If you take bare fibre, in the dark, it glows! Now I don't know too much about the field, but it would seem that the glow is the data. If they can pick data off of blinkenlights, surely the glow can be reconstructed?
I was really hoping for this to be for analog computing.
In the field of chaos theory, and cryptography, and countless others, analog computing is great. To have an analog accelerator, much as one has a 3D accelerator, or floating point module, would be great. The tubes could be rewired on the fly, like an FPGA, allowing the programmer do all kinds of things. Imagine if the programmer could work in voltages, with chaotic effects giving true random numbers. Using this chaotic data, you could form clouds and other random events for games, perform neural network calculations and countless other things.
The analog systems helping the digital ones would be quite a revolution.
My father develops medical imaging systems, and the highest end stuff they buy are LCDs.
They remove the color mask, and the things are almost blinding. They are brighter than any CRT is, and they last 10 times as long, and if you replace the bulb, they'll last forever.
LCDs, which, for all their flatness, will always be dimmer, too.
Dimmer? I have a 17" LCD in front of me, and I still would have bought it even if it was bigger than my old CRT. It's actually brighter, because I can crank the brightness all the way up, and black pixels are still pitch black. The digital interface is razer sharp, and the image quality is amazing.
I don't know what he's been looking at, but my LCD is the brightest display I've ever used, or at least it seems that way.
A lesser known danger is that, at least on my APC BackUPS 450, when the system is on backup after one has pulled the power main to the ups (unplugged it), the male plug that would go into the wall is still hot!
I haven't measured it, but it felt like 110VAC across the prongs to me when I discovered this effect by accident. Be very careful with these things...
There is a fun hack called EME, or moonbounce, where an operator bounces his signal off the surface of the moon. Your voice can be heard across the entire hemisphere.
UNICOS, the Cray OS, would cost Joe Slashdot around half a mil to run, and it's non-transferable. This new sun deal sounds kinda like that.
However, there is no Linux for Cray. There is Linux for SPARC. So, If Solaris is too expensive for you, don't use it. IRIX is too expensive for me to run on my SGI, but it's not a problem. I don't care, I use Linux.
I know I'm mostly repeating what was implied by above poster, but this timetable could mean that something bad may be about to happen starting in 6 months and getting to full-scale whatevering in 18 months between the speakers of these languages.
Don't want to start a fastener flame war here (have we ever had one of those, might me interesting), but the things are even mo' better than duct tape or crazyglue.
A good selection of sizes will keep wires neat, keep things (bumpers, headlights, engine parts) from falling off cars (no really, my sister has used the things for some time on her bumper...), etc.
Name a "wierd" driver that makes your life easier. If the only way to describe something that one should never, ever see is 'wierd', something is wrong.
It shouldn't be wierd, it should just work. I don't notice my sound card's drivers, and that's how it should be.
I remember someone's wise answer to why time-travel to the past will be impossible: If it was possible, we would have millions of time-travellers snapping billions of holo-photos of our parking lots.
And if anyone could 'own' the internet if they wanted to, they would have done it. Sure, most of those who could take out the net wouldn't, but all it takes is one, and I don't see the entire internet failing all that often, you?
However, This will give us legal recourse for lawsuits. Not only are they wasting our time, they are wasting our money. While the actual damages may be very, very small, punitive damages are what kills.
I think it would be a good idea that this version of Ximian contains non-free software, much like Debian letting you force no non-free stuff.
Many Linux newbies get into the "sport" for various political reasons, and through buying Ximian, they are no longer using a "pure" open-source desktop.
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ShowShifter (a TiVo like software package) is often used to do just this.
You dump your shows to WinCE devices.
TiVo sync.
Should be possible with the tiny rez, and MPEG-4.
Would be quite cool.
If you take bare fibre, in the dark, it glows! Now I don't know too much about the field, but it would seem that the glow is the data. If they can pick data off of blinkenlights, surely the glow can be reconstructed?
Or do I just have really, really, bad fibre?
I was really hoping for this to be for analog computing.
In the field of chaos theory, and cryptography, and countless others, analog computing is great. To have an analog accelerator, much as one has a 3D accelerator, or floating point module, would be great. The tubes could be rewired on the fly, like an FPGA, allowing the programmer do all kinds of things. Imagine if the programmer could work in voltages, with chaotic effects giving true random numbers. Using this chaotic data, you could form clouds and other random events for games, perform neural network calculations and countless other things.
