I read LotR in the 3rd grade - I've therefore forgotten most of it long ago, and fully admit I need to read it again. And I didn't succeed in reading silmarillon, despite numerous attempts. Maybe I'll try again in 2001.
Anyway, I remember hearing that it was all analogous to WWII - i.e. most of the characters were heads of state, the biggest bad guy was Hitler... I don't remember who was who anymore... but I am interested in thoughts on this point.
Range is usually poor. The HP48G (and GX, and possibly others) is a calculator made by HP which should cost less than $100 now. It was $125 or so, new, in 1995... It has an IR port. They can talk to each other a few feet away. Shareware program to run your TV. Serial connection costs $20 (the cable) can run as an X,Y, or Zmodem server...
anyway it worked to something like 5', and someone I knew built a lense setup that made it more reasonable... 15 or 20 or so. As I recall.
Of course, it's been a week, no one's going to read this.
There are some things that are particulars, some that give you a different way to think, and most are somewhere in between. In terms of programming languages, I'd say java. Not because it is "the best" or bleeding edge. I haven't heard of any other language that does a better job of making you think clearly about what you're doing - and is ever used by more than 10 people
The most important things to teach young are those things that are harder to get there later. languages are terribly hard to learn later. I'm not near the level of this child, but always a few grades up. It is important to interact with a bunch of people who are peers... that isn't you, because it's your job to be "above" at least in an emotional sense. They don't have to be his/her age, but they have to include a fair top/bottom mix such that more than 1 makes contributions to what's going on.
I firmly believe that calculus should be taught to most children b4 the fifth grade. Gifted children sooner. If you think about it, you only need to have learned multiplication, functions, and very basic graphing to begin learning differentiation and integration. Basic algebra results in symbolic results. As they learn new things, they learn the calc part too. Trig, logs, geometry, most analytical algebra, etc are unecessary to establish the important, thought changing concepts about rate.
No, they won't learn eigenvectors until much later. who cares. Many "educated" people never get their minds around calculus because they weren't thinking about things well enough earlier. I derived a tiny example of calculus a year b4 I was supposed to take it. My teacher was not happy and told me it was only true in a specific case - I later discovered SHE didn't know calculus (this is NOT a bad school, either) it took me pages to prove a broadER case algebraically... and I never got her to understand. (She did let me site my algebraic proof on the test...) the calc proof is exactly two lines, verbosely.
I think this is why it isn't taught - teachers b4 college in the US usually have degrees in gened (this is PREFERRED by schools) as opposed to in their field of teaching. THEY don't know calc. My mother taught teachers and she certainly didn't - I ended doing her gradebook in jr high. Her grades were 15% whatever she wanted so she could lean whether she liked you or not. She did NOT make that number up independently, she modified it until she liked the result. And she is not alone.
If you reply with an email addy in body, I'll send you mail. I'm out of time.
I tried to make this an Ask/., but alas, it was rejected.
I'd like to back up every bit of several HDs I have. (I do not intend on forensic recovery... no new hardware) I THINK there is a way to use dd for this, but I'm a little new to it... I'd like to be able to grab absolutely the entire contents of the disk, including the MBR, partition table, etc., and including any "deleted" files or non-overwritten sections of partially overwritten files.
I'm also interested in preferences regarding compression. I know it will not be terribly effective (the biggest gain is taking out the fs space...) but even a small gain would be useful. I also want to avoid any compression scheme which destroys an archive due to small early errors, like gz (as I understand...)
You can port wine. (as stated above)
You can't run i386 code on a PPC using only Wine (as stated above)
You can already run Connectix VPC on a PPC to emulate an i386 machine, and it works pretty impressively, imo.
