After the discovery that all galaxies had a super massive black holes at their cores, it was obvious that black holes had an upper size limit, since there are no universe spanning super galaxies.
The discovery is about the mechanism of this fact, not the fact itself.
No one will deny René Descartes' contribution to establishing a framework for the scientific method, but Einstein's work is never attributed to Descartes.
Linus knows he is standing on the shoulders of giants, including RMS's shoulders. RMS's clear lack of self esteem prevents him from knowing he is a giant, thus his campaign to co opt attribution of Linus's work.
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Is heir apparent to the throne but Al certainly has some life left.
Only one thing to do in the meantime: Collaborative work.
"We could easily do a 70-80% replacement of petroleum as a motor fuel source in only 10 years based n bio-fuels like ethanol and bio-diesel."
USA centric figures:
Easily? So how much bio-diesel can you get from an acre of land? Well, if all the vegetable oil you used was post-consumer, oil from deep fat fryers and the like, you could replace about 15% of the required diesel, or about 3% of our total energy needs for transportation.
If you converted every arable acre of land to oil production, rape seed (canola) has the highest oil per acre figure, and used modern fertilizers and industrial farming, then we could meet 80-95% of our diesel requirement, or about 20% at best of our total transportation energy needs.
All fertilizers are made from natural gas. A resource that is in decline in North America.
Currently in fact, we use 8 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of food energy.
SO, the actual amount of oil you can get from farming, especially when you can't afford to fertilize the ground, or use energy intensive industrial farming methods will likely only provide at best 10% of our transportation energy needs, and only if we decide not to grow any food.
The figures for sawgrass, the best source for ethanol, are much worse.
And where do your plastics come from?
Lubricants? Pharmaceuticals? Catalysts such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide used for biodiesel production?
Easy?
As natural gas becomes scarce, where does your food come from? Argentina? Tomatoes all year around shipped to you in what kind of ship? Sail powered?
And your consumer goods from China? That's going to be easy when we are in a contest with China over the last remaining oil reserves. No more Nikes, iPods, computers, toilet seats, Walmart, Target, Kmart, Home Depot, Safeway, Bed Bath & Beyond, Pfizer, Comp USA, Best Buy...
What? Made in China.
We have not left oil because it is HARD.
Oil is leaving us. It is going to be HARD.
And without the political will... It's not going to happen.
You are going to starve to death within 15 years. That is EASY. Just stop eating.
Ahiiieeee! and though you are known by by a hundred hundred names, here on the slashdotted plane your name shall be "Monkey" as only Nyarlathotep is obligated to speak the great deep one's true name.
And lo' it was written:
"There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon."
"Until science _disproves_ something, that thing should not be discounted as a possibility. That includes God, goblins, and pink dinosaurs under the ocean floor."
The existance of god and the supernatural is not falsifiable, and therefore must be discounted as possibilities when conducting rigorous science.
Scares away animals. Personally used by me to scare a bear in Alaska pre-bear spray, which by the way is completely ineffective on moose, who seem to be capsaicin resistant, again from personal experience. No, road flares do not cure prostate cancer. No goatse jokes please.
Can be used for signaling.
Can be used to start a fire even with wet wood.
Likely will scare away even a persistent attacker.
Police WILL stop when they see one.
Absolutely will not go out when lit, even underwater.
Will destroy evidence if you need to steal some twinkies at a gas station.
Even the junkiest SiS and VIA chipsets have DX9 integrated graphics.
DX 9 has been with us since the spring of 2003, which will mean 4 years old when Vista ships.
Discrete AGP DX9 costs $30, Discrete PCI Express costs $45, and the price "premium" for onboard graphics is $0 (the cheapest boards now have onboard graphics).
A couple seconds here and there, lets say 2 seconds in sixty.
Now cut that to one second in sixty with a faster machine, ignoring multiple cores for now.
Gain a day of work for every sixty.
Six days of work a year.
A week of extra work accomplished each year with a machine twice as fast.
You are paying the guy two grand a week to do auto cad right?
That two year old machine, because machine performance doubles every two years, just cost you 2 grand to keep, when a new one would have cost a grand.
The real problem is, we are not to the point where you only wait for your computer 1 second in 60. It's 10 seconds in 60. It costs you $10,000 a year in lost productivity. $20,000 in lost productivity if the machine is 4 years old.
