Although I saw a whole Discovery channel show on this, I can't for the life of me remember some of the details. Here's the skinny though...
There's a type of pine tree that grows in really arid regions. Scientists have taken core samples of said trees and counted the rings. Some of these trees have over 5000 rings! Who's the oldest guy mentioned in the Bible? Lazarus or something? Anyhow, they named the tree after him which is pretty ironic when you think about it.
Anyhow, anybody that believes the earth is only 4000 years old is completely wrong. Anybody who thinks the earth is 6000 years old won't be impressed by this. But if you figure they have petrified pine cones that show tree evolution and this tree is 5000 years old...
Also, as a result of carbon dating these core samples the scientists realized that C14 was not constant throughout history but changed levels. So after they knew how much carbon each year had they got much more accurate results for dating old stuff.
They then later backed up these findings by taking air samples from bubbles inside of glaciers.
By the way, carbon dating is only one element that they use for radiometric dating, scientist also use potassium, argon, uranium, etc.
And just so you can stick it to those close minded Jesus freaks who think the earth is only 6000 years old, one word: paleomagnetism. Look it up, it's too complicated (at first) to explain here.
My biggest pet peeve is in the bios. For all the different settings there is a help button, but all they tell you are the (usually) two options: enabled/disabled.
I have an apparantly unique ability among mankind to create a list in my mind from all available options and to stop adding to the list when I get a repeat. Although this can get tricky when the list contains 3 or 4 items, 2 is quite simple.;)
What I need to know is what the option actually means, and what it affects! Although I know now, I certainly didn't know what CAS timings were the first time I saw them.
Not impossible at all, they do in geology all the time, I believe it's called stereography.
Basically, you take a picture of the ground (from a plane) and then take another picture a second later and by comparing the shadows and whatnot you can build a 3d model from 2d images.
Ocheltree said IBM doesn't have specific plans to sell the prototype, which could be ready for market in few years
Why on earth would it take a few years to get this pretty basic (albeit small) computer to market? Besides, those specs in a few years won't be very impressive and if they improve dramatically then it's not really the same device will it take another few years to prototype that package?;)
Why not just but a PCI edge on it and whip up some drivers for it and start making those fancy blade clusters? (or whatever they're called)
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Finally, a religous person who is still open minded. Thank you very much for posting.
I wish Aesops Fables had as big a following as the Bible, their teachings are just as good and more relevant to daily life.
Although I saw a whole Discovery channel show on this, I can't for the life of me remember some of the details. Here's the skinny though...
There's a type of pine tree that grows in really arid regions. Scientists have taken core samples of said trees and counted the rings. Some of these trees have over 5000 rings! Who's the oldest guy mentioned in the Bible? Lazarus or something? Anyhow, they named the tree after him which is pretty ironic when you think about it.
Anyhow, anybody that believes the earth is only 4000 years old is completely wrong. Anybody who thinks the earth is 6000 years old won't be impressed by this. But if you figure they have petrified pine cones that show tree evolution and this tree is 5000 years old...
Also, as a result of carbon dating these core samples the scientists realized that C14 was not constant throughout history but changed levels. So after they knew how much carbon each year had they got much more accurate results for dating old stuff.
They then later backed up these findings by taking air samples from bubbles inside of glaciers.
By the way, carbon dating is only one element that they use for radiometric dating, scientist also use potassium, argon, uranium, etc.
And just so you can stick it to those close minded Jesus freaks who think the earth is only 6000 years old, one word: paleomagnetism. Look it up, it's too complicated (at first) to explain here.
My biggest pet peeve is in the bios. For all the different settings there is a help button, but all they tell you are the (usually) two options: enabled/disabled.
;)
I have an apparantly unique ability among mankind to create a list in my mind from all available options and to stop adding to the list when I get a repeat. Although this can get tricky when the list contains 3 or 4 items, 2 is quite simple.
What I need to know is what the option actually means, and what it affects! Although I know now, I certainly didn't know what CAS timings were the first time I saw them.
BTW: the lego men were awesome funny.
Not impossible at all, they do in geology all the time, I believe it's called stereography.
Basically, you take a picture of the ground (from a plane) and then take another picture a second later and by comparing the shadows and whatnot you can build a 3d model from 2d images.
Cool heh?
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Ocheltree said IBM doesn't have specific plans to sell the prototype, which could be ready for market in few years Why on earth would it take a few years to get this pretty basic (albeit small) computer to market? Besides, those specs in a few years won't be very impressive and if they improve dramatically then it's not really the same device will it take another few years to prototype that package? ;)
Why not just but a PCI edge on it and whip up some drivers for it and start making those fancy blade clusters? (or whatever they're called)
Marqis
I'm assuming that the TV Listings are dependant on the cable company and not the DCT-2000. Which is why I want to hack the feed.
Thanks for the course link Judg3, now if only I could get a copy of the manual I'd be in business!