The implications of developing such small and fast transistors are significant: Silicon will be able to be used to make chips until 2007, and it will make possible microprocessors containing close to 1 billion transistors running at 20
gigahertz by that year. [...] Some of the components in the transistors Intel announced -- [...] are only three atoms thick.
I keep thinking about the problems with military gear where they have to worry about cosmic rays knocking out circuits. I don't know how usable these things will be in high radiation areas unless there is substantial redundancy built in.
And to speculate on what we'll run on this puppies. or the cooling systems.
In my case, I want to edit multi-channel audio. A Color display adds almost nothing to the information that I extract from the screen. I can select, cut, copy paste, apply effects, and otherwise mangle the sounds as well on a 1-bit per pixel display as I can on a 32-bpp monster.
Actually, what you want is grey scale, not 1 bit Mono.
You can see the effect by taking any BW photo, and convert it to 1 bit color.
You also see this in printing. Laser Print IS 1 bit color, more or less, but you get true photo-grade at about 1500 dpi. Contrast this with grey scale, say on a screen, where 70 - 100 dpi is adequate for a photo, if you are using grey scale. 100 dpi in 2 bit color is horrible.
This is what I thinkis the biggest attraction. [It is from the article of course]
The idea for the CL160 came from manufacturing and
transportation companies frustrated with what CargoLifter calls b.u.f. - big, ugly freight.
Moving it often means working in the middle of the night and yanking utility lines out of the way or building roads and bridges into remote areas. Companies spend thousands of extra dollars
assembling and disassembling large equipment that could be moved intact.
The bottom line: The biggest, ugliest thing about moving big, ugly freight is usually the cost. "Folks we talked to were desperately searching for something new," Edwards says. "Existing technology was holding them back."
So for a lot of folks , the idea of being able to move something straight up and over interevening obstacles makes sense.
In disaster areas I can see roads and transport being messed up badly, so againthe ability to go over the obstacles makes some sense there as well. Although clearing the landing site from things large boulders, errant children, panicked refugees, etc are separate issues.
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C. Crane company (www.ccrane.com) has had this and other nifty stuff for years and years. They sold bucketfuls of this stuff along with the hand crank radios and night scopes and other geeky survivor type stuff before the Y2k crunch.
One of my favorite toys they have is the radio set wall clock . It checks itself every hour, and is great for things like daylight savings time, etc.
I am sure that this is not the only place to get this stuff, but a second source is always nice.
You can't cover everything, and you should not try.
Each week should make them familiar with some aspect of computers, with some practical info
something like:
week 1 basic ideas of computing. calculations. relationships of bytes to character to dots on your screen, etc. week 2 computer insides. Open one up. see what happens if you disconnect somesomething. (error messages etc) week 3: basic Concepts of OSen [guis, command lines, etc.] week 4 basic concepts of word processors week 5 basic concepts of spread sheets week 6 basic concepts of databases week 7 basics of games and networks
week 8 basics of programming and loose ends - how to learn more
make sure as you go along that you cover the things that make people truly clueless. Like how to follow directions, etc.
Make sure you give lots of practical details. (what to do when the computer catches on fire, etc) and what is wrong about computers you see in movies, etc.
If they had said Win 2000, they would have been biased, according to some. and If they said Mac OSX, they are biased, according to others.
Of course, you realize that the only correct answer of this question, of W2k vs OSx is Linux. [runs and ducks to avoid getting hit by airborne vegetables]
(spelling error corrected)(apologies to the vegans)
I note that in the Slash moderation system, the author of the article can have unlimited moderation ability as far as comments to their story
We have a discussion about a shoot out between two Senior operating systems. And where there is obvious motivation on both sides to claim that the other is biased.
Obviously the author feels that discussion of other alternatives as a possible third choice is off topic, even if offered in a manner intended to be tongue in cheek.
Color us shocked, but our panel of seven judges delivered a solid victory to the revolutionary Mac OS. We couldn't overlook the Mac's legendary installation ease and its smooth hardware integration--most notably, digital video media such as cameras and videocameras, thanks to its FireWire support.
If they had said Win 2000, they would have been biased, according to some. and If they said Mac OSX, they are biased, according to others.
Of course, you realize that the only correct answer of this question, of W2k vs OSx is
. . .
LINUX!
[runs and ducks to avoid getting hit by airborne vegatables]
well juno has the option of the official "you must use our ScreamSaver."
This was discussed here on slash earlier this year.
otherwise you have to sell them on the value of the "improved" service. For example, I think they charge 5 bucks a year(?) or something like that for the ability to do email attachments.
for some folks that will do the job, they do not need broadband.
