Of course, that's what civil disobedience is all about...
You mean TERRORISM, right? Because only a TERRORIST would do that when plenty of good Americans just want to get their ID card and get back to work. In America, it's illegal to hold other people up.
As long as you're travelling in time, you are in hyperspace therefore you can come out anywhere. Although you are right, you would want to calculate where you are going or you might end up in the _middle_ of the earth, which might be a little more unpleasant.
Thankfully, with Windows 64-bit edition coming out, we have adaquate memory addressing capabilties to model all of these possibilities.
Obligitory Hitchhiker's reference, thank you. Which brings up an interesting point, they can come to opening day of hitchhikers, chill out yesterday, today, and next week and then get to the party. This also allows them travel time, because they will have to fly in from Germany or Russia, where the invention is most likely to be made. Or perhaps Betelguese. Sod it
Actually, I didn't read the article before I posted that so it makes no sense. I'm on glue, sorry. I did write the directions on a piece of paper and buried it in my backyard in a piece of PVC pipe with 2 end caps and a packet of silica gel.
We've actually exceeded Moore's law. A computer in '70 may have been 1 million times slower, but we're taking a _billion_ times more computer cycles to do the same. Yep, the modern version actually runs _slower_.
Being an ex-assembly programmer, that realization hurt. I'm talking physical pain.
Hey, why don't you go back to assembly then? Now THAT'S physical pain. Ha!
But seriously, computers today are asked to do much of the same thing computers in the 70's were asked to do. Play games, add numbers, make letters, etc. What is burning all those clock cycles is "modeling reality":
For instance, what did you use to process and print a mail merge letter in 1984? Wordstar. ^KB bullshit. Kaypro. Your choice of 8 different dot matrix fonts.
Then in the late 80's Wordperfect came out and you could view what your document would look like after it was printed.
Then you could actually move stuff around on the actual piece of paper.
In the last 10 years, it's mainly been making that piece of paper look better.
Photoshop revolutionized the world of photography and graphics and now you can import a whole reel of images and edit them in real time on your desktop and make your own film. All for $400 or about the price of 4 nice dinners out with your girlfriend.
The games are so close to reality, people playing them often forget about their real lives, and it's only getting better.
So you see, a lot of those billion processor cycles are going into asthetics, not just the bare mathematical logic of what's really happening.
"So", you say, "who cares about asthetics? The code should be faster!"
Well, consider this analogy:
Let's compare a 1969 Chevy Malibu and a 2005 Chevy Malibu.
Billions of dollars have been spent in 36 years to bring about the product the 2005 Chevy Malibu. The '69 Malibu can take you to the grocery store and back. But it has springs that stick you in the ass, it takes about 4 minutes to start and another 4 to warm up, it burns around a gallon of gas to do it, it pollutes horrible smoke and smell, it only has an AM radio, it's noisy, unsafe (front seat can detach from floorboard in an accident), and wasteful.
The 2005 Malibu can take you to the grocery store on 1/8 of a gallon, it's quiet, comfortable, you can watch a DVD, it has airbags, Air conditioning, etc. It simply makes your life better, easier, simpler.
Asthetically, software has improved drastically. Most people couldn't use computers and software in the 70's; Now most people can.
So, go back to assembly. I wish the demo scene was still kicking because people made some amazing shit with today's hardware and 32, 16 or even 4k of code.
And try to write something that will take advantage of 1000 different video cards, 2000 different networking cards, 100 different types of MICE--it takes muscle to do all that today's computers do.
What I'm saying is I disagree with you. It doesn't make me angry that more people are coding because I get to see more new ideas and gadgets.
Interesting that you say that. I was thinking, and a hard drive read head basically is a sensor that senses peaks in magnetism at a small level. So because at a given RPM the peaks will be coming at a much higher frequency because the changes are closer together.
