Have you ever heard of Sun's Majik(?) architecture? It was a nifty way of having multiple cores on one chip and exploting all of them. I have also heard rumors about some technology Intel might have in the next version of the P4 called Jackson technology, which would allow the proccesor to simultaneiously multithread on a single processor rather than just timeslice. Anybody know anymore about this?
I am running Genome@home now, and have designed over 40 genes! Its pretty neat for a biology nerd like myself. This Is a great collection of all known distributed computing projects. Neat ones are Golem@home and SaferMarkets and MoneyBee.
I always wonderd about something. All the explanations of entropy are statistical, like the container divided into two halves with a very tiny hole in the barrier. One gas molecule will have a 50% chance of being in one or the other, or in other words will spend half of the time in one and half in the other. One mole of gas molecules will have a (1/2)^(Avogadro's number)
chance of all being in one side, or be in that configuration for that incredibly small pernentage of time. So, if you wanted to be sure that the single atom had spent a total of one second in one of the halves, you would have to wait 1/.5 = 2 seconds. If you wanted to be sure that the mole of molecules spent a second all in one side you would have to wait
1/((1/2)^(Avogadro's number)) seconds, which is a really, really, really long time. But if the universe is open and Time is infinite, we have that much time, don't we? But that would break the, I think, Second Law of Thermodynamics.
A recycling technology for nuclear waste already exists, its called reprocessing. Only thing is that it was outlawed by I think Carter because it produces weapons grade plutonium. IMHO I think this was incredibly stupid. Also, there is a nifty way of processing nuke wast for storage. It's called vitrification, and produces these glassy disks. Also, the government is looking at a permanent storage facility at Yucatan Mountian(?) in New Mexico because it is the most seismecaly stable places in the country.
I think your right. The best banner add was this really slick mini-golf java app with six holes! I spent at least TEN MINUTES playing with that damn banner add, and this was over a year ago and I still remember it. How many banner adds from a year ago do you remember?
Whoa, wtf does military service have to do with computer security? Its absurd to think that a large insurance company with college-educated actuarys would do something like this lightly, considering how popular MS is. They honestly belive that Linux is less likley to be hacked, but this is mostly because of the differences in the people who manage the networks.
You know, the good thing about having an excruciatingly slow modem connection is that the picture loaded so slowely that I recognized it as the goatse.cx bastard and closed the window before it got down to his impressively wide asshole.
I just saw an infomercial for some depilatory spray that seemed to work pretty good, but if you hate shaving that bad, why don't your consider getting some electrolysis done?
Bullshit. USA Today had an article in it a few weeks ago about how California is the lowest state in per-capita energy consumption, at about 6 thousand kWhrs per person per year. The worst state was more the 4 times as high. Obviously, the problem is simply that they aren't generating enough electricity to keep up with demand. population * per-capita consumption * saftey margin = generation capacity needed, and Califonia just cant meet that. maybe it has something to do with the fact that a new power plant hasn't been built in over ten years? Nah.
Say intelligent life is rare and occurs at a rate of only 1 out of 2 galaxeys or 1 out of a million. At any rate we have little hope of communicating with them,and with the speed of light delay they could have a galaxy spanning civilization and all we see is a dead galaxy.
An intelligent person would realize that since the Chinese GDP is only about $1.1 Trillion, or about that of California, a cost of $14.4 Trillion dollars is utterly ubsurd, thus concluding that the number must logically be $14.4 billion. The US's GDP is only $10 trill, for god's sake!
I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why they don't just have a pipe from the fuel tank to the cabin, and if the plane is captured all you have to do is pump several hundred gallons into the cabin and light it, perhaps with a thermite grenade, and poof, there wouldn't be much of a plane left!
Actually, I have read that it is better for the bearings in your hard drive to be running constantly than to frequently start and stop them. Besides, if you turn of your computer, then you have to wait for it to boot up every time you want to use it. I use to do that, and never want to again.
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Have you ever heard of Sun's Majik(?) architecture? It was a nifty way of having multiple cores on one chip and exploting all of them. I have also heard rumors about some technology Intel might have in the next version of the P4 called Jackson technology, which would allow the proccesor to simultaneiously multithread on a single processor rather than just timeslice. Anybody know anymore about this?
Reading music reviews is a surreal experience. They all read, IMHO, like a creative adjective exercises.
