idiot. the Dutch have arrested 2 terrorist cells in the last couple of years, plenty in the UK and plenty in Germany.
I wished I could say we don't go out and invade other countries illegally (since we are part & parcel of the lapdog parade and have sent our military into Iraq as well, which in the longer term will hopefully lead to the jailing of those responsible, if they don't manage to squash the investigations over and over again).
I think the 'heading towards' should be replaced by 'in'... otherwise your comment is fine the way it is. What's more scary though is that almost ALL developed countries are now well past the threshold of what I would call a surveilance society.
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I think your power calculations for skywriting are off by several orders of magnitude. That sort of laser is best not used near anything combustible either, not unless you want it to combust that is:)
A friend of mine who pioneered lasers in pop music (for Genesis in the Peter Gabriel days) once turned down a proposal to implement this because of the limited range of conditions when it would operate and the enormous power levels required, it's a bit of a difference to project something on a wall 5' away from you vs on a semi-transparant medium several hundred meters away. Of course you don't need to take my word for it, or you may have meant your original post in a sarcastic way (but that's hard to tell here sometimes).
a 50 mW laser will carray a good distance as long as you don't start scanning it, then it quickly becomes useless.
I think you are making one very basic assumption that is just dead wrong. People don't like to read, they like to look at pictures.
It's the downfall of politics and just about everything else, nobody (on average) really cares about stuff they have to go out and expend energy for. Reading is 'work', looking at pictures is 'entertainment', and entertainment seems to be all you can get from the tube. If you want information, the internet fortunately gives you an infinite number of channels so that at least for people that want information there now are avenues other than the local library (which can be closed, on the other side of town or simply too small).
Before '96 I spent a fortune on books, now I can read all I want. The Internet is TV's antidote. Sure it has the same BS on it that TV had, but it has so much more. More good information on any subject that you care enough about to do a little bit of research.
Finally something that is not wasting 90% of it's energy as heat, not to mention replacing ridiculously expensive bulbs every few hundred hours. A low intensity version of this and you don't need a projection area any more, just beam it in directly:) note to self: do not stare into laser with remaining eye...
Well, with the math guys of seti on board I'm sure they've done a probability analysis of making it back in one piece. Would be a hell of a way to end the seti project though, if a whole planeload of seti associated scientists got hit by an Extraterristrial Object. Be even more apt if it artificial, but you can't win them all.
thank you:) It wasn't creativity out of choice, more out of necessity.
Motherboards / cpus can be anything you want but it's easier if they're all the same. After all as long as you plan your rods only in the standard pc stand-off holes they'll go right from the one to the next. It was a bit noisy though ! When it got switched off (somewhere in 2005) it had been in continuous operation for 5 years amazingly enough we never had a node crash in all that time, so the boot floppies (which were a total pain to make) got used only twice!
It's mission in life is (or rather was, because it has now been supplanted) to function as a test bed for a search engine and other massive parallel projects. I also used it to stress test switching hardware (with sometimes spectacular results).
Ever since I played a bit with transputers in the 80's I've been in love with parallel computers.
well, since he specified matlab I think the that datamining is out but you never know.
In olden times we used a trick called bankswitching and tons of ram to address memory beyond what you could address directly with the cpu. This was used to give 6502's up to 256K of ram (which was plenty expensive) and later using similar techniques to increase the memory in pc's.
The basic principle is really simple, you add an extra set of io mapped registers (on an x86, on most other architectures you'd have it all in memory space somewhere) that you can write to, then reserve a small window in your memory space that you will be using as your data transfer window. Based on the contents of the registers a selected block of memory is paged in to the window and then you can transfer data in and out.
Incidentally this is how most graphics cards work.
Abuse potential is the first entry on they whiteboard when it comes to designing a new internet site these days. It's a pity, but that's the way it is.
I've been running a (small, nothing compared to what you're doing) community powered search engine for a while now (little less than one year), it's been a neat little project and I've learned a lot.
I think the combined power of having your name and wikipedia as a launchpad and quite probably the capital to see this through may give you a chance worth taking. That said I wished that you'd go back to fixing what's still broken in wikipedia and that google would fix their search, I think you'd both be in better shape then. Wikipedia gives me a strong feeling the inmates have taken over the asylum and google has some serious issues (that your effort will probably not be able to address).
Ok, I think I see where that went wrong, I think you missed the 'matlab' bit. That pretty much implies matrix manipulation or something close to it. Matlab is afaik not 'clusterable' so if he needs more speed the only way he's going to get it is by using a 64 bit box and oodles of ram.
As soon as you hit the swap it's game over, suddenly your run of one day can be a run of several weeks or more.
Another option would be to get rid of Matlab and learn how to really program the problem but for many people that are trying to do stuff like this that's too big a hurdle and they try to stretch the tools as far as they can go.
