I am happy to see other companies get into the "alternitve" powered vehicles for a few different reasons. The first being, that they have few, if any, ties to the oil companies, which LOVE to inhibit any move away from petroleum. A few comments I have on hybrids...
I am EXTREMELY happy to see a diesel hybrid. For some reason, every big car company has shied away from diesel in place of the petrol engines they use. Diesel engines are more efficient and CAN be clean. The reason US diesel engines are dirty is because the refineries REFUSE to add one more step in removing the sulfur from the fuel. They do this in europe, which leads to a MASSIVE assortment of diesel engines varying in size and power. I tend to think, they could make a diesel hyrid that could easily get 80mpg in a car and still have decent power. If they could get an efficient CVT with a turbo-diesel hybrid, they could take over the hybrid market in every country. But, I wont expect that any time soon.
First off, this is NOT QDR memory. The only benefit to this memory module is that the address and control lines can run at half the speed of the data lines, but you still MUST run the data lines at full speed. So, it is still only 2x the data bus speed. This doesnt solve the problems with tracing high-speed buses. Its very interesting intermediate tech, but nothing special. Dont expect video card MFT's to use this tech, because they are already pushing the limits of a parallel bus running at high speeds with the current PCB tech. QDR is a better tech, and will be MUCH more interesting. Dual bank is cool, but pricey due to more PCB layers.
I have seen a large amount of laid-off techies going and getting their teaching certs. I suppose in a way, they are contributing back to society this way and with a lot of states (in the NorthEast I know at least) the states help pay college debt. This is crucial for all the recent grads who cant find jobs because of the current down-swing. I think it is a good idea. As long as people can teach.
pushing that amount of dust into the atmosphere would cause MUCH more devastating effects than that of water. The water would come back down, in the form of rain... dust would block out the sun for a good amount of time. Then again, a big volcanic eruption does just about the same thing as a decent sized meteor impact, so its all moot. Even still, i dont think that an impact would be fun, but its part of life. We cant control it, so we just have to deal with it.
RADAR would NOT be an effective means of detecting an incoming asteroid. First off, it would require too much energy to emit a RADAR pulse that could detect an object that far out. Secondly, the dish has to wait for the signal to come back, which takes a decent amount of time. Therefor, it would require a LOT of dishes to scan the sky 100% of the time. Unless you guys want to pave teh world and install dishes EVERYWHERE. Telescopes could potentially work as well, but in order to get the resolution necessary to detect these things, it would again require WAY more telescopes then we have space for. Sure, we could put then in space, but there is already enough junk up there, and we would never again be able to launch through an array of detectors to get off this god-forsaken planet. Personally, I think our best bet it to hope that nothing of major size hits us any time soon. What, is it every 10 Million years an object of substantial size hits us... I personally dont think we will a.) still be alive or b.) still be on this planet the next time something big strikes.
To dispel anyones concept of something big hitting the moon... When's the last time you looked at the moon. See those craters? Neil Armstrong didnt dig those during his stay. Those are from hits. THe only reason we dont have them on earth is because of erosion and such.
Something else to consider. 75% of the earth is covered by the ocean (give or take). The chances of one hitting land is not great. What percentage of landmass do you think is populated, or if it is, heavily populated? Not a whole lot. I would venture to say less then 5%.
Another myth to dispel. The meteor would NOT accelerate due to gravity imposed by earth. Ever hear of air friction. By the time the damn thing hit the earth, a GOOD chunk would have burned away. The lower the angle of entry, the more it burns away. Also, if it came in at a low enough angle, it would bounce off the atmosphere.
So, in review... even if a body comes within our "airspace", the chances of it doing any REAL damage are pretty slim. So, quit your bitching. You have a better chance or getting struck by lightning, or better yet... winning the lottery.
Yes, the CPU does emit 2.4Ghz, but there is a HUGE difference between a CPU and a microwave oven emitting 2.4Ghz. Its the power. A CPU doesnt have the power that a microwave does, therefor, there is no concern of cooking anything by way of the waves themselves. Now, put something on top of the CPU without a heatsink and you will be cooking.
I have great difficulty in comprehending space and time and matter and energy as "mere" manifestations of some cellular automation - if so, what is left to be the "system" on which the automation itself is running?
Maybe all those crazy bible thumpers were right and the unniverse only exists because God thought it so. Hey, its an interesting take and maybe the tie between science and religeon.
And how does this differ from me going to the library and "loaning" a copy of a book, or a CD? I got the library card for free. They paid for the original media (which someone has to do for online purposes).