M. King Hubbert figured out that oil production peaks echo new oil reserve discovery peaks. The rate of new oil discoveries in the US peaked in the 1950's and then went down in a classic bell curve. Likewise, the rate of oil production in the U.S. peaked about 20 years later in the 1970's. It echoed the new discoveries by about 20 years.
Of course, nowadays we have more advanced technology and can open drilling a lot faster, so the echo comes sooner. Also, I think that there are some shrewd Americans, such as George Bush Sr. (who helped found Pennzoil) who own oil lands with unpublicized reserves.
Likewise, people like, say, Dick Cheney also are prepared for the coming energy crisis. Formerly from Wyoming, Dick Cheney is also a wealthly landowner--he owns hundreds of thousands of acres of scrub land in the middle of Wyoming. Land no one would ever want to live on.
Why, because under the ground there lies an impressive quantity of energy resource.
The resource in Wyoming? Only the richest reserves of URANIUM in the country...
Think about this: Even if we went nuclear to replace all the oil, you have to fuel the reactors with raw fuel to generate heat. It doesn't just come from nowhere. And the raw fuel is Uranium. They estimate that at the rate of energy use we currently have (mostly in fossil fuels), switching to all uranium power would only give us 20 years at the most.
I bet the stuff cracks all the time, no one ever looked at it before. I think the foam has been redesigned out of softer material so that even frozen to sub-zero temperatures, it won't be heavy or hard enough to dislodge the tiles. And they actually inspect it closely now, whereas before tons of foam flew off at every launch and it just happened to mess up the tiles that one time... I don't think it's anything to worry about. And if so, we've been needing a new transporter for a good 10 years anyway.
The chip designer has to find a way to move 200 watts from the silicon chip to the metal or ceramic surface of the package. The board designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the package surface to a heat sink. The system (box) designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the heatsink to the surrounding air and get the heat out of the box and into the room air. The building designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the room to the outside.
Then the air outside has to find away to absorb the 200 watts of heat by moving up into the clouds. Water in the air comes with it and condenses and it falls as a drop of rain into the lake; the lake runs down thru the dam which spins the turbines, which spins the generators, which energize the tranmission lines, which brings 200 watts to the building--
Yeah, we ARE talking about rack stuff here. It'd wouldn't be a big deal to have one power supply per rack, top mounted, and then a 3U or 6U of battery in the bottom and a wiring harness that hooks up to each server. but then you'd have a blade system.
Why are you talking to your wife on the way home? You should be enjoying your last few moments of silence before dinner! dishes! hold me! sex and the city! blaaaaagh
You're also assuming no inflation in the price of gasoline over the 130,000 miles. Most people drive 12-15K miles a year; that's 10 years. Gas should be double or triple what it is today 10 years from now...
So, say it triples over 10 years (assuming increasing at a steady rate over 10 years):
Current price 2.25 Final price 6.75
Average price over 10 years: 4.50/gallon
50 MPG = 9 cents per mile 100 MPG = 4.5 cents per mile
Savings = 4.5 cents per mile
$3000 cost /.045 savings = 66666.66_ miles or about 3-5 years to recoup the cost.
More likely is the fact that oil will spike up in price in the next 5 years, so this is conservative. Yes, at current rates, you will not be saving very quickly but eventually you will.
Personally, I think the greatest battle we can fight for the "security of America" is to reduce dependence on foriegn oil sources. That will be WWIII and it'd be best if we weren't involved, even though half of you fucking drool over the prospect of a world war, I'd just as soon be prosperous and happy and at peace.
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Of course, that's what civil disobedience is all about...
You mean TERRORISM, right? Because only a TERRORIST would do that when plenty of good Americans just want to get their ID card and get back to work. In America, it's illegal to hold other people up.
How is that off topic? C'mon moderators moderators. No one gets the joke.. *sigh*
The test only took 15 minutes for me...
Oh well, don't beat yourselves up, it's not worth stressing out over. I'm just smarter than you.
What?
Nitrous nitrous Oxide oxide
Help, I'm being oppressed by the Department of Homoland Security!
