Well, if that's Gkrellm please slap me!
The vesion I'm running has solid colors for the histograms!
If someone has hacked it to have transparent or gradient like (gawd, what about transient persistency for modem activity... drool!) please blow a horn!
I once saw a short film set in a not so distant future (many years ago it was generally assumed that we whould all have jet packs nowdays!). The story goes somewhat like this: there's a little girl who's about to have an important school exam. Her parents are very worried, you whould say rather scared. The girl wants to pass the exam to receive this wonderful piece of electronic equipment (an old-fashioned TV...) so she's quite anxious too. Next scene shows the two parents crying desperately before the girl's dead body wrapped up in plastic... she was too intelligent and for the communitiy's benefit her life had been suppressed. Scary huh, does it sound familiar?
What was the name of this series? It was about spooky & weird sci-fi stories and as a kid I was hooked. I can't remember now, please help me!
I understand that x86 architectures run the MHz because the instructions are decomposed in smaller ones that fit tighter clock periods (thnx SIC prof.) This means more in-flight data that isn't yet finished but frees the processing units for more part-of-a-complete-run ops. All this boils down to a processor that executes many unfinished steps per time unit without actually having done anything useful (Watts!!!) until either everithing is discarded or the solution is finally available... Motorola does it differently... slower MHz true, but more solutions per time unit (feel free to correct me), also cheaper on power and fabrication tech...
...but I believe that the use of a Hydrogen bomb (vs regular A bomb) would considerable bring down the level of radiation afterwards...
you would be right if the nuclear fusion wasn't primed by a Pu detonation (which in turn is obtained with a conventional explosive blast)...
Actually not all of the Pu gets consumed so your vault would be tainted by a Pu coating all over it... Pu is toxic and a powerful alpha emitter... get a crumb in your loungs and don't worry about 2/3 packs 'o smokers a day... you've had it.
ERIC J. LERNER
The Big Bang never happened
Simon&Shuster
It's quite interesting and although it doesn't get into tough physics it bashes quite convincingly the big bang. Remember, the theory first came from Lemaitre (a gesuit priest) and was later rehashed by the fascinating H bomb bang? Hmmm... This chap proposes an interrresting 'electic' universe (ok that gives me away... I'm an EE student) dominated rather than by gravitation, by EM interaction between hot plasmas (Halfven models). The cute point is that modern cosmology kicks the lab out of the way and proposes a heaven dominated by untestable laws. Of course it rests it's claims on consistency, but we all know ptolemaic epycicles were consistent & wrong. Cosmological EM interactions are exactly the same that occour in lab pasma toys, Van Halen belts or in the solar system. I think that's quite cool...
Thinking about the affinity between films and computer games...
When was the last time you saw a really superlative film? Or better: what do you think of the recent hyper sFX ultra-THX films? Lousy, poor screenplay & predictable plots? Now what about recent games?
As materials such as metals and halogen are not used, the environmental load of the device is reduced...
Benzene isn't made from metal & halogens... it's quite toxinc though (and carcinogenic BTW)
consists of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen
Cyanide is plain CN... but it's not wise to sip it...
It all depends on the processing... if you need truckloads of CNH acid you have quite an environmental issue...
Well, it does suggest Gattaca's script...
Anyhow, nature has been doing it since the dawn of time. Think about natural selection: the faster creatures eat, the weaker simply die and fail to reproduce.
We, as part of the human species, are instinctively social animals. Thus, we help each other as the odds of surviving are higher than what they would be if we lived as solitary beings. It's a survival strategy that has evolved itself thru selection.
As long as we have the means to aid other beings (scientific progress, willingness & means to raise a family, etc) it's unethical not to, but failing that, it's best to let nature take it's course and the weakling's life. It sounds a bit fascist but I think it's reasonable (this doesn't imply I'm fascist though!)
Doing otherwise would break a pattern that has allowed humanity's survival and perhaps endanger it.
