Speaking of car propulsion, I believe this magnetic Wankel motor holds a lot more promise -> it is basically a flywheel driven by a magnetic field. Very cool!
Another page here proposes to use this same technology in a next-generation UPS. They make some pretty bold claims:
Conventional UPS is mainly a combination of high-maintenance diesel-generators and lead-acid batteries. Other flywheel batteries offer only short-term (most "tens of seconds") ride-through power, during utility line outages; and while the utility or on-site generator supplies power, they constantly consume typically kilowatts while idling. That's over 1000x more losses than RPM's Flywheel Battery; which runs far cooler, will have far longer service life, negligible self-discharge, far higher reliability, far lower life-cycle cost, no wear-out, and no maintenance!
There are quite a few additional links at the bottom of that page.
500mhz, in a new box? I don't think so, not when a 1ghz Athlon costs like $300 or something.
Please read this article on The G4 vs. K7, then check your prices on the K7: $769 for the 950mhz (probably $1k for the 1Ghz?).
Why limit your OS choices with lame PC hardware?
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I use PC hardware now. And I have a choice of Windows, Linux, BSD, Be, OS/2, QNX, etc.
I use MacOS hardware now. And I have a choice of MacOS, Linux, BSD, Be, OS X Server, OS X (soon), PlayStation (via VGS), Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (via VirtualPC), etc.
Second, we're also developing some in-house software (code named "Oddessey") that will keep each Slashdot boxed sychronized with a hot-spare box, so in case a box suddenly dies it will automatically be replaced with a hot-spare box -- kind of a RAID-for-servers solution
Why not include these in the load balancing or round-robin hunt pool? Overall performance should then be higher, and if one machine dies, the performance would be the same as it is currently.
I wonder what a successful portable translator will do to the translating business? When do you think humans will be replaced by machines in this field too?
Sure, Babelfish is rather choppy, but I've seen it translate some paragraphs rather well. Thoughts?
Well hey you gotta admit that's a pretty good answer, eh? Imagine if authorities conspired to set you up, and you answered the trap they posed so deftly...:-)
Matthew 22: 15-23: 15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" 18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" 21"Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
I doubt this will be force on us. I've heard the mark of the beast thing. I'd think micro credit cards that are placed under the skin would fit the mark better.
Yeah, I agree, although I do think it'll be something similar to this, albeit very small and implanted under the skin of the hand or forehead (two *excellent* heat sources!). It'll be marketed as a convenience... notice how little cash trades hands nowadays, everyone is using credit cards? It's just much simpler.
"[The anti-Christ] also forced everyone, small and great... to receive a mark [smart card?] on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark" -Revelation 13:16
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the Mach kernel and the BSD layer which lays upon it are inseparable.
I was just starting to enjoy BSD, and now I learn its inseparable from something I don't have yet!
One other thing... I'll be really impressed if they manage to make the same spinning disk do double-duty as both hard drive platter and flywheel.
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Can you imagine the nightmare you'd have reading data from a platter whose rpm is constantly changing? "6.5ms to 65ms access time"
Speaking of car propulsion, I believe this magnetic Wankel motor holds a lot more promise -> it is basically a flywheel driven by a magnetic field. Very cool!
Another page here proposes to use this same technology in a next-generation UPS. They make some pretty bold claims:
Conventional UPS is mainly a combination of high-maintenance diesel-generators and lead-acid batteries. Other flywheel batteries offer only short-term (most "tens of seconds") ride-through power, during utility line outages; and while the utility or on-site generator supplies power, they constantly consume typically kilowatts while idling. That's over 1000x more losses than RPM's Flywheel Battery; which runs far cooler, will have far longer service life, negligible self-discharge, far higher reliability, far lower life-cycle cost, no wear-out, and no maintenance!
There are quite a few additional links at the bottom of that page.
Check out this article from Performance Computing. Describes the IA-64 and its advantages.
Anyone have any benchmarks, to compare this machine against a G4, or even older x86 machines running Linux?
Also, who is allowed access to these machines?
500mhz, in a new box? I don't think so, not when a 1ghz Athlon costs like $300 or something.
Please read this article on The G4 vs. K7, then check your prices on the K7: $769 for the 950mhz (probably $1k for the 1Ghz?).
I use PC hardware now. And I have a choice of Windows, Linux, BSD, Be, OS/2, QNX, etc.
I use MacOS hardware now. And I have a choice of MacOS, Linux, BSD, Be, OS X Server, OS X (soon), PlayStation (via VGS), Windows 95/98/NT/2000 (via VirtualPC), etc.
and most days the files just encrypt noise.
Rather than just encrypting noise, I'd encrypt sensible data, such as a story or maybe even a jpeg of a dog.
From the info about the beta servers, I noticed this line:
Second, we're also developing some in-house software (code named "Oddessey") that will keep each Slashdot boxed sychronized with a hot-spare box, so in case a box suddenly dies it will automatically be replaced with a hot-spare box -- kind of a RAID-for-servers solution
Why not include these in the load balancing or round-robin hunt pool? Overall performance should then be higher, and if one machine dies, the performance would be the same as it is currently.
I wonder what a successful portable translator will do to the translating business? When do you think humans will be replaced by machines in this field too?
Sure, Babelfish is rather choppy, but I've seen it translate some paragraphs rather well. Thoughts?
Well hey you gotta admit that's a pretty good answer, eh? Imagine if authorities conspired to set you up, and you answered the trap they posed so deftly... :-)
Good point, here it is verbatim:
Matthew 22: 15-23:
15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" 18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" 21"Caesar's," they replied. Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." 22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
I doubt this will be force on us. I've heard the mark of the beast thing. I'd think micro credit cards that are placed under the skin would fit the mark better.
... notice how little cash trades hands nowadays, everyone is using credit cards? It's just much simpler.
Yeah, I agree, although I do think it'll be something similar to this, albeit very small and implanted under the skin of the hand or forehead (two *excellent* heat sources!). It'll be marketed as a convenience
"[The anti-Christ] also forced everyone, small and great ... to receive a mark [smart card?] on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark" -Revelation 13:16