Recording studios, hmmm, I guess that would be a good place to get 96khz audio. Yeah, mixing audio streams would cause big differences in the audible range from inaudible interference reactions. I agree totally with that. My main reason for butting in on this conversation was to defend the LPF's and the 44k final stream. They are making them out of MEMS now, and getting improvements of 10x in the dropoff! Its a big thing in the RF industry, but I doubt that it will make a difference in the audio indie.
My biggest complaint about CD's is the 16 bit part. Irregardless of the encoding scheme, soft sounds take a beating. Perhaps when they create/implement an audio DVD standard we can all be happy.
Sorry there bad-badtz-maru, but you are crackheaded. The low-pass filtration is pretty danm good nowadays. There is hardly any distortion. Anyway, most people cannot even hear much past 17khz, much less a slight attenuation at 20khz.
Anyway, if there was any data left, it would be reflected onto the high end frequencies, not the low as you mentioned. Nobody would be able to hear the distortion anyway. The true use of having such a high rate on a sound card is for the uninformed consumer looking for big numbers. Where would you get music encoded at 96k anyway???
Oh great! Oog the caveman runs around killing and eating anything that he can get his hands on, and thinks no one will notice! Well, now we have definitive proof that he is truly the first compu-geek. Sitting at his TRS-1 and munching on a big bowl of giant armandillo shells. Well OOG, they aren't doritos, if you crunch all you want, they won't make any more! Next time you raid the fridge (or North America for that matter), leave some for the rest of us!
If you want to power all of this stuff, why are you using a UPS system anyway? I am using a APC 700 on just a computer and flat panel monitor, and it barely holds it for more than 10 mins. If you had a TV, computer, radio, etc. you won't get anything done before the batteries die. If you want high performance, you are better off buying all the parts separately. Get some deep cycle RV batteries (they are better than car batteries for this application), a battery tender, and a power inverter with the best effiency you can afford. Each lead acid RV battery will only set you back about 50 bucks, and give you tons of power. I know a lot of people who use this type of setup for their HAM radio shacks for use during emergency service assistance. One setup had a relay wired in so he didn't have to flip switches when the power went off. Be sure to use acid proof battery boxes and proper ventilation! Charging batteries can produce hydrogen gas! Check out some HAM and ARRL web pages for more info on sucessful setups.
I remember back in '86, a manufacturer had an 8 meg RAM drive with a big gel cell backup battery. Essentially, a DRAM hard drive like you are describing for a cache. It worked on apple IIgs series computers, which usually had less than a meg of main memory, but could be expanded to 4mB. I am sure a RAM drive could be built today. I am not talking about the solid state hard drives some posters have commented on. They are using static RAM and communicating through a PCMCIA port. They have maximum throughputs of about 1MB/s sustained, which is not very useful if you are working with databases. If anything, having your OS on one of these would give amazing startup times. The apple IIgs usually booted from an 800kb floppy, and took a few minutes. Ads for the RAM drive said seconds! With a 1.2MHZ processor! Ahhh. the good ol days.
But seriously, why the hell would you use this for a cache instead of the main drive? Why go from battery RAM -> Hard Drive -> Tape and not just batt. RAM -> tape? Espically if it is battery backed?
It's amazing, fewer Russians have died in space than US astronauts, and the Russians/Soviets have spent YEARS more in space then we have.
Yes, they have spent more time in space than we have. One man was up there for over a year. This is not by choice, but because they couldn't afford to get him down!
I must agree. Ever since they made murder illegal, it has virtually stopped. I routinely walk around harlem at 3am just to watch the would be theives. Theif: "Danm! Shooting him and stealing his wallet is ILLEGAL. Remember when joe got arrested 3 years ago? Don't wanna end up like that!"
Yup. What this country (any country) needs is more legislation. God only knows how many times I think about speeding, only to remeber my friend who got a ticket. Poor bastard had to pay fifty bucks. Brings tears to my eyes.
A lot of hackers (bad intentioned, of course) have been hauled off. That is what supports the image. Your typical port scanning script running 3733T h@x0r is a 13 year old 50 lb. geek getting his/her jollies off by doing something illegal, and getting away with it. He/she would probably be smoking a doobie and underage drinking instead, but doesn't get invited to those types of parties.
You also have pros out there who are blackmailing/embezzeling funds. What they are doing is already illegal. Making it more illegal does nothing. Extra charges in court cases are used as bargainig chips toward the big charge anyway.