Abusing it, will be just as deleterious because having blue eyes or a smart voice isn't necessarily a succesfull evolutionary trait.
Just my 2 cents
wouln'd it be cool if they renamed Samba to Symbiosis or symbiont. It's still a grep on s*m*b* and I doubt it's trademarked! Plus, I think it's quite an appropriate name for it!
Assuming a minimum feature size of 0.18 micron and a 1.8V core voltage fields within the (MOS) FETs channels reach 10^5 V/cm. Drift velocities saturate under these conditions and are 10^7cm/s@77K and 8x10^6cm/s@300K. This data should apply for pure Si but could reasonably be extended to lightly doped channels (correct me if wrong) Pag 36 fig 1.17
Now this means that the temp decrease (assuming it is uniformly distributed on the cpu) provides 25% increase in drift velocities (responsible for channel conduction)
In bipolar devices forward biased junctions have an exp(qVa/kT) (Va= applied voltage, K= Boltzmann const, T= temp in K) term that helps boost the currents involved. Pag. 237-239
Intrinsic carrier concentrations drop @ about 100 K (p. 13 fig. 1.9) decreasing background noise (?)...
Really cool!
All refs are to:
Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits SE Muller & Kamins Wiley
How could I possibly boycott the music industry. Can I live without music? No! It's like breathing or drinking! The music I want to listen to is so closely connected to my soul that I can't even think of living without it! I mean: if the city you live has polluted air do you hold your breath? I have gnapster, I use it and every day I discover a new artist or a new genre I didn't know. Of course I don't go out and buy a pile of CDs every week but sometimes it does happen and guess what: it takes weeks for the CD to arrive because it's not on the shelves. The guys in the store have to ORDER IT abroad from some small specialized label because it's not in the maistream music industry!
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Well, if that's Gkrellm please slap me!
The vesion I'm running has solid colors for the histograms!
If someone has hacked it to have transparent or gradient like (gawd, what about transient persistency for modem activity... drool!) please blow a horn!
I once saw a short film set in a not so distant future (many years ago it was generally assumed that we whould all have jet packs nowdays!). The story goes somewhat like this: there's a little girl who's about to have an important school exam. Her parents are very worried, you whould say rather scared. The girl wants to pass the exam to receive this wonderful piece of electronic equipment (an old-fashioned TV...) so she's quite anxious too. Next scene shows the two parents crying desperately before the girl's dead body wrapped up in plastic... she was too intelligent and for the communitiy's benefit her life had been suppressed. Scary huh, does it sound familiar?
What was the name of this series? It was about spooky & weird sci-fi stories and as a kid I was hooked. I can't remember now, please help me!
I understand that x86 architectures run the MHz because the instructions are decomposed in smaller ones that fit tighter clock periods (thnx SIC prof.) This means more in-flight data that isn't yet finished but frees the processing units for more part-of-a-complete-run ops. All this boils down to a processor that executes many unfinished steps per time unit without actually having done anything useful (Watts!!!) until either everithing is discarded or the solution is finally available... Motorola does it differently... slower MHz true, but more solutions per time unit (feel free to correct me), also cheaper on power and fabrication tech...
you would be right if the nuclear fusion wasn't primed by a Pu detonation (which in turn is obtained with a conventional explosive blast)... Actually not all of the Pu gets consumed so your vault would be tainted by a Pu coating all over it... Pu is toxic and a powerful alpha emitter... get a crumb in your loungs and don't worry about 2/3 packs 'o smokers a day... you've had it.
ERIC J. LERNER
The Big Bang never happened
Simon&Shuster
It's quite interesting and although it doesn't get into tough physics it bashes quite convincingly the big bang. Remember, the theory first came from Lemaitre (a gesuit priest) and was later rehashed by the fascinating H bomb bang? Hmmm... This chap proposes an interrresting 'electic' universe (ok that gives me away... I'm an EE student) dominated rather than by gravitation, by EM interaction between hot plasmas (Halfven models). The cute point is that modern cosmology kicks the lab out of the way and proposes a heaven dominated by untestable laws. Of course it rests it's claims on consistency, but we all know ptolemaic epycicles were consistent & wrong. Cosmological EM interactions are exactly the same that occour in lab pasma toys, Van Halen belts or in the solar system. I think that's quite cool...