That's why the IRS allows you to depreciate computer capital at 30% a year... Because not only is your aging computer capital worth nothing, it's actually costing you money in lost productivity,
Capital. Capitalist. Making money not because of what you do, but because of what you own. Owning capital that has depreciated to zero value, costing you expensive labor to keep, means that you are not a capitalist.
You are a junk collector.
Sanford and Son.
Where is my ripple. I think this is the big one.
Dual core? that is just the way performance is scaling now.
The best and brightest at AMD and Intel can not make the individual cores any more complex and still debug them. No one is smart enough to figure out the tough issues involved with 200 million core logic transistors. So we are stuck in the 120 to 150 million range for individual cores.
Transistor count doubles every two years.
Cores will double every 2 years.
The perfect curve will be to use as many of the most complex cores possible in the CPU architecture.
Cell has lots of cores but they are not complex enough. To much complex work is offloaded to the programmer.
Dual, Quad etc, at 150 million transistors each will rule the performance curve, keeping software development as easy as possible by still having exceptionally high single thread performance but still taking advantage of transistor count scaling.
Oh, and the clock speed/heat explanation for dual cores is a myth. It's all about complexity now.
Nice, You have successfully unified Descarte's "I think therefore I am" with Schrodinger's cat, and you are immortal in this universe because you are always observing and can not take the dead cat path.
Only one problem: Your universe only exists as long as you do.
e. Introduction, possession, transfer, sale, creation or display of any pornographic or sexually explicit photograph, video tapes, movie, drawing, book, magazine, or similar representations.
This includes pornography on the internet, and was in place as part of our status of forces document with the Kuwait government in 1991, and in 1998 when I went back again.
Hell yes the internet is censored. Politically too? I do not know. The filters in place in 1998 was simply a promiscuous packet sniffer that sent images to a terminal. When the admin saw porn, he captured the IP, cross referenced it to the Dial up account and sent a report to the CO, who would then hand out the AR15.
So, Apple could use 10% of AMD's production... This Year.
AMD has Fab 36 coming online in Q1 2006, at.65 nm, 300mm.
That will multiply AMD's potential output by a factor of 5.
The market will be larger also, so we are not talking the ability to produce 100% of the world's CPU needs, But It will give AMD a fine shot at 50%.
Remember that AMD is out of the flash memory business too, although it's spinoff company spansion has contracts with AMD to continue production of Flash to keep AMD's fab productive on an as needed basis.
Likely though that the Q1 2006 Quad core Opterons will be sucking up a lot of their fab capacity, especially at a predicted 2 mb of cache per core, for 8 mb total.
Could have had an 8 way opteron in that Apple, and kept your 64 bits:)
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After the discovery that all galaxies had a super massive black holes at their cores, it was obvious that black holes had an upper size limit, since there are no universe spanning super galaxies.
The discovery is about the mechanism of this fact, not the fact itself.
No one will deny René Descartes' contribution to establishing a framework for the scientific method, but Einstein's work is never attributed to Descartes.
Linus knows he is standing on the shoulders of giants, including RMS's shoulders. RMS's clear lack of self esteem prevents him from knowing he is a giant, thus his campaign to co opt attribution of Linus's work.
Is heir apparent to the throne but Al certainly has some life left.
Only one thing to do in the meantime: Collaborative work.
Riot.
The price of copper has gone from $0.25 a pound to $3.50 a pound in the last 5 years.
The copper -vs- fiber debate almost ended in 2000 because fiber is such a superior data transmission medium.
The copper -vs- fiber debate is completely over for new installations.
The material cost is on par now, and the primary cost of the installation is not the material but the labor.
"We could easily do a 70-80% replacement of petroleum as a motor fuel source in only 10 years based n bio-fuels like ethanol and bio-diesel."
USA centric figures:
Easily? So how much bio-diesel can you get from an acre of land? Well, if all the vegetable oil you used was post-consumer, oil from deep fat fryers and the like, you could replace about 15% of the required diesel, or about 3% of our total energy needs for transportation.
If you converted every arable acre of land to oil production, rape seed (canola) has the highest oil per acre figure, and used modern fertilizers and industrial farming, then we could meet 80-95% of our diesel requirement, or about 20% at best of our total transportation energy needs.
All fertilizers are made from natural gas. A resource that is in decline in North America.
