It's worth noting that the company is in breech of employment laws and could be sued. (Either individually or as a class-action suit.) Many companies abuse salaried workers, because those workers don't understand that overtime is not necessary "part of the salary". If workers start fighting back by asking for employment laws to be enforced, the industry "standards" WILL change.
Here's an odd thought... why bother? Quite a few Winamp clones exist because the WinAMP design is not hard to replicate. It's really not much more than a way of loading, inspecting, and playing audio files from disk, http, or streaming servers. Here's a few example clones:
Umm... no. I'm saying that my current computer is NOT going to be upgraded, despite falling into the upgrade period. i.e. Computers today are so fast, that there's little reason to upgrade them. Thus the trend of the past is broken.
I didn't include non-PCs in my post because I was focusing on PCs being underpowered, but HOLY CRAP you have gone through a lot of computers! Your list has you with a computer of just about every PC generation! Maybe it's time to stop spilling so much water?;-)
Sounds to me like most of you would be happy with a machine with a terminal for a head, and a nice X terminal. Me, I want a little more:)
Back in the day, I used to love how much more powerful PCs were for games over consoles. I still love playing an occasional video game, but it just isn't the same any more. Games used to push the boundaries and do exciting new things. Better graphics, better gameplay, etc. Sadly, this is no longer true. Most new games are all alike with a few differences in gameplay. I actually find myself missing the old days of 2D games, most of which could actually be played on a terminal. The primary advantage of today's games is total immersion. If there's an environment you really like (e.g. Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, etc. universes), the experience can be replicated to a satisfactory degree.
BTW, don't think I'm not looking for performance. The Ultra 80s I've been eyeing, have 4GB, 4x450 processors, a gigabit crossbar, and a high-end Sun 3D card. Should be just enough horsepower for me. (insert Tim Allen grunting):-)
Truth be told, the "upgrade" cycle was caused by PCs. PCs used to be so underpowered, that you'd need to occasionally upgrade just to run the simplest of programs. Here's my upgrade cycle:
~1985 - PC jr (upgraded because of lack of memory) ~1988 - Laser XT (upgraded because of 640K and GUIs) ~1992 - 486 DX2 (upgraded because 4MB wouldn't run Win95) ~1995 - Pentium 120 (upgraded because 16MB was too little for modern programs) ~2000 - Homebuilt PIII 733/512MB/80Gig
Note that the last item shows no "upgrade" cycle. That's because I haven't upgraded. I built my machine for capacity, and it has held up for about four years. Even more interesting is that I have no current plans at upgrading that machine. All of my current thoughts are leaning toward getting a used Ultra80, and wiring up the entire house with thin-client services.
Please give an example of any piece of code that runs faster on a 486 than any machine ever classified as a supercomputer. No? Didn't think so.
Most forms of user-interactive programs or branch-heavy logic. You see, many supercomputers used EXTREMELY long memory pipelines that placed the processor 100+ clocks behind the memory being fetched. A single branching instruction usually resulted in a task switch to the next queued process, thus keeping processor usage high.
The end result is that these machines could crunch streaming data at an extraordinary rate, but couldn't compete directly with scalar processors for branching performance. I believe that's the reason that VAX front-ends were used on Crays. Running a user interface on the Cray would have caused a great deal of interruption in the processor's duties, and thus would have substantially decreased performance.
Wikipedia (yes, I love to piss off you anti-WP people) has an explanation of vector processors. Take careful note of the section on pipelining, as that is the key to both the supercomputer performance, as well as the lack thereof.
I'm confused.
Yes, we know. Otherwise you wouldn't post as an AC.
1inuk5 ROXORS!!! M$$$$$F7 SUXORS!!! Dude, I'm so 31337!!! Can you imaging a beowulf cluster of these? I for one, welcome our new Super-Computer overlords. ???, Profit!!! 7H47'5 7H3 5P0K3! Hot grits Natalie Portman
See? Content. I'll bet I'll get modded down for it though. Slashdotters NEVER appreciate any real content.
You just answered your own question. Here's a calculator for you to experiment with.
Now the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. Punching that into our calculator (with 1g of acceleration) gets us:
Trip length: 100000.0 light years. Acceleration: 1.0 g. Time on earth: 100030.66862352223 years. Time on ship: 22.37482575555922 years.