Who would have thought that honesty in commerce would enhance commerce?
I wonder when someone will get a ruling against that.
Having seen some late night infomercials, I suspect that an awful lot of the money made in spam is made by the people who promote systems to advertise using spam, and that most small time operators do not get much out of it anyhow.
Germaine Greer, who arrived at Cambridge as a
student in 1964, wrote "it has been my nightmare that Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream has materialized." Nor does the official stance seem to have softened any since.
which sort of sums up the official attitude towards Tolkien. The Literatti are appalled that something with so much mass appeal would become so meaningful to so many people.
that said, while Tolkien may not have been the most profound or the most skilled of the twentieth century writers, the canvas that he wrote own, the size of his unified work and its' integrity has ensured it a place in the history of the 20th century. people tend tyo romanticize it a bit. seaking symbolisms thatmight not be true to the author. As is said of one review:
It fails to take Tolkien's literary project as seriously as he took it himself. "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations," he famously wrote in one foreword to the trilogy, warning readers against the temptation of finding in it "any inner meaning or 'message.' " Nearly every thoughtful piece of Tolkien criticism makes some kind of nod to the letter of that admonition, but very few can resist violating its spirit.
So simply it is its own creation, intended to be separate from the traditions that are part of our culture. In a sense, it is intended to be a true history of a different world. even so:
Because of its extra-cinematic life [online, etc], it can't escape being a monument to its own built-in cult, which is roughly the size of humanity.
There's going to be some serious CPU usage (which could eventually be partially alleviated by the DSP development) because you still have to modulate/demodulate the DSL signal from audio to data
I guess the idea is that if you have spare CPU cycles, the everything is fine.
I'm going to propose something radical. I'm going to claim that the current system of pop music, funded by centralized capital which
loses money on 100 bands to make it all back on one megahit, distributed through relatively closed channels, promoted mainly
through essentially-free mass-market play on commercial monopoly airwaves, and fueled by the dollars of 10-to-24 year-olds'
disposable income, colors our popular music just as much and just as fundamentally as the social structure of the female pianist
colored the pop of the 19th century.
This is not radical at all, although it is not immediately intuitive to someone who has not been deeply involved in the music scene. Artists and Musicians see this all the time, where the current establishment oozes praise over their pet projects, often and usually to the penalty of the talented no-name palying in the corner bar.
All too often it is who you know.
An example in the tech field is the IPO market. Who made the connection was often based on who knew who, and not on the merit of ideas. For every idea that got funded in silicon valley, I am sure there were hundreds, if not thousands around the country that got nailed because bankers demanded the souls and the first born of those looking to get started.
With this in mind, I suppose all the WSJ needs to do in order to be in complience is to put similar verbage on their site that if you're in austrelia, you are not permitted to proceed further on the website.
I somehow think this would not fly. I am reminded of the French law suite vs Yahoo regarding Nazi materials.
But that was France where they are a bit daffy anyhow.
New features are fine when they are truly innovative. If MS had invented Napster, that would be one thing.
MS has more than 25 billion dollars cash reserve. but they need the money, I guess
80 % of the Users use 20% of the features.
I have seen too many companies been bought out by MS where the technology vanished, never to be seen again. And where if you didn't want to sell out, your product became their innovation in the software, or the next urgeant core feature to the OS.
I do know someone is playing a kind of "keep up with the Jones" thing in buying software and Hardware. All of his "expert friends" (people who would get confused by a name like "slashdot") say you have to have "XYZ" this and "ABC" that. And the result is that this guy has thousands of dollars of software that he has never even used once. Things like Photoshop, PageMaker, etc. because of this clueless urge for the latest thing.
it almost sound like Microsoft wants access to the AOL instant messanger market in exchange of AOL being on the desktop.
And Aol is pushing to have the AOL Instant messanger be the standard or else it will start converting lots of its users to Netscape. or something like that
This somehow ties into the fight over Windows XP. The big companies didn't care as much when microsoft was going after smaller companies like Netscape. Now suddenly it is their lunch on the table, and it becomes important.
And of course, I am cynical about how all of these optional features are now suddenlly urgeant core features of the MS OS, but that is a rant for another day.
Does MS have to pay out billions and billions of dollars?
Or will ATT be happy with MS removing the offending code from all versions of windows present and past? (in addition to a "smaller" fine?)
I am particularly fascinated by the idea of punitary damages, which traditionally triple damages.