The disadvantage of this (and bochs) is that it requires a copy (legal or otherwise, of course) of a windows operating system. And windows backdoors, etc, will still be present. Which is why running Wine OVER VPC might be a good idea... I thought I saw linux VPC the other day, although perhaps I was hallucinating. This would be a totally free legal solution... I only worry about the speed hits... I'd guess not too bad, though.
pricewatch has a "used" section, and often prices that beat stuff discounted elsewhere. www.pricewatch.com
I just happened to have gotten an ad for a sale:
Celerys:
466/64/8.4 onboard everything... $295
333/32/2.1 onboared lots.. HP Brio $195
both USD
I sent you he whole email... but apparently it didn't have (at least in the plain txt)
www.imaxx.net or
815 578 1000 All in USD and US phone numbers... *shrug * they were the ISP of a company I worked for, and at least they used linux servers.
In case that wasn't clear enough... I'm looking for two software recommendations, one for something that will read every bit, and one to compress the file it makes.
sorry:)
I tried an Ask/., but alas, I was rejected. Please help!
I'd like to take some old hard drives I have and save all the data on them (rawread?) including MBR etc. I'd like to be able to recover files later, possibly on a different drive. And I'd like to compress those raw files as much as possible without using straight compression - I don't want to be vulnerable to a single bit corrupting an archive. I plan on burning the compressed files to CDR..
TIA
you're link was very descriptive, but I think it has at least a few things wrong in what is now becoming an urban legend.
The structural engineer William LeMessurier spoke at my school, and I was there. First of all, he said it was an intern of his, not just a student told to study the building. Second, without the reinforcement it was something like a 70 year wind, the chances of it falling right away were greatly overstated by you and your link.
And another really cool thing about that building is those skinny supports - they were perfectly strong enough, but the architech said they couldn't be there, they were too skinny, people would run away. So they put a fire escape around them, to make them LOOK stronger.
AFAIK, Exchange works relatively well, considering that it's an M$ product.
Try to list the terrible vulnerabilities that ONLY outlook has - I'd make a case to BAN outlook, not standardize on it.
Short of banning outlook, at least SOME people at your office can have relatively secure (from scripting) email, if they don't use outlook...
so I think the standardization on outlook is the REASON not to standardize on Exchange.
I know I laugh constantly at everyone who gets a new M$ virus, because I'm completely immune.
On a similar note, any time you can avoid castrating yourself to a single vendor like M$, it is always a good thing. And you'd be spending money to change.
I'm sorry I can't be more help than I'm about to be, but here goes:
You will first need to decide what kind of reliability you really want. If I was going to be on a boat for 2 yrs, I'd spring for very reliable. Although it depends on how bad-off you'd be if it horked.
Search for Single Board Computer, and you should be able to find some that can withstand 25+ Gs and probably are waterproof to boot. Then make sure the OS and all essential functions run with no drive at all, from SRAM or FlashROM or something similar.
To me, I'd want something that would keep getting jolted around during a hurricane and still work. On the other hand, they use Thinkpads on the Shuttle *shrug*.
You can try to have it export to a drive ALSO, if you want, but I'd say only for recording and non-constant functions. 3 laptop drives might be cheaper than 1 solid state, and are probably as reliable, if swapping them is okay.
If you want some particular, but inexperienced, advice reply and I'll mail you.
I'm working at Fermi in production of the RunII CDF detector (as an engineer, not a physicist) and from what I hear, taking LEP down means we are nearly assured of the Higgs before LHC comes up - unless it is truely impossible at Tevatron's size, which seems unlikely, currently. Things here seem to be going quite well, imo.
To give a (very) rough explanation of the Higgs: when you smash things together with very high energies, you get a huge explosion (huge, considering it was started by one proton and one antiproton) and all sorts of fragments are produced.
However, we have to measure these fragments using very odd means, because it is mostly impossible to directly measure most of these things... you can only measure the effects they have on the relatively normal stuff we can build a detector out of. (if you build it out of these things, the detector would vanish in much less than a second...) So the more "normal" fragments are relatively easier to measure, because they interact more with the more normal detector.
In recent high energy physics history there has been a string of these things, Higgs is the next.
Someone said they first saw sci notation in 93, and I'm amazed. I'd heard in Junior High earlier than that... or did you mean something else.