The first non-satellite galaxy is 701,000 light years away. Thus:
Trip length: 701000.0 light years. Acceleration: 1.0 g. Time on earth: 701203.3391426571 years. Time on ship: 26.148946960148827 years.
Andromeda (a galaxy of much interest) is 2,363,000 light years away. For this, we find:
Trip length: 2363000.0 light years. Acceleration: 1.0 g. Time on earth: 2363680.840602193 years. Time on ship: 28.504093726053426 years.
You'll note how ship time is only going up a few years at a time, while Earth is losing thousands to millions of years after each trip.
The biggest issue in your calculations above, is that you reach a specified speed and coast. A true intergalactic ship would always be under power, or it would be unable to make the trip in a reasonable amount of time for the crew.
And therein lies the problem. Most super-computers were purpose-built and are thus not too useful for general purpose programs. Some optimizations that have been done to these machines means that a 486 might even be faster on certain code!
It's a lot like comparing a luxury yacht to an aircraft carrier. Sure, the carrier is pretty damn cool, has lots of capacity, and lots of features. Unfortunately, the carrier is probably not going to move an inch without a full crew and military grade servicing. All of those great things you thought you would get from buying an old carrier, you find would have been better served with a new yacht.
Horseshit. Unless you click "Yeah, download this.exe!", IE won't just 'automatically' install toolbars.
Yes, it will. I accidentally landed on a Xupiter install page (it spoofed Google as a valid result) and it installed a stupid toolbar before I could stop it. It pissed me off trying to get rid of it, because IE keeps all the DLLs open while Windows is running. (#$%!) Since then, I've completely exorcized IE from being used on my machine. All the IE links launch FireFox for my wife, and I ONLY use Mozilla.
Yes, XP SP2 is not vulnerable to this attack. Too bad I don't run XP and have no intention of upgrading.
You have forgotten the second law of thermodynamics.
No, I haven't forgot it. My point was that 100% of a given quantity of matter may be transformed into energetic particles (e.g. photons, pions, beta radiation, etc.) without violating thermodynamics. Keep in mind that thermodynamics also states that energy and matter may NOT be created or destroyed. It may only be converted from one form to another.
The reason why there are losses in a system is that a certain amount of heat will be lost in a process due to the fact that heat travels from a warmer body to a colder one. The closer the colder body is to the temperature of the warmer body, the more energy is lost in the transferance. Once the temperatures are equalized (i.e. complete entropy), there is no way of extracting more energy from the system. The system can only be disturbed by adding energy from outside the system. Eventually, our Universe (the largest system) will reach complete entropy and there will be nothing but equally distributed particles with equal amounts of energy.
Some energy will always be lost, and because fission/nuclear decay. itself does not completely destroy an atom, merely reduce it to smaller parts that are often radioactive themselves, you will always wind up with a huge load of useless radioactive crap with enormous half lives.
The remainder is left because fission is not an efficient process, not because of thermodynamics. You see, fission is the result of an atom becoming too heavy. When it gets too heavy, it collapses in on itself and splits into several smaller atoms. The energy released by this split causes some of the particles to gain kinetic energy and become independent, as well as cause some particles to become zero mass or low mass particles such as photons. The new atoms that are "created" in this process are what we think of as "waste".
When I say useless, I mean useless in the worst sense of the word.
Fission byproducts are by no means "useless". Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors, Sr-90 and Pu-238 work well in atomic batteries, Pu-239 can be recycled into more fission fuel, CS-137 has been used in hydrologic studies, and Tritium is commonly used for professional "glow-in-the-dark" applications. Carbon-11, Nitrogen-13, Oxygen-15, and Fluorine-18, and many other isotopes have been used as medical tracers.
When I say that stuff is useful, I mean it in the best sense of the word.
The crap that is left over only puts out extremely low quality heat but more than enough radiation to seriously, for lack of a better word, fuck up anything with DNA.
Not all radiation types pose a threat. In fact, low level radiation often doesn't pose a threat at all. Alpha particles can't penetrate the skin, nor can low levels of Beta radiation. Gamma and X-Ray radiation penetrates so well that it's most likely to completely miss your body! Only neutron radiation is a major concern, but that stuff is only produced during fission.
