It's not a CPU constraint, but rather a memory one. It's 10 trillion synapses, and you have to store any relative data for both sides of the connection. You're left with just a handful of bytes for each. That 147k processors is just the minimum required to house the necessary amount of memory at 1GB per processor.
So how about making human liver from living donors a viable food source? I figure as long as we don't those who eat donated liver also donate their livers to eat, it's all good.
Did you just suggest a perpetual motion machine using horribly nonsensical English?
HDMI is basically a single link DVI signal along with a digital audio stream. Both the audio and video gets their own pins and wires. But display port is a packet based system so audo, video and other signals can be multiplexed across the same set of wires.
DVI, HDMI, and DP are all packet based systems. DVI and HDMI have three lanes (DVI-DL has six) and DP has four lanes. All of them send all data over all lanes. There is no specialization of the data channels.
If I'm not mistaken, the Gentoo defaults were those recommended by the mysql project. Essentially, Gentoo just passed on the mysql defaults without fiddling with them.
I was not intending to blame one party or another, just indicate that the above fix was only for a specific subset of users.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The OP claimed MythTV crashed on too many TV recordings, so they just switched to XBMC. Since XBMC does not have any recording capacity, the OP was either waiting for it to come out on DVD, or was simply getting the TV content from the internet. For nearly all TV content, the only avenues to do so are using a flash player in a browser, or illegally pirating the shows.
If you're upgrading a database that has been used with a previous version (which required the database to use the latin1 character set), you need to fix your database.
Not exactly. The various MythTV binaries are supposed to cleanly update any 0.21 database to 0.22. The character set conversion issue described on that page is due to the default MySQL settings as shipped with Gentoo.
Brandon likely is legally blind and not actually Helen Keller style blind. I have several friends who are legally blind without glasses or contacts, so the threshold is quite a bit higher than you might be thinking.
Obviously you didn't even read your own article. 'Legally blind' means that with the best possible correction, you are still below 20/200 vision. You will never be able to read the big 'E' on the eye chart regardless of what glasses or contacts you put on.
What makes you think they will 'track' any distro? If they're OSing the GUI, the only thing left in the blob is some networking and crypto code. That can easily be statically linked, and then you just let the distros handle the UI dependencies on their own.
With no atmosphere, you're going to get a bit of momentum from the actual bomb mass, but the rest of the energy is going to be lost as light. Considering the sun produces about 4.6 N/m^2, thats about 3.37Ns/GJ (double for a mirror). Now the average bomb yield of 0.15kt will be roughly 627GJ. Considering at least half the blast will be lost to space, and another good portion will be in a tangential direction cancelled out, the craft will be able to use something like 30%-35% of the energy, yielding some 2.1kNs.
Now the bomb mass itself will be ejected at several 10s of km/s, with the same usable percentage, resulting in a few hundred kNs, but with a craft mass on the order of Ggs, you're still talking about well under one m/s per bomb. Compare this to the 30+m/s estimates given for a similar sized bomb when used in the atmosphere. Sure, the craft is dirt cheap to design and produce, but you will more than make up for it in fuel costs.
The problem is that it doesn't really work in space. Nearly all of the explosive power of a nuke is in the fact that it superheats everything around it. The blast of a nuclear weapon is nothing more than hot air. The only way you would get any significant amount of thrust out of such a engine in the (near) vacuum of space is by having an ablative pusher plate, or wrapping the bomb in some inert reaction mass. You'll get much better thrust and efficiency out of a nuclear rocket.
Also, did you know, that with the latest developmens in 3D television (the ones that do NOT require shutter glasses) you need quad full HD panels? yes, thats quad 1920x1200 in quad.
Why? How does stereoscopy have anything to do with resolution? We have a 1024x384x2 monitor at work that shows 3D just fine without any form of glasses.
You don't even have to put new lines in, you just hook up a meter, a similar ultra-capacitor bank, and tap into whatever you have locally available. Residential areas will be relatively low traffic, so you can manage the one bus every half hour on the low voltage residential lines. Higher traffic commercial and industrial districts will similarly have higher capacity power available to them.
