God I like slashdot again. I read a comment on the last rocket story to the same affect but I don't think enough praise can be stacked on stories like this. I can only take so much politics and bad news before I can't even read/. anymore. It is nice to engage in a heated intellectual argument on occasion but my Nerddom derives not from bludgeoning people with my mind so much as being an enthusiastic techie./. Can involve itself in as many Linux -vs- Microsoft flamewars as they want to because having no social skills is a hallmark of being a geek. But geeks don't derive nearly as much pleasure from mocking each other as they derive from the enjoying the sheer coolness of understanding one man's quest to achieve a Darwin award through technology!
While not as great an accomplishment, I wrote a macro to play a java golf game online. Since there was some randomness to the game and my reflexes are not that good, I figured it would be a way to get my name in the top ten. after three days running the macro, I had all ten of the top ten spots. The game was pulled on the third day. It has never been back. Computers playing games are always much better than humans if their AI is done correctly. I realized that I had ruined the game for everyone else. Deep blue beat Kasparov, My AMD box beat java golf, Aimbots beat me at TFC, Paul Apostolik beat pogo poker, and the power producers are beating California (with a great weather model/consumpion prediction algorithm) on the energy trading floors.
Are we are all cheating? Cheating only applies to games and applying enourmous computer power to commodity markets is simply shrewd? Will we one day wake up with zero value in stocks because some bright day trader wrote a miraculous piece of code that makes a billion perfect trades in the course of a day? Cheating by attacking protien folding with petaflop power?
What are the moral causes for the application of analytical force? When is the right time to spray for moths? When is the right time to let a hummingbird fly over japan? (obscure reference, chaos theory: the ammout of air a hummingbird moves in flight over japan is all that is required to generate a hurricane a month later in florida)
With IBM predicting a teraflop available on your (or Saddams) desktop by 2004, these questions need to be addressed yesterday.
I am so glad that not much progress has been made on this. My heart fell when I realized the Ideas that have been swimming in my head for years may not only be concurrently discovered but actually patented by people working on this program. Relief that these projects seem not much more competent than the similar atempts in the sixties. And what a great ego boost for me to realize my ideas are not painfully obvious to researchers in the field.
I always knew reading comic books would get me somewhere.
Who wants to bet it's Cheney and his bad heart that is now the #1 spporter of this program. Go Tony Stark!!!
Would love to try the same experiment with lasers powerful enough to ionize the atmosphere... and bigger/more capacitors. A huge amount of energy is required to pump a laser capable of the same power delivered to a target as can be applied directly with the lasers acting only as conduits for raw electricity. Pretzel tank. Nice electronics frying EMP effects too.
charged to 410 VDC. At 440 one leaked (arced). very scary since it not only discharged it's stored energy but shorted two welders in series. nice spots burned on the retinas for days. fun dangerous toys. Their instant magnetic field will crush steel like butter.
Take a pair of super soakers. Wire an electrode into each water tank, taking care to get a propper seal again. Fill them with vinigar. Wire 14 1 farad capacitors in parallel to the two electrodes. Charge the capacitors with a DC arc welder. fire.
Effects:
Both super soakers explode as the power vaporizes the vinigar but not until you have a complete circuit through your target which had better not be human, because the power discharge also vaporized a beautiful eliptical hole about 11 inches across in a 1971 GMC truck tailgate
I've posted this to many Rambus stories before and it has never recieved any moderation so has by and large gone unread: Raytheon and perhaps other manufacturers developed small bit buffers in the sixties that worked with quadra phase shift keying (QPSK) modems. English translation, they built memory that stored four data bits per clock cycle. Again, there is 40 years of prior art for Rambus's patents governing RDRAM. A specific raytheon device that had a QPSK bit buffer was the tropo modem found in the AN/TRC-170, a military digital transmission van, built in the early 70's and still in service today.
Why did IBM choose to invest $200m in Asia for Linux development centers? Potential choices could have been The Middle East, South America or Africa. Big Blue, I'm sure, doesnt't want to project a bigoted corperate image derived from beliving the pervasive myth that Asians are smarter, work for cheaper and are rich (to buy computers from IBM).
Why did IBM choose to invest $200m in Asia for Linux development centers? Potential choices could have been The Middle East, South America or Africa. Big Blue, I'm sure, doesnt't want to project a bigoted corperate image derived from beliving the pervasive myth that Asians are smarter, work for cheaper and are rich (to buy computers from IBM).