And as of yet there are NO viable ways to store this material for the neccesary period of time.
Again, that stuff is useful. Some of it can be reprocessed into fission fuel, and some of it can be made into products we use every day. (Duck! Your smoke alarm is emitting radiation!) The remaining stuff is miniscule in size, and most likely wouldn't harm anyone.
(Estimated to be about 100,000 years or more.)
Anything that takes 100,000 years to become "not-so-dangerous" is already "not-so-dangerous" as long as it's kept out of the water and food tables.
So no, due to logistical and environmental concerns, nuclear fissions is not a viable answer to our long term energy needs.
Ahem. Nuclear Fission is a fine source of energy with few problems. The primary issue is that advancement and processing techniques have been held back by the fear of "terrorists".
Thanks. I got tired of all the whiners and Bush-hating Kerry complainers, so I decided to do something about it. The sig must work, because I haven't had a single whiny reply since I changed to it.:-)
And yet, when FireFox routed unrecognized URL handlers to the OS, it was considered a security exploit in FireFox when those handlers were exploited. As far as I'm concerned, it was really a Windows bug. Sadly, not everyone sees it that way.
I believe I put it as, "lack of security issues like the one pointed out by CNN" as well as "It helps protect against Spyware". It's true that FireFox is not invulnerable (e.g. the download bug), but it's nearly there for most users.
Remember how FireFox handled the download bug? Old copies of the browser would actually be redirected to an auto-update site. Click a button, wait for a few kb download, and voíla! A secure browser.:-)
It's pretty neat how far FireFox is beginning to spread. CNN carried this story on TV just a half-hour ago. They mentioned that FireFox was becoming the most popular alternative to IE. My coworkers (who's job includes watching CNN) came by and asked me why this FireFox thing is better. I told them about tabbed browsing, popup blocking, lack of security issues, and other niceties.
One of the coworkers downloaded FireFox right away. I actually expected him to take a little while to wean off of IE. After I showed him FireFox's features, however, he set FireFox to his default browser and deleted his IE shortcuts! I think we're definitely making headway.:-)
Dude, it was a joke. Anyone who's seen the movie should get it. i.e. When she looks at her butt in the mirrored surface, you can just see the "does this outfit make my butt look big?" thought going through her head.:-)
Low Earth Orbit is not frictionless. It's just EXTREMELY thin air. Anything that stays in LEO for an extended period will require an occasional boost to maintain its orbit. That's why NASA occasionally gives the ISS a boost or two.
And, since the new costume is custom-fitted to his paunch, there shouldn't be any problem with the belt.
His suit was NOT custom fitted to his paunch. By the time he asked Edna for a new suit (I got a real kick out of that lady!), he had already been lifting train cars to get rid of it. The scene where he measured his waist was the one that immediately preceded his visit to Edna.
I wasn't going to respond to any posts, but your request is reasonable enough. I've actually had the opposite experience of yourself, finding that most Iraqi bloggers have been positive about the war. Here's a few I was able to dig up:
this is indeed important for me,not only for me but I thing for all Iraqis and free people in the world,I strongly support GWB,this man I very admirer,is a very brave man,and he is always keeping his promises and words,and fight evil every where,and what he did for me and my family,is something we will never forget,he free us from the evil and torch of the murder,that roles us with fire and kill.
I have come back from Basra yesterday, filled with happiness about the American election result which I stayed awake all night to follow for the first time of my life.
And also I hear the news of many other countries helping with what ever they can with rebuilding Iraq and that's not a jock or a lie, because I saw with my own eyes the warehouse where the equipments and tools and materials sent to Iraq for rebuilding it by those countries, an unbelievable stock of every thing, thousands of police cars, hundreds of army vehicles thousands of sealed containers, electricity transformers and many thing I don't know what is it and it was by a coincidence when I had to visit the warehouse for some business actually to supply them with employees with different qualifications hundreds of them with the condition that they should be Iraqis, because these countries are trying to solve unemployment problem as well. I even told my friend who was with me in that visit "if all Iraqis knew about the things stocked and happening here they will stop complaining and they will have enough patience to wait for the better days to come.
On the long list of things that I have not seen or experienced before the fall of Saddam I can now add a new item, Eid al-Ghadeer. Happy Eid al-Ghadeer to you all.