Thinking about the affinity between films and computer games...
When was the last time you saw a really superlative film? Or better: what do you think of the recent hyper sFX ultra-THX films? Lousy, poor screenplay & predictable plots? Now what about recent games?
So, the KWh is one KW (1000 Watts), sustained for one hour (3600 seconds), which results in 3.6 million watts...
Shouldn't that be Joule? ;-)
Benzene isn't made from metal & halogens... it's quite toxinc though (and carcinogenic BTW)
consists of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen
Cyanide is plain CN... but it's not wise to sip it...
It all depends on the processing... if you need truckloads of CNH acid you have quite an environmental issue...
Anyway, you're quite right, TV is full of National Geographic films peeping at elephants, lions etc having it... where are the humans!
Perhaps it's because most hospitals are run by priests.
Well, it does suggest Gattaca's script...
Anyhow, nature has been doing it since the dawn of time. Think about natural selection: the faster creatures eat, the weaker simply die and fail to reproduce.
We, as part of the human species, are instinctively social animals. Thus, we help each other as the odds of surviving are higher than what they would be if we lived as solitary beings. It's a survival strategy that has evolved itself thru selection.
As long as we have the means to aid other beings (scientific progress, willingness & means to raise a family, etc) it's unethical not to, but failing that, it's best to let nature take it's course and the weakling's life. It sounds a bit fascist but I think it's reasonable (this doesn't imply I'm fascist though!)
Doing otherwise would break a pattern that has allowed humanity's survival and perhaps endanger it.
Abusing it, will be just as deleterious because having blue eyes or a smart voice isn't necessarily a succesfull evolutionary trait.
Just my 2 cents
Heh, try this:
[edoardo@nautilus edoardo]$ lynx -dump -head http://www.mainsoft.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 17:47:41 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix)
Last-Modified: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:45:46 GMT
ETag: "1b070-3d2c-399d764a"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 15660
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
It's quite a surprise! I thought Paul Thurrott's wininformant said Apache runs only on college dorm servers ;-)
IIS is not losing to Apache where it matters
wouln'd it be cool if they renamed Samba to Symbiosis or symbiont. It's still a grep on s*m*b* and I doubt it's trademarked! Plus, I think it's quite an appropriate name for it!
Assuming a minimum feature size of 0.18 micron and a 1.8V core voltage fields within the (MOS) FETs channels reach 10^5 V/cm. Drift velocities saturate under these conditions and are 10^7cm/s@77K and 8x10^6cm/s@300K.
This data should apply for pure Si but could reasonably be extended to lightly doped channels (correct me if wrong)
Pag 36 fig 1.17
Now this means that the temp decrease (assuming it is uniformly distributed on the cpu) provides 25% increase in drift velocities (responsible for channel conduction)
In bipolar devices forward biased junctions have an exp(qVa/kT) (Va= applied voltage, K= Boltzmann const, T= temp in K) term that helps boost the currents involved.
Pag. 237-239
Intrinsic carrier concentrations drop @ about 100 K (p. 13 fig. 1.9) decreasing background noise (?)...
Really cool!
All refs are to:
Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits SE
Muller & Kamins
Wiley
How could I possibly boycott the music industry. Can I live without music? No! It's like breathing or drinking! The music I want to listen to is so closely connected to my soul that I can't even think of living without it! I mean: if the city you live has polluted air do you hold your breath? I have gnapster, I use it and every day I discover a new artist or a new genre I didn't know. Of course I don't go out and buy a pile of CDs every week but sometimes it does happen and guess what: it takes weeks for the CD to arrive because it's not on the shelves. The guys in the store have to ORDER IT abroad from some small specialized label because it's not in the maistream music industry!