The bigger question is how do you 'fill' the bus? Do you have a zone the bus has to stop within, and robotic arm plugs into the roof? Do you have the bus driver get out and plug in a huge, heavily shielded connector? You would probably have to lock up the fill points. While may be a better place without the people trying to steal the copper cables and/or other electronics, roasted thieves on the side of the road would not be a good thing.
It's more like you bring your Chevy in for an update to continue using OnStar, and it melts your engine. You can continue driving your car just fine without the update and OnStar.
The other issue is that the plaintiff purchased his system in January, and it stopped working after the update in September. That means it is still under the one year warranty, and Sony charges you exactly nothing for repair. Alternatively, that means he bought someone's *used* system in January, the system was likely several years old, and may have been subject to poor care by the previous owner. (see above comment about old, marginal, failing hardware)
So out of 25 million units sold, 'thousands' of units were damaged by the update? If you release a software update that only causes problems with roughly one hundredth of a percent of your user base, using several different hardware revisions, I think your quality testing division did a good job. Who is to say these users weren't already running marginal hardware, and the new firmware just doesn't handle faults as gracefully?
I'm not in defense of Sony, I have no knowledge of this particular issue, but EVERY TIME new firmwares are released for a device, someone's device stops working. This case just seems like this time, they managed to break the device of a rather vocal and litigious user.
Actually, they are custom motherboards. They are a non-standard form factor, using a custom 12V power connector, instead of a normal ATX/EPS plug. When you figure they're buying tens of thousands of these systems, why would you not have an OEM build you custom boards?
The problem is that expensive big name titles are typically the only ones that can afford to push for high end graphics, only now they are limited by what the consoles are capable of, to make them cross platform. As a result, modern high end graphics cards are overkill on everything but the largest 2560x1600 monitors. ATI seems to have anticipated this, which is why they released their new card with support for 6 monitors, and some capacity for spanning with current games. Multi-monitor systems are becoming more common, and multi-monitor gaming may be the only reason (until the next console bump) to need high end graphics on a PC.
Mars has a very thin atmosphere. You wouldn't have any chance of holding a lungful of air, and your now nearly-vacant lungs would strip the remaining oxygen back out of your blood stream. You would pass out in under half a minute, and begin to suffer brain damage not long afterward.
As mentioned before, the bigger issue here is the slant range. At 20kft, it will see a long way over the horizon, meaning you can park this thing 50-100mi out and still get full coverage. AAA has no chance of hitting anything at that range, and neither do any short range missiles. There are only a handful of SAM systems capable of that range, and none of them are cheap. Those would would be taken out by something far less visible than a giant phased antenna in the first round of ordinance exchange anyway.
I've had it described recently that computers are cheap, people are expensive. It's worth shelling out for high end equipment to prevent your employees from wasting their time due to hardware issues. Any given consumer PC is likely to be stable, but when stringing together several hundred for a simulation, you're going to have problems. When you lose a week's worth of work because one of your (165) nodes was causing silent data corruption because of a cheap, onboard gigabit ethernet controller, those expensive server grade NICs and infiniband/myranet cards start looking better and better.
On the other hand, graduate researchers are dirt cheap too, so universities like to go for the cheaper, less robust hardware.
If you want something moderately challenging then leave at home all your electronics and canoe/portage 50 miles into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for an intrepid vacation. Trust me, to see land so pristine was a near religious experience and I definitely went back.
My uncle and a few of my cousins do that once a year. They do rent a satphone to take with them, but it's for them to call out, not for people to call them. At $2/min, they're not doing much calling out either.
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It's not a CPU constraint, but rather a memory one. It's 10 trillion synapses, and you have to store any relative data for both sides of the connection. You're left with just a handful of bytes for each. That 147k processors is just the minimum required to house the necessary amount of memory at 1GB per processor.