Btw, Fermi has a significant linux community. Also, (from a bad memory and this isn't my department but) they have to filter the incoming data in realtime, keeping only the most interesting 1/millionth of it - and that data alone is a couple CDs/second worth of data. Lots o' bandwidth there...
The mac is, imo, equivalent to NT (the benefits are opposite, but the value is there) and basically won't cause you problems... and you won't need to pay someone (usually) to fix silly software problems.
But I advise anyone who is OR is trying to learn to be a geek to buy a PC. Because Mac hardware is too expensive. AFAIK, this is NOT price gouging on Apple's part. Compared to other PPC solutions, they're downright cheap (especially their cheap stuff) but they don't have the volume the PC world has, and everything just costs more.
Also, the right solution to a huge number of PCs is that when you ahve a software problem, you recopy an HD image. Meaning that the ease of untrained repair for the mac is a lost cause.
The other reason, of course, is because the terminals are WINBLOWS!, and only the server is linux. But it's a related point - Win w/ ME is cheaper, only it's much suckier and less stable. But if you actually are going to reinstall all the time (preferably from img) and you're not going to have YOUR files on there, it's a good value. Not as good as linux, which has the best of these worlds...
but for price, it's going to be linux on x86 for at least a few more years, maybe more.
It's not clear whether you're for real (imo) but I'd certainly not believe you without at least a traceable email, preferably.edu. If I had to guess, I'd say it was actually someone trying to get that mail address to have some particularly confusing SPAM, from us.
If you're serious, post more details, and I bet a bunch o' us will take you up on it. But I'm betting you're not.
It was an analogy. He said "novel" to represent code he had written, and "coffee maker" to represent the books they took - which were just regular, published admin books which presumably they could BUY a copy of if they wanted, but no.
And I DO remember the SJ raid. It almost put him under, and i almost had to weep. I love Steve Jackson!
I'm personally also relatively young and male, and while I'm nearsighted my vision is otherwise quite good... nightvision, low contrast, etc. I have to work really hard to see those flickerings... in the corner.
Partially I think I'm largely immune - I once experimented finding a "sweet spot" on a strobe light (it was a lot slower than you might think... 20Hz if I remember correctly) that made most people seem almost drunk, have some trouble walking... and I was just fine. Maybe I'm just blessed.
Flourescents getting ready to break should be flickering SLOWER if you can see them better... if they were flickering fast enough you wouldn't be able to.
There is another big difference in how they work from a monitor: they are sinusoidally powered, so there is a flicker, but the majority of the cycle is under at least some power.
A monitor has only a tiny little flash out of each cycle, so the flash is much brighter and everything else is much darker, and it is totally dependent on being above your refresh rate.
So the bulbs only have to be close...
But I also urge you to ask your friends and report back:)
The editor even said it is above 72, somewhere in the 100 range. I personally (and most men I know) have a hard time making out a 60 Hz refresh, even. But the majority of women (in a statistically uselessly small sample) could make out 70+
Also note that if you really could see 60, flourescent bulbs would seem to strobe for you. They don't for me, but ask around and you'll be surprised. (It works best with 1 direct bulb. More bulbs, especially on different circuits, can be at different parts of the cycle and meld together.)
But you CAN see a much shorter flash than 1/60th of a second. You don't see in strobe, you see the average of all light in the slice - the "shutter" is open the entire duration. Which is why you see a blur: it's the average of all the images from 1/whatever of a second. This averaging is why the sleepy hollow cardinal trick (and many others) work.
I'm not sure what good 200 fps does when your monitor rate (for a regular monitor, admittedly) tops out in the 80s. I think there are two reasons:
1 mentioned above, is extra capacity. 200 fps average might equal 60 fps during a fight scene.
but another reason is that even if you're displaying only 60 Hz (monitor limit) to have maximum smooth you need a frame refresh every 1/60 of a second, not just an average of 1/60th. And if frames take varying amounts of time to process, which they do, you could be unlucky and have 2 frame refreshes in 1 monitor refresh and then none in another... it would look like 30 Hz because only every other monitor refresh would be an unmodified repeat. This can happen even with BOTH the monitor and fps being at 60 Hz if the fps changes size (sinusoidally, in my example) and they two are not in sync.
