Super-sonic hearing would allow you to detect ("hear") the perturbations of air molecules directly, through some sort of "seventh sense." The net effect would be to enable to you hear events long before the actual sound wave reached you. You could dodge sniper bullets from across a football field.
Titanium is a fun choice for an endoskeleton because you don't have to worry about the excessive weight of steel.. It's all about your power/weight ratio.. I think foamed aluminum would be a better choice, honestly.;)
I've just read it again.. There is another way to interpret it, but the whole sentence structure is really ambiguous.. He switches subjects like three times in one post.. I read it to mean "Quake3/UT, assuming these have been ported (to BeOS)..." not "Quake3/UT, (oh, switch back to Quake2 as the topic), assuming these (two older games) have been ported (obvious, since this is a different OS from what they were developed on..).." Anyway, I don't think I "missed the point.." I just think the original poster didn't express him/herself very well..
You assume wrong.. Quake3 and UT aren't available for BeOS yet.. They tested using the most recent games they had available.. I do think that Voodoo2s are too old-school to be worth testing, though.
BeOS is looking better every day. I'll definitely give it a shot as soon as there is a working GeForce driver. Those Crusher scores in particular are a huge improvement.. If only BeOS was a VMWare platform, you'd have an extremely wide software base to choose from.
Dude.. I just pulled down some John Zorn MP3s after I read your message. They're already deleted.. He's potentially the worst musician I've ever heard. OMG.. Thanks for the laugh! I agree about the other bands, though.:)
I don't see how your.sig file is possible.. This is a quote from this page: http://www.wweek.com/html/letters072199.html
"As of August 1998, 3.4 percent of prison inmates in Oregon had an IQ under 80, and 15.8 percent had severe and persistent mental illness." Are we to believe that Oregonian inmates are exceptionally intelligent, or that Trivial Pursuit (or just your.sig) is wrong?;)
JIHAD, BUTLERIAN (see also Great Revolt)--the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Actually, Dune is on-topic for this article.. Remember the oil lens?:
OIL LENS: hufuf oil held in static tension by an enclosing force field within a viewing tube as part of a magnifying or other light manipulation system. Because each lens element can be adjusted individually one micron at a time, the oil lens is considered the ultimate in accuracy for manipulating visible light.
How is this a problem? I hope you're not suggesting that people are equal today? Lance Armstrong is about 10000 times better at running the Tour de France than I am.. Does that make me a have-not? I will marginalize anyone who prevents me from having a perfect replacement body. With an axe if need be. We already have plenty of categories.. Instead of modified/unmodified, we have rich, poor, white, black, religious, atheist, etc, etc.
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2040u http://www.mitsubishi-display.com/products/dp204 0uNF.html I have one.. It's great.. flat screen,.24mm across the entire screen, enough actual resolution to properly display 2048x1536 without dropping pixels.. Only gets 78Hz at that resolution, though.. I run mine at 1600x1200x100Hz, typically.. 2048 I only use in Photoshop..
More interesting would be performing this surgery ahead of time on people without perfect vision, thus substantially increasing the base of applicants that are able to become fighter pilots.. I have the reflexes and killer instinct that I need, but I can't be one because I need glasses.;)
What Open Source project currently announced or in development do you feel is likely to equal the ease-of-use of Microsoft Windows 2000 (or Millennium Edition) within the next three years?
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Actually, they have explained the woodpecker:
Begin quote:
Woodpeckers
Well-adapted to living in trees, woodpeckers have strong toes with sharp claws that enable them to cling upright on the bark of trunks and branches. They also have stiff tail feathers to prop them up vertically. Their hard, pointed beaks allow them to chisel into wood in search of insects and sap, or to excavate cavities for nesting and roosting. They also use their beaks to drum or tap out sounds during breeding season. Their thick skulls are protected from the concussive force of pounding by a narrow space around the brain that functions as a shock-absorber.
With long, flexible, bristled and sticky tongues, woodpeckers call probe small holes in wood to catch insects. In feeding, most woodpeckers start at the base of a tree, searching for insects and spiders, and then they move up the trunk in spirals until they reach the larger limbs where they explore the undersides of branches. Some species, such as sapsuckers and hairy woodpeckers, excavate holes in live trees. Others, such as flickers and downy woodpeckers, prefer to drill in dying trees or snags. In either case, the birds tunnel down 6 to 18 inches deep, making the excavation wider at the bottom for the egg chamber.