The real interesting aspect of this chip is the possibility of using it in a Ultra-dense server. The low-power (hence low heat)allows engineers to pack in more of these processors into a confined space for a lot more performance. Bravo Intel. Transmeta had this idea, they just didnt have the performance to back it up. Motorola and IBM also had the same idea (G4's), but they cant keep up in the Mhz Race (or should I say Ghz race). I know the company i currently work for, is looking into other vendors then Motorola for ultra-dense compute boxes. Intel is looking good at this point, but the main issue is power. There's only a finite amount. So, do we use 4x G4's or 1x P4? Its a question we are slowly answering.
I would think that this is partially illegal to install software on a person computer without that persons consent. Is it not? I never read a "Terms of agreement" when this software installed, nor did I agree to allow this software to install. Can this not be considered "hacking" or a "terrorist" act. Installing "covert" software on my machine to "peek" at what I am doing on the net. I really think someone in the community should look it up in the lawbooks and see if we have any rights against this.
If the record companies had a central server with ALL their music, in high quality, with fast downloads, I wouldnt mind them either a.) stealing my extra cycles or b.) actually paying for it. That was my problem with paying for Napster. I am not going to pay for a product that isnt 100% gauranteed high quality. Just my $0.02
So, how long before someone sues Apple for forcing people to buy OS-X with their Mac hardware. Is it really that much different then M$? Or are they worse. I mean, I can build an x86 system without M$ OSes. I cant do the same with a Mac
Last I knew, Apple wrote OS-X... making them a software company as well. Running software on top of their OS is one thing, replacing their OS is another. It seems to me that all the game console companies didnt like the idea of people putting other software on their machines and the govt backed them up. It doesnt seem out of the ordinary that Apple could pull the same thing.
I wonder if Apple could technically make it illegal to install anotehr OS on your nice, shiny new Mac? I mean, everone else in the world seems to think it is illegal to use other software (Sony, Nintendo, etc) for personal use. Just a thought.
anyone stopped to think that, a lot of these stars have probably already gone supernova, because, if a star is 500,000 light years away, we are seeing it 500,000 years ago. I dunno, maybe I am just thinking too hard.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I seem to remember NASA launching a lot of new technology into space. Just because NASA doesnt send men to other heavenly bodies, doesnt mean they are useless. The asteroid exploration satellites were big. Hell, they even landed the damn satellite on the asteroid, even though that wasnt the purpose of the device. Although, that was just NASA playing around. They keep sending exploration devices to mars. Give them time. Its not like it is the late 60's and they have full support and funding from the president himself.
Why is there a need to replace credit cards. I dont find it any slower to swipe my CC at gas pumps. Its not *that* much slower to swipe CC's at stores either. I think the transponder idea is great for highways (Maine and Massachusetts both have this), as I have used both and they tend to be great time savers. Maine actually charges less for tolls if you use this system. I think it is a great idea, considering they dont have to pay a toll-keeper to collect your money. All I ask, if that stores have CC swipes and my life is easy enough. Thats about as close to avoiding paper cash as I need.
A friend of mine just had his car "stolen". Brand new loaded civic. Wanna know how they stole it? They ripped off the spoiler, smashed out the wondow, stole the leather seats and left everything else as-is. Insurance called it totalled. Who needs to actually start the car when you can just strip it right there, with the alarm going off.
you may want to check this out if one is interesting in crunching data from their PC.
http://www.mc.com/search/productslevel4.cfm?pid=8& subid=50&id=62&type=subproduct2
can scale to 16 boards (32 processors) with 128MB of ram for each processor. PowerPC's too. You wanna talk about some serious horsepower, there it is. Cost? You dont want to know.
I am waiting for the day that someone starts making a real platform for AMD's chips. Someone mentioned above ServerWorks. They make an excellent chipset, which allows for double the width of current SDR RAM using normal DIMMS. Why cant someone like this (uh hum, ServerWorks) design a chipset that doubles the width of the memory bus, but also uses DDR RAM? So, we could get a normally clocked Athlon, running with a 128-bit wide memory bus clocked at 266Mhz (133Mhz x 2). This would effectively give one 4x the bandwidth of current 133Mhz FSB motherboards. Personally, I would love to see Apple port OS-X over to x86 architecture, and specially build their systems like this (cuz they could), and this would lead to one bada$$ system, which would NOT be running windoze.
I dont need the speed, but its nice to have it just in case
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No spelling errors, but the article had quite a few instances of incorrect words. Ah, the failure of a culture dependent on spell checkers.