A stupid law will do nothing. It will encourage punk kids, and be a joke to the professional theif.
Excuse me while my renegade team of bikers cuts the tags off of mattresses.
Aw, 'comon. You don't expect people to ACTUALLY visit the site before commenting on it. I prefer to give my professional opinion based solely on the summary.
I think its kinda funny, actually. It shows you which posters have a clue and which ones are just trying to sound informed.
Well, I took this as meaning Sony will be giving away free PC's with firewalls installed. Maby we should support his efforts by buying some PC's and setting them up as firewalls an send him the bill. 3 grand ought to cover it.:)
I personally see the PR reps doing damage control real soon.
2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 possibilities. Assuming a 600MHZ computer, with 1 clock per cycle, 1 clock per check (impossible) it would take 1832 seconds, or 30 minutes to check every key. Lets say you find the answer after 80% of the keyspace is checked, that will give you and absolute minimal time of 24 minutes.
More realistically lets say it takes 200 clocks to get the answer. Checking 80% of the keyspace would take 101 hours, or about 4.25 days. Definitely not 18 seconds, even if you get lucky and hit the key early in the whole scheme of things.
I must agree. Even a small hole can cause a problem. I would reccomend surrounding the case with a one inch layer of lead. Since you are considering asthetics, gold is also quite dense and conducts well. It can also be polished to a shine, and is easy to purchase. Canadian maple leaf coins melt easily into a mold with a simple propane torch. Your I/O cabling can easily be sent through optoisolators to the outside of the case (through leaded glass windows, of course). You may want to consider moving to fiber optics to reduce interference with the cheap AM radio you have on top of your computer case. Monitors are the source of a great ammount of RF interference, and the largest target of the TEMPEST receiver. To protect yourself and your family, place your monitor into an elegant leaded crystal monitor box. Waterford crystal would be happy to manufacture one for you. We all must be careful, or the feds will use a 100 million dollar surveilance van parked across the street to look at our e-mail to aunt sue. They will have to pry my chocolate chip cookie recipe from my cold dead hand, because I use PGP, SSL! My whole computer room is a sealed lead lined chamber with internal batteries for power. This way the reception on my 1972 sharp b&w TV stays clear, computer or not!
Sorry. I am tired of all of this RFI interference BS. If your TV is messed up 'cause your 'puter has the cover of the case off, then buy it a new coat hanger. Or try using proper cabling and a decent antennae. Most HF signals on a mobo are sandwitched between groundplanes and don't radiate too much. Think of it this way, the inside of a computer case is a rats nest of little antennaes. If anything was radiating at high power, your computer wouldn't work properly. Your worries should be centered around the heat melting the plexi rather than RF. I would power down before a vacation in case something blows and causes a fire. Plexi lights up quickly, and makes a lot of noxious fumes. I had a friend set fire to a plexi window from having a candle too close. If that cheap power supply lets go, you will be in trouble! Maby metal isn't soo bad after all.
I was suggesting the VT100 terminal was on another system, hence the need for telnet and the network. As far as the RS-232 bob, keyboard logger, spy satelite, mind control beams, and hacker demonic possesions, ummmmm yeah, right.
>An unskilled administrator is a risk. (They're also called 'students', but who's counting?)
Do you traditionally give students administrator privs? Do you always log in as admin? If you do, you have other security problems that removing telnet and FTP cannot solve.
>People actually shouldn't be telnetting in from the outside world
No, they should telnet from a server right back to its own server. Of course they should be telnetting from across the globe. Thats why we have the danm net in the first place. SSH is nice, but its not avaliable everywhere. Lets say all you havee is a VT100 terminal with network access. Without plaintext telnet, you are screwed. Yeah, it is insecure when you log in, but it is also the single most useful and unreplacable tool. You can use it from anywhere with anything. From my TI/99/4A to my Apple IIe I know I can get telnet to work. Can't say that about SSH.
Banning it is stupid. Reducing dependence and usage of it is a better way of thinking. I like knowing if I have to travel to east bumble*uck with an old computer and a 1200 baud modem I can still function regardless of how slow/old/outdated/poorly configured/bare bones software the system is. That is the purpose of the net.
If you go along this guy's method of thinking, we might as well turn off all of the ports, unplug the keyboard and monitor and turn off the power. Then we will be nice and secure. How the hell does this guy expect a computer to be of any use if you cannot login? This proposal defeats the purpose of having a computer in the first place.