Wasn't the entire alpha design team head hunted over to AMD? I think that is why the athlon uses the EV6 bus. The original alpha chip, designed by the guys that are now at AMD, is still the fastest processor on the planet. Seen their Seti
results? 59 minutes to do what takes my 1.4Ghz athlon 1 hour 50 minutes to do (old client, ars's benchmark unit).
When oh when are the dot commers of the world going to realize that just because they have an idea, different perspective or inside information that does not mean that the world should buy into their delusion? Indside information.. as great an author as Neil Stephenson is, gold backed private internet currency is not necessarily what the world needs. Next it will be some jackass trying to sell the world a tattoo penal system where the state sends their criminals to mexico to get "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" on their forehead... By the way, when I perfect radioactive isotope based power supplies for REASON and heroic robotic doggies, I'll be going public..
It is better to look at a techno junkies spending habits in comparison to their income. A cocain addict may spend 100% of their income plus whatever they can beg borrow or ho for. I get the distinct feeling that 140K is just a small percentage of this guy's disposible income. Personnaly I spend about 60% of my disposible income on techno gadgets.. Not everyone wants a beowulf cluster in their garage though.
zdnet, owned by c|net owned by Intel... Ever see a good review of an AMD system by ziff-davis? No? Well now you know why... Now... Tom Pabst cause the recall of your flagship product (1.13Ghz PIII)? Just take that thorn out of your side and provide all the lemming IT boys with a glossy commercial tech site. Some of you are surfing/. when you should be applying patches to your compromised IIS boxes. Same guys that think Microsoft and Intel are great and want to be spoon fed biased tech news fud.
Diesel electric locomotives use regenerative brakeing except all the electricity generateted by using the drive motors as generators is simply used to run giant arrays of heating elements on top of the locomotives. In a normal car, the heat generated by braking is dissipated right at the rotor or drum, thus the cross drilled and ventelated rotors on high performance autos. on a true hybrid with regenerative braking, that electricity is used to charge batteries or spin up a flywheel to be used later for re-acceleration. since in a hybrid the gas/deisel/turbine should be expected to just add energy into a closed cycle system to compensate for ineficiency, the ideal canidate is a small deisel or propane motor like used for small generators or irrigation pumps that purr happily for years without being shut down for maintainace.
As anyone who might delve into pyramid schemes or beowulf clusters will tell you, it's not the speed of the individual processors that counts, its how many processors you have working for you...
For drawing pictures freehand on a 'puter nothing beats it. Pressure sensitive and integrates with Adobe and Corel. Darker, fatter lines when you press hard, lighter thinner lines when you ease up. You can actually sketch with this thing. Has a similar feel to a soft pencil or the spongy tipped ink pens. Put a piece of soft plastic over the tablet to provide a better feel of resistance to pen strokes. Nothing rough though. Anything rough will actually give you the effect of gravestone rubbings. It transfers the grain of the paper you are using to provide resistance directly to the screen. Yes, it is that sensitive.
The Romans could have had steam locomotives. Babbage could have ushered in the informaton age 200 years ago if he had swiss watch makers build his difference engine. We could have had cell phones in the 60's. We could have productive and profitable human colonies on mars right now. How many great ideas are langishing because no one has put them together or the right people have not come them together?
Try a refraction shot off the biggest building/mountain/tower you can see from both of your locations. You don't need to know terrain analasis or RF propogation, just try it a few times. Eventually you will get a bank shot to a remote location. By the way, the only point to all this is I can provide this not only as a service to myself, but as a service to my "customers", a school district full of kids, who as you may or may not know are extremely mobile.
I am a tech coordinator for a school. We have all kinds of cool toys. At night I take the projector home to play Counter-Strike and DVDs on a 150" screen. I integrate iBooks into my home network. I go to work to play with computers and then go home and play with them some more. I take the schools iBooks to the park and read slashdot with a small directional antenna and the school's wireless network. Who else in the city has 11Mb/s wireless any where in the city just by pointing a high gain antenna at the place they plan on being before leaving work? Slashdot in the park, Tom's Hardware and at the local computer shop and IRC at the coffee shop. My crowning glory was pricwatch at the computer show. You can get great deals if the vendor can see you are a smart shopper and knows you are comparing his hardware with the entire planet's hardware. By all means have fun at your job, if not you have no business being a computer geek. You are just a pointy haired boss in training.
..of gulf war footage. Notice what NASA picked as their first target? I can hear the freedom crew now "roger, splash one, we have secondaries." Afterward everyone would talk about how cunning it is to fly right through the weakly armored dome..