I am happy to see other companies get into the "alternitve" powered vehicles for a few different reasons. The first being, that they have few, if any, ties to the oil companies, which LOVE to inhibit any move away from petroleum. A few comments I have on hybrids...
I am EXTREMELY happy to see a diesel hybrid. For some reason, every big car company has shied away from diesel in place of the petrol engines they use. Diesel engines are more efficient and CAN be clean. The reason US diesel engines are dirty is because the refineries REFUSE to add one more step in removing the sulfur from the fuel. They do this in europe, which leads to a MASSIVE assortment of diesel engines varying in size and power. I tend to think, they could make a diesel hyrid that could easily get 80mpg in a car and still have decent power. If they could get an efficient CVT with a turbo-diesel hybrid, they could take over the hybrid market in every country. But, I wont expect that any time soon.
First off, this is NOT QDR memory. The only benefit to this memory module is that the address and control lines can run at half the speed of the data lines, but you still MUST run the data lines at full speed. So, it is still only 2x the data bus speed. This doesnt solve the problems with tracing high-speed buses. Its very interesting intermediate tech, but nothing special. Dont expect video card MFT's to use this tech, because they are already pushing the limits of a parallel bus running at high speeds with the current PCB tech. QDR is a better tech, and will be MUCH more interesting. Dual bank is cool, but pricey due to more PCB layers.
I have seen a large amount of laid-off techies going and getting their teaching certs. I suppose in a way, they are contributing back to society this way and with a lot of states (in the NorthEast I know at least) the states help pay college debt. This is crucial for all the recent grads who cant find jobs because of the current down-swing. I think it is a good idea. As long as people can teach.
pushing that amount of dust into the atmosphere would cause MUCH more devastating effects than that of water. The water would come back down, in the form of rain... dust would block out the sun for a good amount of time. Then again, a big volcanic eruption does just about the same thing as a decent sized meteor impact, so its all moot. Even still, i dont think that an impact would be fun, but its part of life. We cant control it, so we just have to deal with it.
RADAR would NOT be an effective means of detecting an incoming asteroid. First off, it would require too much energy to emit a RADAR pulse that could detect an object that far out. Secondly, the dish has to wait for the signal to come back, which takes a decent amount of time. Therefor, it would require a LOT of dishes to scan the sky 100% of the time. Unless you guys want to pave teh world and install dishes EVERYWHERE. Telescopes could potentially work as well, but in order to get the resolution necessary to detect these things, it would again require WAY more telescopes then we have space for. Sure, we could put then in space, but there is already enough junk up there, and we would never again be able to launch through an array of detectors to get off this god-forsaken planet. Personally, I think our best bet it to hope that nothing of major size hits us any time soon. What, is it every 10 Million years an object of substantial size hits us... I personally dont think we will a.) still be alive or b.) still be on this planet the next time something big strikes.
To dispel anyones concept of something big hitting the moon... When's the last time you looked at the moon. See those craters? Neil Armstrong didnt dig those during his stay. Those are from hits. THe only reason we dont have them on earth is because of erosion and such.
Something else to consider. 75% of the earth is covered by the ocean (give or take). The chances of one hitting land is not great. What percentage of landmass do you think is populated, or if it is, heavily populated? Not a whole lot. I would venture to say less then 5%.
Another myth to dispel. The meteor would NOT accelerate due to gravity imposed by earth. Ever hear of air friction. By the time the damn thing hit the earth, a GOOD chunk would have burned away. The lower the angle of entry, the more it burns away. Also, if it came in at a low enough angle, it would bounce off the atmosphere.
So, in review... even if a body comes within our "airspace", the chances of it doing any REAL damage are pretty slim. So, quit your bitching. You have a better chance or getting struck by lightning, or better yet... winning the lottery.
Yes, the CPU does emit 2.4Ghz, but there is a HUGE difference between a CPU and a microwave oven emitting 2.4Ghz. Its the power. A CPU doesnt have the power that a microwave does, therefor, there is no concern of cooking anything by way of the waves themselves. Now, put something on top of the CPU without a heatsink and you will be cooking.
I have great difficulty in comprehending space and time and matter and energy as "mere" manifestations of some cellular automation - if so, what is left to be the "system" on which the automation itself is running?
Maybe all those crazy bible thumpers were right and the unniverse only exists because God thought it so. Hey, its an interesting take and maybe the tie between science and religeon.
Well, I at least have to be close to the first post
And how does this differ from me going to the library and "loaning" a copy of a book, or a CD? I got the library card for free. They paid for the original media (which someone has to do for online purposes).