It's another sad day here in Iraq.. The terrorists have resumed their evil plans as we expected before and their bloody attack today targeted both, Iraqi civilians and American soldiers and unfortunately this is not going to end soon. [..] God bless the souls of the Iraqis and Americans who fell today and may God help their families. We are so sad today but we will not despair.
Congratulations to all American people and to our Iraqi people for this great outcome of the American Elections. This was a great statement by the American people; a statement showing the quality and backbone of this people and affirming their worth and qualification as world leaders. Now that this matter has been settled in satisfactory manner, in my humble opinion; we should emphasize that this is no time for division and rancor. Senator Kerry has acted in very dignified manner when he did not allow the matter to drag, and has shown his patriotism and sense of responsibility and awareness that the interests of the country at these times require national unity and putting this election campaign behind our backs to concentrate on the momentous tasks ahead. Yes at times of war and conflict, the unity of the nation and putting high
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It's worth noting that the company is in breech of employment laws and could be sued. (Either individually or as a class-action suit.) Many companies abuse salaried workers, because those workers don't understand that overtime is not necessary "part of the salary". If workers start fighting back by asking for employment laws to be enforced, the industry "standards" WILL change.
Here's an odd thought... why bother? Quite a few Winamp clones exist because the WinAMP design is not hard to replicate. It's really not much more than a way of loading, inspecting, and playing audio files from disk, http, or streaming servers. Here's a few example clones:
jlGUI
JAMP
JahSing
Umm... no. I'm saying that my current computer is NOT going to be upgraded, despite falling into the upgrade period. i.e. Computers today are so fast, that there's little reason to upgrade them. Thus the trend of the past is broken.
I didn't include non-PCs in my post because I was focusing on PCs being underpowered, but HOLY CRAP you have gone through a lot of computers! Your list has you with a computer of just about every PC generation! Maybe it's time to stop spilling so much water? ;-)
:)
:-)
Sounds to me like most of you would be happy with a machine with a terminal for a head, and a nice X terminal. Me, I want a little more
Back in the day, I used to love how much more powerful PCs were for games over consoles. I still love playing an occasional video game, but it just isn't the same any more. Games used to push the boundaries and do exciting new things. Better graphics, better gameplay, etc. Sadly, this is no longer true. Most new games are all alike with a few differences in gameplay. I actually find myself missing the old days of 2D games, most of which could actually be played on a terminal. The primary advantage of today's games is total immersion. If there's an environment you really like (e.g. Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, etc. universes), the experience can be replicated to a satisfactory degree.
BTW, don't think I'm not looking for performance. The Ultra 80s I've been eyeing, have 4GB, 4x450 processors, a gigabit crossbar, and a high-end Sun 3D card. Should be just enough horsepower for me. (insert Tim Allen grunting)
Sorry if I was confusing. The note is why I upgraded away from the computer. Thus I upgraded to the P120 because a 4MB DX2 couldn't run Win95.
Truth be told, the "upgrade" cycle was caused by PCs. PCs used to be so underpowered, that you'd need to occasionally upgrade just to run the simplest of programs. Here's my upgrade cycle:
~1985 - PC jr (upgraded because of lack of memory)
~1988 - Laser XT (upgraded because of 640K and GUIs)
~1992 - 486 DX2 (upgraded because 4MB wouldn't run Win95)
~1995 - Pentium 120 (upgraded because 16MB was too little for modern programs)
~2000 - Homebuilt PIII 733/512MB/80Gig
Note that the last item shows no "upgrade" cycle. That's because I haven't upgraded. I built my machine for capacity, and it has held up for about four years. Even more interesting is that I have no current plans at upgrading that machine. All of my current thoughts are leaning toward getting a used Ultra80, and wiring up the entire house with thin-client services.
I'll bet it would make an awesome DSP processor, though! Just imagine being able to record to disk, just about every broadcast in the air! ;-)
Of course, you'd need a little extra hardware to digitize the signals in the first place...
Please give an example of any piece of code that runs faster on a 486 than any machine ever classified as a supercomputer. No? Didn't think so.
Most forms of user-interactive programs or branch-heavy logic. You see, many supercomputers used EXTREMELY long memory pipelines that placed the processor 100+ clocks behind the memory being fetched. A single branching instruction usually resulted in a task switch to the next queued process, thus keeping processor usage high.