Say the damage is assesses at 10 billion. times three is 30 billion, larger than their (MS) current cash on hand.
this is going to be fascinating to watch. After all ATT has enough money to feed the lawyers. And there could be a side effect to this in terms of ATTs ability to retain control of other market sectors.
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In the NPR interview the other day, one of the things I was fascinated by was the benifits of growing up in Finland. Apparently it is far enough of the beaten path that there are none of the political stresses that you have in a place like, say jerusalem.
(yes I know about the Sammi people, and greatly admire the resurgence of their culture!)
But with the large social safety net, and the ability to go to university at low cost, etc. the stress that you experience in places like the US (gotta get successful NOW!) is simply not there. and this leads to an interesting perspective on the US.
I can imagine coming to the US is like coming in from Mars or someplace like that. There are going to be a lot of things that seem quite daffy.
Interesting idea -- post the link to the google cache of the article when the page hasn't even gone down,
Considering I tried to access it from work where we have the usual t-1 line, it I couldn't get it, what was I supposed to think? after all, not everyone has an OC line
And I've been maxed for months. I wish they would tweak/fix the moderation system so that I could use some more of the karma.
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I keep thinking about the problems with military gear where they have to worry about cosmic rays knocking out circuits. I don't know how usable these things will be in high radiation areas unless there is substantial redundancy built in.
And to speculate on what we'll run on this puppies. or the cooling systems.
Oh My!
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Actually, what you want is grey scale, not 1 bit Mono.
You can see the effect by taking any BW photo, and convert it to 1 bit color.
You also see this in printing. Laser Print IS 1 bit color, more or less, but you get true photo-grade at about 1500 dpi. Contrast this with grey scale, say on a screen, where 70 - 100 dpi is adequate for a photo, if you are using grey scale. 100 dpi in 2 bit color is horrible.
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In disaster areas I can see roads and transport being messed up badly, so againthe ability to go over the obstacles makes some sense there as well. Although clearing the landing site from things large boulders, errant children, panicked refugees, etc are separate issues.
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One of my favorite toys they have is the radio set wall clock . It checks itself every hour, and is great for things like daylight savings time, etc.
I am sure that this is not the only place to get this stuff, but a second source is always nice.
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Each week should make them familiar with some aspect of computers, with some practical info
something like:
week 1 basic ideas of computing. calculations. relationships of bytes to character to dots on your screen, etc.
week 2 computer insides. Open one up. see what happens if you disconnect somesomething. (error messages etc)
week 3: basic Concepts of OSen [guis, command lines, etc.]
week 4 basic concepts of word processors
week 5 basic concepts of spread sheets
week 6 basic concepts of databases
week 7 basics of games and networks
week 8 basics of programming and loose ends - how to learn more
make sure as you go along that you cover the things that make people truly clueless. Like how to follow directions, etc.
Make sure you give lots of practical details. (what to do when the computer catches on fire, etc) and what is wrong about computers you see in movies, etc.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
If they had said Win 2000, they would have been biased, according to some. and If they said Mac OSX, they are biased, according to others.
Of course, you realize that the only correct answer of this question, of W2k vs OSx is Linux. [runs and ducks to avoid getting hit by airborne vegetables]
(spelling error corrected)(apologies to the vegans)
I note that in the Slash moderation system, the author of the article can have unlimited moderation ability as far as comments to their story
We have a discussion about a shoot out between two Senior operating systems. And where there is obvious motivation on both sides to claim that the other is biased.
Obviously the author feels that discussion of other alternatives as a possible third choice is off topic, even if offered in a manner intended to be tongue in cheek.
Sometimes folks are just a bit too serious.
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If they had said Win 2000, they would have been biased, according to some. and If they said Mac OSX, they are biased, according to others.
Of course, you realize that the only correct answer of this question, of W2k vs OSx is
.
.
.
LINUX!
[runs and ducks to avoid getting hit by airborne vegatables]
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This was discussed here on slash earlier this year.
otherwise you have to sell them on the value of the "improved" service. For example, I think they charge 5 bucks a year(?) or something like that for the ability to do email attachments.
for some folks that will do the job, they do not need broadband.
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I wonder when someone will get a ruling against that.