The real interesting aspect of this chip is the possibility of using it in a Ultra-dense server. The low-power (hence low heat)allows engineers to pack in more of these processors into a confined space for a lot more performance. Bravo Intel. Transmeta had this idea, they just didnt have the performance to back it up. Motorola and IBM also had the same idea (G4's), but they cant keep up in the Mhz Race (or should I say Ghz race). I know the company i currently work for, is looking into other vendors then Motorola for ultra-dense compute boxes. Intel is looking good at this point, but the main issue is power. There's only a finite amount. So, do we use 4x G4's or 1x P4? Its a question we are slowly answering.
terrorism
n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments.
violent
2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force.
So, by the definition, I think it could be constued as terrorism. a stretch? yes. Out of the question? no.
I would think that this is partially illegal to install software on a person computer without that persons consent. Is it not? I never read a "Terms of agreement" when this software installed, nor did I agree to allow this software to install. Can this not be considered "hacking" or a "terrorist" act. Installing "covert" software on my machine to "peek" at what I am doing on the net. I really think someone in the community should look it up in the lawbooks and see if we have any rights against this.
If the record companies had a central server with ALL their music, in high quality, with fast downloads, I wouldnt mind them either a.) stealing my extra cycles or b.) actually paying for it. That was my problem with paying for Napster. I am not going to pay for a product that isnt 100% gauranteed high quality. Just my $0.02
so, if M$ started making their own PC's, and more or less told every other computer vendor to go elsewhere for an OS, would that be just as bad?
So, how long before someone sues Apple for forcing people to buy OS-X with their Mac hardware. Is it really that much different then M$? Or are they worse. I mean, I can build an x86 system without M$ OSes. I cant do the same with a Mac
Last I knew, Apple wrote OS-X... making them a software company as well. Running software on top of their OS is one thing, replacing their OS is another. It seems to me that all the game console companies didnt like the idea of people putting other software on their machines and the govt backed them up. It doesnt seem out of the ordinary that Apple could pull the same thing.
I wonder if Apple could technically make it illegal to install anotehr OS on your nice, shiny new Mac? I mean, everone else in the world seems to think it is illegal to use other software (Sony, Nintendo, etc) for personal use. Just a thought.
anyone stopped to think that, a lot of these stars have probably already gone supernova, because, if a star is 500,000 light years away, we are seeing it 500,000 years ago. I dunno, maybe I am just thinking too hard.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I seem to remember NASA launching a lot of new technology into space. Just because NASA doesnt send men to other heavenly bodies, doesnt mean they are useless. The asteroid exploration satellites were big. Hell, they even landed the damn satellite on the asteroid, even though that wasnt the purpose of the device. Although, that was just NASA playing around. They keep sending exploration devices to mars. Give them time. Its not like it is the late 60's and they have full support and funding from the president himself.
Why is there a need to replace credit cards. I dont find it any slower to swipe my CC at gas pumps. Its not *that* much slower to swipe CC's at stores either. I think the transponder idea is great for highways (Maine and Massachusetts both have this), as I have used both and they tend to be great time savers. Maine actually charges less for tolls if you use this system. I think it is a great idea, considering they dont have to pay a toll-keeper to collect your money. All I ask, if that stores have CC swipes and my life is easy enough. Thats about as close to avoiding paper cash as I need.
A friend of mine just had his car "stolen". Brand new loaded civic. Wanna know how they stole it? They ripped off the spoiler, smashed out the wondow, stole the leather seats and left everything else as-is. Insurance called it totalled. Who needs to actually start the car when you can just strip it right there, with the alarm going off.
you may want to check this out if one is interesting in crunching data from their PC. http://www.mc.com/search/productslevel4.cfm?pid=8& subid=50&id=62&type=subproduct2
can scale to 16 boards (32 processors) with 128MB of ram for each processor. PowerPC's too. You wanna talk about some serious horsepower, there it is. Cost? You dont want to know.
I am waiting for the day that someone starts making a real platform for AMD's chips. Someone mentioned above ServerWorks. They make an excellent chipset, which allows for double the width of current SDR RAM using normal DIMMS. Why cant someone like this (uh hum, ServerWorks) design a chipset that doubles the width of the memory bus, but also uses DDR RAM? So, we could get a normally clocked Athlon, running with a 128-bit wide memory bus clocked at 266Mhz (133Mhz x 2). This would effectively give one 4x the bandwidth of current 133Mhz FSB motherboards. Personally, I would love to see Apple port OS-X over to x86 architecture, and specially build their systems like this (cuz they could), and this would lead to one bada$$ system, which would NOT be running windoze. I dont need the speed, but its nice to have it just in case