As long as you're travelling in time, you are in hyperspace therefore you can come out anywhere. Although you are right, you would want to calculate where you are going or you might end up in the _middle_ of the earth, which might be a little more unpleasant.
Thankfully, with Windows 64-bit edition coming out, we have adaquate memory addressing capabilties to model all of these possibilities.
Don't forget the Delorean parts...
Obligitory Hitchhiker's reference, thank you. Which brings up an interesting point, they can come to opening day of hitchhikers, chill out yesterday, today, and next week and then get to the party. This also allows them travel time, because they will have to fly in from Germany or Russia, where the invention is most likely to be made. Or perhaps Betelguese. Sod it
Actually, I didn't read the article before I posted that so it makes no sense. I'm on glue, sorry. I did write the directions on a piece of paper and buried it in my backyard in a piece of PVC pipe with 2 end caps and a packet of silica gel.
They should plan out all the conferences in advance for the next 10,000 years, like the freemasons did in 5000 b.c.
I thought the actual quote was "The Best Defense is Not to Offend." (Chuck Norris)
We've actually exceeded Moore's law. A computer in '70 may have been 1 million times slower, but we're taking a _billion_ times more computer cycles to do the same. Yep, the modern version actually runs _slower_.
Being an ex-assembly programmer, that realization hurt. I'm talking physical pain.
Hey, why don't you go back to assembly then? Now THAT'S physical pain. Ha!
But seriously, computers today are asked to do much of the same thing computers in the 70's were asked to do. Play games, add numbers, make letters, etc. What is burning all those clock cycles is "modeling reality":
For instance, what did you use to process and print a mail merge letter in 1984? Wordstar. ^KB bullshit. Kaypro. Your choice of 8 different dot matrix fonts.
Then in the late 80's Wordperfect came out and you could view what your document would look like after it was printed.
Then you could actually move stuff around on the actual piece of paper.
In the last 10 years, it's mainly been making that piece of paper look better.
Photoshop revolutionized the world of photography and graphics and now you can import a whole reel of images and edit them in real time on your desktop and make your own film. All for $400 or about the price of 4 nice dinners out with your girlfriend.
The games are so close to reality, people playing them often forget about their real lives, and it's only getting better.
So you see, a lot of those billion processor cycles are going into asthetics, not just the bare mathematical logic of what's really happening.
"So", you say, "who cares about asthetics? The code should be faster!"
Well, consider this analogy:
Let's compare a 1969 Chevy Malibu and a 2005 Chevy Malibu.
Billions of dollars have been spent in 36 years to bring about the product the 2005 Chevy Malibu. The '69 Malibu can take you to the grocery store and back. But it has springs that stick you in the ass, it takes about 4 minutes to start and another 4 to warm up, it burns around a gallon of gas to do it, it pollutes horrible smoke and smell, it only has an AM radio, it's noisy, unsafe (front seat can detach from floorboard in an accident), and wasteful.
The 2005 Malibu can take you to the grocery store on 1/8 of a gallon, it's quiet, comfortable, you can watch a DVD, it has airbags, Air conditioning, etc. It simply makes your life better, easier, simpler.
Asthetically, software has improved drastically. Most people couldn't use computers and software in the 70's; Now most people can.
So, go back to assembly. I wish the demo scene was still kicking because people made some amazing shit with today's hardware and 32, 16 or even 4k of code.
And try to write something that will take advantage of 1000 different video cards, 2000 different networking cards, 100 different types of MICE--it takes muscle to do all that today's computers do.
What I'm saying is I disagree with you. It doesn't make me angry that more people are coding because I get to see more new ideas and gadgets.
Interesting that you say that. I was thinking, and a hard drive read head basically is a sensor that senses peaks in magnetism at a small level. So because at a given RPM the peaks will be coming at a much higher frequency because the changes are closer together.
In Post 9/11 America, the bits have to stand up straight or terror will win.
Have you heard of the Hubbert Peak?