Its about time these self proclaimed privacy/security experts crawl out from under their rock and learn that there is more to computers than the world wide web. People ACTUALLY get work done on the text interface part of the server! My recommendation to this guy is to put down his copy of Window$ 9X and pickup a book on unix. Maby he can just look over the shoulder of a CS student in any college or uni. New Headline: Mr. Garfunkel officially certified idiot.
System security and system usability go hand in hand. One must sacrifice a little security to make the system usable. CGI scripts make a page dynamic and easy to use (usually) but they are a big security risk. Telnet is a security risk, but a system is useless without it. Hell, any login script is a security hole, but what are you gonna do, not let ANYONE in?
You can have a transparency value for any of the color channels, or layers that are present in an image format. By calling it alpha transparency, you know it is an overall image transparency.
Yes, a variable can represent anything, but we scientists/engineers use conventions to not get confused. Theta is an angle. Delta is a change. In images, gamma is a saturation and the alpha channel is a global effect on an image format. Yes it can be called something else, or refer to something else, but isn't it nice when people know what the hell you are reffering to? In my own words, fwip klupe neeet bwlithe nyak. No idea what I said, eh? Aren't conventions nice? To be "really precise" call it alpha transparency. That way people not living in your personal world know what the hell you are talking about. Transparent filtering is a verb and not a noun anyway. They aren't interchangeable.
The different geometry may be referring to the shape of the intake valves, or cylinder walls. They are also talking about diesels, which usually are flat to achieve higher compression. The addition of precombustion chambers was the only large step DI (diesel ignition) engines have seen in many years.
Yup, they are called water injection engines. There was a famous airplane that used them in WWII. When it needed extra power, it would start injecting water until the engine cooled down too much. It gave it something like 50% more HP for short bursts. There are problems associated with doing this to a normal engine, such as cracking (on cylinder walls, valves from heat cycling) and rust.
On a side note, you get worse gas milage when its foggy because fog usually forms when the air pressure is low. This takes away from performace more than a little moisture will help.
A gibson is like a martini, but with an onion instead of an olive. The gibson dream occured in the late 50's at about for o'clock. Buisnessmen would dream of leaving work and coming home to their wife, who would have a nice drink waiting for them as they walked through the door.
How this applies, I have no idea. But a nice thought, eh?
I must agree. I didn't have a TV for my five year stint in college, and I had to rely on the radio for news and entertainment. NPR kept me better informed about world news and events than people watching the standard 5/6/7 o'clock news shows. It has less bias and almost no corporate censorship of news events that the other news channels carry. The commentaries, stories, and shows are also amazingly entertaining. It is just a shame more people are not listening or know about it.
Ummmm It does propogate as light. The only way to get past a tree, building, or horizon is to bounce the RF off of other trees, buildings, or ionosphere. It is like trying to communicate with someone around a corner with a flashlight. You cannot flash them a signal directly, but if you shine your flashlight on the corner, the light will bounce off and be seen by the other person. Bad example, but it fits. It is only when you get to really high frequencies that you go through instead of around. That is why these 900Mhz portable phones are soo much better than those they had out a few years ago.
Actually, Emmett is like santa claus. He sees you when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, and he knows if you have been qsorting or compiling Fortran on an outdated compiler. HE SEES ALL. Stop trying to weasel out and say you were not doing at least one thing on that list. YOU KNOW YOU WERE! Ve haf vays of making your processor TALK!
And if you weren't, join a distributed project already! You may not be working with a top-10 algorithm, but you will be doing SOMETHING useful with your number cruncher.
I hate to mention this, but the article does not say, or even imply, that it will be used for IP transmission. It merely said telecommunications. I believe this system will be working on telephone routing, not internet traffic. Big difference. Different protocols, different routing paterns, and more consistent traffic. My understanding is that it is using lazers to optically calculate which trunks are to have how much throughput to which other trunks. Basically a hardware implementation of a software algorithm.
YES! You can overclock the TI-85 by replacing one of the capacitors. It is a small surface mount kind that can be replaced by a ceramic disk type, picofarad level cap. I got mine going about 2 or 2.5 times faster than stock. It does eat the batteries, but games^H^H^H^H^H graphing is SOOO much quicker. It shouldn't cost more than a dollar to do, and about 5 mins of soldering time.
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Funny how this article comes up with a wonderfully informative popup for an X10 camera. I vote death to popup hosters!