Currently in fact, we use 8 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce 1 calorie of food energy.
SO, the actual amount of oil you can get from farming, especially when you can't afford to fertilize the ground, or use energy intensive industrial farming methods will likely only provide at best 10% of our transportation energy needs, and only if we decide not to grow any food.
The figures for sawgrass, the best source for ethanol, are much worse.
And where do your plastics come from?
Lubricants? Pharmaceuticals? Catalysts such as sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide used for biodiesel production?
Easy?
As natural gas becomes scarce, where does your food come from? Argentina? Tomatoes all year around shipped to you in what kind of ship? Sail powered?
And your consumer goods from China? That's going to be easy when we are in a contest with China over the last remaining oil reserves. No more Nikes, iPods, computers, toilet seats, Walmart, Target, Kmart, Home Depot, Safeway, Bed Bath & Beyond, Pfizer, Comp USA, Best Buy...
What? Made in China.
We have not left oil because it is HARD.
Oil is leaving us. It is going to be HARD.
And without the political will... It's not going to happen.
You are going to starve to death within 15 years. That is EASY. Just stop eating.
"if science can find a means by which to examine it."
That is the crux of the issue.
if science can find a means to examine it, it is natural not super natural.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural
A bit dated to call everything you don't understand supernatural
Quantum mechanics is supernatural.
The Riemann Hypothesis is supernatural.
"this statement is false" is supernatural.
The next, undiscovered, mersenne prime is supernatural.
uh-huh.
Please enjoy the universe full of boogy men you live in.
Nyarlathotep?
Ahtu?
Ahiiieeee! and though you are known by by a hundred hundred names, here on the slashdotted plane your name shall be "Monkey" as only Nyarlathotep is obligated to speak the great deep one's true name.
And lo' it was written:
"There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon."
You are that messenger... obviously.
And therefore rigorous science
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"Until science _disproves_ something, that thing should not be discounted as a possibility. That includes God, goblins, and pink dinosaurs under the ocean floor."
The existance of god and the supernatural is not falsifiable, and therefore must be discounted as possibilities when conducting rigorous science.
Check the wiki for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
See also: proving a negative, division by zero, perpetual motion and the recent Intelligent design trial.
Judge John E. Jones III states the case nicely:
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/educate/ktzmll
Open source, GPL, Sourceforge.
Use it to for banjo tuning, along with finger position charts, basicly as a universal pitch pipe.
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Light.
Scares away animals. Personally used by me to scare a bear in Alaska pre-bear spray, which by the way is completely ineffective on moose, who seem to be capsaicin resistant, again from personal experience. No, road flares do not cure prostate cancer. No goatse jokes please.
Can be used for signaling.
Can be used to start a fire even with wet wood.
Likely will scare away even a persistent attacker.
Police WILL stop when they see one.
Absolutely will not go out when lit, even underwater.
Will destroy evidence if you need to steal some twinkies at a gas station.
Even the junkiest SiS and VIA chipsets have DX9 integrated graphics.
DX 9 has been with us since the spring of 2003, which will mean 4 years old when Vista ships.
Discrete AGP DX9 costs $30, Discrete PCI Express costs $45, and the price "premium" for onboard graphics is $0 (the cheapest boards now have onboard graphics).
This same happy birthday hemos story has been reposted, what, like 30 times already. Jesus, this was old news like 7 years ago
A couple seconds here and there, lets say 2 seconds in sixty.
Now cut that to one second in sixty with a faster machine, ignoring multiple cores for now.
Gain a day of work for every sixty.
Six days of work a year.
A week of extra work accomplished each year with a machine twice as fast.
You are paying the guy two grand a week to do auto cad right?
That two year old machine, because machine performance doubles every two years, just cost you 2 grand to keep, when a new one would have cost a grand.
The real problem is, we are not to the point where you only wait for your computer 1 second in 60. It's 10 seconds in 60. It costs you $10,000 a year in lost productivity. $20,000 in lost productivity if the machine is 4 years old.
That's why the IRS allows you to depreciate computer capital at 30% a year... Because not only is your aging computer capital worth nothing, it's actually costing you money in lost productivity,
Capital. Capitalist. Making money not because of what you do, but because of what you own. Owning capital that has depreciated to zero value, costing you expensive labor to keep, means that you are not a capitalist.