Well one way or another, the co-workers wouldn't get much work done.
While there have been no 'tragic' accidents, there certainly have been dozens of satellites knocked offline due to collision with debris.
So how about making human liver from living donors a viable food source? I figure as long as we don't those who eat donated liver also donate their livers to eat, it's all good.
Did you just suggest a perpetual motion machine using horribly nonsensical English?
HDMI is basically a single link DVI signal along with a digital audio stream. Both the audio and video gets their own pins and wires. But display port is a packet based system so audo, video and other signals can be multiplexed across the same set of wires.
DVI, HDMI, and DP are all packet based systems. DVI and HDMI have three lanes (DVI-DL has six) and DP has four lanes. All of them send all data over all lanes. There is no specialization of the data channels.
If I'm not mistaken, the Gentoo defaults were those recommended by the mysql project. Essentially, Gentoo just passed on the mysql defaults without fiddling with them.
I was not intending to blame one party or another, just indicate that the above fix was only for a specific subset of users.
steal
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The OP claimed MythTV crashed on too many TV recordings, so they just switched to XBMC. Since XBMC does not have any recording capacity, the OP was either waiting for it to come out on DVD, or was simply getting the TV content from the internet. For nearly all TV content, the only avenues to do so are using a flash player in a browser, or illegally pirating the shows.
Sony v. Betamax
Wait, Sony sued itself to get its own product banned?
Get back to me when MythTV allows support for CableCard tuners.
MythTV has supported DVB-C CA modules for some time. Get back to me when someone releases CableCard drivers for Linux.
If you're upgrading a database that has been used with a previous version (which required the database to use the latin1 character set), you need to fix your database.
Not exactly. The various MythTV binaries are supposed to cleanly update any 0.21 database to 0.22. The character set conversion issue described on that page is due to the default MySQL settings as shipped with Gentoo.
Brandon likely is legally blind and not actually Helen Keller style blind. I have several friends who are legally blind without glasses or contacts, so the threshold is quite a bit higher than you might be thinking.
Obviously you didn't even read your own article. 'Legally blind' means that with the best possible correction, you are still below 20/200 vision. You will never be able to read the big 'E' on the eye chart regardless of what glasses or contacts you put on.
What distros will the blob track?
What makes you think they will 'track' any distro? If they're OSing the GUI, the only thing left in the blob is some networking and crypto code. That can easily be statically linked, and then you just let the distros handle the UI dependencies on their own.
With no atmosphere, you're going to get a bit of momentum from the actual bomb mass, but the rest of the energy is going to be lost as light. Considering the sun produces about 4.6 N/m^2, thats about 3.37Ns/GJ (double for a mirror). Now the average bomb yield of 0.15kt will be roughly 627GJ. Considering at least half the blast will be lost to space, and another good portion will be in a tangential direction cancelled out, the craft will be able to use something like 30%-35% of the energy, yielding some 2.1kNs.
Now the bomb mass itself will be ejected at several 10s of km/s, with the same usable percentage, resulting in a few hundred kNs, but with a craft mass on the order of Ggs, you're still talking about well under one m/s per bomb. Compare this to the 30+m/s estimates given for a similar sized bomb when used in the atmosphere. Sure, the craft is dirt cheap to design and produce, but you will more than make up for it in fuel costs.
The problem is that it doesn't really work in space. Nearly all of the explosive power of a nuke is in the fact that it superheats everything around it. The blast of a nuclear weapon is nothing more than hot air. The only way you would get any significant amount of thrust out of such a engine in the (near) vacuum of space is by having an ablative pusher plate, or wrapping the bomb in some inert reaction mass. You'll get much better thrust and efficiency out of a nuclear rocket.
Also, did you know, that with the latest developmens in 3D television (the ones that do NOT require shutter glasses) you need quad full HD panels? yes, thats quad 1920x1200 in quad.
Why? How does stereoscopy have anything to do with resolution? We have a 1024x384x2 monitor at work that shows 3D just fine without any form of glasses.