Just speaking for 'the dutch' here (I'm dutch, but I guess I can only speak for myself), if just this one country here would be paying reparations to the Africans for the damage done in centuries past there would be no food here and a very large surplus of cash in Africa. This country basically bankrolled itself on the exploitation of others. Not limited to Africa (where we were in fact not very 'well' represented), but also Surinam, Indonesia and other parts of Asia.
*exactly*. I will believe google is beneficial to open source rather than the other way around the day they start contributing to the kernel those modifications that they claim make their linux kernels superior to those distributed through kernel.org.
As it stands it's embrace, extend, hoard. It's within the letter of the license but certainly not within the spirit of it.
Google has profited MASSIVELY from the open source movement and has paid back (for them) token bits and nothing where it might hurt their competitive position. Of course that's not surprising but to pretend that google is now one of the driving powers behind FOSS in stead of the other way around is simply not true.
even the not-so-wealthy can have skills that allow them to ask difficult questions but may not have a corresponding budget.
I used to be in that position. Now I run my more interesting software on a 5 node dual opteron cluster (small for a cluster, I know... see that's those budget constraints again), each node has 8G of ram and 3TB storage. Before that it was 10 pentium machines at 600 Ghz (See http://clustercompute.com/ , which has inspired numerous people to build copies) and before that it was 10 pentium 225's (overclocked 200's:) ). What used to take weeks now takes at the most days. My applications are mostly in datamining, but I find computational biology to be very interesting.
You have to love it when people overcome their financial limitations with cleverness, why not give the guy a break and simply help him to solve his problem, starting out from the assumption that his problems and limitations are real.
It would have been nice to have a few more bits of information about the kind of data and the nature of the calculations, I'm pretty sure that 'cheap' is also relative but it seems that cheaper is better for this guy. How many people are at their most brilliant periods in their lives when they're also poor is not easy to figure out but I would not be surprised if it was the majority.
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I meant for one that will do skywriting, but that was too ambiguous, apologies.
Well, what you realize and what you don't really is your problem, but I suggest you check out the keywords 'witchhunts', 'inquisition' and 'crusades'.
Between the warrior popes and mohammed it's going to be a closer race.
better yet, go straight to the source and find out what Xerox was up to.
there you go again spoiling everything with your facts. Stick to the program please... ;)
idiot. the Dutch have arrested 2 terrorist cells in the last couple of years, plenty in the UK and plenty in Germany.
I wished I could say we don't go out and invade other countries illegally (since we are part & parcel of the lapdog parade and have sent our military into Iraq as well, which in the longer term will hopefully lead to the jailing of those responsible, if they don't manage to squash the investigations over and over again).
not that it matters much, but world war II started when the Germans invaded Poland, not France, and it was in 1939.
I think the 'heading towards' should be replaced by 'in' ... otherwise your comment is fine the way it is. What's more scary though is that almost ALL developed countries are now well past the threshold of what I would call a surveilance society.
I think your power calculations for skywriting are off by several orders of magnitude. That sort of laser is best not used near anything combustible either, not unless you want it to combust that is :)
A friend of mine who pioneered lasers in pop music (for Genesis in the Peter Gabriel days) once turned down a proposal to implement this because of the limited range of conditions when it would operate and the enormous power levels required, it's a bit of a difference to project something on a wall 5' away from you vs on a semi-transparant medium several hundred meters away. Of course you don't need to take my word for it, or you may have meant your original post in a sarcastic way (but that's hard to tell here sometimes).
a 50 mW laser will carray a good distance as long as you don't start scanning it, then it quickly becomes useless.
I think you are making one very basic assumption that is just dead wrong. People don't like to read, they like to look at pictures.
It's the downfall of politics and just about everything else, nobody (on average) really cares about stuff they have to go out and expend energy for. Reading is 'work', looking at pictures is 'entertainment', and entertainment seems to be all you can get from the tube. If you want information, the internet fortunately gives you an infinite number of channels so that at least for people that want information there now are avenues other than the local library (which can be closed, on the other side of town or simply too small).
Before '96 I spent a fortune on books, now I can read all I want. The Internet is TV's antidote. Sure it has the same BS on it that TV had, but it has so much more. More good information on any subject that you care enough about to do a little bit of research.
Finally something that is not wasting 90% of it's energy as heat, not to mention replacing ridiculously expensive bulbs every few hundred hours. :)
A low intensity version of this and you don't need a projection area any more, just beam it in directly
note to self: do not stare into laser with remaining eye...
this will dramatically increase the SETI people's chances to go out with a bang though.
or even small ones...
Well, with the math guys of seti on board I'm sure they've done a probability analysis of making it back in one piece. Would be a hell of a way to end the seti project though, if a whole planeload of seti associated scientists got hit by an Extraterristrial Object. Be even more apt if it artificial, but you can't win them all.
thank you :) It wasn't creativity out of choice, more out of necessity.