You are a junk collector.
Sanford and Son.
Where is my ripple. I think this is the big one.
Dual core? that is just the way performance is scaling now.
The best and brightest at AMD and Intel can not make the individual cores any more complex and still debug them. No one is smart enough to figure out the tough issues involved with 200 million core logic transistors. So we are stuck in the 120 to 150 million range for individual cores.
Transistor count doubles every two years.
Cores will double every 2 years.
The perfect curve will be to use as many of the most complex cores possible in the CPU architecture.
Cell has lots of cores but they are not complex enough. To much complex work is offloaded to the programmer.
Dual, Quad etc, at 150 million transistors each will rule the performance curve, keeping software development as easy as possible by still having exceptionally high single thread performance but still taking advantage of transistor count scaling.
Oh, and the clock speed/heat explanation for dual cores is a myth. It's all about complexity now.
Nice, You have successfully unified Descarte's "I think therefore I am" with Schrodinger's cat, and you are immortal in this universe because you are always observing and can not take the dead cat path.
Only one problem: Your universe only exists as long as you do.
Damned if you do.
General order number 1:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/regulations/go1a.pdf
e. Introduction, possession, transfer, sale, creation or display of any pornographic or sexually explicit photograph, video tapes, movie, drawing, book, magazine, or similar representations.
This includes pornography on the internet, and was in place as part of our status of forces document with the Kuwait government in 1991, and in 1998 when I went back again.
Hell yes the internet is censored. Politically too? I do not know. The filters in place in 1998 was simply a promiscuous packet sniffer that sent images to a terminal. When the admin saw porn, he captured the IP, cross referenced it to the Dial up account and sent a report to the CO, who would then hand out the AR15.
Currently, AMD supplies 20% of the market.
.65 nm, 300mm.
:)
Apple supplies 2%
So, Apple could use 10% of AMD's production... This Year.
AMD has Fab 36 coming online in Q1 2006, at
That will multiply AMD's potential output by a factor of 5.
The market will be larger also, so we are not talking the ability to produce 100% of the world's CPU needs, But It will give AMD a fine shot at 50%.
Remember that AMD is out of the flash memory business too, although it's spinoff company spansion has contracts with AMD to continue production of Flash to keep AMD's fab productive on an as needed basis.
Likely though that the Q1 2006 Quad core Opterons will be sucking up a lot of their fab capacity, especially at a predicted 2 mb of cache per core, for 8 mb total.
Could have had an 8 way opteron in that Apple, and kept your 64 bits
Please welcome your new Intel Overlords.
We battled and battled.
You made me your enemy.
Now, on your knees before me.
I pity you.
Pathetic mac zealot.
This is a glorious day.
I will treasure it always.
Select auto updates.
Never touch it again.
Never have your firewire drive get wiped by updates.
Never pay $129 for a point release.
Hmm, DX9.
Interesting you would mention DX9.
What does DX9 do for a PC?
Well, DX9 is an API that allows games to run.
Wouldn't it be nice if gaming on a mac was just a reboot away?
Take heart. Xbox 360 is 3 G5 PPCs, so perhaps Mac will have a DX equivalent eventually... with a reboot.
Perhaps it will be a "mac upgrade" Where you throw your mac in the trash and buy a new one.
I know, I'm going to burn in hell for speaking such blasphemy.
Turn off the features you don't want.
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Insert PCI cards with features you do want.
Looks like cost is no object, so try the K8WE, a pair of Opteron 275s, Dual 6800 ultras, and 8 GB of ram.
That will give you a quad with dual video cards for 4 monitors or one monitor in SLI mode.
firewire? check.
dual gigabit ethernet? check.
Any raid across 4 sata II disks? check.
SCSI320? check.
PCI-X, PCI-Express? Check.
The absolute fastest workstation on the planet right now.
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.h
Want it all in SFF?
http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=36
ZMAXdp
http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=36
try Iwill.
Even if he is not online 24/7
The real blasphemy is that he has any computers at all without ethernet cards.
I mean they want to be online even if he doesn't
A computer without the internet is a football bat.
Might as well hide with a pad of paper and pencil in the closet.
I think you mean
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Make that 26269 MB or 26 Gigabytes, 585 mb is just the changes since the last dump.
Isn't EA's NHL-2005 dream team... anyone playing in the NHL at all?