19.4 Mbps = 2.425 MB/sec = 145.5 MB/minute = 8.5 GB/hour. Heck, my three year old laptop could store 100 minutes. Or you could get 8.8 hours on a $240 75-gig drive. Plenty. And prices only get cheaper and densities only get greater...
> Retrieval, though, can be essentially arbitrarily slow.... and lets you save some bucks on the (slow) read side?
Ok, here's what you do: Take all of your signals (don't even bother compressing them... as other people have pointed out, it looks like 9 GB/sec might be hard to compress) and beam them straight out into outer space. This solves both problems - the massive amount of data, and the high bandwidth.
Now, current technlogy offers few options for playback, but since you don't mind waiting for the playback (you did say arbitrarily slow), I'm sure solutions developed in the future will be both feasible and cheap. (if not, just wait a little longer). Here are a few possibilities:
Develop ultra-focused and ultra-sensitive receivers to detect the signal bouncing off of a distant object.
Teleport a big mirror ahead of the signal to bounce it back. Listen for it to return.
Develop a faster-than-light vehicle to pass the signal, and then use future technology to record it on some futuristic ultra-dense medium. (Note: this can be done obeying Einstein's theory of relativity. Space isn't quite a vacuum, so the radio signal is travelling at a speed less than the speed of light in a vacuum. You could evacuate an area of space for your vehicle to travel so that it is less dense than the space the radio signal is travelling through, and thus has a higher speed of light. You'll be able to catch up without exceeding the speed of light in your path, but exceeding the speed of light in the radio signals path).
Wait for either the universe to collapse in on itself, or a black hole to devour both the earth and the radio signal. This should, with any luck, warp space such that the signal hits the earth again.
Direct the signal at a black hole such that it orbits it. The signal will be trapped in orbit. You could send a vehicle to this area to read the signal, and then retransmit it with more energy to escape the black hole. Of course, you'll only get a brief snippet of data before the vehicle is sucked in, so many may be required. (I'm not too good at black hole theory; hope it doesn't show!)
IR Remotes use the near infrared band; heat is usually in the far infrared band. Generally, to detect heat you've got to have a detector that is cooled -- otherwise it would set itself off (kindof like the way you don't make a camera out of glow in the dark material). There is a sly alternative: Use the IR transmitter part of the port to emit light, and then detect if it is reflected back. I had a "geek detector" on my HP48 that did this. The range wasn't too good, but if you had a real reflector (instead of just a hand), it would probably be a lot better.
Just for fun, you can see IR light in some (most?) video cameras and IR film, but usually heat doesn't show up (unless it's nearly at the point of emiting visible radiation, like an electric stove burner).
SOE Safe Operating Envelope
Sales Order Entry
Schedule Of Events
Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E')
Sega of Europe
Sequence Of Events
Special Operations Executive (British organisation responsible for training and coordinating the operations of partisan groups in occupied countries, WWII)
Standard Operating Environment
Standard Option Equipment
Standards of Excellence
State-Owned Enterprise
Status Of Equipment
Sum Of Errors
My source was just a quick look on google - I tried to find an old washington post article that broke it out, but I suspect it's been archived and now costs $$.
"To the artist" could mean a lot of different things.. I mean, besides the main performers, there are the song writers, studio musicians, the mixing people, (producers?), etc. And, also, the record companines often "loan" the artist money to pay production costs... I'm not sure if some of this $3 is actually going back to the record companies to repay the loan.
Anyway, I thought it was reasonable and from a good enough source. I was really interested in what markup the stores were adding -- I expected it to be in the 100% range, not the 50% range.
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I'm not putting down the "mother is the necessity of invention" concept. Just the idea that to create an integrated device, it must be totally incompatible with all devices. The CD is amazing: originally a read-only music format, it's now also read/write, holds data, pictures (with sony cameras that burn cds), movies (video cd), and compressed music (MP3 CD players). It also comes in a couple of form factors - the regular 8cm, the smaller version, and the credit card shape.