The end result is that these machines could crunch streaming data at an extraordinary rate, but couldn't compete directly with scalar processors for branching performance. I believe that's the reason that VAX front-ends were used on Crays. Running a user interface on the Cray would have caused a great deal of interruption in the processor's duties, and thus would have substantially decreased performance.
Wikipedia (yes, I love to piss off you anti-WP people) has an explanation of vector processors. Take careful note of the section on pipelining, as that is the key to both the supercomputer performance, as well as the lack thereof.
I'm confused.
Yes, we know. Otherwise you wouldn't post as an AC.
Oh, I'm sorry. Allow me to fix that:
1inuk5 ROXORS!!!
M$$$$$F7 SUXORS!!!
Dude, I'm so 31337!!!
Can you imaging a beowulf cluster of these?
I for one, welcome our new Super-Computer overlords.
???, Profit!!!
7H47'5 7H3 5P0K3!
Hot grits
Natalie Portman
See? Content. I'll bet I'll get modded down for it though. Slashdotters NEVER appreciate any real content.
You just answered your own question. Here's a calculator for you to experiment with.
Now the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. Punching that into our calculator (with 1g of acceleration) gets us:The first non-satellite galaxy is 701,000 light years away. Thus:Andromeda (a galaxy of much interest) is 2,363,000 light years away. For this, we find:You'll note how ship time is only going up a few years at a time, while Earth is losing thousands to millions of years after each trip.
The biggest issue in your calculations above, is that you reach a specified speed and coast. A true intergalactic ship would always be under power, or it would be unable to make the trip in a reasonable amount of time for the crew.
Does that help clarify things for you?
And therein lies the problem. Most super-computers were purpose-built and are thus not too useful for general purpose programs. Some optimizations that have been done to these machines means that a 486 might even be faster on certain code!
It's a lot like comparing a luxury yacht to an aircraft carrier. Sure, the carrier is pretty damn cool, has lots of capacity, and lots of features. Unfortunately, the carrier is probably not going to move an inch without a full crew and military grade servicing. All of those great things you thought you would get from buying an old carrier, you find would have been better served with a new yacht.
Horseshit. Unless you click "Yeah, download this .exe!", IE won't just 'automatically' install toolbars.
Yes, it will. I accidentally landed on a Xupiter install page (it spoofed Google as a valid result) and it installed a stupid toolbar before I could stop it. It pissed me off trying to get rid of it, because IE keeps all the DLLs open while Windows is running. (#$%!) Since then, I've completely exorcized IE from being used on my machine. All the IE links launch FireFox for my wife, and I ONLY use Mozilla.
Yes, XP SP2 is not vulnerable to this attack. Too bad I don't run XP and have no intention of upgrading.
You have forgotten the second law of thermodynamics.
No, I haven't forgot it. My point was that 100% of a given quantity of matter may be transformed into energetic particles (e.g. photons, pions, beta radiation, etc.) without violating thermodynamics. Keep in mind that thermodynamics also states that energy and matter may NOT be created or destroyed. It may only be converted from one form to another.
The reason why there are losses in a system is that a certain amount of heat will be lost in a process due to the fact that heat travels from a warmer body to a colder one. The closer the colder body is to the temperature of the warmer body, the more energy is lost in the transferance. Once the temperatures are equalized (i.e. complete entropy), there is no way of extracting more energy from the system. The system can only be disturbed by adding energy from outside the system. Eventually, our Universe (the largest system) will reach complete entropy and there will be nothing but equally distributed particles with equal amounts of energy.
Some energy will always be lost, and because fission/nuclear decay. itself does not completely destroy an atom, merely reduce it to smaller parts that are often radioactive themselves, you will always wind up with a huge load of useless radioactive crap with enormous half lives.
The remainder is left because fission is not an efficient process, not because of thermodynamics. You see, fission is the result of an atom becoming too heavy. When it gets too heavy, it collapses in on itself and splits into several smaller atoms. The energy released by this split causes some of the particles to gain kinetic energy and become independent, as well as cause some particles to become zero mass or low mass particles such as photons. The new atoms that are "created" in this process are what we think of as "waste".
When I say useless, I mean useless in the worst sense of the word.