Recording studios, hmmm, I guess that would be a good place to get 96khz audio. Yeah, mixing audio streams would cause big differences in the audible range from inaudible interference reactions. I agree totally with that. My main reason for butting in on this conversation was to defend the LPF's and the 44k final stream. They are making them out of MEMS now, and getting improvements of 10x in the dropoff! Its a big thing in the RF industry, but I doubt that it will make a difference in the audio indie.
My biggest complaint about CD's is the 16 bit part. Irregardless of the encoding scheme, soft sounds take a beating. Perhaps when they create/implement an audio DVD standard we can all be happy.
Sorry there bad-badtz-maru, but you are crackheaded. The low-pass filtration is pretty danm good nowadays. There is hardly any distortion. Anyway, most people cannot even hear much past 17khz, much less a slight attenuation at 20khz.
Anyway, if there was any data left, it would be reflected onto the high end frequencies, not the low as you mentioned. Nobody would be able to hear the distortion anyway. The true use of having such a high rate on a sound card is for the uninformed consumer looking for big numbers. Where would you get music encoded at 96k anyway???
-Jones
Oh great! Oog the caveman runs around killing and eating anything that he can get his hands on, and thinks no one will notice! Well, now we have definitive proof that he is truly the first compu-geek. Sitting at his TRS-1 and munching on a big bowl of giant armandillo shells. Well OOG, they aren't doritos, if you crunch all you want, they won't make any more! Next time you raid the fridge (or North America for that matter), leave some for the rest of us!
If you want to power all of this stuff, why are you using a UPS system anyway? I am using a APC 700 on just a computer and flat panel monitor, and it barely holds it for more than 10 mins. If you had a TV, computer, radio, etc. you won't get anything done before the batteries die. If you want high performance, you are better off buying all the parts separately. Get some deep cycle RV batteries (they are better than car batteries for this application), a battery tender, and a power inverter with the best effiency you can afford. Each lead acid RV battery will only set you back about 50 bucks, and give you tons of power. I know a lot of people who use this type of setup for their HAM radio shacks for use during emergency service assistance. One setup had a relay wired in so he didn't have to flip switches when the power went off. Be sure to use acid proof battery boxes and proper ventilation! Charging batteries can produce hydrogen gas! Check out some HAM and ARRL web pages for more info on sucessful setups.
I remember back in '86, a manufacturer had an 8 meg RAM drive with a big gel cell backup battery. Essentially, a DRAM hard drive like you are describing for a cache. It worked on apple IIgs series computers, which usually had less than a meg of main memory, but could be expanded to 4mB. I am sure a RAM drive could be built today. I am not talking about the solid state hard drives some posters have commented on. They are using static RAM and communicating through a PCMCIA port. They have maximum throughputs of about 1MB/s sustained, which is not very useful if you are working with databases. If anything, having your OS on one of these would give amazing startup times. The apple IIgs usually booted from an 800kb floppy, and took a few minutes. Ads for the RAM drive said seconds! With a 1.2MHZ processor! Ahhh. the good ol days.
But seriously, why the hell would you use this for a cache instead of the main drive? Why go from battery RAM -> Hard Drive -> Tape and not just batt. RAM -> tape? Espically if it is battery backed?
It's amazing, fewer Russians have died in space than US astronauts, and the Russians/Soviets have spent YEARS more in space then we have.
Yes, they have spent more time in space than we have. One man was up there for over a year. This is not by choice, but because they couldn't afford to get him down!
I know the message was flamebate, but....
I must agree. Ever since they made murder illegal, it has virtually stopped. I routinely walk around harlem at 3am just to watch the would be theives. Theif: "Danm! Shooting him and stealing his wallet is ILLEGAL. Remember when joe got arrested 3 years ago? Don't wanna end up like that!"
Yup. What this country (any country) needs is more legislation. God only knows how many times I think about speeding, only to remeber my friend who got a ticket. Poor bastard had to pay fifty bucks. Brings tears to my eyes.
A lot of hackers (bad intentioned, of course) have been hauled off. That is what supports the image. Your typical port scanning script running 3733T h@x0r is a 13 year old 50 lb. geek getting his/her jollies off by doing something illegal, and getting away with it. He/she would probably be smoking a doobie and underage drinking instead, but doesn't get invited to those types of parties.
You also have pros out there who are blackmailing/embezzeling funds. What they are doing is already illegal. Making it more illegal does nothing. Extra charges in court cases are used as bargainig chips toward the big charge anyway.