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God I like slashdot again. I read a comment on the last rocket story to the same affect but I don't think enough praise can be stacked on stories like this. I can only take so much politics and bad news before I can't even read /. anymore. It is nice to engage in a heated intellectual argument on occasion but my Nerddom derives not from bludgeoning people with my mind so much as being an enthusiastic techie. /. Can involve itself in as many Linux -vs- Microsoft flamewars as they want to because having no social skills is a hallmark of being a geek. But geeks don't derive nearly as much pleasure from mocking each other as they derive from the enjoying the sheer coolness of understanding one man's quest to achieve a Darwin award through technology!
get this: macro express for windoze. I can't even program. I just made it mimic me playing the game then optomized the timings.
While not as great an accomplishment, I wrote a macro to play a java golf game online. Since there was some randomness to the game and my reflexes are not that good, I figured it would be a way to get my name in the top ten. after three days running the macro, I had all ten of the top ten spots. The game was pulled on the third day. It has never been back. Computers playing games are always much better than humans if their AI is done correctly. I realized that I had ruined the game for everyone else. Deep blue beat Kasparov, My AMD box beat java golf, Aimbots beat me at TFC, Paul Apostolik beat pogo poker, and the power producers are beating California (with a great weather model/consumpion prediction algorithm) on the energy trading floors.
Are we are all cheating? Cheating only applies to games and applying enourmous computer power to commodity markets is simply shrewd? Will we one day wake up with zero value in stocks because some bright day trader wrote a miraculous piece of code that makes a billion perfect trades in the course of a day? Cheating by attacking protien folding with petaflop power?
What are the moral causes for the application of analytical force? When is the right time to spray for moths? When is the right time to let a hummingbird fly over japan? (obscure reference, chaos theory: the ammout of air a hummingbird moves in flight over japan is all that is required to generate a hurricane a month later in florida)
With IBM predicting a teraflop available on your (or Saddams) desktop by 2004, these questions need to be addressed yesterday.
I always knew reading comic books would get me somewhere.
Who wants to bet it's Cheney and his bad heart that is now the #1 spporter of this program. Go Tony Stark!!!
Would love to try the same experiment with lasers powerful enough to ionize the atmosphere... and bigger/more capacitors. A huge amount of energy is required to pump a laser capable of the same power delivered to a target as can be applied directly with the lasers acting only as conduits for raw electricity. Pretzel tank. Nice electronics frying EMP effects too.
charged to 410 VDC. At 440 one leaked (arced). very scary since it not only discharged it's stored energy but shorted two welders in series. nice spots burned on the retinas for days. fun dangerous toys. Their instant magnetic field will crush steel like butter.
Take a pair of super soakers. Wire an electrode into each water tank, taking care to get a propper seal again. Fill them with vinigar. Wire 14 1 farad capacitors in parallel to the two electrodes. Charge the capacitors with a DC arc welder. fire.
Effects:
Both super soakers explode as the power vaporizes the vinigar but not until you have a complete circuit through your target which had better not be human, because the power discharge also vaporized a beautiful eliptical hole about 11 inches across in a 1971 GMC truck tailgate
Dell Computers... Pentium 4 windows machines. AMD linux boxes must go for at least 40 cents on the dollar.
I've posted this to many Rambus stories before and it has never recieved any moderation so has by and large gone unread: Raytheon and perhaps other manufacturers developed small bit buffers in the sixties that worked with quadra phase shift keying (QPSK) modems. English translation, they built memory that stored four data bits per clock cycle. Again, there is 40 years of prior art for Rambus's patents governing RDRAM. A specific raytheon device that had a QPSK bit buffer was the tropo modem found in the AN/TRC-170, a military digital transmission van, built in the early 70's and still in service today.
Why did IBM choose to invest $200m in Asia for Linux development centers? Potential choices could have been The Middle East, South America or Africa. Big Blue, I'm sure, doesnt't want to project a bigoted corperate image derived from beliving the pervasive myth that Asians are smarter, work for cheaper and are rich (to buy computers from IBM).
Why did IBM choose to invest $200m in Asia for Linux development centers? Potential choices could have been The Middle East, South America or Africa. Big Blue, I'm sure, doesnt't want to project a bigoted corperate image derived from beliving the pervasive myth that Asians are smarter, work for cheaper and are rich (to buy computers from IBM).
Wasn't the entire alpha design team head hunted over to AMD? I think that is why the athlon uses the EV6 bus. The original alpha chip, designed by the guys that are now at AMD, is still the fastest processor on the planet. Seen their Seti
results? 59 minutes to do what takes my 1.4Ghz athlon 1 hour 50 minutes to do (old client, ars's benchmark unit).
