No, no. Jarvik has hearts 1-6 planed out, but first he must release the Jarvik 7 Special Edition, then completely disenfrancise an entire generation by including a goofy cartoon in Jarviks 1-6.:-)
Is it just me or are there a whole lot of hoops you have to jump through to use a P4? A new case, a new PS, a FRIGGIN' 1 POUND heatsink, whack-ass heatsink clips, expensive as hell RIMM memory (does this mean that Intel is giving us a RIMM-job?) and in this motherboard's case, a rubber sheet and a second metal motherboard tray?
ultraviolet catastrophe . . . exponentially more radiation as the wavelength got shorter.
You mean the infra red catastrophe. but names make no difference. what is important is that classical calculations predict exponential increases in radiation at longer wavelengths. This is in fact why light bulbs are yellow, and not more red. It is because the peak of the plank spectrum at the temperature that incandescant bulbs are at is in the yellow part of the spectrum
there are also some minor problems with your other explanations, however, I do agree with you that journalists should know what they are talking about before they write.
Kuala Lumpur (don't ask me why it translates to "mud cove" - I didn't name it)
It's cause Kuala Lumpur was/is a swamp. I remeber reading about it in an article about the skyscraper there. Don't worry, Washington, D.C. was also built on a swamp.
So if you sent the actual data you recieve from the satillites to you whoever you want to prove to, then all that is required is that the stream from the sattilite is signed and you know the public key of the GPS satillite.
However, this does not prevent some one who is at one location sending the stream he recieves to an intermediary at a different location who will then authenticate with the first (fake) location.
There could also be a sort of small scale distributed location finding algorithim. If you have a large group of people with transmitter/receiver pairs within some distance (dependant on transmit/recieve power), you could have everyone triangulate on each other. The more people you have in your system, the more compromised units you'd have to have before you'd get spoofed results. Of course you could never be sure that the location data hasn't been spoofed, but given enough people, you could have some high confidence probability in the result. If you have a high enough density of people, you could spred the network of transmitter/recivers across the entire planet.
Now what do you folks think, should I get a patent on this?:-P
The Large Electron Positron (LEP) Collider is being shutdown to make room for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The LEP smashed electrons and positrons together (hence the name). The LHC will smach protons and anti-protons together. Protons and anti-protons are a thousand times more massive than electrons and positrons. Therefore, since mass and energy are equivalent (E=mc**2), the LHC will be able to reach energies many orders of magnitude higher than the LEP. The LEP is being shutdown because the LHC will use the same tunnel at CERN in the Alps that the LEP used (as a cost saving measure).
Ok, it is quite simple. Pollution is a problem. I causes us to have bad air, and bad water and general ickiness. So how do we fix the pollution that has been caused already. Well, why don't we have the government pay for it like we do now? (Superfund) This makes you and me, the average shmoe have to pay for big belching factories' boo-boos. Well, what Nader is proposing is simply taxing pollutors. Think of it as a pollution fine or "paying for the privalage" of f*cking up our ecosystem.
What is wrong about asking those responsible for pollution to contribute the most to fix.
Similarly, I believe there should be a HIGHER tax on gas, and maybe even cigarettes. By increasing the cost of driving around a big honkin' INEFFICIENT SUVs or whatever, it will tend to make people buy more efficeint vehicles. Same thing with cigs. If they are more expensive, people will smoke less beause they have an economic incentive.
A friend of mine tells me a story that a gyy he knew worked at a TV station in Florida when that plane (ValueJet?) crash happend about 4 years ago. Anhow, their SGI server that housed all the video they were streaming over the internet was filling up and the admin had a flight to catch. The TV people wanted him to add new diskspace and grow the XFS after the newscast. Well since the guy had that plane to catch he did it DURING the newscast. Dynamically grew the XFS while it was mounted and sending data all over the net under heavy usage and NO ONE NOTICED! Pretty schweet.
simple. Setup a cron job to run wget get at a specified time. Or listen to a cool station like WRUW that will eventually save a weeks worth of radio on a streaming digital "tape" loop.
Check out LAME (www.sulaco.org/lame). it does mp3 encoding, but has special otions for encoding voice (bandpass filters, single channel, low bitrate, etc.). It is under the GPL and is finally patent free! It also compiles under (nearly) every computer system known to man.
When I was little, I wanted to be a theoretical physicist when I grew up!! Now I want to be an experimentalist. And I don't do drugs cause I really don't want anything fucking up my brain, since that's what gets you to be a theoretical physicist.;-)
NLX is the slim version of the ATX specification. If the 1U/2U cases are NLX compliant, you and get AGP video cards with NLX backplates which are much smaller than normal ATX backplates. I've seen NLX Matrox cards.
I like ReiserFS, it's pretty good at what it does, like being a quick and easy journaling FS for your average joe-shmoe desktop power user. I love not having to fsck my 20GB HD on a powerfail. It's really slick that SuSE had ReiserFS in the default install.