M. King Hubbert figured out that oil production peaks echo new oil reserve discovery peaks. The rate of new oil discoveries in the US peaked in the 1950's and then went down in a classic bell curve. Likewise, the rate of oil production in the U.S. peaked about 20 years later in the 1970's. It echoed the new discoveries by about 20 years.
Of course, nowadays we have more advanced technology and can open drilling a lot faster, so the echo comes sooner. Also, I think that there are some shrewd Americans, such as George Bush Sr. (who helped found Pennzoil) who own oil lands with unpublicized reserves.
Likewise, people like, say, Dick Cheney also are prepared for the coming energy crisis. Formerly from Wyoming, Dick Cheney is also a wealthly landowner--he owns hundreds of thousands of acres of scrub land in the middle of Wyoming. Land no one would ever want to live on.
Why, because under the ground there lies an impressive quantity of energy resource.
The resource in Wyoming? Only the richest reserves of URANIUM in the country...
Think about this: Even if we went nuclear to replace all the oil, you have to fuel the reactors with raw fuel to generate heat. It doesn't just come from nowhere. And the raw fuel is Uranium. They estimate that at the rate of energy use we currently have (mostly in fossil fuels), switching to all uranium power would only give us 20 years at the most.
Chewing gum
I bet the stuff cracks all the time, no one ever looked at it before. I think the foam has been redesigned out of softer material so that even frozen to sub-zero temperatures, it won't be heavy or hard enough to dislodge the tiles. And they actually inspect it closely now, whereas before tons of foam flew off at every launch and it just happened to mess up the tiles that one time... I don't think it's anything to worry about. And if so, we've been needing a new transporter for a good 10 years anyway.
One things for sure, he's no Bill Budge ;)
Check it out. Take the 'S':
S
Add the U, after rotating counterclockwise 90 degrees:
SC
and then add the 'n' and underline it
SCO
Oh.. my..
The chip designer has to find a way to move 200 watts from the silicon chip to the metal or ceramic surface of the package. The board designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the package surface to a heat sink. The system (box) designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the heatsink to the surrounding air and get the heat out of the box and into the room air. The building designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the room to the outside.
Then the air outside has to find away to absorb the 200 watts of heat by moving up into the clouds. Water in the air comes with it and condenses and it falls as a drop of rain into the lake; the lake runs down thru the dam which spins the turbines, which spins the generators, which energize the tranmission lines, which brings 200 watts to the building--
Rinse and repeat. Ahh, there.
Yeah, we ARE talking about rack stuff here. It'd wouldn't be a big deal to have one power supply per rack, top mounted, and then a 3U or 6U of battery in the bottom and a wiring harness that hooks up to each server. but then you'd have a blade system.
Or even better, PALM FRONDS. Seriously, these things have really started popping up everywhere. Look around on your drive home...
They've put up a shitload more antennas. It's interesting that people haven't noticed, because they've been camoflauged.
Why are you talking to your wife on the way home? You should be enjoying your last few moments of silence before dinner! dishes! hold me! sex and the city! blaaaaagh
You're also assuming no inflation in the price of gasoline over the 130,000 miles. Most people drive 12-15K miles a year; that's 10 years. Gas should be double or triple what it is today 10 years from now...
.045 savings = 66666.66_ miles or about 3-5 years to recoup the cost.
So, say it triples over 10 years (assuming increasing at a steady rate over 10 years):
Current price 2.25
Final price 6.75
Average price over 10 years: 4.50/gallon
50 MPG = 9 cents per mile
100 MPG = 4.5 cents per mile
Savings = 4.5 cents per mile
$3000 cost /
More likely is the fact that oil will spike up in price in the next 5 years, so this is conservative. Yes, at current rates, you will not be saving very quickly but eventually you will.
Personally, I think the greatest battle we can fight for the "security of America" is to reduce dependence on foriegn oil sources. That will be WWIII and it'd be best if we weren't involved, even though half of you fucking drool over the prospect of a world war, I'd just as soon be prosperous and happy and at peace.