I think that the thing that is different about the dataplay (and that the article just barely touches upon this) is the pervasive use of encryption. His main goal is not to integrate the functionality of all devices, but to create an incompatible and secure format. Yet, the reasons why businesses would want this are a little harder to explain to the average person, so I'm just poking fun at his "I want to integrate all these evil incompatibilities" cover story.
We all know there are lots of things that add to the cost of the disk, but that got me thinking...
The breakdown of a $15 CD is:
$5 to the store
$5 record company
$3 artist
$2 manufacturers and distributors
Who does this type of key purchase leave out? The store (since the samples do their own promotion), the manufacuturers and distributors (since these people have already gotten the physical product to you).
So, basically, record companies just have to pay artist $3 and get to keep the rest. If they pay themselves the same amount as a CD, the key should cost $8. Any bets on if they get greedy?
And a meatspace link: check out ferrofluids for yourself at the exploratorium -- if the exhibit is still there (it was maybe 4 years ago, upstairs), they have a tank of ferrofluid (with I think a lighter different-colored fluid floating on top). Pressing the buttons activates different electromagnets under the fluid, and it forms bumps on the surface (maybe protruding through the different colored liquid, as in the picture above, if I remember right). It's neat to see the surface of a liquid that is not flat, yet not moving. The exploratorium is well worth the visit if you're in the SF bay area.
Remember that the feature size is linear, but chips are 2-D (so far). So, actually, going from 0.18u to 0.00254u is a 5000x increase in density - that would make an athlon with 185 Billion transistors (instead of 37 million). Or, more likely, a beouwolf cluster of athlons on a chip (had to use the b-word!) -- 185 billion is a lot of transistors to design.
(of course, these are all theoritical, and I'm sure it won't scale like this, but I can dream, can't I?)
I actually run both at the same time! On the left monitor, there's gnome; on the right, there's kde.
It's actually not by design, but necessity (probably due to my not-so-hot configuring skills): Gnome wouldn't work on my second monitor. KDE set up two desktops, but (if I remember correctly) didn't run a window manager on the other desktop - so I couldn't move the windows around. I couldn't run ximena (misspelled) because I've got two different resolutions and the "dead space" was too awkward.
So, my solution is to start gnome (which runs on the primary monitor only), and then start kde on the second monitor only. It works out pretty well, but I'm not sure how much running both sets of libraries is affecting me (not that I notice any slowness).
Nope that was the WQV-1 wrist camera. It was larger, stored 100 monochrome images. The resolution is about the same on both ~ 25K pixels, and the screens are both 4-bit grayscale.
I'm not sure when ms word got the ability to save HTML, but combine that with the generic document-generating wizards it has and *presto* you've got html templates. Not that everyone wants to read a web page that starts off "Interoffice memo"....
It doesn't look like it does. The two sandards are on different bands (2.4G vs. 5 G), and the spec sheet says the radio only works in the 5.15 GHz to 5.35 GHz range. It'll be a while before the infrastructure is built up and will also be especially slow until dual-band base stations become available/cheap.
Mine died last night. It was my boot and windows drive - luckily booting with the rescue disk brings up the raid just fine, and no problems. But it didn't load the SMP version of linux, so some speed hit. I shipped the drive today; we'll see what happens... I wonder what I'll get back!
Actually, regular old mail has some pretty darn good authentication. The FBI didn't have much on the unabomber until they compared the DNA from the saliva on the back of a stamp to David Kaczynski's DNA, and verified his fears that his brother Ted may be the guilty one. That's a lot stronger evidence (and much harder to deny) than an ill-placed private key. Of course, this authentication is usually just restricted to law enforcement...
207,882,000,000 anthrax-free parcels were delivered by the usps last year (that's 1/5th of a Trillion). Yeah, I think it's both pretty safe and here to stay.