HOWEVER.....
XFS is totaly designed as a high performance FS. It is fully 64bit (on 64 bit platforms, not a concern on x86), it is growable (very slick), and has basically everything you'd expect from a high-end "commercial-grade" journaling FS. Why? Cause it is. It's the Journaling FS that SGI designed and uses in all of their completely badass servers.
As for stability, XFS is pretty good now. There are a few issues. I had problems with XFS+Athlon+Ultra/ATA66, but for highend SMP machines with SCSI, XFS can't be beat!
Also, keep an eye out for IBM's JFS in the future.
I used to work at a theme park in their computer repair division. We had handheld so we could be dispatched to fix any problems in the park or the offices. In the offices there was the server room which conatined all of the Netware, POS, and mainframe servers for the entire park. Everywhere in the room there were BIG SIGNS saying "DO NOT KEY RADIOS IN THIS ROOM!!!" Keying radios sends out a EMP that computers tend not to like.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
As far as pure toy marketing power, nothing can beat M.A.S.K. I mean those toys were C-H-E-A-P. But I loved the show. I even made a Lego version of their gas station/hidden base.
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
is the mighty power that will save the day,
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
no one knows what lies behind their masquerade.
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
always riding hard on V.E.N.O.M.'s trail.
and i forget the rest
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Isn't great when you have your own website so you can editorialize like this:
This has no relevance, but I'm abusing Slashdot to say that I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a malignant carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB).
Of course, this is completely CT's perogative (plus I agree with him.):-)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) cellphones are ALREADY spread spectrum. That's how they work. They pick a frequency within their band and send out a little burst of data with a code (key) at the front, then pick another frequency. The towers listen to the whole band and reassemble all the chuncks into a data stream.
Anyway, at least check the old/. archives for anything relavent to the question. Look at the Megacar. 1 car, 16 cell phones.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Yes kids, even Mathematicians and Physicists can have a rockin' good time at the rockin' SIGGRAPH parties!!! Clifford Algebra!!! Academics 4 EVER!!!! WOOO!!!!!!
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No, no. Jarvik has hearts 1-6 planed out, but first he must release the Jarvik 7 Special Edition, then completely disenfrancise an entire generation by including a goofy cartoon in Jarviks 1-6. :-)
Is it just me or are there a whole lot of hoops you have to jump through to use a P4? A new case, a new PS, a FRIGGIN' 1 POUND heatsink, whack-ass heatsink clips, expensive as hell RIMM memory (does this mean that Intel is giving us a RIMM-job?) and in this motherboard's case, a rubber sheet and a second metal motherboard tray?
;-)
Oy! I guess I'll take my P166 anyday.
Actually, you are a bit mistaken
ultraviolet catastrophe . . . exponentially more radiation as the wavelength got shorter.
You mean the infra red catastrophe. but names make no difference. what is important is that classical calculations predict exponential increases in radiation at longer wavelengths. This is in fact why light bulbs are yellow, and not more red. It is because the peak of the plank spectrum at the temperature that incandescant bulbs are at is in the yellow part of the spectrum
there are also some minor problems with your other explanations, however, I do agree with you that journalists should know what they are talking about before they write.
It's cause Kuala Lumpur was/is a swamp. I remeber reading about it in an article about the skyscraper there. Don't worry, Washington, D.C. was also built on a swamp.
So if you sent the actual data you recieve from the satillites to you whoever you want to prove to, then all that is required is that the stream from the sattilite is signed and you know the public key of the GPS satillite.
:-P
However, this does not prevent some one who is at one location sending the stream he recieves to an intermediary at a different location who will then authenticate with the first (fake) location.
There could also be a sort of small scale distributed location finding algorithim. If you have a large group of people with transmitter/receiver pairs within some distance (dependant on transmit/recieve power), you could have everyone triangulate on each other. The more people you have in your system, the more compromised units you'd have to have before you'd get spoofed results. Of course you could never be sure that the location data hasn't been spoofed, but given enough people, you could have some high confidence probability in the result. If you have a high enough density of people, you could spred the network of transmitter/recivers across the entire planet.
Now what do you folks think, should I get a patent on this?
The Large Electron Positron (LEP) Collider is being shutdown to make room for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The LEP smashed electrons and positrons together (hence the name). The LHC will smach protons and anti-protons together. Protons and anti-protons are a thousand times more massive than electrons and positrons. Therefore, since mass and energy are equivalent (E=mc**2), the LHC will be able to reach energies many orders of magnitude higher than the LEP. The LEP is being shutdown because the LHC will use the same tunnel at CERN in the Alps that the LEP used (as a cost saving measure).