FPS are not regular, and the reality is the fps is a measure of speed, NOT a reliable timing device. 200 fps != 1/200th each refresh... the first one after you turn is going to have to make many more changes, so it's going to take a lot longer, whereas many things will be reused in the next one. (this assumes nothing has to move to the card on the bus, which I won't go into) so if that refresh is 4x longer than average you'd be down to 50Hz for that frame. THEN you have to use an integer number of monitor refreshes, so it's going to be 30 Hz as viewed. Too much math, perhaps.
I predict that eventually (probably 1 more generation) many of the objects will be dynamically generated in sync with the monitor refresh. The framerate will be fixed at the (variable) monitor refresh rate. For each frame, one class of objects will be redrawn each time, no more and no less. The problem is that that class has to redraw asynchronously with any other kind of redraw, and that can be bad. But it's good for many kinds of animations... and depending on the architecture it should be no worse in any case.
you heard it here first.
If I had any moderator points (which I wouldn't 'cause it was a reply to my post, so obviously I posted) I'd mod you up.
Do you know whether Transmeta has or doesn't have HLT? While I didn't think of it in the two minutes I was writing that post, it sounds like something Transmeta's "next generation" powersaving they claim to have would probably contain... and I'd guess that PowerNow would have it, too... but I could certainly be wrong.
the article says the HD is 8/30/50 GB, while the chart says 10.
Also, I do believe it could be GPL'd or equiv, since they are allowing freeware titles... they seem to be allowing free development. I imagine that for them to certify you for a freeware game you have to actually have a FREE game... which would give them volume and yet not eliminate the pay-game revenue stream.
They have the much-desired ethernet interface... My guess is their open API + ethernet will allow you to do all sorts of things like netsurf and control your toaster over 10bT. Play MP3s through your stereo mixed with games... Whereas web tools will probably WORK with it, they probably won't ont he Xbox... meaning this will be able to be the WebTV non power users should actually buy, because it'll be using any ISP.
I hope their ad department is up to it. But it seems like you'll be getting a console + a basic computer for $300... which sounds pretty sweet to me.
SpeedStep: I do not think that chip does what you think it does. And it doesn't ship with Iocaine powder, either.
SpeedStep runs at the lower speed WHENEVER you are on battery. (at least according to Dell) It is not dependent on the processes going on. It only runs at the higher speed when plugged in. imo, this is idiotic. But I can see how it would reduce OS problems.
Transmeta's processor does a much swifter thing; it changes dynamically based roughly on usage... so when you aren't using it, it just slows down.
This is better, but I'm not sure how much, than those programs which simply send the least-power-using instruction for a cycle to reduce heat load. Since heat load = power input (because all is eventually heat) such a program should significantly reduce your power usage, BUT it depends on the OS working right... I suspect that actually slowing down the number of operations is much more efficient than the lowest op, because I bet there's a bunch of overhead even on the lowest-power operation. So Transmeta's is definitely better.
I haven't researched PowerNow. But I bet it isn't stupid like SpeedStep. So I'm betting on a Transmeta style approach, where it dynamically changes it based on load. (Of course, the response time and load analysis algorithm are going to be important, and you should really set up all your backup maintenance progs to only run on AC power... along with RC5:)
So that's why it would screw with Linux, and SpeedStep won't (fewer changes... possibly even only on boot...) However, I can't imagine a technique which would be MORE disruptive than transmeta's (except possibly for changing faster...) so I'd imagine that if Transmeta works it'd be fine.
Public DNS is a good head start to rolling your own.
No guarantees about anything... Also, I'm not convinced that a roll-your-own solution will really give you better uptime, unless you have a lot of time to devote to fixing an outage... it certainly lets you know as much as anyone about WHY it's down...
Slashdot Mirror
thank you
gzip, of course, doesn't apparently meet my other needs...
but at least I have part of it solved.