A stupid law will do nothing. It will encourage punk kids, and be a joke to the professional theif.
Excuse me while my renegade team of bikers cuts the tags off of mattresses.
Aw, 'comon. You don't expect people to ACTUALLY visit the site before commenting on it. I prefer to give my professional opinion based solely on the summary.
I think its kinda funny, actually. It shows you which posters have a clue and which ones are just trying to sound informed.
Well, I took this as meaning Sony will be giving away free PC's with firewalls installed. Maby we should support his efforts by buying some PC's and setting them up as firewalls an send him the bill. 3 grand ought to cover it.:)
I personally see the PR reps doing damage control real soon.
Wait a minute. Are you complaining that there aren't any trolls? I love this. Its slashdot without the retards.
I enjoy this grits-free zone of slashdot.
2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 possibilities. Assuming a 600MHZ computer, with 1 clock per cycle, 1 clock per check (impossible) it would take 1832 seconds, or 30 minutes to check every key. Lets say you find the answer after 80% of the keyspace is checked, that will give you and absolute minimal time of 24 minutes.
More realistically lets say it takes 200 clocks to get the answer. Checking 80% of the keyspace would take 101 hours, or about 4.25 days. Definitely not 18 seconds, even if you get lucky and hit the key early in the whole scheme of things.
I must agree. Even a small hole can cause a problem. I would reccomend surrounding the case with a one inch layer of lead. Since you are considering asthetics, gold is also quite dense and conducts well. It can also be polished to a shine, and is easy to purchase. Canadian maple leaf coins melt easily into a mold with a simple propane torch. Your I/O cabling can easily be sent through optoisolators to the outside of the case (through leaded glass windows, of course). You may want to consider moving to fiber optics to reduce interference with the cheap AM radio you have on top of your computer case.
Monitors are the source of a great ammount of RF interference, and the largest target of the TEMPEST receiver. To protect yourself and your family, place your monitor into an elegant leaded crystal monitor box. Waterford crystal would be happy to manufacture one for you.
We all must be careful, or the feds will use a 100 million dollar surveilance van parked across the street to look at our e-mail to aunt sue. They will have to pry my chocolate chip cookie recipe from my cold dead hand, because I use PGP, SSL! My whole computer room is a sealed lead lined chamber with internal batteries for power. This way the reception on my 1972 sharp b&w TV stays clear, computer or not!
Sorry. I am tired of all of this RFI interference BS. If your TV is messed up 'cause your 'puter has the cover of the case off, then buy it a new coat hanger. Or try using proper cabling and a decent antennae. Most HF signals on a mobo are sandwitched between groundplanes and don't radiate too much. Think of it this way, the inside of a computer case is a rats nest of little antennaes. If anything was radiating at high power, your computer wouldn't work properly. Your worries should be centered around the heat melting the plexi rather than RF. I would power down before a vacation in case something blows and causes a fire. Plexi lights up quickly, and makes a lot of noxious fumes. I had a friend set fire to a plexi window from having a candle too close. If that cheap power supply lets go, you will be in trouble! Maby metal isn't soo bad after all.
Brian
I was suggesting the VT100 terminal was on another system, hence the need for telnet and the network. As far as the RS-232 bob, keyboard logger, spy satelite, mind control beams, and hacker demonic possesions, ummmmm yeah, right.
>An unskilled administrator is a risk. (They're also called 'students', but who's counting?)
Do you traditionally give students administrator privs? Do you always log in as admin? If you do, you have other security problems that removing telnet and FTP cannot solve.
>People actually shouldn't be telnetting in from the outside world
No, they should telnet from a server right back to its own server. Of course they should be telnetting from across the globe. Thats why we have the danm net in the first place. SSH is nice, but its not avaliable everywhere. Lets say all you havee is a VT100 terminal with network access. Without plaintext telnet, you are screwed. Yeah, it is insecure when you log in, but it is also the single most useful and unreplacable tool. You can use it from anywhere with anything. From my TI/99/4A to my Apple IIe I know I can get telnet to work. Can't say that about SSH.
Banning it is stupid. Reducing dependence and usage of it is a better way of thinking. I like knowing if I have to travel to east bumble*uck with an old computer and a 1200 baud modem I can still function regardless of how slow/old/outdated/poorly configured/bare bones software the system is. That is the purpose of the net.
If you go along this guy's method of thinking, we might as well turn off all of the ports, unplug the keyboard and monitor and turn off the power. Then we will be nice and secure. How the hell does this guy expect a computer to be of any use if you cannot login? This proposal defeats the purpose of having a computer in the first place.