Palm Pilots and MS Outlook, who needs organizational skills? :-P
Ok, it is quite simple. Pollution is a problem. I causes us to have bad air, and bad water and general ickiness. So how do we fix the pollution that has been caused already. Well, why don't we have the government pay for it like we do now? (Superfund) This makes you and me, the average shmoe have to pay for big belching factories' boo-boos. Well, what Nader is proposing is simply taxing pollutors. Think of it as a pollution fine or "paying for the privalage" of f*cking up our ecosystem.
What is wrong about asking those responsible for pollution to contribute the most to fix.
Similarly, I believe there should be a HIGHER tax on gas, and maybe even cigarettes. By increasing the cost of driving around a big honkin' INEFFICIENT SUVs or whatever, it will tend to make people buy more efficeint vehicles. Same thing with cigs. If they are more expensive, people will smoke less beause they have an economic incentive.
A friend of mine tells me a story that a gyy he knew worked at a TV station in Florida when that plane (ValueJet?) crash happend about 4 years ago. Anhow, their SGI server that housed all the video they were streaming over the internet was filling up and the admin had a flight to catch. The TV people wanted him to add new diskspace and grow the XFS after the newscast. Well since the guy had that plane to catch he did it DURING the newscast. Dynamically grew the XFS while it was mounted and sending data all over the net under heavy usage and NO ONE NOTICED! Pretty schweet.
simple. Setup a cron job to run wget get at a specified time. Or listen to a cool station like WRUW that will eventually save a weeks worth of radio on a streaming digital "tape" loop.
Check out LAME (www.sulaco.org/lame). it does mp3 encoding, but has special otions for encoding voice (bandpass filters, single channel, low bitrate, etc.). It is under the GPL and is finally patent free! It also compiles under (nearly) every computer system known to man.
When I was little, I wanted to be a theoretical physicist when I grew up!! Now I want to be an experimentalist. And I don't do drugs cause I really don't want anything fucking up my brain, since that's what gets you to be a theoretical physicist. ;-)
NLX is the slim version of the ATX specification. If the 1U/2U cases are NLX compliant, you and get AGP video cards with NLX backplates which are much smaller than normal ATX backplates. I've seen NLX Matrox cards.
I like ReiserFS, it's pretty good at what it does, like being a quick and easy journaling FS for your average joe-shmoe desktop power user. I love not having to fsck my 20GB HD on a powerfail. It's really slick that SuSE had ReiserFS in the default install.
HOWEVER.....
XFS is totaly designed as a high performance FS. It is fully 64bit (on 64 bit platforms, not a concern on x86), it is growable (very slick), and has basically everything you'd expect from a high-end "commercial-grade" journaling FS. Why? Cause it is. It's the Journaling FS that SGI designed and uses in all of their completely badass servers.
As for stability, XFS is pretty good now. There are a few issues. I had problems with XFS+Athlon+Ultra/ATA66, but for highend SMP machines with SCSI, XFS can't be beat!
Also, keep an eye out for IBM's JFS in the future.
apt-get/.deb/dselect are SOOOOO amazingly cool.
I like to put it this way:
RPM is what windows install/uninstall was meant to be.
apt-get was what RPM was what meant to be.
Well, they thought about it more this time, let's give them a little credit. I'd say it's at least 2/3's baked. :-)
I used to work at a theme park in their computer repair division. We had handheld so we could be dispatched to fix any problems in the park or the offices. In the offices there was the server room which conatined all of the Netware, POS, and mainframe servers for the entire park. Everywhere in the room there were BIG SIGNS saying "DO NOT KEY RADIOS IN THIS ROOM!!!" Keying radios sends out a EMP that computers tend not to like.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
As far as pure toy marketing power, nothing can beat M.A.S.K. I mean those toys were C-H-E-A-P. But I loved the show. I even made a Lego version of their gas station/hidden base.
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
is the mighty power that will save the day,
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
no one knows what lies behind their masquerade.
M-M-M-M.A.S.K
always riding hard on V.E.N.O.M.'s trail.
and i forget the rest
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
We wish ;-)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
I'll justify it... It's the chubby cheeks :-)
:-)
Sort of makes them (emmet & steve) look baby-faced (not that that's a bad thing, some chicks dig that)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Maybe some questions on "theory"
What is Open Source/Free Software?
Why is it a Good Thing?
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Isn't great when you have your own website so you can editorialize like this:
This has no relevance, but I'm abusing Slashdot to say that I think Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a malignant carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB).
Of course, this is completely CT's perogative (plus I agree with him.) :-)
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Anyway, at least check the old /. archives for anything relavent to the question. Look at the Megacar. 1 car, 16 cell phones.
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
Yes kids, even Mathematicians and Physicists can have a rockin' good time at the rockin' SIGGRAPH parties!!! Clifford Algebra!!! Academics 4 EVER!!!! WOOO!!!!!!
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."
...
Oh, wait, you mean meat-space traffic with cars. Well, then just port the BPF to automobiles and OpenSource it!!! YAY!!!!
A wealthy eccentric who marches to the beat of a different drum. But you may call me "Noodle Noggin."