I read LotR in the 3rd grade - I've therefore forgotten most of it long ago, and fully admit I need to read it again. And I didn't succeed in reading silmarillon, despite numerous attempts. Maybe I'll try again in 2001.
Anyway, I remember hearing that it was all analogous to WWII - i.e. most of the characters were heads of state, the biggest bad guy was Hitler... I don't remember who was who anymore... but I am interested in thoughts on this point.
Range is usually poor. The HP48G (and GX, and possibly others) is a calculator made by HP which should cost less than $100 now. It was $125 or so, new, in 1995... It has an IR port. They can talk to each other a few feet away. Shareware program to run your TV. Serial connection costs $20 (the cable) can run as an X,Y, or Zmodem server...
anyway it worked to something like 5', and someone I knew built a lense setup that made it more reasonable... 15 or 20 or so. As I recall.
Of course, it's been a week, no one's going to read this.
There are some things that are particulars, some that give you a different way to think, and most are somewhere in between. In terms of programming languages, I'd say java. Not because it is "the best" or bleeding edge. I haven't heard of any other language that does a better job of making you think clearly about what you're doing - and is ever used by more than 10 people
The most important things to teach young are those things that are harder to get there later. languages are terribly hard to learn later. I'm not near the level of this child, but always a few grades up. It is important to interact with a bunch of people who are peers... that isn't you, because it's your job to be "above" at least in an emotional sense. They don't have to be his/her age, but they have to include a fair top/bottom mix such that more than 1 makes contributions to what's going on.
I firmly believe that calculus should be taught to most children b4 the fifth grade. Gifted children sooner. If you think about it, you only need to have learned multiplication, functions, and very basic graphing to begin learning differentiation and integration. Basic algebra results in symbolic results. As they learn new things, they learn the calc part too. Trig, logs, geometry, most analytical algebra, etc are unecessary to establish the important, thought changing concepts about rate.
No, they won't learn eigenvectors until much later. who cares. Many "educated" people never get their minds around calculus because they weren't thinking about things well enough earlier. I derived a tiny example of calculus a year b4 I was supposed to take it. My teacher was not happy and told me it was only true in a specific case - I later discovered SHE didn't know calculus (this is NOT a bad school, either) it took me pages to prove a broadER case algebraically... and I never got her to understand. (She did let me site my algebraic proof on the test...) the calc proof is exactly two lines, verbosely.
I think this is why it isn't taught - teachers b4 college in the US usually have degrees in gened (this is PREFERRED by schools) as opposed to in their field of teaching. THEY don't know calc. My mother taught teachers and she certainly didn't - I ended doing her gradebook in jr high. Her grades were 15% whatever she wanted so she could lean whether she liked you or not. She did NOT make that number up independently, she modified it until she liked the result. And she is not alone.
If you reply with an email addy in body, I'll send you mail. I'm out of time.
I tried to make this an Ask /., but alas, it was rejected.
I'd like to back up every bit of several HDs I have. (I do not intend on forensic recovery... no new hardware) I THINK there is a way to use dd for this, but I'm a little new to it... I'd like to be able to grab absolutely the entire contents of the disk, including the MBR, partition table, etc., and including any "deleted" files or non-overwritten sections of partially overwritten files.
I'm also interested in preferences regarding compression. I know it will not be terribly effective (the biggest gain is taking out the fs space...) but even a small gain would be useful. I also want to avoid any compression scheme which destroys an archive due to small early errors, like gz (as I understand...)
thank you
You can port wine. (as stated above)
You can't run i386 code on a PPC using only Wine (as stated above)
You can already run Connectix VPC on a PPC to emulate an i386 machine, and it works pretty impressively, imo.