Fission byproducts are by no means "useless". Americium-241 is used in smoke detectors, Sr-90 and Pu-238 work well in atomic batteries, Pu-239 can be recycled into more fission fuel, CS-137 has been used in hydrologic studies, and Tritium is commonly used for professional "glow-in-the-dark" applications. Carbon-11, Nitrogen-13, Oxygen-15, and Fluorine-18, and many other isotopes have been used as medical tracers.
When I say that stuff is useful, I mean it in the best sense of the word.
The crap that is left over only puts out extremely low quality heat but more than enough radiation to seriously, for lack of a better word, fuck up anything with DNA.
Not all radiation types pose a threat. In fact, low level radiation often doesn't pose a threat at all. Alpha particles can't penetrate the skin, nor can low levels of Beta radiation. Gamma and X-Ray radiation penetrates so well that it's most likely to completely miss your body! Only neutron radiation is a major concern, but that stuff is only produced during fission.
And as of yet there are NO viable ways to store this material for the neccesary period of time.
Again, that stuff is useful. Some of it can be reprocessed into fission fuel, and some of it can be made into products we use every day. (Duck! Your smoke alarm is emitting radiation!) The remaining stuff is miniscule in size, and most likely wouldn't harm anyone.
(Estimated to be about 100,000 years or more.)
Anything that takes 100,000 years to become "not-so-dangerous" is already "not-so-dangerous" as long as it's kept out of the water and food tables.
So no, due to logistical and environmental concerns, nuclear fissions is not a viable answer to our long term energy needs.
Ahem. Nuclear Fission is a fine source of energy with few problems. The primary issue is that advancement and processing techniques have been held back by the fear of "terrorists".
Thanks. I got tired of all the whiners and Bush-hating Kerry complainers, so I decided to do something about it. The sig must work, because I haven't had a single whiny reply since I changed to it. :-)
And yet, when FireFox routed unrecognized URL handlers to the OS, it was considered a security exploit in FireFox when those handlers were exploited. As far as I'm concerned, it was really a Windows bug. Sadly, not everyone sees it that way.
1. Download Mozilla.
2. Find the mozctl.dll file.
3. Register as ActiveX control.
4. Profit!!!
More Info:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/
You're thinking of "Favorites". "Shortcuts" are those little desktop icons with an arrow.
I believe I put it as, "lack of security issues like the one pointed out by CNN" as well as "It helps protect against Spyware". It's true that FireFox is not invulnerable (e.g. the download bug), but it's nearly there for most users.
:-)
Remember how FireFox handled the download bug? Old copies of the browser would actually be redirected to an auto-update site. Click a button, wait for a few kb download, and voíla! A secure browser.
It's pretty neat how far FireFox is beginning to spread. CNN carried this story on TV just a half-hour ago. They mentioned that FireFox was becoming the most popular alternative to IE. My coworkers (who's job includes watching CNN) came by and asked me why this FireFox thing is better. I told them about tabbed browsing, popup blocking, lack of security issues, and other niceties.
:-)
One of the coworkers downloaded FireFox right away. I actually expected him to take a little while to wean off of IE. After I showed him FireFox's features, however, he set FireFox to his default browser and deleted his IE shortcuts! I think we're definitely making headway.
Dude, it was a joke. Anyone who's seen the movie should get it. i.e. When she looks at her butt in the mirrored surface, you can just see the "does this outfit make my butt look big?" thought going through her head. :-)
Low Earth Orbit is not frictionless. It's just EXTREMELY thin air. Anything that stays in LEO for an extended period will require an occasional boost to maintain its orbit. That's why NASA occasionally gives the ISS a boost or two.
Do you think that spandex made her butt look big?
And, since the new costume is custom-fitted to his paunch, there shouldn't be any problem with the belt.
His suit was NOT custom fitted to his paunch. By the time he asked Edna for a new suit (I got a real kick out of that lady!), he had already been lifting train cars to get rid of it. The scene where he measured his waist was the one that immediately preceded his visit to Edna.
Catus Petasatus was a life altering mind blower.
;-)
1. That's Cattus Petasatus (you missed a 't').
2. Hey, it's Latin. If it's in Latin, it is profound. Even if it's something as ridiculous as the Cat in the Hat.
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