In a way movies are coming into your home like this. DirectTV is one example, it is digital. Now, you could sit there an order a movie on your computer, but is your family really going to gather 'round the computer? Part of the experience of a theatre is the huge screen which immerses you in the action, maybe someday when stereoscopic displays because more feasible, this would be the better way to go. Until then, Im going to the rip-off we call the movie theatre for the movies you just have to see up close.
A local electronics class visited a Cray Supercomputer location in Minneapolis, and I got to watch the video:) The director there said the flourinert cost around $350 a gallon. They also had i believe 4 or 5 cooling systems for the supercomputer, so that the first cooling system cooled the second cooling system which cooled the 3rd and so on until it cooled the computer. I also recal that the sections using flourinert were sealed off(?) to prevent evaporation.
And I like how they say "practically non-toxic". Yeah, crayons used to be too.:)
I see a couple of things wrong with some of the reasons they want to go to the moon
First, one reason is to explore the possibility of water in the moon. Didn't NASA just send up the Lunar Prospector at a cost of $63 million, and it discovered water? Yes it did. See the story hereABC News:Theres water on the moon
Another suggested activity, the unexplained levitation of dust in the airless lunar environment. Can you say gravity? Micrometeors make it to the moons surface and spray up dust, and since there is less gravity they appear to float.
One of their strong points is to show that they are on the cutting edge of technology. Is doing something that was done 30 years ago on the edge of technology?
Lets get serious, if they want to prove cutting edge, why not join the effort for the International Space Station?NASA ISS Homepage
Maybe India will plan a joint effort with Radio Shack and their hope to get to the moon? Heck, they're the perfect people for Radio Shack to sponsor, considering most of Radio Shacks products come from there.
Even though the P4(Willamette) uses the same 0.18 micron technology as the P3's, it will feature separate internal arithmetic logic units that run at 3GHz, and a 400 MHz data bus and a 20 stage pipeline. IBM, also using the 0.18 micron technology for their experimental chip-the Interlocked Pipelined CMOS-have pushed it up to 4.5 GHz. In their design, they have several locally placed clocks that allow certain sections to run faster instead of waiting for the slower sections. This goes to show that the design is just as important as what and how much we put on it. Want to know more? Check out http://www.research.ibm. com/news/detail/fast_circuits.html
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Will they have to have special roads so that the people with implants don't have to drive by power lines?
What is this about?
And I like how they say "practically non-toxic". Yeah, crayons used to be too. :)
First, one reason is to explore the possibility of water in the moon. Didn't NASA just send up the Lunar Prospector at a cost of $63 million, and it discovered water? Yes it did. See the story hereABC News:Theres water on the moon
Another suggested activity, the unexplained levitation of dust in the airless lunar environment. Can you say gravity? Micrometeors make it to the moons surface and spray up dust, and since there is less gravity they appear to float.
One of their strong points is to show that they are on the cutting edge of technology. Is doing something that was done 30 years ago on the edge of technology?
Lets get serious, if they want to prove cutting edge, why not join the effort for the International Space Station?NASA ISS Homepage
Maybe India will plan a joint effort with Radio Shack and their hope to get to the moon? Heck, they're the perfect people for Radio Shack to sponsor, considering most of Radio Shacks products come from there.
Even though the P4(Willamette) uses the same 0.18 micron technology as the P3's, it will feature separate internal arithmetic logic units that run at 3GHz, and a 400 MHz data bus and a 20 stage pipeline. IBM, also using the 0.18 micron technology for their experimental chip-the Interlocked Pipelined CMOS-have pushed it up to 4.5 GHz. In their design, they have several locally placed clocks that allow certain sections to run faster instead of waiting for the slower sections. This goes to show that the design is just as important as what and how much we put on it. Want to know more? Check out http://www.research.ibm. com/news/detail/fast_circuits.html
I think what they did is got a floating point error with the Penium 3.0000000011 and conveniently rounded it to 4.