Its about time these self proclaimed privacy/security experts crawl out from under their rock and learn that there is more to computers than the world wide web. People ACTUALLY get work done on the text interface part of the server! My recommendation to this guy is to put down his copy of Window$ 9X and pickup a book on unix. Maby he can just look over the shoulder of a CS student in any college or uni. New Headline: Mr. Garfunkel officially certified idiot.
System security and system usability go hand in hand. One must sacrifice a little security to make the system usable. CGI scripts make a page dynamic and easy to use (usually) but they are a big security risk. Telnet is a security risk, but a system is useless without it. Hell, any login script is a security hole, but what are you gonna do, not let ANYONE in?
You can have a transparency value for any of the color channels, or layers that are present in an image format. By calling it alpha transparency, you know it is an overall image transparency.
Yes, a variable can represent anything, but we scientists/engineers use conventions to not get confused. Theta is an angle. Delta is a change. In images, gamma is a saturation and the alpha channel is a global effect on an image format. Yes it can be called something else, or refer to something else, but isn't it nice when people know what the hell you are reffering to? In my own words, fwip klupe neeet bwlithe nyak. No idea what I said, eh? Aren't conventions nice? To be "really precise" call it alpha transparency. That way people not living in your personal world know what the hell you are talking about.
Transparent filtering is a verb and not a noun anyway. They aren't interchangeable.
The different geometry may be referring to the shape of the intake valves, or cylinder walls. They are also talking about diesels, which usually are flat to achieve higher compression. The addition of precombustion chambers was the only large step DI (diesel ignition) engines have seen in many years.
Yup, they are called water injection engines. There was a famous airplane that used them in WWII. When it needed extra power, it would start injecting water until the engine cooled down too much. It gave it something like 50% more HP for short bursts. There are problems associated with doing this to a normal engine, such as cracking (on cylinder walls, valves from heat cycling) and rust.
On a side note, you get worse gas milage when its foggy because fog usually forms when the air pressure is low. This takes away from performace more than a little moisture will help.
A gibson is like a martini, but with an onion instead of an olive. The gibson dream occured in the late 50's at about for o'clock. Buisnessmen would dream of leaving work and coming home to their wife, who would have a nice drink waiting for them as they walked through the door.
How this applies, I have no idea. But a nice thought, eh?
I must agree. I didn't have a TV for my five year stint in college, and I had to rely on the radio for news and entertainment. NPR kept me better informed about world news and events than people watching the standard 5/6/7 o'clock news shows. It has less bias and almost no corporate censorship of news events that the other news channels carry. The commentaries, stories, and shows are also amazingly entertaining. It is just a shame more people are not listening or know about it.
Ummmm It does propogate as light. The only way to get past a tree, building, or horizon is to bounce the RF off of other trees, buildings, or ionosphere. It is like trying to communicate with someone around a corner with a flashlight. You cannot flash them a signal directly, but if you shine your flashlight on the corner, the light will bounce off and be seen by the other person. Bad example, but it fits. It is only when you get to really high frequencies that you go through instead of around. That is why these 900Mhz portable phones are soo much better than those they had out a few years ago.
Actually, Emmett is like santa claus. He sees you when you are sleeping, he knows when you're awake, and he knows if you have been qsorting or compiling Fortran on an outdated compiler. HE SEES ALL. Stop trying to weasel out and say you were not doing at least one thing on that list. YOU KNOW YOU WERE! Ve haf vays of making your processor TALK!
And if you weren't, join a distributed project already! You may not be working with a top-10 algorithm, but you will be doing SOMETHING useful with your number cruncher.
I hate to mention this, but the article does not say, or even imply, that it will be used for IP transmission. It merely said telecommunications. I believe this system will be working on telephone routing, not internet traffic. Big difference. Different protocols, different routing paterns, and more consistent traffic. My understanding is that it is using lazers to optically calculate which trunks are to have how much throughput to which other trunks. Basically a hardware implementation of a software algorithm.
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YES! You can overclock the TI-85 by replacing one of the capacitors. It is a small surface mount kind that can be replaced by a ceramic disk type, picofarad level cap. I got mine going about 2 or 2.5 times faster than stock. It does eat the batteries, but games^H^H^H^H^H graphing is SOOO much quicker. It shouldn't cost more than a dollar to do, and about 5 mins of soldering time.