Having seen some late night infomercials, I suspect that an awful lot of the money made in spam is made by the people who promote systems to advertise using spam, and that most small time operators do not get much out of it anyhow.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
Germaine Greer, who arrived at Cambridge as a student in 1964, wrote "it has been my nightmare that Tolkien would turn out to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century. The bad dream has materialized." Nor does the official stance seem to have softened any since.
which sort of sums up the official attitude towards Tolkien. The Literatti are appalled that something with so much mass appeal would become so meaningful to so many people.
that said, while Tolkien may not have been the most profound or the most skilled of the twentieth century writers, the canvas that he wrote own, the size of his unified work and its' integrity has ensured it a place in the history of the 20th century. people tend tyo romanticize it a bit. seaking symbolisms thatmight not be true to the author. As is said of one review:
It fails to take Tolkien's literary project as seriously as he took it himself. "I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations," he famously wrote in one foreword to the trilogy, warning readers against the temptation of finding in it "any inner meaning or 'message.' " Nearly every thoughtful piece of Tolkien criticism makes some kind of nod to the letter of that admonition, but very few can resist violating its spirit.
So simply it is its own creation, intended to be separate from the traditions that are part of our culture. In a sense, it is intended to be a true history of a different world. even so:
Because of its extra-cinematic life [online, etc], it can't escape being a monument to its own built-in cult, which is roughly the size of humanity.
sounds about right to me.
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I guess the idea is that if you have spare CPU cycles, the everything is fine.
Myself, I prefer dedicated hardware.
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Too bad other companies can't do the same thing.
not going to say much else, because I'm all ranted out for today
;-)
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This is not radical at all, although it is not immediately intuitive to someone who has not been deeply involved in the music scene. Artists and Musicians see this all the time, where the current establishment oozes praise over their pet projects, often and usually to the penalty of the talented no-name palying in the corner bar.
All too often it is who you know.
An example in the tech field is the IPO market. Who made the connection was often based on who knew who, and not on the merit of ideas. For every idea that got funded in silicon valley, I am sure there were hundreds, if not thousands around the country that got nailed because bankers demanded the souls and the first born of those looking to get started.
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I somehow think this would not fly. I am reminded of the French law suite vs Yahoo regarding Nazi materials.
But that was France where they are a bit daffy anyhow.
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MS has more than 25 billion dollars cash reserve. but they need the money, I guess
80 % of the Users use 20% of the features.
I have seen too many companies been bought out by MS where the technology vanished, never to be seen again. And where if you didn't want to sell out, your product became their innovation in the software, or the next urgeant core feature to the OS.
I do know someone is playing a kind of "keep up with the Jones" thing in buying software and Hardware. All of his "expert friends" (people who would get confused by a name like "slashdot") say you have to have "XYZ" this and "ABC" that. And the result is that this guy has thousands of dollars of software that he has never even used once. Things like Photoshop, PageMaker, etc. because of this clueless urge for the latest thing.
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And Aol is pushing to have the AOL Instant messanger be the standard or else it will start converting lots of its users to Netscape. or something like that
This somehow ties into the fight over Windows XP. The big companies didn't care as much when microsoft was going after smaller companies like Netscape. Now suddenly it is their lunch on the table, and it becomes important.
And of course, I am cynical about how all of these optional features are now suddenlly urgeant core features of the MS OS, but that is a rant for another day.
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[Insert Tongue in Cheek]
You would likely need a text mode version of quake. And play only other people on polar expeditions.
wireless text mode quake vs the russians.
could possibly compete with WAP mode Quake.
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Does MS have to pay out billions and billions of dollars?
Or will ATT be happy with MS removing the offending code from all versions of windows present and past? (in addition to a "smaller" fine?)
I am particularly fascinated by the idea of punitary damages, which traditionally triple damages.
Say the damage is assesses at 10 billion. times three is 30 billion, larger than their (MS) current cash on hand.
this is going to be fascinating to watch. After all ATT has enough money to feed the lawyers. And there could be a side effect to this in terms of ATTs ability to retain control of other market sectors.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
(yes I know about the Sammi people, and greatly admire the resurgence of their culture!)
But with the large social safety net, and the ability to go to university at low cost, etc. the stress that you experience in places like the US (gotta get successful NOW!) is simply not there. and this leads to an interesting perspective on the US.
I can imagine coming to the US is like coming in from Mars or someplace like that. There are going to be a lot of things that seem quite daffy.
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I tried to find a link, but it looks like it might only be on locally.
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Considering I tried to access it from work where we have the usual t-1 line, it I couldn't get it, what was I supposed to think? after all, not everyone has an OC line
And I've been maxed for months. I wish they would tweak/fix the moderation system so that I could use some more of the karma.
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No accounting for taste, of course. I'll pass the info on to the pair running it, a couple of of my teenage nephews.
(gotta help out family and all that)
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Here is the link to the copy in the Google Cache
enjoy!
(oops - forgot the password)
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http://www.newnetworks.com
It has all kinds of links to good stories on Broadband Issues, each of which would be worthy submissions to SlashDot.
enjoy!
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