The disadvantage of this (and bochs) is that it requires a copy (legal or otherwise, of course) of a windows operating system. And windows backdoors, etc, will still be present. Which is why running Wine OVER VPC might be a good idea... I thought I saw linux VPC the other day, although perhaps I was hallucinating. This would be a totally free legal solution... I only worry about the speed hits... I'd guess not too bad, though.
pricewatch has a "used" section, and often prices that beat stuff discounted elsewhere. www.pricewatch.com
I just happened to have gotten an ad for a sale:
Celerys:
466/64/8.4 onboard everything... $295
333/32/2.1 onboared lots.. HP Brio $195
both USD
I sent you he whole email... but apparently it didn't have (at least in the plain txt)
www.imaxx.net or
815 578 1000 All in USD and US phone numbers... *shrug * they were the ISP of a company I worked for, and at least they used linux servers.
In case that wasn't clear enough... I'm looking for two software recommendations, one for something that will read every bit, and one to compress the file it makes. :)
sorry
I tried an Ask /., but alas, I was rejected. Please help!
I'd like to take some old hard drives I have and save all the data on them (rawread?) including MBR etc. I'd like to be able to recover files later, possibly on a different drive. And I'd like to compress those raw files as much as possible without using straight compression - I don't want to be vulnerable to a single bit corrupting an archive. I plan on burning the compressed files to CDR..
TIA
you're link was very descriptive, but I think it has at least a few things wrong in what is now becoming an urban legend.
The structural engineer William LeMessurier spoke at my school, and I was there. First of all, he said it was an intern of his, not just a student told to study the building. Second, without the reinforcement it was something like a 70 year wind, the chances of it falling right away were greatly overstated by you and your link.
And another really cool thing about that building is those skinny supports - they were perfectly strong enough, but the architech said they couldn't be there, they were too skinny, people would run away. So they put a fire escape around them, to make them LOOK stronger.
AFAIK, Exchange works relatively well, considering that it's an M$ product.
Try to list the terrible vulnerabilities that ONLY outlook has - I'd make a case to BAN outlook, not standardize on it.
Short of banning outlook, at least SOME people at your office can have relatively secure (from scripting) email, if they don't use outlook...
so I think the standardization on outlook is the REASON not to standardize on Exchange.
I know I laugh constantly at everyone who gets a new M$ virus, because I'm completely immune.
On a similar note, any time you can avoid castrating yourself to a single vendor like M$, it is always a good thing. And you'd be spending money to change.
Above is a goatse.cx link
including Reply and Anne Marie's fake post...
you've been warned.
I'm sorry I can't be more help than I'm about to be, but here goes:
You will first need to decide what kind of reliability you really want. If I was going to be on a boat for 2 yrs, I'd spring for very reliable. Although it depends on how bad-off you'd be if it horked.
Search for Single Board Computer, and you should be able to find some that can withstand 25+ Gs and probably are waterproof to boot. Then make sure the OS and all essential functions run with no drive at all, from SRAM or FlashROM or something similar.
To me, I'd want something that would keep getting jolted around during a hurricane and still work. On the other hand, they use Thinkpads on the Shuttle *shrug*.
You can try to have it export to a drive ALSO, if you want, but I'd say only for recording and non-constant functions. 3 laptop drives might be cheaper than 1 solid state, and are probably as reliable, if swapping them is okay.
If you want some particular, but inexperienced, advice reply and I'll mail you.
Live in Lombard; work at FermiLab; used to go to IIT.
Interested; busy.
I'm working at Fermi in production of the RunII CDF detector (as an engineer, not a physicist) and from what I hear, taking LEP down means we are nearly assured of the Higgs before LHC comes up - unless it is truely impossible at Tevatron's size, which seems unlikely, currently. Things here seem to be going quite well, imo.
To give a (very) rough explanation of the Higgs: when you smash things together with very high energies, you get a huge explosion (huge, considering it was started by one proton and one antiproton) and all sorts of fragments are produced.
However, we have to measure these fragments using very odd means, because it is mostly impossible to directly measure most of these things... you can only measure the effects they have on the relatively normal stuff we can build a detector out of. (if you build it out of these things, the detector would vanish in much less than a second...) So the more "normal" fragments are relatively easier to measure, because they interact more with the more normal detector.
In recent high energy physics history there has been a string of these things, Higgs is the next.
Someone said they first saw sci notation in 93, and I'm amazed. I'd heard in Junior High earlier than that... or did you mean something else.