Go to who? Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc, the Atlanta-based company that is "the world's largest bottler of liquid, nonalcoholic refreshment" with $14 billion dollars of net revenue/year, (stock symbol CCE)
.. or does it go to Cola Cola Company, the huge Atlanta-based company that is the largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of soft drink concentrates and syrups in the world (along with a hefty portfolio of other drinks) @ $20 Billion/year net revenue (stock symbol KO)?
These are two distinct companies with different owners. In this case, they're friends... but not all companies with the same trademark (possible if used in different fields) are, though.
Matsucom has been making a similar watch -- the "onhand" for some time now. Technologically, the ibm watch does a whole lot more, but if all you want is the ability to run your own programs on your wrist, it'll do.
Most important, the onhandpc has a free SDK. The specs: It has a 16-bit CPU (V20ish I think), running a dos look-alike. It has 128KB RAM, 512KB ROM, and 2MB FLASH. The display isn't nearly as nice as IBM's prototype OLED: 102x64 backlit STN LCD. But it does have IR and wired serial ports. The battery life is rated at 3 months (assuming display one hour per day). The big thing missing is the bluetooth. (Well, that and linux).
The nice part: Price = $300. But still (in my opinion) a toy. For more info, here's a nice review (from late '99).
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19.4 Mbps = 2.425 MB/sec = 145.5 MB/minute = 8.5 GB/hour. Heck, my three year old laptop could store 100 minutes. Or you could get 8.8 hours on a $240 75-gig drive. Plenty. And prices only get cheaper and densities only get greater...
Ok, here's what you do: Take all of your signals (don't even bother compressing them... as other people have pointed out, it looks like 9 GB/sec might be hard to compress) and beam them straight out into outer space. This solves both problems - the massive amount of data, and the high bandwidth.
Now, current technlogy offers few options for playback, but since you don't mind waiting for the playback (you did say arbitrarily slow), I'm sure solutions developed in the future will be both feasible and cheap. (if not, just wait a little longer). Here are a few possibilities:
Develop ultra-focused and ultra-sensitive receivers to detect the signal bouncing off of a distant object.
Teleport a big mirror ahead of the signal to bounce it back. Listen for it to return.
Develop a faster-than-light vehicle to pass the signal, and then use future technology to record it on some futuristic ultra-dense medium. (Note: this can be done obeying Einstein's theory of relativity. Space isn't quite a vacuum, so the radio signal is travelling at a speed less than the speed of light in a vacuum. You could evacuate an area of space for your vehicle to travel so that it is less dense than the space the radio signal is travelling through, and thus has a higher speed of light. You'll be able to catch up without exceeding the speed of light in your path, but exceeding the speed of light in the radio signals path).
Wait for either the universe to collapse in on itself, or a black hole to devour both the earth and the radio signal. This should, with any luck, warp space such that the signal hits the earth again.
Direct the signal at a black hole such that it orbits it. The signal will be trapped in orbit. You could send a vehicle to this area to read the signal, and then retransmit it with more energy to escape the black hole. Of course, you'll only get a brief snippet of data before the vehicle is sucked in, so many may be required. (I'm not too good at black hole theory; hope it doesn't show!)
Anyway, there are lots of possibilites!
-- morcheeba
founding member, literalist society.
IR Remotes use the near infrared band; heat is usually in the far infrared band. Generally, to detect heat you've got to have a detector that is cooled -- otherwise it would set itself off (kindof like the way you don't make a camera out of glow in the dark material). There is a sly alternative: Use the IR transmitter part of the port to emit light, and then detect if it is reflected back. I had a "geek detector" on my HP48 that did this. The range wasn't too good, but if you had a real reflector (instead of just a hand), it would probably be a lot better.
Just for fun, you can see IR light in some (most?) video cameras and IR film, but usually heat doesn't show up (unless it's nearly at the point of emiting visible radiation, like an electric stove burner).
It's odd that there's a map in Myth II with the same name as a church I go.
