably just get a segment of geeks working on this stuff.
Now if they just make the next project "novel ways to remove people who don't help us from the gene pool"
Well I think you're looking at a really specific and frankly trivial application of a monstrous invention. The mindblowing part is not the application to computers, but rather the fact that it's a thermoelectric heat engine that runs at 80% of theoretical efficiency. nothing runs that efficiently. well, except for transformers. but an 80% efficient heat engine is more like a flux capacitor than an uber-cool CPU fan.
This is impossible.... First post?! no, not likely... In any event, this seems interesting, though not particularly productive. Maybe it could be used for quick searching, because the human mind can recognize patterns faster than any computer...
Essentially, the carnot cycle defines work in terms of entropy. If you have a hot region and a cold region separated by a barrier, you have little entropy. if you allow the regions to approach the same temperature, you have increased the entropy. As it turns out, you can exploit this differential to produce more "useful" forms of stored energy. The temperature differential stores energy, and a Carnot engine (which cannot exist) would convert all of that energy into some other kind of energy (mechanical potential, electrical potential, whatever). The laws of thermodynamics require that entropy not decrease in a closed system, so the efficiency of heat engines is measured in terms of the carnot efficiency, which is, by the way, ( (temperature of the hot side) - (temperature of the cold side) ) / (temperature of the hot side) the temperatures must be measured in an absolute scale (e.g., Kelvins).
No, they say it's 80% of the *Carnot efficiency*. The Carnot efficiency is that physical limit to which you refer, and efficiency in heat engines is generally reported as a percentage of the Carnot efficiency. 80% is still huge though.
If the efficiency on these things is at all realistic --80% of Carnot efficiency!!!-- the implications would be staggering. For comparison purposes, the most efficient gasoline engine is currently about 50%, and that is only true for diesel engines on the order of 100,000 horsepower. all I have to say is Wow. Think: efficient solar power, electric cars, air conditioning, superconductivity, asynchronous computers, overclocking Athlons. If there were ever anything to top cold fusion, it would be an 80% efficient Carnot engine.
*sigh* It must be difficult not understanding what you are reading. It must be more difficult being modded up for it. Any good propagandist knows not to use 'clearly,' much as any good satirist knows to use it profusely.
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That's so weird!
yes, it is unfortunate that some companies have large market shares in the telecommunications business, but it's silly to force them to bend over backwards for their competitors.
I find this especially irksome because I've been in the similar situation all my life: "no, charles, we will move slowly on this math because everybody else needs more help. I know you could move faster, but you could just help everybody else along"
sadly, this produces a delay at startup time... It may have something to do with the fact that I use a P4, but I prefer not to use quicklaunch... (plus I get a happy splash screen.
does it support neural uplinks?
why not just have remote virtual PCs? Get a massive supercomputer and a bunch of remotely located dumb terminals. Stream the video and transmit the keystrokes. We NEED to use the extra bandwidth and porn just can't fill the void.
Time for augmented reality doom 3?
You think the game looks good now... let them build rooms like in the game in an empty warehouse and put some of that augmented reality...
mmmmmmmmmmm...
sorry, I believe I misspoke... What I meant to say regarding the memory footprint is that it takes more memory than running the components with mozilla, not that it takes more space in ram than on a hard drive.
I think it's less likely that people will run around campus with these things on and more likely that laser tag arenas will adopt this (since the gear looks roughly similar and will add a new dimension to gameplay.
::drool::
Wow, I almost got arrested for playing real (not augmented reality, without guns of any type) capture the flag the other night. This just multiplies the fun.
Well everyone here seems to like talking about the limitations set by the FM band. It seems the measures suggested in the article would indeed eliminate the "anonymous listener" which is, indeed, important for the free dissemination of information, specifically to prevent fear of being tracked in listening to "subversive" speech. Bandwidth could easily be used more efficiently without eliminating that. Just go to a digital system, so stations could easily be placed much closer together. CDs give (for all practical intents and purposes) better quality than tapes. Just set up bits transmitting every 44kHz or however fast CDs sample. ... and TV, etc.
I doubt there would be much trouble setting up such a system, with the only limitations being the willingness of consumers to buy the new technology. This could be easily remedied by giving a licence to every station that already exists in the old band a station in the new. Then say the old band will go away in X years. people will buy new cars with hybrid receivers until everything is transmitted on the new band. There goes all that bandwidth wasted by FM... and AM
... oh yeah, and you can polarize the signals, too... that gives you at least double (maybe triple if they get longitudinal polarizaiton to work) the bandwidth.