Great programmers and lousy bean counters...
When oh when are the dot commers of the world going to realize that just because they have an idea, different perspective or inside information that does not mean that the world should buy into their delusion? Indside information.. as great an author as Neil Stephenson is, gold backed private internet currency is not necessarily what the world needs. Next it will be some jackass trying to sell the world a tattoo penal system where the state sends their criminals to mexico to get "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" on their forehead... By the way, when I perfect radioactive isotope based power supplies for REASON and heroic robotic doggies, I'll be going public..
It is better to look at a techno junkies spending habits in comparison to their income. A cocain addict may spend 100% of their income plus whatever they can beg borrow or ho for. I get the distinct feeling that 140K is just a small percentage of this guy's disposible income. Personnaly I spend about 60% of my disposible income on techno gadgets.. Not everyone wants a beowulf cluster in their garage though.
zdnet, owned by c|net owned by Intel... Ever see a good review of an AMD system by ziff-davis? No? Well now you know why... Now... Tom Pabst cause the recall of your flagship product (1.13Ghz PIII)? Just take that thorn out of your side and provide all the lemming IT boys with a glossy commercial tech site. Some of you are surfing /. when you should be applying patches to your compromised IIS boxes. Same guys that think Microsoft and Intel are great and want to be spoon fed biased tech news fud.
Diesel electric locomotives use regenerative brakeing except all the electricity generateted by using the drive motors as generators is simply used to run giant arrays of heating elements on top of the locomotives. In a normal car, the heat generated by braking is dissipated right at the rotor or drum, thus the cross drilled and ventelated rotors on high performance autos. on a true hybrid with regenerative braking, that electricity is used to charge batteries or spin up a flywheel to be used later for re-acceleration. since in a hybrid the gas/deisel/turbine should be expected to just add energy into a closed cycle system to compensate for ineficiency, the ideal canidate is a small deisel or propane motor like used for small generators or irrigation pumps that purr happily for years without being shut down for maintainace.
As anyone who might delve into pyramid schemes or beowulf clusters will tell you, it's not the speed of the individual processors that counts, its how many processors you have working for you...
For drawing pictures freehand on a 'puter nothing beats it. Pressure sensitive and integrates with Adobe and Corel. Darker, fatter lines when you press hard, lighter thinner lines when you ease up. You can actually sketch with this thing. Has a similar feel to a soft pencil or the spongy tipped ink pens. Put a piece of soft plastic over the tablet to provide a better feel of resistance to pen strokes. Nothing rough though. Anything rough will actually give you the effect of gravestone rubbings. It transfers the grain of the paper you are using to provide resistance directly to the screen. Yes, it is that sensitive.
The Romans could have had steam locomotives. Babbage could have ushered in the informaton age 200 years ago if he had swiss watch makers build his difference engine. We could have had cell phones in the 60's. We could have productive and profitable human colonies on mars right now. How many great ideas are langishing because no one has put them together or the right people have not come them together?
Try a refraction shot off the biggest building/mountain/tower you can see from both of your locations. You don't need to know terrain analasis or RF propogation, just try it a few times. Eventually you will get a bank shot to a remote location. By the way, the only point to all this is I can provide this not only as a service to myself, but as a service to my "customers", a school district full of kids, who as you may or may not know are extremely mobile.
I am a tech coordinator for a school. We have all kinds of cool toys. At night I take the projector home to play Counter-Strike and DVDs on a 150" screen. I integrate iBooks into my home network. I go to work to play with computers and then go home and play with them some more. I take the schools iBooks to the park and read slashdot with a small directional antenna and the school's wireless network. Who else in the city has 11Mb/s wireless any where in the city just by pointing a high gain antenna at the place they plan on being before leaving work? Slashdot in the park, Tom's Hardware and at the local computer shop and IRC at the coffee shop. My crowning glory was pricwatch at the computer show. You can get great deals if the vendor can see you are a smart shopper and knows you are comparing his hardware with the entire planet's hardware. By all means have fun at your job, if not you have no business being a computer geek. You are just a pointy haired boss in training.
..of gulf war footage. Notice what NASA picked as their first target? I can hear the freedom crew now "roger, splash one, we have secondaries." Afterward everyone would talk about how cunning it is to fly right through the weakly armored dome..
..for heat absorbtion in order are black, green and red. Green house in winter ok? Guess it beats red.
Responding to trolls... Just backing up my argument.