The analog systems helping the digital ones would be quite a revolution.
My father develops medical imaging systems, and the highest end stuff they buy are LCDs.
They remove the color mask, and the things are almost blinding. They are brighter than any CRT is, and they last 10 times as long, and if you replace the bulb, they'll last forever.
LCDs, which, for all their flatness, will always be dimmer, too.
Dimmer? I have a 17" LCD in front of me, and I still would have bought it even if it was bigger than my old CRT. It's actually brighter, because I can crank the brightness all the way up, and black pixels are still pitch black. The digital interface is razer sharp, and the image quality is amazing.
I don't know what he's been looking at, but my LCD is the brightest display I've ever used, or at least it seems that way.
I'll do that.
A company like APC should have something in their product to keep from delivering 110VAC to my hand.
Thanks for the advice.
Quick!
Somebody whip out an app to generate fan noise through the sound device...
It's the other way around.
The article is about building a 220VAC/50Hz device. It converting from Aussie voltage.
A lesser known danger is that, at least on my APC BackUPS 450, when the system is on backup after one has pulled the power main to the ups (unplugged it), the male plug that would go into the wall is still hot!
I haven't measured it, but it felt like 110VAC across the prongs to me when I discovered this effect by accident. Be very careful with these things...
Trying to transmit.
There is a fun hack called EME, or moonbounce, where an operator bounces his signal off the surface of the moon. Your voice can be heard across the entire hemisphere.
Sounds kinda like UNICOS to me...
UNICOS, the Cray OS, would cost Joe Slashdot around half a mil to run, and it's non-transferable. This new sun deal sounds kinda like that.
However, there is no Linux for Cray. There is Linux for SPARC. So, If Solaris is too expensive for you, don't use it. IRIX is too expensive for me to run on my SGI, but it's not a problem. I don't care, I use Linux.
I saw a guy who built a GIANT antennae for 2 meter work.
The rotator was a pick-up truck.
It's built in the same manner (and about the same size) as those rotating crop watering thingies.
I know I'm mostly repeating what was implied by above poster, but this timetable could mean that something bad may be about to happen starting in 6 months and getting to full-scale whatevering in 18 months between the speakers of these languages.
I guess it's the most sickening yet use of the "terrorist" catch-word for getting public support.
This is quite offensive.
Nylon Ties.
Don't want to start a fastener flame war here (have we ever had one of those, might me interesting), but the things are even mo' better than duct tape or crazyglue.
A good selection of sizes will keep wires neat, keep things (bumpers, headlights, engine parts) from falling off cars (no really, my sister has used the things for some time on her bumper...), etc.
Just put Ham equipment on those things, and let us do the rest...
I'm sure we could get something to work.
Thanks for the advice.
:-(
I've fixed it.
It's quite sad, though, that I can't trust people
Explain.
I'm rather confused.
If you hate the British spellings so much, why promote it?
sabre (sbr)
n. & v. Chiefly British
Variant of saber.
'Sabre' is one of the alternate commercial spellings you seem to hate so much.
It spelled saber, if we're feeling picky and trollish. Get your facts right.
Name a "wierd" driver that makes your life easier.
If the only way to describe something that one should never, ever see is 'wierd', something is wrong.
It shouldn't be wierd, it should just work. I don't notice my sound card's drivers, and that's how it should be.
I remember someone's wise answer to why time-travel to the past will be impossible: If it was possible, we would have millions of time-travellers snapping billions of holo-photos of our parking lots.
And if anyone could 'own' the internet if they wanted to, they would have done it. Sure, most of those who could take out the net wouldn't, but all it takes is one, and I don't see the entire internet failing all that often, you?
However,
This will give us legal recourse for lawsuits.
Not only are they wasting our time, they are wasting our money. While the actual damages may be very, very small, punitive damages are what kills.
Yeah, I'm not saying that it's right for everyone...
Heck, I'm typing this message on OS X.
I think it would be a good idea that this version of Ximian contains non-free software, much like Debian letting you force no non-free stuff.
Many Linux newbies get into the "sport" for various political reasons, and through buying Ximian, they are no longer using a "pure" open-source desktop.
Buyer beware.