Baby steps...
I find it quite impressive how they can take several components (Mozilla, 10.3 MB; AIM, 2.56 MB, shockwave, ~1MB; JRE, 1.5 MB) and make them worth more than the sum of their whole (30 MB vs. 16 MB of components). It's quite impressive that they can double the size of the package and increase the memory footprint all at the same time. It's plain to see why AOL does so well.
Actually 5.0 would be more appropriate, but hey, who's counting? it's the same as netscape 6 and mozilla 5, so I think mozilla 1.0 should be called mozilla 7.0 so websites are aware that my browser supports everything they have.
Well I do think he has some point, nonetheless. Granted he's foolish to discount inline comments outright, but it can be overdone...
//increments loop variable
is probably overkill, but if it were something more like
//finished with this cell, move on
might be an appropriate use for counter++
Well I'll have to argue with you about the speed of typing... I'm not sure how fast you think, but it seems to me that it would be impossible to type (or write or speak for that matter) as fast as I think. (I'm working on getting used to the dvorak keyboard for that)
I do not disagree with you, especially about the must change comments part.
Comments, however, should be succinct and not take very much space (unlike this comment). They should take significantly less time than the actual code and also much less time than thinking about your design. If you really are so lazy as not to change the comment, at least delete it if it is no longer correct...
an entertaining idea, even if it simply reduces power output... I can't get the whole text, but it seems like 1 V transistors should allow faster clock speeds (especially since processor speed isn't really much related to transistor speed but rather to cooling speed)
I want riches... why don't we threaten to build a moon base too... it happened in the 60s and look what we have now -- tang and velcro and all kinds of cool stuff. We really ought to challenge the Chinese to a space race. That'd be really cool.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
I think you're missing the point. There won't be any heat sinks with these things attached any time soon, but the fact is that if this technology can be built to last long enough, power companies running 80% carnot-efficient solar panels would put every coal miner out of business and cars running on 80% carnot efficient electrical motors would make fossil fuels all but useless. This invention could totally change the way we live.
You fail to see the real effects by simply assuming that this is a consumer product, which it clearly is not. Your refridgerator would not benefit much from this. A 60% increase in fridge efficiency is trivial. Think of this invention more like quantum computing and less like an uber-fridge
If they can get this to work on a large scale, they may have found the first step towards Utopia. Unfortunately, you'll probably just get a segment of geeks working on this stuff.
Now if they just make the next project "novel ways to remove people who don't help us from the gene pool"
Well I think you're looking at a really specific and frankly trivial application of a monstrous invention. The mindblowing part is not the application to computers, but rather the fact that it's a thermoelectric heat engine that runs at 80% of theoretical efficiency. nothing runs that efficiently. well, except for transformers. but an 80% efficient heat engine is more like a flux capacitor than an uber-cool CPU fan.
This is impossible.... First post?! no, not likely... In any event, this seems interesting, though not particularly productive. Maybe it could be used for quick searching, because the human mind can recognize patterns faster than any computer...
Essentially, the carnot cycle defines work in terms of entropy. If you have a hot region and a cold region separated by a barrier, you have little entropy. if you allow the regions to approach the same temperature, you have increased the entropy. As it turns out, you can exploit this differential to produce more "useful" forms of stored energy. The temperature differential stores energy, and a Carnot engine (which cannot exist) would convert all of that energy into some other kind of energy (mechanical potential, electrical potential, whatever). The laws of thermodynamics require that entropy not decrease in a closed system, so the efficiency of heat engines is measured in terms of the carnot efficiency, which is, by the way, ( (temperature of the hot side) - (temperature of the cold side) ) / (temperature of the hot side) the temperatures must be measured in an absolute scale (e.g., Kelvins).
No, they say it's 80% of the *Carnot efficiency*. The Carnot efficiency is that physical limit to which you refer, and efficiency in heat engines is generally reported as a percentage of the Carnot efficiency. 80% is still huge though.
If the efficiency on these things is at all realistic --80% of Carnot efficiency!!!-- the implications would be staggering. For comparison purposes, the most efficient gasoline engine is currently about 50%, and that is only true for diesel engines on the order of 100,000 horsepower. all I have to say is Wow. Think: efficient solar power, electric cars, air conditioning, superconductivity, asynchronous computers, overclocking Athlons. If there were ever anything to top cold fusion, it would be an 80% efficient Carnot engine.
*sigh*
It must be difficult not understanding what you are reading. It must be more difficult being modded up for it. Any good propagandist knows not to use 'clearly,' much as any good satirist knows to use it profusely.