Btw, Fermi has a significant linux community. Also, (from a bad memory and this isn't my department but) they have to filter the incoming data in realtime, keeping only the most interesting 1/millionth of it - and that data alone is a couple CDs/second worth of data. Lots o' bandwidth there...
I always recommend a mac to any non-geek.
The mac is, imo, equivalent to NT (the benefits are opposite, but the value is there) and basically won't cause you problems... and you won't need to pay someone (usually) to fix silly software problems.
But I advise anyone who is OR is trying to learn to be a geek to buy a PC. Because Mac hardware is too expensive. AFAIK, this is NOT price gouging on Apple's part. Compared to other PPC solutions, they're downright cheap (especially their cheap stuff) but they don't have the volume the PC world has, and everything just costs more.
Also, the right solution to a huge number of PCs is that when you ahve a software problem, you recopy an HD image. Meaning that the ease of untrained repair for the mac is a lost cause.
The other reason, of course, is because the terminals are WINBLOWS!, and only the server is linux. But it's a related point - Win w/ ME is cheaper, only it's much suckier and less stable. But if you actually are going to reinstall all the time (preferably from img) and you're not going to have YOUR files on there, it's a good value. Not as good as linux, which has the best of these worlds...
but for price, it's going to be linux on x86 for at least a few more years, maybe more.
It's not clear whether you're for real (imo) but I'd certainly not believe you without at least a traceable email, preferably .edu. If I had to guess, I'd say it was actually someone trying to get that mail address to have some particularly confusing SPAM, from us.
If you're serious, post more details, and I bet a bunch o' us will take you up on it. But I'm betting you're not.
It was an analogy. He said "novel" to represent code he had written, and "coffee maker" to represent the books they took - which were just regular, published admin books which presumably they could BUY a copy of if they wanted, but no.
And I DO remember the SJ raid. It almost put him under, and i almost had to weep. I love Steve Jackson!
I'm personally also relatively young and male, and while I'm nearsighted my vision is otherwise quite good... nightvision, low contrast, etc. I have to work really hard to see those flickerings... in the corner.
:)
Partially I think I'm largely immune - I once experimented finding a "sweet spot" on a strobe light (it was a lot slower than you might think... 20Hz if I remember correctly) that made most people seem almost drunk, have some trouble walking... and I was just fine. Maybe I'm just blessed.
Flourescents getting ready to break should be flickering SLOWER if you can see them better... if they were flickering fast enough you wouldn't be able to.
There is another big difference in how they work from a monitor: they are sinusoidally powered, so there is a flicker, but the majority of the cycle is under at least some power.
A monitor has only a tiny little flash out of each cycle, so the flash is much brighter and everything else is much darker, and it is totally dependent on being above your refresh rate.
So the bulbs only have to be close...
But I also urge you to ask your friends and report back
The editor even said it is above 72, somewhere in the 100 range. I personally (and most men I know) have a hard time making out a 60 Hz refresh, even. But the majority of women (in a statistically uselessly small sample) could make out 70+
Also note that if you really could see 60, flourescent bulbs would seem to strobe for you. They don't for me, but ask around and you'll be surprised. (It works best with 1 direct bulb. More bulbs, especially on different circuits, can be at different parts of the cycle and meld together.)
But you CAN see a much shorter flash than 1/60th of a second. You don't see in strobe, you see the average of all light in the slice - the "shutter" is open the entire duration. Which is why you see a blur: it's the average of all the images from 1/whatever of a second. This averaging is why the sleepy hollow cardinal trick (and many others) work.
I'm not sure what good 200 fps does when your monitor rate (for a regular monitor, admittedly) tops out in the 80s. I think there are two reasons:
1 mentioned above, is extra capacity. 200 fps average might equal 60 fps during a fight scene.
but another reason is that even if you're displaying only 60 Hz (monitor limit) to have maximum smooth you need a frame refresh every 1/60 of a second, not just an average of 1/60th. And if frames take varying amounts of time to process, which they do, you could be unlucky and have 2 frame refreshes in 1 monitor refresh and then none in another... it would look like 30 Hz because only every other monitor refresh would be an unmodified repeat. This can happen even with BOTH the monitor and fps being at 60 Hz if the fps changes size (sinusoidally, in my example) and they two are not in sync.