From a different resource:
And if you've ever wondered why woodpeckers don't get headaches with all that bill banging, its because their skulls are unusually thick, curving inward at the upper base of the bill, instead of meeting it directly, giving the woodpecker's brain a built-in shock absorber. The muscle structure of the head is specialized to power the thrusts of the bill and to also help absorb the shock caused by pecking.
If your server has time left over to get good SETI@Home stats, then you probably spent too much money on it.;) I guess there's something to be said for "headroom."
Seems fairly silly. For $2500, you can get 10 9.1GB Quantum Atlas V (7200 RPM) Ultra160 HDDs and, say, a DPT single-channel Ultra160 RAID controller. The drives push about 29MB/sec each on the outside track, so in RAID 0, you'd be pretty much hitting the limit of your PCI bandwidth even at the innermost portion of the disk. $2500, 90GB of 132MB/sec storage. Since you'd support all the important flavors of RAID, you could sacrifice storage space for redundancy, if you like.. If you're editing video, you probably don't care. For half the price of this QikDRIVE thing, you could get two controllers, each with 10 drives, and make them redundant (RAID 0+1) Not only that, but you could toss in a motherboard with a couple of 64bit PCI slots, and 1-2GB of memory, and STILL be cheaper than the QikDRIVE.
Wrong. The V5-5500 (the card that this news post is about) uses an internal Molex connector for power. The V5-6000 uses an external "Voodoo Volts(tm)" power supply.
Luckily for your argument, you haven't bothered to quote the portions of the story that don't support it.
Your message tone is kind of harsh, given that we're talking about Ars Technica here, one of the most reputable ACTUAL "News for Nerds" sites on the net. Wow.. I got through this entire message without making a comparison between Ars and your site.. Oops.
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Super-sonic hearing would allow you to detect ("hear") the perturbations of air molecules directly, through some sort of "seventh sense."
;)
The net effect would be to enable to you hear events long before the actual sound wave reached you. You could dodge sniper bullets from across a football field.
Titanium is a fun choice for an endoskeleton because you don't have to worry about the excessive weight of steel.. It's all about your power/weight ratio.. I think foamed aluminum would be a better choice, honestly.
There ARE no companies you can trust with more than 15 employees.
You're going to be eating these words five years from now.. Would you like to preorder a bottle of Microsoft Ketchup(tm) with that?:
"Who in hell needs to embed movies or sounds in their word processor documents?"
Digital cameras. With a Microdrive like this, you can finally get real use out of the TIFF modes.. JPEG must die! ;)
So, you play a lot of multi-user Quake2 on your box? SSH in over the serial port and start circle-strafing?
So, you want me to reboot whenever I want to switch games? That sucks. :)
I've just read it again.. There is another way to interpret it, but the whole sentence structure is really ambiguous.. He switches subjects like three times in one post.. I read it to mean "Quake3/UT, assuming these have been ported (to BeOS)..." not "Quake3/UT, (oh, switch back to Quake2 as the topic), assuming these (two older games) have been ported (obvious, since this is a different OS from what they were developed on..).."
Anyway, I don't think I "missed the point.." I just think the original poster didn't express him/herself very well..
You assume wrong.. Quake3 and UT aren't available for BeOS yet.. They tested using the most recent games they had available.. I do think that Voodoo2s are too old-school to be worth testing, though.
BeOS is looking better every day. I'll definitely give it a shot as soon as there is a working GeForce driver. Those Crusher scores in particular are a huge improvement..
If only BeOS was a VMWare platform, you'd have an extremely wide software base to choose from.
My reply was meant to be funny as well. ;)
Dude.. I just pulled down some John Zorn MP3s after I read your message. They're already deleted.. He's potentially the worst musician I've ever heard. OMG.. Thanks for the laugh! :)
I agree about the other bands, though.
I don't see how your .sig file is possible.. This is a quote from this page:
.sig) is wrong? ;)
http://www.wweek.com/html/letters072199.html
"As of August 1998, 3.4 percent of prison inmates in Oregon had an IQ under 80, and 15.8 percent had severe and persistent mental illness."
Are we to believe that Oregonian inmates are exceptionally intelligent, or that Trivial Pursuit (or just your
Shouldn't that be post-butlerian-jihad? ;)
JIHAD, BUTLERIAN (see also Great Revolt)--the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
Actually, Dune is on-topic for this article.. Remember the oil lens?:
OIL LENS: hufuf oil held in static tension by an enclosing force field within a viewing tube as part of a magnifying or other light manipulation system. Because each lens element can be adjusted individually one micron at a time, the oil lens is considered the ultimate in accuracy for manipulating visible light.