You don't even have to put new lines in, you just hook up a meter, a similar ultra-capacitor bank, and tap into whatever you have locally available. Residential areas will be relatively low traffic, so you can manage the one bus every half hour on the low voltage residential lines. Higher traffic commercial and industrial districts will similarly have higher capacity power available to them.
The bigger question is how do you 'fill' the bus? Do you have a zone the bus has to stop within, and robotic arm plugs into the roof? Do you have the bus driver get out and plug in a huge, heavily shielded connector? You would probably have to lock up the fill points. While may be a better place without the people trying to steal the copper cables and/or other electronics, roasted thieves on the side of the road would not be a good thing.
It's more like you bring your Chevy in for an update to continue using OnStar, and it melts your engine. You can continue driving your car just fine without the update and OnStar.
The other issue is that the plaintiff purchased his system in January, and it stopped working after the update in September. That means it is still under the one year warranty, and Sony charges you exactly nothing for repair. Alternatively, that means he bought someone's *used* system in January, the system was likely several years old, and may have been subject to poor care by the previous owner. (see above comment about old, marginal, failing hardware)
So out of 25 million units sold, 'thousands' of units were damaged by the update? If you release a software update that only causes problems with roughly one hundredth of a percent of your user base, using several different hardware revisions, I think your quality testing division did a good job. Who is to say these users weren't already running marginal hardware, and the new firmware just doesn't handle faults as gracefully?
I'm not in defense of Sony, I have no knowledge of this particular issue, but EVERY TIME new firmwares are released for a device, someone's device stops working. This case just seems like this time, they managed to break the device of a rather vocal and litigious user.
Actually, they are custom motherboards. They are a non-standard form factor, using a custom 12V power connector, instead of a normal ATX/EPS plug. When you figure they're buying tens of thousands of these systems, why would you not have an OEM build you custom boards?
The problem is that expensive big name titles are typically the only ones that can afford to push for high end graphics, only now they are limited by what the consoles are capable of, to make them cross platform. As a result, modern high end graphics cards are overkill on everything but the largest 2560x1600 monitors. ATI seems to have anticipated this, which is why they released their new card with support for 6 monitors, and some capacity for spanning with current games. Multi-monitor systems are becoming more common, and multi-monitor gaming may be the only reason (until the next console bump) to need high end graphics on a PC.
Mars has a very thin atmosphere. You wouldn't have any chance of holding a lungful of air, and your now nearly-vacant lungs would strip the remaining oxygen back out of your blood stream. You would pass out in under half a minute, and begin to suffer brain damage not long afterward.
As mentioned before, the bigger issue here is the slant range. At 20kft, it will see a long way over the horizon, meaning you can park this thing 50-100mi out and still get full coverage. AAA has no chance of hitting anything at that range, and neither do any short range missiles. There are only a handful of SAM systems capable of that range, and none of them are cheap. Those would would be taken out by something far less visible than a giant phased antenna in the first round of ordinance exchange anyway.
When you figure the side of this thing is going to be a giant phased array antenna, being able to spot this will not be difficult.
I've had it described recently that computers are cheap, people are expensive. It's worth shelling out for high end equipment to prevent your employees from wasting their time due to hardware issues. Any given consumer PC is likely to be stable, but when stringing together several hundred for a simulation, you're going to have problems. When you lose a week's worth of work because one of your (165) nodes was causing silent data corruption because of a cheap, onboard gigabit ethernet controller, those expensive server grade NICs and infiniband/myranet cards start looking better and better.
On the other hand, graduate researchers are dirt cheap too, so universities like to go for the cheaper, less robust hardware.
If you want something moderately challenging then leave at home all your electronics and canoe/portage 50 miles into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for an intrepid vacation. Trust me, to see land so pristine was a near religious experience and I definitely went back.
My uncle and a few of my cousins do that once a year. They do rent a satphone to take with them, but it's for them to call out, not for people to call them. At $2/min, they're not doing much calling out either.