FPS are not regular, and the reality is the fps is a measure of speed, NOT a reliable timing device. 200 fps != 1/200th each refresh... the first one after you turn is going to have to make many more changes, so it's going to take a lot longer, whereas many things will be reused in the next one. (this assumes nothing has to move to the card on the bus, which I won't go into) so if that refresh is 4x longer than average you'd be down to 50Hz for that frame. THEN you have to use an integer number of monitor refreshes, so it's going to be 30 Hz as viewed. Too much math, perhaps.
I predict that eventually (probably 1 more generation) many of the objects will be dynamically generated in sync with the monitor refresh. The framerate will be fixed at the (variable) monitor refresh rate. For each frame, one class of objects will be redrawn each time, no more and no less. The problem is that that class has to redraw asynchronously with any other kind of redraw, and that can be bad. But it's good for many kinds of animations... and depending on the architecture it should be no worse in any case.
you heard it here first.
If I had any moderator points (which I wouldn't 'cause it was a reply to my post, so obviously I posted) I'd mod you up.
Do you know whether Transmeta has or doesn't have HLT? While I didn't think of it in the two minutes I was writing that post, it sounds like something Transmeta's "next generation" powersaving they claim to have would probably contain... and I'd guess that PowerNow would have it, too... but I could certainly be wrong.
the article says the HD is 8/30/50 GB, while the chart says 10.
Also, I do believe it could be GPL'd or equiv, since they are allowing freeware titles... they seem to be allowing free development. I imagine that for them to certify you for a freeware game you have to actually have a FREE game... which would give them volume and yet not eliminate the pay-game revenue stream.
They have the much-desired ethernet interface... My guess is their open API + ethernet will allow you to do all sorts of things like netsurf and control your toaster over 10bT. Play MP3s through your stereo mixed with games... Whereas web tools will probably WORK with it, they probably won't ont he Xbox... meaning this will be able to be the WebTV non power users should actually buy, because it'll be using any ISP.
I hope their ad department is up to it. But it seems like you'll be getting a console + a basic computer for $300... which sounds pretty sweet to me.
SpeedStep: I do not think that chip does what you think it does. And it doesn't ship with Iocaine powder, either.
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SpeedStep runs at the lower speed WHENEVER you are on battery. (at least according to Dell) It is not dependent on the processes going on. It only runs at the higher speed when plugged in. imo, this is idiotic. But I can see how it would reduce OS problems.
Transmeta's processor does a much swifter thing; it changes dynamically based roughly on usage... so when you aren't using it, it just slows down.
This is better, but I'm not sure how much, than those programs which simply send the least-power-using instruction for a cycle to reduce heat load. Since heat load = power input (because all is eventually heat) such a program should significantly reduce your power usage, BUT it depends on the OS working right... I suspect that actually slowing down the number of operations is much more efficient than the lowest op, because I bet there's a bunch of overhead even on the lowest-power operation. So Transmeta's is definitely better.
I haven't researched PowerNow. But I bet it isn't stupid like SpeedStep. So I'm betting on a Transmeta style approach, where it dynamically changes it based on load. (Of course, the response time and load analysis algorithm are going to be important, and you should really set up all your backup maintenance progs to only run on AC power... along with RC5
So that's why it would screw with Linux, and SpeedStep won't (fewer changes... possibly even only on boot...) However, I can't imagine a technique which would be MORE disruptive than transmeta's (except possibly for changing faster...) so I'd imagine that if Transmeta works it'd be fine.
how much are you charging for all that; or is this a freebie?
No guarantees about anything... Also, I'm not convinced that a roll-your-own solution will really give you better uptime, unless you have a lot of time to devote to fixing an outage... it certainly lets you know as much as anyone about WHY it's down...