That's what we need to replace our eyes..
How is this a problem? I hope you're not suggesting that people are equal today?
Lance Armstrong is about 10000 times better at running the Tour de France than I am.. Does that make me a have-not?
I will marginalize anyone who prevents me from having a perfect replacement body. With an axe if need be. We already have plenty of categories.. Instead of modified/unmodified, we have rich, poor, white, black, religious, atheist, etc, etc.
Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2040u4 0uNF.html .24mm across the entire screen, enough actual resolution to properly display 2048x1536 without dropping pixels.. Only gets 78Hz at that resolution, though.. I run mine at 1600x1200x100Hz, typically.. 2048 I only use in Photoshop..
http://www.mitsubishi-display.com/products/dp20
I have one.. It's great.. flat screen,
More interesting would be performing this surgery ahead of time on people without perfect vision, thus substantially increasing the base of applicants that are able to become fighter pilots.. I have the reflexes and killer instinct that I need, but I can't be one because I need glasses. ;)
Wow. That's awesome. I'd probably use my 2048x1536 mode more often if I had eyesight that good. :)
That's what I was wondering. :)
EarthDawn is better anyway.
What Open Source project currently announced or in development do you feel is likely to equal the ease-of-use of Microsoft Windows 2000 (or Millennium Edition) within the next three years?
Actually, they have explained the woodpecker:
Begin quote:
Woodpeckers
Well-adapted to living in trees, woodpeckers have strong toes with sharp claws that enable them to cling upright on the bark of trunks and branches. They also have stiff tail feathers to prop them up vertically. Their hard, pointed beaks allow them to chisel into wood in search of insects and sap, or to excavate cavities for nesting and roosting. They also use their beaks to drum or tap out sounds during breeding season. Their thick skulls are protected from the concussive force of pounding by a narrow space around the brain that functions as a shock-absorber.
With long, flexible, bristled and sticky tongues, woodpeckers call probe small holes in wood to catch insects. In feeding, most woodpeckers start at the base of a tree, searching for insects and spiders, and then they move up the trunk in spirals until they reach the larger limbs where they explore the undersides of branches. Some species, such as sapsuckers and hairy woodpeckers, excavate holes in live trees. Others, such as flickers and downy woodpeckers, prefer to drill in dying trees or snags. In either case, the birds tunnel down 6 to 18 inches deep, making the excavation wider at the bottom for the egg chamber.
From a different resource:
And if you've ever wondered why woodpeckers don't get headaches with all that bill banging, its because their skulls are unusually thick, curving inward at the upper base of the bill, instead of meeting it directly, giving the woodpecker's brain a built-in shock absorber. The muscle structure of the head is specialized to power the thrusts of the bill and to also help absorb the shock caused by pecking.
If your server has time left over to get good SETI@Home stats, then you probably spent too much money on it. ;)
I guess there's something to be said for "headroom."
Seems fairly silly. For $2500, you can get 10 9.1GB Quantum Atlas V (7200 RPM) Ultra160 HDDs and, say, a DPT single-channel Ultra160 RAID controller.
The drives push about 29MB/sec each on the outside track, so in RAID 0, you'd be pretty much hitting the limit of your PCI bandwidth even at the innermost portion of the disk.
$2500, 90GB of 132MB/sec storage. Since you'd support all the important flavors of RAID, you could sacrifice storage space for redundancy, if you like.. If you're editing video, you probably don't care. For half the price of this QikDRIVE thing, you could get two controllers, each with 10 drives, and make them redundant (RAID 0+1)
Not only that, but you could toss in a motherboard with a couple of 64bit PCI slots, and 1-2GB of memory, and STILL be cheaper than the QikDRIVE.
Gah.. Ani DiFranco is the worst musician I've heard recently.
Wrong. The V5-5500 (the card that this news post is about) uses an internal Molex connector for power. The V5-6000 uses an external "Voodoo Volts(tm)" power supply.
Luckily for your argument, you haven't bothered to quote the portions of the story that don't support it.
Your message tone is kind of harsh, given that we're talking about Ars Technica here, one of the most reputable ACTUAL "News for Nerds" sites on the net.
Wow.. I got through this entire message without making a comparison between Ars and your site.. Oops.