Motherboards / cpus can be anything you want but it's easier if they're all the same. After all as long as you plan your rods only in the standard pc stand-off holes they'll go right from the one to the next. It was a bit noisy though ! When it got switched off (somewhere in 2005) it had been in continuous operation for 5 years amazingly enough we never had a node crash in all that time, so the boot floppies (which were a total pain to make) got used only twice!
It's mission in life is (or rather was, because it has now been supplanted) to function as a test bed for a search engine and other massive parallel projects. I also used it to stress test switching hardware (with sometimes spectacular results).
Ever since I played a bit with transputers in the 80's I've been in love with parallel computers.
well, since he specified matlab I think the that datamining is out but you never know.
In olden times we used a trick called bankswitching and tons of ram to address memory beyond what you could address directly with the cpu. This was used to give 6502's up to 256K of ram (which was plenty expensive) and later using similar techniques to increase the memory in pc's.
The basic principle is really simple, you add an extra set of io mapped registers (on an x86, on most other architectures you'd have it all in memory space somewhere) that you can write to, then reserve a small window in your memory space that you will be using as your data transfer window. Based on the contents of the registers a selected block of memory is paged in to the window and then you can transfer data in and out.
Incidentally this is how most graphics cards work.
we're talking about the pre-google period here, not after yahoo adopted google but never mind.
supplant yahoo ???
More like supplant altavista. Yahoo search never really operated in the same 'space' as googles search, that's why they're still around.
amen.
Abuse potential is the first entry on they whiteboard when it comes to designing a new internet site these days. It's a pity, but that's the way it is.
I've been running a (small, nothing compared to what you're doing) community powered search engine for a while now (little less than one year), it's been a neat little project and I've learned a lot.
I think the combined power of having your name and wikipedia as a launchpad and quite probably the capital to see this through may give you a chance worth taking. That said I wished that you'd go back to fixing what's still broken in wikipedia and that google would fix their search, I think you'd both be in better shape then. Wikipedia gives me a strong feeling the inmates have taken over the asylum and google has some serious issues (that your effort will probably not be able to address).
best regards, & best of luck,
Jacques Mattheij
Ok, I think I see where that went wrong, I think you missed the 'matlab' bit. That pretty much implies matrix manipulation or something close to it. Matlab is afaik not 'clusterable' so if he needs more speed the only way he's going to get it is by using a 64 bit box and oodles of ram.
As soon as you hit the swap it's game over, suddenly your run of one day can be a run of several weeks or more.
Another option would be to get rid of Matlab and learn how to really program the problem but for many people that are trying to do stuff like this that's too big a hurdle and they try to stretch the tools as far as they can go.
Just speaking for 'the dutch' here (I'm dutch, but I guess I can only speak for myself), if just this one country here would be paying reparations to the Africans for the damage done in centuries past there would be no food here and a very large surplus of cash in Africa. This country basically bankrolled itself on the exploitation of others. Not limited to Africa (where we were in fact not very 'well' represented), but also Surinam, Indonesia and other parts of Asia.
If chisels are allowed then for me it would be:
- calipers (25 years)
- saxophone (26 years)
- fluke dvm about 20 years now
- tek scope, 17 years (and it was 2nd hand when I bought it)
*exactly*. I will believe google is beneficial to open source rather than the other way around the day they start contributing to the kernel those modifications that they claim make their linux kernels superior to those distributed through kernel.org.
As it stands it's embrace, extend, hoard. It's within the letter of the license but certainly not within the spirit of it.
Google has profited MASSIVELY from the open source movement and has paid back (for them) token bits and nothing where it might hurt their competitive position. Of course that's not surprising but to pretend that google is now one of the driving powers behind FOSS in stead of the other way around is simply not true.
Is to make new years resolutions retrospectively.
Those who have access to a time machine of course do not need this and can go about it the oldfashioned way.
even the not-so-wealthy can have skills that allow them to ask difficult questions but may not have a corresponding budget.
:) ). What used to take weeks now takes at the most days. My applications are mostly in datamining, but I find computational biology to be very interesting.
I used to be in that position. Now I run my more interesting software on a 5 node dual opteron cluster (small for a cluster, I know... see that's those budget constraints again), each node has 8G of ram and 3TB storage. Before that it was 10 pentium machines at 600 Ghz (See http://clustercompute.com/ , which has inspired numerous people to build copies) and before that it was 10 pentium 225's (overclocked 200's
You have to love it when people overcome their financial limitations with cleverness, why not give the guy a break and simply help him to solve his problem, starting out from the assumption that his problems and limitations are real.
It would have been nice to have a few more bits of information about the kind of data and the nature of the calculations, I'm pretty sure that 'cheap' is also relative but it seems that cheaper is better for this guy. How many people are at their most brilliant periods in their lives when they're also poor is not easy to figure out but I would not be surprised if it was the majority.
fuck those assholes.
Dear Taco,
I realize retirement is good but could you please come out of hiding, fix the code that shows the url a link points to in case it redirects...
And if not then please release the IPS of these clowns, I promise I won't leave any traces.
Happy new year