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I am running Genome@home now, and have designed over 40 genes! Its pretty neat for a biology nerd like myself. This Is a great collection of all known distributed computing projects. Neat ones are Golem@home and SaferMarkets and MoneyBee.
I always wonderd about something. All the explanations of entropy are statistical, like the container divided into two halves with a very tiny hole in the barrier. One gas molecule will have a 50% chance of being in one or the other, or in other words will spend half of the time in one and half in the other. One mole of gas molecules will have a (1/2)^(Avogadro's number) chance of all being in one side, or be in that configuration for that incredibly small pernentage of time. So, if you wanted to be sure that the single atom had spent a total of one second in one of the halves, you would have to wait 1/.5 = 2 seconds. If you wanted to be sure that the mole of molecules spent a second all in one side you would have to wait 1/((1/2)^(Avogadro's number)) seconds, which is a really, really, really long time. But if the universe is open and Time is infinite, we have that much time, don't we? But that would break the, I think, Second Law of Thermodynamics.
A recycling technology for nuclear waste already exists, its called reprocessing. Only thing is that it was outlawed by I think Carter because it produces weapons grade plutonium. IMHO I think this was incredibly stupid. Also, there is a nifty way of processing nuke wast for storage. It's called vitrification, and produces these glassy disks. Also, the government is looking at a permanent storage facility at Yucatan Mountian(?) in New Mexico because it is the most seismecaly stable places in the country.
What is "outrageous"? $50,000, a $100,000?
I think your right. The best banner add was this really slick mini-golf java app with six holes! I spent at least TEN MINUTES playing with that damn banner add, and this was over a year ago and I still remember it. How many banner adds from a year ago do you remember?
Whoa, wtf does military service have to do with computer security? Its absurd to think that a large insurance company with college-educated actuarys would do something like this lightly, considering how popular MS is. They honestly belive that Linux is less likley to be hacked, but this is mostly because of the differences in the people who manage the networks.
Another good movie is the all japanese "I Bombed Pearl Harbor" from 1960, but it is a little difficult to find.
A study once discovered that college athletes are responsible for something like 70% of rapes while constituting only 8% of the student population.
How the hell do you know that?
I hate to be so god damn pedantic (actualy, I live for it), but the nitro they refer to is nitromethane, but I am sure you already knew that.
Knowing this can happen to the assholes might make you feel better. (Warning: PROFOUNDLY disgusting photo of a man with most of his face gone but still alive. Gotta love rotten.com:-)
You know, the good thing about having an excruciatingly slow modem connection is that the picture loaded so slowely that I recognized it as the goatse.cx bastard and closed the window before it got down to his impressively wide asshole.
I just saw an infomercial for some depilatory spray that seemed to work pretty good, but if you hate shaving that bad, why don't your consider getting some electrolysis done?
If they were really power users they would realize just how badly they are getting shafted by Apple's rediculous prices.
Bullshit. USA Today had an article in it a few weeks ago about how California is the lowest state in per-capita energy consumption, at about 6 thousand kWhrs per person per year. The worst state was more the 4 times as high. Obviously, the problem is simply that they aren't generating enough electricity to keep up with demand. population * per-capita consumption * saftey margin = generation capacity needed, and Califonia just cant meet that. maybe it has something to do with the fact that a new power plant hasn't been built in over ten years? Nah.
What was the cooling fluid?
Say intelligent life is rare and occurs at a rate of only 1 out of 2 galaxeys or 1 out of a million. At any rate we have little hope of communicating with them,and with the speed of light delay they could have a galaxy spanning civilization and all we see is a dead galaxy.
An intelligent person would realize that since the Chinese GDP is only about $1.1 Trillion, or about that of California, a cost of $14.4 Trillion dollars is utterly ubsurd, thus concluding that the number must logically be $14.4 billion. The US's GDP is only $10 trill, for god's sake!
I was wondering the same thing. I wonder why they don't just have a pipe from the fuel tank to the cabin, and if the plane is captured all you have to do is pump several hundred gallons into the cabin and light it, perhaps with a thermite grenade, and poof, there wouldn't be much of a plane left!
The first time I read FUD I thought it stood for fucked-up disinformation. I think I like my version better.
And what if the computer doesn't have an ethernet card? Does a modem have a MAC address?
Actually, I have read that it is better for the bearings in your hard drive to be running constantly than to frequently start and stop them. Besides, if you turn of your computer, then you have to wait for it to boot up every time you want to use it. I use to do that, and never want to again.