So, is it The Church of the long awaited drinking party or The Church of Limbs, Heads, and Smoking Craters? Either way, sign me up!
> Maybe he is running his web-server under Linux in a VMWARE emulation in his emulated XP...
He is, and the program is Sun's Java-based web server
From the website I found:
SOE
Safe Operating Envelope
Sales Order Entry
Schedule Of Events
Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E')
Sega of Europe
Sequence Of Events
Special Operations Executive (British organisation responsible for training and coordinating the operations of partisan groups in occupied countries, WWII)
Standard Operating Environment
Standard Option Equipment
Standards of Excellence
State-Owned Enterprise
Status Of Equipment
Sum Of Errors
and will make a small fire if I'm trapped in the wilderness?
I'm afraid to get this feature you'll have to upgrade to a laptop. (And I'll bet that you thought no manufacturer would cater to your needs!)
My source was just a quick look on google - I tried to find an old washington post article that broke it out, but I suspect it's been archived and now costs $$.
"To the artist" could mean a lot of different things.. I mean, besides the main performers, there are the song writers, studio musicians, the mixing people, (producers?), etc. And, also, the record companines often "loan" the artist money to pay production costs... I'm not sure if some of this $3 is actually going back to the record companies to repay the loan.
Anyway, I thought it was reasonable and from a good enough source. I was really interested in what markup the stores were adding -- I expected it to be in the 100% range, not the 50% range.
I'm not putting down the "mother is the necessity of invention" concept. Just the idea that to create an integrated device, it must be totally incompatible with all devices. The CD is amazing: originally a read-only music format, it's now also read/write, holds data, pictures (with sony cameras that burn cds), movies (video cd), and compressed music (MP3 CD players). It also comes in a couple of form factors - the regular 8cm, the smaller version, and the credit card shape.
I think that the thing that is different about the dataplay (and that the article just barely touches upon this) is the pervasive use of encryption. His main goal is not to integrate the functionality of all devices, but to create an incompatible and secure format. Yet, the reasons why businesses would want this are a little harder to explain to the average person, so I'm just poking fun at his "I want to integrate all these evil incompatibilities" cover story.
(yep, just feeding the trolls...)
We all know there are lots of things that add to the cost of the disk, but that got me thinking...
The breakdown of a $15 CD is:
$5 to the store
$5 record company
$3 artist
$2 manufacturers and distributors
Who does this type of key purchase leave out? The store (since the samples do their own promotion), the manufacuturers and distributors (since these people have already gotten the physical product to you).
So, basically, record companies just have to pay artist $3 and get to keep the rest. If they pay themselves the same amount as a CD, the key should cost $8. Any bets on if they get greedy?
Steve Volk founded DataPlay in November 1998 out of his frustration with the multiple storage formats used in consumer electronics.
So his solution? Invent another storage format!
Check out this cool picture from Science Friday.
And a meatspace link: check out ferrofluids for yourself at the exploratorium -- if the exhibit is still there (it was maybe 4 years ago, upstairs), they have a tank of ferrofluid (with I think a lighter different-colored fluid floating on top). Pressing the buttons activates different electromagnets under the fluid, and it forms bumps on the surface (maybe protruding through the different colored liquid, as in the picture above, if I remember right). It's neat to see the surface of a liquid that is not flat, yet not moving. The exploratorium is well worth the visit if you're in the SF bay area.
It's been modified to sound like rubbish! Ha Ha, very funny. Moderators, you got duped!
What resolutions are typically required?
;-)
Infinite. Isn't that the whole point of fractals?
Remember that the feature size is linear, but chips are 2-D (so far). So, actually, going from 0.18u to 0.00254u is a 5000x increase in density - that would make an athlon with 185 Billion transistors (instead of 37 million). Or, more likely, a beouwolf cluster of athlons on a chip (had to use the b-word!) -- 185 billion is a lot of transistors to design.
(of course, these are all theoritical, and I'm sure it won't scale like this, but I can dream, can't I?)
I actually run both at the same time! On the left monitor, there's gnome; on the right, there's kde.
It's actually not by design, but necessity (probably due to my not-so-hot configuring skills): Gnome wouldn't work on my second monitor. KDE set up two desktops, but (if I remember correctly) didn't run a window manager on the other desktop - so I couldn't move the windows around. I couldn't run ximena (misspelled) because I've got two different resolutions and the "dead space" was too awkward.
So, my solution is to start gnome (which runs on the primary monitor only), and then start kde on the second monitor only. It works out pretty well, but I'm not sure how much running both sets of libraries is affecting me (not that I notice any slowness).
Nope that was the WQV-1 wrist camera. It was larger, stored 100 monochrome images. The resolution is about the same on both ~ 25K pixels, and the screens are both 4-bit grayscale.
I'm not sure when ms word got the ability to save HTML, but combine that with the generic document-generating wizards it has and *presto* you've got html templates. Not that everyone wants to read a web page that starts off "Interoffice memo"....
It doesn't look like it does. The two sandards are on different bands (2.4G vs. 5 G), and the spec sheet says the radio only works in the 5.15 GHz to 5.35 GHz range. It'll be a while before the infrastructure is built up and will also be especially slow until dual-band base stations become available/cheap.
Mine died last night. It was my boot and windows drive - luckily booting with the rescue disk brings up the raid just fine, and no problems. But it didn't load the SMP version of linux, so some speed hit. I shipped the drive today; we'll see what happens... I wonder what I'll get back!
Actually, regular old mail has some pretty darn good authentication. The FBI didn't have much on the unabomber until they compared the DNA from the saliva on the back of a stamp to David Kaczynski's DNA, and verified his fears that his brother Ted may be the guilty one. That's a lot stronger evidence (and much harder to deny) than an ill-placed private key. Of course, this authentication is usually just restricted to law enforcement...
207,882,000,000 anthrax-free parcels were delivered by the usps last year (that's 1/5th of a Trillion). Yeah, I think it's both pretty safe and here to stay.
Yeah... the CCE page says so, and actualy has a link to cocacola.com (as if anyone would accidently type in cokecce accidently!).
I don't think that www.coca-cola.nutrient-or-tonic-beverages.biz is too intuitive.
- - -
Word Mark: COCA-COLA
Goods and Services: IC 032. US 045. G & S: NUTRIENT OR TONIC BEVERAGES. FIRST USE: 18870628. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 18870628
Mark Drawing Code: (5) WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS IN STYLIZED FORM
Serial Number: 70022406
Filing Date: May 14, 1892
Go to who? Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc, the Atlanta-based company that is "the world's largest bottler of liquid, nonalcoholic refreshment" with $14 billion dollars of net revenue/year, (stock symbol CCE)
.. or does it go to Cola Cola Company, the huge Atlanta-based company that is the largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of soft drink concentrates and syrups in the world (along with a hefty portfolio of other drinks) @ $20 Billion/year net revenue (stock symbol KO)?
These are two distinct companies with different owners. In this case, they're friends... but not all companies with the same trademark (possible if used in different fields) are, though.
Matsucom has been making a similar watch -- the "onhand" for some time now. Technologically, the ibm watch does a whole lot more, but if all you want is the ability to run your own programs on your wrist, it'll do.
Most important, the onhandpc has a free SDK. The specs: It has a 16-bit CPU (V20ish I think), running a dos look-alike. It has 128KB RAM, 512KB ROM, and 2MB FLASH. The display isn't nearly as nice as IBM's prototype OLED: 102x64 backlit STN LCD. But it does have IR and wired serial ports. The battery life is rated at 3 months (assuming display one hour per day). The big thing missing is the bluetooth. (Well, that and linux).
The nice part: Price = $300. But still (in my opinion) a toy. For more info, here's a nice review (from late '99).